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British PM David Cameron Losing Control Of His Party Says Fellow Conservative Geoffrey Howe
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right, speak during a press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Tuesday May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Stansall, ...
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Bank of England’s King to Carney It’s not a ‘one-man show’
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King praised his successor but stressed his opposition to a change he is expected to make - signalling how long interest rates will remain low. (Yui ...
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Destination Britain positively challenging preconceptions
Destination Britain Asia-Pacific Middle East and Africa 2013 provides an export platform for British companies, through hard-nosed commercial negotiations. VisitBritain brought suppliers that suited the touring market and paired them with local buyers that can drive growth and properly on-sell the products to the region. "There’s a lot of countries involved in the APMEA region; ...
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British man admits killing his children in France
Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his daughter and son were found at his apartment in Saint-Priest, a suburb of ...
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Man Killed In Suspected Gas Explosion At House
Police have recovered a body of a man from the rubble of a terraced house in Nottinghamshire after a suspected gas explosion. Firefighters found the body during an ongoing search of the collapsed building. Another person is still missing, Nottinghamshire Police said. The explosion happened just before 5.15pm on Sunday, at an address in Wright Street in Newark. The home crumbled in ...
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Human brains are wired to make music-color connections
When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...
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Poisoned alcohol kills British tourist in Indonesia
A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was traveling with fellow Briton Joseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank ...
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Cannes you believe it Cheryl Cole and her twin sister Eva Longoria
With her flowing gown, perfectly sculpted brown locks and tiny figure, Cheryl Cole dazzles in France - but as this snap with Eva Longoria shows, two Cannes play that game.The Geordie singer and Hollywood actress had fans seeing double as they posed together at the film festival, with Eva tweeting: "Me and my twin sister @cherylcole at ...
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Store wars over royal baby clothes
The palace was reopened to the public in March 2012 after a 12 million transformation.Its shop also sells a large range of Princess Diana memorabilia, as the palace was famously Diana's home until her tragic death in 1997.Now Kate, who is more than seven months pregnant, can often be seen strolling through its gardens walking her cocker spaniel Lupo.She has recently been seen visiting shops ...
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Britain faces years of high inflation
Britons should be braced for years of high inflation as the cost of living soars stubbornly ahead of wages, a leading economic forecaster warned ...
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Madeleine Suspects Not Fully Investigated
Known paedophiles, holidaymakers and Ocean Club staff are thought to be among the dozen suspects identified in a Scotland Yard review of the Madeleine McCann case. Some of them at least have been questioned in the original Portuguese police investigation, but dismissed without being fully investigated. A source said: "British detectives on the McCann review have had major problems ...
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Privatised service puts patients at risk with lack of out-of-hours GPs
Mid Staffs scandal: NHS managers will be blacklisted for failure and patients will rate hospitals in major shake-up, announces Jeremy ...
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British PM urges more action on tax from UK territories
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain called upon its overseas territories to "get their house in order" over the sharing of tax information on Monday as the UK looks to lead a global fight against tax evasion ahead of a meeting of the world's wealthiest ...
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Holidaymakers risk big medical bills
47% of holidaymakers believe the EHIC gives them free emergency medical care anywhere in Europe and 6% believe cardholders get free medical repatriation, says research from ...
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Bupa opens new dental centre in Holborn
Bupa has opened a new dental centre in the heart of Holborn, London, as part of its plan to become one of the country's leading dental ...
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Westfield says GP access is a problem
49% of patients want to see their GP surgery's opening hours extended to include more convenient times, with more early morning, evening or weekend opening, according to a new survey by Westfield ...
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Keeping your teeth healthy without seeing a dentist
There is no longer be a need to see a dentist before seeing a dental hygienist or dental therapist for your care, whether you are treated on the NHS or ...
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Customer satisfaction at the heart of Engage Mutual
Engage Mutual's commitment to outstanding customer service has again been recognised by an annual customer satisfaction survey that compares performance across the life insurance ...
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England Wales Bishops Host Scripture Conference
Bishop Brignoll: Giving People Confidence in the Word So As to Proclaim ItBy Ann SchneibleROME, April 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) - A conference aiming to promote a deeper understanding of sacred Scripture among the Catholic community in England and Wales concluded last week in Durham, England."The Word of the Lord" sponsored by the Bishops' Conference for England and Wales, focused ...
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British PM makes plea to tax havens
BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has written to leaders of overseas tax havens, urging them to help the country's efforts to combat tax evasion and avoidance. Cameron on Monday sent a letter to 10 British crown dependencies and overseas territories regarding the "critical" issues of tax information exchange and beneficial ownership, a practice which uses a nominal third-party ...
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Padres pound Haren earn split with Nats
Visiting pitcher Dan Haren and local naysayers came out the worse Sunday at Petco Park, where those who might've once preferred that the veteran right-hander ...
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Britains Cameron ‘losing control’ as rift with Conservative Party core widens
British Prime Minister David Cameron is "losing control of his party," Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said on Sunday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Mr. Cameron had labelled grassroots activists "mad, swivel-eyed loons."The furore threatens to further alienate Mr. Cameron and his inner circle from the core of his party, with whom ties are already almost ...
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Michael Jackson maid saw singer in shower with abuse claim boy
A man's claims that he was molested by Michael Jackson when he was a child have been backed up by the singer's former maid.Blanca Francia, 57, claimed she walked in on Jackson showering with Australian Wade Robson - and is willing to say so in a court battle Wade has launched.Blanca, whose son Jason also insists the King of Pop molested him at his Neverland ranch, said: "Michael ...
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Les Dawson scripts found 20 years after his death
boisterous northern comedian who didn't take life too seriously. They would roar with laughter at the gurning faces and rapid-fire jokes.But behind the curmudgeonly persona he portrayed on stage, Les Dawson was quite a different character.The real man has been revealed in a series of scripts, letters and diaries only recently discovered since his death from a heart attack two decades ago.In ...
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Revellers turn up to celebration of British wartime spirit wearing NAZI UNIFORMS
History is written by the victors, but it didn't stop these fancy dress Nazis turning up at a wartime festival and trampling a ban under their jackboots.Organisers of the annual 1940s event faced complaints last year from Germans offended by the flaunting of regalia linked to the Holocaust.This year, signs warning "No Nazi or SS insignia or uniforms on these premises" were ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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