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British Authorities Characterize Brutal Slaying of Soldier as Terrorism
British investigators continue to search for answers after the brutal murder of Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old British soldier who served in Afghanistan. Rigby was hacked to death by two men armed with knives in broad daylight. Lucy Manning of Independent Television News ...
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Woolwich attack Two arrested after racist and anti-religious comments about death of Lee Rigby posted on Twitter
The men, aged 22 and 23, were held under the Public Order Act on suspicion of inciting racial or religious hatred after outraged Twitter users alerted ...
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Jeremy Hunt ‘using GPs as whipping boy over AE crisis’
The British Medical Association's Dr Laurence Buckman accused him of "childishly superficial and misleading" claims A&E services were taking too much ...
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Google team treks across the Galapagos islands to add them to Street View
Google has mapped the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagosfor use on its Street View.The search engine sent trekkers with 42lbs backpacks containing cameras mounted on towers to wander the beaten paths of the Pacific archipelago.Divers have also worked with Google to get 360 degree views of underwater areas around the islands that sparked Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.The ...
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Mum attacked by the gentleman she met online after asking why he was still using dating website
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Skoda is Superb No joke as model tops driver satisfaction poll
The Skoda Superb is very aptly named - because it really is that good.It's the car that owners are most satisfied with, according to a top survey. And another Skoda model - the Yeti - was second in the list compiled from owners' views by What Car? and market research company JD Power and Associates.But the Czech-based car-maker, owned by Volkswagen, came fourth in the overall list of ...
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HMS Edinburgh sailors kicked out of pub for wearing Royal Navy dress uniforms
Cheered on by thrilled crowds, 250 proud Navy sailors march through the streets in a military parade as they are given a prestigious honour.The HMS Edinburgh crew were led by a brass band and drums to rapturous applause, but their celebrations were scuppered hours later when they were kicked out of a pub - for wearing their best dress uniforms.They had just been given the Freedom of the City in ...
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Emmerdales Eric Pollard has the unhealthiest lifestyle in soaps
Emmerdale's Eric Pollard is facing another heart attack unless he adopts a healthy lifestyle, the British Heart Foundation warned yesterday.The silver-haired smoothie, played by Chris Chittell, has drunk his way to the title of Britain's unhealthiest soap character. In 62% of scenes he has a glass in hand or he's talking about his next livener.Senior British Heart Foundation ...
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Daniel Hutton Dozy thief raiding jewellers shop gets trapped when staff lowered shutters
A bungling thief was caught in a smash-and-grab raid on a jewellers when staff lowered the shutters, trapping him in a foyer.Daniel Hutton, 29, broke a display window in the entrance arcade with a hammer and started snatching gems.But the alert shop manager simply locked the front door and lowered the electronic security grilles.Hapless Hutton carried on stuffing jewellery into his bag while the ...
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My husband murdered our two sons eleven years ago but Im finally rebuilding my life
The anguish of Stephanie Stevenson is unimaginable. Her daughter Carla, five, and son Matthew, 10, were slain by their father in Lyon, France, on Saturday.British ex-pat Julian Stevenson, 48, slit their throats at his flat. It was the first time he had been allowed unsupervised custody in two years.Tragically, Denise Williams has lived Stephanie's nightmare. Eleven years ago, husband Steve ...
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Woolwich attack MI5 knew about the killers but thought they were no threat
The two killers who beheaded the soldier in a Woolwich street had cropped up in "several investigations" by the security services in recent ...
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Breaking Heathrow airport closed after British Airways plane is forced to make emergency landing
The plane was evacuated and none of the passengers or crew have been injured.Heathrow airport have confirmed that both runways have been closed as a result of an incident, which happened around 9am.Amateur video footage of the incident appears to show smoke coming from one of the aircraft engines. There was speculation that the aircraft had run into a flock of birds.The incident is not thought ...
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George Monbiots book dreams of a wilder Britain
George Monbiot's dream of a wilder Britain would replace entire areas of sheep farming with natural ecosystems and restore species that have long since ...
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Emergency landing closes both Heathrow runways
British Airways plane made an emergency landing. Heathrow officials said passengers were evacuated safely on Friday morning. British Airways says more information will be provided ...
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British security services face inquiry after London attack
British MPs will investigate the brutal killing of a British soldier by Muslim extremists following the disclosure that the two suspects were known to ...
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Plane On Fire Flying Over Central London
A plane was "on fire" flying over central London an eyewitness has said. One person told Sky News: "As you looked up you could just see the flames being chucked out of the engine It was on full fire when we saw it." Both runways were shut at Heathrow Airport where the British Airways aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing due to an "aircraft ...
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We are expecting the Pound to strengthen against the Euro
In your opinion should we expect any major impact on the nation's currency in the short and in a long term? We are expecting the Pound to strengthen against the Euro, primarily due to the fact that the Eurozone's currency will weaken over the course of the next six months as we are expecting the crisis in the Euro bloc to re-escalate to a certain degree. We definitely expect the ...
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Negative rates could hurt UK Bank of Englands Fisher
My own personal view is that negative rates would not necessarily do very much at the moment to boost growth, (and) could even be perverse," - Paul ...
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Eric Pickles Law couldnt have stopped murder of Woolwich soldier
The Government will examine what powers it requires following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of London, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said ...
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Children raised on diet of porn more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviour warns report
Children who access pornography are more likely to have sex at a younger age and engage in "risky behaviours", a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has ...
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Woolwich Terror Attack Moment Suspects Shot
Amid the soldier's death in Woolwich, the Met Police issued a statement setting out when they received the first emergency call - following claims it had taken them a long time to ...
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Britains FTSE steadies after worst day in a year
Fri May 24, 2013 4:02am EDT * FTSE 100 flat after Thursday's 2.1 pct slump * Investors jittery ahead of long weekend * Morgan Stanley downgrades Next on valuation By Toni Vorobyova LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's leading shares steadied on Friday after their steepest fall in a year in the previous session, with central bankers offering some reassurance that stimulus will stay for a ...
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UK may be three quarters of the way through debt purge - Fisher
CARDIFF (Reuters) - Britain may be as much as three quarters of the way through the process of working off the high debt levels which have weighed on the economy since the financial crisis, a top Bank of England policymaker said on Friday. ...
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Video shows British police shooting soldiers suspected killers
LONDON (Reuters) - Dramatic video footage showing the moment when police shot the two men suspected of hacking to death a soldier in London was published on a British newspaper's website on Friday. The shaky, 10-second clip shows one of the men sprinting towards a police car with a knife in his hand before he is shot and tumbles to the ground. The second man appears to aim a gun at the ...
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More use internet for care funding advice
The internet is a fast growing avenues for those seeking advice about the costs of elderly care, says Partnership, whose second annual care index compares attitudes towards the cost of long term ...
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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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