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Tiger mauls female zoo worker in Cumbria
Police said the member of staff was attacked at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton in Furness. She was taken to Preston Royal Infirmary hospital where she was said to be in a "serious" condition. Cumbria Police said the animal was later securely locked in its enclosure and there had not been any risk to the public.The wildlife park closed early following the attack, as ...
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Emergency landing at Heathrow sparks further controversy over London airport capacity
As investigators try to find out what went wrong with both engines of a British Airways jet, causing it to make an emergency landing at Heathrow shortly after take-off, the incident sparked more controversy about airport capacity in south-east ...
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Suspicious vehicle in M6 services closes motorway
Bank Holiday travellers faced delays on one of Britain's busiest motorways today after police closed a stretch of the M6 while they investigate a "suspicious vehicle" at a service ...
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Andrew Grice It was the right speech for David Cameron. It came from Nick Clegg
Andrew Grice has been Political Editor of The Independent since 1998. He was previously Political Editor of The Sunday Times, where he worked for 10 years, and he has been a Westminster-based journalist since 1982. His column, Inside Politics, appears in The Independent each ...
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Public will not be told full story of how Woolwich killers slipped through MI5s net
The full story of whether MI5 blundered by failing to act on suspicions about the suspected Woolwich killers - which is to be investigated by MPs and peers - will never be shared with the ...
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Woolwich terror attack Murdered Drummer Lee Rigbys stepfather recalls how he first learnt of attack on television
Mr Rigby's wife, Rebecca, and stepfather Ian Rigby spoke of their pride for him as they fought back tears and spoke on behalf of the 25-year-old's whole family, at a press conference at the Regimental HQ of his unit, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers at Bury in Greater Manchester.Mr Rigby said he first learnt about the incident from television, and recalled calling his step-son ...
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British jets scramble to intercept commercial airliner out of Pakistan
Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and ...
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U.K. fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport 2 arrests
A Pakistan International Airlines is surrounded by emergency vehicles on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England, May 24, 2013. British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. (REUTERS/ Paul Hackett) LONDON - British fighter ...
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British police close motorway to deal with suspicious vehicle
LONDON (Reuters) - British police closed one of the country's busiest motorways in both directions on Friday to deal with an incident which highway officials said involved a suspicious ...
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Met police under fire for seizing rough sleepers possessions
Darren Johnson, London Assembly member for Green party, said: 'We need to offer rough sleepers support and social housing, not persecution.' Photograph: Martin Argles for the ...
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NHS staff to be offered counselling-style sessions
The DH hopes the sessions will help staff feel more valued and better equipped to handle the ups and downs that healthcare involves. Photograph: Frank Baron for the ...
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RAF Typhoons divert Pakistan International Airlines plane to Stansted - video
Essex police have made two arrests for 'suspicion of endangerment to the aircraft' after a Pakistan passenger plane, en-route to Manchester, had to be escorted to Stansted airport by RAF Typhoons. The aircraft has been isolated and passengers have disembarked. No one was hurt during the incident and Stansted airport is operating as ...
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Russell Brand on parliament The whole joint is a deeply encoded temple of hegemonic power
Russell Brand leaves Portcullis House, Westminster, after giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee looking into drugs policy in April 2012. Photograph: Rebecca ...
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Burning Airbus makes emergency landing at Heathrow
A British Airways plane trailing smoke made an emergency landing on Friday morning at Heathrow, leading to a temporary shutdown of the airport and the cancellation of hundreds of flights.The flight, heading to Oslo from Heathrow, returned to ...
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Islamists gangs the EDL - all target alienated young men
London 's transport network. James Adams and 25 others were murdered by Abdullah Shaheed Jamal on a train travelling between Russell Square and King's Cross. Jamal did not look like Osama bin Laden, Kaled Sheikh Mohammed or Mohamed Atta. In fact, he looked like me: black Caribbean, raised and schooled in Britain. Michael Adebolajo, one of the two people alleged to have killed Lee Rigby ...
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J Crew brings Obama chic to London
The O factor - J Crew fans Sasha, left, and Malia Obama at their father's 2009 inauguration ceremony in Washington. Photograph: Chuck Kennedy/MCT via ...
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George Osborne is upbeat but the squeeze shows no sign of ending soon | Larry Elliott
George Osborne addresses a press conference with IMF leaders on Wednesday. The IMF has suggested the government's austerity programme should be scaled back. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Ashmolean exhibition of old masters marks museums 330th birthday
Ashmolean museum in Oxford to compensate for some distinctly second rate paintings, is going on display to celebrate the 330th birthday of one of the oldest ...
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Sally Bercow learns the social media rules the hard way in McAlpine case | Joshua Rozenberg
Mr Justice Tugendhat concluded the reasonable reader would understand Sally Bercow's tweet about Lord McAlpine, right, as insincere and ironical. Photograph: ...
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DIY drones dont confuse homemade UAVs with military killing machines
"It was always a dream to build one, after having built helicopters in my bedroom for a while. I mostly like flying for fun, seeing whether I can get the device to auto-stabilise. As opposed to a plane or helicopter, you don't need a lot of knowledge to control them. They fly themselves. Something like this - you can put in a backpack and carry it with you." Electronic circuit ...
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Cult punk film revives hunt for Ulster arsonist
Terri Hooley, the owner of the Good Vibrations shop, said: 'I want to use the publicity around the film to get the PSNI to take [the arson attack] seriously again.' Photograph: Steffan ...
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New Birth Injury Specialists at Medical-Negligence.com
Medical-Negligence.com has appointed a number of birth injury solicitors to its growing network of clinical negligence experts. The move is motivated by the network's mission to becoming the leading source of legal advice and information for those who have been affected by hospital negligence. "Nearly every medical negligence claim firm in the UK will have at least one solicitor ...
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Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary praises London killer Adebolajo
Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday in broad daylight. After committing the crime, Adebolajo made chilling rants on camera to passerbys watching in horror. He said, "Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers Tell them to bring our troops back so you can all live in peace". On Friday, radical preacher Choudary actually came out to praise Adebolajo's views. Choudary said he was ...
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Plane diverted two arrested in British aircraft incident
LONDON (AP) — British authorities said Friday that two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after an incident on a civilian plane flying from Pakistan to England. Authorities said a jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane, which carried nearly 300 passengers, to Britain's Stansted Airport on Friday. It was originally scheduled to ...
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Webber to captain England against Barbarians
Bath hooker Rob Webber will captain England in Sunday's non-cap international against the Barbarians at Twickenham. Gloucester-bound flanker Matt Kvesic and London Irish wing Marland Yarde will both make their first senior appearances in an England shirt. Wasps wing Christian Wade, voted the players' player of the season on Wednesday night, starts on the right wing and is the only ...
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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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