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Dear Nigella Lawson Battered wifes open letter to TV chef after shock pictures
The survivor of domestic violence writes to Nigella, recounting her own story and explaining how she changed her ...
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Environment Secretary Owen Paterson urges UK to adopt use of GM crop technology
Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, will officially kick off his campaign to bring genetically modified crops to the UK today by calling on the government, industry and scientists to join forces to convert the public in the face of widespread fear and ...
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Mentally Ill Locked Up In Police Custody
Too many people suffering from mental health issues are being locked up in police custody rather than being protected in hospitals, a joint inspection has found. Police have powers to take individuals suffering from mental health issues in a public place to a "place of safety" for their protection. But guidance states that in all but "exceptional" circumstances this should ...
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GM Crops Safe And Beneficial Says Minister
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is to call on the Government, scientists and industry leaders to join forces to allay the public's fears on the use of genetically modified (GM) crops. In a speech later he will say that they "owe a duty to the British public to reassure them that GM is a safe, proven and beneficial innovation" for farmers and consumers. Mr Paterson, who has ...
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Sportscover sponsors Dame Kelly Homes Legacy Trust
Sportscover has become a sponsor of The Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust. The trust is committed to getting young lives on track through a range of innovative projects. Central to every project is the opportunity for each young person to work alongside elite sports ...
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Buy travel insurance if going to Spain
AA Insurance has welcomed the news that the European Commission is considering legal action against Spain for refusal by many Spanish hospitals to recognise the European Health Insurance Card ...
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Selena Gomez said to have hooked up with singer Ed Sheeran
Selena Gomez and British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran are now involved in a trans-Atlantic romance, Us Weekly reports. The couple were brought together ...
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Tiger injures elbow to sit until British Open
Woods said Wednesday that soreness in his left elbow would keep him from defending his title next week in the AT&T National at Congressional, and that he would not compete again until the British Open next month at Muirfield.This is the sixth straight year that injury has kept him from either playing a tournament or finishing one.The culprit this time is a strain in his left elbow. The ...
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UK deputy speaker held again over new gay rape charges
Nigel Evans , already under arrest for alleged rape and sex assault, has been held on suspicion of three more counts of indecent assault on young men. The 55-year-old MP answered bail on Wednesday at Preston police station in the north-west of England following his arrest in May on suspicion of rape and sexual assault and was told that he faced the additional allegations. All the claims involve ...
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Let Ian Brady live and suffer
If a poll were taken on whether we should grant Ian Brady's wish to be allowed to starve to death there would be a landslide in favour.Especially after he told a tribunal that the murders he carried out on children were "petty". Revenge is a strong instinct and wanting to see this monster dead is understandable. But listening to the misery he's in, hearing his anger and his ...
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World Briefing | Europe British Court Rules Against Sanctions on Iranian Bank
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Video Country music star Slim Whitman dies of heart failure
Slim Whitman died Wednesday from heart failure. The singer know for "Indian Love Call" and his trademark yodel was 90-years-old. He once said he hoped to be remembered for two things: a good voice, and a clean suit. Scott Pelley ...
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Tell Sid Public will be offered shares in Lloyds Bank
The prospect of an eventual "tell Sid"-style sale of shares in Lloyds Bank was raised by George Osborne as he claimed Britain's economy had emerged from "intensive ...
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New banker bonus boom Payouts leapt 64 per cent to new record when Chancellor George Osborne cut top-rate tax to 45p in April
Bankers' bonuses soared to record levels in April as the Government's cut in the top rate of income tax came into effect, new figures have ...
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George Osborne readies City for Lloyds sell-off
Royal Bank of Scotland , in a move that could delay the bailed-out bank's return to the private sector.In his annual speech to City grandees at Mansion House on Wednesday night, the chancellor said he was "actively considering options for share sales in Lloyds", in which the government has a 39% stake. Speculation is mounting that a partial sell-off of the state's Lloyds ...
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Nigella Lawson spotted WITHOUT her wedding ring in first public appearance since assault pictures
Television chef Nigella Lawson was yesterday seen out in public - but was not wearing her wedding ring.It comes after her husband, Charles Saatchi, was pictured in the Sunday People grabbing her by the throat.Nigella, 53, was last spotted fleeing her London home on Sunday, when the dramatic pictures of the couple outside a restaurant emerged.Saatchi agreed to a police caution over the incident - ...
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Nigella Lawson pictures show its time for real men to man up
Nigellagate from some feminist commentators who usually appear to have the acronym AMAB (all men are b******s) tattooed on their typing fingers.Had Kerry Katona been snapped getting throttled by her partner outside a Toby Carvery in Warrington, and stayed silent, I'm sure there'd have been a tweetfest about Little Miss Thickoe betraying her gender by failing to report the Neanderthal ...
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How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron (left) and the concept the New York design studio Atopia submitted to Locog in 2007. Photograph: Getty ...
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North-south negative equity divide widening
Ratings agency S&P says that 13.5% of mortgage borrowers in north-west England are in negative equity, against 0.9% in London and the ...
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Theres something quite unpleasant going on Nigel Farage confronted for second time on visit to Scotland
Ukip leader Nigel Farage said there is "something quite unpleasant going on" in Scotland after his Ukip team was sprayed by a protester with a fizzy ...
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MALAYSIA PRESS-Kulim to take New Britain Palm Oil Ltd private-The Star
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:59pm EDT ---- NOTE: Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their ...
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Scotland must do more to tackle poverty warns Oxfam
Scotland 's poorest neighbourhoods.The charity has accused ministers in successive Scottish and UK governments of failing to combat poverty effectively by putting wealth-creation, consumption and economic growth ahead of ...
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Explosions under London sidewalks investigated
At least five pedestrians have been injured by electrical equipment exploding under London sidewalks since January 2012, officials say. In the most serious case, a woman was burned over about 20 percent of her body by an explosion in the Edgeware Road last year, the Evening Standard reported. Two other women suffered less serious burns in the same blast. Indran Sivarajah told CNN he had a near ...
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Robber who tried to hide his face with clear plastic bag and the top 10 strangest disguises
The hapless thief who raided a petrol station with a see-through plastic bag covering his face is just one of many criminals to don a ridiculous ...
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My escape from war-torn homeland Fabrice Muamba tells his story for World Refugee Day
I had never seen snow until my first day in Britain. I was 11 years old and it was freezing cold. I couldn't speak any English and my family had fled our country, terrified for our lives.The whole way of life here was so different to Zaire, but people were so friendly.And Britain is now my home.I was a refugee, just like 50 million people now across the globe - from Syria to Afghanistan, ...
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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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