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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage
Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new ...
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‘Call Centre’ boss’s firms fined over nuisance calls
Two companies owned by the BBC's new reality star Neville "Big Nev" Wilshire - who appears in the fly-on-the-wall documentary The Call Centre - have been fined 225,000 for making nuisance ...
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Buckinghamshire village up in arms over location of new Sikh secondary school
A Buckinghamshire village is threatening legal action over plans to set up an 850-pupil Sikh secondary school in its midst. Residents of Stoke Poges have warned they will seek a judicial review of the proposal after Department for Education {DfE) bought an office block in the village for the school for a reputed ...
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G8 summit David Cameron hails landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power
World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...
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Ex-Gladiators Star Sues Over Phone Hacking
A British national who won the 1990s TV show Gladiators has become the first person to file a law suit in the US against News Corp over alleged phone hacking. Eunice Huthart, who triumphed in the show in 1994, has filed a suit in Los Angeles accusing the now defunct News of the World of intercepting her voice mail messages. The 46-year-old, who has also worked as Hollywood star Angelina ...
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Teenagers killed by passenger train in Hertfordshire
School staff and the friends of two pupils in Hertfordshire killed after they were hit by a passenger train, have paid tribute to the teenagers.Charleigh Disbrey, 15, and an 18-year-old Mert Karaoglan were hit by a First Capital Connect train near Elstree and Borehamwood station on Monday night.The site of the accident is not open to the public and police are not treating the deaths as ...
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Legal aid cuts will drive out the best lawyers supreme court president warns
Lord Neuberger, president of the supreme court, said it was a mistake to have a new legal aid regime with a costs structure "which will drive out the best lawyers" as good lawyers save money. Photograph: David Levene for the ...
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Nigel Farage forced to cancel Aberdeen lunch due to protest fears Ukip claims
Scotland less than a month after he had to take refuge in a pub after being heckled and abused by demonstrators in Edinburgh.Farage had endured a torrid half-hour of abuse and heckling from pro-independence and anti-racist campaigners who called him "scum", a "racist" and a "bawbag" on Edinburgh's Royal Mile last month, as they thwarted his plans for a press ...
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Former police authority boss Dave McLuckie facing jail for persuading friend to take speeding points
A former police authority boss admitted he was facing jail "like Chris Huhne" today after persuading a friend to take his speeding points. Dave McLuckie, ex-Cleveland Police Authority chairman, was convicted of perverting the course of justice at Newcastle Crown Court. After a jury took just 90 minutes to find him guilty, the judge warned he would be facing a jail term when he came ...
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Police officer Ian Terry was shot dead in ‘deeply flawed training exercise’
A police officer was shot dead by a colleague in a "deeply flawed" firearms exercise, a court heard today.PC Ian Terry, 32, lost his life as he played a the role of a "bad guy" in the operation.He was shot dead in June 2008 by an officer named only as 'Pc Chris'.Two firearms officers, who have been granted anonymity and were named only in court as 'Pc ...
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Stephen Lawrence Unity concert to star Emeli Sande Jessie J and Ed Sheeran to mark 20th anniversary of murder
Emeli Sande, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran will perform at a one-off concert to mark the 20th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence's racist murder. They will be joined by Rizzle Kicks, Jamie Cullum. Tinie Tempah, Labrinth and Soul II Soul at the O2 gig in September to raise funds for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Speaking about Stephen's death today at the launch at the Abbey Road ...
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Couple organise dream wedding in just ten days after grooms cancer diagnosis
A bride organised the wedding of her dreams in just 10 days after her cancer-stricken husband popped the question.Chris Clark, 41, proposed to then-girlfriend Charlotte within minutes of being told there was no cure for his stomach cancer.Incredibly, just days after getting down on one knee he was walking down the aisle with the 30-year-old.Charlotte enlisted the help of family and friends to ...
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UFO spotted in Bracknell by pubgoer who saw two glowing discs in sky as he made phone call
Is this photo proof of alien visitors? In a snap that looks straight out of hit sci-fi series The X-Files, two glowing discs hover above a town moments before speeding out of view. They were spotted above Bracknell in Berkshire last Friday by a stunned man who was outside making a phone call. Steve Lambert quickly used his phone to capture the UFO and now wonders if his Close Encounter was ...
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Jeremy Forrest trial Teachers wife in tears after seeing husband for first time in nine months
Jeremy Forrest's wife Emily broke down in court as she told how they had sex just once in the four months before he ran off and how she warned him about tweeting the ...
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Nigella Lawson photos Photographer who took shocking pictures describes rough scene
The photographer who captured Charles Saatchi attacking TV chef wife Nigella Lawson has spoken out for the first time and said the shocking bust-up looked anything but ...
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Girl Guides promise to serve Queen but no longer God and country
Guides were trumpeted from the very first days of the organisation's existence in 1910. But now, following a consultation with members, God and country are out - leaving just the Queen.In one of the biggest overhauls undergone by guiding in the UK, girls will now instead promise to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs". They will also pledge "to serve my queen and ...
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England v South Africa the key clashes
Amla had the Indian sign over the English last year, carrying his eye-catching form from a successful three-Test series (482 runs at an average of 120.50) into the drawn one-day contest that followed (335 at 111.66). There was a career-best 150 rattled up at the Rose Bowl, and an unbeaten 97 accumulated at Trent Bridge, with the opener irresistible and the home side rendered blunt. Anderson, ...
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Palestinian writers refused visas for travel to UK
Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art.The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, were due to talk about their writing at London's ICA on 28 June but have been barred from coming - to the disappointment and frustration of festival organisers.Omar al-Qattan, chairman of ...
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To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong The true effect of the badger cull
finds a growing number of farmers - including those whose own farms have been blighted by TB - are now questioning the nature of the cull and its likely ...
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Stand by for another DECADE of wet summers say meteorologists
Britain faces ten more years of wet summers, after the Met Office revealed the country is in the midst of a rare weather cycle that increases the prospect of summer rain and could last for two ...
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Former No 10 spin chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury
Details of his private appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week, where he made no plea or declaration and was granted bail, was only made possible after a successful legal challenge overturned an earlier court order which banned any media reporting of the legal proceedings.Mr Coulson, 45, was detained at his London home last May and driven 400 miles to Glasgow by officers from the former ...
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Jordan endorses extradition treaty with Britain
View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Jordan's King Abdullah II, pictured here on April 25, 2013, has endorsed a treaty with Britain expected to pave the way for the extradition of radical cleric Abu Qatada who has resisted ...
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Man dies after falling from yacht mast during Border Force raid
An investigation is under way following the death of a man who tumbled 40 feet from the mast of a yacht after the vessel was boarded by customs officers.The incident happened on the vessel called Windrose while it was moored in St Mary's harbour, on the Isles of Scilly.The Dutch-registered vessel got into distress on Sunday and had to be towed into the harbour by a lifeboat.The man who died ...
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Conventional wisdom people turn Tory with age. The new trends less simple … | Bobby Duffy and Tom Clark
difference between a distinct cohort effect and a general age effect , compare medals for wartime service (which we associate with today's elderly, but only because of the particular years that their generation happens to have lived through) on the one hand, and reading glasses (a necessity for ageing eyes in every generation) on the other. We define four separate generations - prewar ...
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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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