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Woolwich suspect believed to be involved in attack - video
Footage obtained by ITV which purports to show two men believed to be involved in a 'serious incident' in Woolwich, south east London, on Wednesday which has left one person dead and two others injured. The man, holding what appears to be a machete, talks to a passersby with the victim of the incident laying behind him in the ...
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Man hacked to death in London street in suspected militant attack
1 of 2. Police officers guard a cordon set up around a crime scene where one man was killed was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, ...
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Shocking attack in England
Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ...
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Report highlights species decline in Britain
Conservationists say 60 percent of animal and plant species studied in Britain have declined in the past 50 years with bees and wildflowers the most vulnerable. A State of Nature report put together by 25 British wildlife organizations and assessing 3,148 species said reasons for species decline are "many and varied" but include rising temperatures and habitat degradation, the BBC ...
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Fiat Industrial aims to shift tax home to Britain
Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global ...
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Woolwich attack in pictures Shocking scenes as man is beheaded in street
two suspected terrorists murdered the man in broad daylight .Some eyewitnesses said this attackers tried to behead him, before charging at police when they arrived on the scene in Woolwich, south east London.Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford confirmed tonight that the two attackers were shot by armed officers.Prime Minister David Cameron called a crisis meeting , describing the ...
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Mount Everest Picture of bottleneck as climbers queue up to tackle worlds highest peak
This was the chaotic scene on Everest the day four climbers lost their lives in a stop-start traffic jam. Hundreds of climbers were stuck in the deadly tailback near the top of the world's highest mountain, losing body heat and using up precious oxygen supplies. Sixty years after the 29,029ft peak was first conquered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, overcrowding regularly puts ...
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April Jones trial Mark Bridger accidentally found child abuse images while looking for Spongebob Squarepants cartoon
April Jones murder accused Mark Bridger accidentally stumbled upon child abuse images while looking for Spongebob Squarepants cartoons for his daughter on the internet, a court heard today.When confronted about the stash of child porn allegedly found by police on his hard drive, the former slaughterman claimed he was amassing the sick images so he could write to foreign companies responsible for ...
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I am the beneficiary of the house-price boom. My children are its victims | Suzanne Moore
property is theft then I am a colossal thief. I sold my house via Foxtons. Thanks, Nick! See, I know how to get you onside; boasting of my palatial Hackney residence! The truth is that like anyone who bought property 20 years ago in London and tarted it up and just kind of lived in it, the profit made has nothing to do with my canniness or financial nous. It's just that house prices have ...
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Austerity is a task for another day IMF tells George Osborne
austerity pause button. Invest more in social housing, schools and road repairs. Growth is more important in the short term than deficit reduction. Couched in suitably polite language, that was the uncomfortable message from the International Monetary Fund ...
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Deficit national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946
Office for National Statistics said public sector net borrowing came in at 85.1 for the 2012-13 financial year. That's a 35.8bn improvement on the 120.9bn in the previous ...
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Bank of England remains divided on whether to continue with stimulus
LONDON--Bank of England policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...
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Europes main markets decline on British data
LONDON/HONG KONG--Europe's main stock markets fell on Wednesday, with London and sterling in focus following Bank of England minutes and mixed British data, and ahead of key testimony by U.S. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke later in the ...
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Woolwich attack We face new type of terror threat says former Flying Squad commander
Terror experts said that the murder is a "departure" from previous attacks and represents a "new round of terror threats in this ...
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High Court rules that billionaire fraudster should lose three luxury properties
Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov fled the UK on a Europe-bound coach last year after he was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment for contempt over failing to declare the full extent of his wealth.It is alleged that he embezzled more than $6bn during his time as chairman of BTA Bank between 2005 and 2009, which he denies. The bank is now pursuing Mr Ablyazov in the High Court over 11 separate ...
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Anonymity order lifted for triple child killer David McGreavy jailed in 1973
A sadistic killer, who murdered three children he was babysitting before impaling them on railings, could be given a new identity if the parole board agrees to transfer him to an open ...
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National archives Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an ...
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Rommel plot revealed Plan to assassinate the Desert Fox – and why MI6 abandoned it
Britain flirted with the idea of launching a wave of assassinations of senior Nazis, from Field Marshal Rommel to railway chiefs, to coincide with the D-Day landings, according to newly released ...
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Video Police statement on Woolwich
'Soldier beheaded' in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack near Woolwich barracks - 'attacker' shown in video saying 'We will never stop fighting ...
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Google boss Eric Schmidt hits back at Ed Miliband and vows to invest in UK even if it has to pay more tax
Google will continue to invest in UK even if the company is forced by law to pay more tax, the company's chairman Eric Schmidt said yesterday, claiming "we love you guys too ...
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Terror at Woolwich barracks Attacker tried to behead and disembowel British soldier
Security has been stepped up around military bases and other sensitive sites after a British soldier was murdered by suspected Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him as he left his barracks in the first mainland terror attack since the 2005 London ...
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Mick McManus Wrestler who revelled in his status as the man the British public loved to hate
Mick McManus was one of the greatest British wrestlers. An enormously popular figure who delighted in the nicknames of "The Man You Love to Hate" and "The Dulwich Destroyer", he was renowned for pushing the rules of the sport to their limits and for deliberately turning the crowds against him for theatrical ...
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IMF says Britain long way from recovery
THE International Monetary Fund says Britain is a long way from a "sustainable recovery" and called for the government to boost infrastructure spending in order to accelerate economic growth and offset ...
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Who dares to dodge Googles information tax | McKenzie Wark
'Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.' Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ...
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EU tax summit backs US-led drive to tackle banking secrecy
European leaders have thrown their weight behind a gathering international crackdown on tax evasion, backing US-led efforts to develop a new global template to combat banking secrecy.Amid mounting public outrage in Britain, France, Germany and Ireland over individual and corporate tax scandals, an EU summit pledged to clamp down through the sharing of information on the assets and gains of ...
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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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