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Pair jailed for murder of stepson of gangland celebrity Dave Courtney
Drug dealer Genson Courtney, 23, was executed by his uncle David Pinto, who shot him through the left eye.Pinto, 33, and getaway driver Robert Bleach, 46, both of Greenwich, south-east London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week.They were sentenced using a videolink following fears of disturbances involving Pinto and members of his family in the public gallery.Judge Wendy ...
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An act of complete cowardice Ed Miliband blasts Woolwich solider attack
Mr Miliband spoke to Prime Minister David Cameron today about the killing, after cutting short a visit to Germany to return to London. He said the opposition was offering its "full support" to the Government in its response to the outrage In a televised statement, Mr Miliband said: "This was an appalling and horrific murder and all of my condolences are with the families and ...
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Exclusive Woolwich attacker named Mujahid was known to banned Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun
It was also reported today that the alleged killers, who are under armed guard in different London hospitals, were both known to security services.Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he had known the man who was seen on video in the immediate aftermath of yesterday's horrific killing waving a cleaver with bloodied hands and making political ...
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Revealed The cross-dressing spy who embarrassed the UK
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a 'key figure in British intelligence' in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested dressed as a woman.Files released publicly by the National Archives reveal that Lt Col Clarke told Spanish police he was a novelist and had "wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets" ...
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Watch jihadist rant Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers hands. And this British soldier is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
A young man with bloodied hands holds a knife and a meat cleaver soaked in blood as he faces the camera to say he has just killed a soldier on a London street in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims killed by British troops in faraway lands.As the man speaks, a woman in a blue skirt pulls a shopping cart down the pavement towards him, glances briefly in the direction of a corpse lying in the ...
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Local authority pension funds seek social impact investments
LONDON (Reuters) - Five British local authority pension funds have pledged to provide 250 million pounds ($376 million) for new investments in areas which are seen as socially beneficial such as infrastructure, while still delivering ...
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Eric Joyce denies being charged with breach of peace
Eric Joyce, who criticised police for saying he would appear in court at a later date when in fact, he said, he had not been charged. Photograph: Stefan ...
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Woolwichs DIY terror stars trading liberty for five minutes of infamy | Conor Gearty
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack Terrorism has always been driven by technology. Fenian dynamite terrified 19th-century Britain just as IRA semtex did a few generations later - both "weapons of mass destruction" of their day. Radical improvements in TV cameras made the drama of Palestinian violence global news in the late 60s, and a little later ...
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Woolwich attacks response – in pictures
The government's emergency response committee, Cobra, has reconvened to discuss security measures after a British soldier was murdered by suspected Islamist extremists near London's Woolwich army barracks in a savage knife ...
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Was the London machete killing of a British soldier terrorism | Glenn Greenwald
a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using a machete to hack to death a British soldier. In the wake of claims that the assailants shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the killing, ...
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Woolwich attack BBCs Nick Robinson apologises after Muslim description
Nick Robinson , has apologised after he quoted a source who apparently described the Woolwich attackers as being "of Muslim appearance".The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machette attack that killed a serving soldier ...
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Woolwich attack suspect identified as Michael Adebolajo
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack The identity of the suspect pictured carrying bloodied knives in the aftermath of the murder of a British soldier is Michael Olumide Adebolajo, Guardian sources have confirmed.Adebolajo was an ordinary British schoolboy; born in Lambeth in December 1984, he grew up in Romford, travelled to school on the bus, played football ...
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Woolwich attack why David Cameron is right to reject knee-jerk responses | Alan Travis
David Cameron speaking to the media outside 10 Downing Street, where he rejected 'knee-jerk responses' to the Woolwich attack. Photograph: Alastair ...
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Bauer replaces Kerrang radio with Planet Rock on FM in West Midlands
Bauer Media has axed the Kerrang! radio station from its FM slot in the West Midlands, switching the frequency to its newly-bought rock music rival, Planet Rock.It is the first analogue platform for Planet Rock, bought by Bauer for between 1m and 2m from Malcolm Bluemel after a protracted sales process earlier this ...
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Bridger says he put Aprils body somewhere
The man accused of abducting and murdering the schoolgirl April Jones in a sexually motivated attack has told a jury he put her body "somewhere where it has not been found".On his second day of cross-examination, Mark Bridger, 47, of Ceinws, mid-Wales, answered questions about the search for April's body.Elwen Evans QC, prosecuting, told Mold crown court on Thursday that after ...
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Faith Declines in England
The latest data from the 2011 census for England and Wales revealed some concerning trends for Christians. According to the Office for National Statistics Christianity is still the largest religious group in England and Wales, with 33.2million ...
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London attackers British of Nigerian origin source
LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said ...
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Source London attacker was British-born of Nigerian descent
Police clashed with protesters, including supporters of the far-right English Defence League, following the brutal hacking death of a man in London on Wednesday. (May ...
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Micro-breweries give cheer to British beer drinkers
By Jonathan Cable BRENTWOOD, England | Thu May 23, 2013 9:28am EDT BRENTWOOD, England May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's love affair with quirkily named real ales and their demand for locally produced goods has led to a growing trend in micro-breweries that cater to the more discerning palate. More than 1,000 brewers now operate across the country compared to just over 800 in late 2011, ...
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Simplyhealth reseach on the hidden impact of poor oral health
While almost seven out of 10 people recognise that poor oral health can have an impact on the rest of their body, people are not as clued up when it comes to what diseases it has potential links with, according to new research by ...
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Bowel cancer is the second most claimed for cancer
Bowel cancer was the second most claimed for form of cancer last year, according to a Scottish Provident report on critical illness ...
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Simplyhealth says that people borrow to fund dental care
Credit cards, borrowing from friends and family and even pay day loans have been listed as common ways to pay for dental bills over 200, according to a recent survey of 5,000 adults by ...
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Staysure reveals top 10 medical conditions for travellers over 50
When it comes to medical conditions declared by older travellers, the latest figures from Staysure, specialist insurers for the over-50s reveal that: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, asthma, heart attack and arthritis consistently top the list of medical conditions declared by customers during their ...
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Great Britain confirms GDP growth
Britain's Office of National Statistics said the country's economy rose 0.3 percent in the first quarter of the year, leaving a previous estimate unchanged. The growth over the fourth quarter of 2012 was in line with expectations and follows a quarter-to-quarter decline of 0.3 percent in the previous reporting period. The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of an ...
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Israel and Britain signed Today MOU on Science Cooperation
Israel and Britain signed Today Memorandum of Understanding on Science Cooperation Ministry for Science, Technology and Space May 23, 2013 Foreign Secretary William Hague and ...
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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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