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Carroll out of England squad
the FA . "Carroll had been named in Roy Hodgson's squad that will take on Ireland at Wembley on Wednesday 29 May, and then travel to Rio to face Brazil on 2 June, but has now been forced to withdraw through injury. No replacement will be made at this time." Carroll spent the season on loan at West Ham United and ended the season with a strong burst of form that drew warm praise ...
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British species in rapid decline with one in 10 at risk of extinction
Almost two thirds of British species have declined in the past 50 years and one in 10 faces the risk of extinction from our shores, according to an extensive new report into the state of Britain's ...
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Wm Morrison falls after UBS confirms placing
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Britain's No.4 supermarket Wm Morrison fell 2.4 percent on Wedensday after UBS confirmed it had placed around 100 million shares in the firm at 280 pence for an institutional seller. The sale represents 4.4 percent ...
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RBS says no need to issue contingent capital
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday it would not have to issue contingent capital to meet new regulatory demands and expects to meet the requirements through its existing business plan. The state-backed lender said, ...
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Google Big Tent Ed Miliband Eric Schmidt and more
Miliband Q+A Asked what he would actually do: "Take a company like Google, it's deeply committed to Britain for commercial reasons. I don't think Google's about to leave the country. Governments have more power than they realise in what they can do. But you also have to work ...
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Griff Rhys Jones attacks green energy desecration of countryside
The comedian Griff Rhys Jones has accused the government of "random desecration" of the countryside and despoiling "pristine landscapes" through its subsidies to wind turbines ...
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Green deal MPs blast government for failure to quantify success
The government has estimated that 14m households could benefit from the sorts of improvements that would be financed under the green deal. Photograph: Dan Chung for the ...
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April Jones murder trial Mark Bridger defence begins - in tweets
Mark Bridger is on trial for the abduction and murder of schoolgirl April Jones, who vanished near her home in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, last year. He denies the charge. Our reporter Steven Morris is at Mold crown court. Follow his tweets live from the court, ...
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Whats causing the crisis in AE
Pressure on NHS A&E services has reached critical levels, but why is it so acute now? Share your thoughts on what you think is causing the crisis as well as your own experiences of A&E and out-of-hours ...
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Cameron and Clegg the coalition will last five years
Conservatives not to shift right in a doomed bid to head off Ukip.Clegg warned Tory MPs off "arcane, shrill and tongue-twisting manoeuvres in parliament", saying it distracted the public from the government's main goal of sorting the economy.Speaking at a press conference in Westminster, Clegg told the Conservatives they were wasting their time trying to stir up a leadership ...
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Absolute intention to stay in coalition until 2015 says David Cameron
David Cameron has insisted it is his "absolute intention" for the coalition to continue until the general election in 2015 and insisted there was no split within the Conservative party over Europe.The prime minister's comments came as his ...
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Oklahoma the clear-up begins glamour from Cannes the news in pictures
As the clear-up gets under way, utility workers raise cable as they try to restore power to a section of town in Moore, Oklahoma. Photograph: Ed ...
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Sir David Nicholson the Stalinist NHS chief who showed loyalty to Tory boss
A known sceptic of Andrew Lansley's big bang health reforms, Sir David Nicholson had a chance to halt the controversial health secretary's plan when he was called in by the Tory enforcer Oliver Letwin and his Lib Dem counterpart Danny Alexander for a meeting in the Treasury in late 2010.The pair asked him whether they should they continue with the reforms given the emerging and ...
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Women 40 more likely than men to develop mental illness study finds
mental health conditions, according to new analysis by a clinical psychologist at Oxford University.The finding, based on analysis of epidemiological studies from the UK, US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, has significant consequences for public health, according ...
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If parents have to pay for school work placements their children will suffer | Libby Page
A student doing work experience at tailor and fashion designer Imtaz Khaliq's London studio. Parents are reportedly being asked to pay 50 or more for their children to do placements. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the ...
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Afghan interpreters resettlement scheme does not go far enough
An Afghan interpreter with former British servicemen delivering a petition calling for asylum. It is estimated that about 600 interpreters working for UK forces will benefit from the scheme. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Why austerity is bad for your health
A new book 'The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills' by leading political economist David Stuckler and physician Sanjay Basu reveals groundbreaking research that argues austerity is seriously bad for our ...
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People holiday with extended family and friends
New research from Aviva suggests that holidaymakers are increasingly going away with grandparents, parents, brothers,sisters, cousins and friends in a bid to get some quality time together. 35% actively choose to go on holiday with friends and extended family ...
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Are men aware that poor dental health can affect the whole body
After researching 5,000 individuals of which 2101 were male, Simplyhealth's latest dental survey reveals some worrying statistics about the lack of awareness men have when it comes to their dental health and its potential impact on the rest of the ...
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Bank of England remains divided on stimulus
LONDON -; The Bank of England's 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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Man sets up video camera to film ghosts in kitchen - and catches girlfriend having sex with teenage son
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Notre Dame Cathedral Campaigner Dominique Venner shoots himself dead in front of horrified visitors
A campaigner opposed to gay marriage shot himself dead in front of hundreds of visitors at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today.Dominique Venner, 78, walked up to the altar, put a Herstal automatic pistol in his mouth and fired at about 4pm.Visitors screamed in horror, before emergency crews arrived and the building was ...
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Homelessness despair and confusion amid the night shelter funding crisis
The future for housing-benefit funded emergency night shelters for rough sleepers is precarious. So why are ministers so reluctant to intervene to prevent them ...
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Britvic to close two factories and warehouse with loss of up to 400 jobs
Britvic in the UK and Ireland are under threat, after the maker of Robinsons squash and R White's lemonade said it would close two factories and a warehouse.The company, which employs some 3,300 people, is reducing its staff by up to 15% as part of an attempt to cut annual costs by 30m over the next three years.Britvic's chief executive, Simon Litherland, said: "It's always ...
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UPDATE 1-Plunge in UK retail sales points to fragile economy
Wed May 22, 2013 5:37am EDT By Olesya Dmitracova and Christina Fincher LONDON May 22 (Reuters) - British retail sales dropped at their sharpest pace in a year last month, a reminder of weakness in the country's economy after some recent signs of recovery. Sales of food plunged 4.1 percent from March, the worst showing in almost two years. As the government prepared to face a call from the ...
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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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