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Program to repopulate Britain with cranes yields first egg
Wildlife experts say the first crane egg in southern Britain in more than 400 years has been laid by a nesting bird. Although hunting and the loss of habitat wiped out the crane population in Britain, the Great Crane Project has been rearing the birds in captivity and reintroducing them to southwestern England since 2010, they said. The egg, the first laid by cranes released by the project, is ...
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What would Angelina do British man has prostate removed in preventative surgery
US actress and director Angelina Jolie addressing the audience after premiere of her movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 2012. (Amel ...
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British Aircraft Carrier HMS Ark Royal Heads For Scrap Yard
HMS Ark Royal steams into Portsmouth, England, for the last time on Dec. 3, 2010, in preparation for decommissioning. The people of Portsmouth turned out on Monday to bid farewell to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, destined for a Turkish scrap yard after its decommissioning two years ago. The Invincible-class carrier was a victim of a 2010 defense review that recommended scrapping ...
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Killed by DONKEYS Disabled pensioner dragged from mobility scooter and mauled to death
Rex A disabled pensioner has been dragged from his mobility scooter and mauled to death by a pair of crazed donkeys. Sandor Horvath, 65, was so badly bitten that investigators initially thought he had been savaged by a pack of wolves. He was chased and trampled by the animals while visiting a farmer friend. The farmer's daughter, Csikos Darda, said: "I noticed the donkeys were ...
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Mighty Ark Royals dark day Navy flagship final voyage as its towed away for scrap
mighty HMS Ark Royal as it was towed away to be scrapped today.Former crew members were among onlookers, many in black armbands, as the aircraft carrier left her Portsmouth home for the last time.The one-time flagship of the Royal Navy disappeared over the horizon bound for Izmir in western Turkey, where she will be broken up.The most expensive British warship ever, built at a cost of 333million ...
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Mairead Philpott appeal over sentence for killing six kids a waste of money says her OWN DAD
Mairead's plan to appeal against the 17-year prison term for killing her six children in a fire "a waste of taxpayers' money". He even claimed she should have been locked up for longer.He said: "She should just get on with her sentence. Six little children lost their lives and nothing will change that."Appealing will just drag it all back up and cost taxpayers a lot ...
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Britain is booming FTSE reaches 12-year high as record looms
FTSE 100 blue chip index matched levels from September 2000, just before the market's fascination with loss-making technology companies such as lastminute.com came to an abrupt end and the dotcom bubble burst. The closely watched index of the 100 biggest companies traded in London is also within sight of its all time peak of the 6,930 reached on 30 December 1999.The FTSE 100 is nonetheless ...
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Letters The tube is a great public institution
150th anniversary of the tube , hardly a word has been said about another important date: the 80th anniversary of public ownership, inaugurated on 1 July 1933, when the underground became part of ...
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Country diary Coombs Dale Derbyshire
The high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, ...
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Tim Peakes space station mission could put a rocket under Britains economy
Link to video: Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station There is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens ...
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Church of Scotland votes to allow gay men and women to become ministers
The parents of a 17-year-old girl who was killed in a car crash that also left her best friend dead and three young men fighting for their lives have paid tribute to their "beautiful" ...
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
A gay couple who were beaten by a gang of youths in a suspected homphobic robbery last weekend - leaving one with head injuries - have urged politicians to moderate their language when debating same-sex ...
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Labour MP Tom Watson urges Theresa May to investigate suppressed Leveson evidence
The Home Secretary has been asked to investigate whether vital reports and documents in the possession of Scotland Yard were seen in full by Lord Justice Leveson before he reached key conclusions in his report on the ...
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Prince William Dont Forget Injured Forces
Prince William has issued a heartfelt plea to the nation not to forget the injured members of the British Armed Forces. "We must not let the wounded men and women of our Armed Forces down," said the Duke of Cambridge. The comments by the future king and serving member of the Armed Forces came as he joined his younger brother Prince Harry to open Tedworth House, a state-of-the-art ...
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Retired priest jailed over sex attacks at childrens home
A retired Church of England priest found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on children at a Barnardo's home has been jailed for 10 years.Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, abused more than a dozen girls and boys at the home at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex, over a four-year period.The former Anglican clergyman also indecently assaulted two girls at an army site in Middle Wallop, ...
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Council admits mistakes over Ukip foster parents storm
children away from their Ukip-supporting foster parents has apologised over its handling of the case after a review concluded that mistakes were made but the decision was taken in the children's best ...
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Education in brief Is the DfE trying to rig the teacher-education market
The education department seems desperate to teach more teachers; Newham local authority refuses to release a report's findings; parents give up on battle against academy ...
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Senior Tories to warn No 10 of declining confidence in David Cameron
David Cameron, who could face a confidence vote if the chairman of the Tory 1922 committee receives enough letters demanding one. Photograph: Oli ...
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Chelsea flower show austere elements and an Australian ray of light
Chelsea flower show seems strangely subdued. Despite the jollity of the unbanned gnomes and the celebrity-spangled glamour of Monday's press day ("there's Helen Mirren in a lily-of-the-valley print skirt! Look, it's Ringo Starr and his wife!"), it's a struggle to find a show garden that raises the hairs on the back of the neck, a real showstopper.Adding to this ...
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Petrol price rigging inquiry contacts oil traders
oil trading companies have been asked to provide information to the cross-border investigation into alleged petrol price rigging. There is no suggestion that these companies are being ...
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UK delays award of prison privatisation contract - FT
Ministry of Justice following an investigation into whether it was overcharged on two contracts with private-sector companies, the Financial Times reported. The winning bidders for the privatisation of HMP Northumberland and South Yorkshire, which together total five prisons, had expected to be told this week, the paper said. The decision has been delayed partly because the personnel ...
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UPDATE 1-NBC News looks to Britain for its new president
Mon May 20, 2013 3:24pm EDT By Liana B. Baker May 20 (Reuters) - Deborah Turness, a former top TV news editor in Britain, will take over as NBC News president in August, at a time when it is looking to turn around the fortunes of its news division. Turness will replace Steve Capus, who left the network in February. She will report to Patricia Fili-Krushel, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, ...
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Newark gas explosion Survivors heartbreaking cry for wife and dad killed in blast
of a huge suspected gas blast kept asking for his wife and father who were killed.Nick Rourke was pulled alive from the rubble seconds after the explosion, but the bodies of his dad Leslie, 71, and wife Jeanette, 40, were not found until hours later.Jeanette Dixon, 34, who helped haul Nick to safety after spotting his bloodied hand sticking out of the debris, revealed: "He kept saying, ...
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Prince William jokes about sleepless nights when wife Kate Middleton gives birth
the Duke of Cambridge looked every inch the proud father today as he was handed a babygrow with "My daddy's a hero" emblazoned on the front.With two months to go until the arrival of his first child, William laughed with other parents about the sleepless nights ahead.The father-to-be was handed the outfit and a Help for Heroes teddy bear as he toured the charity's Tedworth ...
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Top AE doctors warn We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore
The Accident & Emergency crisis is now so severe that doctors can no longer guarantee safe care for patients, NHS officials have warned in a leaked letter seen by 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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