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Nigella Lawson photos Battered wifes open letter to TV chef after shock pictures
But, after 70-year-old Saatchi accepted a caution for assault, friends and family are reported to be urging the celebrity chef to think again about going back to her ...
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James Gandolfini died on boys trip with teenage son after suffering heart attack in hotel bathroom
The 51-year-old actor is believed to have collapsed in a bathroom of his Rome hotel while at dinner with 13-year-old Michael and his ...
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British Olympic rowing champion Hosking retires aged 27
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Films made in 3D are a marketing gimmick says director Alan Parker
Alan Parker has dismissed 3D films as a marketing gimmick and said he is unlikely to direct any more movies - but would consider working in TV, where "the very best work is being done".Parker said that big budget films were made in 3D because the Hollywood studios thought that was necessary to make it appealing to a mainstream audience."Everything has to be 3D if it is over a ...
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Outgoing Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King to get life peerage
Mervyn King will retire from Threadneedle Street on 30 June after a decade at the helm, and will become a member of the House of Lords after his nomination by the prime minister for his "significant public service".King joined the Bank as a non-executive director in 1990 during Margaret Thatcher's premiership, and subsequently served as executive director, chief economist, and ...
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Qatada could step closer to extradition with UK days away from ratifying treaty
The UK parliamentary process of ratifying the treaty, expected to be completed by Friday, has already had the agreement approved by the King of Jordan and the Jordanian parliament in their country.To complete the process the treaty will have to be published in the Jordanian government's official gazette and a number of ratification instruments must be exchanged.The agreement was unveiled by ...
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Jeffrey George President Barack Obama confuses UK Chancellor Osborne for his favourite rb singer during G8 presentation
The Chancellor George Osborne has been called many things in his time - but Barack Obama confusing him for his favourite R&B singer must be a ...
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DealBook British Banks to Raise Extra $21 Billion in Capital
LONDON - British authorities on Thursday called on five of the country's largest banks to raise a combined 13.4 billion ($20.7 billion) in extra capital by the end of the year to protect against future financial shocks.The demands form part of attempts by the Prudential Regulatory Authority, a British regulator, to strengthen the capital reserves of British lenders after many suffered major ...
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Re-privatising East Coast rail company makes no sense | Sheila Gilmore
'East Coast has proven refreshingly good at what it does. The trains are clean and punctual and journey times have been cut.' Photograph: ...
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Nick Clegg warns over Syria intervention
Nick Clegg, who claims Barack Obama described him as the better-looking half of the coalition, has urged caution over Syria. Photograph: John ...
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Britains high society playground
Royal Ascot: In numbers245 private viewing boxes400 VIP helicopters1,000 visitors' limousines51,000 bottles of champagne174,000 pints of beer5,000 kilograms of salmon2,050 lobsters8,000 Angus steaks"You turn left for the expensive end of things -- the Royal Enclosure and the grandstands' snootier reaches -- or right for economy class, which is epitomized by the Silver Ring. "Behind the velvet ...
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UPDATE 1-Rebound in UK retail sales signals solid second quarter
Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:37am EDT * Sales post biggest rise since Feb, up 2.1 pct on month * Data eases urgency for more central bank stimulus * Economists raise doubts over durability of growth By Olesya Dmitracova and David Milliken LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - British retail sales bounced back much more than expected in May, adding to evidence of accelerating economic growth in the second quarter ...
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Pietersen to return for England
England batsman Kevin Pietersen is poised for a return to international cricket in the second Twenty20 match against New Zealand after a long layoff with injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday.The ECB named a 14-man squad for the two-match series at The Oval in London on June 25 and 27, with Middlesex's Eoin Morgan captaining the side."Kevin Pietersen, who ...
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No proof in US British French data on use of chemical arms by Syria
ST PETERSBURG, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - There is no proof in the U.S., British and French data on the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Rossiya-24 television channel on Thursday. "American experts arrived to us and British and French experts presented their analysis. We’ve found nothing in their data what can be criticised," the ...
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Pietersen in Englands T20 squad
Kevin Pietersen is set to make a surprise return to England duty in the second of next week's two Twenty20 matches against New Zealand at the Oval.Pietersen, who has been out of cricket with a knee injury since March, is first expected to make his comeback for Surrey against Yorkshire at Headingley in a County Championship match which starts tomorrow.But the England and Wales Cricket Board ...
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Young people more willing to pay for digital news report finds
internet habits.The survey of 11,000 internet users in nine countries including the UK found that 25- to 34-year-olds are twice as likely to part with their cash for digital news than older readers.According to the study, 20% of 25- to 34-year-olds said they had paid for online news compared with less than 10% of those aged over 55.The research, contained in the Reuters Institute for the Study ...
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Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup
Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the ...
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Dixons sales rise after collapse of Comet
Dixons Retail, owner of Currys and PC World, ended the year with 42.1m of net cash, having started it with 104m of net debt. Photograph: Rui ...
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Pietersen Named in England Twenty20 Squad
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UK watchdog says Lloyds must raise 8.6 billion pounds capital
By Huw Jones and Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group must plug a capital shortfall of 8.6 billion pounds ($13.5 billion), Britain's banking regulator said on Thursday, a day after the government signalled plans to return ...
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Liam Gallagher pelts Robbie Williams with sour grapes over success
Liam Gallagher and Beady Eye performed at the Ritz in Manchester at the same time as the second of four Robbie Williams gigs at the Etihad stadium. Photograph: Andrew Benge/Redferns via Getty ...
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The X Factor Sharon Osbourne gets less than premier treatment | Media Monkey
included a 1,000-a-night room at Claridge's during the filming of the series. But the Sun reports that the star's arrangements haven't gone quite to plan. After a power cut at the posh hotel, she was forced to prepare for the show at a Premier Inn, where rooms cost from 29 up. Monkey wonders whether the star ended ...
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Picture desk live the best news photographs of the day
Here's a lovely image to start the day It's a picture of the view from Urca mountain in Brazil. Photograph: Stuart Franklin - FIFA via Getty ...
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Meredith Kercher murder Raffaele Sollecito appeals for cash to fund retrial
Amanda Knox , his American ex-girlfriend, Sollecito was convicted then acquitted in 2011 of the murder of the 21-year-old in the Umbrian university town of Perugia four years earlier. ...
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Ofsted chief schools failing unseen children
schools ", the chief inspector of schools in England will say in a radical speech on Thursday, as part of a drive to improve education for poor children "unseen" by the current system.Sir Michael Wilshaw will also spell out a tougher approach ...
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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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