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Government licensed buzzard egg destruction documents reveal
Raptors gained legal protection decades ago. This is the first time since that action has been licensed against any bird of prey to protect game shoots. Photograph: Ben ...
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Barbaric slaying casts shadow of terrorism over Britain
On the scene of the London attack Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing "appalling" and "barbaric" and cut short a trip to France to return to London."We obviously are seeking, and the police are urgently seeking, the full facts about this case but there are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident," Mr. Cameron told a news conference before ...
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Jennifer Lopez to perform on Britains Got Talent
London, May 23 : Pop star Jennifer Lopez will reportedly perform on the semi-final episode of music reality show "Britain's Got Talent", and sing her latest track "Live it ...
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Kenya Kalonzo British Soldiers Among TJRC Indictees
Nairobi - Details of how former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and others evicted 2,000 Tharaka families from a huge parcel of land at Tholoni and awarded it to themselves before putting up the Mwingi cottages and disturbing details of how British soldiers raped and sodomised 30 Kenyan women are among the damning historical injustices captured in a voluminous report released by the Truth, ...
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British tourist Cheznye Emmons 23 killed in Indonesia after drinking spiked gin
Cheznye Emmons, from Great Wakering, Essex, was travelling through Indonesia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, when she started feeling ill after drinking from a bottle marked as gin from a local ...
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Meat of cloned cow offspring enters British food chain
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that meat from the slaughtered three-year old bull was sold and eaten last year. It is thought the meat, likely to have ended up in a pie or burger, was sold in ...
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Britain told U.S. in early 1941 Japan might be preparing for war
The prospect of a clash over defense policy between South Korea's new president and the U.S. has been diminished by North Korea's own ham-fisted ...
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British intelligence agency MI6 wanted to mount a violent black propaganda campaign framing diplomats incendiarism and liquidation of individuals
Communist Party meetings - to the "liquidation" of selected individuals in Russia and its Eastern Bloc allies .However the plan was blocked by anxious Foreign Office officials who feared the consequences of such extreme methods.The scheme was drawn up by MI6 chief Stewart Menzies following a call by military chiefs in 1947 for "a comprehensive political warfare plan which would ...
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Woolwich killing meat cleaver knife and jihadist claims filmed on mobile
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack A man suspected of staging a terrorist attack that left a British soldier dead near a military barracks ...
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School notices North Allegheny senior travelin ot England for Linguistics Olympiad
a senior at North Allegheny Senior High School, will represent the United States as a member of the second North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad team in Manchester, ...
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England Eye Series Win Before Attention Turns to Ashes
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Iodine deficiency during pregnancy adversely affects child’s mental development
Iodine deficiency during pregnancy, something rampant among Indian women, adversely affects the child's mental development. A UK study published in medical journal The Lancet on Thursday has shown that iodine - which is consumed mainly via dairy products and seafood - is essential for producing hormones made by the thyroid gland, which have a direct impact on fetal brain development. A ...
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Why a four-year jamboree is no way to mark mass slaughter of the First World War
I was in a car with two German ex-footballers on Friday when one said "they've just been on about it again on the radio.""About what?" asked the other. "About celebrating so many years since they bombed us somewhere," he replied, referring to Haworth's 70th anniversary Dambusters celebrations (complete with full Nazi costumes and SS insignia).Both shook ...
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Feature Britains National Gallery holds new exhibition to bring
When St Apollonia held a pair of pliers to pull her teeth out, and St Jerome beat himself with a rock, the National Gallery in Britain revived these Christian characters from classic paintings with its new exhibition Saints Alive.Starting on Thursday and running till Nov. 24, the exhibition brought together seven kinetic sculptures from British contemporary artist Michael Landy inspired by ...
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Hollande Cameron condemn murder of British soldier
French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday condemned the assassination of a British soldier in the suburbs of London after their meeting in ...
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Richard Branson first Virgin Galactic flight on Christmas Day
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James Moore The IMF is backing a plan B for Britain
And as with any of its statements there was a little something for everyone in there. But if you'd listened to yesterday's press conference you could hardly come away from it with any other conclusion than that the IMF is quietly endorsing those who argue that plan A (austerity and deficit reduction) is actually damaging the UK economy. The IMF, it's fair to say, is hardly ...
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Israel finds more hostility in Britain
(2 mins ago) A senior Israeli minister described the ';animosity'' shown towards the state by British media, non-governmental organizations and academics, as ';disguised anti-Semitism,’’ in an interview published in today's Daily Telegraph in London. Yuval Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, said he was ...
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English Defence League protest after Woolwich attack – video
Protesters from the far-right English Defence League have clashed with police in Woolwich where a man was stabbed to death by assailants apparently acting on extreme Islamist views. About 100 men, some wearing balaclavas printed with the EDL logo, took part in running skirmishes with riot ...
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New hospital comparison website
A new comparison enables patients and GPs to directly compare nearly 200 independent hospitals on a range of quality of care indicators for the first ...
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Legal General says businesses need more insurance
Many business owners do not realise that director loan accounts are a debt to the estate, which has to be repaid to the family in the event of death. 70% of businesses have no plans in place to be able to do ...
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Editorial The Aftermath of Measles Vaccine Scare in Britain
Britain is experiencing serious outbreaks of measles that look to be a delayed consequence of a failure to vaccinate infants and young children more than a decade ago. A prime cause of that failure was ill-founded fears among parents that a widely used vaccine to combat measles, mumps and rubella might cause autism. Because they shunned the vaccine, their children, now in their teens, are ...
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UK Ambassador Britain and San Diego benefit from special partnership
It is a real privilege to be visiting San Diego for the first time since I became the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States last year. And it's appropriate to be here in the week leading up to Memorial Day, when attention is duly given to the sacrifices made in battle by military men and ...
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Groom jailed for looting the club that hosted his wedding reception
A groom locked up for looting the club where his wedding was held will become a dad in jail.Christopher Richards, 25, usher George Taylor and two others stole booze, computers and DVDS worth nearly 23,000 and caused 24,000 in damage during the burglary.Just six months earlier, kind-hearted club boss Catherine Murphy gave him and partner Bridie Sparks a half-price champagne buffet as the couple ...
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Royal Troon golf club wants to build giant sand dune to hide caravan site from view
A posh golf club wants to build a massive mound of sand to hide a nearby caravan site from view. The bid by Royal Troon to create the 500ft-long 13ft-high dune between the course and Prestwick Holiday Park has been branded snobbish. Furious park owner Arthur McKay says it is designed to mask caravans from wealthy golfers and worldwide TV audiences during the 2016 Open and will block treasured ...
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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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