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Cash-and-carry wholesaler Bookers profit jumps 13 percent
(Reuters) - Booker Group Plc, Britain's biggest cash-and-carry wholesaler, reported a 13 percent rise in full-year profit, helped by demand from small retailers and growing online sales. Booker, which runs over 170 branches supplying ...
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PM seeks answers after soldier hacked to death
By Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street. ...
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EastEnders will Denise Van Outen rule the Queen Vic | Media Monkey
could be about to receive an injection of glamour with the arrival of Denise Van Outen as the new boss of the Queen Vic pub. The Daily Mirror reports that the 38-year-old, who made her mark with a raunchy performance as Roxie Hart in the West End production of Chicago, has been in secret talks to jon the show. Producers are apparently desperate to inject some "flirtiness and spice" ...
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Jeremy Hunt under fire over GP reforms Politics live blog
bbcr4today Whereas Jeremy Hunt was sounding rather contrite, I thought. Realising the strength of feeling by GPs at last?- Sarah Matthews ...
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Eight people arrested by police investigating 2002 arson attack
Eight people have been arrested by police investigating an arson attack that left eight members of the same family dead more than a decade ago.Five children and three adults died in the house fire in ...
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Woolwich attack Suspects under armed guard after soldier murdered in broad daylight
Cobra, the Government's emergency response committee will reconvene this morning to discuss security measures after a soldier was murdered in broad daylight on the streets of London.David Cameron will meet top advisers to urgently address potential security implications ...
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Woolwich attack Security tightened at all London army barracks
Woolwich after yesterday's barbaric beheading.The Home Secretary was briefed on the incident at a COBRA meeting - the government's emergency committee - which lasted just under an hour.Others attending were Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, London Mayor Boris Johnson, Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and Assistant Commissioner, Cressida Dick as well as the intelligence ...
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Woolwich attack How brave woman faced down killers to tend to dying victim
carnage unfolded on a busy street in Woolwich , one brave woman faced down the killers.She calmly asked the two men brandishing knifes and cleavers if she could tend to the decapitated victim."Let me comfort him," she pleaded.The crazed attackers, blood dripping from their hands, shouted that no man could pass before allowing her to kneel beside the headless corpse, where she appeared ...
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Woolwich beheading Recap live updates on barbaric attack on soldier in street
Police are appealing for anyone who has still or moving images of the incident at Woolwich to send them to: woolwich@metincident.co.uk - please include your name and contact details, which will be treated in strictest confidence. Or contact the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 ...
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Woolwich Terror Soldier Killing Long Feared
Home Secretary Theresa May condemns the "sickening and barbaric" attack in Woolwich after chairing a meeting of the Government's emergency committee, ...
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BTG builds interventional medicine platform with deals
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billion. The company said on Thursday it had agreed to buy the targeted therapies division of Nordion Inc, for about $200 million in a deal that adds ...
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Daily Mail sees profit growth after strong first half
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Mail said it expected to deliver solid growth in full-year adjusted profit before tax after strength in its events division helped it to meet forecasts for the half year. The company, which publishes the Daily ...
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Woolwich attack David Cameron to lead Cobra meeting
The government's emergency response committee, Cobra, will reconvene on Thursday morning to discuss security measures after a man was butchered in broad daylight on the streets ...
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Microsoft Surface Pro review a device of many talents
mystery press conference in Los Angeles on 19 June last year. Indeed, it was something of a shock, because for the first time, Microsoft was competing against its biggest customers: Windows PC suppliers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung and ...
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Woolwich attack first-person account
Man killed in deadly terror attack in London street o Alleged attacker is filmed brandishing knife and cleavero Two suspects shot by armed policeo Ministers holding emergency Cobra ...
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Violence crisis Cabinet meeting after deadly London attack
Anti-Muslim rioters fought police and 10 Downing St. called crisis Cabinet meetings after men raging about Islam hacked a soldier to death on a London street. About 250 supporters of the English Defense League street protest movement, all wearing black ski masks and some in paramilitary dress, threw rocks and bottles at police in London's southeast Woolwich district. The rioting occurred ...
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We want to start a war in London suspect tells eyewitness
LONDON: British counter-terrorism police were on Thursday investigating the murder of a man thought to be a soldier, who was butchered and beheaded on a busy London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans. The attackers, wielding knives including a meat cleaver, carried out the attack a few hundred metres (yards) from the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, then delivered ...
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Video Britain calls emergency meeting after man killed in London
British Prime Minister David Cameron calls a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London. Amateur video captures the immediate aftermath of the ...
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Woolwich attack MI5s worst nightmare has come true
this kind of attack does not come as a surprise .The next horrific fact we have to face is that it may not be a one-off as al-Qaeda loyalists strive for big, spectacular killings.In fact, MI5 and police Counter Terror Command have known that something as specific as a beheading - preferably in public - has been suggested before.In 2006, there was a plot by a Birmingham terror cell to kidnap a ...
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Two men behead and hack British soldier like meat
In London, men, women and children witnessed what's being called 'the first Baghdad-style violence in the UK' in the form of a vicious 'machete attack'. Two men were seen by many eye witnesses, and their actions captured on electronic devices, as they hacked a young British soldier to pieces with the help of numerous knives on a street in South London at about 2.20 in ...
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Dont delay on renewable energy government told
Investing in new renewable power generation, rather than a "dash for gas", will be the lower-cost option for keeping the lights on while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the government's climate change watchdog has said.The sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation - including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear power ...
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Boy 2 has emergency surgery after savage attack by family dog
Emergency services were called to an address in Gilbert Road, Cummersdale, near Carlisle, at around 2.40pm yesterday, Cumbria Police said. The toddler had suffered serious facial injuries and was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary where he underwent surgery. Officers said the dog was placed in kennels pending a joint investigation with social services. Its breed was not ...
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Two arrested after Braintree and Gillingham mosque attacks
A 43-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of attempted arson after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife in Braintree, Essex. Local MP Brooks Newmark tweeted last night: "Local mosque in Braintree attacked by man with knives and incendiary device. Man arrested. No one injured." Mr Newmark added: "Just met with leaders of local mosque in Braintree which was attacked ...
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Mothercare full-year profit boosted by turnaround plan
LONDON (Reuters) - British baby and maternity products retailer Mothercare posted a better-than-expected rise in full-year profit and said it was making good progress with its three-year turnaround plan. The group, which has some 1,300 ...
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Woolwich terror attacks – reaction and latest developments
Lord Reid Former Home Secretary Lord Reid has told BBC Breakfast this morning that yesterday's attack in Woolwich is a reminder of risks taken by those in the armed services. He added: "The dividing line isn't between Muslims and everyone else; it's between terrorists and everyone else" Last night Lord Reid said the Government should revive plans to extend internet 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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