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Prince Charles in emergency landing drama Royal helicopter forced to divert after technical fault
Prince Charles and Camilla's helicopter had to make an emergency landing today after a "hairy" mid-air drama.A technical fault forced the royal helicopter to urgently divert to a nearby aerodrome 15 minutes after take-off.The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall were flying from London to Wales for a day-long tour to Hay and its popular annual festival of literature.But minutes after ...
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Davinder Jeet Bains Doctor who used spy camera to film female patients jailed for 12 years
A family doctor was jailed for 12 years today after he used a James Bond spy camera to secretly film intimate examinations of hundreds of women.Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, aged 46, used a tiny camera built into the face of his wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients over a three-year period.Detectives found 361 high-quality video clips on the GP's watch and home computer.Bains used ...
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Ocovango on course for Epsom as British Derby bid crumbles
the Derby , worked on the track here on Thursday morning, while a strong challenge was also confirmed from Ireland and even Germany, which has never sent a runner to the Classic before. The home team, however, has been reduced to a 20-1 chance and a handful of rank outsiders after Telescope, who is part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson, was declared a non-runner ...
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Mothercare chief executive insists recovery on track despite fall in sales
Mothercare is crawling towards a recovery as chief executive Simon Calver insisted the UK company was on target to break even within two years.The mother and baby goods retailer saw UK sales drop 11% to 500m last year. It reported a loss of 21.7m, a slight improvement on the 24.7m loss recorded in the previous twelve months.The business turned in an impressive international performance, with ...
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Falling investment poses another problem for Osborne
Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna chose their moment well. On the day that official figures showed that capital spending fell by 0.8% in the first three months of 2013, Labour released figures showing that Britain devotes a smaller share of national income to investment than any other G8 country. What's more, only Italy has seen a bigger fall in the investment share of GDP since 2010.George Osborne ...
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Britain names soldier killed in London he had served in Afghanistan
Manchester United fan and a drummer in the military band, he had also served in Germany and Cyprus but was at the time of his death working in London. "An extremely popular and witty soldier, Drummer Rigby was a larger than life personality within the Corps of Drums and was well known, liked and respected across the Second Fusiliers," said a statement from the ministry of defence. ...
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Post Office workers call fifth strike since Easter
Post Office workers are to strike for the fifth time since Easter to demonstrate against "deeply unpopular" proposals that will see 70 high street branches ...
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Benefits cap will have catastrophic effect on families court will hear
domestic violence may be forced to return to their abusers, it will be argued in the first test cases challenging the government's imposition of a 500-a-week cap ...
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On Woolwich British media could learn from Swedish riots coverage | Andrew Brown
riots around Stockholm had made the front page of the Financial Times, I scurried over to the sites of Swedish papers to see in some detail what was happening. It turned out that the dismembered parts of a Thai woman had been found in Lapland, various television stars had been variously unhappy in their love lives, a farmer had caused the evacuation of a police station in the south of the ...
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Boris Johnson and David Cameron visit Woolwich after soldiers murder - video
Mayor of London Boris Johnson visits the scene of Wednesday's murder of a soldier in Woolwich, south-east London. Also in Woolwich on Thursday, assistant Metropolitan police commissioner Simon Byrne says security has been tightened across London. Prime minister David Cameron visits Woolwich army barracks, near where the attack took ...
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Muslim Council of Britain condemns Woolwich killing
The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the suspected terrorist murder of a soldier on the streets of London yesterday.The Ministry of Defence has named the victim, who was hacked to death as 25-year-old, Drummer Lee Rigby.It is thought two men, who have been arrested in relation to the incident, were known to security services.Farooq Murad of the Muslim Council of Britain said that the act ...
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Live updates April Jones trial hears more evidence from Mark Bridger
took to the stand for the first time yesterday as the defence opened in the trial at Mold Crown Court.Bridger denies the murder and abduction of five-year-old April, who disappeared while playing near her home in Machynlleth on October 1 last ...
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George Michael could have been killed as motorist reveals shocking moment he swerved to avoid fatal collision
the singer catapulted from a car at 70mph.The mystery motorway accident was seen by driver Ben Quince who was directly behind the popstar on the M1 when it happened.Ben, 37, told The Sun the shocking event he witnessed: "I suddenly saw the back door on the driver's side open."A body appeared to bounce, bounce, bounce. He was spinning as he came towards me."I had to swerve ...
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Woolwich attackers are criminally deluded whatever their motives
The origin of what happened in Woolwich yesterday, when you watch that footage as we all have by now, seems at first to be quite clear - evil.That's the word we use for things we don't like to think about and can't explain.When you think someone is evil it creates hatred. It's random and frightening, and it provokes terror so that other people feel justified in calling for ...
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British soldier ‘hacked to death’ by unidentified assailants
The assailants were not unidentified. One of them even gave an interview after the murder, bloody hands and meat cleaver included. The media is walking on eggshell not to say that they are Muslims and in fact the brutal murder was accompanied with 'Allah hu Akbar" as usual. What is it that our leaders are not telling us about Islam and multiculturalism? Do we owe these people ...
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Chris Durban I sank a German U-boat in 1943 I was just 20-years-old and terrified
The last time Able Seaman Chris Durban saw a U-boat he was ramming the HMS destroyer into it in the middle of the Atlantic on Christmas Day ...
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Full Statement from Ministry of Defence in response to death of Drummer Lee Rigby
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that the soldier killed in yesterday's incident in Woolwich, South East London, is believed to be Drummer Lee Rigby, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (attached to the Regimental Recruiting Team in ...
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The lessons of Woolwich | Usama Hasan
Link to video: Woolwich witness describes how soldier was killed in broad daylight British society, including its Muslim communities, needs to move beyond the routine condemnation of terrorist attacks and plots - there have been dozens since 9/11. We need instead to address the extreme Islamist ideology that al-Qaida and its sympathisers promote to incite attacks against soldiers and ...
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Illegal waste boss jailed after arrest on Heathrow runway
Illegal waste site in Slough, run by Amrik Johal, 55, has now been jailed for three years after he was stopped while boarding a flight to Delhi on 16 May. Photograph: Environment ...
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BT chiefs pay boosted by share price rise
BT chief executive Ian Livingston's annual earnings have risen to 8.5m, boosted by a rise in the company's share price which will also see 1,000 managers share windfall payouts averaging 120,000.Having overseen a 50% rise in BT's market value in the last year, Livingston has been granted shares worth 6m from the scheme, which was designed as a reward for a three-year turnaround ...
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Recipe Rum Pound Cake
Serves 12 24 tablespoons (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pan 3½ cups flour, plus more for the pan ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ cup rum Scrapings from 1 vanilla bean 3 cups sugar 8 large eggs 1 cup regular or low-fat sour cream (do not use ...
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European Union U-turn over refillable olive oil ban
the European Commission said that restaurants should only be allowed to serve the oil in non-refillable bottles with a proper label. It said this would prevent restaurants from serving low quality oil and improve hygiene. But it also played into the hands of people who complain that the EU is too meddlesome, with Prime Minister David Cameron saying: "This is exactly the sort of area that ...
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Arterial motive Visitors to artist Andrei Molodkins new show asked to contribute their own blood
It makes a change from warm white wine and waffle about the artist. Visitors to the opening night of Andrei Molodkin's new show at Void Gallery in Derry last week were invited to give blood, and thus become part of his latest ...
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The French protect their language like the British protect their currency | Andrew Gallix
a new bill , which, if passed, would allow some university courses to be taught in English.Inside the paper (and in French), the editorialists urged their compatriots to "stop behaving like the last representatives of a besieged Gaulish village". The nod ...
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Two men jailed for life for murder of author Dave Courtneys stepson
David Pinto and Robert Bleach who were jailed for life for shooting Genson Courtney the stepson of gangland celebrity and author Dave Courtney. Photograph: Metropolitan ...
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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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