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Boris Johnson The flawed Mayor of London
Boris Johnson's 'recklessness' about pregnancy and the feelings of others when committing 'extramarital adulterous liaisons' raises questions about his fitness for public office. That was the conclusion of an extraordinary judgment by the Appeal Court this week: that his 'reckless' attitude to the women and children involved is a matter of public interest that ...
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Legal aid protest objection sustained
secured David Cameron early access to all those embarrassing witness statements at Leveson. Those in power know the importance of good legal representation all right; and they have no compunction in asking the taxpayer to foot the bill, where they are the ones that need representing. But if the law is to apply to the mighty and the meek in the same way, as every ideal of democratic civilisation ...
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Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage bill
House of Lords to reject the bill after 133 Tory MPs, including two cabinet ministers, defied David Cameron to vote against the measure.As a Tory grassroots organisation warned of a "civil war in conservatism", prompted in part by the legislation, more than half of the Conservative parliamentary party voted against the bill after one ministerial aide complained of a "sham ...
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Artists criticise war centenary plan
first world war has been attacked by a group of actors, writers and campaigners including Jude Law and Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's novel War Horse which is set during the conflict.Promising a "truly national commemoration", the prime ...
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Letters Remembering war to promote peace
first world war . Far from being a "war to end all wars" or a "victory for democracy", this was a military disaster and a human catastrophe.We are disturbed, therefore, ...
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court
One of the first cases to be heard by the government's new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one ...
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Carney agrees with King - Bank of England not a one-man show
Reuters © Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney arrives at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...
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Public and Commercial Services conference Civil servants vote for national strike over cuts
Civil servants have voted for another national strike next month in their fight against the Tory-led Coalition's cuts to pay,jobs and pensions. Further walkouts and protests will be staged across all Government departments as the Public and Commercial Services union's annual conference agreed to escalate action. The move could delay work on tax returns, cause delays at passport ...
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Xbox One launch as it happened Microsoft unveils its latest console to the world
The technology giant releases details of its latest device - one it believes will transform the 21st century living room. Find out more with our live ...
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Gay marriage legislation passed despite huge Tory rebellion Full list of MPs who voted against Bill
voted against gay marriage .The Prime Minister was in the Commons to hear that the bill to legalise gay marriage had passed by 366 to 161. There was applause in the House after the result was announced.Mr Cameron pushed the bill, despite outrage over the proposals from his own backbenchers. But he was forced to rely on Labour support to get it through the Commons.Some 134 of the 161 MPs who ...
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The man who brought the sunshine How Eddie Braben made Morecambe and Wise
The Andre Previn sketch. "He's not going to sell much ice cream going at that speed, is he?" Ernie's plays. The bed sketches. "Arsenal!"Classic comedy moments and all from the hand of Eddie Braben, who ...
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Britain name largest ever Paratriathlon squad for European Championships
Championships, with world champions Steven Judge and Iain Dawson heading the 17-man squad searching for further glory on the international stage. Three reigning European champions in Jane Egan, Charlotte Ellis and Dawson are selected in for the team heading ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Listen children the world really was created in seven days
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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FTSE 100 within sight of all-time high
The London stock market is within sight of its all-time closing high after another surge in share prices on Tuesday.After drifting for much of the day, the FTSE 100 index of Britain's top companies made a late rally to close 48.24 points higher at 6803.87. This marked its best level for more than 13 years and left the index just 130 points below the peak reached on 30 December 1999 at the ...
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Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is who let it happen | Julie Bindel
let down by the police who could have done more to keep her safe, but didn't. Maria Stubbings is dead and, it would seem, not much has changed since I began campaigning on this issue over three decades ago. The statistics are consistent, year after year: on average, two women die each week in England and Wales as a result of domestic violence, a number etched into the minds of those of us ...
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Britains House of Commons votes to legalize gay marriage in England Wales
UK Britain's House of Commons has voted to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales. British MPs approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill by 366 votes to 161. The bill will move onto the House of Lords, where it is expected to face opposition.Several Tory MPs spoke out against the bill, which has caused tensions within the party. The Labour and Liberal Democrat leaderships backed ...
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Take disabled sport seriously urges Baroness Grey-Thompson
Seven months after the Prime Minister gave an emotional speech insisting that the Paralympics had transformed perceptions of the disabled in Britain, a former Paralympian has launched a scathing attack on the Government's approach to sport, insisting that fewer disabled children are competing now than in the early ...
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Princes Warn Over Barbaric Animal Trade
Prince Charles and Prince William have accused the growing middle class desire for "exotic products" of being the main cause behind a 3,000% increase in illegal wildlife trade. Speaking at a wildlife trafficking conference at St James's Palace, Prince William also highlighted the ignorance of consumers that luxury is often coupled with "barbarity". Addressing ...
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Britain asks EU to put Hezbollah armed wing on terror list
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Lebanon's Hezbollah members carry Hezbollah and Lebanese flags as they parade during a rally marking the party's Martyrs Day in Beirut's suburbs November 12, 2012. REUTERS/Sharif ...
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Museums put oddball objects on show
Oddball objects that are normally hidden away in museum curators' stores - including a working guillotine carved by Napoleonic prisoners of war from a cow bone left over from dinner - are going on display for the first time ...
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First Time Out exhibition – in pictures
Ten previously hidden objects, weird, wonderful and beautiful by turn, go on display in First Time Out, a unique collaboration in which 10 museums and galleries each exhibit an artefact from their archives that has never been seen before. Artefacts will be switched between partnered venues midway through the project, with fresh interpretations provided by the new ...
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Eddie Braben friends and fellow comic writers pay tribute
Friends and fellow comic writers paid tribute on Tuesday to Eddie Braben after his death at the age of 82.His manager, Norma Farnes, who announced his death, said: "It was Billy Cotton Jr at the BBC who recognised the brilliance of Eddie's writing was the ideal marriage that would guarantee the success of Morecambe and Wise."Eddie was a very humble man, a very quiet man and a very ...
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Sell your shares if youre unhappy says MS chief Marc Bolland
Marks and Spencer's chief executive Marc Bolland has told shareholders that if they are unhappy with the business they should sell their shares, as the underperforming womenswear division dragged the company to a second consecutive decline in annual profits.UK sales fell 1% overall, with a particularly poor performance in general merchandise - mainly fashion and homewares - where sales ...
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From swivel-eyed loons to lesbian queens what fresh hell for the Tories | Hadley Freeman
a lesbian queen should gay marriage be legalised. Now, depending on your cultural reference points, the phrase "lesbian queen" will bring to mind a dodgy calypso song you once heard on holiday, a giant yacht ploughing its way majestically through the Indian ocean, or Clare Balding. Honestly, I'd be fine having any of the above as the ruling figure of Great Britain. Seriously, who ...
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Texas senior 18 bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator ...
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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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