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Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp cuddle up in last photo - four days before he shot her dead
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Met gagged Leveson evidence over police leaks to News of the World
Scotland Yard: it has been claimed the Met gagged the Leveson inquiry from revealing evidence about police leaks to the News of the World. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ...
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Cameron refuses to say if he will quiz Google boss Eric Schmidt over tax
David Cameron has refused to say whether he will question Google's chairman over allegations that the internet giant is exploiting tax loopholes at a meeting on Monday that will discuss tightening up international tax rules.The prime minister's spokesman also refused to be drawn on ...
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Louise Menschs former business partner Luke Bozier accepts caution
Louise Mensch says he has accepted a police caution five months after being arrested on suspicion of viewing or possessing indecent images of children.Luke Bozier, who has also been an e-campaigns manager for the Labour party, said he had never been a paedophile and that some of the allegations made against him after a private email account had been hacked were false.Ending what he called ...
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British workers feeling less secure – and more stressed
pay cuts and diminished control over their jobs among the biggest concerns, according to a national survey of employees' wellbeing.More than 3,000 workers aged between 20 and 60 were interviewed in 2012 for the latest in a six-yearly Skills and Employment survey, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.The first findings from the ...
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British MPs to debate gay marriage plans
The British government's controversial gay marriage legislation returns to the Commons today with Tory MPs and activists deeply split over the ...
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New England Kit Compared To Old German Strip
The new England football kit has been revealed and was instantly compared to West Germany's 1970s outfit by some fans. New sponsor Nike have opted for a simple design, with a rounded collar and navy badge. But fans have taken to social media sites to vent their displeasure at the kit's likeness to England's great rivals. One user wrote: "New England kit? looks more ...
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Major Tim Peake stole my space age daydream | Suzanne Moore
David Willetts, the science minister, said he hoped Tim Peake, pictured above at the Science Museum, would inspire children to become the next generation of scientists and engineers Photograph: Suzanne ...
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Green heating payments to double for householders
Payments to help householders switch from heating their homes with oil to greener systems such as biomass boilers and solar thermal will double in most cases, the government is to announce on Monday.The grants were intended as a stopgap measure until the start this summer of the government's ...
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Protection for trees from pests and disease held back by skills gap
caterpillars that strip oaks of leaves are being hampered by a "skills gap", a government-appointed taskforce has warned.The taskforce, set up in the wake of a fungus that kills ash trees being found across England last year, also called for plant health to be put on a par with animal health, and for the creation of a chief plant health officer akin to the government's chief ...
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Word love is said and written six-times more than the word hate
LONDON: English speaking youngsters across the globe, who are 18 or under, use the word 'like' in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; 'because' is the most misspelled English word globally; the word 'love' is said and written over six times more frequently than the word 'hate'. These are the findings of a first-of-its-kind ...
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European Union Set to Vote on ‘Too Big to Fail’ Law
A European Union law up for a vote on Monday will only fully shield taxpayers from bailing out troubled banks if there is a global framework as well, a top UK regulator said on Monday. Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker said the EU law on bank recovery and resolution would be a milestone towards a global system and help convince markets that governments were no longer willing to rescue ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals instant messages from GCHQ that he says point to fit up
Julian Assange has revealed potentially embarrassing internal correspondence from the Government Communications Headquarters that, Assange says, describes the charges facing him as "definitely a ...
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Lets forget HS2 and invest in high-speed broadband instead | Charles Arthur
At Google's developer conference in San Francisco, its chief executive Larry Page took part in an impromptu Q&A session. What, one person asked, was the point of the company's rollout of optical fibre networking in places such as Kansas City, where it is offering connections that run at 1,000 megabits per second (100 times faster than the best in the UK) for about $20 per ...
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England reveal new shirt … with a German flavour
England have unveiled their new international shirt, with immediate comparisons being made to previous West Germany and Germany shirts.The Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere revealed the image of the shirt - the first to be designed under England's new deal with Nike - after returning to watch a training session at his old school, The Priory, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.Wilshere tweeted: ...
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Guardian Books podcast Rick Gekoski on First Editions Second Thoughts
As Sotheby's prepares to auction first editions of books annotated by 50 top authors, curator and antiquarian book-dealer Rick Gekoski explains how he got all the greats to join in - and some of the secrets they ...
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Gay marriage David Cameron takes on the wreckers among Conservative MPs in key vote
David Cameron will tonight take on traditionalist Conservative MPs who are trying to sabotage his plans to legalise gay marriage in the latest trial of strength between the Prime Minister and his ...
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Camerons avoids taxing questions for Google boss despite new whistleblower
Mr Schmidt will attend a meeting this afternoon as a member of the Government Business Advisory Group.Mr Cameron had been expected to raise Google's aggressive tax avoidance - for which it has been strongly criticised - at the fringes of the meeting.But in a briefing this morning the Prime Minister's official spokesman suggested that Mr Cameron would only discuss the general position ...
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Nick Clegg promises prison rehabilitation revolution - video
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg promises a radical approach to the way prisoners are rehabilitated to cut re-offending. Speaking on Monday, as the offenders rehabilitation bill receives its second reading in parliament, Clegg promises a radical but practical approach to reducing the number of ...
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It will take more than PCC regulations to stop the bullying of trans people | Jane Fae
announced its intention to "issue editorial guidance for journalists on how to report on transgender issues in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Editors' Code of Practice". Are the trans community happy?Not a bit of it. Or rather, one hears the odd muted cheer going up. Still, I hear the grown-ups muttering: it's like a child whose mum has finally given in to the ...
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British Soap Awards a winner on ITV
BBC1 's returning Jason Isaacs detective drama Case Histories on Sunday night, attracting nearly 6 million viewers.The British Soap Awards averaged 5.7 million viewers and a 24.9% audience share over two hours from 8pm - the most watched show on any channel on Sunday.Case Histories began its second series with 4.9 million viewers and a 20.8% share over 90 minutes from 8.30pm.Other ...
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Newark residents struggle to rescue neighbours after gas explosion destroys house - video
Audie Cashin describes his frantic efforts to rescue people after a gas explosion ripped through a terraced house in Newark, Nottinghamshire, on Sunday afternoon. He and four other people managed to drag one man out of the property. The bodies of two people were later found inside the building. More than 100 people were evacuated from nearby ...
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Yahoos $1.1bn Tumblr takeover is a bold roll of the dice
internet years, 1999 is more like two centuries ago and Yahoo is in a completely different place, led by a woman with all the zeal of a convert. Repeatedly passed over for promotion during her previous (another internet lifetime) 13 years at Google, she has an opportunity to do something impressive with Yahoo, which seemed in terminal decline. One venture capital executive told me that during ...
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France Child MurderBritish man confessing murdering his own 2 children in France UK News
The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his son and daughter were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyon. Their throats had been slit. The children have been named in local reports as Mathew, 10, and Carla, five. Stevenson – who was said to be unemployed – had been living in France for some time, possibly around ...
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Liverpool star Raheem Sterling has common assault case against him dropped
Liverpool star Raheem Sterling had a common assault case against him dropped today after ket witnesses failed to appear in court.The 18-year-old winger had been accused of assaulting a 27-year-old woman in Toxteth in November last year.Sterling denied the charge and was due to stand trial at Liverpool and Knowsley magistrates court this morning.However, two witnesses in the case failed to show ...
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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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