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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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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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Woolwich beheading analysis 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 ...
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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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Oklahoma tornado Inside the school that took full force of killer twister
Little more than 24 hours earlier the children of Tower Plaza Elementary school were sat at these desks eagerly waiting for the bell to signal the end of another day in class.As Oklahomans - or Okies as they are known - each and every one of them were not just taught how to read and write.On entering first grade aged five or six, pupils here are trained to look up, recognise the tint of green in ...
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Julian Stevenson Mum of two kids killed by their British dad in France inconsolable
the first photo of the pair was released .Mathew Stevenson, 10, and little sister Carla, five, were found dead on Saturday, by mum Stephanie Morlet at the home of ex-husband Julian, 47, in Lyon. The youngsters' throats had been slit.Ms Morlet, divorced from Stevenson after walking out of a violent marriage three years ago, hid her tears behind sunglasses at the ...
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Shih Tzu puppy swallows lolly stick almost as long as her entire body
A Shih Tzu puppy was saved by vets after she swallowed a lolly stick which was almost the length of her entire body Lady, who is 15 months old, refused to eat and began to act unusually after swallowing the four-and-a-half inch stick, which got stuck in her stomach. Her owner Sarah Anderson suspected something was wrong, and took Lady to the PDSA PetAid hospital in Old Trafford, Greater ...
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Gary Speeds dad comforted by sporting progress of tragic Wales managers sons
The heartbroken father of football star Gary Speed has told how backing the sporting ambitions of his grandsons has helped him cope.Speaking 18 months after the tragic Wales football manager hanged himself, Roger, 70, said that Gary's teenage boys, Ed and Tom, were "keeping me going".And he spoke of his pride when footballer Ed, 15, got his first cap for Wales Under-16s two weeks ...
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The King and Spy Edward VIIIs phone calls were bugged in abdication crisis top secret documents reveal
It shows an extraordinary breakdown of trust between Edward and his ministers as he decided whether he should give up his throne or the woman he ...
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British bill to legalize same-sex marriage passes another parliamentary hurdle
LONDON--A bill to legalise gay marriage in Britain passed a crucial hurdle in parliament on Tuesday, despite efforts by lawmakers from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party to wreck the ...
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Briton 10 died minutes after injection in India
Gurkiren was killed by health workers in Punjab to illegally harvest her organs, stories of other such unexplained deaths of Britons in Punjab are coming out. The most-shocking case to emerge is that of 10-year-old Damien Herian from Wolverhampton, who complained of a stomach-ache while at a theme park in Jalandhar. The boy was given an injection. Minutes later he was dead, Birmingham labour ...
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British football scores an own goal
The sentimental subtext is clear enough: the words express the awestruck admiration of a grown man reduced, temporarily, to a schoolboy. Football is: gladiatorial heroism, a contest of spirit, technique, physicality and will, with the added spice of luck and (let's be fair here) a bit of acting skill to coax decisions from the referee. That night, this wonderful, heady mix of sport and ...
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Soldier beheaded in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack outside Woolwich barracks
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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Fatal attack near barracks appears ‘terrorist-motivated’ says British government official
LONDON -- Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured.While details were scant, Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing "truly shocking" and said he had asked Home Secretary Theresa May to call an urgent meeting of the ...
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National Briefing | New England Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor to Resign
The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy P. Murray, said on Wednesday that he would resign on June 2, a move that surprised the political establishment there. Mr. Murray, who has played a prominent role in the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick since 2007, was once considered likely to try to succeed his boss, but his public image suffered from an early-morning accident in 2011 in ...
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British PM London Killing Appears to be Terrorism
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the daylight killing of a man on a south London street near an army barracks appears to be a terrorist ...
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London attack Britain probes possible Nigerian link
Britain is investigating a possible Nigerian link to attackers suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London while shouting Islamic slogans, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on condition of ...
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British Litvinenko Coroner Goes Rogue
London coroner Robert Owen is fiercely pursuing a mission of his own. He wants to know who murdered Alexander Litvinenko. There's just one problem with his crusade. It's never been officially established that homicide was involved in the death. Litvinenko is the reputed Russian spy who died suspiciously in London in 2006. It is perhaps equally suspicious that now almost seven ...
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Woolwich beheading 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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James Bulgers mum tells parole board My sons killer Jon Venables still a danger to society
murdered toddler James Bulger has urged a parole board not to release killer Jon Venables - branding him a continuing danger to society.Denise Fergus today gave a personal statement begging the government to keep the 30-year-old behind bars.She argued the killer's twisted mind has not been fully examined and wants evidence reviewed that her son, aged two when he was battered, was sexually ...
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Woolwich attack Watch shocking video of suspect with bloodied hands wielding knives issue warning
Woolwich attackers .The video, obtained by ITV News, shows a bloodied man after the brutal attack on a man in the street.It shows the suspect, wearing a dark jacket, jeans and a beanie hat, calmly walking towards the camera with what appears to be two large knives clasped by the handles in his bloodied left hand.Gesticulating with both hands - while gripping the weapons - the man points to his ...
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Woolwich attack echoes 2008 terrorist plot to kidnap and behead British soldier
Islamic fanatic Parviz Khan, 37, was jailed for life after he admitted planning to lure the British Muslim soldier off the streets with the promise of drugs then film his ...
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Surgeons remove 4-pound hairball from tiger
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from Tampa Bay area surgeons when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.A 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Clearwater, the clinic said in a news release. Dr. Mike Reems, of BluePearl Veterinary Partners, ...
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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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