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Grey-haired man could have seen child snatch attempt
An e-fit of the child snatch suspect A grey-haired witness could hold the key to tracing the man who tried to abduct a girl last week. Police hunting the a man who tried to snatch a 12-year-old girl in an alley between Meller Close and Beddington Park last Sunday say a grey-haired man could have seen the entire incident from his window. Officers are keen to speak to the potential ...
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England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes
LONDON (Reuters) - England secured the convincing victory over New Zealand they demanded in the first test at Lord's but question marks remain over the make-up of their team for the Ashes series against Australia starting in ...
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Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society | James Bloodworth
Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett in 2007. She is one of 11 Labour MPs to sit on the Henry Jackson Society's advisory council. Photograph: Dimitri ...
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Scientific Research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life Physics
CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ...
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Should civil partnerships be extended to heterosexual couples | Poll
voting on amendments to the gay marriage bill including a proposal to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples . The government has hinted this could derail the law entirely. Do you think partnerships should be an option for ...
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Whats all this about the EUs democratic deficit | Peter Millar
One of the best arguments against referendums is that they are seldom fought on facts, and more often on buzz phrases or received wisdom, little of it wise. The most commonly heard buzz phrase circulating in Britain's soul-searching over our membership of the European Union is "democratic deficit". It is a phrase much-loved because a) it is alliterative, and b) only vaguely ...
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Hundreds turn out for amazing Dambusters memorial fly past
The thunderous roar of a military plane used in one of Britain's most daring war time raids sent eyes shooting up to the sky on Friday. More than 500 people turned out to the Hendon RAF Museum to catch a glimpse of the Lancaster Bomber on a solo flight to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raids. The Lancaster was used by the RAF's 617 squadron in the now ...
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Vicky Foxcroft selected as Labours Lewisham Deptford parliamentary candidate
Vicky Foxcroft selected as Labour's Lewisham Deptford candidate VICKY Foxcroft has been announced as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Lewisham Deptford after long-term MP Joan Ruddock is standing down. The Brockley ward councillor was selected out of an all-women shortlist to be the party candidate for 2015 at a meeting on Saturday (May 18). The Chair of Lewisham ...
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Car washers raise money at Epsom Primary School
Camila Campo washes a car School children and parents picked up sponges to wash more than 50 cars on Saturday. Epsom Primary School's Parent Staff Association (PSA) Community Car Wash raised money to fund 'goodie bags' for students. Tracey Blandford, marketing, communications and publicity manager at the school, said: "It was a great team ...
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David Cameron the loons and gay marriage - what the national papers say
European Union .In addition, the claims about one of the prime minister's aides having referred to party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" is the subject of several leading articles and surely adds to the air of gloom in Downing ...
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Ground control to Major Tim Former helicopter pilot to be first UK astronaut for more than 20 years
A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), it was confirmed ...
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Feldman faces challenge over loons slur
The Tory co-chairman, Lord Feldman, will meet with the party board over claims allegedly made about party activists. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex ...
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Fergie bows out in suitably ridiculous fashion
If you are going to achieve something as mad as spending nearly 27 years in the biggest job in football, you might as well bow out in equally ridiculous fashion.The script should have been for Alex Ferguson to bow out a winner away to West Brom, with an injury-time goal of some description.But this outcome was just as appropriate. Ten goals. The highest scoring draw in Premier League history. ...
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Two men appear in court over knife incident in Sidcup town centre
By Sam Christie TWO men have appeared before magistrates in connection with a knife incident in Sidcup town centre. Bexley police were called to Sidcup High Street by a CCTV operator following reports of a knife being brandished at 9.30pm on Wednesday, May 15. Jason Shepherd, 21, and Jake Martin, 19, both unemployed and from Sidcup, were arrested that evening. Shepherd, of ...
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Independent councillor defends fellow member over Mugabe tweet
By Bruce Thain An independent councillor has defended a fellow member following accusations of racisim and calls to resign. Last week members of the new Independent Labour group called for Labour councillor Victoria Silver to resign after she compared Councillor to the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe in a comment posted on Twitter. Following the claims, Independent councillor ...
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Seminars for aspiring entrepreneurs
, Reporter A training organisation will be offering free seminars for those wishing to set up their own business. Not for profit business advisory and training organisation Enterprise Enfield is working in partnership with Barnet Borough Council and Barnet and Southgate College to offer three free seminars. These seminars, which will take place on 30 May, June 28 and July 29, will ...
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Nepalese grandmother took her own life in recreation ground
Nepalese grandmother 'took her own life' in recreation ground A woman who was found hanged from a tree branch in Kingston took her own life, a coroner has ruled. Juthi Pun Magar, 72, was dressed in a sari with a piece of yellow cloth attached to her ...
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Community centre to hold activities taster session
By Jaber Mohamed A community centre in Tottenham is to hold an open day so people can attend taster session of new activities. The event will be held at Park View West Green Learning Centre, in West Green Road, where residents are invited to try Indian head massage, crystal therapy, archery and many more. Activities will be held from 10am to 3pm on Saturday May ...
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June Sampson Bentall Centre revamp will enhance Clarence Street
June Sampson: Bentall Centre revamp will enhance Clarence Street A Bentall Centre extension will not only enhance Clarence Street but provide an interesting new restaurant. Work on the Bentall project has been planned with particular care. For much of the centre's exterior is grade 2 listed because, to quote the official designation, it is architecturally valuable as "a ...
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Bromley binmen to be balloted over strike action after rejecting two per cent pay rise offer
BINMEN are set to vote over whether to strike after rejecting a below inflation pay rise offer. Unite the union has issued formal notice of a strike ballot to Veolia Environmental Services, which carries out household waste collections on behalf of Bromley Council. The union aims to begin balloting its members from May 31. Veolia has offered its workers a two per cent ...
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Mother of crash victim opens shop in sons memory
By Jaber Mohamed The mother of a teenager who died with his two best friends in a car crash has opened a cafe in memory of her son. Sarah Boyton launched Jack's Cafe, in Elsinge Estate in Bullsmoor in memory of her 17-year-old son Jack. He died in a crash in November last year with his two friends Harry Ferrand, 17 and Ashley Jones, 19. Mrs Boyton, 46, said: "Jack ...
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Late night bonfire in Sutton fuels house fire fears
Sutton firefighters could smell the gardener's bonfire from their station A gardener having a late-night bonfire sparked fears of a house fire yesterday. Firefighters went to Frederick Road thinking someone's house was on fire after getting reports of clouds of smoke billowing around the neighbourhood at around 10pm on Sunday, May 19. The crew said they could smell the ...
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Nigel Farage moves to exploit Tory tensions over Europe with full-page newspaper advertisement
UK Independence Party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage today moved to exploit unrest within the Conservative ranks, urging discontented Tories to defect to his ...
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No 10 asks Labour to save gay marriage bill
Labour party joins forces with Tory opponents to vote in favour of granting civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.As David Cameron was accused by the Conservative Grassroots group of showing "utter contempt" for party activists by pressing ahead with plans to equalise marriage, Labour sources voiced fears that No 10 appeared to be trying to find ways of killing the bill.The row ...
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MPs debate gay marriage Politics live blog
Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including MPs debating the gay marriage bill at report stage and latest developments in the 'swivel-eyed loons' ...
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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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