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England S. Africa face off in Champions Trophy semis
England's Joe Root (2nd R) celebrates during the Champions Trophy match against New Zealand on June 16, 2013. England were lucky the weather favoured them on Sunday as the hosts squeezed out a 10-run win over New Zealand in a game reduced to 24-overs-a-side due to ...
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Richmond Theatre group founder in honours list
Theatrical: Howard Panter founded Ambassador Theatre Group One of the founding members of the theatre group that owns Richmond Theatre has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Howard Panter, co-founder and joint CEO of the Ambassador Theatre Group ltd (ATG), received a knighthood for services to theatre in recognition of his role in theatre for the past 40 years. ...
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Sports day delights youngsters at Montessori Nursery
Children took part in a "mini-Olympics" at an East Molesey nursery on Friday. Children were split into four houses, Lion, Crocodile, Whale and Dinosaur, for a sports day at Roselita Edwards Montessori Nursery that included sprints and wheelbarrow races. School founder Roselita Edwards said: "All the parents said they had a wonderful time - the event was well-organised ...
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Retired Wimbledon guitarist beats Pet Shop Boys in indie chart debut
A retired guitarist is thrilled his band's charity single stormed to number 17 in the indie charts - beating Vampire Weekend and the Pet Shop Boys. Anchor Community Band musician and singer Victor Haywood, 68, who lives in Louie Black House in Elm Grove, Wimbledon was stunned when his song, See Yourself, debuted at 17 in the Official Indie Charts on June 8. Mr Haywood, who has ...
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Why did DIY store employees row to France and back
Staff at a Kingston DIY store rowed to France and back in a day as part of a national charity fundraiser. Workers at Wickes in London Road took part in a rowing challenge which saw every UK branch of the hardware firm row. the distance from Dover to Calais and back in eight hours, to raise money for blood cancer charity Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. Staff in Kingston raised a ...
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Police van driver who parked on double yellow lines between 999 calls given words of advice
Police van driver who parked on double yellow lines between 999 calls given "words of advice" A police officer who parked a van on double yellow lines has been given "words of advice", according to Kingston police. The officer pulled up outside McDonald's in Eden Street last week and hopped out for breakfast in between 999 calls. The van was spotted by a ...
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Table tennis comes to Clapham Common
A pair of table tennis tables have been set up on Clapham Common for people to practise their top spin smash. The tables were unveiled on Friday with the help of a Sport England grant. It is hoped the new equipment will encourage people to take up the sport and exercise. Battersea MP Jane Ellison and ouncillor Shirley Cosgrave came to celebrate the launch. Coun Cosgrave said: ...
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Pupils get a taste of new sixth form
Totally Radnor: The new sixth form opens in September Year 10 students at Radnor House School got a taste of being a sixth former this month, when they tested out different AS and A-level subjects. The school, in Cross Deep, will open a new sixth form next year, admitting 60 pupils. Director of sixth form Patrick Crossley said: "We will work with our pupils on an individual ...
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Purley pupils design posters to mark National Care Home Day
The pupils from Cumnor House School with their posters Creative pupils from a Purley school showed of their art skills in a competition to design a poster reflecting what 'care' means to them. The students from Cumnor House School are participating in Sunrise Senior Living of Purley's celebrations for National Care Home Open Day on Friday. The care home will open its ...
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Carshalton Village welcomes first village market
Tansy Honey from EcoLocal A new village market opens this weekend. The first Carshalton Village Market will be held on Saturday June 22 in Grove Park by the Ponds between 10am and 4pm. Flowers, jewellery, cakes and pastries will be on offer, and children can have fun painting their own mug. All the businesses at the market are from the Carshalton area. The market is run by ...
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Ashes Fawad Ahmed still in the frame to face England despite being named in Australia A squad
Australia Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed is being sent to Africa on an Australia A tour at the same time as the Ashes series.But Ahmed remains in contention for the Ashes should his Australian citizenship be approved in time.Ahmed and fellow tweaker Ashton Agar were on Wednesday named in a 15-man Australia A squad for an African tour next month.Ahmed's citizenship is expected to be ...
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Face-down restraint ban considered
Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one ...
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Universities urged to sponsor free schools specialising in maths
mathematics , in a plan supported by the Office for Fair Access (Offa) to encourage talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study maths at degree level.As an incentive to open the new schools, universities will be allowed to fund them using budgets otherwise reserved for improving access ...
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The Buckinghamshire village that could scupper Michael Goves free school revolution
A Buckinghamshire village is threatening legal action over plans to set up an 850-pupil Sikh secondary school in its midst. Residents of Stoke Poges have warned they will seek a judicial review of the proposal after Department for Education {DfE) bought an office block in the village for the school for a reputed ...
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Pay cuts imposed on top civil servants could lead to exodus of talent – auditor
pay and conditions of senior civil servants have deterred private sector managers from taking up Whitehall jobs and could result in an exodus of talent, the government's independent auditor has warned.A report by the National Audit Office concludes that there are "clear capability gaps" in the ...
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Jail threat for reckless bankers among proposals to clean up banking system
George Osborne is facing pressure to radically overhaul Britain's banks by introducing a new law to jail bankers for "reckless misconduct" and force bankers to wait up to 10 years to receive their bonuses.The proposals, among the key measures recommended in a major report by the parliamentary commission on banking standards, also include a call on him to consider breaking up the ...
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Jo Swinson proposes streamlined appeals system for businesses
regulators from introducing consumer-friendly measures will be curbed under proposals published by the government on Wednesday.The Business minister, Jo Swinson, is proposing a streamlined appeals system for challenging decisions by the UK's economic regulators, which ...
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Food packaging traffic lights to signal healthy choices on salt fat and sugar
Research found consumers ignored food labels when more than one system was used, such as traffic lights and guideline daily amounts. Photo: Press ...
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New food labels help fight obesity
In one of the longest keynotes from Apple for years - two full hours - Tim Cook and colleagues tried to fight back after a tough year. Would this be enough to put the gloss back on ...
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Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail Chancellor told
Britain's banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says ...
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Crackdown on political meddling in City watchdogs
The commission's call follows fears that ministers have in the past pushed regulators to go easy on the City, particularly when the Financial Services Authority used to boast of its "light touch" regulation in the years leading up to the financial crisis. The plan envisages that Mark Carney, the incoming governor, would report to the Treasury Select Committee. That breaks new ...
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Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen
For decades, Brownies and Girl Guides have promised to "love my God," and "serve the Queen and my country". But now, in a triumph for secularists, the organisation has decided to drop references to the deity - and the nation - from the oath taken by ...
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James Moore Reckless bosses must face the consequences
It is for the courts now to decide whether Mr Hayes is guilty or not, and I don't seek to make any comment on that. But there is a point to be made here. The CBI says those who involve themselves in fraudulent behaviour in the UK already face tough sanctions and enforcing those should be the focus of the authorities as opposed to the creation of new offences. The problem is, as the ...
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James Moore Why George Osborne must beware of the banking backlash
Outlook The blue touch paper has been lit and it might pay for George Osborne to consider a flak jacket when he delivers his Mansion House ...
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Tax fightback begins G8 leaders crack down on aggressive avoidance by multinational firms
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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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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