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Bank of England appoints woman as first chief operating officer
Bank of England governor, has appointed Charlotte Hogg, a senior executive at Santander and the scion of one of Britain's most blue-blooded political dynasties, to become the Bank's first chief operating officer.Hogg, who heads Santander's high street operations, will start at the Bank on 1 July - the day that Carney takes over from Sir Mervyn King. The 41-year-old will head all ...
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Julian Assange will not leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges are dropped
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges against him are dropped, as he fears moves are already under way to extradite him to the ...
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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage
Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new ...
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‘Call Centre’ boss’s firms fined over nuisance calls
Two companies owned by the BBC's new reality star Neville "Big Nev" Wilshire - who appears in the fly-on-the-wall documentary The Call Centre - have been fined 225,000 for making nuisance ...
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Buckinghamshire village up in arms over location of new Sikh secondary school
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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G8 summit David Cameron hails landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion
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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Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power
World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...
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Nigel Farage forced to cancel Aberdeen lunch due to protest fears Ukip claims
Scotland less than a month after he had to take refuge in a pub after being heckled and abused by demonstrators in Edinburgh.Farage had endured a torrid half-hour of abuse and heckling from pro-independence and anti-racist campaigners who called him "scum", a "racist" and a "bawbag" on Edinburgh's Royal Mile last month, as they thwarted his plans for a press ...
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England v South Africa the key clashes
Amla had the Indian sign over the English last year, carrying his eye-catching form from a successful three-Test series (482 runs at an average of 120.50) into the drawn one-day contest that followed (335 at 111.66). There was a career-best 150 rattled up at the Rose Bowl, and an unbeaten 97 accumulated at Trent Bridge, with the opener irresistible and the home side rendered blunt. Anderson, ...
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Palestinian writers refused visas for travel to UK
Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art.The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, were due to talk about their writing at London's ICA on 28 June but have been barred from coming - to the disappointment and frustration of festival organisers.Omar al-Qattan, chairman of ...
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To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong The true effect of the badger cull
finds a growing number of farmers - including those whose own farms have been blighted by TB - are now questioning the nature of the cull and its likely ...
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Stand by for another DECADE of wet summers say meteorologists
Britain faces ten more years of wet summers, after the Met Office revealed the country is in the midst of a rare weather cycle that increases the prospect of summer rain and could last for two ...
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Former No 10 spin chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury
Details of his private appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week, where he made no plea or declaration and was granted bail, was only made possible after a successful legal challenge overturned an earlier court order which banned any media reporting of the legal proceedings.Mr Coulson, 45, was detained at his London home last May and driven 400 miles to Glasgow by officers from the former ...
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Man dies after falling from yacht mast during Border Force raid
An investigation is under way following the death of a man who tumbled 40 feet from the mast of a yacht after the vessel was boarded by customs officers.The incident happened on the vessel called Windrose while it was moored in St Mary's harbour, on the Isles of Scilly.The Dutch-registered vessel got into distress on Sunday and had to be towed into the harbour by a lifeboat.The man who died ...
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Conventional wisdom people turn Tory with age. The new trends less simple … | Bobby Duffy and Tom Clark
difference between a distinct cohort effect and a general age effect , compare medals for wartime service (which we associate with today's elderly, but only because of the particular years that their generation happens to have lived through) on the one hand, and reading glasses (a necessity for ageing eyes in every generation) on the other. We define four separate generations - prewar ...
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Tories win over Generation Y while losing touch with older voters
Generation Y at Glastonbury. The Conservative approach on individual responsibility and welfare resonates well with them, according to Ipsos Mori. Photograph: Felix ...
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A visit to The Audience – serious non-lolz klaxon
Well of course Mr Cobber is a genius & there is nothing Maria does not know about the arts but I do not think we will let them organise date night again? Because she most definitely said The Audience has Irish dancing? And amaze impersonations & Benedict Cumberbatch as Churchill *swoons*? She was like, unfort my extensive cultural commitments leave me little time for the theatre but if ...
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‘Angels of Woolwich’ petition presented to Downing Street
More than 85,000 people have signed a petition calling for bravery medals to be given to three women who intervened in the aftermath Lee Rigby's ...
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Womens charity calls for new approach to tackling prostitution
By Natalie O'Neill A women's charity is calling for a "new approach" to tackle prostitution following reports Enfield Police are using cameras to target the problem. Police have installed a domehawk camera in Langhedge Lane, Upper Edmonton, where prostitutes are known to loiter in the early hours. Another camera is due to go up within the month, which officers ...
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Council plants more than 300 new trees
By Jaber Mohamed Haringey Borough Council has planted more than 300 new trees across the borough to make streets more attractive and offset the impact of climate change. Of the 392 trees, 309 were planted in the Alexandra, Crouch End, Fortis Green and Noel Park wards. People living in these areas have been asked to help them develop by giving them water during long period of dry ...
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Your Choice Barnet to consult residents
Service users and families protesting outside a Your Choice board meeting last month Disabled people and their carers have welcomed Your Choice Barnet's decision to suspend its restructuring process in order to consult them. In a statement, Your Choice Barnet yesterday announced it had "underestimated" the impact on the adults with physical and learning disabilities it ...
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Sydenham care home mistook paramedics for lift engineers as man lay dying
A CORONER's letter revealed a catalogue of errors at a care home as a man lay dying, including staff mistaking paramedics for engineers and taking them to fix a broken lift. It also revealed a nurse waited 32 minutes before calling an ambulance after seeing the 81-old patient was struggling to breathe, staff forgot the security code so paramedics were left waiting outside and no ...
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Restoration work on churchs hidden treasure begins
By Bruce Thain Restoration work on the mosaic in a Victorian church which has been hidden for more than 50 years has begun. All Saints Church, Uxbridge Road, Harrow Weald, has raised more than 10,000 for the work to take place on the back wall inside the building. The church, with its mosaic artwork, was designed by architect William Butterfield, famous for his Gothic Revival ...
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Forest YMCA appeals for empty properties to lease for vulnerable residents
, Senior reporter The YMCA is searching for empty properties in Waltham Forest "vital" to help vulnerable young people start to build their own lives and look for work. Forest YMCA, of Forest Road in Walthamstow, needs more than 24 bedrooms for residents preparing to become semi-independent. The charity has registered planning applications with Waltham Forest Council to ...
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Teddington rapist Brian Witty jailed for life with minimum 12 years
Arrogant sexual predator: Brian Witty A serial rapist who traumatised the lives of seven women has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Brian Witty was found guilty on all three new charges of rape, on women aged 19 at the time, on majority verdicts. Judge Nicholas Price QC branded Witty an "arrogant sexual predator" when he sentenced him at Kingston Crown Court this ...
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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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