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Cricket-Roots composed half-century steadies England
video Joe Root's composed half-century steadied England after lunch on day two of the second and final test against New Zealand at Headingley on ...
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Hate attacks on Muslims increase tenfold since murder of Woolwich soldier
Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo: The two polite young men that met at university who would become known as the bloodied Woolwich murder ...
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Root steadies England innings
Leeds, England – Joe Root's composed half-century steadied England after lunch on day two of the second and final Test against New Zealand at Headingley on ...
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Peers rumble Sunday newspapers sting operation
Peers have been warned to beware a newspaper sting operation. The whips of all three main parties were informers earlier this week that journalists from "a prominent Sunday newspaper" had approached members of ...
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Lee Rigbys murder in Woolwich provokes backlash across UK
A member of the mosque in Gillingham, Kent, boards up a smashed window after an attack THE murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich has provoked a backlash of anger across the UK, including the attacking of mosques, racial abuse and comments made on social media. An unemployed 28-year-old has been charged by police after allegedly posting an offensive message on Facebook. Sussex ...
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Entrepreneurs into the final of national competition
By Bruce Thain A group of entrepreneurs have made it to the final of a national business competition where they could win a prize worth 10,000. B'Spoke, based in Tottenham, have made it to the final of the TestTown competition run by Carnegie UK Trust to help revitalise Britain's high streets. B'Spoke is a community enterprise is based on the Broadwater Farm estate ...
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Sporadic fighting in London as German fans await Champions League final
Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich fans gather in Trafalgar Square in London before the Champions League final. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty ...
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Riots spread outside Stockholm Sweden in sixth night of violence
Rioting spread beyond the Swedish capital Stockholm, with youths torching vehicles and buildings on the sixth straight night of street violence, officials said. Specially trained police from Gothenburg and Malmo backed up local officers in Stockholm, the BBC reported Saturday. The disturbances began Sunday in Stockholm, but spread Friday to Orebro, where about 25 masked youths set fire to ...
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Priest killed by Mafia one step closer to sainthood
A priest killed by the Mafia in 1993 has been beatified in a ceremony in Italy attended by more than 50,000 people, Catholic Church officials said. The Rev. Giuseppe Puglisi is the first victim of organized crime to be declared a martyr, the BBC reported Saturday. A cardinal representing Pope Francis, 40 bishops and government ministers were present at the ceremony in Palermo, which is the ...
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Roots Composed Half-Century Steadies England
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Woolwich terror suspect saw friend Firadon Alizadeh slain in Erith crack den in 2008
By Robert Fisk WOOLWICH terror suspect Michael Adebowale was stabbed in a knife attack at an Erith crack den five years ago, it has been revealed. The 22-year-old is in hospital under armed guard after being shot by police following the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby near Woolwich Barracks on Wednesday. Drummer Rigby was hacked to death by two men armed with knives, meat cleavers and ...
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MP to raise money for charity close to his heart
An MP says he hopes to raise more than 1,000 by completing a total of three triathlons. Gareth Thomas MP has already completed the Hatch End triathlon earlier this month and will be taking on the Blenheim Palace triathlon, in June and the Seaford Triathlon in July. The Labour MP for Harrow West will be raising money for the Harrow branch of Parkinson's UK which helps people across ...
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Volunteers needed in Merton
Donate your time: volunteers are needed in Merton Volunteers are needed to give their time to help the community in Merton. As part of National Volunteers' Week, people are needed to help out. Every year, more than 20m people across the UK volunteer, donating more than 100m hours to their communities every week. Volunteers are needed at the following ...
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Zookeeper mauled and killed by tiger at Cumbria animal park
Police said Sarah McClay was attacked at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton in Furness. She was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital following the attack, where she later ...
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Nigerian community marches in solidarity as Greenwich leaves tributes to murdered soldier Lee Rigby
Touching tributes continued to be paid to Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich today, as the community stood united in condemning the soldier's brutal ...
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Former MP Jimmy Wray dies aged 78
Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Baillieston for 18 years. He stepped down in 2005 after a spell of ill health. He is survived by his four children.Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said: "I remember Jimmy fondly for his personal kindness and generosity but most of all for his love of the Labour party, which he served with distinction for a great many years. Even after he stepped down as an ...
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Prince William excited about impending fatherhood
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the UK premiere of "African Cats" at BFI Southbank in London on April 25, 2012. UPI/Paul ...
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At least 17 children dead in school bus explosion
At least 17 children were killed and 10 others injured when a gas cylinder on a school van exploded Saturday in northeastern Pakistan, officials said. The van, carrying 20 to 25 children, caught fire after the cylinder exploded, Dawn News reported. The driver survived but a teacher was reportedly killed, the BBC reported. The children, ages 5 to 15, were just a few miles from their school in ...
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Five climbers feared dead on Nepal mountainside
Officials in Nepal said five missing mountain climbers were likely killed by an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga earlier this week. The Nepal tourism ministry said the group went missing while descending the mountain and included climbers from Nepal, Hungary and South Korea. "All our efforts to trace them have failed," Mingma Sherpa, the organizer of the expedition, told the BBC. ...
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Free dance festival date in Merstham
News A Festival of Dance, showcasing various dances including tap, flamenco and ballet, will be held at Merstham Village Hall in Station Road North, Merstham, on Monday, June 17, from 7pm to 9pm. Admission free. For more details call 01737 225100 or email: ...
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Slimming group donate baggy clothes to cancer charity
Slim: the group donated clothes that were too big to Cancer Research Fat fighters in Stoneleigh donated their old baggy clothes to a cancer charity. Members of Stoneleigh's Slimming World group gave their unwanted clothes, some of which were five sizes too big, to Cancer Research as part of a wider campaign with the weight loss group. Cancer Research's Epsom branch ...
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Wall of flowers in Woolwich for slain soldier Drummer Lee Rigby
Wall of flowers for slain soldier Drummer Lee Rigby A WALL of flowers lies near the spot where Drummer Lee Rigby was hacked to death, as people turned out in force to pay tribute to the soldier and to express their disgust at the barbaric killing. Thousands of wellwishers have paid their respects where the young father was brutally slain, while hundreds more flower tributes have been ...
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Schoolboys play guitar for government minister
No need to fret: Schoolboys with Lord Nash Schoolboys from Mitcham played guitar for a government minister when he visited a Wimbledon school last week. Schools minister Lord Nash was invited to visit King's College School in Wimbledon where the group of 13-year-olds from St Mark's Academy in Mitcham had been taught to play the instrument by sixth form students. The visit ...
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Church of England Plans to Have Female Bishops by 2015
After about 20 years of a divisive debate on allowing women to be bishops, the Church of England published proposals on Friday to approve the ordination of female bishops by ...
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England stutter after Cook Trott fall
Leeds – England lost Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook to successive balls just before lunch as New Zealand rallied on the second day of the second and final Test at Headingley on ...
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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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