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Donald Macintyres Sketch If Syria was on everyone’s mind why was no one talking about it
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Labour vows to crack down on failing free schools and academies
The party's education spokesman, Stephen Twigg, said it would give councils the right to deliver early warning notices of failure to them if there was any evidence their standards were slipping. In addition, the Local Government Ombudsman will be given powers to investigate any allegations of covert selection made against them by parents.At present, councils can only deliver warning to ...
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Cameron tells Russia join the club or face isolation on Syria
David Cameron on Monday evening made a final attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar ...
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Charles Saatchi says Nigella Lawson hand-on-throat images were just a playful tiff
'Mr Paparazzi' Darryn Lyons buys back Big Pictures' assets just weeks after the photo agency went into ...
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G8 summit judgment awaits on David Camerons challenge
In the elaborate, etiquette-riddled role of world summit host, two things matter: first, that you can put on a good show for your fellow leaders, projecting something unique about your country's culture; and second, that you can demonstrate that you have a coherent and distinctive political agenda. ...
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Seize last chance for Syria peace talks prime minister urges G8 leaders
An Oxfam worker places roses among gravestones symbolising the 93,000 people killed in Syria's civil war as the G8 summit meets in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter ...
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Soldiers killed in Mozambique armory raid
Several soldiers were killed Monday when gunmen attacked an armory in the central Dondo region of Mozambique, a local official said. Local media reported five soldiers were killed, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Monday. STV, a local television station, reported numerous people were hospitalized in the raid, and many weapons were stolen from the armory. A spokesman for Renamo, a former ...
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Reigate barn goes under auctioneers hammer in bidding battle
News A former brick-built barn on nearly 0.5 acres of freehold land in Reigate today went under the auctioneer's hammer for nearly three times the estimate in a bidding battle. Atherfield Barn in Woodhatch Road was among 23 lots being sold by regional land and property auctioneers Clive Emson. The barn had had a freehold guide price of 25,000 to 30,000, before the bidding ...
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Surrey trials to start soon on speedometer device to help keep vulnerable people safe
News A pocket-sized speedometer that uses satellite technology is to be handed to vulnerable people in Surrey to help keep them safe. People with dementia and learning difficulties will get the Global Positioning System (GPS) - fitted gadget to stop them getting lost after boarding a bus or train in a confused state. Testing of the device is due to start shortly, and comes hot on ...
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Man taken to hospital after three cars collide in Richmond Road
, Assistant Editor Three cars collided this evening in Richmond Road at the junction of Gibbon Road, near the Oak pub. Police were called to the incident at about 7.30pm. Injuries were said by the Metropolitan Police not to be life threatening. London Ambulance said it sent an ambulance to the crash. A 24-year-old man was taken to St George's Hospital as a priority, a ...
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Letters Kinship carers also need support
'Six million people in the UK care for a sick, disabled or older person.Some kinship carers get an insulting 59.75 a week.' Photograph: Graham Turner for the ...
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Letters Lords call for action to cap payday loans
House of Lords to the financial services bill, designed to curb the costs of payday lending. At the government's strong urging, we withdrew that amendment, based on its assurances that it shared our concerns and that it would replace our amendment with one that was more comprehensive and more effective. This it did.Since then, payday lending activities have run rampant, as the House of ...
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British Airways upgrades mobile app with Passbook
British Airways is the latest airline to integrate its mobile boarding pass with Apple's Passbook app in an aim to create a more efficient and streamlined flying experience for travellers. After downloading ...
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Letters Media ownership to support democracy
Harriet Harman's announcement that she is committed to tackling the stranglehold of a handful of giant media corporations on public life is especially welcome, as is her support for ownership caps, so that no single voice is able to dominate our media landscape.For far too long, three or four media houses with pro-austerity and anti-EU agendas have been allowed to accrue power and influence ...
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Letters Bugging the G20 in support of Keynesian economics
Gordon Brown 's key G20 aims of co-ordinating global economic recovery and reforming international financial institutions. Brown's role in promoting the $1tn stimulus package was critical in staving off global economic catastrophe and it seems that some of the credit for that success should go to the intelligence community, cast in the surprising role as secret promoters of Keynesian ...
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G8 Cameron promises biggest bilateral deal in history as free trade talks open
Barack Obama, Jos Manuel Barroso and David Cameron at the launch of EU-US free trade talks at the G8 summit in Enniskillen. Photograph: Andrew ...
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Spying claims of The Guardian
Turkey`s finmin Simsek said, if The Guardian`s spying claims were confirmed, then they would strongly condemn it and do all what was necessary ANKARA - Turkey`s Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has said, "If The Guardian`s spying claims are confirmed, then we will strongly condemn it and do all what is necessary."Minister Simsek released a written statement in regards to the news article ...
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Samaras seeks resolution ERT broadcasting flap
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is seeking to reverse widespread criticism of his decision to shut down the nation's official news network. Samaras closed down the network, ERT, due to the nation's ongoing debt crisis. The closure, ordered last Tuesday, put 2,700 people out of work. Journalists at ERT have continued to broadcast the news in defiance of Samaras' order online ...
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Police relax as G8 summit ducks any security dramas
Highly-trained specialist police officers could be seen feeding ducks in Northern Ireland on Monday afternoon as potential threats to the security of the G8 summit failed to ...
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My Get Me There Manchester scratches its head over ‘Get the heck out of here’ answer to Londons Oyster card
The name of Greater Manchester's long-awaited version of the London Oyster Card was announced yesterday. It is to be called - drum roll - "My Get Me There". And has, unsurprisingly, elicited a big fat "WHAT?" from ...
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Borisstan the independent city state and docking station for global wealth formerly known as London | Aditya Chakrabortty
London has been an economic giant, a political giant but a fiscal infant It's high time London was treated in a more grownup, a more mature way, as a great city in the way other great cities are" ...
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Barack Obama describes Northern Ireland as blueprint for peace
In his speech, Barack Obama noted it had been 15 years since the Good Friday agreement that paved the way for power sharing. Photograph: Andy ...
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Schools that were promised new buildings are still crumbling years later
The coalition's Priority Schools Building programme is not delivering results and some pupils are still being taught in buildings that were declared inadequate 10 years ...
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David Cameron still awaits G8 tax breakthrough after summits first day
G8 summits: runaway successes, photo opps devoid of content; the modestly successful; and the outright flops.Vladimir Putin has ensured that Lough Erne will not fall into that first and rarest bracket of all - the glorious example of global togetherness. Indeed, the Russian president arrived at Lough Erne seemingly content to see the cosy fireside chat turned into the sort of family bust up ...
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Guardian NSA leaker Edward Snowden wont return voluntarily to US
A bus drives past a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with Britain's Guardian newspaper ...
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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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