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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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The House I Live In director Eugene Jarecki on Americas war on drugs - video interview
Documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki, who has won two Grand Jury Prizes for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, speaks to John Mulholland about his attempts to reform drug laws in the US. His ...
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Go-ahead for 60-room hotel in West Ealing
Road improvements and landscaping are required as part of hotel's permission WEST Ealing is likely to have a new 60-room hotel in Melbourne Road after a unanimous 12-0 vote in favour of plans. Preparatory demolition work at the site is already underway and will likely affect business in the area for around six months. The final go-ahead from Ealing planners has not yet been ...
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Library and leisure service changes aimed at saving Ealing money
Library and leisure service changes aimed at saving Ealing money LIBRARY and leisure services are to be shared between Ealing Council and private companies. Leisure service changes should save 250,000 with the involvement of Sports and Leisure Management Ltd (SLM) in the running of centres across Ealing, Brent and Harrow. John Laing plc will help run library services in Harrow and ...
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We want to turn our grief and pain into something positive
Manuel Fernandez with Celia Peachey and Benji Stubbings holding a picture of murdered Maria Stubbings The brother of a woman who was murdered by her ex-partner has spoken about his determination to help other victims of domestic violence and make something "positive" come from his sister's death. Manuel Fernandez, 42, who lives in Totteridge, had his "world smashed to ...
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Child abduction cases up by 81 per cent
Kate McCann started the Miles for Missing People race CHILD abduction is a "growing problem" with the number of reported cases up by 81% over the last nine years, ministers have warned. Foreign Office officials were involved in 512 new abduction and international custody cases in 2011/12 and were taking around four calls a day when existing cases were taken into account. ...
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New car wash offers job opportunities for disabled people
Enfield Council and employment specialists Seetec set up eco-car wash People with disabilities helped to launch an eco-car wash in Enfield this week. Enfield Council and employment specialists Seetec set up the scheme to offer jobs for people with various disabilities in the borough. Customers can have their car washed at the Palace Gardens multi-storey car park between 9am to 3pm ...
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David Beckham left out of final Paris St-Germain match of the season
Former England football captain David Beckham has played his last competitive match, having been dropped from the Paris St-Germain team to face ...
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Afghan interpreters may move to the UK – security forces have no safe haven | Jon Boone
When I met Rahmatullah two years ago he was laid up in bed in Kabul's towering national military hospital. Gruesome rods protruded from the smashed leg of the 21-year-old soldier who had been serving in Helmand at the time with the 215 "Maiwand" Corps. His bone had been broken by a Taliban bullet fired not on the battlefield, but inside his own home while he was on leave in ...
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England Stutter After Cook and Trott Fall
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France begins withdrawing from Mali
France began the first stage of a withdrawal from Mali Saturday in what it says is a plan to pull out most of its troops and equipment by the end of the year. A convoy carrying unneeded equipment and vehicles left a French base outside the capital, Bamako, headed for Abidjan ...
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Squatters removed from former wine shop
Squatters were booted out of a former wine shop and office block in Teddington this morning, May 25. About 35 police officers swooped the building in the Causeway shortly before 6am and turfed out about 30 sqautters. Solicitors acting on behalf of Marcus King and Co, managing agents for the former Bottoms Up unit, served an eviction notice on the squatters this week. Notices were ...
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Arson attack in Twickenham
, Reporter A 30-year-old man was rescued from a top floor flat after it was set on fire by an arsonist last night, May 24. Two other men escaped the burning Victorian house in Clifden Road, Twickenham, before police arrested a suspected arsonist. Engines from Twickenham, Heston and Richmond were called to put out the fire at about 9pm and were on scene for two and a half hours. ...
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Message is clear from Hillingdon people no Heathrow expansion
Message is clear from Hillingdon people: no Heathrow expansion THE legitimacy of plans to expand Heathrow is in question after poll results showed Hillingdon residents are against the idea. More than 81,000 people voted in the council 'referendum', which asked if a new runway should be built and if more flights should be allowed to and from the airport. Two-thirds of ...
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St Pauls Cray Waste4Fuel site must be cleared of combustible waste by June 10
By Robert Fisk OWNERS of the recycling site in St Paul's Cray have just over a fortnight to clear it of all combustible waste. Waste4Fuel was served with an environmental permit suspension notice by the Environment Agency in the middle of last month, giving a clearance date of July 15. But the EA has now changed the date so the site in Cornwall Drive must be cleared by June ...
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Young boy injured after car crashes into wall
, Reporter A young boy was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a wall in Kingston yesterday. The 10-year-old was taken to Kingston Hospital with head injuries after a car crashed into a wall in Fairfield South at about 3.30pm on Friday, May 24. Veronika Zochova, a waitress from Fairfield South, into whose front wall the car crashed, said: "I didn't see the accident, ...
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Bexley police appealing for help to find missing teenager
Melissa Attard is missing from Belvedere Police are appealing for assistance to find 15-year-old Melissa Attard who is missing from Belvedere. Melissa left her home at around 8pm on May 1 and was last seen on Monday (May 20) when she was spotted in Hackney. She is described as white, 5ft 4in tall and of medium build. The teenager has brown eyes and long dark brown hair that she ...
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Redhill man faces charges including robbery
News A Redhill man has been charged with robbery, attempted robbery and driving while under the influence of alcohol following two incidents in Redhill. Jordan Alan Vosper, 27, of Colman Way, Redhill, appeared at South East Surrey Magistrates Court yesterday. He was released on conditional bail, and is due to appear at court again on Thursday, June 6. The charges relate to incidents ...
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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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