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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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Inspirational talk by former AFC Wimbledon fitness coach
Jenny Archer with Merton school children A fitness coach who helped the Dons to their 1988 FA cup triumph and worked with paralympic legend David Weir is helping inspire the sporting stars of tomorrow. Jenny Archer, a fitness coach with Wimbledon FC in the 1980s - spoke to pupils from Perseid, Abbotsbury, St Teresa's and Malmesbury primary schools at Perseid primary school in ...
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Brother of Wilfried Zaha evicted from New Addington home after hammer threat
Serge Zaha The brother of former Crystal Palace star Wilfried Zaha has been evicted from his flat after a string of accusations about anti-social behaviour, including threatening a housing warden with a hammer. Serge Zaha, 31, of Castle Hill Avenue, New Addington, has been served with an application for closure order which means he is not allowed back into the property for three ...
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Sir Paul McCartney donates birthday to Royal Marsden cancer hospital
Sir Paul McCartney donates birthday to Royal Marsden Sir Paul McCartney has donated his birthday to the Royal Marsden cancer hospital to improve the lives of cancer patients. Fans of Sir Macca can now celebrate the famous Beatle's birthday by raising money for the Royal Marsden - which has two hospitals in Sutton and Chelsea. The birthday donations are all part of the ...
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Two police contact points confirmed for Wandsworth
Tooting Police Station, Mitcham Road Police contact points will open later this year to replace 24 hour front desk services. The Metropolitan police controversially announced they would be closing 24 hours front desks at all but one of the police stations in the borough earlier this year Instead two new contact points will be located in the former 24 hour station Tooting Police ...
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Beckenham takeaway raided by enforcement officers
By Heloise Wood A BECKENHAM takeaway has reportedly been hiding illegal immigrants. Acting on intelligence, enforcement officers raided Coastal Lake, Upper Elmers End Road, at about 6pm on last Wednesday (June 12) and arrested two Chinese women. One, aged 22, had allegedly overstayed her visa, while the other, aged 50, was reportedly a failed asylum seeker - both were transferred ...
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Charles Saatchi Taking caution for holding Nigella Lawsons throat was better than it hanging over all of us
Nigella Lawson photos: Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assault over incident in Scott's restaurant when he put his hands on throat of ...
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Legal profession must do more to improve ethnic diversity says Supreme Court president
The UK's top judge has acknowledged that the senior judiciary is monolithic and there are not enough members of ethnic minorities ...
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Army job cuts 4480 soldiers made redundant by MoD
More than 4,000 soldiers will be handed their notice as the Government tries to reduce the number of full-time regulars from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2018. To compensate, the MoD plans to inflate the number of Territorial Army reservist troops from 19,000 to 30,000 over the same period.The MoD has insisted operational capability will not be affected and assured remaining employees there will be no ...
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The Guardian development flow
By moving towards a GitHub flow with continuous integration, the Guardian's software team describe how they've streamlined development and ...
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England will bank on home advantage to reach Champions League final | Mike Selvey
Dale Steyn . It was to prove the final act of a dramatic match and with the scores identical in runs and wickets and under the Duckworth-Lewis calculation that came into operation, the match was deemed a tie with a point each. Thus it was that it will be South Africa rather than West Indies who will face England at the Oval to decide who goes through to Sunday's final of the Champions ...
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Boris Johnson salutes the suit at Londons Savile Row – video
In an effort to promote homegrown design, London mayor Boris Johnson poses with models at Savile Row, traditional home of London's tailoring industry. Johnson says the traditional suit was created in London, claiming, 'London is to the suit as Parma is to parmesan cheese. And when the big cheeses of the world want to get themselves properly attired, they come to our great ...
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Syria crisis G8 nations agree to revive peace talks but Vladimir Putin dashes hopes of immediate breakthrough
The G8 nations papered over differences between Russia and the West by agreeing to try to revive peace talks in Geneva. But Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, stopped short of calling for Assad to go--the view of the seven other leaders. No date was set for peace talks, a move which could give Assad more time to defeat the opposition fighters in the country's civil war. The G8 said only ...
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Heres a chance to fight for disabled peoples mobility | Jane Young
consultation on the personal independence payment (PIP) - the disability benefit that replaces disability living allowance (DLA). After telling us for months that the consultations on PIP were more extensive than any previous consultation and that it had really listened, the government announced its intention to reconsult on the mobility component of the new benefit. The political and legal ...
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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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