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Letters Europe and the fight for fair wages
Exit Europe from the left , 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business and finance demanding lower wages in order for the UK to receive investment or prevent relocation.Instead, the answer has to be to align the public anger about austerity and businesses anxiety about declining ...
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Government pleads with Labour to save gay marriage bill
Labour party joins forces with Tory opponents to vote in favour of granting civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.As David Cameron was accused by the Conservative Grassroots group of showing "utter contempt" for party activists by pressing ahead with plans to equalise marriage, Labour sources voiced fears that No 10 appeared to be trying to find ways of killing the bill.The row ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Sydenham headteacher pays tribute to Chloe Johnson who died in Egyptian swimming pool
Chloe with her father Tony. THE headteacher of a Sydenham school has paid tribute to five-year-old Chloe Johnson who died in a swimming pool in Egypt. Chloe, who lived in Forest Hill, was on holiday with her mother Sarah Thompson and her father Tony Johnson in Sharm el-Sheikh when she was found unconscious in a pool on Friday. She was a pupil in the reception class at Kelvin Grove ...
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Editorial Another week another bout of Conservative Party in-fighting
David Cameron was in a tricky enough spot last week, forced to pretend it was, if not desirable, then at least acceptable that more than 100 obstreperous backbenchers voted their "regret" at his Government's legislative programme. Between the high-profile grandees (Lord Lawson, Michael Portillo) and the existing cabinet ministers (Michael Gove, Philip Hammond) all voicing their ...
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Lord Feldman spoke to journalists who wrote swivel-eyed loons story but denies words were his
The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as "swivel-eyed loons", it emerged on ...
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Arsenal claim fourth Fergies farewell rains 10 goals
Source: Reuters Arsenal claimed the final Champions League spot at the expense of their arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the Premier League season today with a 1-0 win at Newcastle United. Defender Laurent Koscielny put visitors Arsenal ahead in the 52nd minute to secure fourth place with 73 points, one point ahead of fifth-placed Spurs who mustered a late goal from Gareth ...
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Letters The benefit of European Union membership outweighs the cost
The economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming. The creation of the Single Market was instigated by Britain, and is now the world's largest trading bloc, containing half a billion people with a GDP of 10 trillion. To Britain, membership is estimated to be worth between 31bn and 92bn per year in income gains, or between 1,200 to 3,500 for every ...
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England v New Zealand 1st Test England win by 170 runs on dramatic fourth day
In the end it took England less than an hour to wrap up proceedings on Day Four and secure victory by 170 runs in the first Test with New Zealand at ...
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Andrew Feldman - David Camerons loyal friend and tennis partner
forced into the media spotlight to deny calling grassroots Tory activists "swivel-eyed loons", few outside Westminster had heard of him.The successful former barrister and businessman had managed to keep a low profile despite his rise through the party over the past eight years.Born Andrew Feldman, in London in 1966, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt softens line on tax loopholes
Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm and other multinational internet businesses that take billions of pounds of sales from the UK through overseas companies, which HM Revenue & Customs cannot tax."Given the intensity of the debate, not just in the UK but also in America ...
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Why the Church of England is in decline | Andrew Brown
"I can show you why the Church of England is completely fucked," said the vicar. He showed me an email he had just received from the diocesan authorities about his "continuing ministerial development" - in effect his annual performance review. It came with 20 attachments, from A to T, 19 of which he was supposed to read before filling out the form on how well he was doing.Two ...
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Fergie signs off in 10-goal thriller
Alex Ferguson was denied a winning send off into retirement as West Brom roared back from three goals down to snatch a draw in a quite staggering 5-5 thriller at The Hawthorns. Only once in Premier League history has more goals been scored in a game. And never have both sides found the net five times. Maybe it was destiny that after so many milestones, Ferguson's career should end in a ...
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Marks Spencer under fire over online tax arrangements
Marks & Spencer has become the latest in a string of UK companies to face criticism from tax campaigners over the way it structures its online sales to Europe - with one describing the its sales operation as similar to that of the internet retail giant Amazon.The British retailer has been expanding its online operations to several countries across Europe with a ...
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West Brom 5-5 Man Utd Fergie send-off a thriller
Sir Alex Ferguson was denied a winning send off into retirement as West Brom roared back from three goals down to snatch a 5-5 draw in a quite staggering 10-goal thriller at The Hawthorns.Only once in Premier League history has more goals been scored in a game. And never have both sides found the net five times.Maybe it was destiny that after so many milestones, Ferguson's career should end ...
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Nick Clegg promises prisoner rehabilitation shake-up to cut re-offending
Sending a criminal to prison costs more than sending a child to Eton and "we need a better return on our investment" Nick Clegg will say ...
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Former Russian spy would give evidence to public inquiry into killing of Alexander Litvinenko
A key witness in the investigation into Alexander Litvinenko's killing, who helped the murdered dissident compile a report on a senior businessman with strong ties to the Kremlin, is willing to give evidence at a public ...
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Swivel-gate David Cameron goes to war with the press over swivel-eyed loons slur
Downing Street insider Lord Feldman 'taking legal advice', as he denies calling anti-Europe anti-gay marriage Tory activists 'mad swivel-eyed ...
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United set up thriller for Fergies finale
West Brom 5 Man Utd 5 Sir Alex Ferguson was denied a winning send off into retirement as West Brom roared back from three goals down to snatch a draw in a quite staggering 10-goal thriller at The Hawthorns.Only once in Premier League history has more goals been scored in a game. And never have both sides found the net five times.Maybe it was destiny that after so many milestones, Ferguson's ...
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Three teenage boys arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs in connection with death of 16-year-old schoolgirl Ellie Jones
Three teeange boys have been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs in connection with the death of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who is thought to have taken an illegal ...
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Debenhams backs fair treatment of models
models , with the chief executive, Michael Sharp, calling on others to follow suit.The decision to offer fair treatment to the women and men it uses in its advertising comes a month after Vogue also signed the 10-point plan agreed with the models' union Equity.Sharp said: "Fair treatment of everyone who models for us has always been a priority. The code firmly cements our ambition. We ...
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The latest mens grooming fix laser hair removal for Hobbit feet
Dr Michael Prager, a dermatologist based near the infamous Harley Street, said the number of men visiting his clinic to have laser hair removal on their feet had doubled since last year.He told ...
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Jobseekers and benefits data release postponed by DWP
benefits as a result of a tougher sanctions regime introduced by the coalition in October.The DWP said there were "some significant doubts about the quality of the new regime statistics", due to have been published this week, adding it was not possible to give a date when they would be in a form fit to print.Ministers have also suspended planned publication of the figures from ...
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Workfare placements must be made public tribunal rules
The DWP has been ordered to publish the names of firms taking part in the controversial schemes. The setback follows a recent ruling that staff had been unlawfully made to work unpaid for organisations including Poundland. Photograph: Martin Argles for the ...
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It’s a monk’s life at Westminster Abbey Mission’s own Benedictine Monastery
Father Alban Riley at the Westminster Abbey in Mission, which was built in the 1950s. The Benedictine monks at the monastery follow a life of austerity, chastity and obedience. Ric ...
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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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