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Mill Street comes out to sell off its unwanted household items
Antiques, bric-a-brac and curiosities were all on offer at a Kingston street's annual car boot sale. The Mill Street sale on Saturday saw residents bring out their unwanted good and put them on sale from their front gardens. Unsold items were picked up by Kingston-based disability charity Enhancable, to be sold. Tessa Kind, of Mill Street Residents' Association, said: ...
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Volunteers muck in to build science sensory garden at primary school
Fifty volunteers mucked to install a sensory garden at Ellingham Primary School in Chessington. They completed the task in just five hours. Pupils will also grow their own fruit and vegetables in a market garden, and can "grub around" in a habitat area. Headteacher Sarah Creegan said the pupils were "incredibly excited" about the gardens. She said: ...
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Guitarist who played with Springsteen is coming to Sutton
The Billy Walton Band is a combination of hard blues reminiscent of Hendrix and Clapton A guitarist who has played with Bruce Springsteen is coming to Sutton. The Billy Walton Band is returning to the UK to promote their Crank It Up CD as part of a full UK tour. The band is a combination of hard blues reminiscent of Hendrix and Clapton mixed with Warren Hayes and Derrick ...
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Mervyn Kings housing warning is too little too late | Polly Toynbee
George Osborne, Britain's chancellor, and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, at the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors summit on 11 May 2013 Photograph: Yui ...
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Looted Irish treasures recovered in England
They include three 'gun money' coins, the emergency war money coined by James II from 1689-91 to pay his forces to fight William of Orange.The items, including a Bronze Age axe and spearhead and hundreds of medieval coins, will go on display today, then be stored for research.They were recovered after a tip-off from ...
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Deal rescues gay marriage bill
US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a 250 million US dollar (£164 million) fortune six years after he started ...
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Rafsanjani may be out of Irans elections as Guardian Council vets older candidates
Rafsanjani, who is seen by many as too old to run Iran yet again. AFP Photo The overseers of the upcoming Iranian election have said that they will ban those who are "physically weak" from running, which is a former Iranian president. "A person who is able to work only a few hours a day can't be approved," Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, spokesman of the Guardian Council said on ...
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NZ man Sam Bracanov 77 fined over plot to hurl manure at Prince Charles couple
Sam Bracanov, here at Auckland District Court on November 13, 2012, has been fined for a plan to throw manure at Prince Charles and wife Camilla while they were in New Zealand last ...
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Injured Wilshere eyes England captaincy
Jack Wilshere has seven caps for England Wilshere, 21, is set to miss upcoming international friendlies against Republic of Ireland and Brazil due to an ongoing ankle injury. However, the midfielder remains eager to develop his all-round contribution to the cause as the 2014 World Cup looms.He told The Sun: "I want to captain Arsenal and I want to captain England. That definitely appeals to ...
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Survey finds two in three people oppose legal aid cuts
More than two-thirds of British people believe that the innocent will be convicted of crimes they did not commit if there are cuts to criminal legal aid, according to a ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Send away the clown - Ukip sorry for unsuitable councillor
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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Labour saves David Camerons gay marriage bill
Labour's move meant the amendment, tabled by the anti-gay marriage Tory Tim Loughton, was defeated by 375 to 70 votes, a majority of 305. Photograph: Facundo ...
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Game Hunting in Englands Premier League
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England ...
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Google faces new pressure over tax claims
Google's data centre in Dublin: by booking all UK sales through Ireland, the internet company handed HMRC only about 10m in corporation tax over the period 2006-11. Photograph: Niall ...
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Work Programme is giving least help to worst off
Private companies who win government contracts to help the jobless find work are "parking" some of the most disadvantaged people on benefits, MPs warn ...
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Gay marriage debate highlights deep divide in Conservative party
Anti-same sex marriage activists demonstrate on 20 May as Tory traditionalists failed in a series of bids to limit the scope of the bill. Photograph: Facundo ...
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GPs will face Ofsted-style inspections Jeremy Hunt announces
Jeremy Hunt will also announce plans for each vulnerable elderly person to have a named NHS worker to co-ordinate their care. Photograph: Rex ...
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Parents warned sharing bed with babies increases risk of cot death
A new study found breastfed babies under three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a significantly increased risk of cot death.Researchers estimate that 40 per cent of the 300 cot death cases in the UK each year could be prevented if parents only brought children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.Presently, NHS officials only advise parents against sharing ...
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Editorial Gay marriage is a large liberal step
For all our liberality, Britain still has a way to go. Last weekend - ironically, just one day after the International Day Against Homophobia - two gay men were attacked in a south London park. Then, yesterday, more than a handful of MPs lined up to resist government plans to allow same-sex couples to marry. The two are, of course, not linked; it would be fatuous - not to say, unfair - to ...
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Poll puts Ukip just two points behind Tories
The data by Survation, a member of the British Polling Council, puts Ukip on 22 per cent, its highest poll rating ever. Labour is on 35 per cent, 11 points ahead of the Tories, while the Lib Dems are in fourth place on 11 per cent. If the results were repeated at a general election on a uniform swing, Labour would have a majority of 104 seats. The survey canvassed 1,000 adults in England, ...
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The chasm that could swallow Cameron alive
or that life should be made miserable for David Cameron , or both, they knew they had cover from local party associations. Far from condemning their disloyalty to the party leadership, as might have been done in times long past, those associations knew that Cameron would support them. It's unlikely that without that activist momentum (partly fuelled by the competition from Ukip, of course) ...
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MPs debate gay marriage bill Monday 20 August as it happened
Adam Afriyie (Windsor), Peter Aldous (Waveney), Steven Baker (Wycombe), Andrew Bingham (High Peak), Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West), Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West), Steve Brine (Winchester), Robert Buckland (Swindon South), Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase), Christopher Chope (Christchurch), Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds, The), David Davies (Monmouth), Glyn Davies ...
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Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment
Ed Miliband, right, agreed to vote against an amendment to the gay marriage bill after an appeal by Tory whips for Labour support. Photograph: ...
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Prince Harry welcomes granny pa and grandpa to his Sentebale garden
The Prince of Wales received a welcome kiss from youngest son Prince Harry as he and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the prince's Sentable Forget-Me-Not chairty ...
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Hugh Muirs diary were holding out for a hero over tax. Could it be Ed Miliband
o It must have seemed a no-brainer. The people who rule the 21st century offering a platform to the man who would run the country. And so it was little surprise that Ed Miliband made himself available. He wasn't to know that in the intervening period, his hosts Google would be reborn as public enemy No 1; castigated as tax-dodging "evil" by Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the ...
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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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