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Soldier beheaded in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack outside Woolwich barracks
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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National Briefing | New England Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor to Resign
The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy P. Murray, said on Wednesday that he would resign on June 2, a move that surprised the political establishment there. Mr. Murray, who has played a prominent role in the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick since 2007, was once considered likely to try to succeed his boss, but his public image suffered from an early-morning accident in 2011 in ...
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Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
A passer by has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich ...
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Ed Miliband a googly for tax avoiders | Editorial
Ed Miliband is pretty clear about how he would like to distinguish the Labour party he leads from the Labour party that went before. He aims to be readier than Blair and Brown to challenge the powerful in general, and the economically mighty in particular.Over three years, we've seen flashes of both halves of that - in, for example, his determination to take Wapping to task over phone ...
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Austerity IMF 1 Osborne 0 | Editorial
George Osborne that the UK remains a "long way from recovery"; that "persistent slow growth could permanently damage medium-term growth prospects"; that, six years on from the collapse of Northern Rock, British banks are still not back to "healthy functionality"; and that the centrepiece of the chancellor's last budget - the help-to-buy scheme aimed at ...
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Ministers ordered bugging of King Edward VIIIs phones records reveal
Ministers ordered the bugging of Edward VIII's telephones in Buckingham Palace and in his Windsor retreat at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, hitherto secret papers reveal.The extraordinary move, reflecting a growing and deep distrust between the king and his ministers, is disclosed in a unique cache of intelligence files hidden until now in a basement at the Cabinet Office in the ...
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Government accused of using anti-GP rhetoric to mask its own failings
Doctors ' leaders and the health secretary are on a collision course over claims the government is using "anti-GP rhetoric" to mask its own failure to effectively reform ...
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Police and crime commissioners budgets soaring say MPs
police authorities they were elected to replace last November, according to parliamentary research.The Commons home affairs select committee says six months after their election, 17 out of the 41 PCCs have set budgets higher than the police authorities they replaced. The largest increase so far is a rise of 133% in Hampshire where the police authority budget of 1.5m last year has risen to 3.5m ...
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US pushes Europe to amend arms embargo on Syrian rebels
John Kerry , the US secretary of state, has been urging the EU to reach consensus on a change that would allow weapons to be delivered to the rebels - though without any decision to do so at this stage.Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that Britain now has the support of France, Italy and Spain, while Germany is neutral. But Austria, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic are still opposed. ...
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Hugh Muirs Diary Trouble behind the curtains in Green-land as members protest at EU selection
attack the party for mooted pay cuts at its flagship Brighton council. But that isn't the only problem for the hierarchy and the activists. Behind the scenes there has been fear and loathing over the process used to select candidates in London for the next European elections. It triggered an investigation and a report of more than 50 pages: where we see allegations of candidates being given ...
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Sickening deluded and unforgivable Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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New mayor Cllr Morris It is a wonderful opportunity
Cllr Morris Councillor Paul Morris has been elected as Hertsmere's new mayor. The Bushey representative was unanimously elected at a full council meeting at the civic offices tonight. Hertsmere's new deputy mayor Bushey Councillor Carey Keates was also elected to the role without any objections. Cllr Morris has chosen two charities for his year in office - the Langdon ...
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Terror in Woolwich One woman was crying - ‘They killed him. They killed him’
Some described this part of south-east London as a peaceful and quiet place, while others said there was "always trouble". All were stunned by the cruelty that had bloodied their streets. Olu Peluola, 53, was one of the people who saw the sickening scene unfold. "I saw a man's body lying in the street. There was a man standing beside him holding a knife," he said. ...
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Woolwich killing horror on John Wilson Street
London .At about the same time, in the nearby Musgrave primary school, the headteacher David Dixon ordered a lockdown after seeing the body of a man - believed to be a young soldier - lying on John Wilson street.If there was any doubt why this young man, who witnesses said was aged in his early 20s and wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt, had lost his life in such a brutal fashion, that was soon ...
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Letters Paying tax is absolutely a moral issue
Never mind morals, tax is all about the rules , 21 May). A great many ordinary people see payment - or rather non-payment - of tax as fundamentally a moral question. Perhaps it might be talked about as justice or fairness, but it boils down to the same thing. Christian Aid supporters have been campaigning on matters of tax justice for five years.At the heart of their concern is the moral ...
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Google boss calls for a rational and predictable international tax system
Google boss Eric Schmidt, explaining his firm's tax affairs, says: 'Virtually all the American companies have tax structures like this, and UK companies operating in the US do too.' Photograph: Olivia ...
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George Osborne warned by IMF that cuts pose headwinds to growth
George Osborne was on Wednesday urged by the International Monetary Fund to rethink his plans for a 10bn tax-and-spending squeeze this year, as part of a broad based attack on the coalition's economic policies.After a fortnight's fact-finding mission in London, the Washington-based lender warned that the planned package of spending cuts and tax rises would "pose headwinds" to ...
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One dead as police attend serious incident in Woolwich
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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Wagner wants England ‘to hate him’
New Zealand's Neil Wagner, second left, said he wanted to make England's batsmen hate him and get in their face as the Black Caps look to square the Test series. (AP Photo/Kirsty ...
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David Cameron tries to placate the swivel-eyed loons with his natural leadership skills
Chillax, Andy. It will all soon pass. A few sets of tennis will blow away the cobwebs. Thing is, I know the blue-rinsed Tory activists are swivel-eyed loons and you know they are swivel-eyed loons. Everyone knows they are swivel-eyed loons. But we just can't say so out loud at the moment because that golf-club bore, Fargo, and his Ukip friends have got up a head of ...
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Afghan interpreters risk being failed by bureaucracy
Downing Street has denied reports that its scheme is open only to interpreters who lose their jobs as troops are withdrawn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...
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Woolwich attack lone wolf and jihadist theories will occupy security forces
Police cordon off a road in Woolwich, London, after the incident in which one man was killed and two others seriously injured. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty ...
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Shocking attack in England
Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ...
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Duchess Kate wears sunny yellow for Buckingham Palace garden party
Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, attend a garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in London on May 22, ...
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U.K. soldier killed in London attack terrorism suspected
A man was killed with a sharp instrument and London police shot and wounded two alleged attackers in what officials said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Eyewitnesses said two men called out "Allahu Akbar [God is Great]" before attacking the victim as he walked along a street in east London, and waved weapons as they dumped his body in the middle of the road, the BBC reported. The ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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