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Video Prince Harrys green thumb on display at Chelsea Flower Show
CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer reports on London's famous Chelsea Flower Show, which is expecting tens of thousands visitors, and has already attracted members of the royal ...
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Woolwich attack videos Footage of soldier murder crime scene
A soldier was killed in a suspected terrorist attack in Woolwich VIEW our gallery of videos related to the Woolwich terrorist attack in which a soldier was murdered in broad daylight. Use the carousel below to view each ...
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Replacement for St Helier AE could open just 12 hours a day
A 24-hour urgent care centre (UCC) proposed to replace St Helier's under-threat accident and emergency department could in reality open for only 12 hours a day, it has emerged. In ...
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Children encouraged to go green and walk to school
Cllr Ann Waters, cabinet member for children, with children from Stroud Green Primary School and the Walk to School Week mascot Mr Croc Children have been encouraged to swap horsepower for something greener as part of a campaign to get kids walking to school. Students from the Stroud Green Primary School, in Woodstock Road, Stroud Green, took part in the Walk to School Week which runs ...
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Lines reopen after Lewisham station disruption
News ALL lines have reopened following a reported suspect package found at Lewisham station. Southeastern says services running through this station are returning to normal but some services may still be delayed by up to 10 mins at short ...
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MP presents petition opposing relocation of Avanti House School
Matthew Offord MP presents the petition An MP has presented a petition into the House of Commons opposing the relocation of a Hindu free school. MP for Hendon Matthew Offord yesterday handed in the petition, sighed by more than 1000 people, opposing the relocation of Harrow-based Hindu Free School Avanti House to a piece of land between Hartland Drive and Broadfields Primary School. ...
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Pensioner pleads not guilty to indecent assault charges
By Joe Curtis A pensioner has pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault. Ibrahim Doldur, 70, of Hampton Road in Chingford, entered his plea at Thames Magistrates Court yesterday after three women told police they had been sexually assaulted in parks between December last year and February this year. A 50-year-old woman claimed she was assaulted in Chase Lane Park, ...
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Politicians young and old lobby Boris for 100 more Lambeth police officers
Samuel, Jeremiah and Elizabeth met Boris Johnson and discussed the 100 More Police campaign with the Mayor, Boris Johnson A senior councillor and young people across Lambeth visited City Hall yesterday to promote a campaign for more police officers in the borough. Councillor Jack Hopkins was joined by Jeremiah Emmanuel, Lambeth's deputy youth mayor, Elizabeth Boampong, deputy member ...
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Cannabis factory discovered in Sutton flat today
A 25-year-old man has been arrested. A cannabis factory was uncovered in Sutton this morning. Police discovered the factory, which included about 40 cannabis plants, in a bedroom in a flat in Westmoreland Drive, near the town ...
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Chingford business asks for generosity in donation drive
, Reporter Spring cleaners can drop off unwanted items at a local Chingford business during a week-long charity drive to support the disability charity Scope. The Chingford Safestore has teamed up with Scope for the 'Dash to Donate' challenge and donations are being accepted there from May 27 until June 2. Clothes, books, toys and household goods are all wanted and people ...
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Bluewater car park death trial Swanley killer had an out of body experience
Dawn Chedd THE Swanley woman accused of reversing over and killing a pensioner in a Bluewater car park had an "out of body experience", a court has heard. Dawn Chedd, is charged with causing the death by careless driving of 71-year-old Claire Bishop on January 4 last year in level one of the Blue area car park. The 50-year-old, of Cranleigh Road, Swanley, was driving a ...
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Council approves Edgware Road development
Artist's impression of the development A plan to redevelop the derelict Oriental City site into homes and shops was approved at a council meeting last night. Brent Borough Council formally backed proposals by developer Development Securities to regenerate the seven-acre site at 399 Edgware Road, which closed in June 2008 and has fallen into disrepair. The development, which ...
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Queen Elizabeth II congratulates Azerbaijani leader on national day
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and North Ireland has sent a letter of congratulation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of 28 May - the Republic Day, AzerTAj reports. "I am pleased to congratulate you on the occasion of the national holiday of Azerbaijan 28 May – the Republic Day, and wish your state and Azerbaijani people happiness and prosperity in the year ...
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David Cameron has the measure – so far - in the reaction to Woolwich attack | Patrick Wintour
Link to video: Woolwich murder: David Cameron's statement One of the great tests of a politician's mettle is the ability to recognise instinctively the importance of a sudden external event, and then, at speed, to find the right tone. It is one of the great intangibles of political leadership.It is doubly difficult for a prime minister abroad, mind focused on an imminent and already ...
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Woolwich murder David Camerons statement – video
David Cameron speaks on Thursday, the day after a man was murdered in broad daylight in Woolwich. The prime minister says the attack, in which witnesses say the victim was hacked to death with a meat cleaver, has 'sickened us all'. Cameron, speaking outside 10 Downing Street, says 'we will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its ...
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Pair jailed for murder of stepson of gangland celebrity Dave Courtney
Drug dealer Genson Courtney, 23, was executed by his uncle David Pinto, who shot him through the left eye.Pinto, 33, and getaway driver Robert Bleach, 46, both of Greenwich, south-east London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week.They were sentenced using a videolink following fears of disturbances involving Pinto and members of his family in the public gallery.Judge Wendy ...
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An act of complete cowardice Ed Miliband blasts Woolwich solider attack
Mr Miliband spoke to Prime Minister David Cameron today about the killing, after cutting short a visit to Germany to return to London. He said the opposition was offering its "full support" to the Government in its response to the outrage In a televised statement, Mr Miliband said: "This was an appalling and horrific murder and all of my condolences are with the families and ...
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Exclusive Woolwich attacker named Mujahid was known to banned Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun
It was also reported today that the alleged killers, who are under armed guard in different London hospitals, were both known to security services.Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he had known the man who was seen on video in the immediate aftermath of yesterday's horrific killing waving a cleaver with bloodied hands and making political ...
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Revealed The cross-dressing spy who embarrassed the UK
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a 'key figure in British intelligence' in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested dressed as a woman.Files released publicly by the National Archives reveal that Lt Col Clarke told Spanish police he was a novelist and had "wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets" ...
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Eric Joyce denies being charged with breach of peace
Eric Joyce, who criticised police for saying he would appear in court at a later date when in fact, he said, he had not been charged. Photograph: Stefan ...
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Woolwichs DIY terror stars trading liberty for five minutes of infamy | Conor Gearty
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack Terrorism has always been driven by technology. Fenian dynamite terrified 19th-century Britain just as IRA semtex did a few generations later - both "weapons of mass destruction" of their day. Radical improvements in TV cameras made the drama of Palestinian violence global news in the late 60s, and a little later ...
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Woolwich attacks response – in pictures
The government's emergency response committee, Cobra, has reconvened to discuss security measures after a British soldier was murdered by suspected Islamist extremists near London's Woolwich army barracks in a savage knife ...
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GP chief launches scathing attack on Jeremy Hunt over out-of-hours care
doctors take back responsibility for out-of-hours care.Dr Laurence Buckman, the chair of the British Medical Association's GPs committee - which represents the UK's 40,000 GPs - launched a sustained personal assault on Hunt over his "denigration" of GPs and his blaming of them for the growing crisis in A&E care.Buckman's speech, to Thursday's annual conference ...
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Woolwich attack BBCs Nick Robinson apologises after Muslim description
Nick Robinson , has apologised after he quoted a source who apparently described the Woolwich attackers as being "of Muslim appearance".The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machette attack that killed a serving soldier ...
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Woolwich attack suspect identified as Michael Adebolajo
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack The identity of the suspect pictured carrying bloodied knives in the aftermath of the murder of a British soldier is Michael Olumide Adebolajo, Guardian sources have confirmed.Adebolajo was an ordinary British schoolboy; born in Lambeth in December 1984, he grew up in Romford, travelled to school on the bus, played football ...
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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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