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Colliers Wood Spring Arts Festival festival reaches culture clash conclusion
The Colliers Wood Arts Festival came to a colourful finale with a multi cultural dance show. Fusion brought together Merton's diverse range of cultural artists at the Community Centre in Colliers Wood on Saturday, May 18. Keith Spears, co-ordinator of the Colliers Wood Spring Arts Festival said: "It was a wonderful celebration of food, music and dance from many different ...
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David Laws vetoes plan to force schools to check immigrant status of pupils
David Laws decided the idea would be bureaucratic and difficult to implement.In a sign of the Lib Dems' determination to assert themselves in the coalition, Laws told the education ...
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Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England
Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...
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Incoming Bank of England chief sees more dark days for Europe
(13 mins ago) Europe faces a ';decade of stagnation’’ if it does not move on momentous reforms to put its fiscal house back in order, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned yesterday. He will head the Bank of England from July 1. ';Europe remains in recession, with economic activity constrained by fiscal austerity, low confidence and tight credit ...
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Nick Clegg warns Cameron not to let Coalition get blown off course by Tory infighting
Nick Clegg will insist today that the Coalition will last until 2015 but will warn David Cameron not to allow it to be blown off course by Conservative ...
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Paul McCartney lends support to free school in Liverpool
One of the Government's flagship free schools is to be backed by former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and will have the aim of giving primary school children the chance to flourish in the performing ...
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Free school offering cross-subject learning approved by Michael Gove
Michael Gove , the education secretary, a slight decrease on the 109 schools opening this year.XP's prospective headteacher, Gwyn ap Harri - a former computer science teacher who went on to start a company selling educational software - says the ...
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MPs issue damning verdict on HMRC failures in fraud and error clampdown
Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee, said the HMRC's performance on fraud and error had been 'hugely disappointing and extremely poor'. Photograph: Andrew ...
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Sir David Nicholson chief executive of NHS England announces he is to quit
Julie Bailey, founder of Cure the NHS, protests outside an NHS board meeting where NHS boss Sir David Nicholson was attending. Photograph: Martin ...
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Tax lost offshore could end world poverty says Oxfam
Oxfam estimates almost $18.5tn is being held for individuals in tax havens around the world, such as the Cayman Islands. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty ...
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New England Kit Looks Like Old German Strip
The new England football kit has been revealed and was instantly compared to West Germany's outfit in the 1960s and 70s by some fans. New sponsor Nike have opted for a simple design, with a rounded collar and navy badge. But fans have taken to social media sites to vent their displeasure at the kit's likeness to England's great rivals. One user wrote: "The New England kit ...
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Ed Miliband warns Google I’d make you pay more tax
Google is betraying its founding principles by going to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying taxes in Britain, Ed Miliband will tell the company's chairman ...
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600 interpreters will be allowed to move to UK as reward for assisting British forces in Afghanistan
About 600 Afghan interpreters that put themselves in danger for British forces are to be given settlement rights in the UK, it was ...
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Headteachers told choose highly paid staff or smaller classes in your schools
Headteachers may face a difficult balancing act between improved wages for their staff or smaller classes for their pupils, Ofsted's chief inspector ...
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Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year
Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday. Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard ...
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Injured Carroll Ruled Out of England Friendlies
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IMF urges Treasury to speed up sale of Lloyds and RBS
Lloyds Banking Group was escalating on Tuesday night amid reports that the International Monetary Fund is urging the Treasury to accelerate its disposal of the 65bn stakes in the two bailed-out banks.As part of its annual health check on the UK economy, the Washington-based fund is said to be telling the government that disposal of the share stakes should be a priority.Hopes of a sell-off of the ...
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Andy Carroll ruled out of England friendlies through injury
Andy Carroll's withdrawal for the friendlies against Republic of Ireland and Brazil was confirmed in an FA statement. Photograph: Jan Kruger/The FA via Getty ...
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Hugh Muirs diary The anti-gay marriage MP who raced against time. And lost
Gay marriage is a worry for Lord Tebbit. We might see a "lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination". Photograph: Dan Chung for the ...
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Some Afghan interpreters to be allowed to settle in Britain
About half the Afghan interpreters risking their lives for British troops are to be given settlement rights in the UK under a reworked package prepared by the coalition government.The package represents a climbdown from earlier suggestions that most interpreters would have to risk reprisals as collaborators by the Taliban after coalition forces leave a still unstable country at the end of ...
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A Guide for Game Hunting in Englands Premier League
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Council gets new Mayor
By Bruce Thain Harrow Borough Council has appointed a new mayor despite tensions during the ceremony this evening. Councillor Nana Asante was sworn in as mayor of the borough for the Municipal Year of 2013/2014 at a meeting at the civic centre. However during the evening members of the Labour group did not participate in the meeting due to tensions over the appointment of the ...
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Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system | Guy Standing
Skills and Employment Survey , published on Monday? The national survey, carried out every six years, shows that more employees feel insecure than at any time in 20 years; that work is being intensified, with people being asked to do more and work longer; and that for the first time people working in the public sector feel more insecure than those in the private sector.The reasons for this are ...
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Bipolar pregnant woman tells court I’ll kill myself if I’m denied an abortion
A pregnant woman with severe mental health problems told a High Court judge that she would kill herself and her unborn daughter if he did not allow her to have an ...
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Disarray as DPP contradicts new guidance on naming of suspects
Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more "wriggle room" to name suspects before they were ...
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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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