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Capita named as preferred bidder for One Barnet contract
Anti-outsourcing campaigner Maria Nash brought a judicial review over a lack of consultation on the One Barnet scheme earlier this year Core council functions including environmental health and trading standards will be taken over by private firm Capita, it was announced today. The business processes firm was selected as the preferred bidder for Barnet Council's development and ...
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Ebony Business Recognition Awards nominees released
The 2013 Public EBR AWARDS Nominees has been released. A spokesperson for EBR AWARDS said that the participation this year has been phenomenonal and wishes to thank the public for their support and participation. He said: "EBR AWARDS will not be possible without you the public" he stated. We wish and hope that the public will continue to support EBR AWARDS by ...
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Two-day Festival of Surrey Life returns to Norwood Hill pub
News A popular pub will play host to two days of music, dancing and performances, and attractions including vintage cars, in an annual free family festival this weekend. The Fox Revived at Norwood Hill, near Horley, will be staging the Festival of Surrey Life again this Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday (May 26 and 27) from 11am. A celebration of social life and local enterprise, the ...
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Royal caviar supplier under investigation for inferior fish eggs
King Fine's Foods, based in Richmond, is Britain's largest supplier of caviar A Richmond-based company, that produces caviar sold at Harrods and Fortnum & Mason, is being investigated after one of its most desired products was found to contain eggs from an "inferior" fish. King's Fine Foods, which is Britain's largest supplier of caviar, is being ...
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Five arrested as immigration officers raid Tooting shops
By Jamie Henderson Five people have been arrested over immigration breaches following a crackdown on illegal working in Tooting. Three shops in the Upper Tooting Road and London Road areas were targetted during the dawn raids last Thursday (May 16). Home Office immigration enforcement officers initially pounced on Azeem Halal Meat & Grocery, in Upper Tooting Road, where they ...
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Gay marriage is not a vote-winning policy for the Tories | Peter Kellner
The passions of grassroots Tories who are bitterly opposed to same-sex marriage are not shared by the wider electorate. Most voters back a change in the law - and very few opponents are willing to switch their votes because of this ...
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Eliminating neglected tropical diseases how to reach the targets
Create synergies with other disease-specific advocates: Broadening the NTD community reach should include working with other disease-specific advocates to look at the synergies between NTDs and other diseases with high global burdens such as TB, malaria, HIV & Aids, and diarrhoea? If we can get other health advocates talking about NTDs, we stand a greater chance of increasing the pressure on ...
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For WRVS read RVS Charity drops Women from its title to woo more male volunteers
A charity established during the Second World War will be dropping the 'W' from its name, in a move to attract more male volunteers and reach the ageing ...
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Former Whitehall police station confirmed as new Scotland Yard HQ
Scotland Yard has confirmed the location for its new headquarters as the force prepares to sell off its current landmark site amid budget ...
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Neville Neville father of ex-Premier League and England footballers Gary and Phil charged with sexual assault
Neville Neville, the father of former footballers Gary and Phil Neville, is to be charged with sexually assaulting a 46-year-old woman the Crown Prosecution Service said ...
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Gay marriage bill at risk of collapse Downing Street warns
civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.In the strongest indication yet that Downing Street will shelve the bill if "fundamental" changes are made, Miller warned that opponents were in danger of giving the government a "headache".The intervention by Miller, hours before MPs vote on a series of amendments to the marriage (same sex couples) bill, marks an intensification of ...
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Shopping centre to host charity bake off day
By Bruce Thain Families are being invited to get baking during the half term to help charity bake sales taking place across the borough. The St Ann's Shopping Centre, in Harrow, will be hosting a Bake Off event for free to help raise money for charity. At the event on Saturday May 25, families are invited to decorate cakes and cookies, as well as a treasure hunt around the ...
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Squatters occupy empty council buildings
By Jaber Mohamed Squatters have occupied buildings owned by Haringey Borough Council after it was left empty for two years. The Crouch End Active Community, a group of 30 homeless have taken over two properties in Cranford Way Industrial Estate, in Cranford Way, which have been empty since 2011. The council's cabinet agreed to sell the property to the North London Waste ...
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Hundreds celebrate parks centenary
By Jaber Mohamed Hundreds of people turned out to celebrate the centenary of a popular Enfield park this weekend. Festivities at Grovelands Park on Saturday and Sunday included live music, dancing, a dog show, sports displays, films, exhibitions and children's activities. Sanad Zaidi, 43, of Laurel Drive, said the event was a great day out for the whole family. He said: ...
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Elderly residents overcharged for parking permits
Campaginers say elderly residents and those without cars are being 'overcharged' for parking permits Elderly residents who do not own cars are being overcharged for visitors permits, according to campaigners. Merton residents currently pay a flat fee of 140 for an annual visitor's permit, while the cost of a residents' permit rises with the number purchased from 65 ...
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Grey-haired man could have seen child snatch attempt
An e-fit of the child snatch suspect A grey-haired witness could hold the key to tracing the man who tried to abduct a girl last week. Police hunting the a man who tried to snatch a 12-year-old girl in an alley between Meller Close and Beddington Park last Sunday say a grey-haired man could have seen the entire incident from his window. Officers are keen to speak to the potential ...
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England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes
LONDON (Reuters) - England secured the convincing victory over New Zealand they demanded in the first test at Lord's but question marks remain over the make-up of their team for the Ashes series against Australia starting in ...
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Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society | James Bloodworth
Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett in 2007. She is one of 11 Labour MPs to sit on the Henry Jackson Society's advisory council. Photograph: Dimitri ...
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Scientific Research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life Physics
CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ...
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Should civil partnerships be extended to heterosexual couples | Poll
voting on amendments to the gay marriage bill including a proposal to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples . The government has hinted this could derail the law entirely. Do you think partnerships should be an option for ...
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Whats all this about the EUs democratic deficit | Peter Millar
One of the best arguments against referendums is that they are seldom fought on facts, and more often on buzz phrases or received wisdom, little of it wise. The most commonly heard buzz phrase circulating in Britain's soul-searching over our membership of the European Union is "democratic deficit". It is a phrase much-loved because a) it is alliterative, and b) only vaguely ...
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Hundreds turn out for amazing Dambusters memorial fly past
The thunderous roar of a military plane used in one of Britain's most daring war time raids sent eyes shooting up to the sky on Friday. More than 500 people turned out to the Hendon RAF Museum to catch a glimpse of the Lancaster Bomber on a solo flight to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raids. The Lancaster was used by the RAF's 617 squadron in the now ...
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Vicky Foxcroft selected as Labours Lewisham Deptford parliamentary candidate
Vicky Foxcroft selected as Labour's Lewisham Deptford candidate VICKY Foxcroft has been announced as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Lewisham Deptford after long-term MP Joan Ruddock is standing down. The Brockley ward councillor was selected out of an all-women shortlist to be the party candidate for 2015 at a meeting on Saturday (May 18). The Chair of Lewisham ...
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Car washers raise money at Epsom Primary School
Camila Campo washes a car School children and parents picked up sponges to wash more than 50 cars on Saturday. Epsom Primary School's Parent Staff Association (PSA) Community Car Wash raised money to fund 'goodie bags' for students. Tracey Blandford, marketing, communications and publicity manager at the school, said: "It was a great team ...
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David Cameron the loons and gay marriage - what the national papers say
European Union .In addition, the claims about one of the prime minister's aides having referred to party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" is the subject of several leading articles and surely adds to the air of gloom in Downing ...
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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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