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Hugh Muirs diary we know ciggies kill but who can resist a freebie
mission statement from the Department of Health . "There's also an impact on smokers' families: each year, hospitals see around 9,500 admissions of children with illnesses caused by secondhand smoke." We will do all we can, ministers say, to make "people aware of the health dangers of smoking". But too much hectoring and no play will always make Jack a dull boy, and ...
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Photos Mad hats at England’s Royal Ascot
TV presenter and conservationist Anneka Tanaka-Svenska wears a hat designed by Louis Mariette during the first day of Royal Ascot, in Berkshire, west of London, on June 18, 2013. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar. Horse racing has been held at the famous Berkshire course since 1711 and tradition is a hallmark of the meeting. Top hats and tails remain ...
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Whitecaps’ Manneh suspended one game for collision with New England goalkeeper
Last Saturday, Banff mechanic Tim Bartlett was christening a new motorcycle through the Rocky Mountains when he had a rare wildlife encounter that was equal parts terrifying and ...
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Osborne and Cameron at G8 stylewatch
Forget tax and Syria, smart-casual is tough for these guys. Cameron demonstrated yet again that for him sleeves rolled up and no jacket semaphores getting down to ...
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Wind turbine to be built near Queen Mothers castle
A wind turbine is to be built near the Scottish home of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother despite planning officials admitting that it will have an "unwelcome" visual ...
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Vladimir Putin may allow Assad to go if power vacuum in Syria is avoided
Vladimir Putin with G8 leaders. The Russian leader has agreed to let President Assad of Syria go on certain conditions. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty ...
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England stun NZ in Junior World Cup semi
A controversial 74th minute try to Tom Smallbone has helped England stun NZ in this morning's Junior World Cup rugby semi-final in Vannes in France. England won 33-21 and were helped considerably by Smallbone's five pointer, which was awarded on video review by the TMO, from a ruck near the NZ line, despite no clear evidence of a try. Until then, NZ were well in the match, having ...
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William Hague 14-pint-sized politico
A 16-year-old William Hague addressing the Conservative party conference at Blackpool in 1977. Behind him is Margaret Thatcher. Photograph: Frank ...
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Spawning ground of deep-sea sharks found in Scotland
Marine scientists in Scotland say they've discovered a deep-sea shark spawning ground on the country's only inshore coral reef. Researchers from Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University, who had discovered the reef itself, said they observed egg cases of the blackmouth catshark on the Mingulay Reef in the Outer Hebrides, the BBC reported Tuesday. Anglers in the area have long fished ...
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Undercover policing faces tighter regulation after Mark Kennedy scandal
Damian Green , the minister for policing, told MPs on Tuesday that under the plans to be brought before parliament the police spies would be deployed only following approval from an outside body.In a second reform, the use of the spies would only be authorised by chief constables. Previously, officers as junior as a superintendent had the power to deploy spies. The officers infiltrated political ...
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Letters The complex causes of underachievement
Underachievement in state schools 'creates moral and political danger' , 15 June) - as are the future bankers, tax avoiders, and benefit fraudsters (though he didn't mention these). He is also right that we should "address the needs of our poorest children", though he is wrong when he says: "It is an issue that can only be tackled by central government taking very ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch Another startling fact about William Hague...
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Big ideas can be bad ideas – even in the age of the thinktank | Mark Mazower
Nudge : for years, it seems, big ideas have been heading our way across the Atlantic. It is hard to think of many similarly catchy slogans that have gone the other way of late - Tony Giddens' notion of ...
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ISPs to step up anti-abuse efforts
ISPs ), which were summoned by the culture secretary because of concerns in government that they are failing to take adequate steps to crack down on images of child abuse.The government estimates that there are 1 million unique users of images of child abuse online, but only 40,000 reports of illegal images are made each year to the IWF, the Cambridge-based charity that collates warnings about ...
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South Africa want to reverse the ball to swing it like England
AB de Villiers is prepared to give England the benefit of the doubt over accusations that the Champions Trophy hosts have been guilty of ball-tampering. Ashley Giles, ...
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Champions Trophy England two games away from one day title
Bowlers James Anderson, left, and Stuart Broad, centre, will hope to deliver for their captain Alastair Cook, right, as England gear up for the remaining two matches to a possible maiden world title. Michael Steele / Getty ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Dear Leader Dave dips his toe into the macho political pool
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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Enniskillen survivor asks Libyan prime minister to compensate IRA victims
G8 summit in Lough Earne, from Stephen Gault, who was badly injured in the Remembrance Sunday massacre.The Gaddafi regime supplied the Semtex explosive used in the IRA bomb that devastated the Co. Fermanagh town killing 11 people on Remembrance Sunday. A twelfth victim died after spending 13 years in a coma.Gault wrote that he was disappointed that Zeidan would not be meeting with victims' ...
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Bank of England appoints woman as first chief operating officer
Bank of England governor, has appointed Charlotte Hogg, a senior executive at Santander and the scion of one of Britain's most blue-blooded political dynasties, to become the Bank's first chief operating officer.Hogg, who heads Santander's high street operations, will start at the Bank on 1 July - the day that Carney takes over from Sir Mervyn King. The 41-year-old will head all ...
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Julian Assange will not leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges are dropped
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges against him are dropped, as he fears moves are already under way to extradite him to the ...
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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage
Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new ...
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‘Call Centre’ boss’s firms fined over nuisance calls
Two companies owned by the BBC's new reality star Neville "Big Nev" Wilshire - who appears in the fly-on-the-wall documentary The Call Centre - have been fined 225,000 for making nuisance ...
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Buckinghamshire village up in arms over location of new Sikh secondary school
A Buckinghamshire village is threatening legal action over plans to set up an 850-pupil Sikh secondary school in its midst. Residents of Stoke Poges have warned they will seek a judicial review of the proposal after Department for Education {DfE) bought an office block in the village for the school for a reputed ...
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G8 summit David Cameron hails landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power
World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...
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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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