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Rain forces abandonment of second England-NZ Tests first day
England Play was abandoned without a ball being bowled on the opening day of the second and final Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley due to persistent rain.The downpours left the outfield saturated on a chilly day.A better forecast is in prospect for the weekend with sunny spells and warmer temperatures.England won the first Test by 170 runs at ...
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Did MI5 blunder over Woolwich killers We will never know
The full story of whether MI5 blundered by failing to act on suspicions about the suspected Woolwich killers - which is to be investigated by MPs and peers - will never be shared with the ...
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Universal credit in danger of failing
universal credit programme as having fallen into "amber-red" status, a category designating a project in danger of failing.The revelation came as the government for the first time published the performance of its 170 most expensive and important projects, collectively worth over 350bn. Data has been exempted from only 21 projects in the review by the Major Projects Authority (MPA), ...
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GPs reject out-of-hours care proposal
Secretary of state for health Jeremy Hunt called the 2004 move to relieve GPs of responsibility for out-of-hours care 'an historic mistake'. Photograph: Stefan ...
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Oscar Pistorius the end of the rainbow
Oscar Pistorius was more than a national hero. His success came to symbolise South Africa's triumph over apartheid. Then he shot his girlfriend and left the nation's self-image in ...
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Violence against women and girls shifting culture | Editorial
the Oxford grooming trial .Bleak as it feels, perhaps some of this may be evidence of a long-overdue change in a moral climate which, as the Savile affair has revealed, was lethally complacent until all too recently. But it is also true that both technology and family breakdown have hugely increased the range of dangers girls and women face, and it is increasingly questionable whether either ...
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Europes centre-left a programme without frontiers | Editorial
With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party ...
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Woolwich killing universities crack down on the preachers of hate
A fresh drive to prevent radicalisation of impressionable students on campus is being launched in which universities will be asked to draw up guidelines on how to handle preachers who have a track record of inciting hatred, at the end of a dramatic week that saw a soldier murdered in Woolwich in the first terror-related incident on mainland Britain since the 7 July 2005 bombings.Universities UK, ...
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Suffragette Emily Davison The woman who would not be silenced
She has been described as the most misunderstood woman of the 20th century. For the ruling establishment of post-Edwardian Britain she was undoubtedly one of the most ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary The Professor’s backing Bayern Munich to beat Borussia Dortmund
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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Tory minister will be left holding the baby – but don’t tell Vince Cable
While legislation to encourage fathers to take a bigger share in the care of very young children is being prepared, the youngest Tory minister in the relevant department is going to practise what the government preaches by taking two months' paternity ...
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Men arrested after RAF jet is scrambled to escort Pakistan Airlines passenger plane to London Stansted Airport
Two men have been arrested at Stansted today after a passenger plane heading to Manchester airport was diverted to Stansted by an RAF Typhoon jet following reports of threats on ...
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Woolwich murder Muslims pray for soldier Lee Rigbys family – and for peace
In a converted pub on the Old Kent Road in south-east London afternoon, a few dozen Nigerian Muslims gathered for their usual Friday ...
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Woolwich suspect was victim of frenzied knife attack aged 16
London street witnessed a murder and was himself stabbed in a frenzied knife attack five years ago, the Guardian has learned.Michael Adebowale, who was pictured holding a blade minutes after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday, had been caught up in an earlier fatal incident in January 2008 when he was 16.One person was murdered in the bloody episode, having been ...
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Legal aid cuts what price justice | Zoe Williams
Chris Grayling wants to strip 220m from the legal aid bill by denying defendants a choice of representation. Do we really want to put our legal system in the hands of the lowest ...
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Letters Coalition is past its sell-by date
After three years of Tory-Lib Dem coalition, our economy remains in the doldrums, performing much worse than that of the US, where President Obama has achieved a deal of stimulus despite obstruction by Congress. We have a health service under increasing pressure and sliding with government encouragement into private hands; we have education being planned by the whim of a secretary of state whose ...
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News Corp. to split into two businesses June 28
The British media company News Corp. announced Friday it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses June 28. The publishing firm will retain the name News Corp., the entertainment arm will be called 21st Century Fox, and both will be headed by current Chairman and Chief ...
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U.S. teens underestimate fast-food meal calories by one-third
U.S. teens underestimate the calories of their fast-food meals by about one-third but parents also underestimate fast-food meal calories, researchers say. Lead researcher Dr. Jason Block of the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute colleagues surveyed nearly 3,400 adults, teens and school-age children in 2010 and 2011 at 89 fast-food restaurants in four New England ...
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Stuart Lancaster says England must choose moments to attack Barbarians
Stuart Lancaster says his England side 'have always had a licence to play running rugby' despite a dearth of Six Nations tries. Photograph: David ...
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I still have influence says preacher who claims he schooled Woolwich suspect
The extremist preacher who claims to have schooled one of the suspects in Lee Rigby's murder in Islam, has said he still had influence in Britain despite being exiled from the country eight years ago.Omar Bakri Mohammad led al-Muhajiroun, whose lectures and events were attended by Michael Olumide Adebolajo.Mohammad told the Guardian he "provides advice" for his protege, Anjem ...
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Homeless in London Heres a train ticket for Birmingham
When Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on 15 April, she packed her belongings in a suitcase and went with her six-year-old daughter to the ...
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Vince Cable The traditional high street banks have forgotten how to lend
When Jonathan Eddy wanted finance for his Basingstoke-based business, one of the traditional high street banks offered him a competitively priced loan - but then threw in fees that made it too expensive for him to proceed. Eddy, managing director of Asset Advantage, has a clear view why. "The traditional high street banks have forgotten how to lend," he ...
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Not just a bunch of swivel-eyed idiots The true Tories who want a new direction
There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire, in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in ...
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Three men remain under arrest as two women bailed over Woolwich attack
Three men, including the two suspects shot by police at the scene of the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby, remained under arrest in connection with the ...
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Suspected fuel thieves close stretch of M6 motorway
Suspected fuel thieves closed a 12-mile stretch of one of the country's busiest motorways today after police were called to reports of a "suspicious ...
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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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