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America and Taliban set for direct talks this week over Afghanistan peace deal
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Three museums in north threatened with closure saved after promise on funding cuts
Ministers today climbed down over plans to close one of the country's leading museums.The Science Museum said either the National Rail Museum in York, or the National Media Museum in Bradford or Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry would have to shut because of Government cutsThe plan, first revealed in the Daily Mirror, provoked a storm of protest and saw rallies and ...
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Jeremy Forrest trial Schoolgirls mum thought she was dead when she vanished with married maths teacher
Jeremy Forrest, 30, and his 15-year-old pupil fled to France after their relationship was about to be exposed in September last year.Forrest booked a cross-Channel ferry from Dover to Calais with the schoolgirl, from Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, before spending seven days on the run.Scots-born Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent, denies child abduction.The ...
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Nigella Lawson photos Husband Charles Saatchi pictured in public for first time since accepting caution for attacking wife
since accepting a caution for attacking wife Nigella Lawson. The millionaire art collector and advertising guru, 70, stepped out of his Chelsea home this morning and smiled at the amassed cameras but refused to speak to reporters.It was the first time he had ventured out after spending five hours in a police station yesterday ...
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Al Kazeem can foil Camelot in Prince Of Waless Stakes at Royal Ascot
They race on Wednesday at Royal Ascot, above, where Al Kazeem appeals as the best bet of the day in the Prince of Wales's Stakes. Photograph: John ...
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Burberrys London homecoming pays homage to Hockney and Bennett
London after a decade on the Milan menswear catwalks was always going to be a blockbuster show - but in the event, it was also an emotional homecoming. Designer Christopher Bailey created a subtle, nuanced collection which moved beyond the obvious pole stars of British menswear (Savile Row, punk, Bond, country gent) to celebrate instead the more eccentric, colourful, offbeat style of David ...
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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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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Non-cumulative Guaranteed Trust Preferred Securities Shares Cross 7 Yield Mark
NYSE: RBS.PRI ) were yielding above the 7% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.5625), with shares changing hands as low as $22.32 on the day. This compares to an average yield of 6.23% in the "Banking & Savings" preferred stock category, according ...
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The world has seen the new Northern Ireland says David Cameron at the end of a successful G8
An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...
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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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Ex-Gladiators Star Sues Over Phone Hacking
A British national who won the 1990s TV show Gladiators has become the first person to file a law suit in the US against News Corp over alleged phone hacking. Eunice Huthart, who triumphed in the show in 1994, has filed a suit in Los Angeles accusing the now defunct News of the World of intercepting her voice mail messages. The 46-year-old, who has also worked as Hollywood star Angelina ...
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The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media
posted a piece this morning on one way The Times of London tried, without much success, to get its (hard-paywalled) content noticed by the non-subscribing world. The paper’s Ben ...
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Chinas Huawei launches worlds slimmest smartphone in London
LONDON (AFP) - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on Tuesday launched what it said was the world's thinnest smartphone, which it hopes will take on high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung in the global market.Bidding to extend its market reach outside China, Huawei chose London to unveil its Ascend P6, which is just 6.18 millimetres thick -- the June 18 launch date reflecting the ...
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Former police authority boss Dave McLuckie facing jail for persuading friend to take speeding points
A former police authority boss admitted he was facing jail "like Chris Huhne" today after persuading a friend to take his speeding points. Dave McLuckie, ex-Cleveland Police Authority chairman, was convicted of perverting the course of justice at Newcastle Crown Court. After a jury took just 90 minutes to find him guilty, the judge warned he would be facing a jail term when he came ...
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Police officer Ian Terry was shot dead in ‘deeply flawed training exercise’
A police officer was shot dead by a colleague in a "deeply flawed" firearms exercise, a court heard today.PC Ian Terry, 32, lost his life as he played a the role of a "bad guy" in the operation.He was shot dead in June 2008 by an officer named only as 'Pc Chris'.Two firearms officers, who have been granted anonymity and were named only in court as 'Pc ...
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Stephen Lawrence Unity concert to star Emeli Sande Jessie J and Ed Sheeran to mark 20th anniversary of murder
Emeli Sande, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran will perform at a one-off concert to mark the 20th anniversary of Stephen Lawrence's racist murder. They will be joined by Rizzle Kicks, Jamie Cullum. Tinie Tempah, Labrinth and Soul II Soul at the O2 gig in September to raise funds for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Speaking about Stephen's death today at the launch at the Abbey Road ...
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Couple organise dream wedding in just ten days after grooms cancer diagnosis
A bride organised the wedding of her dreams in just 10 days after her cancer-stricken husband popped the question.Chris Clark, 41, proposed to then-girlfriend Charlotte within minutes of being told there was no cure for his stomach cancer.Incredibly, just days after getting down on one knee he was walking down the aisle with the 30-year-old.Charlotte enlisted the help of family and friends to ...
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UFO spotted in Bracknell by pubgoer who saw two glowing discs in sky as he made phone call
Is this photo proof of alien visitors? In a snap that looks straight out of hit sci-fi series The X-Files, two glowing discs hover above a town moments before speeding out of view. They were spotted above Bracknell in Berkshire last Friday by a stunned man who was outside making a phone call. Steve Lambert quickly used his phone to capture the UFO and now wonders if his Close Encounter was ...
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Jeremy Forrest trial Teachers wife in tears after seeing husband for first time in nine months
Jeremy Forrest's wife Emily broke down in court as she told how they had sex just once in the four months before he ran off and how she warned him about tweeting the ...
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Nigella Lawson photos Photographer who took shocking pictures describes rough scene
The photographer who captured Charles Saatchi attacking TV chef wife Nigella Lawson has spoken out for the first time and said the shocking bust-up looked anything but ...
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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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