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BRIEF-Great Portland Estates secures pre-let at new London unit
LONDON | Mon May 20, 2013 2:16am EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - Great Portland Estates PLC : * Secures major pre-let at new fetter lane, ...
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New South Wales becomes Australia steroids capital
(35 mins ago) Australia's east coast haven New South Wales, which is seeking to recruit a `chief funster' to promote tourism to Sydney and elsewhere, took the dubious honor for the biggest hauls of steroids and hallucinogens in 2011-2012 in the country, authorities said today. Most commonly used steroids in Australia include erythropoietin (EPO) and Human chorionic gonadotrophin ...
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British dad admits killing kids
British national has been arrested in France," a Foreign Office spokesperson told AFP. "We are in contact with the French authorities and we await the outcome of their investigation." Several witnesses said the man fled on roller skates after his former wife encountered him on the stairwell of the building and saw him with bloodstained clothes. She immediately alerted the ...
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Thousands of mining jobs in Scotland in danger
Hundreds of open cast mineworkers were laid off and left with unpaid wages last month, following the collapse of Scottish Coal, the largest surviving mine operator in Scotland. Of the company's 758 workers, all but 142 have been made redundant. The company operates six open pit mines in East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Fife. Scottish Coal was one of the private operators the emerged ...
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David Cameron writes to Britains tax havens calling for transparency
David Cameron has written to the leaders of Britain's offshore tax havens stressing the need to "get our own houses in order" as he pushes for international action to tackle avoidance schemes.In a message to 10 crown dependencies and British overseas territories Cameron said he backed their right to be low tax jurisdictions but insisted that rules needed to be set and enforced ...
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Britain weighing gasoline price-fixing probe of BP Shell Statoil
British investigators say they are "urgently reviewing" whether to join a European Union probe of three oil companies for alleged gasoline ...
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G8 summit in Fermanagh will put Northern Ireland under security lockdown
An extensive array of security measures is being put in place for the two-day event - including a giant new security fence which stretches for miles - with authorities warning of major disruption at the summit venue in rural County Fermanagh and in other parts of the country.The battery of precautions will affect many facets of life, including the international airport, roads and schools. ...
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Shoppers get on their bike for transplant games
Dedicated charity supporters got on their bikes and cycled over 200 miles to Kent - without leaving Sheffield - to show their support for the Westfield Health British Transplant ...
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Foresters gives customers access to 247 GP consultation service
Foresters Friendly Society has launched a free GP consultation service that provides customers with access to medical advice around the ...
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How the FCA will assess insurer culture
Culture shapes judgments, ethics and behaviour displayed at those key moments, big or small, that matter to the performance and reputation of firms and the service that it provides to ...
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British Army Hiring While Firing Thousands
The Army is sticking the boot into those who think that cutbacks in military spending mean that recruitment has stopped. A new drive to get more young people to join the army has been launched with a short TV ad showing the life of a soldier through his or her boots. The campaign called Step Up is aimed at persuading up to 10,000 young men and women to sign up for army duty in the coming ...
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England boss Roy Hodgsons plea to fans no provocative chants during Wembley game with Republic of Ireland
Roy Hodgson will make a personal plea to supporters attending next week's international against the Republic of Ireland not to sing inflammatory songs about the ...
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British PM David Cameron Losing Control Of His Party Says Fellow Conservative Geoffrey Howe
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right, speak during a press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Tuesday May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Stansall, ...
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Bank of England’s King to Carney It’s not a ‘one-man show’
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King praised his successor but stressed his opposition to a change he is expected to make - signalling how long interest rates will remain low. (Yui ...
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London displays dedication to travel trade
The English capital’s official promotional organisation, London & Partners, has revealed a focused strategy to work closer with both the domestic and international travel trade bodies. In London, tourism accounted for £10.08 billion in receipts last year; with this in mind London’s tourism bureau has devised a new approach to aid the industry in continuing this strong ...
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Destination Britain positively challenging preconceptions
Destination Britain Asia-Pacific Middle East and Africa 2013 provides an export platform for British companies, through hard-nosed commercial negotiations. VisitBritain brought suppliers that suited the touring market and paired them with local buyers that can drive growth and properly on-sell the products to the region. "There’s a lot of countries involved in the APMEA region; ...
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Police applaud positive talks as an antidote to community tensions in Northern Ireland
BY MICHAEL McHUGH - 20 May 2013 A PSNI chief said he hopes there will be greater public confidence in the police on the back of talks aimed at quelling community ...
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‘One dead’ in blaze at Belfast apartment
The emergency services responded after reports around 7.30pm of a blaze in University Street, which was sealed off for several hours. A white forensic tent was erected outside the building. Sources suggested one person died. Both the Ambulance and Fire Services confirmed they attended but would give no further details. A PSNI spokesman was unavailable for ...
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British man admits killing his children in France
Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his daughter and son were found at his apartment in Saint-Priest, a suburb of ...
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Man Killed In Suspected Gas Explosion At House
Police have recovered a body of a man from the rubble of a terraced house in Nottinghamshire after a suspected gas explosion. Firefighters found the body during an ongoing search of the collapsed building. Another person is still missing, Nottinghamshire Police said. The explosion happened just before 5.15pm on Sunday, at an address in Wright Street in Newark. The home crumbled in ...
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Human brains are wired to make music-color connections
When listening to music, human brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make people feel, U.S. researchers say. Vision scientist Stephen Palmer of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues found people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors suggesting humans share a common ...
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Burnside aid Campbelltown councils turn to Paris London and Barcelona for Magill makeover inspiration
PARIS, London and Barcelona are being put up as inspiration for a project to revitalise Magill. Burnside and Campbelltown councils are working on a joint project to make Magill an artistic and cultural hub and thriving shopping destination. The project is the pilot for the Federal Government's Liveable Cities program. The councils engaged consultants Complete Urban to create a vision for the ...
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Poisoned alcohol kills British tourist in Indonesia
A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was traveling with fellow Briton Joseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank ...
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Scotland clash with Pakistan abandoned
Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ...
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Cannes you believe it Cheryl Cole and her twin sister Eva Longoria
With her flowing gown, perfectly sculpted brown locks and tiny figure, Cheryl Cole dazzles in France - but as this snap with Eva Longoria shows, two Cannes play that game.The Geordie singer and Hollywood actress had fans seeing double as they posed together at the film festival, with Eva tweeting: "Me and my twin sister @cherylcole at ...
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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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