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Just in time Dry sunny weather predicted for Bank Holiday weekend
The unseasonably cold weather in southern areas and the Midlands will make way for a dry and sunny Bank Holiday weekend, forecasters ...
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Breaking RAF fighter jet escorts Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that an RAF Typhoon fighter jet has escorted a diverted Pakistan International Airlines flight from Manchester to Stansted ...
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Brendan Rogers son Anton and three other footballers cleared of sexual assault
Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial. Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence. They were given bail throughout the trial and their families, including Rodgers' father - Liverpool manager Brendan ...
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G4S to run rape and sex support centres in the Midlands
G4S, the private security firm that was criticised for its lack of organisation during the London 2012 Olympics, has won a contract to run a two rape and sex attack centres in the ...
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Heathrow airport closed after British Airways plane on fire makes emergency landing
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow as eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft "on fire" flying over central ...
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Brutal attack on British soldier opens new front in the war against terrorism
Police try to disperse demonstrators in Woolich, London on Wednesday after a British soldier was brutally murdered nearby in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist ...
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Champions League Prince William Backs Bayern
The Duke of Cambridge has told European football leaders that his money is on Bayern Munich to win Saturday's Champions League final at Wembley. Prince William, speaking in his role as president of the Football Association, was giving the opening speech at the Uefa Congress in London the day before Bayern play Borussia Dortmund in an all-German final. He predicted a 2-0 win for the ...
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Simon Calder British Airways Heathrow incident causes travel chaos on one of the busiest weekends of the year
Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary. Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky ...
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Ironical tweet was defamatory context was key court rules
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A tweet by a British parliamentarian's wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the ...
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U.K. party preaching immigration reform says Britain ‘gutless’ in face of Muslim radicals
Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's fastest growing political party, United Kingdom Independence Party, at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, Oct. 24, 2012. Farage and his party gains strength on the idea that Britain needs to leave the European Union. (PASCAL ...
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Fighter jets escort passenger plane in British airspace
++++DEVELOPING STORY++++ Typhoon fighter jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a passenger jet flying in British airspace. The Pakistan International Airlines plane was traveling from Lahore, Pakistan, and reportedly had 297 passengers aboard, Reuters reported. The plane was heading towards Manchester when it was abruptly re-routed near York, England and headed ...
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London investigators grapple with unprecedented gruesome terror tactics
(CBS News) New details have emerged regarding the background and tactics allegedly used by the two men accused of savagely murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in London on Wednesday. According to British media reports, Michael Adebolajo, 28, was a British citizen, born in Nigeria, raised as a Christian, and is believed to have converted to Islam over the course of the last decade. He and ...
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Manchester City players coy on Pellegrini
"Let's not go into any of that," he said. "The decision has been made by the club and we have to respect that as players. We work for Man City and as I say, they saw fit to part ways with Roberto ...
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Trescothick devasted by thrashing
Marcus Trescothick, the Somerset captain, has said he was "embarrassed" by his team's performance against Sussex where they crumbled to an innings defeat in little more than four ...
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Woolwich terrorist attack British intelligence under pressure over suspects extremist links
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich on May 23, ...
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Scotlands top policeman pleads for the force to keep seized proceeds of crime
he needs to save 58 million this year, and similar amounts in the next two, warning that cuts could cause "irreparable" damage to policing.He said: "I've been continually pleading with government to revisit money seized through proceeds of crime."We all know we are not a special case, but we are seizing millions of pounds every year from organised criminals for the ...
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Woolwich terror attack Lee Rigbys step-father recalls how he first learnt of incident from television
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a ...
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Woolwich soldier killing suspects attended Greenwich University together
The second suspect in the killing of British army Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich has been identified as a former London schoolboy who attended Greenwich University along with his alleged ...
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Video Woolwich attack suspect was completely normal says friend
The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis's date for his movie premieres isn't arm candy - it's his 87-year-old friend who he saved from ...
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Woolwich Attack Familys Emotional Tribute
The family of Drummer Lee Rigby have told how they frantically tried to contact him after watching his brutal murder unfold on television Drummer Rigby's stepfather Ian said that as they watched the news of the attack his "heart skipped a beat". Speaking at a press conference, Mr Rigby said they tried to get hold of him but couldn't reach him. He said: "Really ...
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Footballers Cleared Of Brighton Sex Assault
Four footballers have been cleared today of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room. Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial. Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence. They were given ...
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Chief executive Ferran Soriano predicts success at Manchester City if vision of City players is followed
Ferran Soriano is sitting at the top of the world - in the vast, airy "SoHi" room at the peak of a New York hotel with views across the place he calls "the greatest city in the world," having momentarily left Manchester out of the mental ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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Cannes Stars Forced to Rearrange Flights to LA Amid London Runway Closures
LONDON - A British Airways plane had to return to Heathrow Airport to make an emergency landing after black smoke was seen coming from an ...
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London soldier slaying New video of police shooting and of suspects at rallies with radical London cleric
This story contains video that some viewers may find graphic. (CBS News) LONDON -- Detectives in London were to question two people arrested over the murder ...
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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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