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The economy Much obliged
If lower deficit and interest rates are good news, falling inflation is even better. Price rises slowed to 2.4% in April, according to ONS data released on May 21st. For British workers, whose pay has risen much more slowly than inflation for the past five years, this may come as little comfort (see chart). But falling inflation may produce a quiet but vital change, by tipping the balance at the ...
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The NHS Curing all ills
IN THE end Sir David Nicholson, the man in charge of Britain's health service for the past six years, went quietly. A bullish NHS "lifer", he had been heavily criticised for oversights which allowed scandalously bad treatment of patients at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009. He will hand over to a successor in March 2014. The NHS will have to choose ...
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Paying off NIMBYs Tilting opinions
It was just an opening bid ONSHORE wind, the cheapest form of renewable energy, attracts many enthusiasts. Those who live close to planned wind farms are rarely among them. In April fully 82% of the public told pollsters for the Department of Energy and Climate Change that they supported renewable energy. Support dropped to about half when they were asked if they wanted onshore wind turbines ...
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Supermarkets and the internet A fresh set of wheels
An old idea is popular again JEFF BEZOS launched Amazon in 1995 with books, among the easiest things to sell online. Tim Steiner, the boss of Ocado, started five years later with food, perhaps the hardest. Grocery orders consist of lots of low-value items that have to be kept at different temperatures and delivered within hours. Ocado, which gets most of its products from Waitrose, an ...
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Prostitution Sex doesn’t sell
The mass-market end of the business TIMES are tough for Debbie, a prostitute in western England who runs a private flat with other "mature ladies". She does two or three jobs a day. A year ago she was doing eight or nine. She has cut her prices: "If I hadn't, I wouldn't still be open." She says that she can now make more money doing up furniture and attending ...
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Violence continues in Stockholm as Swedish rioting mirrors London 2011 unrest
Riots continued to spread across the Stockholm last night, echoing the civil unrest of Britain's 2011 riots as police were attacked and vehicles ...
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Mark Bridger tells Mold Crown Court he cant remember where he put April Jones body
The man accused of abducting and murdering schoolgirl April Jones in a sexually motivated attack today told a jury he put her body "somewhere where it has not been ...
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Suspects in butchering of soldier had been part of previous investigations British official
LONDON -- Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had featured in previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instil terror on the streets of London.The men, suspected of hacking the off-duty soldier to death while horrified bystanders ...
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Britains Tate museum sets $34 million record for Constable painting
LONDON (Reuters) - The Tate Britain museum bought 19th century English painter John Constable's masterpiece "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds, making it one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold. The ...
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Reports London Muslim terrorists were already known to UK security forces
The two suspected Muslim terrorists involved in the savage daylight murder of a British soldier near a London barracks on Wednesday had been previously investigated by UK security sources for possible terrorist links, it is being reported. The information was provided by a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the ...
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London attackers known to British security services
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said ...
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Soldier Beheaded in London Local Rapper Live Tweets Attack
The attack that left a solider beheaded in London was a horrific scene to witness, but one individual was able to post the details of the attack in real time on his Twitter ...
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Community tensions rise as police investigate London soldier murder
Flowers have been laid at the scene where a British soldier was killed near the Woolwich army barracks in south east London. Police are still trying to establish what happened on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses say two men used a car to run down the victim whom they then attacked with knives and a machete shouting ';Allahu Akbar- God is Great.'; Around twenty minutes later a police ...
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Head of Muslim group who knew London knifeman blames UK foreign policy
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of a banned British radical Islamist group who knew one of the men who hacked a soldier to death on London streets said on Thursday British foreign policy was to blame for the attack. Anjem Choudary said Michael Adebolajo - filmed with his hands covered with blood, carrying a meat cleaver and knife after attacking an off-duty soldier in broad daylight - had attended ...
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Suspect in London cleaver attack We will never stop fighting
(Graphic content) "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," said a cleaver-wielding man with bloody hands speaking in what appears to be a London ...
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Ferdinand extends Manchester United deal
The former Leeds United and West Ham man has made 432 appearances for the club since his debut in 2002, having signed for a then British record of 30 million pounds from Elland ...
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A new treatment for shoulder arthritis featured in The Daily Mail
BMI The Sloane Hospital in Kent. The procedure is called Comprehensive Arthroscopic Management (CAM), it is a minimally invasive surgical treatment and can prevent the need for a full joint replacement. Originally the procedure was pioneered in the U.S. but was brought to the United Kingdom by ...
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Gene therapy trial begins for heart failure patients
Royal Brompton Hospital have begun the first UK clinical trials of a gene therapy for heart failure. Two clinical trials announced this week mark the culmination of more than 20 years of research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at Imperial and Royal Brompton Hospital. They have identified SERCA2a as an important factor affecting how well heart muscle cells can ...
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London Underwriter Becomes First to Insure California Carbon Credits
Parhelion Underwriting Ltd. became the first insurer to offer a policy to protect companies from the invalidation of carbon offset credits sold as part of California's cap-and-trade program. Parhelion, based in London, will sell insurance for permits originally issued by the Climate Action Reserve, an independent registry in Los Angeles, the companies said in an e-mailed statement today. ...
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London street slayer references British wars not Nigerian insurgency
Reports say the suspects in yesterday's butchering of a British soldier have Nigerian ancestry. However, they appeared to be driven by UK involvement in other Muslim ...
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London attackers were British of Nigerian origin report says
LONDON: British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Local media named one of the two suspects as British-born, 28-year-old ...
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Cameron vows Britain will track down all involved
>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- A gruesome cleaver attack on a British soldier left London reeling Thursday, as Britain grappled with questions over who was responsible and whether Islamist extremism was to blame. The scene revealed through cell phone camera footage and witness accounts Wednesday was bloody, and for many hard to believe. A meat cleaver-wielding man ...
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Book review Asunder by Chloe Aridjis hinges on real-life 1914 defacement of a painting of Venus in Londons National Gallery
Chatto & Windus One day in 2008, the radical art critic John Berger went to the National Gallery in London to do some sketching. On his way there, he remembered his early visits to the place during the Blitz, and how he used to wonder about the museum attendants: were they recruited from a special pool? Would it be possible to apply? To volunteer? Once in front of Antonello da ...
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Catt only Hunter player to meet British
WANDERERS centre Lewie Catt will be the lone Hunter player in a preliminary 40-man Combined Country squad containing at least five former Wallabies named today to take on the British and Irish Lions at Hunter Stadium on June ...
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London Attack Nothing in Islam justifies dreadful attack says Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said ';nothing in Islam justifies this dreadful attack'; which left a soldier dead in ...
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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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