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Staysure reveals top 10 medical conditions for travellers over 50
When it comes to medical conditions declared by older travellers, the latest figures from Staysure, specialist insurers for the over-50s reveal that: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, asthma, heart attack and arthritis consistently top the list of medical conditions declared by customers during their ...
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Bright Grey critical illness cover giveaway
To mark its 10th birthday, Bright Grey will offer customers a year's free critical illness cover when they apply for life cover. The free cover, up to a value of 20,000, is available for the first 10,000 people that ...
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Israeli official Assad preferable to extremist rebels The Times of London reports
May 18, 2013 Israel prefers the regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria to continue than see a takeover of the country by rebel Islamist ...
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Adorable moment sea lion worries about little girl who trips and falls in front of its tank
This is the adorable moment a sea lion stopped to check on a little girl who had tripped and fallen in front of its tank. Footage captured the creature looking genuinely concerned as the youngster took a tumble while playing at a US zoo. As the child falls to the floor, the sea lion stops abruptly and turns around to see if she is ok. The creature then appears to worriedly hover by the glass ...
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Woman who disappeared while swimming in sea after drinking found alive following search operation
The Humber Coastguard said the 23-year-old woman, who had been drinking alcohol, was found semi-conscious on the beach near a holiday resort in Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness, early today. Chapel St Leonards' Coastguard rescue team and the Skegness inshore lifeboat were alerted to assist, along with an RAF search-and-rescue crew based at Leconfield in East Yorkshire, after a 999 call ...
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Union Gove Like Fanatical Personal Trainer
Education Secretary Michael Gove has been likened to a "fanatical personal trainer" in a strongly-worded attack by the leader of a teaching union. Bernadette Hunter, president of ...
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Top loyalists at PSNI’s private talks in Wales
The leader of the UDA and several other figures linked to paramilitaries are among those having private talks with senior police commanders in Wales, it has emerged. On Thursday, Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton, who is organising the trip, gave a briefing to journalists about why it was taking place. The senior commander told the News Letter that paramilitaries had not been ...
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British woman died after drinking poisoned gin on holiday in Indonesia
The woman, named in reports as Cheznye Emmons, is said to have fallen ill after drinking from a bottle labelled "gin" bought from a local shop. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Indonesia and we are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time." Reports said the 23-year-old beauty therapist from Great ...
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Widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for public inquiry into his death
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for the inquest into her late husband's death to be abandoned and for a public inquiry to be held in its ...
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Cameron Ally Calls Tory Activists Loons
A member of David Cameron's inner circle has reportedly described Tory activists as "mad swivel-eyed loons". The senior figure blamed local Conservative associations for pressuring Tory MPs into supporting a eurosceptic amendment to the Queen's Speech. Some 114 Tories plus two Conservative tellers voted against the Government and in favour of the amendment last ...
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Five-year-old British girl dies in a pool at Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in Egypts Sharm el-Sheikh resort
The grandmother of Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south London, told Sky News that the family was "devastated" by her death. Chloe died in a waterpark at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, travel company First Choice said. First Choice said it would carry out a "full and thorough investigation" in partnership with the hotelier. A ...
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Thats That A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving Northern Ireland
is his chronicle of life as the second-eldest in a family of six children in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, during the modern-day "Troubles": parochial rivalries, British rule, IRA bombings, and an almost weekly death toll, during which Broderick and his friends were trying to grow up. "First of all, when you think about growing up in basically the middle of a war, you sort of, ...
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Woman 37 stabbed boyfriend after he farted in her face during argument
A 37-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend because he farted in her face during an argument. Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week. Burns claims the couple were rowing over money while watching TV when her 53-year-old lover got up to go to the kitchen and broke wind in her face. ...
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Murder hunt launched after mans body found in Coventry grassland
The victim, thought to be aged in his 40s, was found by a member of the public at about 5am on Saturday in Upper Spon Street, Coventry. A spokesman for West Midlands Police said a post-mortem examination would take place and added: "The death is being treated as murder and the area has been sealed off while forensic inquiries begin. "Officers at the scene are carrying out ...
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England v New Zealand – day three live | Andy Bull and Tom Davies
Good morning Andy will be here shortly with all the play from Lord's as England take on New Zealand. In the meantime, here's what Mike Selvey made of yesterday's ...
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PSNI remove explosive device in Belfast after attempt to murder officers
What is believed to be a bomb found by police investigating the attempt to murder three officers in West Belfast has been taken away, police said.The device was found in Dunmurry as the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) conducted follow up searches after a gun attack narrowly missed police attending a call for help.Residents who had been evacuated have been allowed to return to their ...
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Asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 set to fly past Earth later this month
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I never set out to be a role model but its great to be one IN THE HOTSEATBetter known by his stage name Wretch 32 Jermaine Sinclair is a 28-year-old rapper from London. In 2011 his debut album Black and White sold over a million copies and scored
Gillian Anderson is fired up in 'The Fall', but Whicher is suspiciously dull ; The former 'X-Files' star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in ...
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Explosive device removed by Northern Ireland police investigating attempted murders
What is believed to be a bomb found by police investigating the attempt to murder three officers in West Belfast has been taken away, police ...
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Scotland Yard review throws up new leads in Madeleine McCann case
Police in England say they have new leads in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished in Portugal in 2007.A Scotland Yard review of the case has revealed a list of several people, described as "persons of interest".However, former Detective Jacqui Hames said not all the people on the list will be suspects.She said: "That could be somebody who is implicated perhaps in ...
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British woman may face death in Indonesia for drugs
JAKARTA (AFP) - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms (three pounds, four ounces) of the drug, the ...
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Census finds Christianity in Britain losing ground
Almost 10 percent of young people in the United Kingdom now identify themselves as Muslim and fewer than half as Christian, 2011 Census figures show. The new analysis of the 2011 data released Friday shows Christianity has been losing ground even faster than thought among those born in the country, The Daily Telegraph reported. A report last year said the Census found 4.1 million Christians, ...
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London police urge Portugal to reopen Madeleine McCann case
Madeleine McCann . After reviewing investigative files on the case, detectives said they had a list of persons of interest, The Daily Telegraph reported. Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who heads the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the review found "investigative and forensic opportunities." Madeleine disappeared shortly before her 4th birthday in August ...
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Lake Wales Sees Spring Game as Measuring Stick
Lake Wales played its annual Orange and Black spring scrimmage game for the 22nd time under Shafer's direction Friday at Lake Wales High School, and now the veteran coach said everything turns to business with Miramar coming to Legion Field at 7 p.m. next Friday for the Highlanders' spring game."Well, I hope we haven't bitten off more than we can chew," Shafer said. ...
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Photos London beats Saskatoon 3-2 in Memorial Cup
Saskatoon Blades goaltender Andrey Makarov stops a shot from London Knights centre Ryan Rupert during first period Memorial Cup action in Saskatoon, Sask., on Friday, May 17, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam ...
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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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