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Zookeeper mauled and killed by tiger at Cumbria animal park
Police said Sarah McClay was attacked at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton in Furness. She was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital following the attack, where she later ...
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Nigerian community marches in solidarity as Greenwich leaves tributes to murdered soldier Lee Rigby
Touching tributes continued to be paid to Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich today, as the community stood united in condemning the soldier's brutal ...
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Zookeeper at British wildlife park dies after being attacked by Sumatran tiger
LONDON - British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died. Police say the woman, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, was in the big cats' enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria when she was mauled by the Sumatran tiger on Friday. The park's owner, David Gill, told the BBC that he did not know why McClay entered the tiger enclosure. He ...
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Suspect in hacking death of British soldier was offered job by MI5
Michael Adebolajo, a suspect in the hacking death of a soldier, had been offered a job by a British intelligence service six months before, a friend says. Abu Nusaybah said Adebolajo had rejected the offer from MI5, the agency in charge of domestic security, the BBC reported Saturday. Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, have been arrested in the hacking death of Drummer Lee Rigby in the ...
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Prince William excited about impending fatherhood
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the UK premiere of "African Cats" at BFI Southbank in London on April 25, 2012. UPI/Paul ...
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London Woolwich AttackLee Rigby family give an emotional tribute to the soldier UK News
Drummer Lee Rigby’s stepfather Ian Rigby told how they frantically tried to contact him after watching his brutal murder unfold on television saying his ';heart skipped a beat';. Speaking at a press conference, Mr Rigby said they tried to get hold of the 25-year-old but could not reach him. He said: ';Really as soon as it came on the news on television, obviously we ...
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Hartlepool Lad aged nine crashed stolen car moments after breaking into house to take keys
A boy aged just nine has admitted burgling a house and stealing the keys of a car that crashed moments later, police said. But the child was too young to be prosecuted because he was under the age of criminal responsibility. Cleveland Police investigated the break-in at a house in Miller Crescent, Hartlepool on May 16, after reports that a red Vauxhall Vectra had been taken and crashed soon ...
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Church of England Plans to Have Female Bishops by 2015
After about 20 years of a divisive debate on allowing women to be bishops, the Church of England published proposals on Friday to approve the ordination of female bishops by ...
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British Ad Campaign Uses Image Of Old Pregnant Woman To Scare Women Into Having Babies Younger
ad campaign in Britain is tackling the other side of the spectrum with an arresting image of a pregnant old woman. The campaign, sponsored by the pregnancy testing company First Response, purports to warn young women that their childbearing years are numbered. The average British woman bears her first child at age 30, 5 years later than American women. In the name of ';provok[ing] a debate ...
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‘My Reaction As a British Muslim to the Woolwich Attack’
Today is a very emotional and difficult day in London. Two days ago we witnessed an event of disgusting proportions. There are so many thoughts running through my head because there are so many aspects to this brutal killing. I feel horror at what has happened and shock that something so barbaric has taken place on our first world streets. I give my condolences for the families. I offer my ...
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England stutter after Cook Trott fall
Leeds – England lost Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook to successive balls just before lunch as New Zealand rallied on the second day of the second and final Test at Headingley on ...
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UEFA President Michel Platini Opens UEFA Congress in London Ahead of Champions League 2013 Final
Your Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, President of The Football Association, Mr Hugh Robertson, Minister of State for Sport and Tourism, Mr David Bernstein, Chairman of The FA, thank you for welcoming us to this great footballing country. Sepp Blatter, FIFA President, Lennart Johansson, Honorary UEFA President, Presidents of the confederations and members of the FIFA Executive Committee, ...
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Video British intelligence tried to recruit London killer friend says
How two extremists capable of such a gruesome attack were able to slip the net is just one of the questions facing British intelligence services. But now, as Charlie D'Agata reports, there's an astonishing claim that agents actually tried to recruit one of the men six months ...
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ADAT Receives ATE M Award in London
ABU DHABI, May 25th, 2013 (WAM) -- Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) -overhaul (MRO) services provider and part of the Mubadala - once again won the "Best Airframe MRO Provider - Middle East '&' Africa" award for the fourth consecutive year at the ATE'&'M Awards. The award was presented to Abdul Khaliq Saeed, President of ADAT, at a gala awards ceremony ...
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Friend of suspect in London terror attack arrested being questioned by police
LONDON - Counterterrorism police on Saturday were questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the savage killing of a British soldier. The friend, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested immediately after he gave a television interview telling his story about how Adebolajo came to be radicalized.In his interview, Nusaybah said Adebolajo became withdrawn after returning from a visit to ...
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Belfast bomb could have killed say police
A pipe bomb which partially exploded on a suburban street in Belfast could have killed people, a police chief has warned. Detectives have appealed for information about the device which went off on Melrose Street in the south of the city, last night.Army bomb experts called to the scene said it was a viable pipe bomb which had partially exploded.PSNI chief inspector Mark McEwan hit out at those ...
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Lowestoft embedded car Audi TT driver who ploughed into side of house leaves hospital
A driver whose sports car flew through the air and ploughed into the side of this house has left hospital.Lewis Richardson, 21, was left fighting for life after the crash eight weeks ago in Lowestoft, Suffolk.He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge with head injuries following the incident in the early hours of March 24.He is thought to have crashed at speed when he lost control ...
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David Beckham left out of final Paris St-Germain match of the season
Former England football captain David Beckham has played his last competitive match, having been dropped from the Paris St-Germain team to face ...
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BA Flight Fire Investigators Probe Cause
Air accident investigators are probing the reason why a British Airways passenger jet had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday. It comes amid reports that a technical fault in the aircraft could be to blame and that a part of the plane fell off soon after take off. Seventy five passengers and five crew were evacuated safely from Flight BA762 to Oslo, Norway, after it returned ...
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England Stutter After Cook and Trott Fall
LEEDS, England ...
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British police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case
Reuters © A woman sits close to the scene of the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, 2013. REUTERS/ Paul ...
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Sports Manchester United considers move for Marouane Fellaini
:David Moyes is weighing up a move for Marouane Fellaini and the Everton midfielder's 24m release clause is no barrier to any prospective deal should the incoming Manchester United manager decide to lodge a bid. Moyes, though, is not currently minded to bring Fellaini's team-mate Leighton Baines to ...
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Gnomes Crash Distinguished Garden Show In England
Decorated gnomes designed by celebrities, including Elton John (second from the right), are featured at the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday in ...
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M5 Woman killed after driving wrong way up motorway in Somerset and hitting four vehicles
A woman has died after driving her car the wrong way up a motorway in the early hours of this morning, police said. The woman, aged in her late 20s or early 30s, died after her Ford Ka collided with four vehicles on the M5 in Somerset. She drove the small blue car north up the southbound carriageway from Weston-super-Mare towards Clevedon at 12.30am, Avon and Somerset Police said. "It ...
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British sailor is rescued off French coast after colleague raises alarm by phoning builders merchant in DEVON
A British yachtsman swept overboard off the French coast was saved by a firm hundreds of miles away in DEVON. The sailor fell into the sea off Ushant in north-west France on Thursday afternoon. His colleague was unable to understand the French coastguard and so rang his builders' merchant who contacted the UK coastguard. Chris Tucker, who took the call at Crediton builders' ...
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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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