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Nigel Evans Tory MP faces third sex attack probe as police raid his House of Commons office
Tory Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans of sexual assault, it emerged today.And MPs appeared stunned when his boss John Bercow announced that police with a crown court warrant had searched Mr Evans' office in the Commons.Detectives investigating allegations against the Conservative MP seized "parliamentary material" during the operation.Speaker Bercow told a hushed afternoon sitting: ...
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Julian Stevenson CCTV footage shows happy kids choosing sweets with dad hours before he slit their throats
murdering his two young children by slitting their throats was today described as a Jekyll and Hyde character.Neighbours said 48-year-old Julian Stevenson was normally mild-mannered and friendly - but his mood could change dramatically after a few drinks.And they fear he may have finally snapped following a bitter custody battle.But there was no sign of the impending horror as British expat ...
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Maria Stubbings case Call for domestic violence inquiry after report finds murdered woman was failed by police
'Gravely let down': Woman was sexually assaulted after 999 call handler told her 'you don't need the ...
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One giant leap for Britain UKs first official astronaut Major Tim Peake on tweeting like Chris Hadfield and missing his wife and sons
Ground control to Major Tim: former Apache helicopter pilot Tim Peake to be Britain's first official astronaut for 20 years with International Space Station ...
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UK competition watchdog may force cement makers to sell plants
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator may force major cement producers to sell plants as part of efforts to break open the country's cement market, after finding a limited number of players was likely to be causing higher prices. ...
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Cannes Euro Studios Look to Benefit From Busy London Soundstages
European film studio facility operators in such places as Germany and Eastern Europe feel positioned to take advantage of a shortage of free studio space in London and attract big Hollywood productions in the second half of the year and ...
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London signposts up for auction
Some of London's most recognisable street signs, including those that stood in Downing Street and Abbey Road, will be auctioned off.A handful of distinctive black aluminium finger signs which have directed tourists to world famous landmarks in the capital will also go under the hammer on Tuesday.A sealed bid auction is being held by Summers Place Auctions in Billinghurst, West Sussex, for ...
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Oklahoma tornado At least 20 schoolchildren among 91 dead after twister HALF A MILE wide rips through city
A monstrous tornado at least a half a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening neighbourhoods and destroying a school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200mph.At least 91 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 ...
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Ray Manzarek dead Tributes to The Doors keyboard player who passes away after cancer battle
Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founding member of The Doors, died today after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.His manager said he died this afternoon in Rosenheim, Germany surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and brothers Rick and James.Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965 when Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with poet Jim ...
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Oklahoma tornado Watch footage of the devastating 200mph twister
At least 20 schoolchildren are among 91 dead after a twister HALF A MILE wide ripped through Oklahoma City.It flattened neighbourhoods and destroyed a school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200mph.These videos show the ...
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Vodafone posts biggest fall in service revenue
Vodafone posted its largest ever quarterly fall in key organic service revenue on Tuesday, prompting it to keep hold of a dividend from its US arm and reinvest it into the business and not return it to shareholders. The world's second largest mobile operator, at the centre of intense speculation as to whether it will sell its US arm in one of the world's largest deals, posted a 4.2% ...
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Marks Spencer posts second straight fall in year profit
LONDON (Reuters) - British retailer Marks & Spencer posted its lowest annual profit since 2009 on Tuesday as a struggling clothing and homewares division dragged on growth in food sales. The 129-year-old firm, which serves 21 million shoppers a ...
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Telecom Plus adds more customers profit climbs
(Reuters) - British utility supplier Telecom Plus Plc said full-year profit rose about 13 percent helped by a larger customer base and higher average revenue per customer. The company, which provides gas, electricity, fixed line telephone ...
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Burberry profit rises 14 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - British luxury group Burberry posted a 14 percent rise in full-year pretax profit and said profit for the first half of its new fiscal year would be below last year's as it reduces its wholesale business in favour of ...
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Paragon lifts first half profit and seeks acquisitions
LONDON (Reuters) - British buy-to-let mortgage lender Paragon reported a 10 percent increase in underlying pretax profit in the first half of its fiscal year and said its investment division was actively seeking acquisitions. The company reported ...
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Jim Hensons son to speak at Guardian Edinburgh Television Festival
Brian Henson, director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, will speak at this year's Guardian International Television Festival. Photograph: Disney/Sportsphoto ...
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BRIEF-British Land signs Amlin letting for London skyscraper
Tue May 21, 2013 2:24am EDT May 21 (Reuters) - British Land : * Exchanged a binding agreement for lease with amlin plc for a pre-letting of 111,000 sq ft * The letting represents approximately 20% of the office space in * The letting represents approximately 20% of the office space in the leadenhall building in London * The leadenhall building is now over 51% ...
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Abu Dhabis TAQA denies London bourse move
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) has said it is looking at ways to improve the liquidity of its shares but had not taken any steps to remove a barrier to foreigners holding its ...
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Indians largest foreign-born group in London Census
LONDON: Indians have become the largest foreign-born group in London. Nearly 9% of all foreign-born residents in London are now Indians. In sheer numbers, this means 2.63 lakh people born in India are now living in London. London had about 3 million foreign-born residents in 2011 (37% of the total London population and 40% of the total foreign-born population of England and Wales). London's ...
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British PM survives gay vote
British Prime Minister David Cameron headed off another Conservative rebellion on Monday after the opposition Labour Party helped him see off a "wrecking amendment" which had threatened his gay marriage bill. Tory MP Tim Loughton had proposed the amendment saying that if gay couples were allowed to marry, then heterosexual couples should also be able to have civil partnerships. But ...
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British P.M. Cameron gets an assist from Labor on gay marriage
Ed Miliband . Miliband agreed to have Labor members of Parliament vote against an amendment that would have extended civil unions to heterosexual couples, The Guardian reported. The amendment, backed by opponents of gay marriage, would have reduced the bill's chance of parliamentary approval, and Miliband had been planning to abstain. Cameron has also been trying to damp down a story that ...
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Church of Scotland approves compromise on gay clergy
The Church of Scotland's General Assembly Monday approved a compromise that allows congregations who want to have gay ministers to do so. The plan will not take effect until 2015, The Scotsman reported. The church, which has a Presbyterian form of government, will spend the next year developing the legal form for allowing gay clergy, followed by votes by the presbyteries and then by ...
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Looted Irish treasures recovered in England
They include three 'gun money' coins, the emergency war money coined by James II from 1689-91 to pay his forces to fight William of Orange.The items, including a Bronze Age axe and spearhead and hundreds of medieval coins, will go on display today, then be stored for research.They were recovered after a tip-off from ...
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Legal minefield looms if Northern Ireland opts out of new Same-Sex Couples Bill lawyers warn
A new vaccine is being made available to prevent a disease which causes severe birth defects and miscarriages in livestock, it has been ...
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Photos Portland knocks off London at Mem Cup
Derrick Pouliot and Chase De Leo scored 23 seconds apart in the third period Monday as the Portland Winterhawks defeated the London Knights 6-3 at the MasterCard Memorial ...
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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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