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Lake Wales to Hold Parade on Thursday for Softball Champions
By PHIL ATTINGER | LEDGER MEDIA GROUP LAKE WALES | For the second year in a row, champion Lake Wales High School Highlanders will have a parade in their honor. The girls' softball team just has to get permission first from the Lake Wales City Commission, but that's not expected to be a problem, since commissioners praised the team at a recent event. It's also listed on the ...
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British inflation eases by more than expected
LONDON -; Official figures show that consumer price inflation in Britain eased in April, largely on the back of lower fuel prices and ...
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Celebrating 150 years of the Lodge that was born in Belfast
AS George Chittick and I make our way out of Schomberg House, the Orange Order’s headquarters based at the top of Belfast’s Cregagh Road, I stop to lean in and admire several of the medals adorning his remarkably pristine collarette - which I had described only a few moments earlier as one of the most orange I had ever seen. He explains the symbolism behind them; one was given to ...
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British mobile phone giant Vodafones annual net profits tumbles 90
Business India News: British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Tuesday that annual net profits tumbled 90 percent after taking a vast impairment charge relating to its businesses in debt-laden eurozone nations Italy and ...
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David Moyes to tell Wayne Rooney his future lies at Manchester United
Manchester United and the new manager is hopeful he can convince the striker that his long-term future remains at the club.Moyes, who spent his first day of work as United's manager visiting the club's Carrington training ground, will make resolving Rooney's future one of his priorities. He was welcomed on Monday by the news ...
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Bell Fit as England Name Unchanged Squad for Second Test
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Britains Royal Mail sees profits almost double before privatisation
LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 5:00am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Mail said annual profit had more than doubled on the back of an online shopping boom, providing a timely boost ahead of a stock market listing expected later this year. An initial public offering (IPO) of the state-owned firm, which has 150,000 staff and sales of 9.15 billion pounds ($14 billion), is ...
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Falling petrol prices drive first drop in inflation since September
LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer price inflation fell last month for the first time since September, giving incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney more leeway to support the economy should the recovery weaken. Inflation eased to 2.4 percent ...
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Outsourcing firms help Britains FTSE steady at 13-year high
By Francesco Canepa LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 steadied at near-13-year highs early on Tuesday, as rallies in outsourcing companies Capita and G4S offset a sharp fall in cruise operator Carnival Corporation. Capita rose 6.3 percent to ...
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UPDATE 2-Vodafone keeps Verizon payout after European weakness
Tue May 21, 2013 4:14am EDT * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue * FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view * CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake * Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout * Shares flat By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone posted the largest ever fall in its main revenue measure on Tuesday, forcing it to keep a ...
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Nick Buckles G4S boss to stand down just months after London 2012 Olympics shambles
The boss of security giant G4S is to stand down - just months after he came under fire for his company's botched handling of its Olympics Games contract. Chief executive Nick Buckles, who was paid a total of 1.2 million in 2012, was instrumental in creating the G4S business through the merger of Securicor and the security businesses of Group 4 Falck in 2004. He is to retire from the ...
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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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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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