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England team to face Barbarians to be led by Bath hooker Rob Webber
Rob Webber will be joined in the England front row by London Irish's Alex Corbisiero and Bath team-mate David Wilson. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty ...
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Progress made with Northern Ireland hardship payments
FARMERS in Northern Ireland have welcomed details of the release of 6m to help those affected by the severe snow. President of the Ulster Farmers' Union, Harry Sinclair, said he was pleased progress on the hardship package had been made 'quickly' after it was agreed by the NI Executive onMarch 28. Mr Sinclair said: "Almost 1,300 farmers in the affected areas who had fallen ...
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Tributes pour in for slain British soldier
>Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences. London (CNN) -- Flowers stand in a pair of black army boots. On them is pinned a note remembering the British soldier killed in a brutal daylight slaying on a street in southeast London. The poignant tribute is just one of many pouring in Friday for Drummer ...
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British FM Denounces Terrorism Settlements
JERUSALEM, Israel -- British Foreign Minister William Hague said Wednesday's horrific murder in London by Islamists in his country reminded him of what Israelis have lived with for decades. "We know the importance of defeating terror, something that is well understood here in Israel as well," Hague told reporters in Jerusalem Thursday, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister ...
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Twitter libel Sally Bercows tweet about Lord McAlpine ruled libellous
Sally Bercow says she is "surprised and disappointed" by the High Court ruling that her tweet about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was ...
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Woolwich attack Murdered soldier Lee Rigby cause of death unconfirmed
Murdered soldier Lee Rigby has been formally identified but the cause of his death was not confirmed by a post-mortem examination, police said ...
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Matthew Tvrdon faces murder charge over Cardiff hit-and-run rampage which killed mother-of-three Karina Menzies
A man will be in court today facing charges of deliberately mowing down pedestrians in a hit-and-run rampage that left mother-of-three Karina Matthews ...
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Heathrow airport closed after British Airways plane on fire over central London makes emergency landing
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow as eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft "on fire" flying over central ...
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Seaweed stops Scottish EDF nuclear plant
By John McGarrity LONDON (Reuters) - A rising tide of seaweed halted a nuclear power station near Edinburgh late on Thursday, threatening to clog up its cooling system. EDF Energy took both reactors offline at its 1,280MW Torness nuclear plant, ...
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British Muslims Condemn Savage Attack On Drummer Lee Rigby
By Trevor Grundy Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) Leaders of Britain's 2.8 million Muslims reacted with horror and anger following Wednesday's (May 22) slaughter with knives and machetes of an off-duty British soldier in the streets outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in south London. A statement from the Muslim Council of Britain condemned the slaughter of the soldier by two men ...
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Emergency landing causes delays at Londons Heathrow Airport
LONDON – A British Airways jet made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport after developing a technical fault after takeoff. TV footage showed smoke streaming from one of the engines. Airport officials briefly closed both runways at Europe's busiest airport Friday morning, causing delays. They were later able to reopen one. Heathrow officials said passengers were ...
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British security services in spotlight after soldier murder
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence ...
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Murdered London soldier is named as community tensions rise
Britain’s Ministry of Defence has identified the soldier who died near the Woolwich army barracks in southeast London as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby. He was serving with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and leaves behind a two-year-old son. 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 ...
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England v New Zealand – live
"Harrumph harrumph harrumph" chunters Peter Robinson. "Have I missed the news today and England has now been completely subsumed by London to the extent where you don't even need to explain what 'here' means anymore because it should be glaringly obvious to us all that you're in the Capital? Afterall there's nowhere else TO be." I assumed that, Peter, ...
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Pulling Wales out of EU not an option - Carwyn Jones
PULLING Wales out of the EU was not an option - the stakes were far too high and if it happened it would kill the Welsh farming industry overnight, according to the Welsh Government's First Minister, Carwyn Jones. Opening the first of what he described as Welsh farming's annual meeting, he said being part of Europe was worth some 350 million a year to farmers in Wales."But if ...
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British Killer Was From A Devote Christian Home
Friends recall what Michael Adebolajo was like at Marshall Fields School (left) and after the brutal murder When his old school friends saw him on the television drenched in blood, waving a cleaver and declaring jihad, they nearly fell off their chairs. There was no mistaking Michael Adebolajo, their ‘bright and witty’ classmate from a devoutly Christian family. They remembered his ...
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Ferran Soriano predicts success if Manchester City vision is followed
Ferran Soriano is sitting at the top of the world - in the vast, airy "SoHi" room at the peak of a New York hotel with views across the place he calls "the greatest city in the world," having momentarily left Manchester out of the mental ...
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UPDATE 1-UKs Co-op Bank stops lending to new corporate clients
Fri May 24, 2013 6:09am EDT * Bank will continue lending to individuals * Existing customers are not affected by move * Co-op is in talks with regulator on capital plans * Moody's ratings downgrade prompted capital concerns By Matt Scuffham LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - The Co-operative Bank has stopped offering loans to new business customers, part of measures designed to quell growing ...
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Extra police deployed in tense London
London - Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks after the slaying of a young soldier, adding 1 200 police to potential trouble ...
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Britain braces for possible copycat attacks after gruesome slaying of soldier
LONDON - Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier. London's Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain's police officers are armed. Wednesday's bloody attack was captured on video by ...
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London killers are Britons of Nigerian originBritain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young serving soldier being butchered with stone age savagery in Woolwich by two radical British Nigerians who had chang
Woolwich by two radical British Nigerians who had changed from being "devout Christians to Muslims" recently. Mobs calling themselves English Defence League clashed with riot police after Wednesday's "terror attack" . Mosques in Woolwich, Braintree in Essex and Gillingham in Kent were attacked with bricks and bottles. Fearing such backlash could intensify and affect all ...
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UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ...
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British prince visits Nashville
Prince Edward, one of Queen Elizabeth's sons, is in Nashville promoting one of the royal family's major charities for youth, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. The award honors teens who showcase outstanding community service, skills, fitness and character-building. Governor Haslam hosted the prince at a private ceremony at the governor's mansion to honor this year's ...
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No Vettori for Kiwis as they bid to hold England
LEEDS, United Kingdom (AFP) - Daniel Vettori's hopes of making a return to Test cricket in New Zealand's series finale with England in Leeds ultimately came to nothing after he was ruled out on Thursday.Former captain Vettori hasn't played a Test for nearly a year, mainly because of Achilles trouble, and was only originally selected for the one-day leg of this tour.But a calf ...
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The London attack the day after
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron visits an army barracks near the scene of a killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, 2013. 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 Thursday.(LUKE ...
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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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