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London killers had attacked an Indian-origin man mistaking him to be a soldier
The slain soldier Lee Rigby, of the British army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is seen in an undated photo released on May 23, 2013. (Via ...
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Woolwich murder Welby praises response of British Muslim bodies
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby (right), and the assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, condemn the Woolwich murder of Lee Rigby outside the Masjid Umar mosque in Leicester. Photograph: Rui ...
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Just in time Dry sunny weather predicted for Bank Holiday weekend
The unseasonably cold weather in southern areas and the Midlands will make way for a dry and sunny Bank Holiday weekend, forecasters ...
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Brendan Rogers son Anton and three other footballers cleared of sexual assault
Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial. Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence. They were given bail throughout the trial and their families, including Rodgers' father - Liverpool manager Brendan ...
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G4S to run rape and sex support centres in the Midlands
G4S, the private security firm that was criticised for its lack of organisation during the London 2012 Olympics, has won a contract to run a two rape and sex attack centres in the ...
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Brutal attack on British soldier opens new front in the war against terrorism
Police try to disperse demonstrators in Woolich, London on Wednesday after a British soldier was brutally murdered nearby in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist ...
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Champions League Prince William Backs Bayern
The Duke of Cambridge has told European football leaders that his money is on Bayern Munich to win Saturday's Champions League final at Wembley. Prince William, speaking in his role as president of the Football Association, was giving the opening speech at the Uefa Congress in London the day before Bayern play Borussia Dortmund in an all-German final. He predicted a 2-0 win for the ...
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New book asks Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor
By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years. Political thriller "The Jewish Candidate" by British journalist David Crossland has been published ...
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Simon Calder British Airways Heathrow incident causes travel chaos on one of the busiest weekends of the year
Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary. Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky ...
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Ironical tweet was defamatory context was key court rules
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A tweet by a British parliamentarian's wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the ...
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Britain Scrambles Warplanes for Pakistani Airliner
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The Eton entrance questions every 12-year-old future PM should be asked | Daisy Buchanan
'Eton is the perfect training ground for future leaders as it forces boys to make their minds up about moral issues at an early age.' Photograph: Susannah Ireland / Rex ...
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RAF jet investigates diverted Pakistani passenger plane
The RAF deployed a Typhoon jet to escort a Pakistan International Airlines flight diverted from Manchester to Stansted. Photograph: Alastair ...
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Bank holiday weather promises sun warmth … then rain
Weather forecasters are looking on the bright side for the bank holiday weekend."A lot of places will see sunny spells and temperatures up to 16C, 17C, some a bit warmer than that," said ...
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Rochdale CEO says systemic failures prevented capture of child abuse gang
Jim Taylor, Rochdale council chief executive, expressed disbelief that the child abuse gang were able to operate for so long. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ...
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BBC2s Anne Boleyn profile watched by 3 million
The Last Days of Anne Boleyn was watched by 3 million people on BBC2 on Thursday night. Photograph: Tim Cragg/BBC/Oxford Film and Television/Tim ...
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U.K. party preaching immigration reform says Britain ‘gutless’ in face of Muslim radicals
Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's fastest growing political party, United Kingdom Independence Party, at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, Oct. 24, 2012. Farage and his party gains strength on the idea that Britain needs to leave the European Union. (PASCAL ...
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Fighter jets escort passenger plane in British airspace
++++DEVELOPING STORY++++ Typhoon fighter jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a passenger jet flying in British airspace. The Pakistan International Airlines plane was traveling from Lahore, Pakistan, and reportedly had 297 passengers aboard, Reuters reported. The plane was heading towards Manchester when it was abruptly re-routed near York, England and headed ...
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Brighton footballers cleared of sexually assaulting woman in hotel room
Four footballers have been cleared of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room.In a retrial at the Old Bailey in London, jurors also found them not guilty of voyeurism. The Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, and George Barker, both 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence.They were given ...
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Michael Adebolajos dangerous ignorance about Afghanistan | Richard Kemp
'My own regiment did not fire a shot in anger in Afghanistan, and protected many Iraqi Muslims from the extremist killers.' Photograph: Sgt Rupert Frere ...
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Woolwich terrorist attack British intelligence under pressure over suspects extremist links
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich on May 23, ...
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Escaped 500-Pound Calf Lured Back To 9-Year-Old Owner
days after it ran away leaving him heartbroken . Nine-year-old Ryan Hoelzel saved up $350 to buy the 500-pound, one-year-old cow he named Panda. ';I did it with all my Christmas money, Easter money, birthday money, and any kind of money I got,'; the fourth-grade student from Epping told WBZ-TV. But minutes after he bought Panda, the calf jumped a fence and escaped the family ...
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Scotlands top policeman pleads for the force to keep seized proceeds of crime
he needs to save 58 million this year, and similar amounts in the next two, warning that cuts could cause "irreparable" damage to policing.He said: "I've been continually pleading with government to revisit money seized through proceeds of crime."We all know we are not a special case, but we are seizing millions of pounds every year from organised criminals for the ...
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Woolwich terror attack Lee Rigbys step-father recalls how he first learnt of incident from television
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a ...
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Woolwich soldier killing suspects attended Greenwich University together
The second suspect in the killing of British army Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich has been identified as a former London schoolboy who attended Greenwich University along with his alleged ...
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Scotland's waterways seeing revival
Scotland’s waterways, the canals used to transport bulky goods and vast quantities of coal in the days before the development of the railways, are of great significance in terms of their role in the development of the country, new projects are making sure they remain so.
Scotland recently began investing heavily in its canal system with the introduction of the Millennium Link, a project to restore the Union Canal and Forth and Clyde Canals for use by recreational boaters, tourists and to encourage investment in the tourism, retail and commercial sectors. Read more
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