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Sally Bercow tweet libelled Lord McAlpine high court rules
Lord McAlpine over a tweet that falsely linked him with an allegation of child sexual abuse.The high court ruled on Friday that her tweet - "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*" - after BBC2 Newsnight allegations about a high-profile Tory politician - would have been understood to mean the former Tory chairman was a paedophile.Bercow, who was not in court for the ruling, ...
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Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby condemned by defence secretary – video
The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, says the military community is deeply saddened by Wednesday's murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Witnesses say the 25-year-old soldier was hacked to death with a meat cleaver by two men near the army barracks in Woolwich, south-east London. Hammond says the public will not be cowed by ...
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The Woolwich murder did not merit the Cobra treatment | David Livingstone
The political response to the immediate aftermath of the Woolwich crime sent a confusing signal. In the UK, terrorism is treated as a crime and it is the responsibility of law enforcement to prevent, detect and pursue terrorist offences. The brutal murder ...
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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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Alcohol advertising on television to be reviewed
Programmes such as Britain's Got Talent, which allow alcohol advertising, are watched by large numbers of under-18s. Photograph: Ken Mckay/Thames ...
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Royal family squeeze out climate change in US media coverage
he warned this month that climate change is "the greatest risk we have ever faced" . Action must be taken now, the Prince said, because the risk of doing nothing is "too great."It is therefore a little ironic to look at the latest results from a study by the monitoring organisation Media Matters for America and find that the goings-on of the British royal family - but not ...
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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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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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Cull reminds us that gulls need friends | Bill Oddie
the report of a large scale annual cull on the Abbeystead grouse moor was something new to me. The targets were not raptors, but lesser black backed gulls. I am afraid one cant resist reflecting on some basic prejudices. Gulls in general seem to be birds that a percentage of the public find it hard to love, accusing them of all sorts of vandalism from pecking toddlers to stealing packed lunches. ...
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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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Man faces court over 1982 Hyde Park IRA bombing
Ireland , was arrested at Gatwick airport on Sunday. He is accused of being responsible for a car bomb left in South Carriage Drive which killed solders as they rode through the park to the Changing of the Guard.The explosion injured other members of the Royal Household Cavalry and killed seven horses as they travelled from their barracks to Buckingham Palace.Downey was charged with murdering ...
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Inspire magazine the self-help manual for al-Qaida terrorists
Al-Qaida's slick and sinister magazine for jihadis, Inspire, suggests using a vehicle to mow down a target - which is apparently what happened in ...
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Woolwich attack ITV removes content from suspects video confession
Woolwich attack .Minutes before ITV aired film of Michael Olumide Adebolajo, the London-born man seen carrying a bloodied machete after the attack, bosses chose to remove a clip of him saying: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers."An edited version on the channel's 6.30pm bulletin showed Adebolajo vowing to take ...
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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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Europe needs a more European UK says ECB president
European Central Bank , has called for the UK to be "more European" and said the continent's key institutions could face dissolution if the UK leaves ...
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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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Help the Heroes donations deluge crashes website after Woolwich murder
A Help the Heroes T-shirt is left among the floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London. Photograph: Sang ...
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Snoopers charter would not have stopped Woolwich attack
Woolwich attack but none of the measures in the "snooper's charter" bill would have prevented the savage murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has said.The cabinet minister, who attended yesterday's emergency Cobra meeting, defended the role of the security services, saying they had been "very successful at stopping a number of similar ...
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Woolwich attack extremists will not divide our armed forces | Afzal Amin
'As we witness this brutality in Woolwich, more than 600 Muslim personnel are deployed in Afghanistan, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere, contributing to our collective security.' Photograph: ITV ...
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Media Talk podcast Woolwich attack coverage and Boris ban lifted
John Plunkett digests the week's media news with Roy Greenslade, Helen Zaltzman and Paul Robinson. Plus, Rebecca Nicholson celebrates a return to form for Mad ...
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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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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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