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Punched police horse returns to Newcastle to face EDL protesters and counter-demo
The police horse punched by a football thug will be back on patrol in the city where he was attacked. Bud will be on duty tomorrow at an English Defence League march and a demo by their opponents called Newcastle Unites. A 45-year-old man was arrested and bailed after Bud was hit following Newcastle United's defeat to Sunderland last month. Northumbria Police specifically asked for Bud, ...
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South Lakes Wild Animal Park Zoo keeper mauled by tiger in Cumbria
A zoo-keeper was savaged by a tiger at an animal park today.The 24-year old was seriously injured when the animal mauled her at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, at Dalton in Furness in Cumbria.Police said members of the public were not at any risk during the incident.The wildlife park closed early and all visitors have left the park.The injured woman was airlifted to the Preston Royal Infirmary ...
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Liverpool magistrates court was centre of six-year penalty points scam
A magistrates court was the centre of a six-year scam to scrub penalty points from driving licences at 100 a time. Between 2004 and 2011, drivers faced with disqualifications paid cash to middle men with forms sent from the court to the DVLA in Swansea illegally requesting convictions be deleted. Allegedly pocketing thousands by running the scheme was David Kelly, on the staff at Liverpool ...
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Woolwich attack live The latest updates on the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby and the aftermath
The Metropolitan Police have released an update on the arrests in connection with Wednesday's attack. They say: "A 29-year-old woman arrested yesterday as part of the investigation into the murder of Lee Rigby was released without charge at this morning."A 31-year old woman was arrested at a residential address in south London at 11:50pm last night on suspicion of conspiracy to ...
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Woolwich attack video Watch full extended footage of terrorists charging at police car in attempt to kill WPC
The film of the terrifying attack shows how suspect Michael Adebolajo got within two feet of the WPC who was driving the armed response BMW ...
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Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby formally identified but cause of death not confirmed by post mortem
Drummer Rigby , 25, from 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was mown down in a car before being brutally butchered with knives and meat cleavers in front of horrified witnesses in the brazen broad daylight attack.A post-mortem examination was carried out on his body yesterday but no cause of death has been confirmed, Scotland Yard said.An inquest into his death will be opened in due ...
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Stuart Lancaster says England must choose moments to attack Barbarians
Stuart Lancaster says his England side 'have always had a licence to play running rugby' despite a dearth of Six Nations tries. Photograph: David ...
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Vince Cable The traditional high street banks have forgotten how to lend
When Jonathan Eddy wanted finance for his Basingstoke-based business, one of the traditional high street banks offered him a competitively priced loan - but then threw in fees that made it too expensive for him to proceed. Eddy, managing director of Asset Advantage, has a clear view why. "The traditional high street banks have forgotten how to lend," he ...
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Energy suppliers held back gas during UK shortage
gas in storage tanks at a time when the market ran into an acute shortage two months ago, triggering a doubling of wholesale prices.The revelations came after claims the UK was within six hours of running out of gas completely on 22 March and will feed rising public and political anger over soaring power bills and previous allegations of market manipulation.The National Grid, which keeps data on ...
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British leader calls for probe into tracking of attack suspects
LONDON, UK - Britain continued to sort through the pieces Friday of the brutal public murder of a soldier identified yesterday as Drummer Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old married father of one. In an emotional news conference on Friday, his wife Rebecca Rigby said she expected her husband to be safe in Britain. "You don't expect it to happen when he's in the UK," she said. Media ...
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British spy services under pressure over soldiers murder
Britain's intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London slip through their ...
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Not just a bunch of swivel-eyed idiots The true Tories who want a new direction
There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire, in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in ...
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Lord Oakeshott calls for an end to standby job contracts as it is revealed Parliament uses them too
The Government is under pressure to outlaw "zero hours" contracts in which workers are put on standby without a guaranteed minimum amount of work or ...
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Three men remain under arrest as two women bailed over Woolwich attack
Three men, including the two suspects shot by police at the scene of the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby, remained under arrest in connection with the ...
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Suspected fuel thieves close stretch of M6 motorway
Suspected fuel thieves closed a 12-mile stretch of one of the country's busiest motorways today after police were called to reports of a "suspicious ...
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England to bid for Euro 2020 final
English Football Association vice-chairman David Gill on Friday admitted his organisation are set to bid for the right to host the Euro 2020 final. PHOTO BY STEVE ...
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Londons Heathrow airport runway re-opened after brief shutdown over emergency landing of British Airways plane
London: A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at London's Heathrow airport on Friday with smoke billowing from one of its engines, causing heavy disruption to flights.The 75 passengers on board had to evacuate the plane by emergency slides while amateur footage shot from the ground showed black smoke spewing from the right engine shortly after takeoff.Heathrow was ...
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Arrested Development reboot reflects new viewing habits says Netflix
Arrested Development returns tomorrow seven years after it was axed, there will be more than the fortunes of the dysfunctional Bluth family at stake.The fledgling video-on-demand ...
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BBC suspends technology officer after Digital Media Initiative failure
BBC has suspended its chief technology officer and admitted wasting nearly 100m on a five-year project intended to make the corporation "tapeless", saying that to continue with the project would be "throwing good money after ...
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Driver admits killing mother in Cardiff hit-and-run
A van driver with paranoid schizophrenia has admitted running down and killing a mother during a hit-and-run incident that left 13 other people injured.Matthew Tvrdon, 32, mowed down parents and young children, including mother-of-three Karina Menzies who was knocked over and killed. He denied her murder on Friday but admitted manslaughter with diminished responsibility.Tvrdon appeared via ...
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Woolwich murder inquiry into what MI5 may have missed gathers pace
Andrew Parker, the head of MI5, is due to submit a preliminary report to the investigation by the intelligence and security committee. Photograph: ...
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Universal credit in danger of failing official Whitehall review says
Iain Duncan Smith 's flagship plans to remake the welfare state has hit trouble emerged on Friday night when the Cabinet Office's review of all major Whitehall projects branded ...
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Holidays or holy-days are a great time to relearn enchantment with the world | Giles Fraser
Naxos . We are having a few days of half-term father/son bonding and reading Greek myths together. On this island, Dionysus wooed Ariadne away from Theseus, giving her the stars as a wedding crown. Felix has never been this far from home, and so much of the surrounding culture and geography is being experienced as new and extraordinary. Our friend Dimitrios explains to him the Greek alphabet. He ...
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Woolwich attack When killers strike should we listen to what they say | Jonathan Freedland
A policewoman in Woolwich looks at flowers left by members of the public where the soldier Lee Rigby was killed. Photograph: Facundo ...
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GPs reject call to take over out-of-hours care
Secretary of state for health Jeremy Hunt called the 2004 move to relieve GPs of responsibility for out-of-hours care 'an historic mistake'. Photograph: Stefan ...
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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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