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Britains FTSE scales new 5-12 year peaks
* FTSE 100 flat at 6,724.49 points, near 5-1/2 year highs* Broker upgrades help Easyjet and Royal Bank of Scotland* Some traders see profit-taking around 6,760-6,800 levelBy Sudip Kar-GuptaLONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Britain's benchmark equity ...
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England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes
LONDON (Reuters) - England secured the convincing victory over New Zealand they demanded in the first test at Lord's but question marks remain over the make-up of their team for the Ashes series against Australia starting in ...
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Chelsea Flower Show 100th birthday Incredible black and white photos reveal how event has changed through the years
As Queen Mary admires the wonderful display at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1913, little does she or anyone else know how iconic the event will go on to become.Dressed in a fine suit and elegant hat with her umbrella and her entourage in tow, the grandmother of our current Queen surveys the scene at the first show at Chelsea Hospital.One hundred years on, the Royal Family still attend every year, ...
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Eurovision contest on song for BBC1
Eurovision Song Contest averaged 7.7 million viewers and a 35.3% audience share over three and a half hours from 8pm.The annual cheesefest was overshadowed by ITV's Britain's Got Talent (7.30pm-8.45pm: 9.2 million/40.1%) early on, but otherwise ruled the roost ratings-wise on Saturday evening, reaching a five-minute peak of 9.3 million viewers.ITV competition later in the evening ...
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Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society | James Bloodworth
Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett in 2007. She is one of 11 Labour MPs to sit on the Henry Jackson Society's advisory council. Photograph: Dimitri ...
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Phoenix fly-by-night Man accused of posing as Peter Kays brother
Peter Kay in order to con pub landlords has been charged with fraud.Peter Stead, 50, claimed he was called Danny Kay and was the brother of the well-known Bolton comic when he offered to put ...
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Picture desk live the best news pictures of the day
Actor Morgan Freeman received the Doctor of Humane Letters award on graduation day at Boston University this weekend. Photograph: Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMA ...
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Scientific Research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life Physics
CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ...
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Should civil partnerships be extended to heterosexual couples | Poll
voting on amendments to the gay marriage bill including a proposal to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples . The government has hinted this could derail the law entirely. Do you think partnerships should be an option for ...
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Whats all this about the EUs democratic deficit | Peter Millar
One of the best arguments against referendums is that they are seldom fought on facts, and more often on buzz phrases or received wisdom, little of it wise. The most commonly heard buzz phrase circulating in Britain's soul-searching over our membership of the European Union is "democratic deficit". It is a phrase much-loved because a) it is alliterative, and b) only vaguely ...
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British Embassy in China establishes countdown clock for London Olympics
British Embassy in China established a countdown clock at the ambassador's residence here on Wednesday to mark the one-year countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games. "The final countdown will begin. An exciting year of outstanding sporting and cultural events in Britain will set the stage for the greatest (sport) show on earth next summer," said ambassador Sebastian Wood. Zuo ...
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Lyon Divorced British dad slits throats of his two children and escapes on ROLLER SKATES
Police were called to the scene by his French ex-wife when she went to pick up the children and came across him in blood-soaked clothes in the lobby of his apartment ...
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Hillsborough disaster Senior cop urged PC to make fix complaint
A former top cop who was slated over the Hillsborough disaster "encouraged" a PC to complain about two men who first investigated it. The constable - named on BBC tonight as PC Mark Lewis - made the complaint after talks with Sir Norman Bettison, then South Yorks superintendent. His officers policed the game in Sheffield in 1989 where 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death. PC ...
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Chelsea Flower Show bankers network among the narcissi
Chelsea Flower Show is where the City hopes to cultivate new business.While the TV cameras will be trained on the Queen's visit and gardening royalty such as Alan Titchmarsh and Carol Klein for the horticultural event's centenary year, big corporates rule the rudbeckias after 7pm.The show's gala dinner attracts some of the top names in business, politics and banking, the highlight ...
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Empty Stores In Malls And Retail Parks Spread
A surge in shopping centre vacancies means almost one in every eight British stores is now empty, according to a new survey. Empty shops now account for 11.9% of retail space, after failures including Comet and Jessops knocked holes in the shopping hubs and out-of-town retail parks. The percentage of UK shop vacancies in April worsened from 10.9% in January and was the highest rate since ...
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Xbox 720 five key points about Microsofts new generation
Xbox machine, which still doesn't have a name - although Infinity is a frontrunner once again. Taking place at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, the event will be live-streamed across the globe, and should ...
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Gay marriage bill at risk of collapse –No 10
civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.In the strongest indication yet that Downing Street will shelve the bill if "fundamental" changes are made, Miller warned that opponents were in danger of giving the government a "headache".The intervention by Miller, hours before MPs vote on a series of amendments to the marriage (same sex couples) bill, marks an intensification of ...
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Newark gas blast second body found
A second body has been found following a gas explosion that destroyed a terraced house, Nottinghamshire police said.The explosion seriously injured four others, including two children. Up to 100 neighbours had to be evacuated on Sunday night as firefighters were forced to clear debris brick by brick in their rescue attempts.The blast, which devastated a house on a street in Newark and severely ...
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British snowboarder plummets 3600 feet to his death in French Alps
A British snowboarder has plummeted 3,600 feet to his death in the French Alps. The man was desperately trying to make his way along a narrow, steep ridge while being battered by 60mph winds when he fell. He and a British skier he is thought to have met on an internet forum set off to descend the Valle Blanche, a famous off-piste descent, in the Mont Blanc Massif above Chamonix on Saturday. ...
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Michael Jacksons maid saw singer in shower with abuse claim boy
A man's claims that he was molested by Michael Jackson when he was a child have been backed up by the singer's former maid.Blanca Francia, 57, claimed she walked in on Jackson showering with Australian Wade Robson - and is willing to say so in a court battle Wade has launched.Blanca, whose son Jason also insists the King of Pop molested him at his Neverland ranch, said: "Michael ...
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Yoko Ono thanks Sir Paul McCartney for saying she had nothing to do with The Beatles split
Yoko Ono has thanked Sir Paul McCartney for saying that she had nothing to do with The Beatles breaking up. John Lennon's widow said McCartney had been brave to admit last year she "could not be blamed for anything" and John was "definitely going to leave the band in 1970". In a BBC interview, Yoko, 80, added: "Yes, I think he was sweet to say that and probably he ...
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Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Streenkamp cuddle up in last photo - four days before he shot her dead
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Watch the moment half-naked romeo jumps out of window after getting caught in the act by love rival
Dangling from a flat window 30ft high in just boxer shorts and a vest, this romeo makes a quick getaway after he gets caught in the act by his lover's partner. In a scene which could have come right out of a movie, the man escapes using a makeshift rope out of bedsheets. As he does, his lover and her man have a furious argument on the balcony. Crowds gathered below to watch the drama in ...
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Kate Middletons royal shop goes head-to-head with the Queens over royal babywear
Prince William and Kate on tour in Canada shortly after their 2011 wedding.It tells children: "In 2011 Prince William, now Duke of Cambridge, returned to his childhood home with his new wife Catherine."Kensington Palace is now their official London ...
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Coronation Street triumphs over EastEnders at British Soap Awards 2013
left the ceremony in Manchester almost empty handed, with just a Lifetime Achievement award for Adam Woodyatt, who has played Ian Beale since the soap began.ITV soap Corrie proved a hit with fans taking home three out of five of the public-voted awards.Alan Halsall accepted his Best Actor award just after the ceremony had paid tribute to Bill Tarmey, Corrie's Jack Duckworth, who died last ...
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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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