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Game Hunting in Englands Premier League
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Governments flagship Work Programme not helping long-term unemployed find jobs
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Google faces new pressure over tax claims
Google's data centre in Dublin: by booking all UK sales through Ireland, the internet company handed HMRC only about 10m in corporation tax over the period 2006-11. Photograph: Niall ...
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i Assistant Editors Letter A British crack at The Final Frontier
Ever since I was a little boy, I have been fascinated with space. I would spend hours looking through books on the Apollo missions, idolising Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their lunar landing in 1969. I would lie in my bed dreaming of hurtling through space, trying to imagine what it was like for Michael Collins, the forgotten man of that mission who was left in the module orbiting the Moon ...
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Maria Stubbings case Call for inquiry after murdered woman was failed by police
The family of a woman murdered by a convicted killer has called for a public inquiry into the handling of domestic violence cases, following a second damning report into police failures over her ...
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Work Programme is giving least help to worst off
Private companies who win government contracts to help the jobless find work are "parking" some of the most disadvantaged people on benefits, MPs warn ...
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Relatively Speaking – review
This often clumsy, unfocused and surreal play about a Welsh singer's fall from fame could never be accused of lacking heart - or good songs, ...
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Gay marriage debate highlights deep divide in Conservative party
Anti-same sex marriage activists demonstrate on 20 May as Tory traditionalists failed in a series of bids to limit the scope of the bill. Photograph: Facundo ...
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UK Healthcare donates to Simeon Centre Counselling Service
UK Healthcare has made a donation to the Simeon Centre; a Bolton based mental health charity that offers a confidential counselling service for people living in the ...
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National Dental Plan offers individual dental insurance
National Dental Plan will launch two new products; Wisdom Benefits provides savings on cosmetic dental treatment, and Dencover is a low-cost plan suitable for those looking for a less comprehensive package. Other products will ...
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British school takes lecture classes to new depths -- 60 feet down
Britain's University of Exeter says it has taken its marine biology lecture classes to a new level -- 60 feet beneath the sea off Indonesia, to be exact. The lectures were held during dives on tropical coral reef systems during the annual field trip to the Wakatobi Marine National Park in Indonesia for the school's School of Biological Sciences students, a university release said ...
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UK first in EU to get Mercks new Schmallenberg vaccine
Merck & Co , had been issued a licence for the new vaccine after an accelerated assessment to make it available this summer. As a result, farmers will be able to vaccinate sheep and cattle before most of them become pregnant, which is important as exposure to the virus can cause damage to foetuses. Schmallenberg virus - named after the German town where it was first detected - infected ...
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Spider-Man Broadway venue sold to Britains Ambassador Theatre
Mon May 20, 2013 7:58pm EDT May 20 (Reuters) - British theater company Ambassador Theatre Group's subsidiary Lyric Theatre LLC has purchased Foxwoods Theatre, currently home to the "Spider-Man" musical, from Live Nation Entertainment Inc, the companies said on Monday. Lyric Theatre paid about $65 million for Foxwoods, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The Foxwoods ...
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Trade union leaders must team up to fight Coalition cuts warns PCS leader
Union eaders risk sliding into "irrelevance" unless they unite to fight the Tory-led Coalition's cuts, the leader of Britain's biggest civil servants' union will warn today. Mark Serwotka, in a keynote address at the annual conference of his 280,000-strong Public and Commercial Services union, will criticise the "entrenched defeatism" of some union leaders who ...
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Kate Middleton and Prince William will be great parents says Mike Tindall
William and Kate will make "great parents" .The ex-England rugby captain, who married the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips almost two years ago, said: "Willy, sorry Prince William, will be outstanding while Kate is a natural mother."It's great for them. The whole family is really excited about the baby. I think everyone's excited."I'm so happy for ...
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British explorer Philip Goodeve-Docker died from hypothermia during Greenland snow storm
A young British explorer died from hypothermia during a 400-mile trek across Greenland's vast ice-cap, an inquest heard yesterday.Philip Goodeve-Docker, 31, was on ...
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Mad cow disease alert Patient being treated in hospital for suspected CJD
Health chiefs last night confirmed a man suspected of suffering from the human form of mad cow disease is being treated in hospital.The unnamed victim is feared to have contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, known as CJD, said the Heath Protection Agency.CJD is linked to cattle disease BSE, which led to the slaughter of millions of cattle in the UK and a worldwide ban on British beef in the early ...
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Paul Hollywood and Marcela Valladolid on-screen chemistry First picture of American Baking Competition co-host
Bake Off star Paul Hollywood and his US co-host show off their on-screen chemistry in the first picture together since it emerged he has left his wife.Footage from The American Baking Competition - the US version of The Great British Bake Off - shows the heartthrob trading quips with Marcela Valladolid.In the trailer for the show which airs on May 29, Paul tells fans that he loves America - ...
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James Bulgers mum in personal plea to keep killer Jon Venables in jail
James Bulger's mother will make a personal plea tomorrow to keep killer Jon Venables in jail.Denise Fergus wants the Parole Board to look again at whether her son's murder was sexually motivated - evidence that was omitted from the 1993 trial of Venables and Robert Thompson.The pair were freed in 2001 but Venables, 30, was sent back to jail for two years after police found indecent ...
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Drink-driver groped policeman and offered him and colleague a threesome
An alleged drink-driver groped a policeman's groin and bottom and offered him and his colleague a threesome, a court was told yesterday.Celina Hodge, 41, rubbed herself against one of the officers and said he had a "good ass" as he attempted to give her a breath test.Police had been called to her car after reports she was drinking vodka at the wheel.Prosecutor May Li said Hodge ...
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Christopher Biggins Id kill any sex abusers who touched young relatives
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Norma Spear inquest Care home left grandmother 71 die of thirst
A grandmother died of thirst because of gross neglect by care home staff.Norma Spear lost 35lbs and weighed five stones after a urinary tract infection stunted her appetite - leaving her seriously dehydrated.A coroner identified 11 failures by staff to act on serious concerns about her health - five of them severe enough to be gross neglect.Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe ruled Norma, 71, died of ...
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Anorexia and bulimia rise 15 in under a decade
The number of people diagnosed with an eating disorder each year has risen 15% in nine years.There are now 12,400 new cases in people aged between 10 and 49 every 12 months, according to the British Medical Journal.Girls between 15 and 19 fare worst, accounting for 4,610 new cases of anorexia, bulimia and other disorders each year.But overall, the number of patients has increased from 32.3 in ...
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Gina DeJesus Girl allegedly kidnapped by Ariel Castro watched mother on TV once a year
One of the girls allegedly kidnapped by Ariel Castro was allowed to watch TV once a year - to see her mother conduct a prayer service on the anniversary of her abduction, it is claimed. Mum Nancy Ruiz says that was the only glimpse of the outside world Gina DeJesus, now 23, was allowed in her nine years of captivity. She told a Spanish TV show: "She knew I hadn't given up looking ...
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Michael Jackson compared himself to modern day Jesus as he denied sex abuse charges
Deluded Michael Jackson denied sexually abusing children - comparing himself to a modern day Jesus.In a bizarre video-taped interview with lawyers, the King of Pop defended his close friendship with young boys by insisting he was a messenger of God.During the cross-examination on March 1, 1996, he declared: "Jesus said to love the children and be like children, be youthful, be innocent, be ...
Scotland Feature
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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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