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Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England
Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...
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Selfish parents are killing their kids for the sake of themselves
Do you remember the days when parents stayed together for the sake of the kids?It seems a distant time.Now parents are destroying their kids for the sake of themselves.How heartbreaking were the pictures of little Mathew and Carla Stevenson choosing sweets in a baker's shop, just four hours before their father slit their throats?We don't yet know exactly why Julian Stevenson, ...
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Economists welcome fall in British inflation
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced that British consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, dropped to 2.4 percent in the year to April, down from 2.8 percent in ...
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Oil Prices Have Been Rigged For Years European Union Just Now Starting To Investigate
they’re launching an investigation into the rigging of oil prices. It’s long been known that much of what drives the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, food, and other products, is not the free market, but rather, the biggest players in the oil market, and yet this has largely gone untouched while people throw blame here, there and everywhere for the high price of gasoline. The ...
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Food Hygiene Standards A Postcode Lottery
Food outlets in parts of a London borough have the worst hygiene standards out of more than 2,000 postcodes, according to a Which? investigation. Bexley in south east London had six of the 10 worst postcodes studied, with the worst postcode, DA7, having nearly half of its eateries inspected (45%) rated as lower than "generally satisfactory", the watchdog found. In contrast, none ...
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Incoming Bank of England chief sees more dark days for Europe
(13 mins ago) Europe faces a ';decade of stagnation’’ if it does not move on momentous reforms to put its fiscal house back in order, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned yesterday. He will head the Bank of England from July 1. ';Europe remains in recession, with economic activity constrained by fiscal austerity, low confidence and tight credit ...
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Afghan interpreters to get British visas
About 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government has revealed.Prime Minister David Cameron initially opposed calls to allow interpreters and their families to settle in Britain but backed down following a campaign.He is now preparing to offer five-year visas to those who served on the ...
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Highs and lows of lifelong friendship Weve been best mates for 30 years but we still feel 11
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Oklahoma tornado terror Eyewitness account of the apocalyptic devastation
Nothing could prepare you for the scene of sheer devastation. No blockbuster movie. No TV programme. No book.Here in Oklahoma, it is all very real.Every single foot of the 20 mile-long scar created ...
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Legal aid budget protests Eight reasons to back lawyers campaign
Eight reasons to support the mass protest of lawyers outside the Houses of Parliament today, against huge cuts which are planned for the legal aid budget.So far, 320million has come out of the annual budget for civil legal aid, now the Government wants another 220million cut from the criminal budget.1 Two out of three people think the legal aid bill is worth paying for fair justice.2 Cuts to ...
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Enforced volunteering of workfare is against ethical nature of charities
This week, the Department for Work and Pensions lost a long court battle to keep secret the location of Workfare placements - that's where unemployed people are forced to work to keep their benefits.Workfare is great for companies, because they get free labour, and the cost is covered by the taxpayer. But the Government was worried it might also get them "negative publicity". It ...
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Sex drive One in five motorists admit making love in vehicle in a public car park
One in five drivers has admitted having sex in their motor in a public car park, according to a survey.Car parks can bring out the worst in us with a fifth of motorists suffering from parking rage over lack of spaces or being blocked in.Eight out of ten drivers find parking stressful and almost half will choose a bay that they can pull into forwards, rather than have to back in as others ...
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Bedroom Tax evictions set to begin as first notification letters arrive
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Xbox One launch Why Microsofts latest console will make everyone sit up
seen Microsoft launch the new Xbox One , the latest salvo in the gaming console wars, striking back at Sony's PS4 announced back in February. An all new design, blazingly fast performance (up x8 over the Xbox 360), a tweaked controller and Kinect, to name but a few points make this a console to make everyone sit up. For a full breakdown, check out ...
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Nick Clegg warns Cameron not to let Coalition get blown off course by Tory infighting
Nick Clegg will insist today that the Coalition will last until 2015 but will warn David Cameron not to allow it to be blown off course by Conservative ...
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Paul McCartney lends support to free school in Liverpool
One of the Government's flagship free schools is to be backed by former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and will have the aim of giving primary school children the chance to flourish in the performing ...
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Miliband says Google tax behaviour wrong
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs will come under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accuses the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to ...
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Coalition to last despite rifts infighting - Clegg
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Deputy prime minister will take the unusual step of holding a news conference on Wednesday to say the country's two-party coalition will hold together until 2015 as he tries to stabilise a government beset ...
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Free school offering cross-subject learning approved by Michael Gove
Michael Gove , the education secretary, a slight decrease on the 109 schools opening this year.XP's prospective headteacher, Gwyn ap Harri - a former computer science teacher who went on to start a company selling educational software - says the ...
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MPs issue damning verdict on HMRC failures in fraud and error clampdown
Margaret Hodge, chair of the public accounts committee, said the HMRC's performance on fraud and error had been 'hugely disappointing and extremely poor'. Photograph: Andrew ...
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Direct Travel Insurance joins Feefo online feedback
Customers will have a quick and easy way to rate Direct Travel Insurance service and travel insurance policies by awarding up to 5 stars in a few simple clicks. Their reviews will go onto the Direct Travel Insurance ...
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Care Bill without funding could rob Peter to pay Paul
The government has published the long awaited Care Bill aimed at bringing together more than a dozen separate pieces of legislation into one single law and addressing the issues of those having to sell their homes to pay for care, to better integrate care services, and drive up ...
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Clements offers life cover for individuals abroad
Clements Worldwide is making its term life insurance available to all eligible individuals at the same discounted rates only previously available to existing ...
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Aviva adds back service for corporate health insurance
Aviva has added a new core benefit for its large corporate private medical insurance clients, which will help employees with any musculoskeletal conditions get back to work quicker, while reducing claims and absence costs for ...
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WPA adds swift diagnosis to health cash plan
WPA has improved company cash plan NHS Top-Up with a new swift diagnosis option to cover employees' private consultations and diagnostic ...
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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