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Cabinet office to fly rainbow flag during Pride week
Francis Maude is to show the government's commitment to the equality agenda by allowing the rainbow flag to be flown from the cabinet office in Whitehall during Pride week next month.David Cameron has faced criticism for attempting to distance the Tory leadership ...
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Human safaris Blow to Andamans
Survival International's call for a tourism boycott of the islands until 'human safaris' are stopped. The organization is asking nearly 200,000 tourists who visiting the islands every year to stay away - until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawa forest and an alternative sea route set. Survival's director Stephen Corry said on Thursday, "In ...
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Strong indications SE London attack by terrorists British
British Prime Minister David Cameron said there are strong indications that the attack in southeast London that killed one man is a terrorist incident, during a press conference in Paris on Wednesday."It is the most appalling crime. The police are urgently seeking all facts about this case. There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident," Cameron said at a press ...
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Good Turnout For British Forces Brunei Open Day
Seria - Hundreds of people, especially children, flocked the British Forces Brunei (BFB) Open Day held at the British Garrison Sports Complex in Seria. The Commander and all members of British Forces Brunei welcomed the public and invited guests to the open day to the music of members of the British marching band. Invited guests were escorted by high ranking officers from British Forces Brunei ...
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Daniel Vettori left out of New Zealand side for second England Test
England Daniel Vettori's hopes of making a return to Test cricket in New Zealand's series finale with England in Leeds ultimately came to nothing after he was ruled out on Thursday.Former captain Vettori has not played a Test for nearly a year, mainly because of Achilles trouble, and was only originally selected for the one-day leg of this tour.But a calf injury suffered by his ...
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London killers are Britons of Nigerian origin
LONDON: Britain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young, serving soldier being butchered with "stone age savagery" ...
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Victim was Manchester United fan father of 2-yr-old kid
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers . Father of two-year-old Jack, Britain's ministry of defence called him "a real character, always smiling". Drummer Rigby, 'Riggers' to his friends, was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester, and was a ...
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UK mosques attacked in backlash of Woolwich beheading
LONDON: Britain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young, serving soldier being butchered with "stone age savagery" ...
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2 travel companies drop Andaman tour to protest against human safaris
LONDON: Two global travel agencies have withdrawn tours to India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as a protest against the degrading "human safaris" to see the Jarawa tribe. Travelpickr, a global company based in Canada and India, and Spanish company Orixa Viatges have become the first operators to withdraw following UK based Survival International's call for a tourism boycott ...
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Muslim Britain a community viewed through prisms of security and paranoia
Calling for war on the streets of Britain, Michael Olumide Adebolajo, born in East London to Nigerian parents, told a passer-by: "We apologise that women had to see this today but in our lands our women have to see the ...
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Extremist group’s teachings changed lives of British Muslims
It has been known by a myriad of names, but the reach of the banned Islamic organisation al-Muhajiroun has changed the lives utterly of a generation of young British ...
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Woolwich attack Full list of todays coverage
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a ...
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The Lede British Attack Suspect Followed Fringe Preacher Once Considered a Laughing Stock
calmly spoke to witnesses as he waited for the police to arrive, has been identified as Michael Adebolajo, a Briton of Nigerian heritage who converted to Islam about a decade ago. Two former leaders of al-Muhijaroun, an extremist group with a small following that was banned in Britain after terrorist attacks in London in 2005, told reporters on Thursday that the suspect was part of their ...
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Lord Black the Tory peer at the heart of medias biggest battle
Those who might think that the era of the press baron is over haven't heard of Lord Black. He may not be a household name but the Conservative peer, director of the company behind the Daily Telegraph and consummate insider is ...
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Toilet Strike Bono Richard Branson Olivia Wilde Not Using Bathroom Until Water Crisis Solved
attitude. Bono, Richard Branson and Olivia Wilde have joined Matt Damon in his jokey pledge to not go to the bathroom until the world water crisis is solved. And they've invited us all to achieve stardom by saying no to nature's ...
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Declassified files reveal British spies in U.S. during WWII
LONDON - Britain's World War II spying on U.S. isolationist groups and its propaganda efforts against them were revealed in secret archives published for the first time Thursday. The declassified documents at the National Archives in London show how Winston Churchill was sent a report on a 1940 private phone call between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and ...
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Britain Knew of 2 Suspects In Killing of Soldier
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Woolwich attack video Firearms experts view on extraordinary Daily Mirror footage
I have never seen or even heard of a scenario where two suspects attack a victim and then remain on the scene waiting for the police to ...
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Woolwich attack The three extraordinarily brave angels who faced up to Lee Rigby’s brutal killers
revulsion of the Woolwich terror attack , millions around the world have marvelled at the extraordinary bravery of three ordinary women.Dubbed the "Angels of Woolwich", the trio faced up to Lee Rigby's brutal killers with little thought for their own safety.TV footage shows two of them fearlessly tending the already-dead soldier's body, just yards from knife and meat ...
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Woolwich attack 24 hours after the butchering Quiet defiance in the face of such bitter evil
butchering, Woolwich attempted to hide its pain under a blanket of normality.If you could tear your eyes away from the deserted South London streets behind the police cordon where a soldier's blood was being washed away by heavy rain showers, and from the rows of the media vans, a reeling community made a decent go at getting through another lunchtime.People, shocked to the core the day ...
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Britain turning into gangmasters paradise due to failure to enforce minimum wage warns Labour
The Government is turning Britain into a "gangmasters' paradise" by failing to enforce the minimum wage, new figures reveal.Only two bosses have been taken to court for paying below the legal limit, 6.19 an hour, in the past three years.And just three have been referred to prosecutors.Workplace inspections have halved from 3,643 in Labour's last 12 months in power to just ...
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Woolwich attackers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were known to M15
The two killers who beheaded the soldier in a Woolwich street had cropped up in "several investigations" by the security services in recent ...
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Immigration to Britain fell by more than a third last year but Labour says figures distorted
Immigration to Britain fell more than a third last year, according to official figures released yesterday.Net migration plummeted from 242,000 in 2011 to 153,000, the Office for National Statistics revealed.Around 500,000 people arrived here, down from 581,000. Meanwhile, the number leaving increased from 339,000 to 347,000.Immigration Minister Mark Harper said it showed the Government's ...
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Batman-obsessed bodybuilder attacked stranger with axe then wrote Joker-style Facebook update
A Batman-obsessed bodybuilder attacked a total stranger with an axe - then posted a chilling online message in the style of The Joker.Just moments after psychotic Dale Pipe left his victim lying in a pool of blood, he used his mobile to write on Facebook: "Why so serious? Hahahahaha."In movie the Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's maniacal Joker uses the words repeatedly before knifing ...
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Steven Rudderham Dad falsely accused of being paedophile on Facebook found hanged
A dad found hanged in a cemetery was driven to suicide after he was falsely accused on Facebook of being a paedophile, his family claim.Steven Rudderham, 48, was traumatised when his name, address and photograph were published online, with a message calling him a "dirty perv".Within 15 minutes, the message had been shared hundreds of times and he received death threats via the social ...
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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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