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Senior Tories to warn No 10 of declining confidence in David Cameron
David Cameron, who could face a confidence vote if the chairman of the Tory 1922 committee receives enough letters demanding one. Photograph: Oli ...
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Chelsea flower show austere elements and an Australian ray of light
Chelsea flower show seems strangely subdued. Despite the jollity of the unbanned gnomes and the celebrity-spangled glamour of Monday's press day ("there's Helen Mirren in a lily-of-the-valley print skirt! Look, it's Ringo Starr and his wife!"), it's a struggle to find a show garden that raises the hairs on the back of the neck, a real showstopper.Adding to this ...
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Petrol price rigging inquiry contacts oil traders
oil trading companies have been asked to provide information to the cross-border investigation into alleged petrol price rigging. There is no suggestion that these companies are being ...
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UK delays award of prison privatisation contract - FT
Ministry of Justice following an investigation into whether it was overcharged on two contracts with private-sector companies, the Financial Times reported. The winning bidders for the privatisation of HMP Northumberland and South Yorkshire, which together total five prisons, had expected to be told this week, the paper said. The decision has been delayed partly because the personnel ...
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UPDATE 1-NBC News looks to Britain for its new president
Mon May 20, 2013 3:24pm EDT By Liana B. Baker May 20 (Reuters) - Deborah Turness, a former top TV news editor in Britain, will take over as NBC News president in August, at a time when it is looking to turn around the fortunes of its news division. Turness will replace Steve Capus, who left the network in February. She will report to Patricia Fili-Krushel, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, ...
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Newark gas explosion Survivors heartbreaking cry for wife and dad killed in blast
of a huge suspected gas blast kept asking for his wife and father who were killed.Nick Rourke was pulled alive from the rubble seconds after the explosion, but the bodies of his dad Leslie, 71, and wife Jeanette, 40, were not found until hours later.Jeanette Dixon, 34, who helped haul Nick to safety after spotting his bloodied hand sticking out of the debris, revealed: "He kept saying, ...
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Prince William jokes about sleepless nights when wife Kate Middleton gives birth
the Duke of Cambridge looked every inch the proud father today as he was handed a babygrow with "My daddy's a hero" emblazoned on the front.With two months to go until the arrival of his first child, William laughed with other parents about the sleepless nights ahead.The father-to-be was handed the outfit and a Help for Heroes teddy bear as he toured the charity's Tedworth ...
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Top AE doctors warn We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore
The Accident & Emergency crisis is now so severe that doctors can no longer guarantee safe care for patients, NHS officials have warned in a leaked letter seen by The ...
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The Great Gatsbys world is every bit as unequal as Britain under the coalition | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Great Gatsby 3D Production year: 2013 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 143 mins Directors: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Callan McAuliffe, Carey Mulligan, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey ...
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Michael Gove suggests Wales and Northern Ireland split off school exams
GCSEs and A-levels are currently set to the same standard in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Michael Gove said it was hard to see how this could continue. Photograph: Chris ...
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Lost in space why it has taken so long to put a British astronaut into orbit
Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex ...
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Tim Peake one giant leap for Britains first man in space
Major Tim Peake will make history when he joins the crew of the International Space Station in 2015. So what can Britain's first official astronaut expect of life ...
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FirstGroup shares plunge after rights issue and sharp fall in profits
Tim O'Toole, FirstGroup's chief executive, said the proceeds from the rights issue would provide the flexibility and capital confidence to work on the creation of long-term value for shareholders. Photograph: FirstGroup ...
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BREAKING Civil partnerships face axe as price of ensuring David Camerons gay marriage plans become law
Civil partnerships could be abolished as the price of ensuring David Cameron's plans to legalise gay marriage become law, it emerged last ...
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Chelsea Flower Show A blooming century lit up by tweed and Pimm’s
Joanna Lumley, the Queen and Ringo Starr were among the Great British institutions to wish a happy 100th birthday to another one - the Chelsea Flower ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Attacks from dissident republicans likely during G8 summit
The head of the policing operation for next month's G8 summit said that attacks from dissident republicans were likely to continue in Northern Ireland despite thousands of extra police officers being brought ...
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Pregnant woman begs court to let her abort baby
A pregnant woman suffering from "severe" mental health problems has made an impassioned plea to a High Court judge, asking that she be granted an ...
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City’s Rodwell gets England call up
London - Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell was called up to the England squad on Monday for their friendlies against Ireland and Brazil despite playing in only 11 league games all ...
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Propaganda war who will win Scottish teenage hearts and minds
Scottish independence . For Euan the answer is a clear "yes" because he believes it will be his best guarantee of a free university education. Rosie is a "no". She says: "We should be arguing that what we think is better for the future of young people ...
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Wigan supporters look on bright side at FA Cup victory parade
They like a good party in Wigan, and the small matter of their beloved football team, the Latics, being relegated from the Premier League was never going to make them downhearted.Never mind the missed trips to Old Trafford, Anfield, the Emirates and White Hart Lane next season, the club had lifted the prize not even the most ardent of their fans had ever dreamed possible: the FA ...
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Legal aid cuts will lead to state-sponsored miscarriages of justice | Sadiq Khan
In these straitened times, the legal system is not exempt from the need to find savings, but we all have a duty to achieve that in ways that do not put at risk the integrity of our justice system. Because it involves ...
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Church of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers
The Church of Scotland's John Chalmers says the vote in favour of allowing gay ministers is 'massive for the unity of the church'. Photograph: Danny ...
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Measles uptick in Britain Blame Andrew Wakefields autism-vaccine study
Ellen Christensen poses for a photograph with her six-week-old son Remy at the Ann Tayler Children Centre in east London May 9, 2012. More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious ...
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Rodwell called up by England
Manchester City's Jack Rodwell has been called up by England for the international matches against Republic of Ireland and Brazil.The 22-year-old midfielder was added to his country's squad by manager Roy Hodgson on Monday as a potential replacement for Tom ...
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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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