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Chloe Johnson Devastated mum feels empty inside after girl 5 drowns on holiday in Egypt
The mum of a little girl who drowned in a holiday wave pool told yesterday of her agonising loss - and angrily claimed the pool had no lifeguards.Chloe Johnson, ...
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David Camerons one-way ticket on the EU gravy train
David Cameron said he was 'profoundly relaxed' about the Commons' free vote over the omission in the Queen's speech of a referendum on our membership of the EU.Of course he was, he knows there will never be a referendum - and the reason for that is he knows he won't win one if there is.But even though 130 of his own MPs voted for the change, it wasn't enough for the ...
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Bedroom Tax toll continues as housing hardship claims up 400
The Sunday People reports that the number of people applying for the housing hardship cash has risen more than 400 per cent, the latest numbers reveal.And local councils say they do not have enough money or resources to cope with demand.Since the Bedroom Tax was introduced on April 1, social housing tenants have flooded town halls asking for Discretionary Housing Payments to help cover their ...
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Britains Got Talent daredevil diver Peter Waterfield is scared of heights
A daredevil Olympic diver who wowed Britain's Got Talent judges has confessed heights terrify him.Peter Waterfield, who partnered ace Tom Daley in the 2012 London games, made theamazing admission after getting fouryeses on last night's show, ...
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Gingerism hate crime victims speak out Bullied teased beaten to a pulp because of their hair
As four-year-old cutie Chloe Doyle smiles for the camera, her mum asks: "Are you a pretty girl?""No," she immediately fires back as her face falls, her smile disappears and she points to her head. "Ginger," she says.Chloe's mum, brother and sister are all fair-haired and her dad is dark. Little Chloe already sees herself as different."It breaks my ...
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Tia Sharps killer Stuart Hazell has been sent “more death threats than Ian Huntley”
Stuart Hazell has been sent death threats in jail and has to be guarded 24 hours a day in a special unit for vulnerable criminals.Tia Sharp's killer is the prison's most hated inmate and has been sent "more death threats than Ian Huntley", sources said.He is being kept in a wing alongside the most despised paedophiles and rapists at the tough jail.Hazell is on 24-hour suicide ...
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When off the record becomes on the agenda as swivel-eyed loons furore grows
A couple of hours earlier, 114 Tory MPs had voted against the Queen's Speech in protest over an EU referendum. The discussion reportedly ended with an extraordinary attack on the "mad, swivel-eyed loons" in the grassroots of the party who had forced the backbenchers to rebel against the Government.Lord Feldman denies it is he who said those words, and the newspapers, who ...
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The top ten political myths
John Rentoul is chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London, where he teaches contemporary history. Previously he was chief leader writer for The Independent. He has written a biography of Tony Blair, whom he admired more at the end of his time in office than he did at the ...
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New poll puts Ukip in third place above the Lib Dems
Support for the UK Independence Party across Britain has risen to its highest level, consolidating its position as the third most popular party in the country, according to a new poll ...
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Hundreds sign up to new social work scheme
More than 200 graduates have signed up to a new scheme to attract the brightest candidates into social work within just 24 hours of its launch, it emerged last ...
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Judi Dench defends drama school in row over advertising boards
Judi Dench has come to the defence of the drama school where she learned her Oscar-winning craft.The London borough of Camden has banned two advertising hoardings outside the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on supposedly aesthetic grounds.The Central says that it receives up to 150,000 a year from advertisers using the sites, which it donates to theatre charities involving thousands of ...
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Barack Obama must act like a true leader | Observer editorial
It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind ...
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The rules | Rafael Behr
So accustomed is modern society to the widespread practice of capitalism that some are inclined to think it has no rules; that the realm of economic activity is akin to a jungle where only the strongest survive. (Lions don't submit themselves to the authority of some enfeebled gazelle-market regulator.)In fact, capitalism does have rules but one of them is that the richer you get, the ...
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Academies are not the way forward for education | letters
Will Hutton's interesting analysis of the social consequences of the segregation of privately educated students from those in state-funded schools concluded (surprisingly and without evidence, apart from his visit to one school and Andrew Adonis's personal account of his reinvention of the comprehensive schools) that academies are the solution ...
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Trainee lawyer was denied permanent contract when she became pregnant
A trainee lawyer is in line for compensation from a top City law firm after winning her case for discrimination after she missed out on a job because she was pregnant.An employment tribunal found that law firm Travers Smith denied Katie Tantum, 33, a permanent job because she became pregnant in the final stages of her 42,000-a-year contract.A hearing will be held in June to determine what level ...
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British Study Raises Warning on Scottish Banks
LONDON -- An independent Scotland could find its banks too big to rescue in the event of another crisis, according to a British government report that compares the Scottish financial sector to those of debt-laden Iceland and ...
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Kate Middleton and Prince William gnome statues a first at Chelsea Flower Show
pregnant wife Kate are the first gnomes ever to go on show at the Chelsea Flower Show.Chelsea lifted a ban on the figures to mark the show's centenary, which starts on Tuesday, ...
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Cannes jewel heist was almost certainly an inside job say French police
A 1million Cannes Film Festival jewellery heist was "almost certainly" an inside job, cops said yesterday.Detectives confirmed that the hotel room safe from which the gems vanished was not insured, ...
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Broadmoor 150th anniversary Pictures show hospitals earliest criminals killers and poisoners
the Sunday People reports.Before 1863 the mentally ill - crooks or not - faced being caged in London's Bethlem asylum, nicknamed Bedlam.But the Victorians took a more humane view, founding Broadmoor in the leafy countryside around Crowthorne, Berks.And pioneering photographer Henry Hering captured the faces of many of the first intake, including some who played in the hospital band as well ...
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Anders Breivik Mass murderer is sole member of his own fascist party
The Sunday People reports the fanatic, 34, is serving 21 years for killing 77 people in a self-styled far-right crusade.Now he has applied to the authorities in Norway to form his own political party to peddle his extremist views, according to the Sunday People.Breivik wants to seize power in his home land and set up a state without any immigrants.But his bid to attract millions of supporters to ...
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Les Dawsons daughter plea to end family feud for 20th anniversary of comedians death
The youngest daughter of comic legend Les Dawson has made an emotional plea to her brother and sisters to end their long-running family rift.Charlotte, 20, has only ever spoken to Stuart, Julie and Pam on rare occasions since their father died in June 1993.She says Les would be devastated by the distance between his children and she is now urging her brother and sisters, who are all in their ...
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Tia Sharp uneasy about staying with Stuart Hazell three weeks before he murdered her
Tragic Tia Sharp seemed fearful about visiting paedophile Stuart Hazell's home THREE WEEKS before he murdered her there.The 12-year-old told gran Angie Niles she was "bored" staying with evil Hazell and her other grandmother Christine Bicknell.But heartbroken Angie, ...
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Pregnant orang-utan pictured clinging to final tree as bulldozers destroy rainforest around her
A starving, heavily pregnant orang-utan clings to a solitary tree high above what had been pristine rainforest for millennia - till giant bulldozers moved in and flattened it in days.Boon-Mee was too weak and frightened to leave the trunk where she had sought sanctuary as the machines tore down her jungle home in ...
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Jeremy Hunts claims sunk as leaked report reveals AE numbers are FALLING
Hospital casualty patient numbers are FALLING - blowing apart Jeremy Hunt's claim that record waiting times are caused by "overwhelming pressure" on A&E departments. A leaked NHS England report reveals 89,215 fewer emergency patients in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2012. The figure will raise fears over whether the Health Secretary has a ...
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David Moyes reveals fake Twitter account in daughters name has been shut down
New Man Utd boss David Moyes yesterday revealed how a bogus Twitter account in his daughter's name had leaked news of his appointment.Someone claiming to be his daughter Lauren announced he was to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson before his new job had been made official.Moyes, 50, said: "My daughter has never had a Twitter account and she was absolutely distraught by it."We had the ...
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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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