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Bright Grey critical illness cover giveaway
To mark its 10th birthday, Bright Grey will offer customers a year's free critical illness cover when they apply for life cover. The free cover, up to a value of 20,000, is available for the first 10,000 people that ...
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Adorable moment sea lion worries about little girl who trips and falls in front of its tank
This is the adorable moment a sea lion stopped to check on a little girl who had tripped and fallen in front of its tank. Footage captured the creature looking genuinely concerned as the youngster took a tumble while playing at a US zoo. As the child falls to the floor, the sea lion stops abruptly and turns around to see if she is ok. The creature then appears to worriedly hover by the glass ...
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Woman who disappeared while swimming in sea after drinking found alive following search operation
The Humber Coastguard said the 23-year-old woman, who had been drinking alcohol, was found semi-conscious on the beach near a holiday resort in Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness, early today. Chapel St Leonards' Coastguard rescue team and the Skegness inshore lifeboat were alerted to assist, along with an RAF search-and-rescue crew based at Leconfield in East Yorkshire, after a 999 call ...
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Union Gove Like Fanatical Personal Trainer
Education Secretary Michael Gove has been likened to a "fanatical personal trainer" in a strongly-worded attack by the leader of a teaching union. Bernadette Hunter, president of ...
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Cannes 2013 For Those In Peril - first look review
This debut feature from young British director Paul Wright concerns a disturbed young man in a remote Scottish fishing village: Aaron, played by George Mackay. He was the only person rescued alive from a craft wrecked by a catastrophic storm; the other five crew-members, including his adored elder brother Michael (Jordan Young), were drowned. It is a study in grief, pain and survivor-guilt - ...
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Young film-maker runner-up Getting it Right - video
competition in association with the Guardian and the National Union of Students. In this film, Amber interviews three generations of the Curtis family to discover if it is really harder now to be young and ...
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Leeds NHS trust replaces chief embroiled in heart surgery row
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) next month, ahead of a management shakeup which follows fears over high mortality figures.Operations were temporarily suspended earlier this year after concerns were raised over death rates at the children's heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).Boyle is not believed to have tendered her resignation.A trust spokesman would not confirm whether ...
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British woman died after drinking poisoned gin on holiday in Indonesia
The woman, named in reports as Cheznye Emmons, is said to have fallen ill after drinking from a bottle labelled "gin" bought from a local shop. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Indonesia and we are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time." Reports said the 23-year-old beauty therapist from Great ...
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Widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for public inquiry into his death
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for the inquest into her late husband's death to be abandoned and for a public inquiry to be held in its ...
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Cameron Ally Calls Tory Activists Loons
A member of David Cameron's inner circle has reportedly described Tory activists as "mad swivel-eyed loons". The senior figure blamed local Conservative associations for pressuring Tory MPs into supporting a eurosceptic amendment to the Queen's Speech. Some 114 Tories plus two Conservative tellers voted against the Government and in favour of the amendment last ...
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Five-year-old British girl dies in a pool at Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in Egypts Sharm el-Sheikh resort
The grandmother of Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south London, told Sky News that the family was "devastated" by her death. Chloe died in a waterpark at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, travel company First Choice said. First Choice said it would carry out a "full and thorough investigation" in partnership with the hotelier. A ...
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Woman 37 stabbed boyfriend after he farted in her face during argument
A 37-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend because he farted in her face during an argument. Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week. Burns claims the couple were rowing over money while watching TV when her 53-year-old lover got up to go to the kitchen and broke wind in her face. ...
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Murder hunt launched after mans body found in Coventry grassland
The victim, thought to be aged in his 40s, was found by a member of the public at about 5am on Saturday in Upper Spon Street, Coventry. A spokesman for West Midlands Police said a post-mortem examination would take place and added: "The death is being treated as murder and the area has been sealed off while forensic inquiries begin. "Officers at the scene are carrying out ...
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England v New Zealand – day three live | Andy Bull and Tom Davies
Good morning Andy will be here shortly with all the play from Lord's as England take on New Zealand. In the meantime, here's what Mike Selvey made of yesterday's ...
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Schools Chancellor to Strike Back at Candidates Critical of Mayor’s Policies
Charter schools would no longer be allowed space in traditional school buildings. Neighborhood school boards would be given more oversight over superintendents and principals. Cellphones, long considered contraband in schools, would again be permitted past the ...
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Asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 set to fly past Earth later this month
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Explosive device removed by Northern Ireland police investigating attempted murders
What is believed to be a bomb found by police investigating the attempt to murder three officers in West Belfast has been taken away, police ...
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Npower feels the heat after accusations of UK tax avoidance
Npower has become the latest firm to feel the heat of a mass consumer boycott after thousands of its gas and electricity customers said they plan to switch supplier to protest at its tax affairs.In April, chief executive officer Paul Massara revealed in the House of Commons that his company had paid almost no corporation tax between 2009 and 2011.When it later emerged that the energy giant had ...
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What do you do after a burglary
There has been good news on burglary in recent weeks. Official figures show that break-ins were down 9% in 2012, in part because the fall in electrical prices means there's less stuff that is worth nicking. The Economist last week analysed the ...
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British woman may face death in Indonesia for drugs
JAKARTA (AFP) - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms (three pounds, four ounces) of the drug, the ...
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Nuffield retail bond launches at 6 – but does it have a clean bill of health
Financial advisers caution about making direct comparisons with retail bonds, such as the Nuffield Health bond, and fixed rate bond savings accounts. Photograph: ...
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Census finds Christianity in Britain losing ground
Almost 10 percent of young people in the United Kingdom now identify themselves as Muslim and fewer than half as Christian, 2011 Census figures show. The new analysis of the 2011 data released Friday shows Christianity has been losing ground even faster than thought among those born in the country, The Daily Telegraph reported. A report last year said the Census found 4.1 million Christians, ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 18
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Meat of cloned cow offspring enters British food chain
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that meat from the slaughtered three-year old bull was sold and eaten last year. It is thought the meat, likely to have ended up in a pie or burger, was sold in ...
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Why Im so sorry for my teenage tricks
It's hard being a teenager. It's hard to like them. It's even harder having one. It's a karmic avalanche for everything you put your parents through when you were one.So, judging by the misery being inflicted by my 14-year-old, I must have been a vile one myself.One of my frequently recurring thoughts right now is that I wish I'd said sorry to my parents before they ...
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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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