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Footballers Cleared Of Brighton Sex Assault
Four footballers have been cleared today of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room. Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial. Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence. They were given ...
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British Airways Heathrow incident causes travel chaos on one of the busiest weekends of the year
Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary. Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky ...
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Dont underestimate the chemical generation | Scott Oliver
DiY soundsystem spent four days at Castlemorton - an oasis of house grooves amid the pounding techno - and the best part of two decades thereafter throwing free parties across the Midlands and beyond. Explicitly positioned against capitalism and the profit motive (whenever the police came to shut things down or arrest them, they were unable to because, to their general bewilderment, no money was ...
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BBC and Channel 4 criticised for giving radical cleric Anjem Choudary airtime
The faith and communities minister, Baroness Warsi, and the shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, have criticised the media for giving too much airtime to the radical cleric Anjem Choudary in the wake of ...
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Mark Bridger denies lying about April Jones murder
The man accused of abducting and murdering April Jones has told a jury he has no explanation for why her body has never been found and apologised for not being able to say where he left it.Giving evidence for the third day, the former slaughterman and lifeguard Mark Bridger was asked what he had said to lure the five-year-old into his car, but told the jury he had never spoken to April.He ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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Michael Foster sells controlling stake in the Rights House media agency
Michael Foster has sold his controlling stake in the Rights House, the literary and media agency he created three years ago with Caroline Michel's Peters Fraser & Dunlop.Foster's shareholding is understood to have been bought by two of the company's other shareholders, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert and former JP Morgan banker Ian Hannam.The deal ...
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Firm regularly mixed horsemeat with beef
Link to video: How horsemeat scandal company used migrant workers to boost production "Everything passed through my hands: beef, horse, old meat that stank, sometimes even 'fresh' meat but it wasn't exactly fresh Yes, I cut horse. I suspected there was something wrong but I just did what I was told to do," Jan Kowalski told us.Kowalski (not his real name) is one ...
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Heathrow emergency landing filmed from BA plane – video
Mobile phone footage shows a British Airways plane's left-hand engine exposed with the flap raised as it makes an emergency landing at Heathrow airport. The flight was forced to ground after a technical fault that witnesses on the ground say caused part of the plane to burst into flames. The footage shows passengers on the runway after being evacuated by crew via emergency ...
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Video British Airways plane makes emergency landing
A British Airways plane headed to Oslo made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow airport. The emergency slides were deployed and smoke could be seen coming out of an engine of the Airbus A-319. All 75 passengers exited the plane safely. Gayle King ...
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504MW wind farm OKd for British coast
The British government announced Friday it gave consent to the construction of a 504-megawatt wind farm planned for the coast of Suffolk. The British Department of Energy and Climate Change granted permission to Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. to build a 140-turbine development in Suffolk. The department estimates that as many as 500,000 households will get energy from the wind farm when it's ...
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Twitter users should learn lessons from Sally Bercows libellous tweet
the Sally Bercow libel verdict you should beware letting your fingers and thumbs run away with themselves.The high court ruling, though specifically dealing with Bercow's tweet ...
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Baby sham Can trying alcohol during puberty lead to addiction
young people in a German cohort study, and 20 Wistar rats. The study authors wanted to investigate the often-seen relationship between a child's age at first drink and subsequent alcohol abuse problems, or harm from alcohol. They state that they are interested in what neurobiological mechanisms underlie the association, so look at the relationship between puberty stage when the child (or ...
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Exiled cleric who taught UK soldiers killer praises courage
Lee Rigby on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in ...
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Dale Cregans police van in collision on the way to court
The van was travelling to Preston Crown Court, where Cregan has been on trial, according to the Press Association.Four prison officers suffered minor injuries and have been taken to hospital for treatment, while one prisoner was injured, Greater Manchester Police ...
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TV review The Hunt for Britains Sex Gangs Channel 4
On the screen you saw blurred mug shots tiled on a wall, while on the soundtrack you heard a montage of survivor accounts of the abuse, the recordings hollow and echoey. The visual blurring was tactful expedience, a need to protect the identities of girls who had already been through far too much. The acoustic blurring was something else, an implication of traumatic memory, of events being ...
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HSBC chairman apologises for scandals
Douglas Flint says sorry to investors at the bank's annual general meeting and talks of the damage to HSBC's reputation from a series of ...
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Dale Cregan prison van involved in road collision
Dale Cregan has admitted the murders of police officers Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes and father and son David and Mark Short. Photograph: AFP/Getty ...
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How horsemeat scandal company used migrant workers to boost production - video
Felicity Lawrence visits a Dutch meat processing plant alleged to have supplied horsemeat labelled as beef to an abattoir in Cheshire, from where it entered the human food chain. The Polish workforce at Willy Selten's meat factory was alleged to have been underpaid and living in sub-standard conditions before the plant closed following a raid by Dutch authorities. Selten was arrested by ...
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Runways reopen after emergency landing
Heathrow airport's runways have reopened after a British Airways plane trailing smoke made an emergency landing on Friday morning, leading to a temporary shutdown and the cancellation of almost 200 flights.The flight, heading to Oslo from Heathrow, returned to the airport shortly after taking off at 8.16am due to a technical fault. Airport officials initially shut both runways but soon ...
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Horsemeat company regularly mixed horse in with beef say Polish workers
Link to video: How horsemeat scandal company used migrant workers to boost production "Everything passed through my hands: beef, horse, old meat that stank, sometimes even 'fresh' meat but it wasn't exactly fresh Yes, I cut horse. I suspected there was something wrong but I just did what I was told to do," Jan Kowalski told us.Kowalski (not his real name) is one ...
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AXA PPP cancer expert in live chat
During the clinic, visitors are invited to ask questions on the prevention and treatment of bowel cancer, and will receive a live response from a medical ...
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UK Government advisor calls for obstructive sleep apnoea testing to reduce road deaths in the Middle East
Middle East Update in Otolaryngology last week in Dubai. Mr Oko presented data on the morbidity of OSA, and revealed his experience of how treating it can reduce fatal car accidents, as evidenced in Lincolnshire, UK: "Because of a prolonged campaign about the condition and the better treatment options available after the Sleeping Disorders Centres were established, we have ...
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Sally Bercow tweet libelled Lord McAlpine high court rules
Lord McAlpine over a tweet that falsely linked him with an allegation of child sexual abuse.The high court ruled on Friday that her tweet - "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*" - after BBC2 Newsnight allegations about a high-profile Tory politician - would have been understood to mean the former Tory chairman was a paedophile.Bercow, who was not in court for the ruling, ...
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Woolwich murder of Drummer Lee Rigby condemned by defence secretary – video
The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, says the military community is deeply saddened by Wednesday's murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Witnesses say the 25-year-old soldier was hacked to death with a meat cleaver by two men near the army barracks in Woolwich, south-east London. Hammond says the public will not be cowed by ...
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Edinburgh's tram of indefinite delays
The development of a new tram system for Edinburgh has not been without controversy. Since the project was first proposed as far back as 1999 it took until 2006 for work to actually begin. Since then, there has been one failing after another, with many Edinburgh residents now wondering whether the new tram system will ever see the light of day and, more to the point, whether it is in fact necessary.
Edinburgh had a tram system up until the 1950s and, like many developed cities, it did away with the network in favor of other forms of public transport, mainly buses. Increasingly heavy traffic jams in the capital, however, have prompted city leaders to reconsider and in 2006 two bills went through parliament and were approved. Read more
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