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British Leader Trendsetter Or A Bit Too Casual
The G-8 leaders speaking at this news conference in Northern Ireland all lost their ties, but British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) went a step further by ditching his jacket and rolling up his ...
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Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema face jail over underage prostitute claims
French international football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema are facing jail - accused of sleeping with an underage prostitute.But the lawyer for Ribery, who plays for Bayern Munich, claimed she was "not a vulnerable person" in court today.Carlo-Alberto Bruso was speaking on the first day of a criminal trial.The pair are accused of having slept with Zahia Dehar, a ...
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April Jones and Tia Sharps parents unite to demand crackdown on internet child abuse
Tia Sharp united today to demand ministers do more to crack down on vile internet child abuse. April's parents Paul and Coral Jones and 12-year-old Tia's father Steven Carter said their children's killers were spurred on by sick images found online. Devastated mum Coral said: "I just want it stopped and I think the Government should put more pressure and get it done ...
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America and Taliban set for direct talks this week over Afghanistan peace deal
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Three museums in north threatened with closure saved after promise on funding cuts
Ministers today climbed down over plans to close one of the country's leading museums.The Science Museum said either the National Rail Museum in York, or the National Media Museum in Bradford or Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry would have to shut because of Government cutsThe plan, first revealed in the Daily Mirror, provoked a storm of protest and saw rallies and ...
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Jeremy Forrest trial Schoolgirls mum thought she was dead when she vanished with married maths teacher
Jeremy Forrest, 30, and his 15-year-old pupil fled to France after their relationship was about to be exposed in September last year.Forrest booked a cross-Channel ferry from Dover to Calais with the schoolgirl, from Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, before spending seven days on the run.Scots-born Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent, denies child abduction.The ...
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Nigella Lawson photos Husband Charles Saatchi pictured in public for first time since accepting caution for attacking wife
since accepting a caution for attacking wife Nigella Lawson. The millionaire art collector and advertising guru, 70, stepped out of his Chelsea home this morning and smiled at the amassed cameras but refused to speak to reporters.It was the first time he had ventured out after spending five hours in a police station yesterday ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Dear Leader Dave dips his toe into the macho political pool
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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British military stock left over from Afghan war being moved out
The details of what has been happening to Britain's military equipment in Afghanistan were given today as the government there assumed responsibility for security across the country and international forces embarked on the final part of their exit strategy from the ...
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Enniskillen survivor asks Libyan prime minister to compensate IRA victims
G8 summit in Lough Earne, from Stephen Gault, who was badly injured in the Remembrance Sunday massacre.The Gaddafi regime supplied the Semtex explosive used in the IRA bomb that devastated the Co. Fermanagh town killing 11 people on Remembrance Sunday. A twelfth victim died after spending 13 years in a coma.Gault wrote that he was disappointed that Zeidan would not be meeting with victims' ...
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Asda slips as supermarkets battle for middle ground
Asda , the UK's second biggest supermarket, is suffering hardest from the squeeze as customers switch to cheaper rivals and the number three supermarket, Sainsbury's, threatens its position.Fraser McKevitt, a retail analyst for Kantar, said: "The jury is slightly out at the moment on when Sainsbury's will overtake Asda. The latter tends to do very well in the summer period, ...
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Burberrys London homecoming pays homage to Hockney and Bennett
London after a decade on the Milan menswear catwalks was always going to be a blockbuster show - but in the event, it was also an emotional homecoming. Designer Christopher Bailey created a subtle, nuanced collection which moved beyond the obvious pole stars of British menswear (Savile Row, punk, Bond, country gent) to celebrate instead the more eccentric, colourful, offbeat style of David ...
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Bank of England appoints woman as first chief operating officer
Bank of England governor, has appointed Charlotte Hogg, a senior executive at Santander and the scion of one of Britain's most blue-blooded political dynasties, to become the Bank's first chief operating officer.Hogg, who heads Santander's high street operations, will start at the Bank on 1 July - the day that Carney takes over from Sir Mervyn King. The 41-year-old will head all ...
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The weather may be grim but lets learn to enjoy it | Richard Mabey
Everyone bewildered by the seemingly unprecedented weirdness of this year's summer might spare a thought for those living in 1783, who went through another kind of trial by weather. Gilbert White of Selborne's account of the events of 23 June to 20 July is a masterpiece of deadpan gothic: "The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust coloured ferruginous ...
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Julian Assange will not leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges are dropped
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London even if sex charges against him are dropped, as he fears moves are already under way to extradite him to the ...
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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage
Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new ...
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‘Call Centre’ boss’s firms fined over nuisance calls
Two companies owned by the BBC's new reality star Neville "Big Nev" Wilshire - who appears in the fly-on-the-wall documentary The Call Centre - have been fined 225,000 for making nuisance ...
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Buckinghamshire village up in arms over location of new Sikh secondary school
A Buckinghamshire village is threatening legal action over plans to set up an 850-pupil Sikh secondary school in its midst. Residents of Stoke Poges have warned they will seek a judicial review of the proposal after Department for Education {DfE) bought an office block in the village for the school for a reputed ...
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G8 summit David Cameron hails landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion
David Cameron has hailed a landmark deal to rewrite global rules to stamp out tax evasion and stop companies shifting profits between countries to limit their tax ...
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Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power
World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...
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Ex-Gladiators Star Sues Over Phone Hacking
A British national who won the 1990s TV show Gladiators has become the first person to file a law suit in the US against News Corp over alleged phone hacking. Eunice Huthart, who triumphed in the show in 1994, has filed a suit in Los Angeles accusing the now defunct News of the World of intercepting her voice mail messages. The 46-year-old, who has also worked as Hollywood star Angelina ...
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Teenagers killed by passenger train in Hertfordshire
School staff and the friends of two pupils in Hertfordshire killed after they were hit by a passenger train, have paid tribute to the teenagers.Charleigh Disbrey, 15, and an 18-year-old Mert Karaoglan were hit by a First Capital Connect train near Elstree and Borehamwood station on Monday night.The site of the accident is not open to the public and police are not treating the deaths as ...
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Legal aid cuts will drive out the best lawyers supreme court president warns
Lord Neuberger, president of the supreme court, said it was a mistake to have a new legal aid regime with a costs structure "which will drive out the best lawyers" as good lawyers save money. Photograph: David Levene for the ...
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Nigel Farage forced to cancel Aberdeen lunch due to protest fears Ukip claims
Scotland less than a month after he had to take refuge in a pub after being heckled and abused by demonstrators in Edinburgh.Farage had endured a torrid half-hour of abuse and heckling from pro-independence and anti-racist campaigners who called him "scum", a "racist" and a "bawbag" on Edinburgh's Royal Mile last month, as they thwarted his plans for a press ...
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Former police authority boss Dave McLuckie facing jail for persuading friend to take speeding points
A former police authority boss admitted he was facing jail "like Chris Huhne" today after persuading a friend to take his speeding points. Dave McLuckie, ex-Cleveland Police Authority chairman, was convicted of perverting the course of justice at Newcastle Crown Court. After a jury took just 90 minutes to find him guilty, the judge warned he would be facing a jail term when he came ...
Edinburgh Feature
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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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