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Britains Tate museum sets $34 million record for Constable painting
LONDON (Reuters) - The Tate Britain museum bought 19th century English painter John Constable's masterpiece "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds, making it one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold. The ...
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Some government efforts on domestic violence are virtually meaningless
Michael Gove, whose education department was criticised for failing to support government efforts to tackle domestic abuse. Photograph: Joe ...
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Nick Clegg isnt helping | John Redwood
Nick Clegg's lecture to Conservative MPs was far from helpful. His instruction that we should stop playing games about the EU and concentrate on "boosting business, creating jobs, helping with the cost of living" is especially rich coming from a Lib Dem who has promoted policies of dear energy for years.The coalition rightly stated at its outset that the overriding objective was ...
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London attackers known to British security services
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said ...
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A new treatment for shoulder arthritis featured in The Daily Mail
BMI The Sloane Hospital in Kent. The procedure is called Comprehensive Arthroscopic Management (CAM), it is a minimally invasive surgical treatment and can prevent the need for a full joint replacement. Originally the procedure was pioneered in the U.S. but was brought to the United Kingdom by ...
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Gene therapy trial begins for heart failure patients
Royal Brompton Hospital have begun the first UK clinical trials of a gene therapy for heart failure. Two clinical trials announced this week mark the culmination of more than 20 years of research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at Imperial and Royal Brompton Hospital. They have identified SERCA2a as an important factor affecting how well heart muscle cells can ...
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London street slayer references British wars not Nigerian insurgency
Reports say the suspects in yesterday's butchering of a British soldier have Nigerian ancestry. However, they appeared to be driven by UK involvement in other Muslim ...
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London attackers were British of Nigerian origin report says
LONDON: British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Local media named one of the two suspects as British-born, 28-year-old ...
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Cameron vows Britain will track down all involved
>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- A gruesome cleaver attack on a British soldier left London reeling Thursday, as Britain grappled with questions over who was responsible and whether Islamist extremism was to blame. The scene revealed through cell phone camera footage and witness accounts Wednesday was bloody, and for many hard to believe. A meat cleaver-wielding man ...
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Catt only Hunter player to meet British
WANDERERS centre Lewie Catt will be the lone Hunter player in a preliminary 40-man Combined Country squad containing at least five former Wallabies named today to take on the British and Irish Lions at Hunter Stadium on June ...
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David Cameron has the measure – so far - in the reaction to Woolwich attack | Patrick Wintour
Link to video: Woolwich murder: David Cameron's statement One of the great tests of a politician's mettle is the ability to recognise instinctively the importance of a sudden external event, and then, at speed, to find the right tone. It is one of the great intangibles of political leadership.It is doubly difficult for a prime minister abroad, mind focused on an imminent and already ...
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GP who used spy watch to film himself abusing patients is jailed for 12 years
Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, who used a secret camera inside his James Bond-style wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients. Photograph: Wiltshire ...
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PM says Britain resolute after attack on soldier
Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Thursday that Britain would be resolute against violent extremism following the gruesome murder of a soldier by two suspected extremists on a London ...
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Doctor Jailed For Sex Assaults On Patients
A GP who used a secret camera inside his watch to record himself abusing femalepatients has been jailed for 12 years. Family doctor Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, worked in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, and used his job to assault more than two dozen women. He filmed the attacks on his four gigabyte watch, which has been compared to something out of a James Bond film. In all, he admitted a ...
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Indian-origin British MPs condemn UK terror attack
British MPs on Thursday condemned the "horrific and barbaric" attack here in which a British soldier was beheaded, calling for unity and appealing for calm. Indian-origin MP and chairman of the influential home affairs select ...
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Pair jailed for murder of stepson of gangland celebrity Dave Courtney
Drug dealer Genson Courtney, 23, was executed by his uncle David Pinto, who shot him through the left eye.Pinto, 33, and getaway driver Robert Bleach, 46, both of Greenwich, south-east London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week.They were sentenced using a videolink following fears of disturbances involving Pinto and members of his family in the public gallery.Judge Wendy ...
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An act of complete cowardice Ed Miliband blasts Woolwich solider attack
Mr Miliband spoke to Prime Minister David Cameron today about the killing, after cutting short a visit to Germany to return to London. He said the opposition was offering its "full support" to the Government in its response to the outrage In a televised statement, Mr Miliband said: "This was an appalling and horrific murder and all of my condolences are with the families and ...
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Exclusive Woolwich attacker named Mujahid was known to banned Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun
It was also reported today that the alleged killers, who are under armed guard in different London hospitals, were both known to security services.Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, confirmed that he had known the man who was seen on video in the immediate aftermath of yesterday's horrific killing waving a cleaver with bloodied hands and making political ...
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Revealed The cross-dressing spy who embarrassed the UK
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, a 'key figure in British intelligence' in the Middle East in the Second World War, set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested dressed as a woman.Files released publicly by the National Archives reveal that Lt Col Clarke told Spanish police he was a novelist and had "wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets" ...
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Watch jihadist rant Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers hands. And this British soldier is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
A young man with bloodied hands holds a knife and a meat cleaver soaked in blood as he faces the camera to say he has just killed a soldier on a London street in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims killed by British troops in faraway lands.As the man speaks, a woman in a blue skirt pulls a shopping cart down the pavement towards him, glances briefly in the direction of a corpse lying in the ...
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Local authority pension funds seek social impact investments
LONDON (Reuters) - Five British local authority pension funds have pledged to provide 250 million pounds ($376 million) for new investments in areas which are seen as socially beneficial such as infrastructure, while still delivering ...
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Eric Joyce denies being charged with breach of peace
Eric Joyce, who criticised police for saying he would appear in court at a later date when in fact, he said, he had not been charged. Photograph: Stefan ...
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Woolwichs DIY terror stars trading liberty for five minutes of infamy | Conor Gearty
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack Terrorism has always been driven by technology. Fenian dynamite terrified 19th-century Britain just as IRA semtex did a few generations later - both "weapons of mass destruction" of their day. Radical improvements in TV cameras made the drama of Palestinian violence global news in the late 60s, and a little later ...
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Woolwich attacks response – in pictures
The government's emergency response committee, Cobra, has reconvened to discuss security measures after a British soldier was murdered by suspected Islamist extremists near London's Woolwich army barracks in a savage knife ...
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Was the London machete killing of a British soldier terrorism | Glenn Greenwald
a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using a machete to hack to death a British soldier. In the wake of claims that the assailants shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the killing, ...
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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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