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Dental insurers bringing a smile
Millions of people are still affected by poor oral health. Two in every three adults have visible dental plaque, and three in every ten suffer from regular dental ...
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Guardian Viral Video Chart Jimmy Kimmel Eurovision and sad cats
This week's Viral Video Chart is guaranteed to give you a good cry - but we can offer you tears of laughter, as well as tears of sadness. We defy you to ...
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Untapped markets are the key to unlocking social enterprise investment
Salisbury Plain, one of the MoD's training areas, is managed by the company Landmarc which is looking to 'buy social and local'. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty ...
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Guardian to launch new platform to streamline access to web content
In the past five years, the Guardian's monthly digital readership has grown from 20 million browsers to more than 80 million. Photograph: Graham Turner for the ...
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Virgin Media signs up as 2014 Commonwealth Games sponsor
Virgin brand ambassadors, Mo Farah, left, and Usain Bolt are expected to front the company's Commonwealth Games ad campaign. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty ...
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Filmed The moment police shot the Woolwich suspects
Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment two terrorists were shot as they charged police officers called to the scene after a soldier was hacked to death in the street.The two men can be seen brandishing weapons in broad daylight as they confronted officers following the brutal killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, in Woolwich.The footage, obtained by ...
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Donations surge crashes Help For Heroes website
The charity Help For Heroes has been swamped with donations, leading to its website crashing after Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered while wearing one of its ...
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Young lone wolves Brutal attack on British soldier opens new front in terrorism war
This image taken from video made available by The Sun newspaper shows what appears to be one of the attackers speaking to the camera after a brutal attack in broad daylight Wednesday, May 22, 2013 near a military barracks in London. The attack just a few blocks from the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich neighbourhood of London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalized after a ...
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Muslim hardliners ID suspect seen after British soldier butchered in broad daylight
LONDON -- A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday.Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, of the 2nd Battalion The ...
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REFILE-Britains FTSE recovers after worst day in a year
Fri May 24, 2013 3:10am EDT (Refiles to fix typo in third paragraph) LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 gained on Friday, with central bankers offering some reassurance that stimulus will stay for a while yet, and some investors seeing value after the market's steepest fall in a year the previous day. The bluechip index was up 17.19 points, or 0.3 percent, at 6,713.98 by 0703 ...
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Syria needs Britains help but it does not need our weapons
William Hague this week in the House of Commons, this policy is as follows. The government has not decided to send arms to the "good guys" among the rebels, but it wants the flexibility to do so and in the meantime it believes that not to renew the EU embargo would send a powerful signal to President Bashar al-Assad.Like many fallacies it is superficially attractive, especially when ...
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Fear and anger in southeast London after murder of British soldier
On the streets of Woolwich in south-east London, a heavy police presence remains after the brutal murder of a British soldier in broad daylight on Wednesday. Locals fear the repercussions of the events for their communities as terrorism and Islamist extremism are back in the UK spotlight. Reactions range from fear to anger. ';As it is for the black community we are really, really angry ...
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British police knew about London hacking death suspects
British law enforcement was under fire Friday after conceding it knew for almost a decade about the two men who allegedly butchered a British soldier. Prime ...
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Mail Online scoops biggest ever digital day with Boston marathon bombing
Mail Online with its biggest ever digital day, attracting more than 9.5 million unique users.However, the bombing proved the 12th and 16th most popular web days in April ...
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Dr. Arlene Hall named interim chancellor at PSU-Eberly
A former top administrator at Penn State-New Kensington will serve as interim chancellor of Penn State-Fayette, The Eberly Campus, the university announced on ...
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Documents show Britain bugged King Edward VIII paid Franco brother
King Edward VIII before his abdication and paid key Spanish leaders to keep the country neutral. The documents also include a letter describing a long night Prime ...
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Obama denounces deadly attack on British soldier
US President Barack Obama on Thursday denounced the deadly attack on a British soldier in a London street a day ago. "I condemn in the strongest terms the appalling attack against a British service member in Woolwich on May 22," the president said in a statement. "The United States stands resolute with the United Kingdom, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and ...
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Two more arrested by British police as London attack probe widens
British police arrested two more people on Thursday in a hunt for accomplices of two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries.The two suspected killers, now under guard in hospitals, had been known to security services before Wednesday's daylight attack, security sources said. Another man and a woman, ...
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London attack British press demands jailing of Islamist preacher
London: Britain's newspapers this morning paid tribute to the soldier brutally murdered in a suspected Islamist attack in London and demanded that the preacher suspected of radicalising suspect Michael Adebolajo be jailed.It was revealed on Thursday that the soldier, who had served in Afghanistan, was 25-year-old Lee Rigby, known as Riggers to his colleagues."Riggers...A True ...
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Scotland-England split Some Scots say take the pound leave the crown
Scotland will vote in 2014 whether to split off from England and the rest of the United Kingdom. Scottish nationalists argue that Scotland would be better off ...
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Britains press demands Islamists jailing
BRITAIN'S newspapers have paid tribute to the soldier brutally murdered in a suspected Islamist attack in London and demanded the preacher suspected of radicalising suspect Michael Adebolajo be jailed. It was revealed on Thursday that the soldier, who had served in Afghanistan, was 25-year-old Lee Rigby, known as Riggers to his colleagues. "Riggers A True Warrior" said the ...
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British intelligence under spotlight over Nigerian hacking suspects
(46 mins ago) Police in Britain made two further arrests yesterday and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Cameron appealed for calm after 25-year-old Lee Rigby was butchered outside a London army barracks on Wednesday, while an extra 1,200 officers were deployed on the capital's ...
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Cabinet office to fly rainbow flag during Pride week
Francis Maude is to show the government's commitment to the equality agenda by allowing the rainbow flag to be flown from the cabinet office in Whitehall during Pride week next month.David Cameron has faced criticism for attempting to distance the Tory leadership ...
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Human safaris Blow to Andamans
Survival International's call for a tourism boycott of the islands until 'human safaris' are stopped. The organization is asking nearly 200,000 tourists who visiting the islands every year to stay away - until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawa forest and an alternative sea route set. Survival's director Stephen Corry said on Thursday, "In ...
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Strong indications SE London attack by terrorists British
British Prime Minister David Cameron said there are strong indications that the attack in southeast London that killed one man is a terrorist incident, during a press conference in Paris on Wednesday."It is the most appalling crime. The police are urgently seeking all facts about this case. There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident," Cameron said at a press ...
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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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