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Tory co-chairman Feldman to face meeting over swivel-eyed loons claim
The Tory co-chairman, Lord Feldman, will meet with the party board over claims allegedly made about party activists. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex ...
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Mother wasps do the work Country diary 100 years ago
The mother wasps, founders of the future colonies, are now busily house-hunting, town-planning, wood-pulp paper-making, or hunting for food for their first hungry infants. These wasps, large if compared with their children of later in the summer, work along the banks, creeping into possible holes, fly along the hedgerows in search of flies or to find suitable wood or fibres for conversion into ...
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British Soap Awards in pictures Coronation Street dominates
Wallis Day, Stephanie Waring, Jennifer Metcalfe and Gemma Merna arriving for the 2013 British Soap Awards at MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester. Photos by Ian West/PA ...
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Broad leads England rout of New Zealand
England Stuart Broad bowled England to victory in the first Test as New Zealand suffered a dramatic fourth-day collapse at Lord's on Monday morning.New Zealand, chasing 239 for victory, was dismissed for just 68 in under two hours, with Broad taking 7 for 44 runs in a mere 11 overs.South Africa born duo BJ Watling (13) and Neil Wagner (17), who got to 10 with a six off Broad, were the ...
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Imran Khan blames Britain for not doing enough to stop colleagues killing
Pakistan Former international cricketer Imran Khan has blamed the British government for not doing enough to prevent the murder of one of his political colleagues.Zahra Shahid Hussain, the vice-president of Mr Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party, was shot dead outside her home in an upmarket part of Karachi on Saturday (local time).Police say Ms Hussain was targeted by three men on a ...
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Former Google exec says he has 100000 emails showing how immoral company avoids paying UK tax
A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of ...
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G8 summit will put Northern Ireland in security lockdown
Belfast-born David McKittrick has been reporting on Northern Ireland since 1971, He has written for the East Antrim Times, the Irish Times and was The Independent's Irish correspondent for many years. He is the author of several books including Making Sense of the Troubles (2000) and Lost Lives ...
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Privatised out-of-hours service is failing NHS patients – official
A private company that took over the running of a GP out-of-hours service in north London has been severely criticised by the NHS regulator for failing to provide enough doctors to keep patients ...
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England march on Broads way past New Zealand
New Zealand, 2nd innings Fulton c Prior b Broad 1 Rutherford b Broad 9 Williamson c Finn b Broad 6 Taylor c Cook b Broad Brownlie c Cook b Anderson 5 McCullum lbw b Broad 8 Watling c Trott b Anderson 13 Southee c Root b Broad 7 Wagner run out Brstow/Andrsn 17 Martin b Broad 1 ...
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British confidence high during Victorian and Edwardian age
"There was more to the Victorians than public-school floggings, big whiskers and a canting disapproval of sex," says The Times of London. "During the 80 years or so following Queen Victoria's accession, British national confidence was at an all-time high. The American colonies had wriggled free, but the British Empire still stretched across the globe, taking in nearly half a ...
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Kenya One year later killers of British heir roam free
Alexander Monson , who was heir to Monson baronetcy and an only son of his father Baron Nicholas Monson, was arrested on May 18 last year and died a day later from injuries his family believes were inflicted by police or fellow cell-mates at Diani Police Station. According to the deceased's mother Hillary Martin, Alexander, who lived with his father following a divorce, was in the process ...
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Cameron had the chance to defy the swivel-eyed loons and remake his party. He failed | Steve Richards
parts of its membership as "swivel-eyed loons" . Equally, it is not exactly sensational news that party members are far from thrilled to be viewed in such terms.Relations between the leadership of the party and its activists are more strained and complex than at any point since the removal of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Focus on the policy trail rather than the Harold Macmillan-like ...
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Country diary Lake District A climb around natures Notre Dame
Esk Buttress has been likened to Notre Dame, resplendent above the Great Moss, and reached from the south by a trod starting below Hardknott Pass. Up soggy Mosedale it goes, past Lincove Beck and under Long and Gait Crags. The buttress finally appears as depicted in William Heaton Cooper's most magnetic ...
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British Soap Awards In Pictures
Wallis Day, Stephanie Waring, Jennifer Metcalfe and Gemma Merna arriving for the 2013 British Soap Awards at MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester. Photos by Ian West/PA ...
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Methanol in alcohol bottle kills British backpacker
A British backpacker has died after drinking poisoned alcohol while trekking in the Indonesian jungle. Cheznye Emmons died after drinking from a bottle that later turned out to be filled with deadly methanol. Reports said it was either labelled gin or whisky. The 23-year-old had been travelling across south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, and a male friend they had met on ...
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Government pleads with Labour to save gay marriage bill
Labour party joins forces with Tory opponents to vote in favour of granting civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.As David Cameron was accused by the Conservative Grassroots group of showing "utter contempt" for party activists by pressing ahead with plans to equalise marriage, Labour sources voiced fears that No 10 appeared to be trying to find ways of killing the bill.The row ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Bahrains Rights Britains Failure
, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...
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Lord Feldman spoke to journalists who wrote swivel-eyed loons story but denies words were his
The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as "swivel-eyed loons", it emerged on ...
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Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms claims new research
Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe.The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account.That would still lead to ...
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Letters The benefit of European Union membership outweighs the cost
The economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming. The creation of the Single Market was instigated by Britain, and is now the world's largest trading bloc, containing half a billion people with a GDP of 10 trillion. To Britain, membership is estimated to be worth between 31bn and 92bn per year in income gains, or between 1,200 to 3,500 for every ...
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British man in France admits slitting his two childrens throats
France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. "He offered explanations linked to the children's ...
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England v New Zealand 1st Test England win by 170 runs on dramatic fourth day
In the end it took England less than an hour to wrap up proceedings on Day Four and secure victory by 170 runs in the first Test with New Zealand at ...
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Suspected gas explosion in Nottinghamshire house injures five
At least five people were injured in what is believed to have been a gas explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire.The house was severely damaged in the blast at around 5.10pm on Wright street, Newark, according to Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service.The five injured people are thought to have been injured in the explosion. Initial reports said that some had to be rescued ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt softens line on tax loopholes
Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm and other multinational internet businesses that take billions of pounds of sales from the UK through overseas companies, which HM Revenue & Customs cannot tax."Given the intensity of the debate, not just in the UK but also in America ...
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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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