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Marks Spencer profits fall again
Marks & Spencer have fallen for the second year in a row as its much maligned womenswear divison continued to disappoint.UK sales fell 1% overall, dragged down by a poor performance in general merchandise, which dropped 4.1% on a like-for-like basis.The results could have been worse had it not been for a 4.5% rise in international sales and a 16.6% boost in multichannel business. Food was ...
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One giant leap for Britain UKs first official astronaut Major Tim Peake on tweeting like Chris Hadfield and missing his wife and sons
Ground control to Major Tim: former Apache helicopter pilot Tim Peake to be Britain's first official astronaut for 20 years with International Space Station ...
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UK competition watchdog may force cement makers to sell plants
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator may force major cement producers to sell plants as part of efforts to break open the country's cement market, after finding a limited number of players was likely to be causing higher prices. ...
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Report into Basildon hospital condemns service failure - video
Tina Papalabropoulos, 23, died of aspiration pneumonia at Basildon hospital in 2009. As an NHS ombudsman report into her death is published, her mother, Christine, speaks about the negligent care Tina received, the family's struggle for recognition of their case, and her unwitting role in her daughter's ...
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Oklahoma tornado At least 20 schoolchildren among 91 dead after twister HALF A MILE wide rips through city
A monstrous tornado at least a half a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening neighbourhoods and destroying a school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200mph.At least 91 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 ...
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Ray Manzarek dead Tributes to The Doors keyboard player who passes away after cancer battle
Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founding member of The Doors, died today after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.His manager said he died this afternoon in Rosenheim, Germany surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and brothers Rick and James.Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965 when Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with poet Jim ...
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Oklahoma tornado Watch footage of the devastating 200mph twister
At least 20 schoolchildren are among 91 dead after a twister HALF A MILE wide ripped through Oklahoma City.It flattened neighbourhoods and destroyed a school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200mph.These videos show the ...
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The masculinity debate no wonder men stay out of it | Jack OSullivan
'A consequence of boys and men living in private matriarchies is that even the most senior male chief executive often lacks confidence in areas that might be defined as personal, private or ...
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Parker Spurs pound Grizzlies in opener
The San Antonio Spurs drained 14 three-pointers in a convincing 105-83 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Sunday's opening game of the NBA's Western Conference ...
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Vodafone posts biggest fall in service revenue
Vodafone posted its largest ever quarterly fall in key organic service revenue on Tuesday, prompting it to keep hold of a dividend from its US arm and reinvest it into the business and not return it to shareholders. The world's second largest mobile operator, at the centre of intense speculation as to whether it will sell its US arm in one of the world's largest deals, posted a 4.2% ...
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Telecom Plus adds more customers profit climbs
(Reuters) - British utility supplier Telecom Plus Plc said full-year profit rose about 13 percent helped by a larger customer base and higher average revenue per customer. The company, which provides gas, electricity, fixed line telephone ...
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Burberry profit rises 14 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - British luxury group Burberry posted a 14 percent rise in full-year pretax profit and said profit for the first half of its new fiscal year would be below last year's as it reduces its wholesale business in favour of ...
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Paragon lifts first half profit and seeks acquisitions
LONDON (Reuters) - British buy-to-let mortgage lender Paragon reported a 10 percent increase in underlying pretax profit in the first half of its fiscal year and said its investment division was actively seeking acquisitions. The company reported ...
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Jim Hensons son to speak at Guardian Edinburgh Television Festival
Brian Henson, director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, will speak at this year's Guardian International Television Festival. Photograph: Disney/Sportsphoto ...
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The woman on a mission to expose sexual abuse
The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs , which will air on Channel 4 this Thursday.Hall, born in Scotland, was working for a group of commercial radio companies in Leeds as a social action producer when she first heard of the abuse while chatting with Barnardo's staff. "They had documented a pattern, now all very familiar. They knew exactly what was going on," she ...
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BRIEF-British Land signs Amlin letting for London skyscraper
Tue May 21, 2013 2:24am EDT May 21 (Reuters) - British Land : * Exchanged a binding agreement for lease with amlin plc for a pre-letting of 111,000 sq ft * The letting represents approximately 20% of the office space in * The letting represents approximately 20% of the office space in the leadenhall building in London * The leadenhall building is now over 51% ...
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Mervyn Kings housing warning is too little too late | Polly Toynbee
George Osborne, Britain's chancellor, and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, at the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors summit on 11 May 2013 Photograph: Yui ...
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Public fear legal aid cuts will lead to wrongful convictions poll finds
legal aid could result in innocent people being convicted of crimes they did not commit, according to an opinion poll released by the Bar Council.The survey, commissioned by the organisation which ...
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Marine Harvest agrees to limit pesticides and seal killings
One of the world's largest fish farm companies, Marine Harvest, has voluntarily agreed to much tougher limits on its pesticides use and seal killing by joining a strict new environment scheme.Marine Harvest will join ...
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British PM survives gay vote
British Prime Minister David Cameron headed off another Conservative rebellion on Monday after the opposition Labour Party helped him see off a "wrecking amendment" which had threatened his gay marriage bill. Tory MP Tim Loughton had proposed the amendment saying that if gay couples were allowed to marry, then heterosexual couples should also be able to have civil partnerships. But ...
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British P.M. Cameron gets an assist from Labor on gay marriage
Ed Miliband . Miliband agreed to have Labor members of Parliament vote against an amendment that would have extended civil unions to heterosexual couples, The Guardian reported. The amendment, backed by opponents of gay marriage, would have reduced the bill's chance of parliamentary approval, and Miliband had been planning to abstain. Cameron has also been trying to damp down a story that ...
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Looted Irish treasures recovered in England
They include three 'gun money' coins, the emergency war money coined by James II from 1689-91 to pay his forces to fight William of Orange.The items, including a Bronze Age axe and spearhead and hundreds of medieval coins, will go on display today, then be stored for research.They were recovered after a tip-off from ...
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Former British flagship leaves Portsmouth for Turkish scrap yard
The Ark Royal, the aircraft carrier that was for many years the flagship of the British navy, left Portsmouth for the last time Monday for a Turkish scrap yard. Former members of the vessel's crew, some wearing black armbands, joined a crowd of onlookers who watched as the Ark Royal was towed out of the harbor, the Daily Mirror reported. Towing the ship to Turkey saves money on fuel. The ...
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No option is off the table if Assad doesnt take Syrian peace seriously - British FM
British Foreign Minister William Hague Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must realize that "no option is off table" if his government fails to negotiate seriously at peace talks in ...
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Rugby Rewards re-launches with focus on British Irish Lions Tour
Australian Rugby is set to launch a Facebook-based Rugby Rewards program which aims to foster team advocacy ahead of the British & Irish Lions Tour. Rugby Rewards is a digital engagement program which recognises and rewards fans for their support for Australian Rugby and the Qantas Wallabies. It was first launched in 2011 as an initiative to capture the support for the Qantas Wallabies ...
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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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