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Simon Calder British Airways Heathrow incident causes travel chaos on one of the busiest weekends of the year
Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary. Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky ...
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Ironical tweet was defamatory context was key court rules
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A tweet by a British parliamentarian's wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the ...
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Bank holiday weather promises sun warmth … then rain
Weather forecasters are looking on the bright side for the bank holiday weekend."A lot of places will see sunny spells and temperatures up to 16C, 17C, some a bit warmer than that," said ...
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Rochdale CEO says systemic failures prevented capture of child abuse gang
Jim Taylor, Rochdale council chief executive, expressed disbelief that the child abuse gang were able to operate for so long. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ...
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BBC2s Anne Boleyn profile watched by 3 million
The Last Days of Anne Boleyn was watched by 3 million people on BBC2 on Thursday night. Photograph: Tim Cragg/BBC/Oxford Film and Television/Tim ...
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U.K. party preaching immigration reform says Britain ‘gutless’ in face of Muslim radicals
Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's fastest growing political party, United Kingdom Independence Party, at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, Oct. 24, 2012. Farage and his party gains strength on the idea that Britain needs to leave the European Union. (PASCAL ...
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Fighter jets escort passenger plane in British airspace
++++DEVELOPING STORY++++ Typhoon fighter jets were launched to investigate an incident involving a passenger jet flying in British airspace. The Pakistan International Airlines plane was traveling from Lahore, Pakistan, and reportedly had 297 passengers aboard, Reuters reported. The plane was heading towards Manchester when it was abruptly re-routed near York, England and headed ...
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Brighton footballers cleared of sexually assaulting woman in hotel room
Four footballers have been cleared of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room.In a retrial at the Old Bailey in London, jurors also found them not guilty of voyeurism. The Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, and George Barker, both 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence.They were given ...
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Michael Adebolajos dangerous ignorance about Afghanistan | Richard Kemp
'My own regiment did not fire a shot in anger in Afghanistan, and protected many Iraqi Muslims from the extremist killers.' Photograph: Sgt Rupert Frere ...
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Woolwich terrorist attack British intelligence under pressure over suspects extremist links
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich on May 23, ...
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Escaped 500-Pound Calf Lured Back To 9-Year-Old Owner
days after it ran away leaving him heartbroken . Nine-year-old Ryan Hoelzel saved up $350 to buy the 500-pound, one-year-old cow he named Panda. ';I did it with all my Christmas money, Easter money, birthday money, and any kind of money I got,'; the fourth-grade student from Epping told WBZ-TV. But minutes after he bought Panda, the calf jumped a fence and escaped the family ...
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Scotlands top policeman pleads for the force to keep seized proceeds of crime
he needs to save 58 million this year, and similar amounts in the next two, warning that cuts could cause "irreparable" damage to policing.He said: "I've been continually pleading with government to revisit money seized through proceeds of crime."We all know we are not a special case, but we are seizing millions of pounds every year from organised criminals for the ...
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Woolwich terror attack Lee Rigbys step-father recalls how he first learnt of incident from television
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a ...
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Woolwich soldier killing suspects attended Greenwich University together
The second suspect in the killing of British army Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich has been identified as a former London schoolboy who attended Greenwich University along with his alleged ...
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Video Woolwich attack suspect was completely normal says friend
The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis's date for his movie premieres isn't arm candy - it's his 87-year-old friend who he saved from ...
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Woolwich Attack Familys Emotional Tribute
The family of Drummer Lee Rigby have told how they frantically tried to contact him after watching his brutal murder unfold on television Drummer Rigby's stepfather Ian said that as they watched the news of the attack his "heart skipped a beat". Speaking at a press conference, Mr Rigby said they tried to get hold of him but couldn't reach him. He said: "Really ...
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Footballers Cleared Of Brighton Sex Assault
Four footballers have been cleared today of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room. Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial. Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence. They were given ...
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Dont underestimate the chemical generation | Scott Oliver
DiY soundsystem spent four days at Castlemorton - an oasis of house grooves amid the pounding techno - and the best part of two decades thereafter throwing free parties across the Midlands and beyond. Explicitly positioned against capitalism and the profit motive (whenever the police came to shut things down or arrest them, they were unable to because, to their general bewilderment, no money was ...
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BBC and Channel 4 criticised for giving radical cleric Anjem Choudary airtime
The faith and communities minister, Baroness Warsi, and the shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, have criticised the media for giving too much airtime to the radical cleric Anjem Choudary in the wake of ...
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Mark Bridger denies lying about April Jones murder
The man accused of abducting and murdering April Jones has told a jury he has no explanation for why her body has never been found and apologised for not being able to say where he left it.Giving evidence for the third day, the former slaughterman and lifeguard Mark Bridger was asked what he had said to lure the five-year-old into his car, but told the jury he had never spoken to April.He ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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Michael Foster sells controlling stake in the Rights House media agency
Michael Foster has sold his controlling stake in the Rights House, the literary and media agency he created three years ago with Caroline Michel's Peters Fraser & Dunlop.Foster's shareholding is understood to have been bought by two of the company's other shareholders, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert and former JP Morgan banker Ian Hannam.The deal ...
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Firm regularly mixed horsemeat with beef
Link to video: How horsemeat scandal company used migrant workers to boost production "Everything passed through my hands: beef, horse, old meat that stank, sometimes even 'fresh' meat but it wasn't exactly fresh Yes, I cut horse. I suspected there was something wrong but I just did what I was told to do," Jan Kowalski told us.Kowalski (not his real name) is one ...
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504MW wind farm OKd for British coast
The British government announced Friday it gave consent to the construction of a 504-megawatt wind farm planned for the coast of Suffolk. The British Department of Energy and Climate Change granted permission to Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. to build a 140-turbine development in Suffolk. The department estimates that as many as 500,000 households will get energy from the wind farm when it's ...
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Twitter users should learn lessons from Sally Bercows libellous tweet
the Sally Bercow libel verdict you should beware letting your fingers and thumbs run away with themselves.The high court ruling, though specifically dealing with Bercow's tweet ...
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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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