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2 travel companies drop Andaman tour to protest against human safaris
LONDON: Two global travel agencies have withdrawn tours to India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as a protest against the degrading "human safaris" to see the Jarawa tribe. Travelpickr, a global company based in Canada and India, and Spanish company Orixa Viatges have become the first operators to withdraw following UK based Survival International's call for a tourism boycott ...
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Muslim Britain a community viewed through prisms of security and paranoia
Calling for war on the streets of Britain, Michael Olumide Adebolajo, born in East London to Nigerian parents, told a passer-by: "We apologise that women had to see this today but in our lands our women have to see the ...
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Extremist group’s teachings changed lives of British Muslims
It has been known by a myriad of names, but the reach of the banned Islamic organisation al-Muhajiroun has changed the lives utterly of a generation of young British ...
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Woolwich attack Full list of todays coverage
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a ...
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The Lede British Attack Suspect Followed Fringe Preacher Once Considered a Laughing Stock
calmly spoke to witnesses as he waited for the police to arrive, has been identified as Michael Adebolajo, a Briton of Nigerian heritage who converted to Islam about a decade ago. Two former leaders of al-Muhijaroun, an extremist group with a small following that was banned in Britain after terrorist attacks in London in 2005, told reporters on Thursday that the suspect was part of their ...
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Lord Black the Tory peer at the heart of medias biggest battle
Those who might think that the era of the press baron is over haven't heard of Lord Black. He may not be a household name but the Conservative peer, director of the company behind the Daily Telegraph and consummate insider is ...
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Toilet Strike Bono Richard Branson Olivia Wilde Not Using Bathroom Until Water Crisis Solved
attitude. Bono, Richard Branson and Olivia Wilde have joined Matt Damon in his jokey pledge to not go to the bathroom until the world water crisis is solved. And they've invited us all to achieve stardom by saying no to nature's ...
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Declassified files reveal British spies in U.S. during WWII
LONDON - Britain's World War II spying on U.S. isolationist groups and its propaganda efforts against them were revealed in secret archives published for the first time Thursday. The declassified documents at the National Archives in London show how Winston Churchill was sent a report on a 1940 private phone call between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and ...
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Britain Knew of 2 Suspects In Killing of Soldier
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Woolwich attack video Firearms experts view on extraordinary Daily Mirror footage
I have never seen or even heard of a scenario where two suspects attack a victim and then remain on the scene waiting for the police to ...
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Woolwich attack The three extraordinarily brave angels who faced up to Lee Rigby’s brutal killers
revulsion of the Woolwich terror attack , millions around the world have marvelled at the extraordinary bravery of three ordinary women.Dubbed the "Angels of Woolwich", the trio faced up to Lee Rigby's brutal killers with little thought for their own safety.TV footage shows two of them fearlessly tending the already-dead soldier's body, just yards from knife and meat ...
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Woolwich attack 24 hours after the butchering Quiet defiance in the face of such bitter evil
butchering, Woolwich attempted to hide its pain under a blanket of normality.If you could tear your eyes away from the deserted South London streets behind the police cordon where a soldier's blood was being washed away by heavy rain showers, and from the rows of the media vans, a reeling community made a decent go at getting through another lunchtime.People, shocked to the core the day ...
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Britain turning into gangmasters paradise due to failure to enforce minimum wage warns Labour
The Government is turning Britain into a "gangmasters' paradise" by failing to enforce the minimum wage, new figures reveal.Only two bosses have been taken to court for paying below the legal limit, 6.19 an hour, in the past three years.And just three have been referred to prosecutors.Workplace inspections have halved from 3,643 in Labour's last 12 months in power to just ...
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Woolwich attackers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were known to M15
The two killers who beheaded the soldier in a Woolwich street had cropped up in "several investigations" by the security services in recent ...
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Immigration to Britain fell by more than a third last year but Labour says figures distorted
Immigration to Britain fell more than a third last year, according to official figures released yesterday.Net migration plummeted from 242,000 in 2011 to 153,000, the Office for National Statistics revealed.Around 500,000 people arrived here, down from 581,000. Meanwhile, the number leaving increased from 339,000 to 347,000.Immigration Minister Mark Harper said it showed the Government's ...
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Batman-obsessed bodybuilder attacked stranger with axe then wrote Joker-style Facebook update
A Batman-obsessed bodybuilder attacked a total stranger with an axe - then posted a chilling online message in the style of The Joker.Just moments after psychotic Dale Pipe left his victim lying in a pool of blood, he used his mobile to write on Facebook: "Why so serious? Hahahahaha."In movie the Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's maniacal Joker uses the words repeatedly before knifing ...
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Steven Rudderham Dad falsely accused of being paedophile on Facebook found hanged
A dad found hanged in a cemetery was driven to suicide after he was falsely accused on Facebook of being a paedophile, his family claim.Steven Rudderham, 48, was traumatised when his name, address and photograph were published online, with a message calling him a "dirty perv".Within 15 minutes, the message had been shared hundreds of times and he received death threats via the social ...
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Woolwich attack Two more suspects arrested over terrorist murder of Drummer Lee Rigby
murder of Drummer Lee Rigby , police confirmed this evening. The pair, both 29, were held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder after the 25-year-old soldier was hacked to death in Woolwich yesterday. A total of four people, including the two men shot by police, have now been arrested in connection with Drummer Rigby's death. The two men who were shot, aged 22 and 28, have been arrested ...
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No Facebook Phone For The United Kingdom
Facebook Home in action (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) UK network EE have confirmed that the HTC First, the so-called Facebook Phone, will not be sold in the UK ...
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Royal Mail chief set for 500000 sterling bonus - Sky News
(Reuters) - The chief executive of Royal Mail, Moya Greene, who is responsible for leading a turnaround of the business, is set to receive an annual bonus worth nearly 500,000 pounds, as the company readies itself for a stock market listing ...
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Protect children from internet pornography report demands
The children's commissioner for England found that a significant number of children have access to sexually explicit images. Photo: Robin ...
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Rochdale child sex abuse case council apologises for failings
Rochdale borough council has apologised for letting down victims of child sexual exploitation after a damning report laid bare a catalogue of failures and a culture of complacency within the authority that allowed paedophile gangs to prey on the area's most vulnerable ...
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Council tax benefit cuts leading to more bailiff visits for poor households
tax benefit was axed in April 2013 and replaced by a localised scheme, council tax support. The new scheme has 10% less government funding than the old, national scheme, and has meant some councils have started to make savings by reducing the number of people entitled to the benefit, or have cut the amount of benefit people receive.Council tax collection is already a lucrative business for ...
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Carbon monoxide killed mother and daughter on Lake Windermere boat
Lauren Thornton (L) and her mother, Kelly Webster, both died after being poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes on a motor cruiser on Lake Windermere. Photograph: Cumbria ...
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Permanent blood donation clinics may be more effective than mobile units
iPod docks, attracting a new cohort of younger donors, experts have said.As the blood service for England and north Wales examines whether it should reduce the minimum time between donations, a senior official has also questioned whether the sending of mobile units to rural areas always represents value for money.Lorna Williamson ...
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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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