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British police arrest three over soldiers killing
A worker adds flowers to other floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, ...
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Stop playing a crude numbers game with immigration. We must be open | Will Hutton
One of the new articles of faith across the political and media spectrum is that the alleged liberal vow of omerta on immigration must be broken. Immigration has been too high for too long with too little attention to the proper concerns of the indigenous British. Honest-to-God, working-class people, the country's strivers, have their wages undercut and their classrooms crowded by too many ...
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Terrorism life-denying ideologies have no place in this country | Nick Cohen
Stephen Timms or the bombing of the Boston marathon, leading to an attack on a mosque that claims lives.I am simply saying that yet more powers for the police are not going to stop small groups of men acting almost on impulse.It would be better if right and left in Britain could do what they have failed to do to date and condemn violence without regard for the colour or creed of the ...
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The rules | The essential etiquette guide to modern life
Even on the right wing of the Conservative party, it is no longer considered appropriate to express horror at the idea of homosexuality. The modern mode is for such prejudice to be draped in legal arguments and camouflaged in pseudo-philosophy.Thus anyone objecting to a law allowing gay couples to marry should affect to be entirely relaxed about the gayness of the matter and fixate instead on ...
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If theres any justice prisoners must get the vote | Kevin McKenna
The franchise for the independence referendum has not been extended to prisoners in Scottish jails including Barlinnie, above. Photograph: Murdo ...
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Judges have a duty to slap down bullying barristers | letters
"'Why are you lying?' demands the barrister" , News). A lawyer in court enjoys privilege and can make unsubstantiated derogatory statements and allegations to or about accused persons or witnesses, and even libel people not party to the proceedings in question, with no fear of redress.There may be situations outside courts where privilege from redress must be extended to ...
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The NHS dont pick on GPs Mr Hunt. Develop a vision | Observer editorial
NHS .What Bevan would have found difficult to understand, however, is why modern-day ministers seem unable to pick the right fights. Bevan's bribe was surely a price worth paying: without the support of GPs, the NHS would never been more than a proposal on paper. Fifty years later, the Labour government again went to war with GPs over performance-based contracts. At least there was a point ...
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Payday lenders break pledges on reform
Payday lenders have broken a series of promises to reform their industry, including pledges to check that their loans are affordable and to freeze charges when people struggle to repay, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about how they operate.A survey conducted by Citizens Advice also found that most lenders are failing to remind clients that their loans, which can carry ...
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Rewind TV Panorama Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth The Hunt for Britains Sex Gangs David Bowie – Five Years Case Histories
newspaper - under the priceless headline "The Truth" - as a means of obscuring the events of that afternoon and protecting those responsible for actions that led to the deaths of 96 football supporters.Right from the very beginning the South Yorkshire police fed misinformation to the media to shift blame for the crush from abysmal police and ground control to the Liverpool fans - in ...
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Jenna Lyons fashion queen of America | profile
It is Memorial Day weekend in America, the unofficial start of summer, and my friend and her teenage daughter are in the Hamptons, having scored an invitation to stay at the beachside mansion of one of New York's wealthiest families."What are you going to wear?" I asked my friend, before she set off, mindful of the grey and drizzly weather and the fact that grand-style ...
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Knee deep in mud at an English festival Give me Spain any day
Approaching midnight at the Parc del Frum , the Barcelona air was still warm after the heat of the day. On stage, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware was in typically sultry form. At the back of the crowd, Gavin Blane, a 33-year-old Londoner, explained his decision to turn his back on Britain's festival circuit and head abroad."It's the best way to get away from our corporate ...
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UKs problem isnt the financial sector – its Londons dominance
Britain is a structurally unbalanced economy. The City is too big. The productive base is too small. The International Monetary Fund says so. The Bank of England says so. The government says so.Less remarked upon is the UK's geographical economic imbalance. This is even more pronounced than the imbalance between a dominant financial sector and a struggling manufacturing sector, as shown by ...
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Dont older people often say the funniest things | Catherine Bennett
Google Big Tent event last week, Miliband junior again worked the professor, or "Dad", into the beginning and finale of an address about responsible capitalism, presumably in the hope that a really effective invocation of this paragon might persuade Eric Schmidt to pay more tax. Dad, as many of us now know, was in the navy. "He used to talk about those days in the navy, where ...
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Truth behind the death of suffragette Emily Davison is finally revealed
As an emblem of women's emancipation Emily Wilding Davison has always been controversial. The suffragette who was fatally injured at the Epsom racecourse during the Derby 100 years ago under the hooves of the king's horse has been saluted by some as a brave martyr and attacked by others as an irresponsible anarchist. Now detailed analysis of film footage of the incident has shed new ...
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Tony Blair is asked to help secure release of mining employees in Guinea
French human rights lawyer Rachel Lindon has asked Tony Blair, pictured, to assist in securing the release of two mining company employees in Guinea. Photograph: Maxa/Landov/Barcroft ...
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MI5 wanted London killer to spy for them Friend
LONDON: Counterterrorism police on Saturday questioned a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the killing of an unarmed British soldier drummer Lee Rigby. The friend, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested immediately after he gave a BBC Television interview describing how Adebolajo may have become radicalized and alleging that Britain's security services tried to recruit him. Police ...
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Soldiers beheading opens floodgates for charity in UK
Lee Rigby, the British soldier who was beheaded in UK's Woolwich by two Islamist radicals was identified by them as a soldier for wearing a t-shirt with the name of the charity that helps soldiers in need. Now, the charity "Help ...
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Rioting violence and shame – memories of Ireland v England in 1995
England fans making Nazi salutes, leering, jeering and sneering. He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas! Judas!" And then, when David Kelly ...
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Generations are divided on feelings about Muslims after London attack | Matthew Goodwin
Events such as the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby can often act as lightning rods in society, triggering a sharp shift in public attitudes and fuelling prejudice against minorities.Many have suggested that the events in Woolwich have fuelled a wave of public hostility towards British Muslims and Islam more generally. But our findings, based on a YouGov survey undertaken within 24 hours of ...
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Business travel must remain focus of employers duty of care
Organisations whose staff travel outside of the UK on business, must ensure they continue to focus on their duty of care to these employees says AXA ...
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Bupas global dementia charter
Bupa and global dementia federation Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) have launched a joint global dementia charter. ADI represents 75 Alzheimer associations around the ...
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Root century boosts England
Joe Root's maiden Test century helped England post a healthy first innings total against New Zealand on day two at Headingley on Saturday.Root came to the crease with England in trouble at 67-3 but solid partnerships with Ian Bell and Jonny Bairstow helped pull his side back into the match and leave the New Zealand bowlers toiling in the Leeds sunshine.The 22-year-old's 104 saw him ...
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Englands Roy Hodgson hails Irelands Giovanni Trapattoni as a legend
Republic of Ireland's Giovanni Trapattoni, above, is 'one of the world's outstanding coaches', according to England's Roy Hodgson. Photograph: Peter ...
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England on top in second NZ Test after Joe Roots maiden century
England Joe Root's maiden Test century, on his Yorkshire home ground, left England well-placed in the second and final Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Saturday.England was 7 for 337 at stumps on the second day after Root made 104, having come in with the hosts in trouble on 3 for 67 following Friday's first day wash-out.Together with Yorkshire colleague Jonny Bairstow (64), ...
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David Cameron isnt even among friends in his own cabinet now | Andrew Rawnsley
David Cameron as he travelled with Franois Hollande from an EU summit in Brussels to Paris. By the time they reached Gare du Nord, the prime minister had decided to curtail his planned talks with the French president in order to get himself back to Britain. By the time they swept up to the Elyse Palace, he had crafted a simple but resolute message for the audience back home: "Live your life ...
Edinburgh Feature
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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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