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The Freemasons Code Dan Brown reveals the message that told him the door to the lodge is open
His best-selling novels illuminate the shadowy organisations that supposedly run the world. But Dan Brown was "honoured" to receive an invitation to join the Freemasons, the arcane fraternity whose tentacles are said to extend into the highest echelons of ...
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Weather Rain And Wind Ahead Of Bank Holiday
Rain and wind are set to lash the UK ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend with temperatures hovering below average. "A squally area of low pressure in the North Sea will bring wind and rain to eastern and southern Britain later tomorrow and into Friday," said Sky News weather presenter Isobel Lang. Heavy showers will start to sweep across Scotland from Wednesday, spreading to most ...
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Nick Clegg Reads Tory Right The Riot Act
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has insisted that the coalition will last until 2015 as he attacks Conservative backbenchers for being "consumed by game playing". The Deputy Prime Minister will have infuriated Tory MPs by accusing them of "disappearing into a parliamentary rabbit warren" after a week of revolts over Europe and gay marriage. But he dismissed speculation about ...
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Camerons Today interview and Cleggs speech Politics live blog
Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments, including David Cameron's Today programme interview, Nick Clegg's speech and Ed Miliband's speech at a Google ...
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NHS chief announces he will quit next year
Julie Bailey, founder of Cure the NHS, protests outside an NHS board meeting where NHS boss Sir David Nicholson was attending. Photograph: Martin ...
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RBS to issue statement on capital position shortly - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland will issue a statement on its capital position later on Wednesday morning, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.One of the sources said that the state-backed lender would look to reassure the market about its financial health after rival Lloyds said earlier on Wednesday it would not need to issue new equity or contingent capital to meet ...
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Lloyds says wont need to issue new equity CoCos
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group said on Wednesday that it would be able to meet new capital requirements without having to issue new equity or contingent capital, after Britain's financial regulator updated the bank on its position.Lloyds said it was confident in its capital position and re-affirmed previous targets for its core tier 1 ratio."Our strong capital position enables ...
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Oklahoma tornado Eyewitness account of the apocalyptic devastation
Nothing could prepare you for the scene of sheer devastation. No blockbuster movie. No TV programme. No book.Here in Oklahoma, it is all very real.Every single foot of the 20 mile-long scar created ...
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Julian Stevenson Grandparents of children killed by their dad in France tell of their devastation
The grandparents of two children killed by their dad in France told last night how devastated they feel for their ex-daughter-in-law.Michael and Diane Stevenson have been crushed by the deaths of grandchildren Carla, five, and Mathew, 10.Their son Julian has been arrested after the two youngsters were found with their throats slit on Saturday.Jobless Julian, 47, killed his children after being ...
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Oklahoma tornado Teachers shielded pupils as school was flattened by killer twister
one of the most powerful tornadoes in US history made a direct hit on their school.Debris rained down on them as the 200mph, two-mile wide twister flattened Plaza Towers elementary in a suburb of Oklahoma City.Rescuers are still searching for survivors as the official death toll from yesterday's tornado stood at 24, including nine children.Seven youngsters trapped beneath the rubble are ...
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Xbox One hands-on with controller and Kinect
Xbox One launch event , there were rumours the controller would be a wildly different beast, perhaps with its own touch pad in response to Sony's refreshed PS4 Dualshock. The truth is simultaneously more mundane and more intriguing. The new pad looks and feels a lot like the ...
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Thinking Digital gets underway for 2013
The Sage in Gateshead throws open its doors today to an assortment of technologists, geeks, scientists and entrepreneurs who'll be making their way north east for the annual Thinking Digital ...
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The NHS is killing disabled people | Ian Birrell
Tina Papalabropoulos with her mother Christine, who says doctors treating people with disabilities often think: 'Is there any point in trying to save this child's ...
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British gay marriage bill to pass hurdle
LONDON--Britain's gay marriage bill was set to pass a crucial parliamentary hurdle on Tuesday, after Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to strike a last-minute deal with the opposition to stop members of his own Conservative party wrecking the ...
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UK Mail full-year profit buoyed by e-retail growth
(Reuters) - Parcel delivery company UK Mail Group Plc reported an 18 percent rise in full-year pretax profit as more thrift-conscious Britons look for online shopping deals. UK Mail, the largest independent parcels, mail and logistics ...
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Town with Nicholas Crane Love and Death in City Hall – TV review
If you were thinking of giving up television for a week - I don't know, maybe for health reasons, or because you want to rediscover reading or sex or something - then this would be the week to do so. It's a bit desperate, there really is almost nothing of interest. It says something that the best I can come up with today ...
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Government will stick to its plans when IMF delivers verdict on economy
Christine Lagarde, who said it would be right to slow the pace of deficit reduction if the economy was growing too slowly. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AFP/Getty ...
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British computer hackers behind bars - from the archive 22 May 1993
Yesterday, two bright young men described by a judge as having indulged in 'intellectual joyriding ' were jailed for six months.Neil Woods, aged 24, from Manchester, and Karl Strickland, aged 22, from Liverpool, thus became the first people imprisoned under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act, introduced to deal with the growth ...
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Britains princes William and Charles plead for end to $15 billion black market trade in exotic animals
The first and second in line to the British throne have told the End Wildlife Crime conference at St James' Palace in London that action must be taken to avoid the "irreversible tragedy" of the extinction of some of the world's best loved ...
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Carroll out of England squad
Liverpool striker Andy Carroll has withdrawn from the England squad for their upcoming friendlies due to a heel injury.The 24-year-old will miss England's clashes against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil, which will be played on May 29 and June 2 respectively.In a statement confirming Carroll's withdrawal, the English FA said manager Roy Hodgson was not planning to call up a ...
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Afghan Interpreters to Receive British Visas
The British government says about 600 Afghan interpreters who worked with the British troops in Afghanistan will be allowed to settle in ...
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Canada NDP suffers debacle in British Columbia election
Opinion polls and media pundits notwithstanding, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP) suffered a debacle in the May 14 British Columbia election, failing to unseat an unpopular twelve year-old Liberal government.The Liberals, who have held office in Canada's third-most populous province since 2001, will use their fourth successive majority government to intensify big ...
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Britain’s victims during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising expect compensation
Thousands of Kenyans are expecting to receive reparations for the abuses they suffered at the hands of British imperialism, during the suppression of the Mau Mau resistance movement.Negotiations with the British Foreign Office are reported to be near completion.Gitu wa Kahengeri, the spokesman for the Mau Mau War Veterans Association, explained, "They have offered to negotiate out of court. ...
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David Laws vetoes plan to force schools to check immigrant status of pupils
David Laws decided the idea would be bureaucratic and difficult to implement.In a sign of the Lib Dems' determination to assert themselves in the coalition, Laws told the education ...
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British man has healthy prostate removed to reduce cancer risk
Man makes decision as Angelina Jolie -- he removes healthy organ. Angelina Jolie arrives on the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highlands Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. UPI/Kevin ...
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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