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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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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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British fraud suspect found hanged in French jail
A Briton arrested on suspicion of organised fraud has been found hanged in a French jail. John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody.Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than 1 million in loans from French banks.A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are ...
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British police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder
LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee ...
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New travel assistance service bridges language barrier
i-interpret4u is a new travel assistance service for tourists and business travellers. It offers a solution for dealing with language barriers that could lead to an insurance ...
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Many do not know how to fund later life costs
A survey from NS&I says that 31% of adults do not know how they will finance their needs in later life, including such eventualities as long-term illness, nursing home or care fees and care of others including partners, parents and ...
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General Medical launches accident insurance for amateur sports
Having a sports injury that prohibits your participation is bad enough, but sometimes there can be repercussions beyond sport such as loss of ...
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Photos Britain’s Newly Renovated Cliveden House Site of the Infamous Profumo Affair
n June 1963, the Profumo Affair--Britain's most infamous political sex scandal--exploded. Fifty years later, as Andrew Lloyd Webber preps a musical based on the sordid saga, Cliveden House, the stately home turned hotel where the affair began, has been handsomely spruced up. Just outside London, Cliveden was begun in 1666 by the second Duke of Buckingham and rebuilt following a disastrous ...
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Suspects journey from schoolboy football to phonejacking and jihad
London in an attempt to remove him from the influence of a gang.But Michael Adebolajo returned to the capital to go to university and it was while he was a student that he appears to have set foot on the path that took him from being a schoolboy to an alleged extremist intent on jihad. His tutor, it is claimed, was Omar Bakri Mohammed, leader of the now banned al-Muhajiroun."He was on our ...
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Hugh Muirs diary Buckles has bolted but still the millions roll in for G4S
G4S's chief executive Nick Buckles is stepping down, while the company continues to win government contracts. Photograph: Ben ...
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Obama Vows to Work with Britain on Syria
President Obama vowed Monday to work with Britain to pressure the Syrian government to end its bloody civil war, calling the violence there appalling. With Prime Minister David Cameron at his side, Obama said the two allies would work to strengthen moderate opposition against the hardline regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The two also discussed the Mideast peace process and a possible ...
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The far right BNP and EDL mobilise as mainstream leaders strive to contain backlash
David Cameron was among the politicians and community leaders who spoke out to describe the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby as a "betrayal of Islam" as much as it was an attack on the British way of life. But the shocking brutality of the soldier's death has been seized upon by far-right groups as justification for their anti-immigrant and anti-Islam views. Those hoping to stoke ...
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The family A strict and loving upbringing – but then the teenage Michael Adebolajo went off the rails
Every Sunday Michael Adebolajo's mother Tana would don traditional West African dress and depart from her neat semi in London's Essex suburbs to attend church with her ...
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The community I dont want to stay out late. You dont know what will happen
Emily Dugan is social affairs correspondent for The Independent, i and Independent on Sunday, covering Sarah Cassidy's maternity leave. She was previously a news reporter for The Independent on Sunday. Her investigations into human trafficking have twice been awarded Best Investigative Article at the Anti-Slavery Day Media Awards and her human rights journalism was shortlisted for the Gaby ...
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The response Powers to monitor internet use back on Cabinets agenda
The Woolwich murder will be used by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to revive plans for a "snooper's charter", allowing police and security services to monitor internet use, Conservative sources indicated ...
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Steve Bell on David Camerons response to the Woolwich killing – cartoon
Woolwich attack highlights power of mobile technology as a news source Breaking news is no longer the preserve of established broadcasters, thanks to the camera phone and social media, ...
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British Ministry of Defense pays tribute to loving father killed in UK terror attack
This undated image released May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defense, shows Drummer Lee Rigby, known as Riggers to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on ...
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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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