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UK fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport two arrests
LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an ...
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British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft" after it was escorted to a different airport by fighter jets. The plane had been flying from Lahore in Pakistan to Manchester, before it was diverted to Stansted, in Essex, southern England. (Reporting by Kate Holton and Brenda Goh; Editing by Peter ...
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UK fighter jet scrambled to divert civilian plane travelling from Pakistan to England
LONDON - Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain's ...
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London killers had attacked an Indian-origin man mistaking him to be a soldier
The slain soldier Lee Rigby, of the British army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, is seen in an undated photo released on May 23, 2013. (Via ...
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Manchester City stun Chelsea in US friendly - video
Micah Richards scores in extra time as Manchester City overhaul a three-goal deficit to beat Chelsea 4-3 on Thursday at Busch Stadium in St Louis, Missouri, in the opener of a two-game US tour. Goals from Demba Ba, Cesar Azpilicueta and Oscar put Chelsea three up, but two goals from Edin Dzeko contributed to a remarkable City ...
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Woolwich murder Welby praises response of British Muslim bodies
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby (right), and the assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, condemn the Woolwich murder of Lee Rigby outside the Masjid Umar mosque in Leicester. Photograph: Rui ...
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Manchester Uniteds Debt Refinancing Will Boost Teams Profits
Manchester United's striker Wayne Rooney (L) vies with Real Madrid's defender Alvaro Arbeloa (R) during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match Real Madrid CF vs Manchester United FC at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on February 13, 2013. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Yesterday, the world's second most valuable sports team ...
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Pakistani plane lands in Britain after jet escort police
A Pakistani International Airlines plane landed atBritain's Stansted airport on Friday after fighter jets were scrambled to investigate an incident on board, police ...
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Suspicious object found in Belfast alert
Losing one of three connections from Belfast to Gatwick Airport is a "major disappointment" which could affect prices for passengers, an industry insider has ...
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Just in time Dry sunny weather predicted for Bank Holiday weekend
The unseasonably cold weather in southern areas and the Midlands will make way for a dry and sunny Bank Holiday weekend, forecasters ...
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Brendan Rogers son Anton and three other footballers cleared of sexual assault
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 bail throughout the trial and their families, including Rodgers' father - Liverpool manager Brendan ...
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G4S to run rape and sex support centres in the Midlands
G4S, the private security firm that was criticised for its lack of organisation during the London 2012 Olympics, has won a contract to run a two rape and sex attack centres in the ...
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Brutal attack on British soldier opens new front in the war against terrorism
Police try to disperse demonstrators in Woolich, London on Wednesday after a British soldier was brutally murdered nearby in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist ...
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Champions League Prince William Backs Bayern
The Duke of Cambridge has told European football leaders that his money is on Bayern Munich to win Saturday's Champions League final at Wembley. Prince William, speaking in his role as president of the Football Association, was giving the opening speech at the Uefa Congress in London the day before Bayern play Borussia Dortmund in an all-German final. He predicted a 2-0 win for the ...
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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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Britain Scrambles Warplanes for Pakistani Airliner
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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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London investigators grapple with unprecedented gruesome terror tactics
(CBS News) New details have emerged regarding the background and tactics allegedly used by the two men accused of savagely murdering British soldier Lee Rigby in London on Wednesday. According to British media reports, Michael Adebolajo, 28, was a British citizen, born in Nigeria, raised as a Christian, and is believed to have converted to Islam over the course of the last decade. He and ...
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Manchester City players coy on Pellegrini
"Let's not go into any of that," he said. "The decision has been made by the club and we have to respect that as players. We work for Man City and as I say, they saw fit to part ways with Roberto ...
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Trescothick devasted by thrashing
Marcus Trescothick, the Somerset captain, has said he was "embarrassed" by his team's performance against Sussex where they crumbled to an innings defeat in little more than four ...
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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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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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Metrolink expansion delays ongoing
Expansion plans for Manchester’s Metrolink seem shrouded in continual controversy or bureaucracy, from spending cuts and revisions, environmental concerns and claims that not enough is being done to ensure that the local workforce is employed in expanding the tram system. It seems that just as the benefits to be reaped from the tram line expansion are significant, so too are the problems associated with seeing it through.
It was way back in the 1980s that Manchester news media first reported that local government were considering expanding the tram system, but it wasn’t until 2001 that concrete action was taken in the form of half a billion pounds being set aside by the national government to expand the tram lines from Manchester’s city centre out into the Greater Manchester region. Read more
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