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England in good hands with Root and Compton says Cook
LEEDS, England (Reuters) - England have emerged from a "changing of the guard" with their batting line-up and captain Alastair Cook has backed the likes of Joe Root and Nick Compton to make their names in the test ...
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British Ministers Call For Mass Government Snooping In Wake Of Woolwich Attack
Following the brutal murder of a young soldier in London, British politicians have called for the resurrection of a bill that was shelved last month that would see the creation of a dragnet surveillance database, allowing police and intelligence agencies to effectively monitor the communications of everyone in the country. The so-called "snoopers' charter", a proposed database of ...
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Belfast woman weeps after being cleared of defrauding her mother
A woman wept in court after she was acquitted of defrauding thousands of pounds from her elderly mother’s life savings. The Belfast Crown Court jury deliberated for two hours and 20 minutes yesterday before finding 49-year-old Heather Noble unanimously not guilty on two counts of theft, two counts of forgery and a further charge of fraud. Following further deliberations and a direction ...
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Belfast Lord Mayor’s challenging year
The crisis created by the Union flags dispute gave Belfast’s outgoing Lord Mayor a chance to do more than simply pose for the cameras, Gavin Robinson revealed today. The 28-year-old DUP man, whose east Belfast constituency was marred by some of the worst scenes of violence, admitted that the months of protests had been a challenging but insisted they had not overshadowed his 12 months in ...
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London beheading Attacker is British citizen
London, May 23 : British authorities have established that one of the accused in the killing of a serving British soldier in London is a British citizen of Nigerian descent, reports said on ...
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Harlow fire deaths Teenager arrested over house blaze which killed mum and five children
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a house fire which killed a mother and her five children.Sabah Usmani, 44, died in a horrific house blaze alongside her daughter Hira, 12, and sons Muneeb, nine, and Rayyan, six.Son Sohaib, 11, and daughter Maheen, three, sadly died of their injuries at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.Dr Usmani's husband Abdul Shakoor, a ...
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Prince Charles in emergency landing drama Royal helicopter forced to divert after technical fault
Prince Charles and Camilla's helicopter had to make an emergency landing today after a "hairy" mid-air drama.A technical fault forced the royal helicopter to urgently divert to a nearby aerodrome 15 minutes after take-off.The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall were flying from London to Wales for a day-long tour to Hay and its popular annual festival of literature.But minutes after ...
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Davinder Jeet Bains Doctor who used spy camera to film female patients jailed for 12 years
A family doctor was jailed for 12 years today after he used a James Bond spy camera to secretly film intimate examinations of hundreds of women.Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, aged 46, used a tiny camera built into the face of his wristwatch to record himself abusing female patients over a three-year period.Detectives found 361 high-quality video clips on the GP's watch and home computer.Bains used ...
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Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect
LONDON -- Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun.Former al-Muhajiroun head Anjem Choudary identified the man as Michael Adebolajo, a Christian who converted to Islam around 2003 and took part in several of the group's ...
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Ocovango on course for Epsom as British Derby bid crumbles
the Derby , worked on the track here on Thursday morning, while a strong challenge was also confirmed from Ireland and even Germany, which has never sent a runner to the Classic before. The home team, however, has been reduced to a 20-1 chance and a handful of rank outsiders after Telescope, who is part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson, was declared a non-runner ...
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Church of Scotland Rethinking Report
JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Church of Scotland removed an online report posted earlier this month claiming Jews have no biblical claim to the land of Israel. The move came following meetings with Jewish leaders last Thursday. The Jewish people and millions of Christians around the world believe that present-day Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, giving this particular area of the ...
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Soldier hacked to death in London named
The soldier killed was Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Ministry of Defence announced the victim's name pending formal police identification. "An extremely popular and witty soldier, Drummer Rigby was a larger than life personality within the Corps of Drums and was well known, liked and respected across the Second Fusiliers," the ...
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Britain names soldier killed in London he had served in Afghanistan
Manchester United fan and a drummer in the military band, he had also served in Germany and Cyprus but was at the time of his death working in London. "An extremely popular and witty soldier, Drummer Rigby was a larger than life personality within the Corps of Drums and was well known, liked and respected across the Second Fusiliers," said a statement from the ministry of defence. ...
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London Victim IDed as 25-Year-Old Afghan Vet
Drummer Lee Rigby, or ‘Riggers’ to his friends, was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the Army in 2006 and on successful completion of his infantry training course at Infantry Training Centre Catterick he was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums and posted to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (also known as "Second Fusiliers" or ...
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Post Office workers call fifth strike since Easter
Post Office workers are to strike for the fifth time since Easter to demonstrate against "deeply unpopular" proposals that will see 70 high street branches ...
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On Woolwich British media could learn from Swedish riots coverage | Andrew Brown
riots around Stockholm had made the front page of the Financial Times, I scurried over to the sites of Swedish papers to see in some detail what was happening. It turned out that the dismembered parts of a Thai woman had been found in Lapland, various television stars had been variously unhappy in their love lives, a farmer had caused the evacuation of a police station in the south of the ...
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Muslim Council of Britain condemns Woolwich killing
The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned the suspected terrorist murder of a soldier on the streets of London yesterday.The Ministry of Defence has named the victim, who was hacked to death as 25-year-old, Drummer Lee Rigby.It is thought two men, who have been arrested in relation to the incident, were known to security services.Farooq Murad of the Muslim Council of Britain said that the act ...
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Revealed Soldier slaughtered in London
>Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences. London (CNN) -- A gruesome cleaver attack on a British soldier left London reeling Thursday, as Britain grappled with questions over who was responsible and whether Islamist extremism was to blame. The scene revealed through cell phone camera footage and ...
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London murder highlights lone wolf terrorist concerns
Police are treating the murder of a soldier in broad daylight as terrorism-related, and some British officials are calling for a crackdown on 'hate preachers' who may have inspired the ...
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Live updates April Jones trial hears more evidence from Mark Bridger
took to the stand for the first time yesterday as the defence opened in the trial at Mold Crown Court.Bridger denies the murder and abduction of five-year-old April, who disappeared while playing near her home in Machynlleth on October 1 last ...
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Video London police scuffle with protesters after killing of soldier
Police clashed with protesters, including supporters of the far-right English Defence League, following the brutal hacking death of a man in London on ...
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George Michael could have been killed as motorist reveals shocking moment he swerved to avoid fatal collision
the singer catapulted from a car at 70mph.The mystery motorway accident was seen by driver Ben Quince who was directly behind the popstar on the M1 when it happened.Ben, 37, told The Sun the shocking event he witnessed: "I suddenly saw the back door on the driver's side open."A body appeared to bounce, bounce, bounce. He was spinning as he came towards me."I had to swerve ...
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Woolwich attackers are criminally deluded whatever their motives
The origin of what happened in Woolwich yesterday, when you watch that footage as we all have by now, seems at first to be quite clear - evil.That's the word we use for things we don't like to think about and can't explain.When you think someone is evil it creates hatred. It's random and frightening, and it provokes terror so that other people feel justified in calling for ...
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London attackers identified as mosques targeted by rioters
Two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, sources ...
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British soldier ‘hacked to death’ by unidentified assailants
The assailants were not unidentified. One of them even gave an interview after the murder, bloody hands and meat cleaver included. The media is walking on eggshell not to say that they are Muslims and in fact the brutal murder was accompanied with 'Allah hu Akbar" as usual. What is it that our leaders are not telling us about Islam and multiculturalism? Do we owe these people ...
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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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