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Patti LuPone Seth Rudetsky Set For Musical Show At Londons Leicester Square Theatre
Despite a white-hot stage and screen career spanning more than four decades, Patti LuPone has no time for nostalgia -- and with good reason. The powerhouse performer is once again on a professional roll, having ...
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Program to repopulate Britain with cranes yields first egg
Wildlife experts say the first crane egg in southern Britain in more than 400 years has been laid by a nesting bird. Although hunting and the loss of habitat wiped out the crane population in Britain, the Great Crane Project has been rearing the birds in captivity and reintroducing them to southwestern England since 2010, they said. The egg, the first laid by cranes released by the project, is ...
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What would Angelina do British man has prostate removed in preventative surgery
US actress and director Angelina Jolie addressing the audience after premiere of her movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 2012. (Amel ...
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British Aircraft Carrier HMS Ark Royal Heads For Scrap Yard
HMS Ark Royal steams into Portsmouth, England, for the last time on Dec. 3, 2010, in preparation for decommissioning. The people of Portsmouth turned out on Monday to bid farewell to the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, destined for a Turkish scrap yard after its decommissioning two years ago. The Invincible-class carrier was a victim of a 2010 defense review that recommended scrapping ...
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Killed by DONKEYS Disabled pensioner dragged from mobility scooter and mauled to death
Rex A disabled pensioner has been dragged from his mobility scooter and mauled to death by a pair of crazed donkeys. Sandor Horvath, 65, was so badly bitten that investigators initially thought he had been savaged by a pack of wolves. He was chased and trampled by the animals while visiting a farmer friend. The farmer's daughter, Csikos Darda, said: "I noticed the donkeys were ...
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Mighty Ark Royals dark day Navy flagship final voyage as its towed away for scrap
mighty HMS Ark Royal as it was towed away to be scrapped today.Former crew members were among onlookers, many in black armbands, as the aircraft carrier left her Portsmouth home for the last time.The one-time flagship of the Royal Navy disappeared over the horizon bound for Izmir in western Turkey, where she will be broken up.The most expensive British warship ever, built at a cost of 333million ...
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Mairead Philpott appeal over sentence for killing six kids a waste of money says her OWN DAD
Mairead's plan to appeal against the 17-year prison term for killing her six children in a fire "a waste of taxpayers' money". He even claimed she should have been locked up for longer.He said: "She should just get on with her sentence. Six little children lost their lives and nothing will change that."Appealing will just drag it all back up and cost taxpayers a lot ...
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Britain is booming FTSE reaches 12-year high as record looms
FTSE 100 blue chip index matched levels from September 2000, just before the market's fascination with loss-making technology companies such as lastminute.com came to an abrupt end and the dotcom bubble burst. The closely watched index of the 100 biggest companies traded in London is also within sight of its all time peak of the 6,930 reached on 30 December 1999.The FTSE 100 is nonetheless ...
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Tim Peakes space station mission could put a rocket under Britains economy
Link to video: Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station There is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens ...
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
A gay couple who were beaten by a gang of youths in a suspected homphobic robbery last weekend - leaving one with head injuries - have urged politicians to moderate their language when debating same-sex ...
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Labour MP Tom Watson urges Theresa May to investigate suppressed Leveson evidence
The Home Secretary has been asked to investigate whether vital reports and documents in the possession of Scotland Yard were seen in full by Lord Justice Leveson before he reached key conclusions in his report on the ...
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Prince William Dont Forget Injured Forces
Prince William has issued a heartfelt plea to the nation not to forget the injured members of the British Armed Forces. "We must not let the wounded men and women of our Armed Forces down," said the Duke of Cambridge. The comments by the future king and serving member of the Armed Forces came as he joined his younger brother Prince Harry to open Tedworth House, a state-of-the-art ...
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UK delays award of prison privatisation contract - FT
Ministry of Justice following an investigation into whether it was overcharged on two contracts with private-sector companies, the Financial Times reported. The winning bidders for the privatisation of HMP Northumberland and South Yorkshire, which together total five prisons, had expected to be told this week, the paper said. The decision has been delayed partly because the personnel ...
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UPDATE 1-NBC News looks to Britain for its new president
Mon May 20, 2013 3:24pm EDT By Liana B. Baker May 20 (Reuters) - Deborah Turness, a former top TV news editor in Britain, will take over as NBC News president in August, at a time when it is looking to turn around the fortunes of its news division. Turness will replace Steve Capus, who left the network in February. She will report to Patricia Fili-Krushel, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, ...
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Warning issued as number of fire deaths in Northern Ireland revealed
Five people were killed in fires caused by smoking materials during the last year, the Northern Ireland Fire Service revealed today. Crews were called to 811 accidental house fires - 66 of which were a direct result of the careless disposal of cigarettes, matches or other smoking related materials.Smoking in the home while drowsy or drunk was also another major factor in fatal house fires.Dale ...
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Newark gas explosion Survivors heartbreaking cry for wife and dad killed in blast
of a huge suspected gas blast kept asking for his wife and father who were killed.Nick Rourke was pulled alive from the rubble seconds after the explosion, but the bodies of his dad Leslie, 71, and wife Jeanette, 40, were not found until hours later.Jeanette Dixon, 34, who helped haul Nick to safety after spotting his bloodied hand sticking out of the debris, revealed: "He kept saying, ...
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Prince William jokes about sleepless nights when wife Kate Middleton gives birth
the Duke of Cambridge looked every inch the proud father today as he was handed a babygrow with "My daddy's a hero" emblazoned on the front.With two months to go until the arrival of his first child, William laughed with other parents about the sleepless nights ahead.The father-to-be was handed the outfit and a Help for Heroes teddy bear as he toured the charity's Tedworth ...
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After hunting a serial killer in Belfast Gillian takes aim at deadly robots in Donaghadee
By AMANDA POOLE KILLER robots are to launch a bid for world domination in a Northern Ireland seaside town -- with only Scully from The X-Files and a bunch of schoolchildren standing in their way. The invasion starts next month when Hollywood stars Sir Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson start filming -- in Donaghadee. The Pounds 14m Our Robot Overlords, due for release in summer 2014, focuses on a ...
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Top AE doctors warn We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore
The Accident & Emergency crisis is now so severe that doctors can no longer guarantee safe care for patients, NHS officials have warned in a leaked letter seen by The ...
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The Great Gatsbys world is every bit as unequal as Britain under the coalition | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Great Gatsby 3D Production year: 2013 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 143 mins Directors: Baz Luhrmann Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Callan McAuliffe, Carey Mulligan, Elizabeth Debicki, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey ...
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Michael Gove suggests Wales and Northern Ireland split off school exams
GCSEs and A-levels are currently set to the same standard in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Michael Gove said it was hard to see how this could continue. Photograph: Chris ...
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Lost in space why it has taken so long to put a British astronaut into orbit
Helen Sharman, Britain's first cosmonaut, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1991. Her journey aboard the Mir space station was not supported by the British government. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex ...
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Tim Peake one giant leap for Britains first man in space
Major Tim Peake will make history when he joins the crew of the International Space Station in 2015. So what can Britain's first official astronaut expect of life ...
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Chinese wineries seeking acceptance at London fair
cto r of the fair. "We also have a dozen Chinese exhibitors and hopefully we could see more next year," he told Xinhua, adding that Chinese wines were becoming more popular. One of the Chinese exhibitor was ...
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Belfast high schools suspension of teacher shambolic court hears
A Belfast high school's handling of a complaint against a teacher suspended from some duties has been shambolic and unfair, the High Court heard ...
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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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