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Scotland Yard review throws up new leads in Madeleine McCann case
Police in England say they have new leads in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished in Portugal in 2007.A Scotland Yard review of the case has revealed a list of several people, described as "persons of interest".However, former Detective Jacqui Hames said not all the people on the list will be suspects.She said: "That could be somebody who is implicated perhaps in ...
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British girl 6 drowns in hotel swimming pool during family holiday in Egypt
The child, named by sources as Chloe Johnson, was on holiday with her family in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, when the tragedy happened at Coral Sea Waterworld ...
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British woman may face death in Indonesia for drugs
JAKARTA (AFP) - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms (three pounds, four ounces) of the drug, the ...
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Census finds Christianity in Britain losing ground
Almost 10 percent of young people in the United Kingdom now identify themselves as Muslim and fewer than half as Christian, 2011 Census figures show. The new analysis of the 2011 data released Friday shows Christianity has been losing ground even faster than thought among those born in the country, The Daily Telegraph reported. A report last year said the Census found 4.1 million Christians, ...
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London police urge Portugal to reopen Madeleine McCann case
Madeleine McCann . After reviewing investigative files on the case, detectives said they had a list of persons of interest, The Daily Telegraph reported. Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who heads the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the review found "investigative and forensic opportunities." Madeleine disappeared shortly before her 4th birthday in August ...
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Lake Wales Sees Spring Game as Measuring Stick
Lake Wales played its annual Orange and Black spring scrimmage game for the 22nd time under Shafer's direction Friday at Lake Wales High School, and now the veteran coach said everything turns to business with Miramar coming to Legion Field at 7 p.m. next Friday for the Highlanders' spring game."Well, I hope we haven't bitten off more than we can chew," Shafer said. ...
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Photos London beats Saskatoon 3-2 in Memorial Cup
Saskatoon Blades goaltender Andrey Makarov stops a shot from London Knights centre Ryan Rupert during first period Memorial Cup action in Saskatoon, Sask., on Friday, May 17, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 18
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Brit athletics hero faces biggest challenge since London
SHANGHAI (AFP) - British long jump hero Greg Rutherford said he's facing his "biggest challenge" since taking London Olympics gold when he goes up against his two predecessors at Shanghai's Diamond League meet.Rutherford, one of seven current Olympic champions in Shanghai, will face Beijing 2008 winner Irving Saladino and America's Dwight Phillips, the Athens 2004 ...
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Gillian Anderson is fired up in The Fall but Whicher is suspiciously dull The former X-Files star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in Belfast
By Bernice Harrison I can't be only one who locked up the house a little more securely on Sunday night after the tense first episode of The Fall (RT One, and BBC One, Monday). It was the sight of the murderer sliding silently in through the kitchen window of the ordinary suburban house before heading upstairs to prep for his murder that did it. He was pretty ordinary, too, for a serial ...
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Meat of cloned cow offspring enters British food chain
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said that meat from the slaughtered three-year old bull was sold and eaten last year. It is thought the meat, likely to have ended up in a pie or burger, was sold in ...
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Why Im so sorry for my teenage tricks
It's hard being a teenager. It's hard to like them. It's even harder having one. It's a karmic avalanche for everything you put your parents through when you were one.So, judging by the misery being inflicted by my 14-year-old, I must have been a vile one myself.One of my frequently recurring thoughts right now is that I wish I'd said sorry to my parents before they ...
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Cannes Film Festival gun drama Watch actor Christoph Waltz run for cover after shots fired
Cannes was hit by a gun drama last night after a weapon was fired - sending actor Christoph Waltz running for cover.The Oscar-winning star of Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained was being interviewed live on a beach-front set before a crowd of spectators when the man fired two shots into the air from a starting pistol.Witness Arthur Laiguesse said: "The bodyguards jumped over the ...
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Jurys Still Out On Electronic Cigarettes
A way to stop smoking, or an encouragement to start? The role of the e-cigarette is a controversial one, but already some schools, social venues and public bodies have decided to treat them as they would normal cigarettes and ban them. But those who support their use say they provide an alternative way to ingest nicotine without the harm caused by smoking, and say millions of lives could be ...
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Van Persie United have the support of Manchester
Manchester United striker Robin van Persie believes Monday's Premier League trophy parade proves his side have the dominant share of fans in the ...
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Philip Hammond breaks ranks on gay marriage
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, pictured, broke cabinet ranks to suggest that there was "real sense of anger" among voters over the legislation, currently going through Parliament, to allow gay weddings. He said there was no great demand in the country for change and criticised the amount of parliamentary time devoted to the issue. "I have just never felt that this is what ...
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Widower accused of assaulting traffic warden as he took details of mourners cars at funeral
A grieving widower has been accused of assault by a traffic warden who was taking the numbers of mourners' cars at his wife's funeralMac Page, 66, was about to set off with a cortege carrying the body of his wife Rena when he noticed the warden taking details of four cars parked on a yellow line.Mac said: "I told him, that's my wife in that hearse, what are you doing". ...
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Crisis of masculinity This is a golden age for men
When Labour MP Diane Abbott claims British blokes are facing a "crisis of masculinity" she is barking up the wrong trouser leg.The way Diane tells it, British men are a bunch of homophobic, women-hating, porn-addicted, Viagra-quaffing, Jack Daniels-slurping brutes. This is not an accurate portrait of British men - it is a grotesque cartoon.Abbott says British men are incapable of ...
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New hospital comparison website
A new comparison enables patients and GPs to directly compare nearly 200 independent hospitals on a range of quality of care indicators for the first ...
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Legal General says businesses need more insurance
Many business owners do not realise that director loan accounts are a debt to the estate, which has to be repaid to the family in the event of death. 70% of businesses have no plans in place to be able to do ...
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With same genetic test results 1-in-2 women would follow Jolie
A YouGov poll found 1-in-2 U.S. women would have a double mastectomy if genetic tests suggested they had a very high chance of developing breast cancer. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive on the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards at the Hollywood and Highlands Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on February 26, 2012. UPI/Kevin ...
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World Briefing | Europe British Poisoning Inquest Constrained
A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent, ruled Friday that he had to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing. The coroner, Robert Owen, said he accepted an application made by Foreign Secretary William Hague to keep some evidence surrounding the case secret on national security ...
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Muslim Community in Britain Reacts to Child Sex Scandal
A disturbing story of child sex abuse has been gripping the people of Oxford, England. Seven local men have been found guilty of rape, trafficking and arranging a child prostitution ring. The convicted men are of Pakistani and North African backgrounds. Their victims were as young as 11-years-old. The abuse had apparently been going on for eight years. Sara Thornton is the local police ...
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Cannes jewel heist Notorious Pink Panthers gang suspected of million-dollar raid
million-dollar jewel heist at the Cannes Film Festival .Detectives in the South of France believe a mob called the Pink Panthers - who have targeted the awards ceremony before - were ...
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Alton Towers The Smiler breaks down on preview night leaving thrill-seekers dangling
Thrill-seekers screamed with terror while they were trapped on a new Alton Towers rollercoaster when it broke down yesterday.A group of 16 journalists was stranded on the 18million ride, which has a world record 14 loops, for around 30 minutes.They were left dangling at a steep angle as they tried out the 50mph rollercoaster - called The Smiler - before it opens to the public next week.Octavia ...
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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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