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Bupa finds knees in a sorry state
Bupa research has laid bare the sorry state of Britain's knees - with 1 in 4 having suffered from knee pain in the last year and 81% of sufferers currently in ...
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Health cash plan helps TotalMobile attract and retain employees
TotalMobile Ltd in Northern Ireland has found its health cash plan is instrumental in attracting and retaining staff. Provided by Simplyhealth, the health cash plan now forms a key part of its recruitment ...
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Britains skid-row scrappers living in Murray shadow
Andy Murray returns to Croatia's Marin Cilic during their ATP Aegon Championships final match at the Queen's Club in west London, on June 16, 2013. World number two Murray goes into Wimbledon confident of ending Britain's 77-year wait to crown a home men's ...
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Teacher William Hanna jailed for sexually assaulting girl in attacks broadcast live online
A teacher was jailed yesterday after sexually assaulting a schoolgirl live on the internet. William Hanna, 63, was working at a school in Birmingham when the sickening sex attacks took place. He repeatedly abused the 15-year-old girl over a six month period in 2010 at budget hotels in the city. Hanna and co-accused Dianne Whitehouse, 58, met the teen on internet chat rooms before abusing her ...
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Ken Clarke Britain will be shut out of new European-US trade deal if we quit EU
Britain will be shut out of lucrative international deals if we quit the European Union, former Chancellor Ken Clarke warns today.David Cameron has made the veteran Tory minister a key negotiator as ...
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Joe Kinnear stuns Newcastle fans by getting their players names wrong in radio interview
new director of football Joe Kinnear gave a cringeworthy defence of his job.The former Toon boss gave a radio interview a day after he announced himself that he had taken the position at St James' Park.Kinnear took to the airwaves after the appointment was greeted with widespread criticism ...
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Syria tops agenda as Obama meets Putin at G-8 in Northern Ireland
By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart - on opposite sides of a civil war but using delicate language about a difference of opinion - said Monday that they shared an interest in stopping the bloodshed in Syria, as the White House planned to announce more than $300 million in a new humanitarian aid package to go to the war-torn country and ...
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England loss proved costly for Australia
Australia went down fighting in their campaign ending Champions Trophy loss to Sri Lanka, but ultimately their limp performance against England in the first match is to blame for one of their worst ever results at a world one-day tournament.Set a target of 254 to win after opting to field first, Australia needed to score at a challenging 8.7 runs an over and wrap up the chase in 29.1 overs in ...
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Internet giants given two months to plan how to block child abuse images
Internet giants will be given two months to come up with a plan to rid the web of vile child abuse images, ministers said last night.The warning will be delivered to firms including Google by Culture Secretary Maria Miller at a Whitehall internet porn summit today.The crunch talks come amid mounting concern at the impact of child porn, in the wake of the tragic murders of April Jones and Tia ...
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How President Barack Obamas visit to Northern Ireland has inspired a nation
When 17-year-old Ellen Mooney arrived at Belfast's Waterfront Hall yesterday to see US President Barack Obama make a historic speech, it wasn't because she was interested in politics.She said: "I don't really follow political stuff at all." She giggled with her friend Morgan McKeown, 18. "We've come to see Obama because he's gorgeous!"After listening ...
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Experts say RF should present in US London placement of Eurobonds
MOSCOW, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia may have two presentations of its placement of sovereign Eurobonds in London and in New York in late July, a source close to the information told ...
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Scott London Speaks Out on Kickbacks
Scott London spoke to CNBC's Jane Wells about the KPMG insider trading scheme and how much he made in kickbacks. London says "nothing like this has ever happened ...
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DealBook Britain’s Top Fraud Office Aims to Add Bite to Its Bark
David Green, the director of Britain’s Serious Fraud Office. David Green, the director of Britain's Serious Fraud Office, is in a combative mood. On his desk at his office, a stone's throw from Trafalgar Square in London, sits a souvenir plaque commemorating the signal that Admiral Horatio Nelson sent to his fleet on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It says, ...
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British prosecutor to charge central Libor suspect source
Former Citigroup and UBS trader Thomas Hayes is alleged to have been a central figure in a scam to rig global benchmark interest rates. (Michael ...
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TV licence dodgers excuses revealed Funniest 12 reasons given for not paying up
Around 400,000 TV-owning households dodged buying a licence last year - with one homeowner claiming their son of three should pay for it because only he watched it.TV Licensing has released its favourite excuses for not paying up, which included: "Why would I need a licence for a TV I stole? Nobody knows I've got it."One person even produced a document ripped in half as evidence ...
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Jobless forced to pay for library internet access just as more services move online
Britain's libraries are making the public pay for services previously provided for FREE before the Tory-led Coalition's cuts, a shock survey reveals today. And the new charges are hitting jobseekers, children and the elderly hardest as they had relied on free access to the internet and computer services at their local library. In prime minister David Cameron's Witney ...
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New pay squeeze on public sectors workers expected to be unveiled by Chancellor
Nurses, teachers and council workers face another attack on pay in measures to be unveiled by the Chancellor next week, leaked plans revealed yesterday. George Osborne wants to scrap raises based on length of service and passing of tests for public sector workers already set to lose 1.5billion after the next election. Government workers could also lose out after ministers offered to axe the ...
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Girl writes heartbreaking open letter pleading for more organ donors after dad saves four lives
A little girl penned a heartbreaking letter begging people to be organ donors after her dad saved four lives when he died.Caitlin Robertson, nine, wrote the touching tribute after "funny, caring, loving and brave" Gary died suddenly of a brain aneurysm on his 39th birthday.Caitlin, who has brothers Ben, eight, and two-year-old Joe, learned his organs meant four families did not go ...
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Nigella Lawson attacked How 1 in 4 women are victim of domestic violence
Domestic violence is very common with at least one in four women experiencing abuse in their relationships during their lifetime. On average two women in England and Wales are killed every week by a current of former partner. Perpetrators of domestic violence often appear very charming and likeable - consequently women experiencing abuse are often reluctant to tell anyone in case they ...
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Mum diagnosed with multiple sclerosis discovers it was really parasitic tick bite
A mum treated for multiple sclerosis for two years was actually infected with a parasitic tick bite and cured herself with antibiotics.Julia Marshall-Wessendorf, 37, was diagnosed with the potentially crippling disease after visiting her GP with a numb finger.The mum-of-three had injection every other day to battle the MS, fearing she would end up in a wheelchair.But when she started getting ...
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Tia Sharps grieving dad Steven Carter set to become father again
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Stressed mums cooking up to TEN meals a day for fussy families
Fussy kids and partners are pushing mums to breaking point with their menu orders.Meeting their demands mean one in four mothers cook as many as nine times a day, with some serving 10 meals or even more.The figures come from The Modern Mum Report based on a poll of 1,000 women with kids aged five and under. Most admit to feeling stressed at least five times a day and one in seven said 10 times a ...
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Stafford Hospital nurse who thought dead patient was asleep CAN carry on working
A nurse at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital escaped being struck off yesterday after she claimed that a dead patient was sleeping.Evelyn Agbeko had found the 81-year-old woman unresponsive.However, she did not try chest compressions or call the hospital's resuscitation team, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.Agbeko wrote in her notes that the patient was asleep between 4am and 6am, but ...
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Paddy Power wins landmark ruling against council that tried to block branch
Paddy Power has won a landmark ruling against a council that tried to stop the bookie opening a branch.Newham Council in East London had rejected its application on the grounds that it would attract crime and antisocial behaviour.The council said it was "deeply disappointed" and would consider whether to appeal against the ruling by Thames magistrates. Newham, home of the Olympic park, ...
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Blue Ds from Olympics installed on Investec Hockey World League pitch in London
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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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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