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More employers allow time off for dental visits
According to Simplyhealth's latest dental survey, employers are being more lenient when it comes to allowing time off for dental ...
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London date for Executive Committee
The UEFA Executive Committee begins its latest meeting in London on Wednesday, with the venues for the 2015 club competition finals and UEFA EURO 2016 on the ...
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Cold weather dampens retail sales in April
LONDON (Reuters) - Cold weather continued to hurt British retail sales in April, driving the biggest monthly drop in a year, official data showed on Wednesday.The Office for National Statistics said sales of barbecue food and garden furniture were hit in particular.Retail sales volumes including automotive fuel fell 1.3 percent in April from March, confounding economists' forecasts for flat ...
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England swing catches Aussie Ashes eyes
Michael Clarke doesn't want his team losing focus and getting too engaged in England's series with New Zealand, but it seems the swing and seam at Lord's was too obvious to ignore.Stuart Broad's ominous second-innings spell in the first Test against the Black Caps might have left a few of Clarke's top order allies shaking in their boots.But at least Australia's ...
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PresbyterianChurch of Scotland relations strained by gay clerics
Relations between Irish Presbyterians and the Scottish church from whence they came four centuries ago have been strained by the Church of Scotland decision to allow gay ministers. On Monday the Church of Scotland's General Assembly voted to permit its ministers to enter homosexual relationships - while at the same time reaffirming traditional church teaching that such relationships are ...
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Kate Middleton pregnant Duchess of Cambridge to attend Queens summer garden party at Buckingham Palace
More than 270,000 cups of tea will be consumed along with 20,000 sandwiches and slices of cake at the event which a highlight of the Queen's ...
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Denise Whylie Model with long toes conned clinic into carrying out corrective surgery
A model with "excessively long toes" conned a clinic into carrying out 5,000 of surgery to put them right, a court heard yesterday.It was alleged Denise Whylie booked into London's Premier Foot and Ankle Centre as Denise Stephens and said her father, and then an uncle, would be paying.But Blackfriars crown court was told three stolen credit cards were used to settle the ...
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Michael Bubles pregnant wife too randy for him
Michael Buble's pregnant wife has admitted wearing him out by demanding sex.Luisana Lopilato giggled as she told a chat show: "I don't know if it's true about pregnant womenbut he sees me and says, 'My head hurts, I'm tired, I've had enough'."Stunning Argentine model Luisana, 26, also revealed they had initially struggled to conceive."After ...
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Pope Francis exorcism Did Pontiff perform ceremony on boy in wheelchair
Religious experts claim the Pope carried out an "exorcism" on a boy in a wheelchair.Footage from a Roman Catholic TV channel apparently shows Pope Francis gripping the boy's head and pushing him down hard into his chair while reciting a prayer.The youth's mouth is said to have dropped open and he convulsed several times before slumping back in his wheelchair.An exorcism ...
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Oscar Pistorius Athletes brother cleared over death of woman motorcyclist
Oscar Pistorius' brother wept today as a court cleared him over the death of a woman motorcyclist.Carl Pistorius was acquitted of culpable homicide by a magistrate in South Africa over the 2008 road accident.Maria Barnard was ruled to have been riding her motorbike too fast when she crashed into the back of his vehicle.Pistorius' stepmother and sister hugged a tearful Pistorius in ...
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April Jones trial Murder accused Mark Bridger set to give his version of events in witness box
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Britains wildlife declining at worrying rate
MORE than half of UK species are in decline with one in ten at risk of disappearing altogether, according to a new report. Sir David Attenborough, who launched The State of Nature report this week, said the study of native species - the first of its kind in the UK - came as a stark warning.He said: "This report shows that our species are in trouble, with many declining at a worrying ...
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Shells London redevelopment approved
Plans to redevelop the Shell Centre on London's South Bank have been approved, developers said.The 1.45 million sq ft scheme will transform the 1960s office site, providing new offices for Shell and other businesses as well as hundreds of new homes and shops.Under the plan by Braeburn Estates, a joint venture of Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, there will be open and attractive public ...
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The Freemasons Code Dan Brown reveals the message that told him the door to the lodge is open
His best-selling novels illuminate the shadowy organisations that supposedly run the world. But Dan Brown was "honoured" to receive an invitation to join the Freemasons, the arcane fraternity whose tentacles are said to extend into the highest echelons of ...
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Weather Rain And Wind Ahead Of Bank Holiday
Rain and wind are set to lash the UK ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend with temperatures hovering below average. "A squally area of low pressure in the North Sea will bring wind and rain to eastern and southern Britain later tomorrow and into Friday," said Sky News weather presenter Isobel Lang. Heavy showers will start to sweep across Scotland from Wednesday, spreading to most ...
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Nick Clegg Reads Tory Right The Riot Act
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has insisted that the coalition will last until 2015 as he attacks Conservative backbenchers for being "consumed by game playing". The Deputy Prime Minister will have infuriated Tory MPs by accusing them of "disappearing into a parliamentary rabbit warren" after a week of revolts over Europe and gay marriage. But he dismissed speculation about ...
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Will London Respond to Somalias Needs
I met Fatuma in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, late last year. A few days before we met, she had been raped by an armed militia man while she slept in one of the city’s camps for displaced people. She told me that she had nowhere to turn for redress. Months earlier, 13-year old Abdi told me how he had been kidnapped from school by armed Islamists from al-Shabaab and forced to serve in ...
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RBS to issue statement on capital position shortly - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland will issue a statement on its capital position later on Wednesday morning, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.One of the sources said that the state-backed lender would look to reassure the market about its financial health after rival Lloyds said earlier on Wednesday it would not need to issue new equity or contingent capital to meet ...
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Lloyds says wont need to issue new equity CoCos
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group said on Wednesday that it would be able to meet new capital requirements without having to issue new equity or contingent capital, after Britain's financial regulator updated the bank on its position.Lloyds said it was confident in its capital position and re-affirmed previous targets for its core tier 1 ratio."Our strong capital position enables ...
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Oklahoma tornado Eyewitness account of the apocalyptic devastation
Nothing could prepare you for the scene of sheer devastation. No blockbuster movie. No TV programme. No book.Here in Oklahoma, it is all very real.Every single foot of the 20 mile-long scar created ...
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Julian Stevenson Grandparents of children killed by their dad in France tell of their devastation
The grandparents of two children killed by their dad in France told last night how devastated they feel for their ex-daughter-in-law.Michael and Diane Stevenson have been crushed by the deaths of grandchildren Carla, five, and Mathew, 10.Their son Julian has been arrested after the two youngsters were found with their throats slit on Saturday.Jobless Julian, 47, killed his children after being ...
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Oklahoma tornado Teachers shielded pupils as school was flattened by killer twister
one of the most powerful tornadoes in US history made a direct hit on their school.Debris rained down on them as the 200mph, two-mile wide twister flattened Plaza Towers elementary in a suburb of Oklahoma City.Rescuers are still searching for survivors as the official death toll from yesterday's tornado stood at 24, including nine children.Seven youngsters trapped beneath the rubble are ...
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Wales could be the Silicon Valley of public services
The NHS, public libraries and local education authorities all have roots in Wales, making it fertile ground for innovation. Photograph: The Photolibrary ...
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British gay marriage bill to pass hurdle
LONDON--Britain's gay marriage bill was set to pass a crucial parliamentary hurdle on Tuesday, after Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to strike a last-minute deal with the opposition to stop members of his own Conservative party wrecking the ...
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London wine fair opens as Chinese brands seeking for acceptance
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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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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