Friday 18th May, 2012
PM warns Hollande against tax plan
David Cameron has issued a blunt warning to French President Francois Hollande that Britain would not accept a Europe-wide financial transaction tax, insisting it was not "a sensible ...
Controversy over royal event guests
Criticism was largely aimed at the presence of the King of Bahrain, whose regime is accused of a catalogue of human rights abuses. The Queen and her family sat down to lunch with the Middle East ...
Olympic flame arrives in Britain
Former England football captain David Beckham, right, and London Mayor Boris Johnson attend a handover for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch ...
Back on the streets: Abu Qatada could be out on bail by end of the month
Daily MirrorHate cleric Abu Qatada could be free by the end of the month, it emerged today.A judge will rule on May 28 if the preacher's application for bail should be granted.His lawyers applied for bail ...
Beauty and the beasts: Kate mingles with dictators and despots at Queen's jubilee lunch
Daily MirrorWearing a 1,200 pale pink pleated dress by Emilia Wickstead, Kate appeared happy and relaxed as she chatted to the international heads of ...
Swamped: Three fishermen feared dead after their boat vanishes
Daily MirrorThree young fishermen were feared to have drowned today after their crabbing boat vanished in the English Channel.The 36ft wooden vessel was thought to have broken up suddenly after getting swamped ...
Kent dig in as another draw looms
CricinfoKent edged towards safety in their Division Two match with Northamptonshire at Canterbury as they closed a rain-affected third day on 280 for 6. Crucially, they managed to inch past the follow-on ...
Beckham lights Olympic flame in Britain
ABC AustraliaEngland The flame for the London Olympics has arrived on British soil on board a special golden-liveried British Airways flight from Athens.The Airbus plane Firefly, Flight 2012, landed at the ...
London 2012 Olympics: flame arrives in Britain for Games
Canada.comCULDROSE AIRBASE - The Olympic flame arrived in Britain from Greece on Friday to start a 70-day relay culminating in the opening ceremony of the London Games on July 27.Princess Anne, the daughter ...
VIDEO: Plaque to IRA bomb victims stolen
BBCThieves have stolen a metal plaque erected in memory of two young boys who were killed in an IRA bomb attack in Warrington, Cheshire. Tim Parry, who was 12, and Johnathan Ball, aged three, died in ...
VIDEO: Beckham: 2012 a special year
BBCA plane carrying the Olympic flame to the UK is due to land in Cornwall on Friday, ahead of a 10-week nationwide torch relay ahead of the London Games. Earlier the Princess Royal, Lord Coe, the ...
Headteacher receives one year ban
BBCA Welshpool school headteacher has been banned from teaching for a year after humiliating and manhandling children. Eirios Hall, 59, subjected nursery pupils to a reign of terror that reduced ...
VIDEO: World royals gather to mark Jubilee
BBCRoyals from around the world have gathered in Britain to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Twelve members of the UK royal family joined the Queen to welcome the sovereigns of 26 countries for ...
Gwahardd pennaeth am flwyddyn
BBCMae pennaeth ysgol fabanod yn y Trallwng wedi cael ei gwahardd rhag dysgu am flwyddyn ar l cael ei chanfod yn euog o gamymddygiad proffesiynol annerbyniol. Clywodd panel disgyblu Cyngor Addysgu ...
Body found in search for fishermen
IC WalesThe men, named locally as 37-year-old skipper David MacFarland, crewman Robert Prowse, 23, and Jack Craig, 22, had not been seen or heard from since leaving Weymouth on their 36ft "potter" ...
Merkel 'suggested Greece euro vote'
IC WalesGermany's chancellor has apparently waded into Greece's choppy political waters, with Athens saying Angela Merkel suggested that the country should hold a referendum on the euro together ...
Flame lights up countdown to Games
IC WalesFootballer David Beckham, the Princess Royal, Lord Coe, chairman of Games organisers Locog, and London Mayor Boris Johnson flew from Athens, Greece, with the flame. They were on board British ...
British citizen arrested after babies bodies found
RTEA British citizen has been arrested by Thai police after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used for black magic were found in travel bags in a Bangkok hotel ...
Games on! Becks brings the Olympic Flame to the UK ahead of the torch relay
Daily MirrorPrincess Anne and David Beckham tonight carried the London Olympic Flame on to UK soil. They arrived at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall on a specially chartered plane called the Firefly where the flame ...
Andrew Strauss struggles over final stretch for 20th England century
The GuardianEngland's Andrew Strauss powers the ball through the on side on his way to 121 not out in the first Test against West Indies. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ...
Manchester City confident they will sign Arsenal's Robin van Persie
The GuardianArsenal's Robin van Persie celebrates his winner at Anfield in March, one of his 30 Premier League goals last season. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action ...
McGrath rebirth aids Yorkshire
CricinfoAnthony McGrath's Yorkshire career seemed in decline but a century against Hampshire and some useful bowling spells this season have given him new ...
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