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British Soap Awards In Pictures
Wallis Day, Stephanie Waring, Jennifer Metcalfe and Gemma Merna arriving for the 2013 British Soap Awards at MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester. Photos by Ian West/PA ...
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Lees Of sheep and dreeps Waxing nostalgic for Scotland during a visit Down Under
Nick Lees, left, with cousin Donald Cameron, centre, and brother Jim Lees in Cape Leeuwin, where the Indian and Pacific Oceans meet off Western ...
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Methanol in alcohol bottle kills British backpacker
A British backpacker has died after drinking poisoned alcohol while trekking in the Indonesian jungle. Cheznye Emmons died after drinking from a bottle that later turned out to be filled with deadly methanol. Reports said it was either labelled gin or whisky. The 23-year-old had been travelling across south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, and a male friend they had met on ...
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It costs more to live here than Paris NY London
SYDNEY'S property market has stepped up to the world stage with inner city prices topping those in Manhattan, Paris and London and uninhabitable hovels in the inner west fetching up to ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Bahrains Rights Britains Failure
, claimed that "so-called human rights organisations" are "largely administered by ex-ideologists and even terrorists". It continued: "As much as beasts cannot be left to roam freely, so in human society the feral element’s freedom should be under control." In fact, it is well documented ...
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Trego makes tall order seem simple
Peter Trego and Arul Suppiah set Somerset on the path to their third win from three games in the Yorkshire Bank 40 as they overcame Middlesex by six wickets with 25 balls to spare at Taunton. Middlesex were restricted to 252 for 9 after they had lost the toss, with seamer Steve Kirby claiming four wickets and leg spinner Max Waller chipping in with three scalps. But despite going at more ...
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Civil partnerships amendment could wreck gay marriage bill Government sources warn
Historic legislation that for the first time would allow gay couples to marry could be delayed by up to two years and cost the taxpayer 4bn because of a "wrecking amendment" being supported by Labour, it was alleged on Sunday ...
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Lord Feldman spoke to journalists who wrote swivel-eyed loons story but denies words were his
The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as "swivel-eyed loons", it emerged on ...
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Lyth calms Yorkshire in chase
Adam Lyth's unbeaten half-century carried Yorkshire to a five-wicket win over the Unicorns in a close Yorkshire Bank 40 match at ...
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British man in France admits slitting his two childrens throats
France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. "He offered explanations linked to the children's ...
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England v New Zealand 1st Test England win by 170 runs on dramatic fourth day
In the end it took England less than an hour to wrap up proceedings on Day Four and secure victory by 170 runs in the first Test with New Zealand at ...
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Why the Church of England is in decline | Andrew Brown
"I can show you why the Church of England is completely fucked," said the vicar. He showed me an email he had just received from the diocesan authorities about his "continuing ministerial development" - in effect his annual performance review. It came with 20 attachments, from A to T, 19 of which he was supposed to read before filling out the form on how well he was doing.Two ...
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Hey British moaners Germans want to be more like us | Stephen Evans
Aaron Barschak had not only walked through security but he had climbed on stage next to the prince. The accounts got ever more colourful (and perhaps fanciful). It was said that the "comedy terrorist" had been directed by a policeman through Windsor Castle: It's just down there, Sir, first on the left.In America, this would have been a matter of great seriousness. The news anchors ...
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West Brom denies Sir Alex a victory in final game as Manchester United coach
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson walks towards the fans to accept their applause after their English Premier League soccer match against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns in West Bromwich, central England, May 19, 2013. This was Ferguson's 1,500th and final match as Manchester United manager. (EDDIE ...
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Mairead Philpott to appeal against 17-year jail sentence for killing her six kids
Her lawyers say she was "instrumental in killing six children" but think the prison term is too long and will go to the Court of Appeal ask for it to be ...
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Google boss Eric Schmidt defends British tax affairs
British tax . Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Schmidt insisted that Google "has always aspired to do the right thing" and that the company pays "significant" amounts of British corporate, local and employment tax. But he added: "International tax law could almost certainly benefit from reform." Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the British ...
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Nick Clegg promises prisoner rehabilitation shake-up to cut re-offending
Sending a criminal to prison costs more than sending a child to Eton and "we need a better return on our investment" Nick Clegg will say ...
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Former Russian spy would give evidence to public inquiry into killing of Alexander Litvinenko
A key witness in the investigation into Alexander Litvinenko's killing, who helped the murdered dissident compile a report on a senior businessman with strong ties to the Kremlin, is willing to give evidence at a public ...
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Three teenage boys arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs in connection with death of 16-year-old schoolgirl Ellie Jones
Three teeange boys have been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs in connection with the death of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who is thought to have taken an illegal ...
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One dead two hurt including boy in Wales plane crash
A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.The victim, who was a passenger in the plane, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident at Caernarfon Airport in North Wales.A second man, aged in his 60s, suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a boy received head and abdomen ...
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Man dies in plane crash in Wales
A second man, aged in his 60s, suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a boy received head and abdomen injuries, according to the Welsh Ambulance ...
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The latest mens grooming fix laser hair removal for Hobbit feet
Dr Michael Prager, a dermatologist based near the infamous Harley Street, said the number of men visiting his clinic to have laser hair removal on their feet had doubled since last year.He told ...
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British Skier Dies In French Alps Fall
A British skier has died while tackling a famous off-piste glacier in the French Alps, local police have said. The man was out with another skier when they were caught in a bad storm as they descended the challenging Vallee Blanche near Chamonix. The British man, who has not been identified, fell down the north face of the Aiguille du Midi mountain after the pair decided to return to a ...
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Baby orphaned in Mecca horror crash zipped up in body bag before rescuers realised he was alive
A baby was put in a body bag and taken to a morgue after a fatal car crash - before medics realised he was alive. Little Mohammed Eisa Danial Hayat was the sole survivor of a horror smash which wiped out his family in Saudi Arabia, as they made a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. The three-generations of family had travelled almost 3,000 miles from their home in Newport, Wales, when their ...
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