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Thursday, March 11, 2010
London On The Cheap: 11-17 March
The Henninghams 'Chip Shop' at the launch of the London Word Festival. Get a word printed on Sunday. Tonight: Learn about the unknown ghosts of London with gentleman ghost hunter Alan Murdie, of Ghost Club and Fortean Times fame at SELFS, The Old Kings Head from 7.30pm, £2.50. Fancy a…
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 at Photographers' Gallery - Art museums & institutions - Time Out London
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The Northerner: Week of horror stories
Welcome to the Northerner, guardian.co.uk's weekly digest of the northern pressIt has been a difficult week for authorities in the north, to say the least. In a development that led the national news, the Sheffield safeguarding children board – along with its Lincolnshire counterpart – had to…
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Who can benefit from Physiotherapy? Mike Squirrell Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic
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Liam Fox wins major victory over David Cameron
Quietly, and with little fanfare, the shadow defence secretary has killed off ministerial ambitions of retired army chiefWhen you achieve victory – of the complete, earth scorching, variety – it is always best to avoid crowing. "In war: resolution; in defeat: defiance; in victory:…
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No school place for those who lie about address
Schools adjudicator clamps down on parents who deceive to get their children into the best state schoolsParents caught lying to the authorities to get their offspring into top state schools will have their child's place automatically withdrawn under new rules, the schools adjudicator said today,…
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STBY
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SapientNitro Multi-Channel Marketing & Multi-Channel Commerce | Sapient
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Tories vow to put details of public spending over £25,000 online
Conservatives publish document based on technology manifesto Barack Obama used in his presidential campaign, which paved the way for a 'right to data policy' in the US The Conservative technology manifestoThe Conservatives today promised to publish online every item of central government and…
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Video: The Observer Conversation: What is British food?
The Observer conversation: food critic Jay Rayner discusses the nature of our cuisine with three food bloggers and invites them to suggest a quintessentially British three course menu. What would you serve up?Jay RaynerHenry Barnes
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Dollar
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England's lost and threatened species
As a study warns nearly 500 species have died out in England, nearly all in last two centuries, see the species under threat in each regionPaddy Allen
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Scottish Power trumps EDF with gas prices cut
Scottish Power has said it will reduce its gas prices by 8%, double the cut announced hours earlier by EDFScottish Power has become the latest company to reduce the price of its gas, doubling the cut made by rival EDF Energy just hours earlier.The company's 1.6 million gas customers will see the…
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Rail maintenance workers vote to strike
• RMT union refuses to rule out Easter national walkout• Talks continuing over BA cabin crew strike threatThe prospect of a national rail strike over Easter loomed larger this morning after maintenance workers voted in favour of a walkout.The RMT union refused to rule out a bank holiday strike…
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Does switching off an escalator at Victoria station really save energy?
His email describes an experience he had yesterday evening:At Victoria Station tonight at 8.00pm London Underground closed down one of the up escalators from Victoria Line to the main concourse. They put up a sign saying it was "switched off to save energy". It goes on to say that this would…
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Euthanasia campaigner takes own life
Euthanasia campaigner Vicki Wood, who earlier tried to to kill her ailing husband, dies at Dignitas clinic in SwitzerlandA woman who admitted trying to murder her terminally ill husband in a "mercy killing" has taken her own life at Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, it was reported yesterday.Vicki…
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The Scientific Tourist In London...Mapped - London blog Blog | Nature Publishing Group
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Facebook threatens to sue Daily Mail
Social networking site fears reputation permanently damaged by false claim that it let older men pressure teenage girls for sexFacebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published on Wednesday that 14-year-old girls who create a profile on…
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Labour MPs Alan and Ann Keen ordered to repay £1,500 in expenses
Watchdog says couple claimed money from the second home allowance to which they were not entitled because their main home was empty and uninhabitableThe Labour MPs Alan and Ann Keen were today ordered to repay £1,500 after an investigation found that they had broken Commons rules in relation to…
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Claiming Refunds For Delayed Tube Journeys: There's An App For That - Londonist
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Lions of London #17
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there's a lion on the very first coin. Appearing on…
Science must be a major election issue | Adam Rutherford
The data is unequivocal: investing in scientific research during times of recession results in economic growthOn Tuesday night, the science representatives of the three main parties jovially debated in front of a heaving Westminster audience, all pushing the agenda that science is now a central…
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HSBC launches 1.99% discount mortgage
Smaller arrangement fee means HSBC's discount mortgage is market leaderHSBC is offering a market beating discount mortgage with a rate of 1.99% from Monday.The loan, set at a discount of 1.95% from its standard variable rate (SVR) of 3.94% for two years, has a £999 arrangement fee and is…
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Plans for high-speed rail network unveiled – LIVE
Follow the train of events as the government's plans for a high-speed rail network are made public11.53am: Adonis confirms construction would not begin until after Crossrail completed (i.e. 2017)Estimated cost of between £15.8bn and £17.4bn for first 120 miles of network from London to West…
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Forbes rich list: ten years of top tens: as a spreadsheet
The Forbes Rich List is out again and Bill Gates has been knocked off the top by Carlos Slim. See how the lists have changed since 2000• Get the dataIt's all change in the Forbes rich list of billionaires today. Bolstered by a surge in the share price of his America Movil empire, Mexican…
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Police racism report – there is a silver lining | Michael White
Comparative performance that can be measured – and good practice copied – is a valuable response to those who want to merge things to make them 'more efficient'If the levels of police stop and search activities against black and south Asian Britons are as disproportionate as Vikram Dodd's…
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McGCSEs for work experience students
Award equivalent to B or C grade GCSE introduced by McDonald's in bid to boost job prospects of young peopleThe fast food chain McDonald's is to become the first UK employer to provide a GCSE-style qualification for work experience, in a move which it hopes will boost youngsters' employability in…
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Huge fire shuts Shoreditch streets
• More than 100 firefighters battling giant blaze in east London• Fire brigade and police to investigate cause of incidentMore than 100 firefighters were battling a fire at a building in London this morning. Fire crews were called to Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch at 4.32am.A spokesman for…
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Government creates more tsars than Russia | Andrew Sparrow
Public administration committee is not impressed by proliferation of informal appointmentsThere's an old Westminster gag about Labour creating more tsars than Russia. It was never particularly funny, but at least it was recognisable as a joke. Until today – when new figures have been published…
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The Tories' cheap shot on privacy | Afua Hirsch
Conservative attempts to pander to the tabloids by 'rebalancing privacy with freedom of expression' miss the legal pointOne of the strangest thing about sitting in court is hearing judges who look like old-fashioned grandfathers grappling with the intimate details of sexual encounters. I remember,…
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Kate Middleton wins apology and damages from Rex Features
Photographic agency pays out for invading Kate Middleton's privacy by syndicating pictures taken at ChristmasPhotographic agency Rex Features has publicly apologised and agreed to pay damages to Kate Middleton, the girlfriend of Prince William, for invading her privacy. Middleton complained…
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Fortean London: London Stone
Fortean London is the London of strange histories, folklore, unique people, outsider ideas, ghosts, monsters and more. Take us by the left hand and hold on tight. Opposite Cannon Street station sits the London Stone. Grey, dusty, set behind a metal grill in an abandoned office block, the stone…
Hamas frees British journalist held in Gaza
Paul Martin released four weeks after being arrested as a witness in spying court case, Palestinian officials sayA British journalist held by Hamas for nearly four weeks on suspicion of spying for Israel has been released and is leaving Gaza today.Paul Martin, a 55-year-old film-maker arrested in…
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Is Question Time's all-women audience a good idea? | Ceri Goddard
Critics complain that it's unfair, but an all-women audience on Question Time will redress an imbalance in our political arenaThe BBC's decision to run with a women-only audience on tonight's Question Time should be commended for many reasons. The show will give ordinary women, whose all-important…
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