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Positive Transport-Related News Story Shocker

Looking back over the last few days, we've seen: over-running work on the West Coast Mainline; a new bridge collapse and cut off Liverpool St; and and drink-related chaos on the tube So it's good to see some positive transport news, at least for the people of Mitcham. Today, at a few…

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Home loans fall to record low as borrowing costs continue rising

Stream of bad news from the mortgage banks drive down FTSE-100 and threaten to harm wider economy

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Cost of flying could take off as big airlines consider add-on fees

Carriers may join their low-cost rivals in charging passengers for baggage check-in and food

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Letters: Transport protests great and small

Letters: We unwittingly found ourselves allies of Plane Stupid's encouragement to direct action

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Vaccine doubles brain cancer survival time

Clinical trials suggest patients who received the treatment lived for nearly three years after being diagnosed

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Ministers put campaign to curb alcohol adverts on hold

Government says that restrictions won't be considered until research is published later this summer

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Faithbook launched on Facebook

Organisers of a multifaith initiative hope it will combat extremism and improve relations between religious communities

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Police seize 7,000 storage boxes in crackdown on organised crime

Raided safety deposit box centres linked to paedophilia, firearms, drug trafficking, money laundering and prostitution

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August bank holiday could be celebration of Britishness

Plans for a 'Great British weekend' that would allow people to celebrate everything they like about the country

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Plan to set off devices in parliament was publicity stunt, says bomb plot accused

A man has denied leading a plot to cause mass murder by blowing planes out of the sky

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New plan to tackle violent extremism

A 'deradicalisation' programme is being developed to tackle people who have been drawn into Islamist violent extremism

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Girl of 15 found stabbed to death in lift at London block of flats

Schoolgirl is the 16th teenager killed in London this year

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Ninety years on, victims of a futile massacre exhumed from the mud

Final resting place of troops killed in battle of Fromelles during first world war found by archaeologists

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'This is like inviting Pol Pot to a human rights conference'

Robert Mugabe's appearance at a world food summit has drawn fierce criticism from the British government

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Complaint over British role in extraordinary rendition

Conservative MP wants to discover whether the UK was in breach of the UN convention against torture

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C4 denies that legal fears led to blackout of Primark programme

Television channel pulls potentially explosive documentary about low cost high street clothing

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IN-duce: DE-duce

list of london based locative mobile phone games

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Review: UK Eurovision Winners Party

It is abundantly clear that the Eurovision Song Contest is an event not to be taken too seriously. For both the audience and the performers, this annual extravaganza is primarily about one thing: fun. And so it proved with the UK leg of the Eurovision Winners Party at Scala on Saturday…

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Tate Modern | Transforming Tate Modern

oil tanks underneath tate modern

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Review: Psycho Buildings, Hayward Gallery

Sitting in a jerry-rigged boat, floating in a flooded sculpture park atop the Hayward as the sun bustles through the clouds and lights up the London Eye, the building's Brutalist architecture almost melts away and resolves itself into a dystopian reverie, one not entirely unpleasant: the…

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Jim Rokos Design- News

Step n Dine - cat automated cat feeder

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