Crawley amputee 'won't be able to eat' if benefits are cut
This is Sussex -- AN amputee says he will have to choose between paying his bills and eating when his housing benefit is cut because he has a spare room. Trevor Bryant has been trying to downsize his...
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Use Swithland slate to provide a fitting monument to king
This is Leicestershire -- Here are a few more musings on Richard's monument-to-be. I was just wondering if there would be any possibility of obtaining a sufficiently-sized slab of Leicestershire's...
View ArticleThe Frankfurt school, part 1: why did Anders Breivik fear them? | Peter Thompson
The Frankfurt school united Marx and Freud to become the most influential thinkers of the 20th century left. The respectable right are suspicious, and the far right loathes them When Anders Breivik...
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Neolane: Survey Suggests European Brands are Surging Towards Personalised...
TWICKENHAM, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neolane research survey of Europe’s marketers indicates that by 2014, around three times as many brands as today, will offer their customers real-time web site...
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Vice girls in back of limo at 140mph: Dead Russian Oligarch Berezovsky flew...
The Mail has learnt the tycoon (pictured) regularly paid for teenage girls to fly from Eastern Europe or Russia to the UK for sex at plush hotels and at his Berkshire mansion. Reported by MailOnline 2...
View ArticleGoogle competition aims to find UK entrepreneurs
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard Branson join judging panel for £2m contest seeking innovative not-for-profit organisations Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, and Sir Richard...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande is at an all-time low with voters | Christine Ockrent
The French president was elected to tackle the economic and social crises, but now most people don't think he's up to the job François Hollande professes to be a perennial optimist. When he was elected...
View ArticleToday's media stories from the papers
Our roundup of the day's media stories, including the latest on BBC comedy and DMGT's trading update If you are viewing this on the web and would prefer to get it as an email every morning, please...
View ArticleReason Given by Herkel for Silencing Azerbaijan During PACE Session Dismissed...
BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The explanation provided by Andres Herkel for interrupting and then barring an Azerbaijani delegate from speaking while addressing the Committee of the...
View ArticleInterest in £750,000 old quarry from Saudi Arabia
This is Cornwall -- A quarry that attracted visits from some of the world's greatest engineering minds as it led a groundbreaking project to tap the Earth's geothermal energy is up for sale....
View ArticleWhat is the best contemporary novel you've read in translation?
Open thread: Read anything good in translation recently? Give us your recommendations Walk into any bookshop in mainland Europe and you are sure to find shelves stacked with literature from all over...
View ArticleCyprus bailout: Europe's love just got even tougher
Getting tough on Cyprus was sensible. Elsewhere in the eurozone, a much softer touch is needed Once again the euro has been saved, but the eurozone continues to stumble towards disaster. The...
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Time to end this Euro mess
This is South Wales -- CYPRUS now! Those idiots in Brussels have caused riots in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece, which have fallen on deaf ears. Now they take to raiding bank accounts! As a humane...
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Stoke City: Potters left waiting over fitness of international stars
This is Staffordshire -- STOKE City's hierarchy admit there will be a question mark over the condition of half-a-dozen potential starters at Everton on Saturday because of international commitments...
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Infotrieve and The Copyright Licensing Agency Collaborate to Simplify...
WILTON, Conn. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infotrieve and The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) today announced the availability of integrated work-flow process automation for CLA licences using...
View ArticleIron curtains are coming down all around mobile and app ecosystems
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple - they're all nudging their users inside their own ecosystems and making it harder to stay outside. Why? For money Digital life has an increasingly Orwellian...
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EU Must Be Joking
LONDON, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The UK has the least number of paid and public holidays across Europe Research released today by Hotels.com reveals discrepancies in paid and public holiday...
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Craicing night missed by many
This is Exeter -- THE night before St Patrick's Day brought Ex-Poacher Tim Flaherty and his band The Bogtrotters to The Tiverton Community Arts Theatre. This seven-piece band with two Ex- Poacher...
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Now savings could be raided across Eurozone: Finance chief warns more EU...
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, pictured, who chairs the Eurogroup gatherings, spooked global markets when he said the deal in Cyprus should become Europe's default approach for dealing with ailing lenders....
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Jobs saved as Leicestershire Blockbuster stores are bought
This is Leicestershire -- Thirty jobs at Leicestershire's six remaining Blockbuster stores have been saved after the DVD and video rental chain was taken over. The company, which went into...
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