LONDON (Reuters) - An increasing number of British farmers say they are unaffected by climate change, a survey found on Friday.
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Most UK farmers say not feeling climate change
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Fallout from the Catholic child sex abuse scandal spread across Europe on Thursday as the Vatican retired an Irish bishop, a German offered to step down and prelates in England and Wales apologised for the “terrible crimes” of priests.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Catholic bishops in England and Wales apologised Thursday for the child abuse scandals that have hit the church worldwide, saying “terrible crimes” were committed and the response from some leaders was inadequate.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever has launched legal action to stop the far-right British National Party using an image of a jar of the company’s Marmite spread in an online political broadcast.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats have doubled their projected vote share in Labour-held marginal constituencies but the swing comes mainly from voters who were previously not sure they would vote, a poll showed on Thursday.
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LibDems surge in decisive election seats-poll
LONDON (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur are claiming a million pounds from Portsmouth for Bosnian goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, even though he never signed for the London club and is now at Premier League rivals Stoke City.
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Tottenham want Pompey to pay up for Begovic non-transfer
LONDON (Reuters) - Punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren, best known for a brief but explosive collaboration with the Sex Pistols, will be buried in London Thursday after his cortege passes through the city streets.
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Punk pioneer McLaren to be buried in London
LONDON (Reuters) - The London home of Conservative defence spokesman Liam Fox has been burgled and his car stolen, a spokesman for his party said on Thursday.
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Conservative Liam Fox’s house burgled
LONDON (Reuters) - Premier League football player Charles N’Zogbia has been arrested over suspicion that he had arranged for someone else to take part of his driving test for him, police said on Thursday.
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Wigan player held over alleged driving test scam
LONDON (Reuters) - Liberal Democrats’ leader criticised what he called “ludicrous” warnings by Conservatives on Thursday of market turmoil if a May 6 election returns a hung parliament, with no party having a majority.
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Lib Dems dismiss Conservative’s vote warning
LONDON (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur have given Manchester United a huge lift by beating Arsenal and Chelsea in their last two games but Alex Ferguson’s side will hope that a more historical formline prevails at Old Trafford on Saturday.
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Man Utd seek to extend Spurs stranglehold
LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron had an egg thrown at him at an election event in Cornwall on Wednesday and later joked it was “the first of the campaign.”
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Hoodie throws egg at Cameron
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons showing an interest in registering to vote surged after last week’s TV debate between the three main candidates, official data showed on Wednesday.
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Interest in voting jumps after TV debate
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons claiming unemployment benefit fell three times faster than expected in March, official data showed on Wednesday, but a broader measure of unemployment painted a less rosy picture.
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Claimant count falls faster than expected
LONDON (Reuters) - Severn Trent has called on regionally-focussed water firms to trade water between themselves to help meet the challenges of keeping bills and debt at manageable levels.
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Severn Trent calls on firms to trade water
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats have “fundamental disagreements” with the Labour Party and would not rush into any post-election alliance, the party’s economy spokesman Vince Cable said on Tuesday.
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Lib Dems say will not fall into Labour’s arms
NEW YORK (Reuters) - David and Siobhan Monteith are celebrating a longer-than-expected honeymoon in New York, in a bed-and-breakfast in Harlem that has opened its doors to Europeans stranded by Iceland’s volcanic ash cloud.
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UK travellers stranded by volcano find room in New York
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons are being asked if people should get cash incentives to donate eggs and sperm, and whether the funeral expenses of organ donors should be paid in a bid to address a severe shortage in supply.
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Britons to consider paying organ donors
LONDON (Reuters) - Much of Britain’s airspace will remain closed to flights below 20,000 feet (6,000 metres) due to ongoing fears about the danger posed by volcanic ash from Iceland, aviation officials said on Tuesday.
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Much of UK airspace to remain closed
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said it was cancelling all its short-haul flights on Tuesday, based on new advice about the ash plume from a volcano in Iceland.
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BA cancels short-haul flights
LONDON (Reuters) - Punk pioneer Malcolm McLaren’s funeral will be held in London on Thursday, his son said on Monday. The former manager of the 1970s punk band Sex Pistols and ex-partner of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood died earlier this month aged 64 of a rare form of cancer
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Malcolm McLaren to be buried on Thursday
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats have pushed the Labour Party into third place, according to an opinion poll on Monday that suggests no single party will win the May 6 election outright.
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LibDems push Labour into third - poll
LONDON (Reuters) - British airspace will remain closed to flights until 1 a.m. on Tuesday at the earliest because of the danger posed by clouds of volcanic ash from Iceland, UK aviation officials said.
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British airspace to stay closed until Tuesday
LONDON (Reuters) - A new publishing company is betting that readers will bypass electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader in favour of reading bite-sized stories on mobile devices they already own.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s public finances have not performed as well as comparable countries under 13 years of Labour Party rule, a think-tank said on Monday.
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UK underperformed on public finances - think tank
LEEDS, England (Reuters) - Some public sector workers are switching support to the Conservatives in Britain’s May 6 election despite the huge extra resources the Labour Party has poured into education and health.
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Conservatives win some public workers for vote
LONDON (Reuters) - Two people have been arrested over the murder of a 16-year-old girl in London who was shot in the neck at a fast-food restaurant, police said on Sunday.
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Two arrested over teenage girl’s murder
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish Aviation Authority said it had extended the closure of Irish airspace to commercial traffic until 1 p.m. BST on Sunday because of the volcanic ash cloud over Europe.
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Ireland extends airspace closure to Sunday
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, starting a trip to Malta overshadowed by the sexual abuse scandal sweeping Roman Catholicism, said on Saturday that the Church had been “wounded by our sins.”
LONDON (Reuters) - Most flights over Britain will remain grounded until at least 7 a.m.
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UK extends flight restrictions till Sunday morning
LONDON (Reuters) - Labour was pushed into third place by the Liberal Democrats after the country’s first televised leaders’ debate, the latest opinion poll showed on Friday.
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Labour pushed into third after leaders’ debate
LONDON (Reuters) - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spreading out across Europe is causing air travel chaos on a scale unseen since the September 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - Support for the Liberal Democrats jumped after a historic television debate in which leader Nick Clegg emerged as a clear winner with viewers, a poll for the programme said on Friday.
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LibDem support jumps after TV debate
MANCHESTER (Reuters) - Host to the first TV debate between prime ministerial candidates, Manchester was the political capital of Britain on Thursday — but politicians were far from flavour of the month on the streets.
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Mancunians jaded as election circus comes to town
ROME (Reuters) - England manager Fabio Capello has exonerated Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson of blame for Wayne Rooney’s latest injury setback.
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Capello has no beef with Ferguson over Rooney
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives lead the Labour government by 12 points in key seats which they must win to clinch the election, the Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday.
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Conservatives ahead in key seats
LONDON (Reuters) - Flights in and out of Britain were disrupted on Thursday after a cloud of volcanic ash drifting across Britain from Iceland closed several airports, with flights cancelled at London’s Heathrow, Gatwick and other airports.
LONDON (Reuters) - A new era in British politics begins on Thursday with the first televised debate between the main candidates for prime minister.
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Candidates face high-stakes TV debate
LONDON (Reuters) - Bosses at over 400 small and medium businesses in Britain have joined some of the country’s largest employers on Thursday by backing the Conservatives’ plans to curb a planned payroll tax rise.
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Small businesses back Tories on tax
LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer morale suffered its biggest fall since July 2008 last month, wiping out all gains since the start of the year due to a sharp drop in optimism about the next six months, a survey showed on Thursday.
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March consumer morale drops
BELFAST (Reuters) - A car bomb planted outside a Northern Ireland police station by dissident republicans was defused on Tuesday, police said, a day after a bomb exploded near the headquarters of the British intelligence services.
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Bomb defused in Northern Ireland
LONDON (Reuters) - Businessman Alan Sugar, famous for his “You’re fired!” catchphrase on television show “The Apprentice,” has donated 400,000 pounds to Labour, a party spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Businessman Alan Sugar gives Labour £400,000
LONDON (Reuters) - Two bankers who said they had been unfairly dismissed by Nomura because they were women and because they were not Japanese had their claims thrown out by a London court on Tuesday.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Tuesday Pope Benedict was willing to meet more sexual abuse victims but not under media pressure and scoffed at calls that the pope should be arrested when he visits Britain in September.
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Vatican scoffs at idea of arresting pope in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday three former Labour MPs accused of fiddling their parliamentary expenses will have to pay back the publicly funded legal aid they are to receive to help pay for their defence.
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Brown: expense case MPs must repay legal aid
LONDON (Reuters) - “Clash of the Titans” has held on to top spot in the British box office charts for a second week, according to Screen International on Tuesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The centuries-old rivalry between England and Scotland has been fought out on the fields of battle and sport, but in the production of whisky the Scots have always claimed bragging rights — until, that is, the English Whisky Company (EWC) showed up.
LONDON (Reuters) - Retail sales jumped at their fastest pace in a year in March but the figures were flattered by the earlier timing of Easter this year, a survey by the British Retail Consortium showed on Tuesday.
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Retail sales get Easter boost in March
LONDON (Reuters) - Three former Labour MPs accused of fiddling their parliamentary expenses have been awarded publicly-funded legal aid to pay for their defence in their upcoming court cases, officials said on Monday.
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MPs accused of fiddling expenses get legal aid
LONDON (Reuters) - Plans to sell part of the government-owned Royal Mail postal service could be revived in the future, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said on Monday, denying that the idea had been shelved for good.
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Royal Mail stake sale could be revived
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - A week that began with Tiger Woods making his highly anticipated return to competition ended Sunday when Phil Mickelson wrapped up an emotional three-shot victory at the U.S. Masters
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Emotions run high as Mickelson wins Masters
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Britain’s Lee Westwood fell just short of a first major title with a runner-up finish at the U.S. Masters but took strength from a knowing counsellor on Sunday.
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Westwood heartened by runner-up finish at Masters
AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson birdied four of the last seven holes to win his fourth major title, and a third Green Jacket, by three shots at the U.S. Masters on Sunday.
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Mickelson overhauls Westwood to win Masters
LONDON (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp refused to blame the Wembley Stadium pitch for his team’s shock 2-0 defeat to Portsmouth in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final but described it as a “disgrace.”
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No excuses but Wembley pitch is a disgrace, says Redknapp
LONDON (Reuters) - British author and atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins will try to have Pope Benedict arrested to face questions over the Catholic church’s child abuse scandal when he visits Britain later this year, one of his lawyers said on Sunday.
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British campaigners threaten pope with arrest
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will try to persuade voters next week he can cut spending without damaging public services as he tries to reduce a record budget deficit and rebuild the economy, ministers said.
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Brown to rule out big spending in election plans
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives narrowly extended their lead over the ruling Labour Party in the opening days of the election race, but polls on Sunday cast doubt on whether they will return to power after 13 years.
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Election on course for stalemate - polls
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives will look to raise about 1 billion pounds from a bank levy to pay for a tax break for married couples if it wins the upcoming election, media reported on Saturday.
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Banks targeted over marriage tax break
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He might have been just another young Hollywood actor on the rise, but Jonathan Rhys Meyers chose to become a king — on TV. And doing so, the actor said, changed his life.
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Being a "Tudors" king changed Jonathan Rhys Meyers
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives will look to raise about 1 billion pounds from a bank levy to pay for a tax break for married couples if it wins the upcoming election, media reported on Saturday.
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Tories to hit banks for marriage tax break
LONDON (Reuters) - Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe is expecting her second child in September.
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Paula Radcliffe expecting second child in September
LONDON (Reuters) - Blur will release its first single for seven years later this month, although only 1,000 copies of the limited edition vinyl record will go on sale, NME music magazine reported on Friday.
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Blur to release first new single for seven years
LONDON (Reuters) - British fashion designers including Dame Vivienne Westwood and William Tempest have transformed Princess Diana’s former home into an “Enchanted Palace.”
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Diana’s former home becomes the "enchanted palace"
LONDON (Reuters) - Fulham, languishing in the lowest division only 13 years ago, marched into the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday to keep their Cinderella story on course for a fairy-tale ending.
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Fulham’s Cinderella story continues
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Malcolm McLaren, the British self-proclaimed mastermind behind the iconic Sex Pistols punk band and an eclectic musician in his own right, died on Thursday from cancer in Switzerland, his girlfriend said. He was 64
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Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren dies from cancer
LONDON (Reuters) - The Duchess of Cornwall has broken her left leg while hill walking in Scotland, the office of her husband Prince Charles said on Thursday.
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Duchess of Cornwall breaks leg while hill walking
LONDON (Reuters) - Michael Caine, the movie actor loved by generations of Britons for his roles in cult classics like “The Italian Job” and “Get Carter,” put in a different kind of performance on Thursday when he waded into politics.
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Political Job for Caine as he backs Tories
LONDON (Reuters) - Voters in constituencies that could determine the outcome of the election want a change of prime minister but many are unconvinced opposition leader David Cameron has what it takes, according to a poll commissioned by Reuters.
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Key voters want change but like PM Brown - poll
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney re-injured his ankle on Wednesday after making a surprise return as Manchester United were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Champions League by Bayern Munich.
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Rooney suffers burst blood vessel in ankle
LONDON (Reuters) - Government management of support for people struggling to repay debts has been a “complete failure” and needs urgent reform, MPs said on Thursday.
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Consumer debt help planning was "complete failure"- report
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron clashed in parliament on Wednesday over the economy and defence in a taste of the arguments set to dominate the campaign for the May 6 election.
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Brown, Cameron trade blows over economy, defence
LONDON (Reuters) - Comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French have separated after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Lenny Henry and Dawn French split up
LONDON (Reuters) - British comedians Lenny Henry and Dawn French are to separate after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Lenny Henry and Dawn French to split up
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will miss a nuclear summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next week as he campaigns for Britain’s May 6 parliamentary election, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Brown to miss U.S. nuclear security summit
CRAWLEY, England (Reuters) - With voters disgusted by sleaze allegations and political bickering, the Labour party has an uphill battle clinging to power in key parliamentary seats like Crawley in southern England.
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Labour faces tough sell in key poll battleground
LONDON (Reuters) - The construction sector expanded in March for the first time in more than two years, led by a sharp rise in new orders in the housing and commercial sectors, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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Construction activity expands in March
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown was set to announce on Tuesday a May 6 parliamentary election which could bring down the curtain on 13 years of rule by his Labour Party.
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Gordon Brown to call May 6 general election
LONDON (Reuters) - Election polls published on Tuesday offered contrasting views of a parliamentary election outcome, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown was set to confirm Britain will go to the polls on May 6.
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Election polls split over outcome
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Holders Barcelona are planning to focus on their customary possession game while Champions League opponents Arsenal will rely more on mental strength to see them through, their coaches said Monday.
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Barca talk possession, Arsenal focus on grit
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives said on Monday they do not intend to raise taxes beyond current Labour government plans to tackle a record budget deficit because spending cuts will do most of the work.
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Conservatives signal no more tax hikes to cut debt
LONDON (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney could make a surprise return to the Manchester United team to face Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday, British media reported on Monday.
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Rooney could make surprise return against Bayern
LONDON (Reuters) - Like injured England soccer star Wayne Rooney, Britain’s economy must be nurtured carefully back to full health and Conservative plans to cut spending risk damaging a fragile recovery, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
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Brown says economy like Wayne Rooney
LONDON (Reuters) - Labour and the Conservatives attacked each other’s tax policies on Sunday before the widely anticipated official start of an election campaign early next week.
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Parties tussle over tax ahead of polls
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the world’s large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks to help prevent another financial crisis, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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Brown says bank levy accord close - report
LONDON (Reuters) - A schoolgirl found stabbed to death in Manchester had suffered multiple injuries, police said on Sunday.
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Murdered schoolgirl had "multiple injuries"
LONDON (Reuters) - Leading political parties attacked each other’s tax policies on Sunday before the widely anticipated official start of an election campaign early next week.
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Parties tussle over tax ahead of election call
LONDON (Reuters) - Gay rights campaigners accused the Conservatives of tolerating prejudice on Saturday after a party spokesman sympathised with people who offer guest accommodation in their own homes but turn away gay couples.
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Tories accused of diluting gay rights
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s David Haye turned his sights on the Klitschko brothers after retaining his WBA heavyweight title in style Saturday, stopping American John Ruiz in the ninth round in Manchester.
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Haye targets Klitschkos after stopping Ruiz
LONDON (Reuters) - David Haye retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight title in style Saturday with a ninth round stoppage of American John Ruiz in Manchester.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Chelsea took a massive stride towards the Premier League title when they beat Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford on Saturday and replace them at the top of the table.
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Chelsea take huge step towards title by beating United
LONDON (Reuters) - England off-spinner Graeme Swann was arrested in the early hours of Friday on suspicion of drink driving, his county club Nottinghamshire said on Saturday.
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England’s Swann arrested on suspicion of drink-driving
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives would limit public spending cuts to 6.5 billion pounds in 2010-11 if they win an election expected in May, their finance spokesman said in a newspaper interview on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain created the world’s biggest marine reserve in its Indian Ocean territory on Thursday, pleasing environmentalists but angering exiled Chagos Islanders who say it creates an obstacle to them returning home.
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UK okays world’s biggest sea reserve, angers islanders
LONDON (Reuters) - A judge blocked a stoppage planned for next week by railway signallers on Thursday, effectively halting Britain’s first national rail strike in 16 years.
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Judge blocks Network Rail strike
LONDON (Reuters) - The rate of pay growth in Britain slipped in the three months to February but the proportion of companies freezing remuneration fell, a study of pay deals by Incomes Data Services showed on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - A riot squad officer was cleared on Wednesday of assaulting a female protester during violent demonstrations as world leaders gathered for a G20 summit in London last year.
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Riot policeman cleared of G20 protest assault
LONDON (Reuters) - A Conservative government would set up an independent bank, funded by unclaimed bank assets, to invest hundreds of millions of pounds into social action, party leader David Cameron said on Wednesday.
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Conservatives propose bank to fund social action
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men were found guilty on Wednesday of carrying out a 1.75 million pound armed robbery at London’s Heathrow Airport following Britain’s first ever criminal trial to be heard without a jury.
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Four guilty in landmark non-jury trial
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Bayern Munich striker Ivica Olic struck deep in stoppage time to seal a dramatic 2-1 victory over Manchester United in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday.
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Late goal seals dramatic Bayern victory
LONDON (Reuters) - The vehicle scrappage scheme brought in last year to boost consumption and protect jobs ends on Wednesday after contributing to a fifth of new car registrations since its launch, the government said.
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Car scrappage scheme ends after boosting sales