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
LONDON (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg experienced the downside of his new popularity on Thursday when Conservative-supporting newspapers savaged him.
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Lib Dem leader faces furious media backlash
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) - 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) - Nick Clegg party faces a tough challenge on Thursday to cement his unexpected surge in support when he enters a second televised election debate focussed on foreign policy.
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Lib Dems have tougher fight in second debate
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrat leader on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing over reports party donors paid money directly into his bank account.
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Clegg denies wrongdoing over payments
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The average worth of the world’s 20 most valuable football clubs fell 8.5 percent over the last year, and the number of teams valued at more than $1 billion (649 million pounds) shrank by one, according to a Forbes report released on Wednesday.
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Football club values off, ManU still tops - report
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) - Britain reopened all its airspace at 2100 GMT (8:00 p.m. British time) on Tuesday, the first time in five days that aircraft were able to fly to and from all airports after closures caused by an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.
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Britain reopens all its airspace
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) - Retailers are showing growing confidence about an economic recovery, easing fears that uncertainty over a national election on May 6 and the prospect of higher taxes to cut government debt could hit consumers.
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Retailers ease fears of double-dip recession
LONDON (Reuters) - Winners of this year’s Wimbledon singles titles will not only own the world’s greatest grasscourt title but also a cool 1 million pounds in prize money, organisers said on Tuesday.
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Wimbledon champions to get million-pound prize
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) - Likened to a pit bull by triumphant McLaren team mate Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton is looking for a less combative way back to the top in Formula One.
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"Pit bull" Hamilton looks for easier route to top
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Olympic gold medallist Sammy Wanjiru’s hopes of defending his London Marathon title have been boosted by the news that race organisers have arranged for a private plane to pick him up from Kenya, he said Tuesday.
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London Marathon organisers to airlift top Kenyans
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats turned their fire on the banking industry on Tuesday, seeking to build on a surge in support that has thrown next month’s election wide open.
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Lib Dems target banks to build on momentum
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
CARDIFF (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats, the perennial third party, topped an opinion poll on Monday after a strong television performance from their leader brought a surprise surge in support.
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LibDems surge to top of polls
LONDON (Reuters) - British airspace will be closed to flights until at least 7 a.m. BST (0600 GMT) Monday because of the danger posed by clouds of volcanic ash from Iceland, UK aviation officials said Sunday
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UK extends airspace closure to 7 a.m. BST Monday
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
LONDON (Reuters) - The Liberal Democrats overtook the Conservatives and ruling Labour for the first time in an opinion poll published on Saturday.
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Liberal Democrats surge to opinion poll lead
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said on Saturday it had extended the cancellation of flights to and from Britain on Sunday to all long-haul flights.
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British Airways cancels Sunday’s long-haul flights
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.”
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - A stoppage-time goal from Paul Scholes earned Manchester United a dramatic 1-0 win at Manchester City on Saturday.
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Late Scholes goal earns United dramatic victory
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) - Head teachers have voted to boycott national SATs exams taken by 11-year-old primary school children in England, two of the largest education unions said on Friday.
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Head teachers vote to boycott SATs exams
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
BARKING, England (Reuters) - Step out on the streets of the rundown suburban town of Barking on the fringes of East London and you will find a fierce debate raging on the issue of immigration.
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Migrant issue may haunt main parties
LONDON (Reuters) - Premier League club Liverpool went up for sale Friday after American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett appointed Barclays Capital to find a buyer.
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Liverpool put up for sale
LONDON (Reuters) - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano caused air travel chaos across Europe and beyond on Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.
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Volcanic ash turns northern Europe into no-fly zone
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) - 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) - 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
LONDON (Reuters) - It is not often that an end-of-season Manchester derby is more important to City than United but Saturday’s clash could go a long way to deciding whether the home side can break up England’s big four.
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City ambitions give Manchester derby unusual edge
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have mastered a controversial technique using cloning technology to prevent some incurable inherited diseases by swapping DNA between two fertilised human eggs.
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DNA egg swap prevents rare diseases in babies
LONDON (Reuters) - Clothing retailer Primark has stopped selling padded bikini bras for girls as young as seven following criticism in a tabloid newspaper and concerns raised by politicians ahead of a general election.
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Primark withdraws sale of girls padded bikinis
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) - 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) - A former nightclub doorman appeared in court on Tuesday charged with murdering schoolgirl Milly Dowler eight years ago in one of Britain’s most high-profile unsolved crimes.
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Man in court accused of Milly Dowler murder
LONDON (Reuters) - The Conservatives will on Tuesday promise to cut the budget deficit, reduce state interference and empower local communities if they win a May 6 election.
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Conservatives lay out policy blueprint
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
LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United suffered a third major blow in eight days on Sunday when a 0-0 draw at Blackburn Rovers damaged their hopes of claiming a fourth consecutive Premier League title.
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Blackburn hold Manchester United to draw
AINTREE, England (Reuters) - Tony McCoy broke his Grand National jinx at last Saturday with an emotional victory on 10-1 joint favourite Don’t Push It.
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McCoy wins Grand National at last
LONDON (Reuters) - The Labour Party on Saturday poured scorn on a Conservative election pledge to impose a new levy on banks’ borrowing to pay for a tax break to reward couples who get married.
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
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) - 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
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) - British Airways and union officials have resumed talks aimed at averting further strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and jobs, the Unite union said on Wednesday.
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BA, union resume strike talks
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways carried 11.4 percent fewer passengers in March year-on-year, hit by seven days of cabin crew strikes, which it said would cost the company up to 45 million pounds.
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BA March traffic hit by cabin crew strikes
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched a month-long election campaign likely to be dominated by the economy and shaping up to be the most unpredictable contest since 1992.
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Parties launch month-long election campaign
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
LONDON (Reuters) - A British university is to hold a conference on Vampires in an effort to counterbalance the “Americanisation” of the fictional genre.
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Bringing vampires back home — to Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. food giant Kraft was irresponsible and unwise in reversing its commitment to keep Cadbury’s Somerdale plant open in its takeover battle of the British chocolate maker, a committee of UK lawmakers reported on Tuesday
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MPs slam Kraft over plant closure
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) - 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
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce on Tuesday that a parliamentary election will take place on May 6, a source in the Labour Party said on Monday.
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Brown to call election for May 6 on Tuesday
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) - 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.
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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Conservatives accused of diluting gay rights
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 spiritual head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Rowan Williams, said the Catholic Church in Ireland had lost all its credibility over its response to a scandal over child sex abuse by clergy.
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Williams criticises Irish church for lost credibility
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.
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Conservatives rule out more first year cuts - paper
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 Libertines, including troubled singer Pete Doherty, put their differences aside late on Wednesday and performed together ahead of an appearance at the Reading Festival in August.
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Libertines reforms ahead of festival gig
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) - Wayne Rooney’s ankle dominated the sports pages on Wednesday with England and Manchester United supporters waiting anxiously for news from Old Trafford about their talismanic striker.
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England nervously waits for news on Rooney injury
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) - Heavy snow and strong winds in Scotland and northern England left motorists stranded in their cars and thousands of homes without power on Wednesday.
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Blizzards batter northern Britain
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 scrap scheme ends after sales boost
LONDON (Reuters) - The London Olympics face a “tight” financial situation, with only 194 million pounds available to cover any new risks in the run-up to 2012, a parliamentary committee warned on Wednesday.
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London 2012 faces "tight" financial situation
LONDON (Reuters) - Emma Thompson as a 1940s supernanny has ended the three-week reign of Alice in Wonderland at the top of the box office, according to Screen International on Tuesday.
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Nanny McPhee rides to top of box office
SEDGEFIELD, England (Reuters) - Tony Blair entered Britain’s close-fought election campaign on Tuesday, seeking to work his charm on voters tempted to desert the ruling Labour Party after 13 years.
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Blair makes a comeback to help Labour face poll
LONDON (Reuters) - His party may have no chance of winning the coming election, but Liberal Democrat economics spokesman Vince Cable won the plaudits in Monday’s first live debate between possible chancellors.
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"Third man" stars in TV election debate
LONDON (Reuters) - The Unite union said on Monday it would raise 700,000 pounds from its members to support striking British Airways cabin crew, staging a third day of industrial action and with no resolution in sight.
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Trade union Unite to pay striking BA cabin crew
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Bayern Munich cannot match Manchester United for consistency but Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final, first leg is a one-off where the German side can cause a shock, according to coach Louis van Gaal.
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Bayern wary of Rooney
LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Joanna Lumley and her allies in a campaign to allow more Nepalese Gurkha soldiers to settle in Britain hit back on Monday against what they said was a government plot to undermine their cause.
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Joanna Lumley slams government over Gurkha "plot"
LONDON (Reuters) - A strike by British Airways cabin crew entered its third day on Monday, with more walkouts threatened for next month, as separate talks to avert the first national rail strike in 16 years got under way.
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BA strikes enter third day
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group denied a newspaper report on Monday that it is to start looking for a new headquarters in the City of London.
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Lloyds denies looking for London HQ
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A parish priest in Northern Ireland has been asked to take a period of leave following concerns over child safety, the head of the Irish Church Cardinal Sean Brady said.
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N. Ireland priest on leave over child safety concern