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dr. dias will see you now (Of course, I could be wrong...)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:51:00 GMT

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Chocolate Baby To Fight Knife Crime (Londonist)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:40:18 GMT

Boris wants boxing lessons and Latin , Lily wants a benefit gig . We've pretty much got to the point where anything and everything's worth a try as far as convincing kids not to carry knives and guns goes. However, chocolate sculptures strike us as one of the most maverick and least effective ideas so far. Chocolatier, Wayne Paul Gregory , hopes the shocking image of a baby with a gun or a stab victim...

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Not Catching The Clap With Pope Benedict The XVI (Anorak News)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:24:15 GMT

LIKE you we too have read The Spirit of the Liturgy by the then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. He’s now followed in the footsteps of Bono, Mr G9 and lead singer of U2, and changed his name to something more catchy, namely The Pope. Now his words echo with renewed vigour: Whenever applause breaks out in the [...]

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Skeletons: London's Buried Bones @ The Wellcome Collection (Londonist)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:45:46 GMT

The bones of old Londoners can tell a lot about how they lived - and died - in the city as Wellcome's latest exhibition, opening today, proves. Old burial sites are found from time to time around the city during construction works, for example the remodeling of Spitalfields Market and the Jubilee line expansion. Twenty six skeletons, recovered from 10 different locations across the city and analysed...

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These Parakeets Are Serious, Don't Call Them Shirley (Londonist)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:49:51 GMT

Barely a week after a vicious gang attacked police officers in Croydon , we soberly bring you another tale of needless violence from the blighted borough: an unruly mob has caused £10,000 worth of damage to a 150-year old church in Shirley. Before you get scribbling to the the papers with hand-wringing woes about the yoof of today, with their iPods and idiotic idioms and bulletproof hoodies , bear...

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Canoeist's wife Anne Darwin guilty (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:35:56 GMT

Wife of John Darwin guilty of six counts of deception and nine counts of money laundering

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Fertiliser bomb plot terror gang loses appeal (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:57 GMT

Five British Muslim members of an al-Qa'eda gang who were jailed for plotting to blow up a nightclub and a shopping centre with home-made fertiliser bombs have lost appeals against their convictions.

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Lambeth Conference: The best bishop's kit a man can get (Re-cycle of Life)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:42 GMT

I think I know where the Bishop of Durham's episcopal vestments might have gone. Dr Tom Wright arrived in Canterbury to find his Sunday Best had gone astray and had to improvise for the opening service in the cathedral for the Lambeth Conference. There are too many beards in Anglicanism Now I learn that Cranmer Hall, the theological college in Durham, is cele...

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UK flagship faces competition row (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:05:42 GMT

Britain's international cultural organisation has rejected auditors' conclusions that its English classes are elitist and have unfair advantages over commercial providers, reports Max de Lotbinière

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Canoe trial: John and Anne Darwin each jailed for more than six years (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:34:05 GMT

John and Anne Darwin have each been jailed for more than six years, after they were convicted of a £250,000 fraud by faking his death in a canoe accident.

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Supermarkets and broadcasters support anti-obesity drive (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:44:13 GMT

Supermarkets, broadcasters and soft drink and chocolate manufacturers have signed up to support the Government's anti-obesity drive.

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John Leslie rape investigation dropped (Times Online)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:06:09 GMT

John Leslie, the former Blue Peter presenter acquitted of indecent assault in 2003, will not face police action over fresh allegations of rape.

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Annual doctor checks will raise standards, says Donaldson (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:48:02 GMT

Doctors to face annual competence tests, with poor performers stripped of their licences, in the biggest reform of medical regulation for 150 years

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Archbishop of Canterbury says: 'Now we must work out what is really important' (Times Online)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:55 GMT

Anglicans stand in the middle of “one of the most severe challenges” to have faced the Church in history, the Archbishop of Canterbury said last night.

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Des O'Connor to step down as presenter of Channel 4's Countdown (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:15:03 GMT

O'Connor is to step down as presenter of the popular TV quiz show.

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Husband who stole £200,000 to fund wife's spending sprees spared prison (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:40:57 GMT

A "timid" husband has been spared jail after a judge heard he only stole £205,000 to fund his domineering wife's spending sprees.

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Schools swop A-levels for Cambridge Pre-U (The Guardian)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:39:43 GMT

Pupils from 15 state schools will be urged to take the tougher Cambridge Pre-U exam instead of traditional A-levels from September

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CCTV Cameras installed in cinemas (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:38:56 GMT

Britain's largest cinema chain has installed CCTV cameras to watch over their audiences.

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No apology from Royal Mail as postmen deliver mail to wrong address for 19 years (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:38:46 GMT

A pensioner has had his post delivered to the wrong address for 19 years despite repeated assurances from the Royal Mail.

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George Cross Marine would jump on hand grenade again (The Telegraph)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:06:06 GMT

L/Cpl Matthew Croucher says he would repeat "supreme act of heroism" to save his comrades.

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