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BP suspends Puma after chopper ditching
Metro.co.uk (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | UK
Oil giant BP has suspended using Super Puma Bond helicopters for North Sea flights after one carrying 18 people ditched off the Scottish coast. -
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Max Clifford on Friday's phone-in
Five Live Breakfast (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
Jade Goody gets married this weekend. She's undergoing treatment for terminal cancer and has sold the media rights to the wedding to raise money for her two boys, Bobby and Freddie. A documentary about her treatment is being broadcast tonight (Thursday). Some people have said Jade shouldn't still be in the public eye when she's dying - but Cancer Research UK says it's received thousands of extra enquiries... -
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Family's 'shock' over £200K holiday drugs bust
Metro.co.uk (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | International
The grandmother of a British man arrested on a family holiday with his wife after being found with three suitcases crammed full of cocaine has said she is 'shattered' by the news. -
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Britons Paul and Laura Makin held over '£1m of cocaine in cases'
Times Online (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | International
Brian Kenny, the chairman of the governors of the elder children's school, Mersey Park, said that the education authority had been in contact with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was seeking “to ensure that the children are in good hands”. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said that consular staff who had travelled to the Caribbean island were in close contact with the authorities and were... -
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Sex & The City sequel will be a romp
IndieLondon (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | Entertainment
Website Buy it (1-disc edition) (Amazon) Buy it (2-disc edition) (Amazon) Buy it on Blu-ray (Amazon) Buy Seasons 1 – 6 Complete Box Set (Amazon) Read the review Sex And The City exceeds US box office expectations Sarah Jessica Parker interview Kim Cattrall interview Kristin Davis interview Cynthia Nixon interview Sex & The City photo gallery -
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Is Freida Pinto married?
Accidental Sexiness (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Entertainment
Freida Pinto is receiving a proper welcome into the limelight with allegations of being a cold-hearted snake! The 24-year-old actress is rumored to have broken up with longtime boyfriend of four years Rohan Antao after hitting it big in the award winning film Slumdog Millionaire. The two met while studying at St. Xavier’s College together. “Friends” of [...]
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Hayden Christensen Proposed To Rachel Bilson On Christmas
Celebrity VIP Lounge (subscribe) | 19 minutes ago | Entertainment
So newly engaged Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson have been a couple of very very sneaky secret keepers or either that everybody was preoccupied with Cheetostar or Brangelina-Aniston drama. I’m thinking it could have been a little bit of both. Apparently, Hayden proposed to Rachel over the Christmas holiday. Mmmhmmm. Rachel [...] -
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Zavvi sales save 271 more jobs
Edinburgh Evening News (subscribe) | 23 hours ago | Economy
ADMINISTRATORS of music and DVD retailer Zavvi have announced that another 271 jobs are to be saved after a further ten stores were sold. -
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Katy Perry Pukes at London’s BRIT Awards
Hollywood Dame (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Entertainment
Katy Perry threw up backstage at the BRIT Awards yesterday in London, moments after Lionel Richie presented her the award for Best International Female. No, it wasn’t from being boozy. The “I Kissed A Girl” singer reportedly felt ill all day, but managed to make it to the ceremony to pick up the gong. Perry [...] -
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Google might face (yet) another lawsuit and it may not be the last
Startup Meme (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | High-Tech
While Google must have been enjoying time after winning the privacy suit against it and continuing its growth in the search market , the search giant has another lawsuit heading its way. TradeComet , a search engine for businesses has filed a lawsuit against Google with claims that Google has taken advantage of its position and increased ad rates. The idea as TradeComet thinks is to eliminate any... -
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Shopper hit by a killer punch after Sainsbury's queue-jump argument
Daily Mail News (subscribe) | 15 hours ago | UK
An argument over queue-jumping at a supermarket led to the brutal killing of a shopper, a court has heard. Kevin Tripp, 57, was not even involved in the row. - 5 Vote!
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Meet Gigabyte M1028, convertible netbook
jkkmobile (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Technology
Click here to see more Gigabyte has updated their convertible touchscreen netbook to 10 inches. Bigger screen makes the body and the keyboard bigger too... On their Cebit preview video the call it TouchNote. M1028 specs: 10 inch 1024 x600 touch screen Intel Atom N270 with 1GB RAM 160GB HD Bluetooth b/g/n Wifi Ethernet 3G option SD card slot ExpressCard slot VGA out 3 x USB 1.3Mpix webcam XP Home ITMobility... -
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Amanda Rose, Twestival Leader, Reflects on Twestival
BlogHer (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Technology
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Glyn Davies silence on Cameron 'No to Parliament'
Welsh Ramblings (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Politics
It doesn't surprise me in the least that Tory candidate for Montgomeryshire Glyn Davies hasn't managed to coax the courage up to blog on Cameron's view that Wales shouldn't have a real Parliament like Scotland's (Cameron's comments have been reported here and here ). Surely there comes a point when a self-proclaimed pro-devolutionist, like Glyn, either: (i) admits that he will stay in the Tory party... -
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Cruddas backs Harriet
Benedict Brogan's political blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
The other day someone suggested to me that Harriet Harman was building a 'dream team' (sic) alliance with Jon Cruddas, ahead of the bun fight to succeed Gordon Brown. Curious, I thought. Ordinary Bloke linking up with HH? Seemed a... -
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BBC | Talk about Newsnight (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Politics
Kirsty presents tonight's programme. Here's her rundown on what's coming up - do wade in with your comments below... "Hello viewers... home is where the heart is - but for the Home Secretary, it's her second home that's causing her heartache, and a parliamentary investigation . Jacqui Smith has designated her sister's house in London - where she stays during the week - as her main home, rather than... -
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Four years in Jail for Tessa Jowell’s estranged husband David Mills for corruption
The Wardman Wire (subscribe) | 17/02/2009 | Politics
Just spotted on the Telegraph website , Tessa Jowell's estranged husband David Jowell has been given a 4 and a half year year prison sentence. I have reproduced a couple of sections from the report below. British lawyer David Mills, the estranged husband of Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail in Italy after being convicted of corruption. He was accused...
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Talking about ‘A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing’
Talking with Talis Podcasts (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Technology
In our latest podcast I talk with Armando Fox and Dave Patterson, two of the RAD Lab team behind the recently released Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. The Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (RAD Lab) at the University of California, Berkeley - sponsored by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Sun [...] -
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Why we must reclaim antiracism from the far left
Harry's Place (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Politics
“Unite Against Fascism is the UK’s leading campaign against the far right, yet its record on opposing antisemitism is dismal,” argues David T of this pariash over at Comment Is Free. “Those poor helpless jews are always being discriminated against. Just keep fueling that seige mentality David…” quips one of the first handful of comments. I’ll close [...] -
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If Capitalism Is To Blame For The Crisis, How Do You Explain This ?
Below The Beltway (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Business
As bad as things are in the United States, the far more socialist nations of Europe are in much worse shape: Hungary’s forint fell to an all-time low on Monday, and Poland’s zloty slumped to the lowest in five years on plunging industrial output. Half of all loans to the private sector in Poland are in [...] -
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Family Values.
Unenlightened Commentary. (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Politics
Social Workers fear media frenzy will damage Alfie's family. Yeah because the family was doing so well up until the media took notice. -
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Anti-terror laws are creating "police-state" -- former head of MI5
Boing Boing (subscribe) | 17/02/2009 | Politics
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has made a blistering public condemnation of the British government's "exploitation" of the threat of terrorism to create a "police state" where the terrorist objective of taking away Britons' liberty is achieved by government, and where crackdowns serve to inspire new terrorists. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, Dame Stella said:... -
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Facebook wants your attention, not your photos
paul walk's weblog (subscribe) | 18/02/2009 | Technology
There has been something of a furore over a recent change to Facebook’s terms of service (ToS). The Consumerist reported this as Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”. The change in question was the removal of a clause stating: You may remove your User Content from the Site [...] - see all discussions
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