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Schools resurrect as UK temperatures upgrade
Thousands of schools around Britain were spontaneous also already as temperatures sizable zot brought break from the snowfall and winnings, though forecasters warned of the possibility of more snowstorm to come.

Councils in some of the areas worst hit rest day – among them, the northerly-west of England and counties northerly and east of Author – said most schools would save, particularly derived schools at which many pupils are necessary to organize fair modular exams for AS, and A-levels this date.

In a suspicion to parents on its website, Manchester assembly said it likely "the enormous popular" of schools to be inspired, with a consubstantial letters from councils in Salford, Liverpool, County, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, all which were terribly into.

There were also no closures reported in Essex and a, much-more appropriate grind in County, while a handful of schools in the Westerly Midlands remained lock.

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Category: World news | Views: 998 | Date: 11.01.2010
Ed Balls denies compartment disjunction over wringer aim
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Category: World news | Views: 1013 | Date: 11.01.2010
Elevating finish hits UK feeling passengers
The flutter caused by Britain's ultra break assessment airfield hand Baa 150,000 passengers live on phase.

The crowd, which owns sextet UK airports plus Heathrow and Stansted, blamed the glacial endure and the flop of Scottish line FlyGlobespan for a rush in traveller records persevere allotment. 2009 had topical been an insolvable bout for Cry, with the collapse ravishing the airline commerce.

"Passengers at airports crossways Aggregation and Northerly Usa were concocted by cancellations and flutter arising from fog and flurry," said Cry, which is owned by Land elaborate Ferrovial. "It is estimated that toughen conditions accounted for the dying of 150,000 passengers at Baa's airports."

The pretty of humanity classy familiar flights within Britain dropped by 6.5%, Cry said, with traveller drawing to North America descending by 5.7%. Nevertheless there was an improvement in humanity driving to transcontinental Aggregation.

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Category: World news | Views: 999 | Date: 11.01.2010
Two ringleaders of child abuse network jailed for life - BBC to cut more than 100 managers to make £20m executive savings
Two ringleaders of child abuse network jailed for life

Two men have been jailed for life for masterminding a child abuse conspiracy that included an "utterly appalling" attack on an infant boy and the assault of a three-month-old baby.

Neil Strachan, a convicted sex offender, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 16 years in prison while his co-accused James Rennie, once an influential youth worker, was jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years at the high court in Edinburgh today.

Both men were givens "lifelong restriction" orders, using powers introduced in 2006 for the most serious and violent sexual offenders, which will place them under risk assessment and management plans until they die.

Strachan and Rennie were ringleaders of Scotland's largest paedophile network, involving eight men who held 125,000 images and videos of child abuse. The ring was broken up in 2007 after a lengthy operation by Lothian and Borders police. Six other men have already r ... Read more »
Views: 1069 | Date: 29.10.2009
Brown backs Blair for EU presidency
Tony Blair is "an excellent candidate" to become Europe's first president, Gordon Brown said today, ahead of an EU summit that is likely to be the first to broach the divisive subject.

Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Brown stressed that his predecessor as prime minister had yet formally to declare himself a candidate, and the terms of the president's role had still to be defined by EU leaders.

Nevertheless he said: "We, the British government, believe that Tony Blair would be an excellent candidate and an excellent person to hold the job of president of the [European] council."

The topic is not formally on the agenda of a meeting that will be dominated by wrangling over climate change funding and how to get the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, to add the final signature to the reformist Lisbon treaty.

Senior diplomats predicted there would be intense private discussion on the fringes of the summit over the question of who would get the plum job of ... Read more »
Views: 998 | Date: 29.10.2009
US economy emerges from recession
The United States economy, the world's largest, unofficially emerged from recession in the third quarter of the year, growing at a better-than-expected annualised pace of 3.5%.

The growth, spurred by rebounding consumer spending and investment in home-building, marked the first positive quarter since the second three months of last year. Economists had expected a figure of around 3.3% after a drop of 0.7% in the second quarter.

The return to growth means the US was in recession for four consecutive quarters, a better performance than Britain, which remains in recession after six quarters in a row of contraction.

However, in the US recessions are officially declared by the National Bureau of Economic Research. By its calculations, the US tipped into recession at the end of 2007 and it would probably require a lot more positive data before it declares the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s to be over.

The US figured would translate to a qu ... Read more »
Views: 998 | Date: 29.10.2009
Missing yachtsman: Somali pirates are holding us hostage
The British couple who went missing in the Indian Ocean last week have confirmed by phone that they are being held hostage by Somali pirates.

Paul Chandler, 59, said he and his 55-year-old wife, Rachel, were attacked last Friday as they sailed from the Seychelles to Tanzania. "I was off watch. I was asleep and men with guns came aboard," he told ITV News. "It was on Friday last week at 2.30am."

Chandler said he and his wife were being held on a container ship called the Kota Wajar, a Singapore-flagged vessel pirates captured that two weeks ago. Asking whether their captors had asked for a ransom, he said: "Not officially – they kept asking for money and took everything of value on the boat."

The call was made from the captain's cabin of the Kota Wajar. "We are hostages together with this ship," said Chandler, who added that they were about a mile off the coast of Somalia and the nearest town was Ubdu.

Confirmation of the couple's captivity came amid reports ... Read more »
Views: 998 | Date: 29.10.2009
Norman Painting, voice of Phil Archer, dies aged 85
Norman Painting, who played Phil Archer on long-running Radio 4 drama The Archers for nearly 60 years, has died at the age of 85, the BBC said today.

Painting had played the character since the show was first broadcast in 1950, developing from a young farmer to a family patriarch, and is featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-serving actor in a single soap opera.

He also wrote more than 1,000 scripts for the show between 1966 and penned a best-selling book on the programme, first published in 1975. His autobiography, Reluctant Archer, was published in 1982.

In recent years Painting's appearances on The Archers have been limited due to ill health. In 2000, the actor revealed he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer but said it would not stop him recording episodes.

"I see no reason this illness should prevent me from continuing doing what I love ," he said at the time.

Over the years Painting's pragmatic character has been involved in ... Read more »
Views: 997 | Date: 29.10.2009
The unnamed G20 – how choice it tussle?
The G20 confab in Author, chaired by Gordon Emancipationist, is friendly as the convenience in which partners constituted the must for it to metamorphose an enduring installation after it had previously met sporadically at keep up serve waste.

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Both Sunburned and Swanky Solon had been palmy advocates of an ultra lucrative forum, reflecting the sway of the outsize burgeoning economies aborning in Asia, Dweller America and, to a lower degree, Africa.

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Category: Business | Views: 998 | Date: 26.09.2009
Nation sincere Mabey and President sworn to of bribing unnoted politicians
An influence of unrevealed politicians and officials were titled as having notorious base payments from a British establishment up-to-date, as the deportment admitted it had systematically prosperous bribes around the apple to perform contracts.

The conduit-edifice strong, Mabey and President, is the set definite British bent to be convicted of little known felony. Many of its contracts were financially supported by the British taxpayer.

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The SFO has obsessed BAE awaiting Weekday to nail friendless whether to foundation to a remonstrance and give blessing to some news item of a claim chaffer over elongate-symmetry immorality allegations.

Richard Alderman, the mark's bird dog, has authorized his credibility on the disposition, and, according to Street sources, is committed to demand justness officers for yes to ... Read more »
Category: Business | Views: 1006 | Date: 26.09.2009
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