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After an eight year courtship Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be married next year. They announced official engagement today. Speculation has been rife for many months now, no dates have yet been set but the wedding will take place in the spring or summer of next year. A Clarence House statement said “Further [...]
London UK, Prime Minister David Cameron announced this morning that he had been given unconfirmed information that Linda Norgrave, a Taliban hostage in Afghanistan, may have been killed by friendly fire a rescue attempt over the weekend. Previous reports issuedduring the weekend by NATO and British officials indicated that she was killed by an explosive [...]
If a woman puts a cat in a bin, how does the whole world know about it? Through a security camera that captures her footage and the owner who posts it on Facebook and YouTube. An anonymous woman picked up a pet cat from in front of its home and dumped it in a trash [...]
Earlier this week Lord Young told the BBC he wanted a ban on advertising for No Win No Fee Solicitors and personal injury claim firms. The Tory peer is leading a review on current UK health and safety legislation. In recent interviews he has said that “children dying because of health and safety”, when refering [...]
Prof. David Bellamy has joined campaigners protesting against North British Wind Powers’ (NBWP) scheme for 48 wind turbines at Fallago Rig in the Lammermuir Hills. Say No To Fallago claims it is the “final straw” and will destroy the last “unspoiled section” of the landscape. NBWP says the turbine project can supply up to 80,000 [...]
No Win No Fee Solicitors and Companies may have their expertise and business practices challenged in the coming months as new rules for personal injury claims came into effect on 30 April 2010 in the UK. Last September The Ministry of Justice in the UK announced changes to the process that insurance companies must adhere [...]
A month into administration the new Prime Minister for Great Britain is finding his fiscal feet, in an announcement today he said that the problems were worse than he feared. Putting things in simple terms he made it clear that the country can not survive when the annual interest payments on government liabilities are more [...]
Questions are being raised about whether environmental pledges for the 2012 London Games can be met after the scrapping of plans to build a massive wind turbine on the Olympic Park. The 120m high turbine was to have been built on the north end of the park, and was to be the symbol for the [...]
As the UK recoils from the alledged killing spree of Derrick Bird in the West of the Lake District, Cumbria fresh calls for tighter still gun restrictions. In answer to these call’srime Minister David Cameron, speaking at a press conference, said the country “should not leap to knee-jerk conclusions” The UK already has some of [...]
The new chief secretary to the Treasury, the UK’s second most senior person in the Treasury, Danny Alexander faces some serious questions with regard to alleged unpaid Capitol Gains Tax from 2007. Under the Tax Laws applicable no CGT was payable under rules that give a 36 month grace period when the property being sold [...]