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Resignation threat over gay bishop appointment
A senior clergyman in Wales is threatening to resign if the openly gay Dean of
St Albans, Dr Jeffrey John, is appointed Bishop of Bangor.
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Heathrow plane crash caused by ice in fuel system
Airlines were urged yesterday to implement safety measures to reduce the risk
of ice restricting fuel flow, after the crash of a British Airways jet at
Heathrow earlier this year.
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Autumn's first storm lashes Britain
The UK was lashed by torrential rain and gale-force winds today as the first
major storm of the autumn caused widespread chaos.
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Soldier forced to sleep in car after hotel refuses him a room
A hotel that refused a wounded soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night
in his car, was backed into a “grovelling” apology yesterday after receiving
a barrage of abusive phone calls.
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Coffee-loving MP Michael Fabricant mistaken for cocaine trafficker
A Conservative MP today described the terrifying moment he was held at
gunpoint and forced to eat coffee whitener to persuade a group of excitable
Colombian soldiers that he was not a drugs trafficker.
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John Delaney reunited with family five years after his own cremation
A son has been reunited with his father after spotting him fleetingly on a
televised appeal five years after what he believed was his parent’s
cremation.
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Goalkeeper jailed for Premiership blackmail
A goalkeeper has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for attempting to
blackmail a Premier League footballer over a video that showed him having
sex.
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Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists
They say it won’t be four horsemen that spell the end of the world as we know
it but the flick of a switch next Wednesday, when the Earth will be consumed
from inside out and turned to a pile of grey goo. Doomsayers are so worried
about the impending end of the universe that they have been to court to try
to stop it.
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Ian Hibell, cyclist who pedalled world, killed by hit-and-run driver
A cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging
rivers, a lion and the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by
a hit-and-run driver in Greece.
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Struggling Gordon Brown accused of betrayal
Gordon Brown faced further threats to his faltering premiership today as a
Labour MP and a union leader joined a chorus of criticism over his
leadership.
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Mother of Kerry Winter, missing in Dubai, makes appeal to British boyfriend
The mother of a woman missing in Dubai has spoken to her daughter's British
ex-boyfriend and pleaded with him to reveal if he killed her.
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Form a queue for Damien Hirst's sale of the century
There should be a man with a sandwich board standing outside Sotheby's today. The Bond Street auction house seems to be starting a grand closing-down sale. Everything must go from the vast Damien Hirst emporium. Form an orderly queue - it's your last chance to invest.
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Sir Cliff Richard reveals details of his ‘close friendship’ with former priest
His hits may no longer fill the airwaves and prime ministers may no longer
flock to his villa in Barbados, but Sir Cliff Richard proved yesterday that
he still has the capacity to captivate the British public as he spoke for
the first time about his “close friendship” with a former Roman Catholic
priest.
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Sport and art sites declare open house for London 2012 Olympics
The most famous venues in British sport are to be thrown open to the public to
mark the start of a four-year cultural preamble to the London Olympics.
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Why team games may make your children fat
Highly competitive team sports in school discourage many children from taking
part in extracurricular physical activity and undermine efforts to curb
Britain's record teenage obesity rates, a study suggests.
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British aid workers risk arrest in Gaza
British aid workers distributing medical and food supplies in the West Bank
risk being arrested by Israel after it banned five British-based charities
operating in Gaza for their alleged links with Hamas, the Palestinian
Islamist group.
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George Galloway's charity Interpal back under police glare
A British charity that distributes aid in the Palestinian territories and is
backed by George Galloway, the Respect MP, is at the centre of a police
investigation in Australia.
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Britain values unity in Nato over Georgia
Gordon Brown believes that Britain should remain an “honest broker” in
negotiations over Georgia's membership of Nato, despite increasing pressure
from the US for the country to join the alliance.
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Commentary: Hirst betting his reputation on this sale
Damien Hirst is an artist unlike any other: a showman, a pioneer and a provocateur, of course, but most of all a ruthless titan of industry with his own work as the highly successful product.
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People: Adam Sherwin
No collision of dates in Marr’s big bang diary
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