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Level crossing victim named
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Rise in Scottish house prices brings cheer
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SCOTLAND'S property market has bucked the UK's downward trend with new figures showing a rise in house prices in the last quarter. -
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U.N. Official: 30 Dead After Israeli Strike Near School
War News Updates (subscribe) | 26 minutes ago | International
From CNN: GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Three Israeli artillery shells struck near the perimeter of a U.N. school in northern Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 55, a United Nations official said. U.N. Relief and Works Agency Director John Ging said most of the casualties were outside the school in the Jabalya refugee camp. "It's a very built-up area, so of course it was entirely inevitable... -
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Toyota to halt production in Japan for 11 days
The Independent (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | International
Toyota will halt production at its Japanese plants for 11 days in February and March after a sharp fall in US sales. -
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Leading article: Dependence on Russian energy places Europe at risk
The Independent (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | International
The angry stand-off between Russia and Ukraine over gas is now seriously disrupting supplies to several European Union countries. Romania has lost 75 per cent of its supply; Bulgaria has only a few days' gas left; Slovakia is on the verge of declaring a state of emergency. The European Commission has waded in with indignant condemnation. But what may look like a replay of what happened three years... -
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Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
Salt Lake Tribune (subscribe) | 45 minutes ago | High-Tech
SAN FRANCISCO » Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.
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Dianne Feinstein, maverick
Salon.com (subscribe) | 56 minutes ago | International
It's been a busy couple days for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. On Monday, Feinstein -- the incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- put out a statement in which she criticized the choice of Leon Panetta to run the CIA, saying, "My position has consistently been that I believe the Agency is best-served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time." Tuesday, Feinstein... -
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Atheist 'victory for freedom of speech'
Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | UK
AN ATHEIST advertising campaign on buses in Scotland, across the UK and on the London Underground was launched yesterday with the slogan: "There's probably no God. N -
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CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight baselessly included Franken in segment on "Dems behaving badly"
VOT3R (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
After the Minnesota Canvassing Board certified the recount in the state's U.S. Senate race, showing Al Franken finishing 225 votes ahead of incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, the January 5 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight baselessly included Franken in a segment on, in host Lou Dobbs' words, "Democratic... -
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End of an era as Woolies bids farewell
Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | UK
WOOLWORTHS' remaining 200 stores have closed their doors for the last time, leaving more than 27,000 people unemployed. -
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Promise backfires after lottery win
Scotsman.com (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | UK
A MAN who promised to buy his son a toy shop if he won the lottery had to backtrack when he scooped more than £1 million. Mark Myatt and wife Trina, from Hemel Hempstead, -
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Ten groups in talks on Waterford Wedgwood
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
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Washing Machine project lets it Twitter when finished
Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Technology
Everyone has dealt with those days where you’re running around and doing other things so much that you forget all about the load of laundry you put into the washer or dryer. Then you come back and they’re either overly wrinkly or mildewed. Now luckily dryers do have buzzers, however, if you have a house [...] -
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Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
Boing Boing (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
A UK campaign to raise money to buy London bus-ads to promote atheism was a massive success -- 800 of the busses took the streets today, and the campaign is spreading around the world. Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000, breaking our original target of £5,500 by over 2400%. Given this unexpected amount, I'm... -
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Install-it - simple instant free CD installer utility
The Red Ferret Journal (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Install-It is a tiny freeware utility which does one thing. Burn this prog to the root folder of a CD, add some other [...] 126 words | permalink | No comments | digg this -
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor: ‘Capitalism is dead’
Archbishop Cranmer (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
O please. Any Christian should know that death is not the end. But this has not prevented the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster from declaring that, just as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 killed off Communism on , so the ‘credit crunch’ of 2008 sounds the death knell of capitalism. And this he announced at a lavish black-tie, four-course, champagne reception in the palace that is Claridges –... -
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Billy Bragg and the BNP revisited
Home of the Green Arrow (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Politics
I see that Billy Bragg as been dragged from his luxury retirement home to take a pop at the British National Party via the comments section of the Guardian. Billy has spend so long in that luxury ivory tower of his, that he has lost the plot completely and does not see a problem with the large numbers of colonisers taking over Our Land and fails to understand the concerns of the True British people.... -
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Tax cuts for savers: a dumb idea from David Cameron
Dave's Part (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
THOSE of us that came to political maturity in more ideological times can be forgiven for wondering whatever happened to the notion that Labour and the Conservatives stood for fundamentally different ideas of how society should be organised. While the turning point can be variously dated, it is patently the case that they no longer do. As a result, a certain degree of passion has long been lacking...
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Patapon tattoo
Wonderland (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Video Games
Sent in by Masatomo Ueda, his new supercute Patapon tattoo. Brilliant work. Patapon... the combination of rhythm game with strategy game is very, very intriguing, but I don't own a PSP :-/ -
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On the deaths in Jabalya
Harry's Place (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | International
Reports are still coming in about the terrible loss of life among Palestinian civilians taking shelter in a UN school in Gaza. We may never know precisely what happened, and as is usual in such events, people will decide what they want to believe. But The Jerusalem Post reports: At least 30 people were reportedly killed [...] -
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It was a 'Hamas stronghold'
Lenin's Tomb (subscribe) | yesterday | International
"At least 40 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources have said. A number of children were among those who died when the al-Fakhura school in the Jabaliya refugee camp took a direct hit, doctors at nearby hospitals said. People inside had been taking refuge from the Israeli ground offensive." That's the trouble with... -
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Gordon Brown Is a Murderous Two Faced Cunt
Craig Murray (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Politics
Brown is appeasing domestic horror at the Israeli massacre in Gaza by calling for a ceasefire. Meanwhile British diplomats on the United Nations Security Council are under direct instructions to offer "tacit support" to United States' efforts to block a... -
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4 a Change
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (subscribe) | 04/01/2009 | Technology
The government have officially launched its Change4Life advertising campaign . Its aim is to create a “lifestyle revolution” by promoting diet and exercise. Join in -
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2008 Weblog Awards: BlogF1 Is Up For Best Sports Blog
BlogF1 (subscribe) | 05/01/2009 | Other
Earlier in the year, BlogF1 was nominated (not just by myself, either) for the 2008 Weblog Awards, in the category of best sports blog. BlogF1 has never been up for such an award before, so I was quite pleased to say the least. However, the first round of voting that so many of you took [...] - see all discussions
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