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EA mistakes Finsbury Park for Venezuela, hijacks petrol station
TechDigest (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Entertainment
Electronic Arts decided to disrupt North London's rush-hour commuter traffic this morning by staging a mock hijack of a petrol station in Finsbury Park and giving away £20,000 worth of free petrol... -
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Newcastle bad boy Joey Barton escapes with six-match ban and paltry £25,000 fine for Man...
Daily Mail (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sport
Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has been suspended for 12 matches by the Football Association for his attack on former Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo. -
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Global warming rules might have caused BA Heathrow plane crash, say pilots
Daily Mail on Sunday (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | UK
Pilots fear that 'green' rules demanding that planes burn less fuel could cause planes to crash. -
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Charles Clarke, the New Statesman and the future of the Labour Party
New Statesman (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | UK Politics
The former Home Secretary's article in this week's New Statesman whipped up a storm, but what's the back story? I've been asked some interesting questions about the background to Charles Clarke's intervention in the New Statesman this week so it's only fair that I should share the answers with readers of this blog. 1. Did we solicit the article or did Charles Clarke come to the NS? We had a long-standing... -
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'Blue Peter bosses are trying to kill the show,' says ex-editor Biddy Baxter... as two...
Daily Mail on Sunday (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Sport
Former Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter has claimed the BBC is trying to kill the show off by dropping the elements which have made it popular over the years.
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Manchester City Goalkeeper jailed for sex video blackmail of Premier League star
Daily Mail (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sport
A goalkeeper who blackmailed a top Premier League footballer over a sex video was jailed for 20 months today. -
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Bryan twins claim U.S. Open men's doubles title
Reuters UK (subscribe) | 51 minutes ago | Sport
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won the U.S. Open men's doubles crown for the second time when they squeezed past Indian-Czech duo Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy 7-6 7-6 in the final on Friday. -
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Disgraced footballer Joey Barton 'jumps red light and drives down bus lane to avoid...
Daily Mail on Sunday (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Sport
Disgraced footballer Joey Barton jumped a red light and undertook dozens of cars in a bus lane while driving to meet a probation officer, it was claimed today. -
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Bush to announce Iraq troop levels
Daily Express (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | International
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Chicken ham and rice prices increase by more than 40 per cent
The Telegraph (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | UK Politics
Chicken ham and rice have seen some of the biggest price increases since the start of the year helping to drive food inflation up by more than eight per cent according to new figures. - see all breaking news
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Mayor makes tough decision
Phil Taylor (subscribe) | yesterday | UK
Today’s announcement of fare increases across London’s transport systems is perhaps the first really hard decision our new mayor has had to make. It is a job well done. He has protected the vulnerable but faced the reality of financing Crossrail and dealing with the previous mayor’s use of the “Fares Fair” weapon. [...] -
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U.S. May File WTO Complaint Over China's Export Restrictions on Raw Materials Used to...
International Trade Law News (subscribe) | yesterday | International
The Financial Times reported today that the United States Trade Representative is close to filing a complaint against China in the World Trade Organization challenging China's export restrictions on raw materials used in steel-making and other industries. The article states: The US has been working on the case intensely for the past few months, and could move ahead with a request for consultations... -
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LED Paw-Shaped Pillow
Coolest Gadgets (subscribe) | 03/09/2008 | Technology
Now here’s a pillow that looks really soft and yet is able to lift your moody self out of the doldrums thanks to a built-in LED. Perfect for folks who want to catch up on their reading before they hit the sack, as the glow is bright enough to illuminate the pages of your tome. Good thing it comes with an On/Off switch as well, allowing you to conserve the batteries in the long run. This reminds me... -
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EU Mounts Another Attempt to Regulate Blogs
Iain Dale's Diary (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Some time I ago I warned that that the EU had aspirations to regulate blogs. I suppose in the back of my mind I didn't really think it would amount to anything. Sadly I was wrong. Dan Hannan reports today that a group of Euro MPs has issued a report . Paragraph O states... O. whereas weblogs are an increasingly common medium for self-expression by media professionals as well as private persons, the... -
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(can’t get no) satisfaction;
[last year's girl] (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Other
Music taste and personality type are closely linked, Professor Adrian North of Herriot-Watt University claims on the BBC this morning. Smelling the sort of bullshit so-what academic study I always seemed to end up covering back in my student newspaper days (alcohol makes the opposite sex appear more attractive!), I clicked through to read the story [...] - see blog ranking see all discussions
