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Domestic violence victim seeks bedroom tax judicial review
bedroom tax .Lawyers for the woman have issued a claim against Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, after council officials told her she would be charged for having a spare bedroom.The woman, who is in her forties and lives in the East Midlands, has had her bedroom door and the surrounding frame strengthened to provide protection against an ex-partner who has threatened to kill ...
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Xbox One Gamers voice anger about proposed fee for secondhand games
Once customers have bought a game they will receive a unique code to activate their purchase. Once the code has been used the game will be linked to that individual's Xbox Live account. If a friend borrows the game CD then they will have to buy a new activation code before they can play.The new code will cost as much as the original game and consoles will have to be connected to the ...
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Rochdale council chief says systemic failures prevented capture of child abuse gang
Jim Taylor, Rochdale council chief executive, expressed disbelief that the child abuse gang were able to operate for so long. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ...
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Facebook cancels HTC phone launch in UK
The phone, called the HTC First, was first released in the US in mid-April and aimed to base its success around Facebook Home - a "super app" that overlays the phone's home screen with news and pictures from the user's Facebook account.Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, launched the software on 4 April, claiming it would "change the relationship" users had with their ...
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Swiss take a step to unlocking mystery of aging
Swiss researchers said Wednesday that they had taken a step closer to unlocking the mystery of aging after discovering the impact of a longevity gene in mice and then managing to extend the life-span of worms by 60% thanks to a basic antibiotic treatment."They were not only living longer, but were also more fit," said Johan Auwerx ion a video released by the Ecole Polytechnique ...
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Orphan Black episode starts here
is flying a little bit under the radar over on BBC America — but it might be in your best interest to catch up before the last two episodes of this sci-fi nail-biter’s freshman season. Why? Because stuff’s about to go down… In this exclusive sneak peek at the penultimate episode, airing Saturday at 9 p.m., we pick up moments after last week’s episode, which saw ...
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U.S. states support NJ with hands-off approach to luring tourists
By Michael Sadowski HARRISBURG | Fri May 24, 2013 10:29am EDT HARRISBURG Pa. May 24 (Reuters) - New Jersey, which launched the start of its summer season on Friday after many of its beaches were devastated by Superstorm Sandy last year, is getting support from neighboring state tourist agencies. Instead of trying to attract some of the 59 million tourists who visit the Jersey shore and ...
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Boating Safety Stressed Over Memorial Day Weekend
DANIA BEACH (CBSMiami) — The weather is clearing up just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Many people will be hitting the water to enjoy the holiday weekend but authorities have stressed that they should keep safety in mind. Memorial Day weekend boating traffic is traditionally heavy and boaters must take every necessary precaution. Boaters should expect to see extra patrols on the water ...
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Exercise regimen published in American College of Sports Medicine Health Fitness
A SEVEN-minute exercise regimen devised by scientists has been shown to provide as many health benefits as doing a long run and a session of weight training. The workout requires no more than a wall, a chair and seven minutes of your time. However, the experts say that you must be in pain when performing it in order to benefit. The article, High-Intensity Circuit Training Using Body Weight: ...
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Livechat has the time come for a unified public service
local government , with the aim of making South Africa's public services more professional and less corrupt. Reaching those aims through her public administration bill would involve a staggering cultural and financial task. A school of government would be set up by October to re-train the country's 1.6m public servants and directors-general would also have to sit a compulsory exam. The ...
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Platini wants European sports police force
View Photo President of English Football Association Prince William, left, holding a football presented to him, reacts as UEFA President Michel Platini presents him ...
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The Eton entrance questions every 12-year-old future PM should be asked | Daisy Buchanan
'Eton is the perfect training ground for future leaders as it forces boys to make their minds up about moral issues at an early age.' Photograph: Susannah Ireland / Rex ...
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The unhealthiest soap on TV is it Emmerdale EastEnders or Corrie
Emmerdale's boozing heart attack victim Eric Pollard stands out for his unhealthy lifestyle. But the heavy smoking and gym-shirking cockneys of EastEnders are hardly fitness ...
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Apple named top global brand despite tax avoidance
Despite recent scrutiny regarding the company's tax avoidance, Apple has topped the list compiled in Marketing Week, which is worth a combined 1.73 trillion.Although Apple showed only minimal growth of +1 per cent on last year, their 122,525 million valuation saw the global giant retain a clear lead over second place Google, who showed +5 per cent growth and a brand value of 75,254 million. ...
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Travel Postcard 48 hours in Madrid
Madrid is a better-kept secret from the EasyJet crowds is something to celebrate as the city has steered clear of tourist tat and the British pubs of the sun-soaked coasts to hold onto its unique charms that once ...
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Italy chefs roast junior minister who snubbed national cuisine
junior minister who dismissed the country's cuisine as a poor copy of trendy French cooking, poking a sore spot in a long-held kitchen rivalry between the two nations. "I have a negative judgment of the skill of Italian ...
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Parents have lot to learn at school sport
People arrived at a venue to watch a sport they love, rugby. They wanted their team to win. They became excited when their players ran fast. And, they also got very cross when the other team tackled them. So, they started assaulting the fans of the other ...
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Dont underestimate the chemical generation | Scott Oliver
DiY soundsystem spent four days at Castlemorton - an oasis of house grooves amid the pounding techno - and the best part of two decades thereafter throwing free parties across the Midlands and beyond. Explicitly positioned against capitalism and the profit motive (whenever the police came to shut things down or arrest them, they were unable to because, to their general bewilderment, no money was ...
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23 doomed couples we love
Stamping F. Scott Fitzgerald's lit-class staple with his trademark stylized glitz, it's no surprise Baz Luhrmann was drawn to the tragic tale of excess and failed love affairs in Roaring Twenties America -; he's shown an affinity for doomed romances in the past. ...
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When kids ask the most annoying questions
children ask. Contrary to my expectations before becoming a father, kids are annoyingly intelligent and ask things that most adults have long ago stopped asking because of their difficult and controversial nature.A few you can just type into an internet search engine. "Why is the sky blue?" is not something I ever had a response to until becoming a parent, but now I know that it's ...
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For Fitness Upstart Threes Company
Who are the principles in your partnership and what is the name of your company? I am Leanne Shear. I have two partners, Katie Currie and Helena Wolin. We started a women-only boutique fitness studio ...
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Price of Xbox One may be less than 360 say insiders
Robert Lloyd, chief financial officer of games retailer Games Spot, told financial analysts that the new-generation consoles, such as Xbox One and PS4, would have a "lower opening price than they did last ...
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Get the girl Why dropping the cheesy pick-up lines is a good idea
He: "Did it hurt?" She: "Did what hurt?" He: "When you fell from heaven?" We've all been witness - either directly or in periphery - to cringe-worthy and unsuccessful pick-up attempts. Could it be that we just don’t know how to go about actually introducing ourselves to strangers these days? It can seem increasingly troubling to meet strangers without ...
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The etiquette of approaching women Stay sober dont be creepy
When it comes to approaching people we’re interested in, many of us are doing it wrong. I just got back from a six-day trip to Las Vegas and am more convinced than ever that there’s a huge segment of the population that is completely clueless when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex. On Friday afternoon I was at my hotel’s pool, standing in line at the bar waiting ...
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Poll should councils have more control over welfare spending
plans to give local authorities and city regions more control over shaping the way billions of welfare funding is spent. The move is an attempt to bring down the benefits bill.Labour is insistent that the benefit budget can be cut by looking at new solutions, such as localised welfare. Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, is proposing a near-commissioning model for the work ...
Tajikistan Focus
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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