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Loan for Ireland of ‘Tens of Billions’ of Euros

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Share  DUBLIN- Ireland will be given loans of “tens of billions” of euros by its European Union counterparts, as mentioned on Thursday by Patrick Howard, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the European Central Bank’s governing council. Authorized representatives from the EU, European Union Central Bank and International Monetary Fund [...]

November 18th, 2010 | Posted in UK,world news | Read More »

Prince William is Officially Engaged to marry Kate Middleton next year.

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Share  Prince William is Officially Engaged to marry Kate Middleton next year, for more than a year now there has been speculation that the couple were engaged but there has not been a official announcement till now. A statement has been released and said that “The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement [...]

November 16th, 2010 | Posted in UK,world news | Read More »

Primary School Teacher Proven Guilty of Female Student Abuse

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Share A 50-year old Oxfordshire school teacher was found guilty in 23 counts of sexual abuse incidents with 7 young girls of age 7 to 11. The abuse as conducted between March 1, 2006 and May 13, 2010. The order issued an order to keep the suspect’s anonymity in order to protect the children. The [...]

November 8th, 2010 | Posted in UK,world news | Read More »

Critic has to give up domain name

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Share A website that criticizes the airline Ryanair must give up its domain name to the Irish airline because it broke the policies that govern the use of other’s trademarks in co.uk Internet addresses and have made money by commercial links that are used on the site. An appointed expert has ruled that the website [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Featured News,Technology,UK,world news | Read More »

The winner of the Great North Run 2010

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Share Today we see the start of the world’s most popular half marathon, the 30th edition of the Bupa Great North Run gets underway in Newcastle, the 54,000 entrants in the half marathon are running to raising money for the charity of there choice. The start of the race saw the celebrity duo Ant and [...]

September 19th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News,UK,world news | Read More »

George Michael jailed for drug driving charge

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Share George Michael (Georgios Panayiotou) has been jailed for drug driving, the singer has been sentenced to a eight week prison stretch after pleading guilty to possessing of cannabis and driving under the influence of alcohol, they have also hit him with a $1940 (£1,250) fine. George may only serve a four weeks inside but [...]

September 14th, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment,Featured News,UK,USA,celebrity,world news | Read More »

Goldman Sachs the Wall Street giant has been fined $27m

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Share Goldman Sachs the Wall Street giant has been fined $27m by the FSA, the fine has come to light for failing to tell the FSA they were under investigation for fraud by the USA financial watchdog. This July Goldman Sachs settled a fraud charge with the Securities and Exchange Commission on paying $550m, this [...]

September 13th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured News,UK,USA,world news | Read More »

Ricky Hatton floored in bar punch up.

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Share The former welterweight and light-welterweight champion of the World boxer Ricky Hatton has been floored in a pub brawl. The event happened in a Manchester pub the Railway Inn, a report said that “A muscular man twice the size of Hatton got into a verbal conflict with the boxer, before he knocked the hit [...]

September 12th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News,UK,celebrity,world news | Read More »

Interest rates for the UK are still at a record low 0.5%

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Share Loan interest rates for the UK have been frozen at rates a low 0.5% over the last eighteen months. The same rate has accrued due to keep up with the inflation rate at the present time. The target rate for the UK is 2% at target rate, inflation was 3.1% in July, This has [...]

September 9th, 2010 | Posted in Business,Featured News,Home Owners,Personal Finance,UK | Read More »

Aircraft in a near miss above London

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Share Two aircraft have been in a close call above London, a Turkish Airlines passenger plane (Boeing 777) and a German business jet (Citation 525), the German business plan took off from London City Airport closely missing the Turkish Airlines passenger plane on it’s descend into London. German business jet (Citation 525) was cleared for [...]

September 9th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News,UK,world news | Read More »

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