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LONDON NOT IN TOP 50 MOST LIVEABLE CITIES
Vancouver, Canada London has failed to make the top 50 “most live-able” cities, according to worldwide analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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MURDOCH—–THE END OF HIS EMPIRE?
The phone-hacking scandal has already cost Rupert Murdoch his best-selling UK newspaper and his bid to buy BSkyB. Now some commentators say it threatens the very dynasty he has devoted his…
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STEVE COOGAN—-WHAT A HYPOCRITE!
Steve Coogan has joined Hugh Grant in attacking the British tabloid press and rejoicing in the demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News Of the World. “People keep saying it is a very bad…
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NEWS OF THE WORLD HACKING UPDATE
James Murdoch Rupert Murdoch For those taking an interest in the ever-changing, continually developing News of the World hacking scandal, it’s a good time for a round-up of just what the situation…
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A RIGHT ROYAL TELLING-OFF FOR ZOOEY DESCHANEL
It doesn’t take much to spur a dedicated Royal watcher like the L.A. Times’s Patt Morrison into outraged literary action. In her blog Morrison castigates the actress Zooey Deschanel for a remark…
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HACKED TO DEATH—NEWS OF THE WORLD CLOSES AFTER 168 YEARS
‘‘THANK YOU AND GOODBYE‘ We have come to the sad and ignoble end of a once proud journalistic era as the News of the World runs off the presses for the…
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HARRY POTTER WINS BATTLE OF THE FANS
Emma Watson arrived in Trafalgar Square. Photo: Associated Press. The Royal couple attended a Friday night reception in Hancock Park. It’s been a weird and wonderful couple of days.
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LEGAL BATTLE OVER SCHNDLER’S LIST AUCTION
IT helped saved the lives of 1,200 Jews doomed to be executed in Nazi gas chambers.But now the original Schindler’s List is to be controversially auctioned off for almost £2million – sparking…
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SAUSAGE FAN HAS THERAPY TO BREAK ADDICTION TO BANGERS
Only in England! I’ve been back in London for two days and I’m still getting used to the wild and wonderful newspaper stories about crazy, zany people.
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‘HOOLIGAN’ GREAT GRANNY BANNED FROM SOCCER GROUND
It’s good to be back in London for a few days where sport is the main topic of conversation in the pubs.