# britain - Today’s News
# britain - Yesterday’s News
Large sections of the British Prime Minister’s Conservative party are fiercely opposed to the idea.
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# britain - Friday 17 May, 2013
The US President and Turkish Prime Minister met in Washington to discuss Syria’s ongoing, bloody conflict.
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# britain - Sunday 5 May, 2013
The things you find in Wikileaks…
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# britain - Thursday 2 May, 2013
45 years after the crash, the 14th and final body to be recovered has finally had a DNA profile created for it.
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The potential rethink comes a week after the US said that they believed that chemical weapons had been used in the country.
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The former TV and radio presenter will be sentenced in June after admitting to 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls, one as young as nine.
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The virus, known as novel coronavirus, was first detected in mid-2012 and is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
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# britain - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
A House of Commons committee says Scottish independence would affirm Britain’s image as a global power in decline.
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# britain - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Free bus travel, free television licences, heating bill payments – one Conservative minister in Britain has suggested rich pensioners may not need them all.
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# britain - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
We are living way beyond our means…
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# britain - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Big Ben’s bell was silenced as Margaret Thatcher’s coffin was driven through the streets of London.
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# britain - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
The same models of dishwasher were recalled in Britain in 2011 but the company said it had not found a pattern of failures in Ireland until now.
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On this date 15 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed. While we have come along way, we shouldn’t take the peace we have for granted, writes Ben English.
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# britain - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
In Ireland, we tend to think of Margaret Thatcher as either the prime minister who let the hunger strikers die or the pragmatist who signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement. David McCann wonders if this is too narrow a view.
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The honours afforded to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will be equivalent to those given to the Queen Mother and Princess Diana.
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# britain - Monday 8 April, 2013
The former Conservative leader and three-time prime minister suffered a stroke and died peacefully, a spokesman says.
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# britain - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Richard De-Wit stabbed Sarah Groves while under the influence of drugs.
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# britain - Saturday 6 April, 2013
London Metropolitan University is documenting the history of Irish people in Britain. Here are just some of the things they’ve found for their archive.
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# britain - Friday 5 April, 2013
The study found evidence of dog sharing in gangs leading to animals becoming more aggressive as they are frequently abused by different owners.
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# britain - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
The petition was set up to challenge Iain Duncan Smith to prove that he would be able to survive on benefits.
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# britain - Monday 1 April, 2013
# britain - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Aoife Madden, a niece of a Sinn Féin MP, was jailed for her role in a scam to claim tax relief for a film that didn’t exist.
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# britain - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Ten years ago this week the United States-led “coalition of the willing” launched the Iraq War. If we’ve learned anything from the Iraq experience it’s that governments should refrain from biting off more than they can chew, says Scott Fitzsimmons.
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# britain - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
The vessel was detained by the Naval Service in relation to an alleged breach of fishing regulations.
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The defence ministry said the cash cargo flight is a “contingency” plan in case banks in the country stop giving out money.
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# britain - Monday 18 March, 2013
Police said the 23-year-old died in mysterious circumstances but that there were no signs of violence.
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# britain - Sunday 17 March, 2013
Including combatants on all sides and as-yet undocumented civilian fatalities that figure could be as high as 174,000, according to the Iraq Body Count organisation.
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# britain - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
1,513 people voted to keep the islands as a UK overseas territory – while only three said they wanted to break away.
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# britain - Monday 11 March, 2013
The Taoiseach described his visit to London to meet Prime Minister David Cameron as “a symbolic and important day”.
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# britain - Sunday 10 March, 2013
The result is not in doubt but the scale of the ‘yes’ vote will be closely watched as a sign of the Falklanders’ strength of feeling about remaining British.
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# britain - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Figures from Eurostat confirm initial estimates in February that the eurozone economy shrank by 0.6 per cent in Q4 of 2012 with the EU shrinking by 0.5 per cent.
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# britain - Thursday 28 February, 2013
Bruce Reynolds died at the age of 81 after a brief illness, his son Nick said.
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# britain - Monday 25 February, 2013
The two police officers pulled over a speeding car in Manchester – which reversed into them before driving off.
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# britain - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Moody’s have downgraded the UK from AAA to AA1.
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# britain - Monday 18 February, 2013
The Academy of Medical Royal College said current restrictions, on advertising for children in particular, were failing to tackle obesity problems.
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# britain - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
His comments come amid a war of words before residents go to the polls in March to say whether they want the archipelago to remain a British overseas territory.
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# britain - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
MPs voted by 400 to 175 to approve the draft law, despite a split in David Cameron’s Conservative party over the issue.
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David Cameron has championed the drive to allow same-sex couples to marry.
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# britain - Monday 4 February, 2013
Chris Huhne made a last minute plea change in court this morning, admitted to perverting the court of justice over a speeding case ten years ago.
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# britain - Sunday 3 February, 2013
The Behavioural Insights Team – nicknamed the ‘Nudge Unit’ – is working behind the scenes to stop Britons smoking, get them to pay taxes and other behaviour modifications.
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