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/ 2 September 2009
Gordon Brown said on Wednesday his government had put no pressure on Scotland to release the Lockerbie bomber to improve trade links with Libya.
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/ 1 September 2009
The British and Scottish governments will publish documents relating to the release of the Lockerbie bomber on Tuesday.
British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities’ cellphone voicemails by journalists.
The US subsidies for failing industries risk ”killing” American attempts to discuss trade with developing nations, a US official said on Friday.
Britain’s political leaders called emergency talks on Tuesday to thrash out a new system of expenses after a scandal over claims.
JG Ballard, whose novel Empire of the Sun vividly portrayed his childhood imprisonment, died on Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.
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/ 12 September 2008
Plans to build a super-fast broadband network to help Britain’s economy stay competitive will be published on Friday.
From screaming skulls and headless horsemen to murdered brides and phantom farmers, English folklore is full of spine-tingling ghost stories. Terrified witnesses speak of seeing ghostly armies marching through the fog, spirits searching for hidden treasure and bells ringing from ruined churches.
Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being ”persecuted and prosecuted”. Organisers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer-protection rules will remove key legal protection for ”genuine” mediums.
British film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for The English Patient, died in a London hospital on Tuesday after a short illness, his agent said. He was 54. Minghella died from complications following surgery last week for cancer of the tonsils and neck, agent Leslee Dart said.