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  • New Man U boss Moyes imprints identity by axing Fergies backroom staff

    New Manchester United boss David Moyes has started to imprints his own identity on the club by wielding the axe on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson's backroom staff at United. The former Everton boss booted out No.2 Mike Phelan, who had been Ferguson's right-hand man since 2008, and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, as he reportedly wants his own assistants in Old Trafford, the Mirror reports. The ...

  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Prince William very excited about becoming dad

    Prince William is very excited at the prospect of becoming a father, the chief executive of a charity has revealed. "He is looking forward to being a dad. He's very excited about it," People magazine quoted Seyi Obakin, chief executive of the charity Centrepoint - whose aim is to help homeless young people -, as saying. During the secret visit to Centrepoint's Bruce House in London earlier ...

  • BBC editor apologises for Muslim remark

    Nick Robinson, the BBC's political editor, Friday apologised for directly quoting a Whitehall source who described the Woolwich killers as being "of Muslim appearance". Robinson said he was sorry for using the phrase, which "was both liable to be misinterpreted and to cause offence", during the BBC News at Six broadcast Thursday. The corporation received dozens of complaints after using the ...

  • Go-ahead for 60-room hotel in West Ealing

    Road improvements and landscaping are required as part of hotel's permission WEST Ealing is likely to have a new 60-room hotel in Melbourne Road after a unanimous 12-0 vote in favour of plans. Preparatory demolition work at the site is already underway and will likely affect business in the area for around six months. The final go-ahead from Ealing planners has not yet been ...


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Untamed Heart

"Untamed Heart" is a modern romantic fable that tells the story of two broken people who find each other when they are most in need. It's touching in the simplicity of its age-old story, and heart-warming in the way it knows and loves its characters, who are blue-collar, common people normally overlooked or misrepresented in Hollywood. When we first meet Adam (Christian Slater) he is a young boy l ... ...

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  • Library and leisure service changes aimed at saving Ealing money

    Library and leisure service changes aimed at saving Ealing money LIBRARY and leisure services are to be shared between Ealing Council and private companies. Leisure service changes should save 250,000 with the involvement of Sports and Leisure Management Ltd (SLM) in the running of centres across Ealing, Brent and Harrow. John Laing plc will help run library services in Harrow and ...

  • We want to turn our grief and pain into something positive

    Manuel Fernandez with Celia Peachey and Benji Stubbings holding a picture of murdered Maria Stubbings The brother of a woman who was murdered by her ex-partner has spoken about his determination to help other victims of domestic violence and make something "positive" come from his sister's death. Manuel Fernandez, 42, who lives in Totteridge, had his "world smashed to ...

  • Child abduction cases up by 81 per cent

    Kate McCann started the Miles for Missing People race CHILD abduction is a "growing problem" with the number of reported cases up by 81% over the last nine years, ministers have warned. Foreign Office officials were involved in 512 new abduction and international custody cases in 2011/12 and were taking around four calls a day when existing cases were taken into account. ...

  • New car wash offers job opportunities for disabled people

    Enfield Council and employment specialists Seetec set up eco-car wash People with disabilities helped to launch an eco-car wash in Enfield this week. Enfield Council and employment specialists Seetec set up the scheme to offer jobs for people with various disabilities in the borough. Customers can have their car washed at the Palace Gardens multi-storey car park between 9am to 3pm ...

  • Afghan interpreters may move to the UK – security forces have no safe haven | Jon Boone

    When I met Rahmatullah two years ago he was laid up in bed in Kabul's towering national military hospital. Gruesome rods protruded from the smashed leg of the 21-year-old soldier who had been serving in Helmand at the time with the 215 "Maiwand" Corps. His bone had been broken by a Taliban bullet fired not on the battlefield, but inside his own home while he was on leave in ...

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