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  • Brit school offers bra lessons for girls aged 11

    A high School in Derby, England is teaching girls as young as 11 how to fit their first bra and about breast health. These bra lessons are being given to help them negotiate the difficulties of growing up, the Daily Express reported. The programme was developed by Primary teacher Karan Hopkinson to make bra fitting less scary and embarrassing. Karan, who is school primary curriculum leader at ...

  • Report MI5 Tried to Recruit Woolwich Murder Suspect

    British police have arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism who was reportedly a friend of one of two suspects in Wednesday's brutal murder of a British soldier on a London street. The friend, identified as Abu Nusaybah, was arrested Friday night, immediately after giving a television interview to the BBC about suspect Michael Adebolajo. In the interview, Nusaybah claimed ...

  • 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 ...

  • Breaking Two men charged with endangering an aircraft after Pakistan flight diverted over UK

    Two men have been charged with endangering an aircraft after a Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet was diverted mid-flight over ...

  • David Cameron launches anti-terror task force to tackle extremism

    David Cameron is launching a new terror task force to crack down on extremism in the wake of the horrific murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, Downing Street has confirmed.The Cabinet-level group, which will also bring in intelligence and police chiefs when needed, will focus on radical preachers who target potential recruits in jails, schools, colleges and mosques.It will monitor trends in ...


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The Corporation [DVD]

The Corporation [DVD]

Like Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11, a film with which is its inevitably compared because of their temporal proximity and similar political stances, The Corporation probably wont tell you anything terribly new. But, it does compact a great deal of complex information into ... ...

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  • Can Crystal Palace rise again

    Championship play-off final between Watford and Crystal Palace, the south London club whose fortunes over recent decades amount to one of London football's more vivid and varied stories. Having married into a Palace family, I've taken a heightened historical interest in all those surges, slumps, unequal top flight struggles and spectacular giant killings. Though never securely among ...

  • After the McAlpine libel case maybe we need a time limit on damages

    Sally Bercow and other tweeters, does response time figure? Digitally damned, then digitally sorted in a trice. Shouldn't 100,000 in damages and costs, too, be ruled by the ...

  • Learn about new wellbeing centre today

    , Reporter People worn down by the daily grind are being invited to learn more about a new wellbeing centre opening in the summer. Visit Epsom's market place this Sunday to meet some of the team behind the Wellbeing Centre, which will be part of the Longmead Community Centre. The centre will focus on enhancing wellbeing and supporting independent living and offer everything ...

  • London to Brighton walk follows in fathers footsteps

    A Hampton man walked in his father's footsteps by completing a mammoth charity trek 50 years to the day of his father's feat. Bryan Searle walked 55 miles from London to Brighton to raise money for Diabetes UK and the Alzheimer's Society. The 49-year-old was joined by his Surrey County Council colleagues and left Westminster Bridge at 11pm on Friday, May 10 - the same ...

  • Stars gather for Morecambe and Wise plaque

    A blue plaque commemorating a comedy duo whose career and friendship lasted more than 40 years was put up in front of a showbiz audience. Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, also known as Morecambe and Wise or Eric and Ernie, worked together in variety, radio, film and television from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The Heritage Foundation replaced a plaque at Teddington Studios ...

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