Provides the latest RSS feeds for UK Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page London Mercury.com http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/cat/6224488e41617199/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400 30 Mail Sent for Registration Confirmation. A confirmation email has been sent. Please activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent in your mail ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214615404/scat/6224488e41617199 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:31:23 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214615404/scat/6224488e41617199 a rise in the number of unemployed to 2,518,000. Most worryingly, there was a rise in the number of long-term unemployed, which really hurts. There are now 900,000 people who have been unemployed for more than a year - 35.8 per cent of the total. This includes over half a million youngsters under the age of 25.When the Coalition took office in May 2010 there were 800,000 long-term unemployed, or ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214614573/scat/6224488e41617199 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:51:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214614573/scat/6224488e41617199 Occasionally we would like to send you emails detailing specific offers, from us or carefully selected partners. If you would like to receive these then please tick the appropriate boxes ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214614572/scat/6224488e41617199 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:51:32 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214614572/scat/6224488e41617199 We've found an existing account with the given email. To link the social network identity with your site account, please provide the site password for the provided ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214613863/scat/6224488e41617199 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:09:33 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214613863/scat/6224488e41617199 Last night Denmark won the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with 'Only Teardrops' a pacey love song performed by 20-year-old Emmelie de Forest. They were 47 points ahead of runners up Azerbaijan. the UK's entry Bonnie Tyler managed only 23 points. So do you think Denmark deserved to ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214613527/scat/6224488e41617199 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:19:18 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214613527/scat/6224488e41617199 A couple of hours earlier, 114 Tory MPs had voted against the Queen's Speech in protest over an EU referendum. The discussion reportedly ended with an extraordinary attack on the "mad, swivel-eyed loons" in the grassroots of the party who had forced the backbenchers to rebel against the Government.Lord Feldman denies it is he who said those words, and the newspapers, who ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607670/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:50 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607670/scat/6224488e41617199 I'm sure Angelina Jolie meant well when she wrote about her double mastectomy in The New York Times. Her doctor followed up the article with a blog which explained Jolie's treatment in more detail, including the fact that she was back at work only four days after surgery. The doctor said she was pleased to find the actor "in good spirits" and surrounded by storyboards for the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607671/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:49 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607671/scat/6224488e41617199 I forget the things that make it a peculiarly difficult art form. These mainly boil down to two things - people and weather. I am not the world's most organised fellow and seem to have a knack for starting hidden camera shows as winter draws in. This means nobody is on the streets, it's dark by four and everyone is miserable. For series one of Fool Britannia, I thought I'd got it ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607672/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:48 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607672/scat/6224488e41617199 This was particularly evident in the front-page jamboree orchestrated by my local paper last week to mark Norwich City's thumping 4-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion and the guarantee of continued top-flight status in 2013/14.Did it begin by remarking the fact that thousands of Norwich fans have managed to keep their sporting dreams intact over the close season? No, the headline merely ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607674/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607674/scat/6224488e41617199 Occasionally we would like to send you emails detailing specific offers, from us or carefully selected partners. If you would like to receive these then please tick the appropriate boxes ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607675/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:47 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607675/scat/6224488e41617199 Tomorrow the equal marriage Bill is back in the Commons - and it's about time it got the celebratory fanfare it deserves. So far we've heard the shouting from the Tory right. Ministers are gritting their teeth and wishing it was over. The Prime Minister has gone to ground. Yet this Bill is no embarrassment to be rushed through: it is a cause for celebration and I hope MPs across the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607676/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:46 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607676/scat/6224488e41617199 Baz Luhrmann has successfully managed to hack pretty much all the poetry and beauty of FScott Fitzgerald's prose out of his new version of The Great Gatsby. He has, though, maxed up the 1920s Wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) chic. The film's costume designer, Catherine Martin, has really gone to town, basing the 500-piece wardrobe on 1920s catalogues for Brooks Brothers, outfitter of ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607677/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:45 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607677/scat/6224488e41617199 There are lots of things that have been making me feel old this week. David Beckham retiring from football at the great age of 38. The character in Claire Messud's new novel The Woman Upstairs who says: "The age of 37 [is] the time at which you have to acknowledge once and for all that... you'll probably never be president, or a millionaire..." Realising that I am one of those ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607678/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:44 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607678/scat/6224488e41617199 In Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, a children's computer game for teaching maths, there is one level called the "Pizza Pass". You have to cook a pizza for three trolls, who usually spit it out, saying: "There's something on there that I don't like!" You keep trying different ingredients, until you find the combination that satisfies all the trolls, who are ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607679/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:42 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607679/scat/6224488e41617199 Nothing sells newspapers like a combination of depravity and self-righteous indignation. There can be no dispute about the depraved behaviour of the gang of Oxford men just convicted of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 11. They were found guilty of 23 rapes, 15 conspiracies to rape and offences including trafficking, sexual exploitation and having sex with a child. The detail of the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607673/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:41 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607673/scat/6224488e41617199 A bloke spends just two months in jail, and then plans a new career helping prisoners turn their lives around. Praise-worthy or opportunistic? The sight of Chris Huhne - a chubbier chap than the match-fit fellow who received an eight-month sentence for perverting the course of justice - telling us he had been through a "humbling and sobering experience" made me feel slightly ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607680/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:39 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607680/scat/6224488e41617199 But, with the sun out, wild plants are growing with amazing speed. We are drowning in allium ursinum, also known as wild garlic, and allium triquetrum, or "three-cornered leek". You can smell their deliciousness in the air. The leaves of the wild garlic can be wrapped around goat's cheese for a satisfying starter. Three-cornered leek has a pretty white flower and you can chop the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607681/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:38 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607681/scat/6224488e41617199 Support for the UK Independence Party across Britain has risen to its highest level, consolidating its position as the third most popular party in the country, according to a new poll ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607793/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:35 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607793/scat/6224488e41617199 The cascade of revelations in recent months showing multinational companies doing a huge amount of business here and yet paying virtually no corporation tax has provoked widespread public demands for something to be done. But people tend to be rather hazier on what that "something" should ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214606953/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:37 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214606953/scat/6224488e41617199 World View: After the fiasco over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, people around the world are rightly sceptical about claims of gas ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607094/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:10:21 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607094/scat/6224488e41617199 That means being as aggressive and imaginative as - and preferably more aggressive and imaginative than - the tax specialists who work for accountancy firms and the companies they advise. Inevitably, this is a competition at which lower-paid public servants are always going to be at a disadvantage to their rivals in the private sector, but HM Revenue & Customs have one thing in their favour, ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607400/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:10:19 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607400/scat/6224488e41617199 Such, right now, is the unhappy situation of Barack Obama, assailed on three separate counts, all falling beneath the umbrella charge of over-mighty and deceitful government. The first relates to the death of four American officials in last September's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The second concerns the secret seizure by the Justice Department of journalists' phone ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607105/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:09:56 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214607105/scat/6224488e41617199 Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift the ... http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214605371/scat/6224488e41617199 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:13:24 -0400 http://www.londonmercury.com/index.php/sid/214605371/scat/6224488e41617199