2014年9月1日 星期一

2014-09-02 U.K. Spotlight

  The Argus   
Calls for pub to be closed after series of offences  The Argus
A POPULAR pub at the centre of allegations regarding drunk-and-disorderly behaviour, sexual assault, under-age drinking and Class A drugs could be closed. Sussex Police officers said that the way Harbour View in Wellington Road, Portslade, is being run ...


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Call Putin's bluff – he will not cut off Europe's gas  Financial Times
In Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale, two tailors promise to make an emperor a suit that is invisible to unwise people. When the emperor greets his subjects in his new clothes, only a boy has the good sense to cry out: “But, he isn't wearing anything at all!

   

  BBC News   
Neanderthal 'artwork' found in Gibraltar cave  BBC News
An engraving found at a cave in Gibraltar may be the most compelling evidence yet for Neanderthal art. The pattern, which bears a passing resemblance to the grid for a game of noughts and crosses, was inscribed on a rock at the back of Gorham's Cave.

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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
After what happened to Jennifer Lawrence, I'm relieved to be over 40  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Never have I been so glad to be over 40. Poor Jennifer Lawrence is not so lucky. Pictures of her all buffed in the buff (I looked. I'm sorry. Didn't you?) have been flashed around the world at Twitter speed. They were taken on her mobile phone and snaffled, ...


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America's allies have come to rely excessively on the US to guarantee their ...  Financial Times
The people who prepare President Barack Obama's national security briefing must be wondering what to put at the top of the pile. Should it be the Russian assault on Ukraine, or the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) in Iraq ...


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Major quarantine and experimental vaccines to curb Ebola  New Scientist
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is raging out of control. Known cases have topped 3000 – with the true number thought to be two to four times that – and they are climbing exponentially, doubling every 35 days. The World Health Organization warns of a ...


   


Philip Larkin: our brilliant and most misunderstood poet  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
A new biography of Philip Larkin puts paid to the clichéd and erroneous idea that you can know a man through his writing. From the Sunday Telegraph. Before summer started and the rains came, I went to Oxford to see Peter Hitchens give a sermon.

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  BBC News   
Antarctic coastal waters 'rising faster'  BBC News
Melting ice is fuelling sea-level rise around the coast of Antarctica, a new report in Nature Geoscience finds. Near-shore waters went up by about 2mm per year more than the general trend for the Southern Ocean as a whole in the period between 1992 and ...


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A dart at the heart of the class system  Financial Times
Is there any colourful area of UK working-class life that has not yielded to the middle and upper classes? Pop musicians are more likely now to come from fee-paying schools than social housing. The latest citadel to be stormed is darts. Yes, darts, the game ...


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  The Guildford Dragon NEWS   
Dragon Interview: Harry Aldridge – Ukip's Parliamentary Candidate for Guildford  The Guildford Dragon NEWS
Have you heard of Harry Aldridge? Probably not – but the chances are that, unless you determinedly switch off to all things political, you will – because he is the prospective parliamentary Ukip candidate for Guildford. And, if you needed reminding, next year's ...


   

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