2014年9月18日 星期四

2014-09-19 U.K. Spotlight

  Daily Mail   
Penny Lancaster bans Rod Stewart and the boys from sugar 'because it's more ...  Daily Mail
To many he will always be the archetypal rock star; the man who strutted his way to gravel-throated stardom with tight gold pants, a bouffant feather-cut and a seemingly endless trail of leggy blonde women in his wake. Today he still enjoys the trappings of his ...


   


Scots' choice: independence or sterling  Financial Times
If Scotland votes Yes to independence the knee-jerk response in the markets is easy to predict: sell sterling, sell UK equities, sell Scottish financials and short Spanish debt on Catalonia fears. UK gilts may offer a safe haven but this is not certain given ...


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Feedback: Ig Nobel prize for watching dogs urinate  New Scientist
FEEDBACK'S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out on 18 September at Harvard University by Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research. The prizes honour research that makes you laugh, then think: this year, largely ...


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  NW Evening Mail   
Barrow mum's terror after 5-year-old went missing from school  NW Evening Mail
A TERRIFIED mum says she was begged not to phone the police by teachers after her five-year-old son went missing from his Barrow school – on a mission to “buy an alien”. 50067891b005.jpg. Little Alfie Quest, who has learning difficulties, wandered a busy ...


   

  BBC News   
Slippery banana study wins Ig Nobel  BBC News
Research that investigated why bananas are slippery when you step on them has won one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes. The spoof awards that have become almost as famous as the real Nobels were handed out at their annual ceremony at Harvard ...


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Deeper reform of housing finance is vital  Financial Times
Housing finance matters. In most high-income countries it matters more than any other form of finance. It was intimately related to the recent waves of financial crisis – far more so than the bugbear of public finance. We must rethink what we have been doing, ...


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  Express.co.uk   
'Curse of Strictly' strikes again: Sunetra Sarker 'splits from husband'  Express.co.uk
ACTRESS Sunetra Sarker appears to have been hit by the 'curse' of Strictly Come Dancing - after suffering a failed relationship while appearing on the show. By: Annie Price. Published: Fri, September 12, 2014. Actress Sunetra Sarker splits from husband of ...


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The diplomacy of the Ukraine autonomy deal explained  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Diplomacy often looks like a precise, punctilious activity: dapper, discreet officials armed with quill pens and cucumber sandwiches crafting cunningly worded documents with multifarious shades of meaning. That's an important part of it. But peep behind the ...


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iColytes vs 'Droids in the battle of the smartphone  Financial Times
Choosing a phone these days is a decision that's tied up with one's identity. Do you stand for the ease-of-use and superior design of the iPhone, or do you prefer the unabashed freedom with a hint of possible disaster that comes with phones running Google's ...


   

  The Independent   
Scotland independence vote: Everything you ever wanted to know about life ...  The Independent
Would England, Wales and Northern Ireland still be known as the United Kingdom? It is hard to see what else to call it. The rUK (rest of the UK) abbreviation was a temporary shorthand during the referendum debate. Some people might satirically call it Little ...


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