2014年11月14日 星期五

2014-11-15 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
National Grid unveils plans to bury cables underground  BBC News
Pylon cables will disappear from some of the most beautiful areas of England and Wales as part of a move by National Grid to reduce the impact of energy transmission on the landscape. The wires will be put underground - at higher cost, but lower visual ...


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Ebola blood and drug trials to start in December  New Scientist
Drugs for Ebola just moved a step closer. Two antiviral drugs will finally be tested amid the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, starting next month, Médecins sans Frontières announced today. Blood from survivors of the disease will also be given to people ...


   


I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from ...  Washington Post
I knew the day would come, but I didn't know how it would happen, where I would be, or how I would respond. It is the moment that every black parent fears: the day their child is called a nigger. My wife and I, both African Americans, constitute one of those ...


   

  BBC Sport   
Red Bull back rivals' calls to open up F1 engine development  BBC Sport
Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner has threatened to join with rival teams to tear up restrictions on engine development from 2016. Renault, Ferrari and Honda want an extra step of development during the season to try to catch Mercedes. Talks over the issue ...


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Dapper Laughs Cancelled By ITV After Complaints And Social Media Backlash  Huffington Post UK
An ITV spokesman said: "We have given careful thought to the recent criticism of the character Dapper Laughs, which has focused on his activities outside of the ITV2 programme, whose content was carefully considered and complied. We have taken the ...


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In the Middle East, female bodies are a battleground  Financial Times
fter a talk I gave in London a woman in the audience approached me: middle-aged, tall, and wearing a designer dress. Although she agreed with me on various issues she could not understand why I was critical of military takeovers. “In the Middle East a coup ...


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  BBC News   
Day in pictures: 10 November 2014  BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) annual Speaking at the CBI's annual conference, British Prime ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Lutfur Rahman: is he the biggest liar in London?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
One of the clearest signs someone's definitively on the ropes is when they start to deny all reality. Lutfur Rahman, the extremist-linked mayor of Tower Hamlets, is in that position now. He has spent the last week claiming that the recent Government audit report ...


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Viscount Stansgate returns to prove blue blood is thicker than red  Financial Times
More than half a century after Tony Benn disclaimed his peerage, it is easy to forget what a momentous struggle it was at the time. A Labour MP for Bristol South East, Benn became Viscount Stansgate on his father's death in 1960 and was immediately barred ...


   

  Gatestone Institute   
Germany: Hooligans Declare War on Islamic Radicals  Gatestone Institute
Hooligans from rival football clubs have temporarily set aside their mutual hatred for each other in order to unite against a common enemy: radical Salafists who are bringing Islamic Sharia law to Germany. After police predicted that more than 10,000 ...


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