2014年11月18日 星期二

2014-11-19 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
G20 summit: Leave your kayak and snake at home  BBC News
The last time it was held in Australia, in Melbourne in 2006, there were violent clashes between police and demonstrators. This conference, in Brisbane, will see Australia's biggest deployment of police and soldiers, and police have been given extended ...


   


Smoke and errors – Fed transparency and bank supervision  Financial Times
he Federal Reserve used to set monetary policy in rooms clouded by the smoke from Paul Volcker's cigars. Over decades the central bank has moved from revealing almost nothing of those closed-door discussions – not even its target interest rate – to today's ...


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  Mirror.co.uk   
I never knew my hunky boyfriend was born a girl but now we plan to start a family  Mirror.co.uk
Madly in love and convinced she had found the perfect man, one woman was shocked to learn her boyfriend's deepest secret - he was born a GIRL. And it is not difficult to see how Charlotte Urie, 20, had no clue that her handsome new beau, Kieran Moloney ...


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  BBC News   
Band Aid 30: Stars unite for recording session  BBC News
Stars including One Direction, Emeli Sande, Rita Ora and Ed Sheeran have recorded a new version of the Band Aid charity single in a studio in London. Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Chris Martin and Bono also sang on the reworked Do They Know It's ...


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The curse of weak global demand  Financial Times
avid Cameron, the UK prime minister, states that “red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy”. The lights are not as red as in 2008. Nevertheless, the difficulties caused by the fiscal austerity that his government ...


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  The Guardian (blog)   
Adrian Doherty: the lost star of Manchester United's class of 92  The Guardian (blog)
A team picture from the 1990 FA Youth Cup semi-final against Spurs. Adrian Doherty was man-of-the-match in both legs. Back row (left to right): Mark Bosnich, Ryan Giggs (Wilson), Darren Ferguson, Paul Sixsmith, Jason Lydiate, Sean McAuley. Front row: ...


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  BBC News   
Your pictures of Scotland: 7 - 14 November  BBC News
Trees in a park Eric Niven, from Dundee, was on his way to work on Monday when he stopped to capture the scene. If you want to let us know what you think of this week's pictures go to http://www.facebook.com/bbcscotlandnews; Beach Dusk falls over St ...


   


The nuclear gun is back on the table  Financial Times
never had much time for the Greenham Common women. As a mildly reactionary student of the 1980s, I regarded them – and their protest camp outside a British nuclear-weapons base – as silly and misguided. After all, decades of experience taught that ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk   
What's it like to win £13.8m when you're 26?  Telegraph.co.uk
In August 2000 26-year-old Dean Allen and his father were working for the same Essex printing firm. His girlfriend of three months, Louise Collier, was also employed there, in the company's accounts department. On Tuesday August 8 she became privy to ...


   


Complaints flood in over Sainsbury's Christmas in the trenches advert  Daily Mail
Hundreds of viewers have reacted angrily to the new Sainsbury's Christmas advert - released just two days ago - for its 'cynical' use of First World War imagery to promote the supermarket's brand. A total of 240 people have registered complaints with the ...


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