2015年6月13日 星期六

2015-06-14 U.K. Spotlight


Daily Mail
   
'Reducing our Armed Forces to a ferry service for migrants is madness'   
Daily Mail
This was an image for our time: aboard a British warship, the amphibious support vessel Bulwark, a sailor shakes hands with one of 1,200 economic migrants rescued from waterlogged boats off the coast of Libya. Congratulations. The man has made it.

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Female sex offenders: Why older women have sex with young boys   
Telegraph.co.uk
A 28-year-old man who had sex with a 14-year-old girl has just been jailed. It happened four times while he was employed as a school bus monitor. When you hear that statement, chances are you think of a vile sex offender – a man who abused his position of ...


   


Fox 59
   
Mom involved in vicious Beech Grove Walmart fight says confrontation started ...   
Fox 59
Both women have been banned from the store–now one of them is giving her side of the story. A woman named Amber Stephenson called the Smiley Morning Show on WZPL to talk about the fight, which happened Thursday night at the store. Amber told the ...


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BBC Sport
   
David Coulthard: Short-changed drivers not enjoying F1   
BBC Sport
From seeing the reaction on social media following the race, I know I am not the only person who did not like what I saw at the Canadian Grand Prix. The number of radio messages about fuel saving during the race really annoyed me. It seems to me that this ...


   


Financial Times
   
Two dismal economic plans for Greece   
Financial Times
There are now two proposals on the table — one from the creditors and one from Greece. What they have in common is that neither of them will fix the Greek economy. They do not even pretend. Both deserve to be rejected flat-out. Whenever European ...


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Telegraph.co.uk
   
France is better than Britain, but we're scared to admit it   
Telegraph.co.uk
I've just got back from France. And, you know what, I think maybe the French have it right. This thought struck me as I drove off the ferry at Folkestone. In France, we'd stayed in a beautiful chateau for little more than the cost of a Travelodge. We'd driven over a ...


   


The Himalayan tea train that's running out of steam   
BBC News
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway once took precious tea from the foothills of the mountains to the teapots of the world. But it's become a victim of the colossal inefficiency of the state-run system and is facing a slow extinction through neglect, says David ...


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Daily Mail
   
Caring for elderly parents is testament to the hallmark of a civilised society   
Daily Mail
One night in 2004, when my 84-year-old mother Jena was staying with me, I handed her a handful of almonds and some hot milk on a tray. How we both laughed. You see, this is what she used to make me eat and drink every morning during exam weeks ...


   


The Guardian
   
Black children are not even safe from police violence at a pool party   
The Guardian
Over the weekend, a video surfaced that showed police in McKinney, Texas violently controlling kids on a suburban street and brandishing a gun at a young black girl. After I heard about it, it took a few hours before I could screw up the courage to watch it, ...


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Airbus unveils 'Adeline' re-usable rocket concept   
BBC News
Airbus, which leads the production of Europe's Ariane rocket, has developed a concept that could make future vehicles partially re-usable. Code-named "Adeline", the system would see a booster's main engines fly themselves back to Earth after a launch.

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