2015年8月27日 星期四

2015-08-28 U.K. U.K.


Telegraph.co.uk
   
Lord Winston says House of Lords should be cut by half   
Telegraph.co.uk
The House of Lords should be shrunk to around half its size, one of the chamber's most eminent peers has said. Professor Lord Winston also criticised the appointments system as "really, really quite wrong" and in need of reform. The doctor and ...
Tory Douglas Hogg among raft of political cronies and failed MPs given peerages   Daily Mail
David Cameron announces 26 new Tory peers amid 'cronies' claims   Belfast Telegraph
MPs caught in expenses row awarded peerages   The Times (subscription)
The Independent   
The Guardian   
Herald Scotland   
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BBC News
   
Lancashire tap water boiling 'to end soon'   
BBC News
Hundreds of thousands of people in Lancashire should no longer need to boil their tap water to make it safe within the coming week, water company United Utilities says. More than 200,000 homes are still affected after the discovery of a parasite at a ...
Tap Water Partly Restored After Bug Outbreak   Sky News
Tap water in parts of Lancashire declared safe following parasitic outbreak   AOL UK
Boil water warning lifted by United Utilities in number of Lancashire areas   Blog Preston (blog)

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BBC News
   
Could 'Corbynmania' swing the London Labour mayoral race?   
BBC News
The number of people registered to vote for Labour in London rose from about 40,000 in May to 120,000 this month. Some 6,000 of those have been struck off the voting list either because they were counted twice or they were not "real" supporters ...
PIX AND PUB Nicola Sturgeon praises Jeremy Corbyn for 'getting people talking'   Telegraph.co.uk
Jeremy Corbyn: Labour membership will determine policy, not me   The Guardian
Mirror Labour leadership hustings: The key points made in the debate   Mirror.co.uk
Irish Independent   
Financial Times   
Toronto Sun   
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Scottish Daily Record
   
Islamic State hacker from Britain killed in Syria by air strike   
The Globe and Mail
A 21-year-old hacker from Birmingham, England, who tapped into U.S. military networks and was a central figure in the Islamic State militant group's online recruitment campaign has been killed in Syria by a U.S. air strike, according to three senior U ...
British computer hacker killed in US drone strike   Irish Examiner
Hacker Killed by Drone Was 'Secret Weapon'   Wall Street Journal
Reports: Islamic State hacker killed in US airstrike   Washington Post
Sky News Australia   
VICE News   
expressandstar.com   
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Harborough Mail
   
Andy Burnham: Councils should control benefits budget   
Harborough Mail
The benefits budget should be under the control of local councils, Andy Burnham has said. The Labour leadership candidate said he would devolve the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) budget to local authorities if he were Prime Minister.
Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham targets seats in Surrey and Hampshire   The Weather Space
Andy Burnham asks £125 a head for Manchester fundraising event   The Guardian
Andy Burnham warns extending Right to Buy could 'destroy social housing forever'   Mirror.co.uk

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Comment: Dictionary updates are no biggie, really   
Oxford Mail
THERE are some schools of thought that may be shocked to find the likes of “bants” and “hangry” creeping into the online OED. But really this is “NBD” (no big deal). The whole point of language is that it's one of the most effective ways of ...

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BBC News
   
UK net migration hits record high   
BBC News
Net migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March, the Office for National Statistics has said. The figure - the difference between the number entering the country and those leaving - is more than three times higher ...
Ifs and buts: The Tories should forget their impossible immigration pledge and ...   The Independent
David Cameron 'must stop immigration dishonesty' as record numbers move to Britain   Mirror.co.uk
Record high net migration deals blow to PM's aims to reduce arrivals   Belfast Telegraph
Daily Mail   
Telegraph.co.uk   
Metro   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Victim's sister: The DWP know they are killing people   
Telegraph.co.uk
The deaths were among people on Incapacity Benefit and its replacement Employment and Support Allowance – which are paid to people deemed too ill or disabled to work. The DWP published the figures on people died shortly after being declared 'fit for ...

Almost 2400 people declared 'fit to work' were dead within TWO WEEKS   Daily Mail
Thousands die shortly after being deemed fit to work, figures show   PPP Focus.com
Sickness benefit tests 'should be reviewed due to disturbing deaths data'   expressandstar.com

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Daily Mail
   
Foreign Secretary pays respects after Quebec plane crash   
ITV News
It has emerged that a British family killed in an air crash in Canada are from Milton Keynes. Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, offered his condolences to the families of those killed. This terrible incident has taken the lives of all on board ...
Quebec seaplane crash: Death of teenagers 'devastating for all who knew them'   AOL UK
Hewitt family killed in Canada plane crash were on last day of Quebec holiday   Daily Mail
British Family killed in Canada seaplane crash named   BBC News
Telegraph.co.uk   
The Times (subscription)   
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Herald Scotland
   
Nicola Sturgeon reveals 'anger' at sexist portrayals of women in the media   
Herald Scotland
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said she gets angry about the potential impact sexism in the media has on women and girls. She said challenging the sexist portrayal of women was something she felt "incredibly strongly" about. Delivering the ...

Edinburgh TV Festival comes to a close   South Cotswolds Gazette
Remote Scotland gets extra £9m funding to support superfast broadband vision   PPP Focus.com
SNP needs to explain what it means   The Times (subscription)

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