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  • Floods devastate UK Lake District; Ireland 23 Nov 2009 08:57 GMT
    ... By SCOTT HEPPELL The Associated Press - Published: ... following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens ... rescued scores more after an unprecedented deluge. British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped ...

  • United Kingdom - Government shelve animal tax on farmers 23 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... United Kingdom - Government shelve animal tax on farmers ... Government, writes WMN London Editor Matt Chorley. Ministers have courted controversy since outlining the so-called ... of it becoming law before the General Election which must be held by June 3. ...

  • UK police refer 4 British lawmakers to prosecutors 23 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... (11-23) 09:00 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Four British lawmakers could face criminal charges over the ... and other perks outraged voters struggling through Britain's worse recession since World War II. Leaked ...

  • 4 UK lawmakers could face charges over expenses 23 Nov 2009 17:30 GMT
    ... (11-23) 09:32 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Four British lawmakers could face criminal charges over the ... and other perks outraged voters struggling through Britain's worse recession since World War II. Leaked ...

  • UK begins inquiry on Iraq war 23 Nov 2009 19:20 GMT
    ... (11-23) 10:31 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- A panel investigating Britain's role in the Iraq war begins questioning ... role in a conflict that left 179 British soldiers dead and triggered massive public protests. ...

  • Leaked UK documents detail Iraq chaos 23 Nov 2009 01:10 GMT
    ... LONDON: Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime ... a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday. Britain's Sunday Telegraph published details of private statements ... British lawmakers voted in 2003 to approve UK involvement — that Britain would join the ...

  • •Police targeted in N. Ireland bomb attack 23 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT
    ... Ireland -- which is part of the United Kingdom -- and one was arrested across the ... of sectarian violence in the province. Two British soldiers, Cengiz "Pat" Azimkar, 21, and Mark ... who want Northern Ireland to leave the UK and become part of the Republic of Ireland. "Dissident ...

  • Police targeted in N. Ireland bombing 23 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... Ireland -- which is part of the United Kingdom -- and one was arrested across the ... of sectarian violence in the province. Two British soldiers, Cengiz "Pat" Azimkar, 21, and Mark ... who want Northern Ireland to leave the UK and become part of the Republic of Ireland. "Dissident ...

  • Mop up underway in UK after floods 23 Nov 2009 01:50 GMT
    ... Mop up underway in UK after floods Clean-up efforts are underway in ... over Cumbria as torrential rains swept across Britain and Ireland. The Environment Agency said 65 ...

  • The top ten Irish Christmas traditions 23 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... For information on Irish family crests, the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland is the Republic of Ireland's authority on all heraldic matters relating to Ireland. Interest ...

  • A hung Parliament would be disastrous for our debt 23 Nov 2009 12:35 GMT
    ... David Cameron may have rebuked him gently yesterday, but Kenneth ... that the fiscal crisis is such that Britain cannot afford to have a general election ... many countries, not least the US and UK. Fiscal deficits are swelling across the western ...

  • Take-Off or Holding Pattern? Prospects for the Global Economy, Address by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, to the Confederation of British Industry Annual Conference, London  23 Nov 2009 15:46 GMT
    ... International Monetary Fund, to the Confederation of British Industry Annual Conference, London November 23, 2009 ... global factors at play here in the United Kingdom. There are some positive developments—the overall outlook ... economies. Here, the threats are greater, the politics are more complicated, and the machinery of ...

  • Britain Surveys Damage from Record Floods 23 Nov 2009 19:20 GMT
    ... of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain triggered floods in the mountainous Lake District ... are checking the safety of 1,800 bridges. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised the rescue ... the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the United Kingdom. Cockermouth, a market town 330 miles ...

  • UK charges four over terror plots 23 Nov 2009 03:54 GMT
    ... ArticleData Array ( [Article] => Array ( [article_id] => ... Array ( [article_id] => 1137917 [headline] => UK charges four over terror plots [abstract] => ... The fifth man was released without charge. Britain reduced its national terror alert status in ...

  • Clean-up underway in Britain after floods 23 Nov 2009 05:15 GMT
    ... A woman looks at the River Nith that caused ... Dumfries, south-west Scotland on November 22, 2009. Britain's flood-hit northwest braced yesterday for more devastation ... euros, 82-165 million dollars), the Association of British Insurers said. Meanwhile a search was underway ...


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