Nick Herbert, the MP for Arundel and South Downs and one of only a handful of openly gay Tory MPs, has been promoted to the shadow Cabinet by David Cameron as part of a reshuffle.
Mr Herbert only became an MP in 2005 and is seen as a rising star.
He lives in his constituency with [...]

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[When in doubt cry racism-ed]
AN ASIAN man who assaulted a young woman during a week of violent clashes outside a Muslim-owned dairy was sentenced to three months in jail.
But Nadeem Hussein, 24, of St Paul’s Road, Slough, was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the attack on 18-year-old Nicola Pegg in Windsor last [...]

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PLASTIC kerbs may sound like something found in a box of Lego - but they could be installed on real-life streets.
As part of Tameside council’s bid to save the planet, Envirokerbs could soon replace their concrete counterparts across the borough.
Parts of Ashton and Mossley have already seen tests for the environmentally-friendly new blocks.
Despite being 70 [...]

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A COUNCIL has been accused of `an abuse of power of nightmarish proportions’ after it took an Asbo out against a woman without checking whether the allegations against her were true.
The local authority at Manchester - nicknamed the Asbo capital of Britain - was told to review procedures and to pay the woman £2,000 compensation.
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A man who called for UK soldiers to be brought back from Iraq in body bags has been found guilty of inciting murder.
Mizanur Rahman, 24, of Palmers Green, north London, made the remarks at a protest about publication of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
At the protest, held near the Danish Embassy in London [...]

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Russia has officially refused a UK extradition request for Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said the constitution did not allow for the extradition of its citizens.
However, it said it would consider the possibility that Mr Lugovoi could be put on trial [...]

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Confectionery giant Cadbury is to plead guilty to six charges under food and hygiene regulations.
More than one million chocolate bars were recalled in the UK after salmonella was found in some products between January and March 2006.
The charges on Tuesday related to conditions at the company’s Marlbrook site near Leominster in Herefordshire.
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World wide top 10
Rank Nation/Region Number of billionaires Notes
1 United States 371
2 Germany 56
3 Russia 47
4 India 36
5 United Kingdom 34
6 Australia 30
7 Japan 27
8 Turkey 26
9 Canada 22
10 Brazil 18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires

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More than half of the leading figures in UK politics, law, medicine, business and journalism went to independent schools, research suggests.
A survey of 1,000 people for the Sutton Trust said the proportion had fallen only marginally in the past 20 years - from 58% a generation ago, to 53%.
However, among those who had [...]

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Five times more immigrants are given social housing than previously claimed, the Government has admitted.
Just weeks ago ministers insisted only one per cent of social housing is given to immigrants, in an attempt to quell widespread fears that they are treated better by local authorities than people born in Britain.
But after an investigation by ITV’s [...]

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A KEBAB house was closed and five takeaway workers arrested after an immigration swoop in the city centre.
Caroline Street, known by clubbers as Chip Alley, was closed off by police for the operation last night while Border and Immigration officers raided late night kebab houses, takeaways and chip shops.
The sweep aimed to find illegal workers [...]

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[What about spending this money on English people?-ed]
THOUSANDS of pounds are to be ploughed into helping immigrants adapt to life in Peterborough.
Many of the thousands of people who have moved to the city from places such as Poland, Lithuania and Latvia experience a culture shock when they arrive in the city.
But now a £19,000 scheme [...]

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ARCHBISHOP Pius Ncube believes Britain would be justified in invading Zimbabwe in order to rid it of President Robert Mugabe.
Ncube, the prominent Roman Catholic archbishop of Bulawayo, told London’s Sunday Times the deepening destitution in his country, including millions going hungry and the world’s highest inflation rate meant Britain would be right to act.
“I think [...]

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A ZIMBABWEAN sex beast who abused and impregnated a mental health patient in his care was starting a two-year jail term in the UK last night.
Evil Tawanda Sydney Machingura will be deported from the United Kingdom when he is released.
As he began serving his sentence, shocked MPs called for an urgent investigation into how he [...]

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A 28-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean asylum seeker has been charged with the attempted abduction of a toddler in Wales, United Kingdom following a dramatic televised nationwide hunt.
Mthokozisi Ndozo appeared before a magistrate in the Welsh capital of Cardiff on Tuesday after he surrendered to the police. A second man is said to be assisting the police with [...]

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A ZIMBABWEAN asylum seeker who stabbed his wife 5 times in revenge for her sleeping with his half-brother was on Friday morning jailed for life by a UK judge in Leicester, England.
Sheperd Maswanhise was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years and nine months before he is eligible for parole.
A jury of seven [...]

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BRITAIN summoned the Zimbabwean ambassador in London Tuesday to explain a newspaper’s apparent death threats against a British diplomat in Harare, calling the threats “shocking and absolutely unacceptable.”
On Tuesday Zimbabwe’s state-run Herald newspaper published an article by a columnist referring to British embassy political officer Gillian Dare as “the purse holder and financier” of [...]

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ZIMBABWE welcomed British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s impending resignation on Thursday, describing his departure as “good riddance”.
“He was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said the country’s deputy information minister, Bright Matonga.
“We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he (Blair) is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of [...]

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ZIMBABWEANS wishing to travel to the United Kingdom will have to dig deeper into their pockets following massive increases in the visa fees by the British Embassy.
The British Embassy increased its fees by between 115 and 180 percent in a move that is likely to affect thousands of Zimbabweans intending to travel to the UK.
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