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United Kingdom

Type: Country

Name: United Kingdom

population: 59,889,408

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 7 reports

David Cameron

Gay marriage: Grassroots Tories attack Cameron

CONSERVATIVE activists have attacked David Cameron’s support for gay marriage, claiming it made winning the next general election "virtually impossible". In a letter to the Prime Minister, more than 30 present and former local party chairmen warned that ... [Published The Scotsman - 2 hours ago]

Entities: David Cameron, Gay, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Bob Neill, Liberal Democrats

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 9 reports

Shop vacancies reach a new high

According to the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor for May 2013, footfall in April was 1.0% higher than a year ago, an improvement on the 5.2% fall in March. This is the strongest performance since December 2011 when footfall increased 5.7%. The ... [Published CCR Magazine - 2 hours ago]

Entities: United Kingdom, British Retail Consortium, Resilience

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Labour party lied over true worth of North Sea Oil admits former Chancellor

General The explosive admission by the former senior Cabinet Minister came in an interview with the editor of Holyrood magazine Mandy Rhodes.$ Speaking candidly, the senior Labour party figure who was Chancellor from 1974 to 1979 said that the rest of ... [Published NewsnetScotland.com - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Scotland, North Sea Oil, Admission, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Westminster

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 5 reports

Rightmove plc

House prices have reached new highs according to property website showing a sign of confidence is returning to market

A 2.1 per cent month-on-month rise with new record prices set in southStrongest start to the year since 2004 in terms of asking pricesThe north saw the strongest monthly increase pushing prices to £152,689Yorkshire and Humberside and East Midlands only ... [Published Mail Online UK - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Rightmove plc, Property, London, Wales

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 reports

Police applaud 'positive' talks as an antidote to community tensions in Northern Ireland

A PSNI chief said he hopes there will be greater public confidence in the police on the back of talks aimed at quelling community tension. Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton described the two days of talks held in Cardiff by police, politicians, ... [Published Belfast Telegraph - 2 hours ago]

Entities: George Hamilton, Belfast (United Kingdom), Northern Ireland, Police

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 3 hours ago - 22 reports

Treasury warns on savings protection

A UK Treasury analysis paper will say an independent Scotland could have "significant difficulties" providing protection for savers.The Treasury paper is due to be launched by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore and economic secretary to the Treasury, Sajid ... [Published BBC - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, John Swinney, United Kingdom

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 4 reports

European Union

Scotland's tough call: stay in the UK, or stay in the EU?

The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, speaks during question time in the Scottish parliament. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA The Scots are accustomed to having their views ignored in the British political system. In 18 general elections since the second ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, European Union, United Kingdom

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 4 hours ago - 22 reports

The UKs continent vote

The British Tories are up in arms against David Cameron. One after another conservative leaders are voicing their concern over the ongoing debate and direction of the party, and squarely blame the British prime minister for opening a Pandora’s box with ... [Published Khaleej Times - 4 hours ago]

Entities: David Cameron, European Union, Leadership, United Kingdom, Jeremy Hunt (Politician)

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 6 hours ago - 20 reports

Former Google exec says he has 100,000 emails showing how 'immoral' company avoids paying UK tax

A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds. Barney Jones, who worked for ... [Published The Independent - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Google Inc, Barney Jones, Taxes, Eric Schmidt, United Kingdom

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 12 reports

Breaking News: One dead, two hurt in plane crash

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.The victim, who was a passenger in the plane, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident at Caernarfon Airport ... [Published Ormskirk and Skelmersdale Advertiser - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Plane Crash, Piper Cherokee, Bangor (Wales, United Kingdom)

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 6 reports

Woman found dead in city garden

The death of a woman whose body was found in a city garden is being treated as unexplained, police said. An investigation was launched after the body was discovered in the garden of an address in Edinburgh's Warrender Park Road at around 9am.A Police ... [Published Wharfvalley - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Police, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Scotland

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 12 reports

Record View: He may be Mr Nobody in Scotland but Nigel Farage deserves to have his say

SCOTS don't need any reminding about the evils of fascism by a man whose right-wing agenda is corroding British politics.Better Together don't want Nigel Farage but he's up for the fightREUTERS/Olivia HarrisNIGEL Farage is a nobody in Scotland. UKIP ... [Published Glasgow Sunday Mail - May 18 2013]

Entities: Nigel Farage, Scotland, UKIP UK Independence Party, Protesters

Quotes

Mr Cameron wrote: "I respect your right to be lower tax jurisdictions. I believe passionately in lower taxes as a vital driver of growth and prosperity for all. But lower taxes are only sustainable if what is owed is actually paid and if the rules to achieve this are set and enforced fairly to create a level playing field right across the world."

PM warns tax havens to abide by rules [Published Herald Scotland - 3 mins ago]

"I am pleased the UKUK Government are following the example of the Scottish Parliament in legislating on this important equality issue."

Pension rights concerns over same-sex marriage legislation [Published Herald Scotland - 3 mins ago]

"Unless productivity improves, expansion of tourism could detract from, rather than add to, aggregate productivity. Current settings for tourism are not proving sufficient to address these challenges. The departuredeparture tax proposal therefore offers an opportunity to instigate a package of tourism policy change targeted directly at assisting the sector to address its two key challenges and return to a value growth path."

Govt dumped departure tax plan [Published stuff.co.nz - 3 mins ago]

...not to rely on excessive monetary expansion, with pointed remarks that "Japanese problems, in the end, are mainly of a structural kind," and that "it is, therefore, especially important to present a reliable path to return to sustainable public finances and … to tackle structural challenges."

Japan's '3 Arrows' May Run Into German Wall [Published CNBC - 5 mins ago]

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Blogs

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Syrian Troops Push into Strategic Rebel-held Town [Published The China Blog - 1 hour ago] (BEIRUT) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to ...
Syrian Troops Push into Strategic Rebel-held Town [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - 1 hour ago] (BEIRUT) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to ...
What A Terrible Year So Far It's Been For BRICs... [Published Clusterstock - 1 hour ago] In the latest Bedtime with BTIG note, strategist Dan Greenhaus passes along this chart of various markets and how they've performed year to date. One thing that really stands out is how bad the performance has been from the BRICs. The two worst ...
Mauritania Through a Portuguese Artist's Eyes [Published Global Voices Online - 1 hour ago] Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro ( @Isabelfiadeiro ) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery . Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania with images of daily life in the West ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: Former Google employee on tax deals [Published BBC News Video - Business - 9 hours ago]
Surveillance for Sale: 'UK exports spyware to B... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - 18 hours ago]
VIDEO: River Thames speeding crackdown [Published BBC News Video - UK - May 18 2013]
Too Rich To Pay: UK giants slash tax bills amid... [Published Russia Today - YouTube - May 18 2013]
VIDEO: NHS 'falling into chaos and crisis' [Published BBC News Video - Health - May 18 2013]

Press Releases

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