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March 08, 2012
A private funeral was held today for lead singer of The Monkees Davy Jones, as confirmed by his publicist.
Relatives including his wife and the daughters they raised together were present at the ceremony, which was held close to the Florida home of the family. The singer's publicist said that Jones' ...
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Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees
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Shows, Events & Gigs
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March 01, 2012
Police have launched 'Operation Twist' in Cambridgeshire as a direct response to a worrying 200-plus burglaries that have been reported in specific corners of the rural country.
Detectives assigned to Operation Twist believe that the burglaries are linked and that thieves are travelling to rural Cambridgeshire as they believe they can ...
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Tags: Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, South Cambridgeshire
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World News
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February 23, 2012
Author JK Rowling has this week announced her plans to complete her first adult novel, explaining that it will be "different" to any of the releases in Harry Potter
series she became famous for.
Her book is to be published across the map, although neither a date nor a title has ...
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Tags: Harry Potter, JK Rowling
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World News
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February 16, 2012
UK Music site RnBXclusive.com was shut down on the Thursday by the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
An official takedown notice now on the site warns visitors who have downloaded music from RnBXclusive.com that they could be slapped with 10 years in jail and an unlimited fine. The Serious Organised Crime Agency ...
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World News
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February 09, 2012
Three different theatre versions of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic The Great Gatsby will be seen later in 2012, it has been announced.
The Great Gatsby will open at Wilton's Music Hall in April before Gatz's opens at the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End in June. Lastly, a musical ...
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Tags: Baz Luhrmann, London, Moulin Rogue, The Great Gatsby, West End
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Shows, Events & Gigs
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February 02, 2012
The Colombian Red Cross has confirmed how at least seven people were killed and a further 70 injured after an attack on Tumaco police station, located in the south of Colombia.
A motorbike that was covered in explosives smashed into the police station, which is located in Tumaco city centre. Police ...
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Tags: Colombia, Farc, Marxism, Red Cross
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World News
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January 26, 2012
An Afghan mother yesterday gave birth to six babies at a hospital located in Mazar-e-Sharif, a city in the north of Afghanistan.
The woman wasn't aware of the fact that she was carrying such an amount of children and hadn't received fertility treatment. Medical experts say that the mother turned up ...
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Tags: Afghanistan, Mazar-e-Sharif
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World News
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January 19, 2012
The widow of an ex-England footballer has stated that the FA has failed to accepted how the 'beautiful game' contributed to her the death of her beloved husband.
Jeff Astle, a player for Midlands-based outfit West Bromwich Albion throughout the 60s and 70s, passed away 10 years ago. The coroner ruled ...
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Tags: FA, Fifa, Jeff Astle, West Bromich Albion
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World News
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January 12, 2012
Joran van der Sloot yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering a 21-year-old woman from Peru at his long-awaited trial, which took place in the South American country's capital - Lima.
Van der Sloot first went on trial at the start of the year for the killing of Stephany Flores, a young lady ...
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Tags: Joran van der Sloot, Lima, Peru
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World News
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January 05, 2012
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott today apologised for any offence that was possibly caused by the comments she yesterday made on Twitter, following claims that they were racist.
Abbott said that she didn't mean to generalise after writing that: ''White people love playing 'divide & rule'". The comments came as a ...
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Tags: Diane Abbott, labour party, twitter
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World News