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Four bridges collapse, main roads are blocked and hundreds are evacuated as 12 inches of rain falls in Cumbria in 24 hoursA policeman swept away and killed during the devastating flooding that hit north-west England was trying to save lives by directing motorists off a bridge across a swollen river.PC Bill Barker, who woul (Read More)
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The mood in Brussels is bleak as experts agree politicking has triumphed over ambition in the appointment of two new leaders, writes Ian TraynorEurope's hopes of translating its economic power into global political clout have suffered a severe setback as a result of the timid choices on new leadership made this week, analys (Read More)
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Think a paradise break in the Indian Ocean will cost a small fortune? Not on Zanzibar where a clutch of new boutique hotels offers cool style and seriously good valueFragile thing holiday serenity. Zanzibar has the full deck of tropical idyll cards – squeaky white powder beach, azure ocean, mellow trade winds and I'm trying (Read More)
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Paul and Rachel Chandler make a statement at gunpoint which is broadcast on Channel 4 newsThe British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates said today they could be killed within a week.Paul and Rachel Chandler were filmed for Channel 4 News on Wednesday and the footage was broadcast tonight.The Chandlers disappeared on Octobe (Read More)
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The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates appeared in television footage tonight showing them surrounded by gunman and pleading for help to free them before they are killed.Looking nervous and subdued, Paul and Rachel Chandler said their captors were "losing patience" and feared they could die within a week.The couple (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commissionIf ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, this is it. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is looking for a new chief executive. Its chairman (Read More)
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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources.To the dismay of key ministers, who wanted Brown to push for Britain to take an economic por (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argument?It's breakfast time in the biggest of Copenhagen's Scandic hotels. Over the obligatory croissan (Read More)
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British troops could be withdrawn from Germany by a future Tory government if other Nato states agreed to take over the UK's commitments there, the shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, has said.Fox said it is "no longer necessary" to keep 20,000 military personnel in Germany, nearly 70 years after the end of the second world (Read More)
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Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start. It's the better-off who benefit most from t (Read More)
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Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxesIf someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find to say about Lady Ashton is that she's nice. Sometimes she's just nice, other times she's nice in co (Read More)
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Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of (Read More)
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French football fans are red-faced over Les Bleus' World Cup qualification at the expense of Ireland"What does it mean to be French?" mused a jocular Jean-Michel Aphatie on primetime television shortly before his national side took on Ireland in the Stade de France. "It's loving France so much that you support the players e (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Sport:
• World ruling body launches probe into Athletics South Africa• Ministry claims 800m world champion will keep gold medalThe International Association of Athletics Federations said today it is still working with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and future (Read More)
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By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democraticThe fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented. Most laments focus on a single obvious fact: by winning a new term through fraud at the polls, President Hamid Karzai has weakened his legitimacy, (Read More)
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