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World News tagged with britain

UK Did Not Want to Hurt Ties With Libya: Letters
World  (tags: Lockerbie bomber, prisoner transfer deal, Libya, Britain, Scotland, U.S., politics )

Rosemary
- 82 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain did not want to offend Libya by excluding the Lockerbie bomber from a prisoner transfer deal and was told his death in a Scottish jail would damage relations with Tripoli, official documents showed on Tuesday. Continues >
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Britons Outraged Over US Conservatives Criticism of British Health Care
World  (tags: britain, nhs, conservatives, lies, socialist, healthcare, government, public, option, republicans, corruption, dishonesty, cover-up, americans, abuse, illness, disease, treatment, prevention, medicine, protection, safety )

Tom
- 98 days ago - voanews.com
Britons are outraged and speaking out in response to comments among Conservatives in the United States attacking Britain's national health care system as socialist, evil and Orwellian. Such criticism has sparked an outpouring of NHS support in Britain.
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World's Oldest Man, WWI Veteran Dies
World  (tags: Goverment, Society, Britain, WW1, Vets, war, military, oldest, death, troops )

Dee
- 128 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONDON - The world's oldest man, 113-year-old World War I veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday after spending his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict
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ON THIS DAY - 1964: 'Great Train Robbers' Get 300 Years
World  (tags: on this day, britain, uk, england, robbers, jail, court, great train robbery, train )

Chrissy
- 221 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history have been imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery". Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes after holding up the night mail trai
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Toy Soldiers
World  (tags: usa, Labour Party, Britain, children, death, humanrights, iraq, society, middle-east )

Madalena
- 593 days ago - uruknet.de
on reflection the proposal by the British Government to have children taught in the art of weapons training and military drills, becomes an even more insidious plan, as this will only be applied to those children in the state funded "comprehensive" school
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The Nurse Who Hated Old People So Much He Killed Them | the Daily Mail
World  (tags: nurse, hospital, elderly, old, patients, insulin, lethal, britain, uk )

Cissy
- 629 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A nurse who murdered four elderly patients by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin had a pathological hatred of old people.
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BBC NEWS | UK | | Nurse Guilty of Killing Patients
World  (tags: colin norris, nurse, hospital, insulin, murder, kill, court, patients, uk, britain )

Cissy
- 629 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A nurse has been found guilty of murdering elderly patients in his care at two Leeds hospitals. Colin Norris, 32, had denied killing the four women at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital in 2002 by injecting them with insulin.
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Police Discover More 'Human Bones' Inside Chamber of Horrors at Jersey Children's Home
World  (tags: haut de la garenne, jersey, island, uk, britain, children abuse, paedophilia, pedophiles, horrible, remains, torture, death, police, investigation )

Cissy
- 630 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Police excavating a former Jersey children's home where children were subjected to horrific abuse have found what could be more human remains, officers said today. Forensic teams searching Haut de la Garenne found items at the same site where they
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Six More Bodies Feared Buried in Jersey Home - Jersey/Britain
World  (tags: jersey, children, abuse, britain, care, dog, sniffer dog, skull, deaths, bodies )

Chrissy
- 638 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Six more bodies may be buried at a former children's home in Jersey where a youngster's remains were found by detectives investigating allegations of widespread child abuse on the island, police said yesterday. The remains were found under thick concrete
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ON THIS DAY - 1965: Countdown to Gambian Independence
World  (tags: britain, gambia, africa, independence, 1965, on this day )

Chrissy
- 644 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Duke and Duchess of Kent have celebrated the end of 300 years of colonial rule in Gambia with 35 chiefs. At midnight Gambia will become the smallest - and 37th - sovereign state in Africa and the last of Britain's West African colonies to gain indepen
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ON THIS DAY - 1942: Singapore Forced to Surrender
World  (tags: ww2, singapore, britain, war, surrender, troops, 1942, on this day )

Chrissy
- 647 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
British forces in Singapore have surrendered unconditionally to the Japanese seven days after enemy troops first stormed the island. A war correspondent of the Japanese News Agency in Singapore reported that fighting ceased along the entire Malayan front
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ON THIS DAY - 1971: D-Day Delivers New UK Currency
World  (tags: uk, britain, currency, decimal, pound, 1971, on this day )

Chrissy
- 647 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The British Government has launched a new decimal currency across the country. The familiar pound (£), shilling (s) and pence (d) coins are to be phased out over the next 18 months in favour of a system dividing the pound into units of ten, including half
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ON THIS DAY - 1945: Thousands of Bombs Destroy Dresden
World  (tags: britain, usa, germany, ww2, bombs, dresden, deaths, 1945, on this day )

Chrissy
- 649 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
British and US bombers have dropped hundreds of thousands of explosives on the German city of Dresden. The city is reported to be a vital command centre for the German defence against Soviet forces approaching from the east.
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ON THIS DAY - 1956: 'Cambridge Spies' Surface in Moscow
World  (tags: uk, britain, spies, russia, soviet union, moscow, on this day, 1956 )

Chrissy
- 651 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Two British diplomats who vanished in mysterious circumstances five years ago have reappeared in the Soviet Union. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean handed a statement to four representatives from the press in a hotel room overlooking Moscow's Red Square.
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ON THIS DAY - 1975: Tories Choose First Woman Leader
World  (tags: uk, britain, politics, government, prime minister, margaret thatcher, woman, on this day, 1975 )

Chrissy
- 652 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The British Conservative Party has chosen Margaret Thatcher as its new leader. She will be the first woman to head a British political party after a landslide victory over the other four - male - candidates.
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