Rod Stewart considering moving back to Britain for kids
October 8th, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 8 (ANI): Rockstar Rod Stewart is preparing to bid adieu to the US and move back to Britain.Rod, 65, and pregnant wife Penny Lancaster, 39, consider Britain schools better and ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown voted third worst Prime Minister since World War II by academics
August 3rd, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 3 (ANI): Former Labour leader Gordon Brown has been named the third worst Prime Minister since World War II, a survey by more than 100 leading academics revealed.According ... Read more...
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Gordon Brown’ chances of knighthood ruined?
May 16th, 2010 - 2:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 16 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may miss a chance to earn knighthood after his recent statement following his exit from the top post.The ex-leader said ... Read more...
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Its “squeaky bum time” for Tory leader Cameron: Sir Alex Ferguson
April 28th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 28 (ANI): Manchester United manger, and staunch Labour Party supporter Sir Alex Ferguson has criticized Tory Leader David Cameron, saying it was a "squeaky bum time" for him.With pre-election ... Read more...
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Atletico desperate for first Madrid derby win in 10 years
November 5th, 2009 - 7:12 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Nov 5 (DPA) If a week is a long time in politics, as former British prime minister Harold Wilson once famously said, then just how long is 10 years in ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Three British MPs were KGB agents: MI5 Book
October 6th, 2009 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct. 6 (ANI): The first authorised history of British intelligence agency MI5 has confirmed that three Labour parliamentarians were Soviet agents, but it could not be proved whether they passed on ... Read more...
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Britain secretly offered 14-mn pounds to Gaddafi for withdrawing support to IRA
October 5th, 2009 - 6:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 5 (ANI): Britain secretly offered to pay 14 million pounds to Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for withdrawing support to the Irish Republican Army.The Independent reports that the deal, worth ... Read more...
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Wilson’s dubious contacts made him a potential suspect for M15
October 3rd, 2009 - 2:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 3(ANI): A British newspaper has claimed that former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who was one of the most prominent British politicians of the latter half of the 20th century, ... Read more...
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Harold Wilson thought BBC had a ‘hippie problem’
December 30th, 2008 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Former British prime minister Harold Wilson attacked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for “over-lavish” spending and thought it was influenced by hippies, according to secret papers made public ... Read more...
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Soviet Union could have overrun UK in the 1970s
December 30th, 2008 - 3:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec.30 (ANI): Secret British Government papers have revealed that the country would have been overrun by the Soviet Union in the late 1970s.
According to The Telegraph, the secret government papers ... Read more...
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BBC was beset by hippie influences in the 1970s, say Govt. documents
December 30th, 2008 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 30 (ANI): The BBC was reportedly beset by hippie influences during the 1970s, an attitude which almost cost it its television license fee.Secret Government documents from the 1970s reveal ... Read more...
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Former UK PM Wilson ”may have quit because he had Alzheimer’’s
November 11th, 2008 - 6:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov.11 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson may have decided to quit office because he was suffering the early stages of Alzheimer''s disease, a new research has suggested.
At the ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Indian Ocean islanders lose bid to return home
October 22nd, 2008 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 22 (IANS) Britain's highest court of law Wednesday dashed the hopes of thousands of people of returning to their Indian Ocean home of Chagos Islands after being expelled some 40 ... Read more...
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Browns govt polled most unpopular in Labour history
July 3rd, 2008 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 3 (ANI): A recent poll conducted by a British daily has found that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is heading the most unpopular Labour Government ever, and that his personal ... Read more...
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