10 November 2010
Following the judgment, the Department of Agriculture immediately took down the list of those farmers who received more than €1.9 billion in subsidies from the EU last year and said they were taking legal advice. Farmers organizations welcomed the decision and ICMSA secretary general Ciaran Dolan and said that the EU “had been trampling on [...]
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10 November 2010
Mariah Carey won’t hire a nanny when her baby is born. The 40-year-old singer – who announced she is expecting her first child with husband Nick Cannon last month – doesn’t plan to have any help when her new arrival comes. She said: “I’m going to be hands on, ‘I wouldn’t be like, ‘Oh, I’m [...]
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09 November 2010
Alexandra Burke hates being single. While her family praise her for not needing a man, the 22-year-old singer admits she was reduced to tears when she recently went on holiday on her own. She said: “My sister calls me the girl that never needs a man. She says, ‘You may as well just marry yourself.’ [...]
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09 November 2010
Stoke v Birmingham Stoke boss Tony Pulis made four changes to his side for the visit of Birmingham to the Britannia Stadium as the Potters looked to halt a run of four straight defeats in the Barclays Premier League. With Ryan Shawcross suspended after being sent off in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Sunderland, Danny Higginbotham [...]
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09 November 2010
Lindsay Lohan has been moved to a sober house. The troubled actress has successfully completed her first phase of treatment at the Betty Ford rehabilitation centre so is now staying at a property near the main facility, where she is receiving “residential day treatments”. While she is there, Lindsay is able to enjoy supervised activities [...]
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07 November 2010
Over the past three weeks over four hundred people have died in Haiti due to a cholera outbreak. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that the particular strain of cholera that is implicated in the outbreak matches certain strains found in South Asia. Leading infectious disease experts in the field say [...]
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07 November 2010
David Beckham is planning to launch his own range of underwear. The soccer player – who has modelled briefs for Emporio Armani – wants to follow his wife Victoria into the fashion world once he has retired from the sport. A source said: “David is 35 and knows he won’t be playing soccer forever. But [...]
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06 November 2010
US President Barack Obama began his 10-day trip to Asia on a sombre note today, paying tribute to the victims of the devastating terror attacks that tore through Mumbai two years ago. Speaking at the Taj Mahal hotel, a target of the 60-hour siege that killed 166 people across the Indian city, the president vowed: [...]
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06 November 2010
Pop star Lily Allen was today in hospital battling blood poisoning just days after suffering her second miscarriage, her spokesman confirmed. The 25-year-old singer was said to be responding well to treatment for septicaemia and thanked fans for their messages of support. Allen was around six months pregnant when she lost her baby earlier this [...]
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06 November 2010
BBC journalists could strike over Christmas and the new year in their bitter dispute over pensions, it was revealed today as programmes continued to be disrupted amid a 48-hour walkout. Sources said that leaders of the National Union of Journalists will consider calling industrial action over the festive break unless there is a breakthrough in [...]
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