In a 91-word post on his blog for The Spectator, Liddle made reference to the case of two black teenagers jailed for plotting to murder a pregnant 15-year-old girl by throwing her into a canal.

Liddle describes the pair as "human filth" and continues: "It could be an anomaly, of course. But it isn't. The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African-Caribbean community. In return, ( Read more... )
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A shady businessman who was accused of paying a friend £20,000 to kill his wife by clubbing her and dumping the body in a swimming-pool walked free yesterday after being cleared of murder.

But the judge at Nottingham Crown Court said the allegation that he had arranged the murder was "probably essentially truthful". Colin Harrold, 35, was charged with putting out a contract to have his wife, Diane, murdered and being made to look like an accident.

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For small businesses, setting up a reliable and dependable email system is often a headache. For large organisations, running extensive email systems based around Microsoft Exchange or other business email programs can be time consuming and expensive.

Virtually all internet service providers include basic email with their business and consumer services, but these email accounts have limitations, such as small mailbox sizes or restrictions on the number of users. Another disadvantage ( Read more... )
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Arthur Jackson Hepworth, painter and architect: born Rotherham, Yorkshire 1 August 1911; married 1951 Anne Scott Stokes (died 1996; two sons, one daughter); died Taunton, Somerset 28 January 2003.

For long overlooked by the art world, Arthur Jackson Hepworth made a unique contribution to the modern movement in painting and architecture in the 1930s. Because of his early association with such luminaries as Dame Barbara Hepworth, J.L. (later Sir Leslie) Martin, Henry Moore, ( Read more... )
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Stephen Powell, a Mancunian aged 31, set up Ringpull Press because he saw a need to foster local literary talent. One of the first 'maiden' authors, Julian Roach, had written for television for 23 years - being one of the longest-serving contributors to Granada Television's Coronation Street - but had never written a novel.

When Mr Powell suggested he launch into prose, Mr Roach agreed. The result, Death Duties and Other Mysteries, was published by Ringpull this month.

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Charles Stanley analyst Sam Hart said: "In the run-up to Christmas all food retailers do well as people are prepared to splash out. The revamped Clubcard scheme has boosted performance and will continue to for the next nine months."

Tesco stepped up its campaign to entice shoppers and surprised analysts by sending £67m of Clubcard vouchers to customers at the start of the month rather than in February when they are normally dispatched. Clubcard points were doubled in August, meaning the ( Read more... )
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The mystery writer Richard S. Prather will forever be associated with one of the top-selling, hard-hitting and raciest paperback lines of the years after the Second World War: Fawcett Gold Medal Books ("The Gold Medal seal on this book," read the helpful back-cover strapline, "means it has never been published as a book before").

Prather was discovered by Gold Medal's legendary editor Bill Lengel, who spent the early 1950s building up a team of writers who virtually created ( Read more... )
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The Prime Minister's wife makes the surprising endorsement in next month's issue of Harper's Bazaar, because of Campbell's charity work.

Campbell is a global ambassador for the White Ribbon Alliance, of which Mrs Brown is a patron and which campaigns to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women in developing countries. Mrs Brown says: "The Naomi Campbell I had heard about was beautiful, successful, a bit frightening, even a bit out of control. The Naomi Campbell I ( Read more... )
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Analysis of 7,000-year-old bones dug up at Herxheim in south-west Germany suggest the region was a centre for cannibalism at a time when the first European farming society may have been collapsing.

Marks on bones show that bodies were skinned and had their flesh removed using techniques almost identical to those for butchering animals and one researcher suggested that some of the victims could have been spit-roasted.

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Police fired tear gas at scores of hooded youths in central Athens, as several thousand demonstrators marched to commemorate the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

The rioters smashed bank windows, overturned trash bins and hurled rocks and fire crackers at riot police. Authorities said 48 people were detained for public-order offenses. At least five protesters were injured in the clashes.

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It was only after Woods made his extraordinary apology, promising to be a better family man, that the companies involved came out with their full-hearted backing. Not so long ago it was the wronged wife or husband who would be forced to publicly announce support for an errant spouse. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the billionaire golfer was forced into his confession by the army of PR and sponsorship advisers, desperate for him to repair his squeaky-clean image as swiftly ( Read more... )
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Plastic Logic, makers of the Que, is launching the reader at the Las Vegas CES trade fair, America's largest annual consumer electronics jamboree. A European launch is scheduled for the middle of next year. A spokesman for Que said if the product is as successful as hoped, Plastic Logic will float by 2011. It has not yet been decided whether this would be in London or on Nasdaq.

The Que, an A4 sheet of plastic no heavier than a magazine, is powered by electronic circuitry using plastic ( Read more... )
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Earl Woods liked to recall the day in 1976 when his 10-month-old baby boy Eldrick, already nicknamed "Tiger", picked up a putter and whacked a ball into a practice net in the family garage in California. The rest was to become golfing history.

But the former US army Green Beret always insisted that he was not one of those sporting fathers who had dollar signs for eyeballs and pushed his son too hard, too soon. "My purpose in raising Tiger was not to raise a good golfer," he said. "I wanted ( Read more... )
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It was on Tuesday morning, four days after carabinieri broke down the door of Meredith Kercher's room in Perugia and found her body in a pool of blood, that the city police chief made the announcement: Miss Kercher's murder was solved; "the case is closed". After days of intense forensic work and interrogations, the three people accused of killing her had been arrested in early-morning raids.

And within hours we knew more about them than we could ever have wanted: their naff ( Read more... )
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Polls at the end of last month had suggested Brown's Labour government was narrowing the gap with David Cameron's Conservatives, with the surveys saying an election would result in a hung parliament and no party in overall control.

But the latest opinion polls gave Cameron double digit leads that would see him end more than a decade of Labour rule and enjoy a parliamentary majority of between 20 and 50 seats.

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"The letter was sent to editors in response to many years of the royal family being hounded by photographers on the Queen's private property," her press office said.

There were no details of the contents of the "private and not for publication" letter, sent by a royal lawyer on the queen's behalf, or when it was sent.

But sources said the royals were now ready to take legal action if photographers took pictures of them while they were ( Read more... )
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In his first response to Labour's decision to highlight the privileged backgrounds of the Tory hierarchy, the Conservative leader dismissed the strategy and insisted he did not hide where he had gone to school, despite revelations that the vast majority of the privately educated members of the Shadow Cabinet had failed to mention their schooling on the Conservative Party website. Conversely, all but one of the 15 state-educated shadow cabinet members detailed their schools prominently.

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It will announce a review into the future of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) as part of a series of cost-cutting measures which should be announced early next year.

Unions say privatising the RFA, which employs 2,000 people and runs 16 supply ships, is a "done deal" that could result in the fleet being manned with cheap labour from countries such as the Philippines.

They also fear that new ships will be built in China or India rather than Britain.

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A list drawn up in Downing Street and seen by The Independent on Sunday shows crucial constituencies with strong support for the Green Party among the 112 target seats the Tories need for a majority. Senior Labour strategists believe that they can target the 31 seats ? mainly in central London, Brighton and university areas ? with environmental messages and attempt to deny Mr Cameron victory.

Most of the constituencies are Labour's most vulnerable, but a handful are Lib ( Read more... )
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