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| Weird or What? |
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Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:21 pm
Weird or What? - s1
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| How We Met: George Galloway & Matt Forde |
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Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:40 am
How We Met: George Galloway MP & Matt Forde
Adam Jacques
4th August 2013
independent.co.uk
George Galloway, 58
First elected as a Labour MP in the 1987 General Election, Galloway (left in picture) is renowned for his combative style; he fiercely critiqued the 2003 Iraq War. Following his expulsion from the Labour Party, he became a founding member of the Respect Party in 2004, and was re-elected as an MP in the Bradford West by-election in March 2012. He lives in Bradford with his wife
When my Talksport show used to finish at 1am on a Friday, I'd hand over to the next person by talking up their show with them. Sometimes it was a little embarrassing if I was handing over to a crazed right-wing fanatic, so it was hard to muster much enthusiasm for it – until along came a young man called Matt Forde, and right away I knew he was special. He was funny and he had real subjects to talk about.
I started to listen to him on my car radio as I drove home, and I was impressed by...
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| GG on 10 O'Clock Live tonight |
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Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:18 pm
He's doing his show at the Edinburgh festival today, so I'm sure it will be mentioned at some point.
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| Weight Loss Challenge! |
Author:
Twirley ::
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Sat Aug 03, 2013 1:56 am
Well, it's useful in a morning when you don't have much time but I think to get real benefit you have to do it at least twice, probably 3 times.
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| Big Brother Australia - 2013 |
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Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:36 am
Big Brother Australia - 2013
This playlist is updated daily. There's no show on Sundays. If you click where it says 'playlist' on the player, you can select the episode you want easily.
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| Wikileaks |
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Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:31 pm
Julian Assange: 'I miss the outside world'
After 400 days living in asylum, the WikiLeaks chief invites WHO to a tour of his London haven.
Michael Crooks
August 1, 2013
WHO magazine
Julian Assange occupies one room, but sleeps in a renovated bathroom in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Inviting WHO into the Knightsbridge haven, a short stroll from Harrods department store, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks shared his daily routine, his fears and the difficulties of living in the embassy.
“I couldn’t sleep because of the Harrods loading bay and the cops always doing shift changes outside,” says Assange, 42. “And the quietest room is the women’s bathroom, the only room that’s easy to sleep in. So I thought I’d try and somehow get hold of it and renovate it. Eventually, somewhat reluctantly, the staff relented. They ripped out the toilet. They’ve been very generous.”
Since June 19 last year, Assange has been living in exile at the Ecuadorian Embassy, avoiding an extradition order to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over two alleged sexual assaults. But Assange, who vehemently denies the accusations, says,...
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| Charity Commission to investigate Viva Palestina |
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Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:04 pm
Charity Commission opens inquiry into George Galloway charity
Abi Rimmer,
Third Sector Online,
30 July 2013
Accounts for Viva Palestina, a charity set up by the Respect Party MP in 2009, are long overdue, according to the regulator The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry into a charity launched by George Galloway, the Respect Party MP for Bradford West.
Viva Palestina, also known as Lifeline for Gaza, was founded as a fundraising appeal by Galloway in January 2009 to provide food to help alleviate suffering in Gaza. It registered as a charity in April 2009 after receiving advice from the commission. The charity’s entry on the Charity Commission website shows that it has not filed accounts with the regulator since it registered. Its accounts for the year ending 31 July 2010 are almost 800 days overdue, according to the commission’s website.
A spokeswoman for the commission said the regulator had opened a statutory inquiry into the charity on 6 June this year. One of the issues being examined by the inquiry was the charity’s overdue accounts, she said. The spokeswoman said she could not comment further on the inquiry...
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| The Framley Examiner |
Author:
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Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:21 pm
local news as it should be!
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| Mel Smith |
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Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:07 pm
John Lloyd - 2013-07-20 - On Mel Smith's death
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| Islam |
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Fri Jul 19, 2013 6:21 pm
How Islamic inventors changed the world
From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them
11 March 2006
independent.co.uk
1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.
2 The...
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