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October 7th, 2008
A PLASTERER has scooped a £62,000 lottery win. Rene Darroux, 52, from Leyton, plans to spend some of his winnings from the Euromillions draw on a trip to Las Vegas. He said: "Winning this money is such a relief. I have a mortgage and being self ...
October 8th, 2008
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- London's 2012 Olympics organizers may scrap plans to build temporary arenas for sports such as basketball and shooting to save money as the global financial crisis squeezes the 9.3 billion-pound ($16.3 billion) project. ``The ...
October 8th, 2008
London's 2012 Olympics organizers may scrap plans to build temporary arenas for sports such as basketball and shooting to save money as the global financial crisis squeezes the 9.3 billion-pound ($16.3 billion) project. "The credit crunch is hitting ...
October 8th, 2008
A 33-year-old construction worker plunged to his death at a site next to Hemmingways casino in East London, police said on Wednesday. Spokesman Captain Stephen Marais said the man was working on the second floor of the building when he fell. "It is ...
October 8th, 2008
AN extra £860,000 is due to be spent on restoration work at historic Valentines mansion, and Redbridge taxpayers are footing the bill. The 17th Century building in Ilford's Valentines Park is due to be finished in January, but Redbridge Council say ...
October 7th, 2008
Last Saturday's rally by the Campaign to End Child Poverty deserved wider coverage than it received. The campaign's work and research findings, published last week , are a reminder, for those who needed it, that economic hardship and a widening chasm ...
October 9th, 2008
Yesterday, some of Britain's leading experts on burial grounds met up at a conference organised by the Institute of Conservation, to discuss what can be done to save our last resting places from falling into total disrepair. Is this a new problem ...
October 13th, 2008
I think that businesses run badly go bust, but governments run badly simply charge more tax. However, banks seem to have made the switch form the former to the latter. Furthermore, the two options for running "our" new banks are not good: 1) The ...
October 7th, 2008
Munawar Ahmed, 32, of Greenwich, London, has won the top prize in the British Sari Story competition 2008 for a British Bridal Sari. Munawar, who has been married for nearly 13 years herself, designed a cream silk sari scattered with sparkle and ...
October 8th, 2008
A 33-year-old construction worker plunged to his death at a site next to Hemmingways casino in East London, police said on Wednesday. Spokesperson Captain Stephen Marais said the man was working on the second floor of the building when he fell. "It ...
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