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Romanian and Bulgarian immigration to the UK will stretch schools but will have a lesser impact on housing and the NHS, says a report.
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Figures due to be released later are expected to show the Swansea measles epidemic is continuing to grow, after more cases were reported over Easter.
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By , on March 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Frankfurt’s airport closed, trains stopped running under the English Channel, and the French army was ordered to help clear roads – all because of a sudden dump of oddly late snowfall on Western Europe. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Frankfurt’s airport closed, trains stopped running under the English Channel, and the French army was ordered to help clear roads – all because of a sudden dump of oddly late snowfall on Western Europe. Less prepared for the kind of heavy snow that regularly hits northern and eastern neighbours, France, Germany, Britain and Belgium struggled yesterday to keep moving amid the frosty, blustery conditions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man arrested in connection with a car crash that killed a rabbinical college student, his pregnant wife and their baby faced a charge of vehicular manslaughter on Thursday, police said. Julio Acevedo was to appear in front of a judge on Thursday night in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn. He had arrived in New York earlier Thursday after agreeing to be returned from Pennsylvania, where he had surrendered to police in the parking lot of a Bethlehem convenience store a day earlier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese government official says four people were killed and eight more were injured in an attack in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang while the national legislature is meeting to install new leadership. Regional spokeswoman Hou Hanmin said on Friday she could not provide the ethnicity of the victims or the suspect who was detained after the attack on Thursday in downtown Korla. She is in Beijing for the National People’s Congress. She says police are investigating to find out if there were accomplices involved. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Acting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says Hugo Chavez’s body to be permanently displayed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms John Brennan to head the CIA. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta city officials, Falcons owner agree on financing terms for new $1 billion stadium . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate moves toward vote on CIA nominee John Brennan after concession from White House. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: US fully capable of defending against North Korean ballistic missile attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Vicky Pryce, former wife of disgraced British ex-minister Chris Huhne, was convicted on Thursday of perverting the course of justice by taking penalty points on her driving licence in 2003 for a speeding offence he had committed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Kenya’s presidential election was plunged into further disarray on Thursday after the party of one of the leading candidates alleged vote-rigging and demanded that the count be halted. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Several mainland artists, members of the nation’s top political advisory body, have lamented the poor overseas showing of state-sanctioned performance troupes amid competition from groups funded by the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which is banned on the mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Dancer ‘didn’t want acid used in attack’ MOSCOW – A leading Bolshoi dancer who has made a speciality of playing villains admitted in court yesterday that he ordered an assault on the famed Russian ballet troupe’s artistic director, but denied ever planning the use of acid. Appearing before a Moscow district court, leading Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko claimed he did not tell the man who carried out the attack to fling acid into the face of Sergei Filin, who is now battling to save his eyesight. AFP Jordan: Bin Laden relative ‘seized by CIA’ <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A public housing tenant accused of laundering HK$6.7 billion over 41/2 years said she worked under the instructions of a mainland woman, who was a babysitter turned factory owner. Lam Mei-ling, 61, testified yesterday that she had been told the billions of dollars came from mainland factory owners and her job was to transfer the money to other mainland factory owners. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chiang, 51, is expected to walk out of Lo Wu Correctional Institution where her husband Gino Yu will be waiting for her, said her sister, lawmaker Ann Chiang Lai-wan, vice-chairwoman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China should consolidate its ties with Russia and Central Asian countries amid simmering territorial disputes with its eastern and southern neighbours, a political adviser says. Xi Jinping, who will become president next week, will make his first visit as head of state to Russia this month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An information technology organisation whose contract with the government is facing an early end may have been affected by its sister organisation’s apparent support of Henry Tang Ying-yen in his failed bid for chief executive, a board member says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s former security and customs chiefs both hope the two-can export limit on infant formula will be temporary. New National People’s Congress deputy Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong, former secretary for security, and new Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference delegate Timothy Tong Hin-ming, former customs and excise commissioner, spoke out in Beijing yesterday on the sidelines of the plenary sessions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Report plays down immigration fears
Romanian and Bulgarian immigration to the UK will stretch schools but will have a lesser impact on housing and the NHS, says a report.
Continue reading Report plays down immigration fears
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