Police stations attacked by gangs
BBC News
The flames were extinguished and eight people have been arrested Clarendon College in Sherwood Rise was fire bombed. Fire crews extinguished the blaze, but the building has been seriously damaged The Golden Fleece public house on Mansfield Road and the …

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Britain's in crisis: the real causes of chaos on streets
CITY A.M.
Equally tragically, most of the older rioters would never have any hope of going to university, regardless of cost, such is their educational poverty. What they wanted is free money and free goods and so they helped themselves. …

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Tributes paid to celebrity chef
Kent Online
Mr Bukht, who was born in Wales of an Indian father and Welsh mother but lived in Canterbury, was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Kings College, London, where he read history. He started his broadcasting career as a trainee at the BBC and …

Manchester marks Rutherford centenary
BBC News
Until the end of October, Mosi is hosting an exhibition that celebrates the pioneering work of Rutherford, much of which was carried out while he was the Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester. Visitors will be able to see a …

How gangs have taken the place of parents in urban ghettoes
The Independent
The growing acceptance of this culture has helped create cases such as Alex Mulumba, a 15-year-old who was stabbed to death in 2006, leaving his father to say that his boy, apparently a diligent student, had "wanted to go to college and do electrical …

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London riots spark shock and gloating around the world
Telegraph.co.uk
The hardline Iran newspaper claimed that the violence was carried out by students who were forced to drop out of university because of the rise in university tuition fees. Hojjatoleslam Hossein Ebrahimi, the vice-Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's …

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Ian Harwood
Telegraph.co.uk
Born at Petersfield, Hampshire, on August 29 1931, Ian Harwood was educated at the Pilgrims' School in Winchester, which provides choristers for Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College. He later recalled: "I soon became acquainted with Palestrina, …

Norwich team-mates helped me settle – Pilkington
BBC News
… Steve Morison have all progressed up the football pyramid in recent years, but Pilkington admits he did not have to work as hard as some. "I escaped the tyre-fitting and the brick-laying, I was at college pushing a pen around, but it was a good place.

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Liverpool residents urged to stem trouble
BBC News
Students at the University of Liverpool who live in flats above shops have been moved to temporary accommodation outside the city centre. On Tuesday, Paul Brant, deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, said he wanted to see people "imposing a form of …
Major community clean up underway after violent riots break out in South LiverpoolClick Liverpool

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Soldier guilty of raping teenagers
The Independent
Haynes raped the girls after abducting them from the streets of the town and also attacked a University of Glamorgan first year student after breaking into halls of residence. The Royal Logistics Corp lance corporal, who was based at Buckley Barracks, …
Soldier guilty of rape and kidnapBBC News
Soldier guilty of Freshers' Week rapeNews Wales

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