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The Independent 21.10. 23:38
Millionaires are more likely than poorer people to buy Lottery tickets in the hope of winning huge jackpots, according to new research that overturns the conventional wisdom that most tickets are bought by those on benefits and the low paid. When... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 21.10. 23:37
Clare Short has described how "the elastic snapped" after repeated threats by the Labour whips' office, attempting to stop her speaking out on issues she felt passionately about, turned her into a "pariah". The former cabinet minister, writing in... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 21.10. 00:09
Clare Short angrily resigned yesterday as a Labour MP, condemning Tony Blair for "half truths and deceits" over the war on Iraq and accusing his Government of being "arrogant" and "error-prone". The former Cabinet minister furiously attacked the ... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 20.10. 11:55
Labour officials were unable to confirm reports today that the former cabinet minister Clare Short had resigned the party whip. Sky News reported that the MP for Birmingham Ladywood was to sit as an independent MP until stepping down at the next ... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 18.10. 23:46
A café chain is launching a coffee card so customers can pay for their shot of caffeine without having to fumble for change at busy times. Staff at Costa's 430 branches will swipe the pre-pay card in a machine, deducting the cost of purchases fro... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 17.10. 10:31
At the Birmingham Women's Hospital in September last year, three envelopes were handed to three sisters: Julie Owen, Pam Dugmore and Rosemary Moss. Anxiety was plain on the women's faces, for these small brown envelopes contained the results of a tes... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 16.10. 23:45
Ministers were accused of playing into the hands of the far right and of Islamic extremists as a Labour backlash grew against the Government's continuing focus on Muslim issues. Senior MPs and peers signalled their alarm at the furore triggered 1... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 13.10. 23:44
The house is plain - a nondescript, net-curtained dwelling among a row of equally mundane homes in a street identical to millions of others across Britain. Every day old ladies burdened with shopping bags and school children swinging satchels pass it... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 12.10. 23:39
Sion Simon, the MP turned spoof blogger, made a highly successful move from politics to journalism, and a rather less successful move back into politics. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a degree in economics he went to work f... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 11.10. 23:40
One man died and six others were taken ill in a rare outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in Birmingham. The source of the illness is thought to have been a man who drank untreated, unpasteurised milk. But health experts said the risk was "tiny" and m... [Artikel komplett lesen]