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• John Prescott defends Chinas role at Copenhagen climate summit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  • Former deputy PM attacks US envoys stance at talks • Negotiator at Kyoto rejects Obamas view of 1997 deal John Prescott has defended Chinas role in the climate change summit, saying the blame for its flawed outcome must lie with the United States and Barack Obama. The former deputy prime minister helped ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• The worst book of 2010? Place your bets on Vernon Kay

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 587
  Competition is increasing for the worst book expected in 2010. For reasons explained in a previous post, I’m expecting a bit of a car crash when it comes to Boyzone’s efforts to “finish” Stephen Gately’s novel, which is being posthumously published. Others – clearly – are dreading Ian McEwan’s climate ...
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• Tory tax allies subsidised by the taxpayer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Taxpayers Alliance accused of using charitable arm to claim gift aid on donations from wealthy backers A campaign group which claims to represent the interests of ordinary taxpayers is using a charitable arm which gives it access to tax relief on donations from wealthy backers, the Guardian has learned. The ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Parliamentarians call for disclosure of Prince Charless letters

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Letters to ministers on subjects ranging from education to ecotowns had earlier this week been ordered to remain secret Senior parliamentarians are calling for the government to lift a cloak of secrecy surrounding the Prince of Waless direct lobbying of ministers, as fresh details of his letter-writing emerged. The ...
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• John Prescott speaks to George Monbiot at the Copenhagen summit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  John Prescott, who was involved in the Kyoto treaty negotiations, tells George Monbiot he sees a familiar standoff developing between rich and poor nations in Copenhagen George Monbiot
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• Letters: Shifting sands of Iraq war justification

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  It would seem from Tony Blairs new interview ( Blair: I would have invaded Iraq anyway , 12 December) that he is now claiming he was convinced of the need to remove Saddam Hussein for many reasons, of which WMD was just the easiest to make a convincing case. There are at least two problems with this. First, he has to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Galactic Greetings from ‘STAR WARS!’

  
  BostonKayakGuy John Prescott's The MetWest Scene...Wellesley "South Natick" Needham & Metrowest Real Estate — Authority: 111
  Love Star Wars? Think George Lucas is a genius? Would you love to be on his Holiday card list? Then...
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• Babson Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Welcomes Internet Entrepreneur and Hyundai Colombia Automotiz Founder

  
  BostonKayakGuy John Prescott's The MetWest Scene...Wellesley "South Natick" Needham & Metrowest Real Estate — Authority: 111
  The newest additions to Babson Colleges Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame include an internet entrepreneur and auto mogul...
  2 weeks ago

• John Prescott expresses doubt over British support for Iraq invasion

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  We all know George Bush is crap, former deputy prime minister tells New Statesman John Prescott has become the latest senior Labour politician to voice open doubts about his own support for Tony Blairs decision in 2003 to place British military forces behind the American-led invasion of Iraq. In a wide-ranging ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraq War Inquiry, Day 11

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 134
  Today the British Military goes after the civilian government ministers sent in or making decisions after the invasion to try and apparently bring order to chaos building another government or to keep the country functioning so it wouldnt completely fall into an Insurgency, I mean after all the U.S. expected throngs ...
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• Prescott to star in BBC’s Gavin and Stacey

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 487
  Former Deputy-Prime Minister John Prescott will appear as himself on BBC hit comedy Gavin and Stacey next month. Prescott, famously nicknamed ‘Two Jags’ plays a guest at character Nessa’s Jenkins wedding on the New Year’s Day episode – the last ever of the show. Throughout the course of the comedy, ...
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• John Prescott: New Labour rebranding was crap

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  John Prescott has admitted he regarded Tony Blairs rebranding of "New" Labour as "a load of crap".
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• John Prescott is not a figue of fun he has done as much to destroy the UK as Tony Blair most albeit not as much as Blair, Brown or Mandelson

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 445
  The BBC report that "Former deputy prime minister John Prescott is to make a cameo appearance in BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey. Character Nessa Jenkins - played by co-writer Ruth Jones - has referred to him several times as one of her old flames." This reinvention of John Prescott must not be allowed to continue; ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prescott: how did I go along with Iraq?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Former deputy prime minister admits asking himself how he was persuaded to back British involvement in the Iraq war John Prescott has admitted he wonders how he agreed to go along with Britains participation in the war in Iraq. In an interview to be published tomorrow in the New Statesman the former deputy prime ...
  2 weeks ago

• Considerably More Working Class Than Yow!*

  
  Iain Dale's Diary — Authority: 688
  Listen to THIS hilarious discussion about class between John Prescott and Eric Pickles on the Today Programme . Scroll down the page to 07.50. Eee, ba gum, theyre so working class they have cobbles instead of carpets. * Reference to the Harry Enfield catchphrase "Im considerably richer than yow" - said in a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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