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Courtesy of Rugbydump.com; Great group for Scotland, tough group for Wales though

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-fife-20577549 About 40 firefighters have been dealing with a major blaze at the fire station in North Berwick. The alarm was raised when smoke was spotted at about 05:20 on Monday. One eyewitnesses told BBC Scotland that the roof of the part-time station had been damaged. There were no reports of injuries. Station Road has been closed while emergency services deal with the situation. Lothian and Borders Police are at the scene along with fire crews. Smoke was seen issuing from the building after 05:00 Lothian and Borders Fires and Rescue Service said the building and two appliances inside it had been badly damaged. Craig McLaren, who works …

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2012/12/police_injured_instructor_foug.html Gravely wounded by an arrow fired into his head, a Wyoming college instructor still managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son who carried out the attack and give his students time to flee the classroom, say police who hailed the actions as heroic. More grisly details of the horrific murder-suicide in Wyoming came to light Saturday, a day after the younger man killed his father's live-in girlfriend and then barged into his father's computer science class and shot him in the head with a high-powered bow and arrow. As James Krumm, 56, then fought with son Christopher Krumm of Vernon, …

http://www.bbc.co.uk...entral-20539375 This is in my book the most stupid act that might have killed people and hope they find the mindless Person or persons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-20571218 Very sad news people have lost there lives in this tragic disaster.

A campaign to radically reform and open up the secretive workings of the powerful local authority governing the City of London has been launched by a diverse group whose supporters include activists from the Occupy movement, clerics and the Tory MP David Davis. In one of the most robust challenges yet faced by the deeply conservative local authority that governs the Square Mile – derided by some critics as the UK's "last rotten borough" – the City Reform Group will back candidates who sign up to a series of pledges during elections to the City of London Corporation this March. The non-party-political group claims that the corporation is "failing to live up to its le…

Sex addiction: The truth about a modern phenomenon - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent A few months before their wedding, David Prior (not his real name) told his fiancée Sue his biggest secret. Although the couple had a good sex life, and were committed to a future together, he was addicted to visiting prostitutes. Perhaps surprisingly, the wedding went ahead. "I was horribly shocked, but I thought that with some therapy he'd get over it," says Sue, 42. Fifteen years and two children on, the couple are still together – but David's sex addiction, too, is with him still. "I don't think we could possibly have imagined that it would be as long-term, …

World Aids Day: the time for scaring people into action is over The HIV and Aids epidemic looks very different to how it did on the first World Aids Day 24 years ago. Today, the number of Aids-related deaths is dropping, as is the global incidence of new infections. Additionally, the number of people receiving treatment has increased dramatically and is still rising. Drugs that were experimental on the first World Aids Day are now standard. Many of these drugs are now available in cheaper generic forms that make them more affordable for people in low-income countries. Indeed, on this year's World Aids Day on 1 December, it is hard to believe that there was ever an argum…

Do you think UKIP will win the 2014 elections with a majority ?

http://www.thecourie...e-officers.html A nice letter and some very good comments.

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A Merseyrail guard has been found guilty of causing the death of a 16-year-old girl who died after falling under a train at a Liverpool station. Georgia Varley died when she fell between the carriage and platform at James Street station in October 2011. Christopher McGee, 45, had denied manslaughter but was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court. He signalled for the driver to depart as Miss Varley, who was drunk, stood on the platform leaning against the train. The prosecution said McGee should have been able to see that she was in an "intoxicated state". But he told the jury he thought the sixth form student was moving away from the train when he gave the signal to …

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