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• Sports car sent to Britain from Gulf 'for service'

  - 2008-07-31

  LONDON AFP — A high-powered Lamborghini sports car was sent on a 6,500-mile (10,460-kilomtre) round-trip to Britain simply to have a service, sparking fury from environmentalists, The Sun newspaper said Thursday. The 190,000-pound (241,000-euro, 376,000-dollar) black and gold car was put on a regular Qatar Airways flight to London's...

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• Britain in motoring boom despite 'Traffic Taliban'

  - 2008-02-13

  LONDON AFP — Britain has long been in love with the car. And its motoring passion shows no sign of cooling despite some of the tightest road restrictions in the world. On the contrary it is booming, with one BBC motoring show a best-seller around the globe. With...

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• Man admits being Britain's fastest speeding motorist

  - 2007-08-24

  LONDON AFP — A man pleaded guilty Friday to driving at 172 miles (277 kilometres) per hour in a high-performance sports car on a public road, making him the fastest motorist ever caught speeding in Britain. Timothy Brady was caught driving a 98,000-pound (144,000-euro, 197,000-dollar) Porsche 911 Turbo in...

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• Japan revs up Britain's struggling car industry

  - 2007-07-21

  SUNDERLAND, England AFP — "It's a bit of a feather in the cap," said Nissan's head of European operations, Trevor Mann, of the export of Nissan's British-made cars to Japan for the first time in more than a decade. Mann met AFP earlier this month at the Japanese group's...

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• Car bomb suspect due in London court

  - 2007-07-15

  LONDON AFP — A suspect in the failed car bombings in Britain was due in a London court on Monday after being charged over the weekend, with another still being questioned by police. Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, 26, is accused of withholding information on terrorism, and will appear before...

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• Police questioning suspects as Bangalore raid yields 'radical' CDs

  - 2007-07-08

  LONDON AFP — Police officers in Britain were questioning five suspects in connection with failed car bombings a week ago as detectives in Bangalore revealed they had discovered CDs containing extremist material in the homes of two detainees. A former British Navy chief who is the country's new security...

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• Suspect in British bomb plots 'a Jordanian doctor'

  - 2007-07-02

  AMMAN AFP — One of the suspects arrested in Britain by police investigating three failed bomb attacks is a Jordanian doctor of Palestinian origin, officials in Jordan said on Monday. Mohammed Jamil Abdelkader Asha, the 27-year-old father of a small boy, could be the mastermind of the bomb plots,...

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• Britain's Prince William, world's most eligible bachelor

  - 2007-04-14

  LONDON AFP — Britain's Prince William is once again the most eligible bachelor in the world following his split from girlfriend Kate Middleton, which was widely reported here Saturday. William, 24, seems to have it all: second in line to the throne, scion of one of the richest and...

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• Nanjing Auto launches Britain's MG series in China

  - 2007-03-27

  SHANGHAI AFP — China's Nanjing Automobile Group revived Britain's MG with its first models of the historic marque rolling off the line at its new multi-million dollar plant on Tuesday, a company official said. "Today we have started production of the MG7 series and the MGTF sports car," Huang...

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• European new car registrations rise 1.1 percent in January

  - 2007-02-15

  BRUSSELS AFP — New car registrations in Europe rose 1.1 percent in January on a 12-month comparison, led by strong sales in Britain and Italy, the European automobile association ACEA has said. Registrations of new passenger cars in in 26 countries -- the EU members except Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria...

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