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• Success isn't alien to this Captain Jack, either

  - 2007-11-30

  Capt. Jack Harkness is back hunting aliens as Torchwood begins a second season Jan. 26 (9 p.m. ET/PT) on BBC America. In the series, a spinoff for John Barrowman's character in Doctor Who, Harkness heads up the black-ops group. The first season was BBC America's biggest...

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• Ince towards replacing Davies at Derby - report

  - 2007-11-26

  LONDON AFP — Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Ince has emerged as a bookies favourite to take over from Billy Davies as manager of English Premier League basement club Derby County. Davies was sacked on Monday after helping the Rams to just one league win in 14...

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• ALAN JOHNSTON PICKING UP THE PIECES FOUR MONTHS ON: THE FIRST PRINT

  - 2007-11-25

  ALAN Johnston reckons he was "the luckiest kidnap victim in the world". Almost four months after he was released from captivity in Gaza City, Johnston agreed to give the Sunday Herald a rare interview in which he reflected on his kidnapping and his kidnappers, and the continuing crisis in the...

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• British Beer Co

  - 2007-10-22

  Plymouth, Mass. Most Yanks residing on this side of the Atlantic read about British pub life or see it portrayed in films or TV, but relatively few have experienced the cultural phenomenon at close range. The British Beer Co., a seven-unit chain based in Plymouth, Mass., is hoping...

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• Kidnapping rescue bid

  - 2007-03-03

  An operation is under way today to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia. The Foreign Office confirmed the group included members of staff from the UK embassy in Addis Ababa or relatives of staff. The Britons are thought to be part of a...

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• Murray out of Davis Cup decider

  - 2006-07-23

  EASTBOURNE, England AFP — British tennis star Andy Murray has been ruled out of the reverse Davis Cup singles against Israel after arriving at Devonshire Park in a neck brace. The 19-year-old Scot, due to play Noam Okun, was still feeling the effects of an injured neck and strained...

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• Horace the runaway tortoise travels 2.9 km -- in eight months

  - 2006-05-12

  LONDON AFP — A pet tortoise reportedly made it as far as 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometres) away from home in the eight months since going missing -- an average of 39 feet (12 metres) a day. According to the BBC, Horace the Herman's tortoise was spotted in the middle...

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• BBC bashed in soap war

  - 2005-03-05

  Byline: By Beth Neil Patsy Kensit's face was a throbbing, swollen, big fat mess. But enough about her Botox injections, let's talk about the wallop round the chops Charity Dingle gave her. Charity's exit was a triumph for Emmerdale. Over the top, as camp as Christmas and some...

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• London shares close lower on record oil prices

  - 2004-10-14

  LONDON AFP — Blue chips closed in the negative territory, weighed by heavy losses on Wall Street, where fresh record highs in oil prices continued to dampen sentiment, dealers said. At the close, the FTSE 100 index was 5.4 points lower to 4,629.4. All the broader FTSE indices...

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• Carole Malone Column: MR SPIN HAS NO RIGHT TO RANT

  - 2004-02-01

  THE most sickening sight of last week had to be that of Alastair Campbell strutting around like some president-elect playing the wronged man whilst lecturing the media on how to be better journalists. This from an unremarkable journalist who has always hated other journalists - mainly because...

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