Lady Gaga has climbed up to number one with her single Bad Romance, displacing Peter Kay’s Children In Need song. The song, which the US star performed at The Royal Variety Show, is her third UK chart-topper this year. Christmas favourites Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You broke into the top 20
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Lady Gaga claims UK chart-topper
Kate Winslet was named best actress at the European Film Awards this weekend for her Oscar-winning performance in Holocaust drama The Reader.
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Winslet wins European film award
By Duncan Gardham , Security Correspondent Published: 7:05AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The former Prime Minister engaged in an “alarming subterfuge” with George Bush, and then misled the British people into a war they did not want, Sir Ken said. In an article for The Times he argues that the Chilcot Inquiry should be held in “deserved and withering contempt” if it ends in a “whitewash” by failing to disclose details of a “foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions”. He also called Mr Blair’s belief that he did what he thought was right a “narcissist’s defence”, adding: “Washington turned his head and he couldn’t resist the stage or the glamour that it gave him.” Sir Ken, who was appointed in 2003 under the Blair government, added that the war was the result of a “Prime Minister lost in self-aggrandisement and a governing class too closed to speak truth to power.” His comments come as a senior minister has accepted that Tony Blair could have lost the crucial House of Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had told MPs he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether he had weapons of mass destruction.
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Tony Blair’s ’sycophancy’ led us into war with Iraq, says former DPP
By Alastair Jamieson Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 Yvette Cooper, the work and pensions secretary, will announce the change in a white paper amid criticism that the existing welfare system makes it pointless for many poorer claimants to go out to work. At present, lone parents on income support see their benefit reduced on any earnings over £20 a week, creating a poverty trap as those in work have little incentive to move up the income ladder because they may be little better off. Under the new plan, half of any earnings over £20 – up to a maximum of £92.80, or the equivalent of 16 hours at the minimum wage of £5.80 – could be taken without impact on their Income Support
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£46 a week benefits concession for lone parents who work
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor, Kandahar Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Dec 2009 The Government will announce on Tuesday that more than £150 million of new funding will be allocated to tackle the increasing threat which follows the death of 100 British troops in Afghanistan this year. After talks with military commanders, Gordon Brown disclosed that British forces have diffused 1600 improvised explosive devises (IEDs) – an average of one every two hours – in the past few months. The Taliban’s increased use of the devices will heighten growing fears that the British death toll in Afghanistan could rise sharply in the coming months as the first of Britain’s additional 500 troops arrive in the country
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Troops in Afghanistan find roadside bomb every two hours, says Gordon Brown
By contrast, Christmas never used to be Christmas without the Morecambe and wise special, which brought the nation together like nothing before or since: in 1977, more than 28million viewers, half the entire population of the UK, watched the show.
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Eric Wise is back for Christmas
I am horribly disciplined; I’ve written God knows how many thousands of columns and 18 books, so I’d be happy to write full time but there hasn’t been the opportunity yet.” though 51-year-old Sandi has a place in London, the family home with her partner and three children is in Surrey and, in the New year, she reveals: “We are moving even further afield. I’m trying more and more to have a country life
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Sandi Toksvig gets in the festive spirit
Shaklee just released the results of a new independent Vivix study conducted with a team of scientists at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The goal of this rigorous study was to determine the effects of Vivix on Nrf2, described by Dr.
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Just Released: New Vivix Resveratrol Anti-Aging Study
Aging Women display beauty in many ways. Aging gracefully is something that many women aspire. Unfortunately, many opt for plastic surgery or facial injections to slow down the process of aging
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The Untold Secrets to Making Aging Women Look Younger
When this news came across my computer I knew I needed to share it with you. As you might know Shaklee manufactures Vivix an anti-aging resveratrol tonic.
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Future Diabetes Treatment May Use Resveratrol To Target The Brain
