April 30th 2008
Major supermarkets could have to pass a ‘competition test’ before building or extending their stores under new measures devised at curbing their domination. But supermarkets immediately criticised the plans, claiming that customers would end up bearing the costs and competition could suffer
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April 30th 2008
Allen Stanford, the American billionairewho claims he will help make English Twenty20cricket more popular than football, has signedup Englands goalscorer-in-chief Michael Owenas a global ambassador
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April 30th 2008
Comedy Night is Thursday at the Back Bowl
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April 30th 2008
Two years ago, Paul Scholes was pottering around his home in Lancashires Saddleworth moors wondering if the eye disorder that had surfaced during a Barclays Premier League game at Birmingham would allow him to play football again
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April 30th 2008
Magician David Blaine is planning to break a world record live on TV today by holding his breath for nearly 17 minutes. Blaine, who spent 44 days suspended from a glass box by the Thames and was buried alive for a week in New York, plans to smash the record in front of talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and her audience of millions
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April 30th 2008
While its first-quarter profit ballooned due to a gain from the termination of a joint venture, Reynolds-American’s revenue sagged, and the tobacco giant cut its full-year earnings forecast.
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April 30th 2008
What did your mother teach you? What makes your mom special? Tell us in 200 words or less.
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April 30th 2008
Campaigners from the Island of Lesbos have asked a Greek court to ban gay women from calling themselves lesbians, it emerged today
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April 30th 2008
Colorado Division of Wildlife has begun sampling of fish species in Parachute Creek in the wake of four large water spills.
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April 30th 2008
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