| Lawrence family want Met chiefs to face questions on cover-up of crucial evidence
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 The police spy who infiltrated a campaing for justice by Stephen Lawrence's family reported back to his superior officers on the marriage breakdown of the murdered youth's parents. In a note to his handlers in 1998, officer N81 wrote: "As for the Lawrence family, Doreen and Neville Lawrence split up during the first stage of the Inquiry (although this is not public knowledge)." The revelation, ...
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| Clare's law takes effect
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 Men and women will be able to check the police record of their partners from today when Clare's Law comes into force in England and Wales. The scheme, named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Appleton in Salford, allows people to ask police about a partner's previous history of violence and in some circumstances police can proactively disclose the information to ...
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| Detective who rode off into sunshine
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 Detective Sergeant John Davidson retired from the Met in 1998 on health grounds to a life in the sun on a full police pension. He and his wife, Evelyn, moved to the Mediterranean island of Menorca, where they run The Smugglers bar and restaurant. Yet for Mr Davidson, 68, allegations of corruption and a relationship with Clifford Norris, father of one of Stephen Lawrence's killers, refuse to go ...
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| Champion showjumper sued over horse 'fit for knacker's yard'
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 A champion showjumper accused of selling one of her riding pupils an elderly horse that was "ready for the knacker's yard" risks paying £150,000 in legal costs to settle the dispute. Patricia "Paddy" Muir, a top three-day eventer, is being sued by a novice rider, John Palmer, who claims that she sold him a horse in 2007 that had to be put down. Mr Palmer, a financial adviser from Co Durham, ...
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| Rape victims could get chance to give evidence by video link
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 The impact on jurors of how rape and sex abuse victims give evidence in court is to be investigated amid mounting pressure to ease the ordeal of victims with greater use of screens and video links. The research project will also look at whether male and female jurors respond differently when a witness is not physically in front of them but instead testifies by video link or from behind a ...
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| Markets End Mixed on "Jobs Friday"
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 The first Friday of each month has been dubbed "Jobs Friday" by Wall Street and the media, as the previous month's jobs report is released on that date. Today just so happened to be the first Friday of March. This morning, the Labor Department released its February non-farm employment data, which indicated that 175,000 new jobs had been created, a figure higher than the 150,000 economists expected. In addition, the report indicated that the actual unemployment rate rose from 6.6% to 6.7% during February due to a higher workforce participation rate. While that figure alone makes it sound like the economy is heading in the wrong direction, a larger workforce would indicate that more Americans will now have an income and, therefore, the ability to further stimulate the economy. The jobs ...
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| This Netflix Original Series Won't Stream on Netflix in America
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 Don Johnson as ranger Earl McGraw. Source: El Rey Network. Cult director Robert Rodriguez made a TV series out of vampire-busting classic From Dusk Till Dawn. Now he's taking it overseas, tapping Netflix to make it happen. But there's a big downside for many Rodriguez fans, which becomes a rare error of judgment from Netflix's normally razor-sharp content acquisition team. Netflix got an exclusive license for From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series -- but only for overseas territories. Back home in America, there's no Netflix license for the series and you'll just have to subscribe to Rodriguez's El Rey Network if you want to see it. That's obviously a big problem for cord-cutters like yours truly, giving us no way to enjoy this vampire-slayer series online. But it gets worse: El Rey is a very ...
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| GOP governor race tightening
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| Rauner's support drops to 36%; Dillard's doubles to 23% The Illinois Republican governor's race is tightening, with Bruce Rauner leading and Kirk Dillard surging as the candidates head into the final days of the campaign trying to peel away support from rivals and recruit undecided voters into their camp.
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Tribune/WGN U.S. Senate primary poll results
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| Why Alpha Natural Resources, NewLink Genetics, and Furmanite Tumbled Today
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 On Friday, investors wrestled with nervousness about the rapidly changing situation in Russia and Ukraine, but the stock market eventually closed with small gains that sent the S&P 500 to all-time highs. Yet, many stocks failed to feel the bullish sentiment, as Alpha Natural Resources , NewLink Genetics , and Furmanite all fell substantially in response to challenges affecting their particular businesses specifically. Alpha Natural (ANR) closed down more than 12% following a scathing Goldman Sachs downgrade of the coal company. In issuing a sell rating, Goldman cited already-extensive cost-cutting efforts that leave Alpha Natural with little room to reduce expenses further, noting that high levels of debt and other liabilities will hamper the coal company's ability to restructure its ...
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| Edna Pardo, 1921-2014
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 Longtime League of Women Voters leader campaign against inequities of school finance Edna Pardo worked tirelessly to improve her community, focusing much of her effort on the inequities of Illinois school finance in her longtime role as a leader of the League of Women Voters of Chicago.
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