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Corbyn to launch Labour's new business initiative

Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 May 2016
"Instead of David Cameron's Agency Britain, with its zero hours contracts, insecurity and wage undercutting, we will be engaging with workers and employers to shape the policies that will deliver the high quality jobs of the future ... record of Tory Britain."....

Rents and property values would drop after Brexit, say landlords

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016
Associations for estate and letting agents say average UK house would be worth £2,300 less in 2018 if Britain leaves the EU. Rent bills are likely to fall if Britain exits the EU and property will become more affordable to first-time buyers, according to the bodies that represent the UK’s estate agents and landlords ... One in 20 workers in Britain’s ......

Superbugs will kill 10 million people a year by 2050

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 May 2016
The call will come from the UK where Britain's Treasury secretary Jim O'Neill released the results of an 18-month review into antimicrobial resistance, warning that superbugs will kill 10 million people a year by 2050 – more than cancer kills today ... He backed a "global innovation fund" – established by the UK and China last year during President Xi Jinping's visit to Britain....

The British woman writing for Beyonce

Edit BBC News 19 May 2016
Some of the songwriters behind Britain's best loved tunes will be honoured for their talents at the Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday. Colleen Harris meets two women writing tunes for the stars ... ....

Haye hopes to raise £50k for Blackwell

Edit BBC News 19 May 2016
Britain's David Haye hopes Saturday's fight with Arnold Gjergjaj will raise more than £50,000 for Nick Blackwell ... ....

Minister Flanagan to deliver keynote speech at IIEA Conference on the risk Brexit poses to business (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland) 18/5/16 ... Minister urges attendees to reach out to their contacts in Britain to share the Irish perspective ... A Risky Business'. Speaking ahead of the event, Minister Flanagan said. ... The Minister encouraged conference attendees to reach out to their contacts in Britain to share the Irish perspective. He said. ... Give them the Irish perspective and ask them to spread the word.'. ENDS....

Unions backing Brexit condemn 'workers' rights myth'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 May 2016
Share Go To. The statement said ... "Nearly all the laws that protect workers in Britain are UK laws which have been won by the struggles and campaigns of the British trade union and Labour movement." ... ....

Supreme court to give ruling on 'celebrity threesome' injunction

Edit The Guardian 19 May 2016
Decision is expected on whether entertainer known as PJS, said to have had extramarital affair, can be identified. @owenbowcott ... The case has escalated into a public battle over the issue of whether or not orders banning publication can, or should, be sustained in an era when websites outside UK courts’ jurisdiction can be read from Britain ... Desmond Browne QC, representing PJS, told the supreme court last month ... ....

Dozens of refugees have been trapped on a British military base for 18 years

Edit Business Insider 19 May 2016
This group quickly learned, however, that though they had arrived in Europe on British territory they could not continue on to the UK, with the British Home Office arguing that allowing the refugees to enter could constitute a "pull factor" and encourage other asylum seekers to try and reach the same area, effectively creating a "back door" to Britain....

Boxing: Alvarez dumps WBC title to help Golovkin talks

Edit The Times of India 19 May 2016
Los Angeles, May 18, 2016 (AFP) - ... "I also informed the WBC that I will vacate its title. I will fight 'GGG' and I will beat 'GGG' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines ... Alvarez, 25, took the vacant WBC crown last May with a unanimous decision victory over Miguel Cotto and defended the title on May 7 by knocking out Britain's Amir Khan, boosting his career record to 47-1-1 with 33 knockouts ... js/rcw ... RELATED....

David Haye hopes to raise £50k for Nick Blackwell

Edit BBC News 19 May 2016
Britain's David Haye hopes Saturday's fight with Arnold Gjergjaj will raise more than £50,000 for Nick Blackwell. The 25-year-old Blackwell will not fight again after sustaining serious head injuries in his middleweight fight against Chris Eubank Jr in March. Haye, 35, has pledged to donate 10% of the money from ticket sales for the bout at London's O2 Arena to Blackwell. "I had a good chat with him ... Haye said ... Find out more ... Search....

How the Sykes-Picot Agreement Helped Make a Messed-Up Middle East

Edit Time Magazine 19 May 2016
May 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, signed by diplomats Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot to help Britain and France divide the lands of the disintegrating Ottoman Empire. Sykes-Picot began to set the boundaries of what became countries like Iraq and Syria—and that’s been tragic for their citizens. Read More ... But for now, the political dysfunction and violence continue. Read More....

Nicholas Winton: Memorial service for Holocaust hero

Edit BBC News 19 May 2016
A memorial service will be held later for Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued hundreds of children from the Holocaust in the months before World War Two. The service at London's Guildhall will be attended by 400 people, including 28 of those he saved, and Czech, Slovak and UK government representatives. Sir Nicholas organised the "Kindertransport" in which 669 mostly Jewish children came to Britain by train from Czechoslovakia in 1939 ... ....
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