• Woman wishes to stay in Britain to avoid becoming 14th virgin queen of Swaziland

  A woman is seeking asylum in Britain to avoid becoming the 14th virgin queen of the randy King of Swaziland. Tintswalo Ngobeni, 22, has shunned the advances of King Mswati III and fled to Britain, the Daily Star reported. She was just 15 when she caught the eye of the chubby king, who is 45 years old. The royal, who is famous for his lavish lifestyle, is allowed to choose a new bride every ...

• Three arrested after fracas near British gurdwara

  Three men have been arrested after a fracas outside a gurdwara in the city of Norwich in England. Two men, aged 20 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of public disorder offences and taken to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre and a 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and taken to Great Yarmouth for questioning after the brawl involving 10 worshippers outside the gurdwara on ...

• British economy in modest recovery central bank governor

  Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said in a television interview that Britain's economy had achieved "only a modest recovery". "We are seeing a recovery. It's only a modest recovery, and we certainly can't be satisfied with it," the outgoing central bank governor King said in an interview with the Sky News' Murnaghan programme Sunday. "We will need to do more to use up the spare capacity ...

• Windies begin preparation for Champions Trophy

  The West Indies will kick off preparations for next month's Champions Trophy in England when they embark on a five-day camp at the High Performance Centre (HPC) at the 3Ws Oval starting here Monday. The sessions will be overseen by West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson with assistant coach Tony Radford and the HPC's Andre Coley, also involved in the squad's preparation. The players are expected ...

• Jessie Js long nails inspired by granny

  British pop star Jessie J says her craze for long nails comes from her grandmother. The 27-year-old star admits she got crazy nail art and pointy tips from her grandmother, who was obsessed with the colour green, reports contactmusic.com. "My nan, ever since I can remember, has had long pointy nails. And she loves green. Everything she has is green - her bathroom, her clothes. If she could ...

• Justin Biebers monkey gets a new home

  Singer Justin Bieber's abandoned pet monkey Mally has found a new home at a British animal sanctuary. Mally was confiscated last month by German customs as Bieber had no papers to bring the pet to the country. Now Don Walser, from the Isle of Wight's Owl and Monkey Haven, has offered the animal a home with his pair Martin and Lulu and their baby Malou, reports dailystar.co.uk. Walser, 68, ...

• Cook hails Broad-Anderson combined strikeforce boosts Englands assault on world domination

  England captain Alastair Cook has praised his bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson, saying that the duo's combined strikeforce is a major help to his assault on world domination. Former England skipper Nasser Hussain introduced Anderson to Test cricket while English icon Michael Vaughan put him and Broad together to open the bowling attack five years ago in New Zealand, the Mirror ...

• EU urges Russia against introducing gay law

  The European Union (EU) has appealed to Russia not to introduce a law banning so-called "gay propaganda" . Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, intends to pass a law by the end of the current session (mid-July) banning dissemination of information among minors promoting homosexuality. Amendments will be made May 26-27, after which a working group will compile the draft law along ...

• 4 Americans to qualify for British Open in Texas

  PLANO, Texas -; Americans Josh Teater, Scott Brown Johnson Wagner and Bud Cauley qualified for the British Open on Monday at the international final qualifying at Gleneagles Country Club Queens ...

• British man Julian Stevenson appears in court after confessing to slitting childrens throats

  A 48-year-old British man has appeared in a French court today after allegedly confessing to killing his two children by slitting their ...

• Labour saves David Camerons gay marriage bill

  Labour's move meant the amendment, tabled by the anti-gay marriage Tory Tim Loughton, was defeated by 375 to 70 votes, a majority of 305. Photograph: Facundo ...

• New insurance for cosmetic surgery

  In the wake of the findings from the government enquiry into cosmetic surgery, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has a new insurance scheme for ...

• Large waists increase risk of diabetes

  The research, commissioned by Diabetes UK and Bupa, shows that just 37 % are aware that having a large waist is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, despite strong evidence that this is the case. Diabetes UK defines a large waist as 31.5 inches or over for women and 35 inches and over for ...

• Game Hunting in Englands Premier League

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• Governments flagship Work Programme not helping long-term unemployed find jobs

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• Google faces new pressure over tax claims

  Google's data centre in Dublin: by booking all UK sales through Ireland, the internet company handed HMRC only about 10m in corporation tax over the period 2006-11. Photograph: Niall ...

• i Assistant Editors Letter A British crack at The Final Frontier

  Ever since I was a little boy, I have been fascinated with space. I would spend hours looking through books on the Apollo missions, idolising Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their lunar landing in 1969. I would lie in my bed dreaming of hurtling through space, trying to imagine what it was like for Michael Collins, the forgotten man of that mission who was left in the module orbiting the Moon ...

• Maria Stubbings case Call for inquiry after murdered woman was failed by police

  The family of a woman murdered by a convicted killer has called for a public inquiry into the handling of domestic violence cases, following a second damning report into police failures over her ...

• Work Programme is giving least help to worst off

  Private companies who win government contracts to help the jobless find work are "parking" some of the most disadvantaged people on benefits, MPs warn ...

• Relatively Speaking – review

  This often clumsy, unfocused and surreal play about a Welsh singer's fall from fame could never be accused of lacking heart - or good songs, ...

• Gay marriage debate highlights deep divide in Conservative party

  Anti-same sex marriage activists demonstrate on 20 May as Tory traditionalists failed in a series of bids to limit the scope of the bill. Photograph: Facundo ...

• UK Healthcare donates to Simeon Centre Counselling Service

  UK Healthcare has made a donation to the Simeon Centre; a Bolton based mental health charity that offers a confidential counselling service for people living in the ...

• National Dental Plan offers individual dental insurance

  National Dental Plan will launch two new products; Wisdom Benefits provides savings on cosmetic dental treatment, and Dencover is a low-cost plan suitable for those looking for a less comprehensive package. Other products will ...

• British school takes lecture classes to new depths -- 60 feet down

  Britain's University of Exeter says it has taken its marine biology lecture classes to a new level -- 60 feet beneath the sea off Indonesia, to be exact. The lectures were held during dives on tropical coral reef systems during the annual field trip to the Wakatobi Marine National Park in Indonesia for the school's School of Biological Sciences students, a university release said ...

• UK first in EU to get Mercks new Schmallenberg vaccine

  Merck & Co , had been issued a licence for the new vaccine after an accelerated assessment to make it available this summer. As a result, farmers will be able to vaccinate sheep and cattle before most of them become pregnant, which is important as exposure to the virus can cause damage to foetuses. Schmallenberg virus - named after the German town where it was first detected - infected ...

• Spider-Man Broadway venue sold to Britains Ambassador Theatre

  Mon May 20, 2013 7:58pm EDT May 20 (Reuters) - British theater company Ambassador Theatre Group's subsidiary Lyric Theatre LLC has purchased Foxwoods Theatre, currently home to the "Spider-Man" musical, from Live Nation Entertainment Inc, the companies said on Monday. Lyric Theatre paid about $65 million for Foxwoods, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The Foxwoods ...

• Trade union leaders must team up to fight Coalition cuts warns PCS leader

  Union eaders risk sliding into "irrelevance" unless they unite to fight the Tory-led Coalition's cuts, the leader of Britain's biggest civil servants' union will warn today. Mark Serwotka, in a keynote address at the annual conference of his 280,000-strong Public and Commercial Services union, will criticise the "entrenched defeatism" of some union leaders who ...

• Kate Middleton and Prince William will be great parents says Mike Tindall

  William and Kate will make "great parents" .The ex-England rugby captain, who married the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips almost two years ago, said: "Willy, sorry Prince William, will be outstanding while Kate is a natural mother."It's great for them. The whole family is really excited about the baby. I think everyone's excited."I'm so happy for ...

• British explorer Philip Goodeve-Docker died from hypothermia during Greenland snow storm

  A young British explorer died from hypothermia during a 400-mile trek across Greenland's vast ice-cap, an inquest heard yesterday.Philip Goodeve-Docker, 31, was on ...

• Mad cow disease alert Patient being treated in hospital for suspected CJD

  Health chiefs last night confirmed a man suspected of suffering from the human form of mad cow disease is being treated in hospital.The unnamed victim is feared to have contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, known as CJD, said the Heath Protection Agency.CJD is linked to cattle disease BSE, which led to the slaughter of millions of cattle in the UK and a worldwide ban on British beef in the early ...

• Paul Hollywood and Marcela Valladolid on-screen chemistry First picture of American Baking Competition co-host

  Bake Off star Paul Hollywood and his US co-host show off their on-screen chemistry in the first picture together since it emerged he has left his wife.Footage from The American Baking Competition - the US version of The Great British Bake Off - shows the heartthrob trading quips with Marcela Valladolid.In the trailer for the show which airs on May 29, Paul tells fans that he loves America - ...

• James Bulgers mum in personal plea to keep killer Jon Venables in jail

  James Bulger's mother will make a personal plea tomorrow to keep killer Jon Venables in jail.Denise Fergus wants the Parole Board to look again at whether her son's murder was sexually motivated - evidence that was omitted from the 1993 trial of Venables and Robert Thompson.The pair were freed in 2001 but Venables, 30, was sent back to jail for two years after police found indecent ...

• Drink-driver groped policeman and offered him and colleague a threesome

  An alleged drink-driver groped a policeman's groin and bottom and offered him and his colleague a threesome, a court was told yesterday.Celina Hodge, 41, rubbed herself against one of the officers and said he had a "good ass" as he attempted to give her a breath test.Police had been called to her car after reports she was drinking vodka at the wheel.Prosecutor May Li said Hodge ...

• Christopher Biggins Id kill any sex abusers who touched young relatives

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• Norma Spear inquest Care home left grandmother 71 die of thirst

  A grandmother died of thirst because of gross neglect by care home staff.Norma Spear lost 35lbs and weighed five stones after a urinary tract infection stunted her appetite - leaving her seriously dehydrated.A coroner identified 11 failures by staff to act on serious concerns about her health - five of them severe enough to be gross neglect.Coroner Sarah Ormond-Walshe ruled Norma, 71, died of ...

• Anorexia and bulimia rise 15 in under a decade

  The number of people diagnosed with an eating disorder each year has risen 15% in nine years.There are now 12,400 new cases in people aged between 10 and 49 every 12 months, according to the British Medical Journal.Girls between 15 and 19 fare worst, accounting for 4,610 new cases of anorexia, bulimia and other disorders each year.But overall, the number of patients has increased from 32.3 in ...

• Gina DeJesus Girl allegedly kidnapped by Ariel Castro watched mother on TV once a year

  One of the girls allegedly kidnapped by Ariel Castro was allowed to watch TV once a year - to see her mother conduct a prayer service on the anniversary of her abduction, it is claimed. Mum Nancy Ruiz says that was the only glimpse of the outside world Gina DeJesus, now 23, was allowed in her nine years of captivity. She told a Spanish TV show: "She knew I hadn't given up looking ...

• Michael Jackson compared himself to modern day Jesus as he denied sex abuse charges

  Deluded Michael Jackson denied sexually abusing children - comparing himself to a modern day Jesus.In a bizarre video-taped interview with lawyers, the King of Pop defended his close friendship with young boys by insisting he was a messenger of God.During the cross-examination on March 1, 1996, he declared: "Jesus said to love the children and be like children, be youthful, be innocent, be ...

• Disabled woman died after NHS blunders ombudsman finds

  A catalogue of mistakes by an out-of-hours GP service and a hospital contributed to the death of a young woman with physical and learning disabilities, ...

• GPs will face Ofsted-style inspections Jeremy Hunt announces

  Jeremy Hunt will also announce plans for each vulnerable elderly person to have a named NHS worker to co-ordinate their care. Photograph: Rex ...

• Parents warned sharing bed with babies increases risk of cot death

  A new study found breastfed babies under three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a significantly increased risk of cot death.Researchers estimate that 40 per cent of the 300 cot death cases in the UK each year could be prevented if parents only brought children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.Presently, NHS officials only advise parents against sharing ...

• Editorial Gay marriage is a large liberal step

  For all our liberality, Britain still has a way to go. Last weekend - ironically, just one day after the International Day Against Homophobia - two gay men were attacked in a south London park. Then, yesterday, more than a handful of MPs lined up to resist government plans to allow same-sex couples to marry. The two are, of course, not linked; it would be fatuous - not to say, unfair - to ...

• Poll puts Ukip just two points behind Tories

  The data by Survation, a member of the British Polling Council, puts Ukip on 22 per cent, its highest poll rating ever. Labour is on 35 per cent, 11 points ahead of the Tories, while the Lib Dems are in fourth place on 11 per cent. If the results were repeated at a general election on a uniform swing, Labour would have a majority of 104 seats. The survey canvassed 1,000 adults in England, ...

• The chasm that could swallow Cameron alive

  or that life should be made miserable for David Cameron , or both, they knew they had cover from local party associations. Far from condemning their disloyalty to the party leadership, as might have been done in times long past, those associations knew that Cameron would support them. It's unlikely that without that activist momentum (partly fuelled by the competition from Ukip, of course) ...

• British Deep Water Diver Dies At Italy Wreck

  A British man has died during a dive on a wreck in Italy, coastguard officials have confirmed. The man was in a group of six divers taking part in a week-long programme involving several deep water explorations on ships that had been sunk during World War Two. Coastguard officials said the man had been diving at a depth of around 300 feet when he got into difficulty and died shortly after ...

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