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The Independent, 01.12.08 12:33 UTC

Funding cuts 'could affect Olympic medal tally'

Funding cuts expected to be announced this week could hit Britain's medal hopes at the London 2012 Olympics, it was claimed. As much as £100m in private sector investment out of a £600m pledge to the ...
LONDON  Beijing  Olympics  Olympic  shadow sports  Britain  +5 more

The Independent, 01.12.08 02:02 UTC

Ben Ainslie: 'I can only win one medal per Games & dash; I've done all I can do'

When Ben Ainslie was 15 he won a junior world championship sailing a Laser Radial, a class of dinghy. Someone at the BBC, noting this splendid achievement, decided that it would be nice to invite him ...
Madrid  Atlanta  Beijing  Qingdao  LONDON  Liverpool  +20 more

Daily Mail, 01.12.08 00:39 UTC

Fears of tax rises after next election as Darling says £20bn spending spree was not enough

Alistair Darling admitted yesterday that the Treasury will have to pump more money into the economy to tackle the recession. His candid assessment came as doubts about his recovery plan intensified. ...
Olympics  The Observer  Tessa Jowell  Alistair Darling  pence  GBP 

Times Online Business, 30.11.08 00:37 UTC

Only spending cuts will get us out of this black hole

Like so many things in this crisis, the story of the public finances is one that makes everything that went before seem trivial. The long debate between the Treasury and independent experts came down ...
Tokyo  Madrid  LONDON  Chicago  Olympics  GDP  +6 more

Telegraph, 29.11.08 20:31 UTC

Olympics minister Tessa Jowell calls for assurance on tax

A senior minister has admitted there is "justifiable anxiety" about tax rises for high earners and has urged Gordon Brown to make clear they are not "the thin end of the wedge".
LONDON  Olympics  Britain  Tessa Jowell  Alistair Darling  Tony Blair  +5 more

New York Daily News, 29.11.08 09:31 UTC

Pros deride terrible tactics and poor equipment in face of Mumbai crisis

WASHINGTON - Indian officials defended their response to the Mumbai massacre Friday as the world watched them struggle through what some U.S. experts considered a Munich moment. "Our operations had ...
Washington  Munich  Mumbai  Olympics  United States  Taj Mahal  +3 more

Telegraph, 28.11.08 18:00 UTC

Councils scrapping recycling services in wake of down turn

Councils across the country are scrapping recycling plans following a global slump in the value of waste materials.
Olympics  Somerset Waste Partnership  China  Mark Blaker  Ministry of Defence 

Telegraph, 28.11.08 06:00 UTC

Humans could run 100m in 'less than 9.5s'

Humans could still run below 9.5 seconds over 100 metres while dogs and horses are running as fast as they ever will, according to a scientific study.
Beijing  Olympics  United States  Mark Denny  Usain Bolt  Stanford University 

guardian.co.uk, 28.11.08 01:08 UTC

Audrey Salkeld on North Face

. The north face of the Eiger. Photograph: Sandro Vannini/Corbis The Eiger is the most notorious mountain in the history of extreme alpinism. Its mile-high North Face, the Eigerwand, is the largest ...
Berlin  Munich  Innsbruck  Vienna  Reichsport  North Face  +22 more

Telegraph, 28.11.08 00:05 UTC

Thames Estuary wetlands to be returned to 'Charles Dickens' wilderness'

Wetlands in the Thames Estuary will be returned to the wilderness immortalised by Charles Dickens in plans to create a new national park in the area.
Cooling  Olympics  Thames Estuary wetlands  Charles Dickens  Margaret Beckett  Magwitch  +2 more
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