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Vauxhall car plant 'saved by GM'
Thu, 17 May 2012 07:46:38 GMT
Workers at Vauxhall vote in favour of a new pay deal, clearing the way for owner General Motors to invest in the company's Ellesmere Port plant, securing 2,100 jobs.
Winstone slams murder case police
Wed, 16 May 2012 21:28:09 GMT
Actor Ray Winstone criticises the police after a man who served seven years for a murder he always denied walked free from court.
Old films to aid memory recovery
Thu, 17 May 2012 01:35:59 GMT
Old home movies are being used to help trigger the forgotten past of people with dementia and other memory loss.
'Suicidal' man in £25,000 pay-out
Thu, 17 May 2012 08:03:10 GMT
A man with mental health issues pursued for council tax arrears will receive an apology and £25,000 from Torbay Council.
Playwright wins political asylum
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:44:42 GMT
A playwright and her husband who were facing deportation, win an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal case.
Royal couple continue their tour
Thu, 17 May 2012 05:54:16 GMT
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh continue the Diamond Jubilee tour with visits to Warrington, Liverpool and Chester.
Bodies of servicemen repatriated
Thu, 17 May 2012 07:20:48 GMT
The bodies of two servicemen killed in Afghanistan at the weekend are due to be flown back to the UK.
Olympic flame to be handed over
Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:45 GMT
The Olympic flame is to be officially handed over to organisers of the London Games at a ceremony in Athens.
Fees rise 'didn't boost teaching'
Wed, 16 May 2012 23:49:58 GMT
Higher university tuition fees have not boosted teaching time at England's universities, research suggests.
Social work cuts 'risking lives'
Thu, 17 May 2012 01:57:34 GMT
Some 88% of social workers think cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk, a survey five years after the death of baby Peter Connolly suggests.
London firm wins bypass contract
Thu, 17 May 2012 07:10:15 GMT
The long-awaited dual carriageway which will bypass Kingskerswell is to be built by London company Galliford Try.
Arrests at BNP sex gang protest
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:02:48 GMT
Four people are arrested in a protest by the British National Party in Rochdale over a child sex grooming case.
Diamond Jubilee cake for Queen
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:51:14 GMT
A giant cake has been baked by military caterers for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee parade and muster at Windsor Castle.
Porn star debates at Oxford Union
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:36:03 GMT
A former teacher turned porn star is to speak at an Oxford Union debate in favour of legalising prostitution.
No front-runners for Reds hotseat
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:45:26 GMT
Liverpool's owners want the club's new boss to be in place for four to five years, but as of yet there are no front-runners.
Strauss not thinking of quitting
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:59:19 GMT
Andrew Strauss says he has not thought of giving up the England captaincy, ahead of the first Test against West Indies at Lord's.
Parker could miss Euros - Hodgson
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:13:33 GMT
England boss Roy Hodgson admits Scott Parker could still miss Euro 2012 despite being named in his 23-man squad.
VIDEO: House of Commons
Wed, 16 May 2012 12:34:39 GMT
Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed a suggestion by Labour leader Ed Miliband that the police are "absolutely furious" with cuts to their budgets, retorting that cuts under Labour would be even "deeper".
VIDEO: Sam Hallam supporters celebrate
Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:42 GMT
Sam Hallam was freed on bail earlier to jubilant scenes at the Court of Appeal.
VIDEO: Jo Yeates memorial garden planted
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:12:52 GMT
A garden has been planted in tribute to murdered landscape architect Jo Yeates near her family home in Hampshire.
VIDEO: Window tribute to armed forces
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:22:11 GMT
A school in Oxfordshire pays tribute to the armed forces with a new stained glass window in its chapel.
VIDEO: Fire death parents appeal for privacy
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:14:36 GMT
The parents of six children who were kiiled in a house fire in Derby have appealed to the press to leave them to grieve alone.
VIDEO: Priest angry over parking penalty
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:35:29 GMT
A Leicestershire priest says he would rather go to jail than pay a parking fine he received while helping his congregation.
VIDEO: Watership Down plan under review
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:48:46 GMT
A planning inspector is investigating West Berkshire Council's plans to build 2,000 homes in countryside that inspired the book Watership Down.
VIDEO: From Ladbroke Grove to Dagenham
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:29 GMT
A west London woman moved to east London because of the new housing benefit cap, describes being offered Wales as a third choice.
VIDEO: London's new cable car is tested
Tue, 15 May 2012 18:56:26 GMT
Testing is under way of London's newest form of transport - a gondola lift cable car across the River Thames.
Cornwall 'called up' for Olympics
Wed, 16 May 2012 08:19:07 GMT
The firm putting the bronze into the medals of 2012
Fans react to Dalglish sacking
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:21 GMT
Fans react to the end of King Kenny's reign
Punks of '77: Still angry after all these years?
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:36:45 GMT
Do the punks of 1977 still hate the royals?
FA Cup final triumph remembered
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:12:54 GMT
Remembering Coventry City's FA Cup triumph 25 years on
Viewpoint: Is it time to get rid of traffic lights?
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:36:38 GMT
Is it time to get rid of traffic lights?
Insect clues crack murder probes
Tue, 15 May 2012 23:37:39 GMT
The maggot expert who is being called in by murder police
Singing fish man keeps on 'breaming'
Tue, 15 May 2012 16:01:45 GMT
Fish man's song an internet phenomenon

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 Word of the day 

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:

maffick • \MAF-ik\  • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior

Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.

"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011

Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.

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