Telefónica risk-taker bets the future on digital expansion

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Matthew Key's career has been marked by three big bets. As head of the O2 mobile network in the UK, he decided to back the 2007 reopening of the Millennium Dome, pitching the idea to his board three times ...
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Residents set for right Royal bash

Source: This is Wiltshire

A royal wedding street part in Brookfield, Highworth, last year, from left, roy Taylor, Arthur Woo, Ted Bird and Dave Foley PREPARATIONS are well underway for the street parties to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jub ...
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North Wales News: Llangollen hero who tackled two armed robbers gets Gold Award at police bravery awards

Source: The Daily Post

A HERO worker who tackled knife-wielding robbers during a nasty shop raid has been honoured. Martin Storey locked the two in the Co-op store Llangollen, before scuffling with them as they tried to escape. During the fight he manag ...
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North Wales News: Olympic torch relay to cross Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Source: The Daily Post

THE magnificent Pontcysyllte Aqueduct will be one of the highlights of the Olympic torch relay on its last day in Wales. A canal boat will carry the runner bearing the flame across the World Heritage Site, built ...
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Unmasking the protest

Source: National Post

One theory of the student "strike" that continues this week with massive nightly demonstrations in Montreal - some peaceful, some not - is that it is a "Quebec thing." Or maybe a French thing, or a francophone thing. In any case, the ...
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Interview: Ian McMillan, Airdrie director and former Rangers and Airdrie forward

Source: The Scotsman

RELUCTANT star reflects on an enduring bond with Airdrie and life as a part-timer at Ibrox The McMillan family is deep into Olympic countdown mode as the days tick down to the Great Britain women hockey side’s first appointm ...
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Anyone seen Bobby?

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Back in their day, the Teale brothers were like a pop group. "I'm not being funny," Alfie, 72, the eldest, says. "We dressed up. A lot of people loved us." And you can see it now in the sharpness of their ...
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Plymouth Herald published Plymouth traffic wardens hand out a ticket every 13 minutes...

Source: This Is Plymouth

ONE parking ticket was issued every 13 minutes by traffic wardens last year – generating more than £1.2million. New figures show that in the space of 12 months, 39,896 parking fines were issued in 2011, a jump of 4,480 when ...
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Five Questions for Jacquelyn Royal

Source: The Saratogian

Who are you? I’m the recruiter and manager of the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. I am a college professor with degrees in music theory, music history, library science and humanities. I moved to Saratoga Spr ...
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