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New threat to Britain's railways as Al-Qaeda tells supporters to derail train carriages
Government pulls all Learndirect contracts and fundingMove comes after privatised adult training agency accused of paying owners millions despite ‘catastrophic’ decline in standards
BT to scrap half of UK's remaining phone boxes after usage falls 90%Company says it is to remove 20,000 booths, many of which are rarely if ever used for their intended purposeThe phone boxes were once lifelines to the wider world at a time when many homes had no landline and the very idea of a mobile phone came from the wilder shores of science fiction. Today many are the sad and smelly last resting places of pigeons and half-eaten chicken takeaways, or worse. Many of those that will survive the cull are traditional red cast iron boxes, 2,400 of which are Grade II listed buildings. The most famous design, cherished by collectors when they are decommissioned, is the K6 kiosk, created in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and inspired, bizarrely, by a tomb in Old St Pancras churchyard created by the Georgian architect Sir John Soane in 1816 to mark his wife’s grave.BT is encouraging communities to reprieve some of those now condemned by paying £1 to adopt them so that they might join the 4,300 that have found new lives as tiny libraries, art centres, sites for lifesaving defibrillation equipment and, as in a particularly thrilling Archers plot line, local information points.
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One in 10 British people cannot identify Ireland on a mapOne in 10 people in the UK cannot identify Ireland on a map, according to the results of a new quiz.Insurance comparison website Gocompare created the quiz - How Well Do You Know Europe – to test UK and US citizens' knowledge of European geography.
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UK unemployment falls to new 42-year lowUnemployment in the UK fell by 57,000 in the three months to June, official figures show, bringing the jobless rate down to 4.4% - its lowest since 1975.The squeeze on real incomes continues to grow, though at a slower pace.Average weekly earnings increased by 2.1% compared with a year earlier - slightly higher than last month's 2% increase.But with inflation standing at 2.6%, real earnings still fell by 0.5%, the ONS figures showed.At 75.1%, the proportion of people in work is the highest it has been since 1971 - partly due to the introduction of a later state pension age for women.
The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) has announced a recall of tinned mackerel in tomato sauce sold under the Altura Seafood trademark due to unsafe levels of histamine.
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QuoteThe Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) has announced a recall of tinned mackerel in tomato sauce sold under the Altura Seafood trademark due to unsafe levels of histamine.http://www.ekathimerini.com/220917/article/ekathimerini/news/recall-ordered-for-altura-seafoods-tinned-mackerel
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