Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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  Cops, British Army guided Belfast lawyer's killing

  British police and army agents planted inside Northern Ireland's major Protestant gang played a pivotal role in assassinating a Belfast attorney, a ... 

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  BBC drama 'The Hour' back to make the 1950s sexy

  The media are under fire, celebrities are under the microscope. Welcome to Britain in 2012 — or in the 1950s, the setting for the BBC drama "The Hour. 

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  UK think tank postpones Petraeus award

  A leading British defense think tank says it will delay presenting U.S. Gen. David Petraeus with its highest honor given the scandal surrounding his ... 

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  BBC under pressure to restore trust after scandal

  The bungling of reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children has thrown one of the largest and most respected broadcasters in the world into ... 

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  Developments in Britain's child sex-abuse scandal

  The BBC's top executive, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday night amid a flood of controversy over the broadcaster's handling of child sex-abuse ... 

• BBC apologizes for broadcasting abuse allegations

  For the last month, the BBC has been heavily criticized for not airing allegations of child sex abuse committed by one of its star hosts, the late ... 

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  A year after lavish funeral, Savile myth in ruins

  At Jimmy Savile's funeral, a year ago Friday, the priest delivering the homily was emphatic: the DJ and television host "can face eternal life with ... 

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  UK's Cameron warns over child abuse witch hunt

  Speculation about a political figure from the Margaret Thatcher era alleged to be tied to Britain's child abuse scandal risks becoming a witch hunt, ... 

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  UK's Cameron orders checks into new abuse claims

  Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron ordered an investigation Monday into newly raised allegations related to a major child abuse scandal in north ... 

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  Nobel prize for EU is case of winning ugly

  Just what does the EU really stand for? With a multitude of nations at the same table, the European Union has always been a big, bickering family of ... 

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  UK police blamed the dead for 1989 stadium tragedy

  British police and medics whose failures contributed to the deaths of 96 soccer fans in the country's worst sports disaster unfairly blamed the dead ... 

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  Thatcher power suit sold for $39,670 at auction

  A turquoise wool suit that Margaret Thatcher wore on the day she was confirmed as Conservative Party leader has sold at auction for 25,000 pounds ... 

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  Bank scandals tarnish London's reputation

  It's been a tense summer in the City of London as one bank after another has faced allegations of massive misbehavior. Bankers in the British capital, ...