So recently I contacted Egg about my long-closed account with them, regarding the Card Repayment Protection plan. To be honest it was a bit of a fishing trip as I couldn't recall ANY details of the account, card number or anything, as the account was closed in 2007, paid off nice & cleanly, never...

Parts of the eastern United States have received 71cm (28in) of snow fall in a huge blizzard that is sweeping across the region.


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A demolition worker has survived after a 113-year-old smokestack fell on him in Alabama, US.


Tim Phifer, the driver of the vehicle that the smokestack collapsed on, was left with only a scratch.




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Baby born on board long-haul flight



A woman has given birth during a Los Angeles-bound China Airlines flight after unexpectedly going into labour.


The baby girl was delivered by a doctor who happened to be on the flight from Bali on Thursday.
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A US dentist who killed a lion in Zimbabwe has apologised to his patients in Minnesota for the disruption caused by the anger directed at him.


Walter Palmer's dental practice in Minneapolis has been closed since he was named as the tourist who shot Cecil, Zimbabwe's most famous lion....

I am looking to start up an online shop and have found several providers such as Shopify.com, however, they all seem to be based in America or Canada, please can someone recommend a UK based company? Or don't they exist?
It needs to be simple to use, as my only experience is with a free website...

The Queen will formally open the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later, in front of a 40,000 crowd at Celtic Park.



Organisers said a global TV audience of up to a billion people was expected to watch the event from 21:00 BST.



More than 4,500 athletes...

Pilot lands faulty fighter jet on a stool at sea

The US military has released video of a fighter pilot landing his jet on a ship faultlessly and without full landing gear on 7 June.



When the front landing gear malfunctioned he had to land vertically, bringing the nose...

I would just like to say hello and I am glad that I have found this forum.
I started my PPI claim journey in December 2012.
That was for a First Plus loan my husband and I took out in 2001. The loan was a secured mortgage and we were told at the time to secure the loan we had to take out...

Another case of too much too soon too young.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25954645

You can see another one being buried before they are 30 ... if that.

Looking at the list of charges he has against him from several courts, my opinion is that he should...

The owner of a British food shop in Canada says he has been ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn Bru because they contain illegal additives.

Tony Badger, who owns Brit Foods in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, told local media that food safety officials had removed the foods from his...

Polar vortex brings ‘dangerous cold’ to US


Much of North America was gripped by the coldest weather in decades as extreme conditions, caused by a polar vortex – a pattern of winds that traps cold air – spread east and south on Tuesday.

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Can someone tell me please, if anyone knows... Do my boys HAVE to have both US and UK passports. (Mother UK - Father US with perm' leave to stay)

We were told back when I arranged their PP that they HAD to have both, they could leave the UK on a UK PP but to return they would need both....

International enforcement agencies join forces to thwart caller identification spoofing

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 13th December 2013 21:31.

*Statement: 21 October 2013* Today, agencies from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom issued...

San Francisco rallies for 'Batkid' Miles Scott, leukaemia survivor

Thousands of people in San Francisco have turned out to help a boy recovering from leukaemia fulfil his wish to be Batman for a day.



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