Your views on the news – NHS care, university fees and welfare reforms
May 19, 2012 | No Comments
Your comments on the news this week from the challenges to community care to calls for more contact time for university students Community care suffering from NHS cuts A dossier of evidence from the Royal…
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Meir Dagan supports call for total sanctions on Iran
May 19, 2012 | No Comments
Ex-director of Mossad and other former intelligence chiefs call for ‘most robust sanctions against Iran in history’ to avert war A clutch of former intelligence chiefs and diplomats have joined forces to press for more…
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Alaska Airlines Brings Region’s First Copper River Salmon
May 19, 2012 | No Comments
The Copper River Salmon has arrived to Seattle on a Boeing 737-400 Combi. It has become a yearly tradition to wake up before it gets light and head on down to Alaska Air Cargo at Seattle-Tacoma…
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Olympic flame handover from Greece to London
May 18, 2012 | No Comments
London 2012: Delegation including Princess Anne, David Beckham, Boris Johnson and Sebastian Coe to receive Olympic torch at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens 4pm: The Olympic flame is due to be handed over from Greece to…
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Leveson inquiry: Harry Evans, Peter Oborne appear
May 18, 2012 | No Comments
• Evans: Murdoch and I almost came to fisticuffs at my house• Extraordinary that Times takeover never went to MMC• Papers are hiring detectives – we used to hire reporters• PCC didn’t have the power to frighten a…
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Seattle AvGeeks: Tweet Up This Saturday at Paine Field Aviation Day – Be There!
May 18, 2012 | No Comments
Come join us at 10am at the Paine Field Aviation Day at the Lockheed YO-3A. You can't miss it — it is the little plane with six blades. Image from the Museum of Flight. This…
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PHOTOS: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes a Visit to Sea-Tac Airport
May 18, 2012 | No Comments
Being based in Seattle, this is such a beautiful photo. Can't until this is a common sight. Photo by Don Wilson / Port of Seattle. Click for larger. On Monday, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (ZA005)…
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Alaska Airlines to Bring Back the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon Livery
May 17, 2012 | No Comments
Alaska Airlines New Salmon-Thirty-Salmon, which will be put in service in the fall 2012. Image from Alaska. CLICK FOR LARGER. Alaska Airlines and the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute have announced plans to make the world’s longest, flying King…
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Leveson inquiry: Jack Straw gives evidence – live
May 16, 2012 | No Comments
• Straw believes Murdoch ‘enjoyed playing with political leaders’• Straw ‘gossiped’ with Brooks during commute to London• Brooks was ‘fairly persistent’ in lobbying on ‘Sarah’s law’ 12.13pm: The press need to be “much more examining”…
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Syria crisis: live updates
May 16, 2012 | No Comments
Follow live updates as detailed accounts emerge of an attack on UN monitors in Syria Matthew Weaver Brian Whitaker
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