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ModernTube

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:16 pm by Group 1

Boris Johnson today announced that by London 2012 there will be WiFi access to 80 station platforms and 120 stations by 2013. Although WiFi won’t be available while travelling on the tube, people waiting or getting off at platforms will have unlimited internet access. The chosen internet provider is Virgin Media. This’ll be extremely beneficial ...
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Crash closes M1

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:16 pm by Group 2

In the thick fog of this morning, four lorries collided between junction 25 and 26. Police investigators believe a car was also involved, but it left the scene undamaged . Police investigators believe the car caused the lorry behind it to brake hard, but another lorry, a tanker unit, then smashed into the back of the first ...
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Liver Scare for Abidal

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:10 pm by Group 2

Barcelona and France defender Eric Abidal is to undergo a liver transplant. The 32-year-old had surgery to remove a tumour on his liver last March, but recovered in time to play in the Champions League final, just two months later . “Over the coming weeks, the player will undergo a liver transplant,” a Barcelona club statement confirmed. “The ...
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Oxford Nanopore

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:09 pm by Group 1

Oxford Nanopore, a company founded in 2005, has devised a new system of reading DNA – nanopore sequencing that is used on two instruments. One system called ‘GridION’ is the size of a video recorder and a second called ‘MinION’ is the size of a USB memory stick. Unlike most other systems, it is not enormous; the smallest instrument at ...
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Crossrail Work

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:06 pm by Group 4

Work has begun on the new £16bn Crossrail tunnels beneath London. The first of eight Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) has been moved into position at Royal Oak, in the west of London. These machines each weigh up to 1,000 tonnes, are 150 meters long, and cost around £10 million. They will dig at a rate of 100 ...
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GB for Wimbledon?

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:02 pm by admin

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Can Great Britain produce the next Wimbledon Tennis Champion? GB juniors show tremendous potential and are achieving some fantastic results internationally winning European Summer Championships, Junior Davis Cup and Winter Cup events recently, but can they convert into top class professionals? Charles, aged 13, is a pupil at St Albans Boys’ School, Hertfordshire and is ...
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Secret Woods House

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 3:02 pm by Group 2

A couple has been discovered to have been living in a house built in the woods near a village called Wescott in Surrey, without recieving planning permission. The Brown family have managed to avoid eviction, as they were able to prove that they had been living there for over four years, since August 2007. However, they ...
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Car Production Rise

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 2:57 pm by Group 2

A 23.5% increase in UK car production has been recorded for last month in comparison with the same time last year. Car production for February 2012 has been reported with an increase to almost 138, 300 cars, ahead of February 2011. It was also recorded that 81.9% of the cars produced in the UK last ...
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White Cliff Scare

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 2:52 pm by Group 4

Yesterday - 14th March - a huge landslide occured on the white cliffs of Dover, near the area known as Crab Bay. Thousands of tonnes of the cliff-face fell into the sea, caused by rain freezing and expanding, weakening the chalk that makes up the cliffs surface. An area the size of a football pitch fell away, crashing down 300 ...
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Chambers Returns

Posted on March 15th, 2012 at 2:50 pm by Group 1

Ex-Olympic athlete Dwain Chambers, 33, took the BOA (British Olympic Association) to court on Monday 12th March in an attempt to have his lifetime Olympic ban lifted for 2012, after being forced to miss out on the Beijing Olympics. This has come about in light of many American athletes (such as Justin Gatlin) having served their mandatory bans ...
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