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London, July 6 : The otherwise reticent wife of the British Prime Gordon Brown has come out into the open to battle for her husband's political career. Sarah Brown, 44, is the cook behind the "lasagne offensive," which Gordon Brown has launched to improve working relationships with his cabinet ministers. Recently, Brown's two cabinet ministers-- James Purnell and Hazel Blears-- walked out of the Cabinet complaining that the PM was operating through a tiny cabal, which includes his old ally Ed Balls and the Cabinet First Secretary, Peter Mandelson. Caroline Flint, a middle-ranking minister who attended Cabinet, complained she was there only as "window dressing" when she too resigned. But now, Sarah has decided to use her easy social skills, which she honed as the founder a PR agency before her marriage, to save her husband's... [read full story]
Tom Whipple and David Brown The Cumbrian town of Workington was cut in half today as police closed the final surviving bridge amid fears that it will collapse into a flooded river. The Calva Bridge was closed after the main...
Division of Translational and Molecular Medicine Centre for Autozygosity Mapping - Section of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience Faculty of Medicine and Health - University of Leeds / Date of entry: 22/11/09
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South Africa 250-9; England 252-3 England won by seven wickets Hello. Hello? Hear that tap-tapping sound? That's me knocking on the screen to see if anyone is out there. No one said anything about an 8am start. It's an unholy...
