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  Starbucks 'wasting 23 million litres of water a day'

  Mon Oct 06 10:06AM

  Starbucks has today been accused of wasting more than 23 million litres of water every day. The coffee chain, which prides itself on being green, has a health and safety policy of leaving taps running in all of its 10,000 branches worldwide it has been revealed today. The company policy prohibits staff from turning off… More »

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  Internet is 'running out of space’

  Thu Sep 25 03:37PM

  The World Wide Web is running out of addresses according to one of the men who helped invent the system. Vint Cerf, aka the ‘father of the Internet', has said that businesses and consumers must act now in switching to the next generation of online addresses. In an interview with The Times Mr Cerf said… More »

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  The real life Robin Hood was a banker?

  Wed Sep 17 02:50PM

  I'm prepared to believe a lot of strange things. Dolphins sleep with one eye open? Okay, I can buy into that. Slugs have 4 noses? No problem. But the real life Robin Hood was a banker? No chance. Apparently it's true, well sort-of. The real-life Robin - or Benedict Hancock as he is… More »

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  Which one's Winston?

  Mon Sep 08 12:09PM

  It may seem obvious to most of us but according to a recent survey one in four children think wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill is the name of the nodding dog in insurance adverts. The survey, which polled 1,000 eight to 11-year-olds, also found that children are much more likely to recognise 'I'm A… More »

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  No room at the inn for injured soldier

  Thu Sep 04 02:38PM

  A British soldier on leave after being injured in Afghanistan has been refused a room in a Surrey hotel just because he is in the army. The BBC has reported that Corporal Tomos Stringer, 23, from Gwynedd in Wales, was visiting an injured friend near Woking when he was turned away from the Metro… More »

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  Summer is over: It's official

  Mon Sep 01 12:11PM

  As summer came to a close yesterday figures released by the Met Office confirmed what most of us already knew - that this year's summer has been a complete wash-out. The question flying around the news desk today is probably the one you're asking right now: 'What summer?' Well we have every right to feel… More »

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  'Arson' mystery: Who are the Fosters?

  Thu Aug 28 12:22PM

  At the time of writing emergency services are still waiting to enter the fire-ravaged home of the Foster family. Christopher Foster, wife Jillian and their daughter Kirstie have not been seen since Tuesday's fire at their Shropshire home. Police officers have been unable to search the house due to the fire's severity but it… More »

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  Microsoft to support anonymous browsing

  Tue Aug 26 10:47AM

  Microsoft officials have confirmed that the company is to introduce a way for users to surf the Web anonymously. As part of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 release, Microsoft is incorporating 'inPrivate' - a mode that will not record visits to the user's history and will not allow sites to place cookies on the user's system.… More »

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  Shoppers 'cheated' by supermarket brands

  Mon Aug 18 01:02PM

  Have you noticed that your shopping bags are getting lighter recently? Well, unfortunately it's probably not because your biceps are getting bigger, but more likely to be because your grocery shopping is getting smaller.As the cost of producing and manufacturing goods in the UK increases, more and more big brands are employing the tactic of… More »

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  Olympic trickery: What can we believe?

  Thu Aug 14 05:46PM

  With the first week of the Olympics coming to a close there's no doubt that Beijing has provided the world with some spectacular sporting footage... but what about behind the scenes? Let's just say that some major cracks are appearing in China's great Olympic wall. It is thought that around one billion people, or 15% of… More »

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