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02/08/2012
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Five-Minute Double Gold For GB
Two more golds joined the British Olympic medal tally this afternoon.
Tim Baillie and Etienne Scott topped the doubles canoe slalom with an error-free run, moments before shooter Peter Wilson won in the double trap at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Wollwich.
Team GB now has four gold medals, out of 13 in total.
Topless Feminists Arrested
Four members of a Ukrainian feminist group who protest topless have been arrested outside City Hall in London.
They accused the Olympics’ governing body of supporting "bloody" Islamist regimes.
The group, called Femen, was founded in Kiev in 2008.
It has organised topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies and other societal problems.
Teenager’s Drug Death: Possible Manslaughter Charge
A coroner has adjourned the inquest into the death of a fifteen-year-old, to allow prosecutors to decide whether or not to bring manslaughter charges against a man in whose house she took drugs before she died.
Isobel Jones-Reilly was at an unsupervised party in the London home of Brian Dodgeon when she took ecstasy, in 2011.
She died thereafter.
Dodgeon has already received an eight-month suspended sentence suspended for two years for possession of class A drugs.
(NE)
Two more golds joined the British Olympic medal tally this afternoon.
Tim Baillie and Etienne Scott topped the doubles canoe slalom with an error-free run, moments before shooter Peter Wilson won in the double trap at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Wollwich.
Team GB now has four gold medals, out of 13 in total.
Topless Feminists Arrested
Four members of a Ukrainian feminist group who protest topless have been arrested outside City Hall in London.
They accused the Olympics’ governing body of supporting "bloody" Islamist regimes.
The group, called Femen, was founded in Kiev in 2008.
It has organised topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies and other societal problems.
Teenager’s Drug Death: Possible Manslaughter Charge
A coroner has adjourned the inquest into the death of a fifteen-year-old, to allow prosecutors to decide whether or not to bring manslaughter charges against a man in whose house she took drugs before she died.
Isobel Jones-Reilly was at an unsupervised party in the London home of Brian Dodgeon when she took ecstasy, in 2011.
She died thereafter.
Dodgeon has already received an eight-month suspended sentence suspended for two years for possession of class A drugs.
(NE)
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