BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast | Reporters | Graham Satchell
...Regular Breakfast reporter Graham Satchell counts himself as a Geordie. His first TV job was with Britain's smallest station, on Jersey...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | 1948: The State of Israel is founded
...The State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948, the culmination of nearly 2,000 years of hopes by Jewish people that they would one day return to the land from which the Romans expelled them. The Holocaust of European Jewry in the Second World War strengthened their determination. The Balfour ......
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Guernsey | Witness describes fighting flames
...A man who fought back the flames of a fire in a St Peter Port flat in which two people were injured has described his experience. Dwayne Ingrouille was one of the first people on the scene of the blaze in Lower Vauvert. He said the flames were about 7ft (2.1m) tall and he was worried that a man hanging from the roof would fall. The fire was one of five during the early hours of Sunday which ......
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BBC NEWS | Business | Lesotho fines second dam firm
...Lesotho's High Court has fined a German company more than $1m for bribing its way into a massive dams project. The company, Lahmeyer International, says it will appeal against both the conviction and the 10.45m maloti ($1.46m; £930,000) fine. Lahmeyer is the second firm to be convicted in ......
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BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet
...Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet....
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Home suite home
...One couple has spent 22 years staying in a Travelodge, but why would anybody want to live in a hotel permanently? Some people who stay in hotels all the time love complaining about them. Whether it's rock stars who are on the road permanently or footballers waiting for construction to finish on ......
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London | Tycoon to appeal over assault sentence - BBC News
...Bloom was cleared of assaulting a 14-year-old girl A businessman who was convicted of assaulting a 15-year-old girl has been given leave to appeal against his prison sentence. Baron Bloom, a former property developer, from St John's Wood, north-west London, was said to have taken advantage of the ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/2932376.stm
Archaelogists unearth ancient shrine - BBC News
...A 12th century relic discovered in Northern Ireland has been described by a leading archaeologist as the "find of his life". Brian Williams, joint excavation director of the Environment and Heritage Service (EHS), found the rare bronze bell shrine during a dig near Ballycastle, County Antrim. "I was ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3144127.stm
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cable TV proves fatal for possums
...Outside my house, one hung there for two months until it rotted away." Distressing sight Few people foresaw the impact of cable lines on wildlife but Dr Brown's research shows that one utility company lost As$5.7m between 1994 and 1998 because of wildlife-related power cuts - most of them from possums....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/843155.stm
South West Wales | Mystery of missing nun reviewed - BBC News
...The case of a nun who went missing 27 years ago is being reviewed. Sister Jacinta Bracken, who was based at the Stella Maris convent in Swansea, disappeared in May 1979 while shopping for a pair of stockings for her mother. Originally from Ballacolla in Ireland, the 38-year-old was last seen near ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5034628.stm