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...Washington. A British pullout "will be ugly and embarrassing." That was Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and military adviser to President Bush, in interview with the Sunday Times of London on Aug. 19. General Jack Keane, who is advising General Petraeus, told the BBC that U.S. forces needed in the central part of Iraq may be forced to redeploy if British troops depart. In his Aug. 22 radio interview, he said that the U.K. had "never had enough forces to truly protect the people" in the British zone of operations and that the situation...
Corporate sponsors have been quick to embrace the trend, and all the hard parts - staging, logistics, security - have been arranged and paid for by the likes of MySpace, Converse and BBC's Radio1. Seizing the moment, UK indie music company Mute Records has also launched a label, Irregulars, pitching new, young talent at a new, young market, with Killcoyne on board as a talent-spotter...
...Paul Merritt, a Michelin-starred chef and BBC TV food presenter, has confirmed that he was often offered caviar at half the normal price by suspicious characters. "Three or four people would ring up and say, 'I've got some caviar. Would you like some now?' -just like you would if you had someone calling up and saying, 'I've got a few dodgy stereos'," said Merritt...
...News of the second outbreak stoked fears among local farmers over a repeat of the FMD outbreak of 2001, which devastated British farming and hit tourism, costing the economy an estimated $17 billion. Lawrence Mathews, the owner of the land where the second outbreak emerged told BBC radio: "We were starting to think that maybe this virus has been contained and maybe we'd get back to normality within the next few weeks...
...Earlier this year, the head of the laboratory, Professor Martin Shirley, told a Parliament select committee he was trying to run a Rolls Royce service, but was being "funded at the level of a Ford Cortina." (On Monday, he told the BBC that he stood by his comments but refused to comment any further...