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Builders LondonDesign build: Getting your facts right They say home is where the heart is and all of us put in our hearts and souls into building that dream house. Just like anything else, our homes need renovation and change at some point down the line. The two most important aspects of doing this are construction and design and what better way than to find a way that integrates the two. Design build takes care of both aspects leaving you the job of finding a good design build contractor. Look no further, here we are! When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried two towns. One of these was Pompeii, now among the most familiar archaeological sites in the world. The other was Herculaneum, a seaside resort which was home to the villas of wealthy Romans who would come to the beautiful Bay of Naples to escape the heat and hubbub of the capital. 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A malaise hits Italian academia data: 07.04.08 Run by a select cadre of aging academics, ivory towers in Italy are as well defended as Fort Knox but without the gold. 2. Greece gripped by pensions strike data: 19.03.08 Greece's civil servants hold a general strike against pension reforms, paralysing transport and closing public offices. 3. The need to share a dark secret data: 07.04.08 Felix Dennis has retracted his "confession" but why do people suddenly own up to murder years later? 4. Bafta TV awards nominations 2008 data: 19.03.08 The full awards nomination list 5. Heather Mills and Paul McCartney divorce: 'Ridiculous' living expense claims data: 19.03.08 The water thrown at Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer at the end of his acrimonious divorce settlement sounded like a "waterfall", Heather Mills' legal aide has said. 6. Britain could be hardest hit by financial crisis, says IMF data: 10.04.08 Britain could be hardest hit by the global credit crisis as banks in this country have racked up bigger losses than anywhere else in the world, a new International Monetary Fund analysis shows. 7. Arctic losing long-term ice cover data: 19.03.08 Despite colder conditions, the Arctic is losing a lot of its old, stable ice, according to satellite data. 8. EU court to rule on use of 'Adidas stripes' data: 10.04.08 Fashion designers using stripes, from Comme des Garçons to Fred Perry, could fall foul of a ruling on the protection of the Adidas motif in the European Union courts today. 9. Masked gunmen steal âŹ4 million in Denmark robbery data: 07.04.08 Masked robbers armed with automatic weapons stole about 30 million kroner, or âŹ4 million, Tuesday from a cash depot in suburban Copenhagen and left explosives in their wake to avoid pursuit, police said. 10. EU attacks Sri Lanka over rights data: 19.03.08 An EU delegations says it has "serious concerns" about reports of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. 11. Millions being lost to 'boiler room' share frauds data: 10.04.08 Bogus stockbrokers are conning investors out of millions of pounds by pressurising them into buying worthless shares. 12. EU moves toward allowing in-flight cellphone calls data: 07.04.08 The new regulations, to be released Monday, will remove a major obstacle for companies that want to sell the service. 13. NBC in deal to broadcast Telemundo data: 19.03.08 GE's film and tv unit has forged a 10-year agreement with Mexico's Grupo Televisa to broadcast more than 1,000 hours of its shows annually and carry a pay-TV channel 14. Women face bias worldwide - UN data: 07.04.08 Women are discriminated against in almost every country worldwide, a UN-commissioned report says. 15. Diabetes 'may increase Alzheimer's risk' data: 10.04.08 Developing diabetes in middle age may significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer's, scientists claim. 16. Alexander steps down at The Economist Group data: 10.04.08 Helen Alexander, chief executive, is leaving after a tenure of more than a decade in which the group's flagship magazine has doubled in circulation 17. Russian security aims a blow at British oil company data: 27.03.08 The security services detained an employee of BP's Russian joint venture and are accusing him of industrial espionage, according to a government statement. 18. Sydney Opera House serenades architect data: 10.04.08 He has never actually laid eyes on the finished product, but the creator of the Sydney Opera House has been serenaded in Australia on his 90th birthday. 19. Cyprus talks 'must succeed' data: 19.03.08 The Cypriot president says the failure of new peace talks will be "devastating" for the divided island. 20. Four prisoners executed in Japan data: 10.04.08 Four death row prisoners are hanged in Japan, two months after the last round of executions. 21. Italy's trash crisis taints mozzarella's prized reputation data: 27.03.08 For years, little has been done to halt huge-scale illegal dumping of trash, some of it toxic, around Naples. Now there are fears that the buffalo mozzarella produced in that area could be contaminated. 22. Stem cell pioneer backs research data: 10.04.08 The scientist who first isolated stem cells more than 25 years ago has hit back at critics of embryo research. 23. Kosovo adopts a new constitution data: 10.04.08 Kosovo adopts a new constitution, to come into force in June after an expected UN handover of powers. 24. Afghans 'seize Taleban leader' data: 07.04.08 Afghan officials say they have arrested a senior Taleban commander in the southern city of Kandahar. 25. Latest Pictures: The 90th anniversary of the RAF data: 07.04.08 Pictures from 90 years of the RAF. 26. Failure of new peace talks would be 'devastating,' president of Cyprus says data: 27.03.08 The comments by President Dimitris Christofias came two days before a meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat. 27. Afghanistan's youngest migrants adrift on the road to asylum data: 27.03.08 Hundreds of child refugees from Afghanistan are camped at a port in western Greece, hoping to sneak onto a ferry to Western Europe. But the boys, as young as 8, are being preyed on by traffickers. 28. Angus Fairhurst, member of Young British Artists, dies data: 07.04.08 Angus Fairhurst, one of the group known as Young British Artists, or YBAs, who stirred up the art scene in London and beyond in the 1990s, died Saturday in Scotland. He was 41 and lived in London. 29. Papers apologise to Madeleine McCann parents data: 19.03.08 Two tabloid newspapers have published front-page apologies and paid "very substantial" damages over reports about the role of Kate and Gerry McCann in disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. 30. Try this headline: Black Hole Eats Earth data: 07.04.08 A lawsuit contends that a giant particle accelerator outside Geneva might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth - and maybe the universe. |