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On 23 April, the Pearson group launched a campaign to revitalise their flagship newspaper, the Financial Times. Driven by the campaign website, the ad blitz also extends to huge billboards dotted around London and a few changes to the UK's print edition. 

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Jumping from one rooftop to another, scaling staircases on the outside and doing a back flip off a railing onto the ground below may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but some Londoners are finding this sport to be a great way to keep fit and try something new and different.

It's called Free Running, and involves participants clearing obstacles in their path in a smooth and fluid way, using movements such as vaulting, somersaults, and jumping in any way they can.

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• Issue 2
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“Anything connected to Islam is reported in a bad way," says John Jewell, professor of journalism at Cardiff University.

He spoke to the London Project about how the issue of veiled women in the UK was covered by the media.

This news story highlights the bias of the media according to Jewell. "Race is being brought without need to the front-page." 

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Amnesty International's Irrepressible Info campaign, started in 2006 by The Observer, has been relaunched due to censorship crackdowns in many parts of the world.  An advocate for free expression, it supports bloggers and others who have been persecuted - and often prosecuted - for publishing opinions online that are contrary to government policy.

The campaign also calls on web users to take action against governments who block or censor sites.

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• Issue 2
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Excluded from school for setting off a firework in a classroom, a 14-year-old black boy grows up homeless. 

Where are his parents?  Where is the social care?  

Now 18, the same boy is treading water just trying to make a living as a plasterer. 

He is not in a gang. He does not sell drugs. He's black, he's poor, he's angry. He's just one of the hundreds of troubled black youths that community workers encounter every day. 

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In the UK students from outside the European Union pay substantially higher fees for third level courses.

The reason is that the British government contributes a significant amount of money to UK universities for the education costs of  'home' students.

As a result, international students are required to pay higher fees.

Despite the high costs of studying in the UK it is a very popular destination for students because of the quality of education in British universites. 

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• G8
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Deconstructing the G8 timetable...

Thursday 7 June 2007

0930:    Official welcome of G8 heads of state and government

“Velcom to Gerrrrmeny! Ve vill hav verk and fun too, ja.” Merkel sings David Hasselhoff's "Looking For Freedom". "He liberated us from communism, you know," she explains to a baffled Bush, who asks if Pamela Anderson is a member of G8.

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Undergraduate fees are expected to double in order for the curriculum to stay competitive.

Tuition fees used to be around £1,200 per year. However, the top-up fees introduced this academic year reach £3,000. The Higher Education Bill has set them until 2010 for England and Northern Ireland.

For the detractors of the fees - such as students, academics, and the Scottish MPs who decided to keep universities free - that steady hike reveals the government's incapacity to protect the principle of an egalitarian education.

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