Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Middleton family home sold at auction (AFP)
• FTSE shares close stronger (AFP)
• British spies swap cupcake recipes into al-Qaida magazine (The Envoy)
• Probes launched into fatal blast at Chevron refinery (Reuters)
• Olympic cops to get counseling after Games duties (AP)
• Met officers cleared of assaulting terror suspect (AFP)
• UK police cleared of assaulting terror suspect (AP)
• British spies to terrorists: make cupcakes not war (AP)
• FTSE steady in midday trade (AFP)
• Row over British city outsourcing jobs to India (AFP)
• Britain unveils historic and hip government art (Reuters)
• Four killed in Welsh oil refinery blast (AFP)
• Chevron says four killed in UK refinery explosion (Reuters)
• British bookmaker Betfred buys Tote for £265 mn (AFP)
• UK spies cooked up problem for al Qaeda: media (Reuters)
• FTSE opens higher (AFP)
• British Intelligence Replaced Bombs With Cupcakes in Al-Qaeda Mag (The Atlantic Wire)
• Fire at Chevron oil refinery in Wales, 4 killed (AP)

Middleton family home sold at auction (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 10:14 AM PDT AFP - The childhood home of Prince William's wife Catherine was sold at auction on Friday to a local couple of teachers for £485,000.

FTSE shares close stronger (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 09:08 AM PDT AFP - Stocks in London closed firmer on Friday, as Athens sought to finalise a new EU/IMF bailout deal to rescue its beleaguered economy.

British spies swap cupcake recipes into al-Qaida magazine (The Envoy) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 08:04 AM PDT The Envoy - Readers of al-Qaida's "Inspire" magazine got a tasty surprise thanks to British intelligence operatives: recipes, courtesy of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," for mini cupcakes. British spies reportedly hacked into the website of the English-language quarterly published by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula last year, swapping in the cupcake recipes to replace the bombmaking how-to guides [...]

Probes launched into fatal blast at Chevron refinery (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:56 AM PDT Reuters - Safety experts Friday launched an investigation into an explosion that killed four people and seriously injured a fifth worker at a Chevron Corp oil refinery in southwest Wales.

Olympic cops to get counseling after Games duties (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:50 AM PDT AP - Guarding the Olympic torch for 70 days on its journey through the British Isles sounds like a plum assignment, but experts warn it will carry serious stress and Scotland Yard plans to offer psychological counseling when the 8,000-mile trip is completed.

Met officers cleared of assaulting terror suspect (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT AFP - Four police officers were cleared by a jury Friday of beating up a Muslim man, who is wanted for extradition by the United States, during his arrest on suspicion of terrorism offences.

UK police cleared of assaulting terror suspect (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:46 AM PDT AP - Four British police officers were cleared Friday of beating, insulting and sexually assaulting a terrorism suspect wanted in the Unites States.

British spies to terrorists: make cupcakes not war (AP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 06:36 AM PDT AP - Britain's spy agencies have a new message for terrorists: make cupcakes, not war.

FTSE steady in midday trade (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:36 AM PDT AFP - London stocks were steady in midday trade Friday amid jitters over looming US payrolls data and as Athens sought to finalise a new EU/IMF bailout deal.

Row over British city outsourcing jobs to India (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 05:30 AM PDT AFP - Council chiefs in Britain's second city met with trade unions Friday after plans to outsource computer jobs to India sparked an angry response.

Britain unveils historic and hip government art (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:17 AM PDT Reuters - Lowry's lonely people, Tracey Emin's scrawlings and a mysterious portrait of Elizabeth I are just a few of the gems from the British government's art collection unveiled to the public for the first time this week.

Four killed in Welsh oil refinery blast (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:45 AM PDT AFP - An explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales - one of the largest in western Europe - killed four contractors and sent a massive fireball shooting into the sky, police said on Friday.

Chevron says four killed in UK refinery explosion (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:32 AM PDT Reuters - Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales, the plant's owner Chevron Corp said on Friday.

British bookmaker Betfred buys Tote for £265 mn (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 03:05 AM PDT AFP - British bookmaker Betfred said Friday it has won a government auction to buy the Tote for £265 million ($433 million, 300 million euros), ending a lengthy saga over the betting group's privatisation.

UK spies cooked up problem for al Qaeda: media (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:58 AM PDT Reuters - British spies hacked into an al Qaeda website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with recipes for making cupcakes, newspapers reported on Friday.

FTSE opens higher (AFP) Posted: 03 Jun 2011 01:02 AM PDT AFP - London stocks opened higher on Friday, bouncing back from sharp falls the previous day triggered by weak global economic data.

British Intelligence Replaced Bombs With Cupcakes in Al-Qaeda Mag (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:35 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Want to add to this story? Comment below or send the author of this post, Uri Friedman, an email. Have a hot tip or story idea? Let us know on the Open Wire.

Fire at Chevron oil refinery in Wales, 4 killed (AP) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:54 PM PDT AP - An explosion in a storage tank caused a fire at a Chevron oil refinery in Wales on Thursday, killing four contractors and seriously injuring another worker, the company said.

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