WIBX 950 » great britain http://wibx950.com Your News Talk and Sports Leader Sat, 25 May 2013 02:05:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Helen Mirren Plays Queen for Boy With Terminal Cancer http://wibx950.com/helen-mirren-plays-queen-for-boy-with-terminal-cancer/ http://wibx950.com/helen-mirren-plays-queen-for-boy-with-terminal-cancer/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 17:05:16 +0000 Donald Deane http://thefw.com/?p=207036 After Queen Elizabeth II said no to a dying boy's wish to visit Buckingham Palace, Helen Mirren, who's currently playing Her Majesty onstage, stepped in and made his dream come true. Dame Mirren, we love you even more now.

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]]> http://wibx950.com/helen-mirren-plays-queen-for-boy-with-terminal-cancer/feed/ 0 Gawker Margaret Thatcher's Funeral [VIDEO LINK] http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatchers-funeral-underway-video-link/ http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatchers-funeral-underway-video-link/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:01:12 +0000 Kristine Bellino http://wibx950.com/?p=181274 Funeral services for Baroness Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, are underway at this hour.

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]]> http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatchers-funeral-underway-video-link/feed/ 0 Ian Gavan, Getty Images Margaret Thatcher Left Her Imprint On The World http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatcher-left-her-imprint-on-the-world/ http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatcher-left-her-imprint-on-the-world/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:45:15 +0000 WIBX AM 950 http://wibx950.com/?p=176215 UK still dominated by Thatcher's economic legacy (via AFP)

Margaret Thatcher's free-market reforms were controversial, but they fundamentally changed the British economy and still provide a yardstick against which her successors are judged. During the 1980s, her Conservative government deregulated the financial markets, broke the power of the trade unions,…

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]]> http://wibx950.com/margaret-thatcher-left-her-imprint-on-the-world/feed/ 0 Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Known As "The Iron Lady," Dies After Stroke http://wibx950.com/former-british-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-known-as-the-iron-lady-dies-after-stroke/ http://wibx950.com/former-british-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-known-as-the-iron-lady-dies-after-stroke/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:22:19 +0000 Kristine Bellino http://wibx950.com/?p=176072 Margaret Thatcher has died.  The former British Prime Minister was known as "The Iron Lady."

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]]> http://wibx950.com/former-british-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-known-as-the-iron-lady-dies-after-stroke/feed/ 0 Chris Jackson, Getty Images Holy Strange Arrest, Batman! Man Dressed as Caped Crusader Brings Fugitive to Police http://wibx950.com/real-batman-england/ http://wibx950.com/real-batman-england/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:20:07 +0000 Drew Weisholtz http://guyspeed.com/?p=118464 So that's what Batman looks like without the molded armor. Makes us feel a little better.

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]]> http://wibx950.com/real-batman-england/feed/ 0 West Yorkshire Police Britain Testing Amphibious Home http://wibx950.com/britain-testing-amphibious-home/ http://wibx950.com/britain-testing-amphibious-home/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:52:30 +0000 Gino Geruntino http://wibx950.com/?p=127326 United Kingdom (WIBX) - In the wake of Super Storm Sandy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for more than $40 billion to help in the clean up effort.

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]]> http://wibx950.com/britain-testing-amphibious-home/feed/ 0 Bruce Bennett, Getty Images British Prime Minister David Cameron Considers Implementing 'Fat Tax' http://wibx950.com/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-fat-tax/ http://wibx950.com/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-fat-tax/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:47:41 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=53962 Citing a desire to avoid soaring health costs and shortened life expectancies, British Prime Minister David Cameron will consider introducing a “fat tax” similar to one recently introduced in Denmark.

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