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    To what extent can environmental pollutants and alcohol affect GI health?  Jun 1, 2009
    "These findings are important to developing our understanding of the development of gallstones. Once we examine all the factors related to their development in our study in the UK, including diet, exercise, body weight and alcohol intake, we can develop a precise understanding of what causes gallstones and how to prevent them," said Andrew Hart, MD, senior lecturer in gastroenterology at The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and The University of East Anglia, in the United Kingdom. Dr.... (EurekAlert!)

    Should people be barred from the UK?  May 6, 2009
    Page last updated at 05:01 GMT, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 06:01 UK. Should people be barred from the UK. (BBC News)

    Rupert Lowe leads board exodus fr...  Apr 2, 2009
    People close to the situation also said that that Norwich Union, which is owed 24 million by Southampton for its 30,000-seat stadium built in 2001, might consider writing off some of the club s debt mountain to help to keep it alive. Aviva, which owns Norwich Union, declined to comment ... The sources added that Norwich Union would make its decision after the administrators had identified possible buyers for the club. (New York Post -- Business)

    Long-term Use Of Popular Inhalers Increases Risk Of Pneumonia For COPD Patients  Feb 13, 2009
    Co-researchers for this study were Aman V. Amin, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Yoon K. Loke, M.D., MBBS, of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)

    Julia Cake to be Featured on Cover of Spring 2008 Issue  Mar 31, 2008
    The article begins, With her stone sculpture, Performance, now on display in the foyer of the newly-refurbished Norwich Theatre Royal in Norfolk, Monaco-born sculptress Julia Cake has taken the first step in launching her career in the UK. Cake was born in Monaco and began her education at Beaux Art Academy in France. Through turns of events in her life, she has been continually motived by her true determination to pursue artistic endeavors. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Cigarettes to be sold under shop counters  Mar 27, 2008
    Sally-Ann Oakes, Norwich, Norfolk. In reply to marks post. (Times Online)

    A stronger heart with flavonoids  Mar 20, 2008
    John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom. Universit degli Studi di Milano, Italy. (EurekAlert!)

    Train crash sparks commuter chaos in Midlands  Feb 2, 2008
    13am Nottingham to Norwich service was too close to stop in time and ploughed into the wreckage that lay in its path ... 13 Nottingham to Norwich service with six passengers on board was unable to stop and struck the bridge. (Times Online)

    Schofield Media Group Announces Latest Acquisition  Feb 2, 2008
    The company maintains offices in London, Norwich and Essex in the United Kingdom and Boston, Chicago and New York City in the United States. Divisions include Schofield Publishing, Schofield Healthcare Media, Schofield Media Chicago, Ideal Media and RedCoat Publishing. (PR Newswire)

    Ships on legs  Jan 31, 2008
    ----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 11:55 GMT. (BBC News -- UK)

    Gordon Brown planning clampdown on cannabis  Jan 12, 2008
    Ross, Norwich, Norfolk. Prohibition never works, and when imposed, the population will find a way round it, by legal or illegal means. (Times Online)

    Time for doctors to unstrap their watches?  Jan 4, 2008
    He works in Norwich and admits in his papers competing-interests section that he "likes to wear a wristwatch". Watch out. (Nature News Service)

    Anger as rail fares on some of busiest routes rise by up to 11%  Jan 1, 2008
    38 per cent between Norwich and London. Occasional rail passengers will also pay up to 10 per cent more from tomorrow. (Times Online)

    Readers' picks  Dec 27, 2007
    Lots of friends say that, like me, they turn to Hoggart's sketch first thing - for entertainment and enlightenment - Richard Beck, Norwich. Guardian, July 24 The prime minister had raced back from the flood waters to give his first full press conference yesterday. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Digital divideFast net could increase speed gaps between town and country  Dec 6, 2007
    I live 6 miles from Norwich but my exchange is in another village and is further away. The area I live in has recently seen a massive rise in housing due to a new estate being built, but as with all the other infrastructure nothing gets updated or improved. (BBC News -- Science)

    Northern Rock confirms preference for Virgin bid  Nov 26, 2007
    Virgin Money, based in Norwich, England, was established in 1995. Northern Rock said there was no certainty that that the Virgin proposal would be accepted, and that meanwhile the company continued to explore other options. (International Herald Tribune)

    Spotlight : All about stem cells  Nov 22, 2007
    Norwich NR4 7UH United Kingdom. Supporting sponsor. (Nature News Service)

    Barclays bankrolls Mugabes brutal regime  Nov 18, 2007
    J.Bloggs, Norwich, Norfolk. Oh, technic. (Yahoo News -- Zimbabwe)

    Is it OK for disabled people to go to brothels?  Oct 24, 2007
    ----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 15:25 GMT 16:25 UK. (BBC News -- UK)

    A Wheat for All Seasons and Reasons  Oct 21, 2007
    He has been contacted by personnel at the Jon Innes Centre in Norwich, England, who want to help the United Kingdom address how agronomic practices affect habitat of and numbers of wild birds. They are looking for low-input perennial cereals and have requested seed from Rush's trials. (Science Daily)

    Anti-depressants And Painkillers Combined Linked To Gastrointestinal Bleeding  Oct 10, 2007
    Singh's co-researchers were Apurva Trivedi, M.D., with Wake Forest, and Yoon K. Loke, M.D., lead author, with the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. The research was reported online this month in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. (Science Daily)

    Fire and flood threat to our literary heritage  Sep 12, 2007
    In 1994 fire ripped through Norwich Central Library, incinerating more than 100,000 books and ancient documents. A flash-flood hit a storage facility at the University of Sussex Library in 2000, severely damaging a collection of 42,000 books and 14,000 bound magazines, microfilms, and newspapers. (Scotsman)

    Britain's Troubles Going Green  Sep 6, 2007
    "What our study shows," said Paul Stokes of Norwich Union, the group that managed the surveys, "is that people are consistently pretending to have changed their behavior rather than actually doing it." More than half of those surveyed felt guilty about not having a recycling bin, but more than half also reported that they were "unlikely" to change their lifestyles to help the environment. The British government, it seems, has the much same problem. (Utne.com)

    Wii hits 1m UK sales in record time  Sep 1, 2007
    22,000 - 35,000 Norwich Union York. 100k to 200k Centrix. (Times Online)

    Arrogant Cameron costs party a donor  Aug 8, 2007
    22,000 - 35,000 Norwich Union York. Competitive Armit Notting Hill. (Times Online)

    Amstrad nostalgiaRemember the PCW? Computing has come a long way, baby  Aug 2, 2007
    " Send us your comments using the form below. What's with all the eulogising? The PCW was a dreadful little machine - and the printer chewed up all the paper if you didn't watch it like a hawk.Jen, Manchester, UK I got around the non-standard disks by buying a second drive that took normal PC disks. The upgrade kit included a mini hacksaw for cutting a new hole in the casing for the disk to fit!David Spofforth, London, United Kingdom My mother (well into her 70s) still uses a PCW and refuses to... (BBC News -- Technology)

    AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art  Jul 16, 2007
    AfterShock, a major new contemporary art exhibition, opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich on Saturday 14 July and runs until Sunday 2 September ... AfterShock is the Sainsbury Centre's contribution to Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, a city-wide celebration of international contemporary visuals arts from 14 July to 31 August. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Read Indepth Article  Jul 3, 2007
    This summer will see the second Contemporary Art Norwich; a citywide biennial event programmed to coincide with the seventeenth EAST international exhibition at Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art n. OUTPOST, one of the four key partners programming this years biennial, has invited S1 Artspace along with nine other artist-led spaces from across Europe and the UK to participate in British and European Legs ... S1 Artspaces participation at Contemporary Art Norwich is generously supported... (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Wi-Fi health concerns increase  May 23, 2007
    The Panaroma documentary, which aired on Monday May 21, duly compared the level of radiation measured from a typical mobile phone mast against the level of Wi-Fi radiation found in a Norwich classroom equipped with Wi-Fi access. The readings revealed that the Wi-Fi signal strength was triple that of the mobile phone masts main beam of intensity. (Monsters and Critics.com)

    A useful vote 19/04/07  Apr 24, 2007
    Mike Robbins, Norwich. The middle class will align themselves with the blue collar vote to elect "Sego", or the business class to elect "Sarko". (BBC News -- Europe)

    * World News Quick Take  Apr 23, 2007
    Complaints are currently being investigated in Edinburgh, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, Hull, Norwich, Peterborough and Bury St Edmunds, said the BBC, which added that 200 of Britain's 9,500 gas stations have been hit. UNITED KINGDOM Women avoid sentence Four women who forced two toddlers to fight as they were filmed savagely punching each other, have walked free from court. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Climate Protection Strategies using Advanced Power Meters Part II  Apr 5, 2007
    Richard Starkey, Kevin Anderson, Domestic Tradable Quotas: A policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, Tyndall Centre Technical Report No. 39 (Norwich: Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, December 2005), p. 1. 19. (Energy Pulse, CO)

    Belfast is No 2 City in uk for mobile phone theft  Apr 5, 2007
    At the other end of the scale, Aberdeen and Norwich experienced the fewest incidents of mobile phone theft. John Walkley, Head of Mobile Phone Security at CPP Phonesafe, said that mobile phone theft is becoming alarmingly common, with around 10,000 handsets being stolen each month. (Belfast Telegraph)

    Vehicles stalled by rogue fuel  Mar 1, 2007
    The RAC reported an increase in fuel-related breakdowns in the south-east of England and it had affected members from Norwich across to Brighton particularly affecting oxygen sensors in Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Mercedes cars. Darren Ross, 42, said his car had to be taken to a garage four times in the last two weeks after refuelling at a petrol station in Waltham Abbey in Essex. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Just returning your call  Feb 15, 2007
    Norwich Union recently hit the headlines for reportedly doing a U-turn on foreign call centres, but says it has not shut its operation in India. "We have just moved certain calls back to the UK, like household claims," says a spokeswoman. (BBC News -- UK)

    UK to outsource of health sector to India  Feb 10, 2007
    The recent report that Norwich Union, which had outsourced a significant number of its activities to India three years ago, was recalling 150 positions from the centres dealing with insurance claims thus does not seem to be part of a trend. Nor is it to be interpreted as signalling a reverse flow. (Hindustan Times)

    The Start of the Journey - Americans and Canadians can now Trace Their European Ancestors' First Steps Away From Their Homeland  Jan 24, 2007
    " Notes to Editors (*) Source: Immigration to the United States, R.L. Cohn (US Department of Commerce Historical Statistics of the United States). About findmypast.com: - April 2003: (formerly 1837online.com) became the first website to put the complete indexes to all the births, marriages and deaths in England from 1837-2004 online. Previously, the only way to perform such a search would have been either to travel to the Family Records Centre in London or to visit certain record repositories... (PR Newswire)



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