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A restaurant attached to an English vineyard is normally best approached with caution, rather like a bottle of English wine. Sure, you'd try it, just to be polite, but let's be honest, wouldn't something French or Italian just be so much better? But put aside those preconceptions, because here we are in Wickham Vineyard, near Southampton, on a gorgeous sunny afternoon, and it's wonderful. Not only is the wine – a flinty, Germanic little number called Wickham Dry – going down a treat, but we're loving the room, a high-ceilinged, discreetly stylish affair somewhere between a chapel and the world's smartest barn conversion.
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On Sunday, Agip Motel in Mbarara was dressed with Moonberg Lager banners, posters and placards; in fact, one could wonder if it was a Moonberg Beer launch.
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Air Namibia has re-launched the direct route between Walvis Bay, Cape Town and Johannesburg using an aircraft with more luggage and passenger room.
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With just days remaining before Canadians go to the polls, Ontario is looking more and more like the battleground where the election race will be won, or lost.
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India's PM launches Kashmir's first train service amid heavy security and after protests that left two people dead.
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Toronto's homicide squad is looking into a suspicious accident where a mini van drove into Lake Ontario early this morning, leaving at least two people dead.
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The Only A Game? exhibition opens its doors to the public on Saturday as the UEFA-driven project takes up residence in the World Museum Liverpool from 11 October to 1 March.
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With polls suggesting a majority government might be out of reach for the Conservatives and Liberals, the two party leaders made a final sprint through Quebec and Ontario Saturday hoping to pick up supporters in key swing ridings.
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New Olympic-sized swimming pools, a competitive cycling velodrome, and track and sports training facilities will all be built in Ontario if Toronto clinches the 2015 Pan Am Games, says the premier.
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Russia test-fires three intercontinental ballistic missiles, after claiming a distance record for one fired from a submarine.
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Protesters say they have barricaded a rail line north of Toronto in hopes of stopping CP Rail's Olympic Spirit Train. Protester Dan Keller says about 20 non-violent activists have assembled on the rail line with one woman having chained herself to the tracks.
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Although autumn officially began just three weeks ago, winter is making an appearance in southern Saskatchewan. Forecasters predict Estevan will get up to 15-centimetres of snow by tonight.
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Police have identified two men who were found dead after the minivan they were riding in drove into Lake Ontario early Saturday morning.
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Moves to have the body of Mary, Queen of Scots returned to Scotland will be initiated by a Nationalist MSP this week.
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MobUI, a company founded by former Action Engine employees, has decided to buy the assets of its former employer to create applications and mobile Web experiences on new mobile platforms, such as the iPhone and Android. In August, Action Engine mysteriously laid off its employees and closed its doors, saying it was seeking buyers for its mobile platform, which allowed applications to get ported to multiple platforms, such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Java and Brew. Before Action Engine started having issues, John Burry left the company to start MobUI with the mission to help media companies quickly build apps and mobile experiences on even newer platforms, such as the iPhone. Burry, who is MobUI's CEO, said his company grew quickly gaining the two customers in the first two weeks. But Burry said they realized they weren't going to be able to focus on a single platform?that companies who built something for the iPhone would want to expand to other platforms. Burry: "We purchased Action Engine because we had ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS agreed to scrap dividend payments in exchange for a government rescue package of £37bn. RBS is to get £20bn of government money and could end up with the government owning 60% of the bank. Lloyds TSB and HBOS wil raise £17bn from the government. Barclays will separately tap private investors for £6.6bn.
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Open source backup and recovery independent software developer (ISV) Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users. Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 for MySQL and Zmanda Internet Backup (ZIB). ZRM 3.0 is the first Windows edition of Zmanda's recovery solution for MySQL. It offers hot backups of live MySQL databases on Windows, leveraging both Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshots and database restore using ZRM???s built-in point-in-time recovery capability, the company said. ZRM 3.0 supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista servers as well as native compression and encryption used on the integrated Windows backup server.?? Incidentally, Version 3.0 also adds new support for Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux. The...
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Mozilla Labs has launched a new Developer Tools Lab for the open Web.
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A school rector, representing Labour, is due to launch his campaign for the Glenrothes by-election.
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Daimler AG is shuttering its truck-making facility in St. Thomas, Ont., costing the area 1,400 jobs, the company announced Tuesday.
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The SNP is to formally launch its campaign for the Glenrothes by-election later.
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Stock markets around the world rallied as the US government confirmed it would invest $250bn directly into the US's biggest financial institutions including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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As part of plans to expand its routes network, Virgin Nigeria Airways has put all arrangement in place to begin flight operations this week to two new destinations, one regional and one domestic route respectively.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Google is mounting another experiment in content distribution that might be even more ambitious than its recent launch of original animation from "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
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A new diagnostic service will offer remote technical assistance, while the company's tune-up service will tweak performance of the Windows operating system.
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New Democrats and Conservatives saw their fortunes rise Tuesday in the key battleground of Ontario as Liberal support was depleted across the province.
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THE most ambitious nationwide child spacing and prevention of excessive bleeding that occurs after child birth, popularly known as Post Partum Haemorhage (PPH) in medical parlance, was, yesterday, launched in Enugu as part of efforts to check post-natal deaths among
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Oct 15, Colombo: SriLankan Airlines has launched an SMS alert facility to keep passengers informed of flight updates.
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