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There's more to European pop than Eurovision - The Guardian

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:38 GMT

There's more to European pop than Eurovision
The Guardian
Singing in what appears to be an imaginary English regional accent, the Czech Republic's Charlie Straight make the kind of joyful, harmony-driven Britpop Britain itself has forgotten how to master. Infinitely more endearing than The Kooks and their ...

Life Ball 2012: The Viennese Experience - Huffington Post

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:43:39 GMT

Life Ball 2012: The Viennese Experience
Huffington Post
We were all headed to Vienna for the twentieth Life Ball, Europe's biggest charity event raising money for people with HIV and AIDS. In the front cabin, Antonio Banderas was charming the crowds with his exquisite manners, the almost inhumanly ...

Bognor Regis Eastern European police project launched - BBC News

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:17:46 GMT

Bognor Regis Eastern European police project launched
BBC News
An operation to improve communication with Eastern Europeans in a Sussex town has been launched by police. Sussex Police said they wanted to encourage Bognor Regis's Eastern European community to report crime. Operation Accent aims to improve ...

Informal European Council on Investment, Growth and Jobs - EP press kit - EU News

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:39:21 GMT

Informal European Council on Investment, Growth and Jobs - EP press kit
EU News
This will see an accent also placed on measures to be carried out by fit economies and not only requiring underperforming economies to reform. This new focus could see Germany asked to open up its services sector for example." "Growth is finally on the ...

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ING Direct scrambles to reinvent itself - Macleans.ca

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:08:03 GMT

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ING Direct scrambles to reinvent itself
Macleans.ca
At the time, online-only banking was so alien a concept in Canada that the company, headquartered in the Netherlands, heralded its arrival by advertising itself as unabashedly foreign, hiring a Dutch actor to coax Canadians in his thick accent to “save ...

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A field day for YouTube over Kenny's clash with farmer - Irish Times

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:57:29 GMT

Irish Times

A field day for YouTube over Kenny's clash with farmer
Irish Times
Reynolds campaigned for Ganley, who was on the Frontline panel, when the Libertas founder ran in the 2009 European elections. He told The Irish Times he now had no connection with Ganley, although he stressed they “haven't fallen out or anything”.

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Music interview: Human League - Yorkshire Evening Post

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:55:06 GMT

Yorkshire Evening Post

Music interview: Human League
Yorkshire Evening Post
By Duncan Seaman IF a cold gives Susan Sulley's broad Sheffield accent a croak today, there's a familiar bounce in her conversation as we discuss the Human League, her band of the past 32 years. The League headline day two of M Fest, ...

Germany's new strength has a foreign accent - Washington Times

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:18:35 GMT

Washington Times

Germany's new strength has a foreign accent
Washington Times
(Associated Press) BERLIN — Germany has leveraged its economic strength to take the leading role in addressing Europe's debt crisis, but ironically it owes much of that success recently to the appeal of German products in emerging countries such as ...

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Europe's new insurgents: rising rebels spurn the era of bling - The Guardian

Sat, 19 May 2012 23:05:34 GMT

Europe's new insurgents: rising rebels spurn the era of bling
The Guardian
She, too, plays up to her image, as some media commentators have remarked, of "Hannelore from the Ruhr" with her local accent from Mülheim, although it is said that her accent becomes somewhat less pronounced in closed-door meetings.

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London 2012 Olympics: I'm 'not up for a relationship' says diver Tom Daley - Telegraph.co.uk

Thu, 24 May 2012 05:45:11 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

London 2012 Olympics: I'm 'not up for a relationship' says diver Tom Daley
Telegraph.co.uk
In his new autobiography, “My Story”, he tells how he even feigned a questionable American accent to fool the authorities, after he was caught out in the wrong apartments. He wrote he had “got on really well” with the young female diver, saying; ...
London 2012: 'I dream of doing my best dive,' says Tom DaleyThe Guardian

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