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This morning Sir Bobby Robson lost his long battle with cancer.
A family statement released this morning said

“”It is with great sadness that it has been announced today that Sir Bobby Robson has lost his long and courageous battle with cancer.”

He sadly passed away peacefully this morning at his home in the north east.

Aged 76, bobby has been fighting cancer since 1991, he has managed some great football teams over his career including Porto, Barcelona and of course England, when he took them to the 1990 World Cup semi-final where they famously lost on penaties.

Michael Schumacher is set for a dramatic Formula 1 return to temporarily replace the injured Felipe Massa.
Massa was injured by a spring on the race track that had fallen from Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn GP car, only minutes earlier.

Earlier this week Schumacher’s agent said he was 200% sure that he wouldn’t be getting back into the Ferrari car to race in F1 again.

Schumacher is now 40 and will be the oldest driver on the track. He is set to undergo a special training program to prove that he is still fit enough to compete in Formula 1.

He will be set for a comeback for the GP of Europe at Valencia, it will be interesting to see how he copes with tracks that he hasn’t raced on before  and the evening race in Singapore.

Ronnie Biggs one of the most common names associated with The Great Train Robbery of 1963, appears to be in very ill health.

Biggs aged 79 has suffered a series of strokes which has now left him unable to talk, He is now in hospital drifting in and out of consciousness and isn’t eating or walking. Doctors have said that there isn’t much hope for him.

The robbery took place on a TPO (Travelling Post Office) back on the 8th August 1963. £2.6 million was stolen which was in £1,£5 and £10 notes which where al used in today’s market this would be an estimated £38 million.

Ronnie escaped from HM Wandsworth Prison on 7th of July 1965 and fled to Paris straight away where he received new papers and passport so he was able to travel without suspicion.
Late 1965 Biggs flew to Sydney Australia where he lived for around 7/8 months before moving to Adelaide.

He received a letter from an anonymous source in England stating that Interpol where investigating him living in Australia and that he should relocate, so bags packed he moved to Melbourne.

In 1971 he was ousted as living in Rio De Janerio, but there was little the British police could do.

2001 saw Biggs return to the UK but he was immediately re arrested and imprisoned where he has been ever since.

Sales in UK shop have slowly risen for June by 1.2 %, this is a good rise after a sharp fall in May. This rise was a lot more than expect by economists who predicted a 0.3% rise.

UK shops have brought forward the summer sales in order to entice people to spend a little more a little sooner.

At the beginning of this week UK clothing retailer Next, claimed that the recent good weather had boosted its sales considerably.

This rise in UK sales is a positive sign that the UK might be over the worst of the economic storm.

Chipmunks are set to invade Britain; they are currently in the north of France only 22 miles away from the british coast line.

You might think that there is nothing to fear about these chipmunks but most of them are infected with the borelia virus which can lead to the deadly Lyme Disease in humans and they also carry Rabies.

Experts are worrying as they creatures are been sold in pet shops in France for around £10 and they can be easily smuggled back into the UK even though it is illegal.

They have been spotted in public parks in France which might be due to the recent hot weather, it is thought that they will spread like wild fire once in the UK and they have established themselves.

It is estimated that there could be up to 100,000 in northern France already.

Chloe Buckley died from Septic Shock and not Swine Flu, although health officials can’t rule out that Swine Flu didn’t contributed to her death.

The results from her post mortem stated that Chloe had tonsillitis which was caused by streptococcus A bacterium.

She died at ST Mary’s hospital on the 9th July, 29 people have now died in the UK after contracting Swine Flu.

UK’s government has said that the death toll is expected to rise and could reach any from 19,000 to 65,000.
It has also stated that the UK’s seasonal Flu claims 12,00 deaths on average every winter.

Swine Flu Deaths Rising

More than 60 people have been left injured after a series of mini pile ups on Germanys A2 Autobahn known as the Autobahn 2 which connects the Ruhr region in the west to Berlin in the east.
More than 259 cars were involved in the accident which German police have blamed on a mix of excessive speed and heavy rain. The German motorway police have said that 10 people are suffering from life threatening injuries and 21 were left with series injuries.

Germany Autobahn

Pope Benedict XVI is been treated in hospital today with a suspected broken wrist, and twisted ankle after a fall in his bathroom whilst on holiday.

Benedict XVI who is 82 was seen walking into the local Parini hospital with his private secretary monsignor Georg Ganswein at around 10am this morning.

The Vatican was quick to release a statement saying that it wasn’t serious and that the pope was been checked over as a precaution, and was due to have an x-ray on both injury’s.

Every summer Pope Benedict XVI takes a break in a chalet in Les Combes in the Italian Alps which is now traditional and was started by Pope John Paul II.

Benedict XVI has been lucky and hasn’t had any injury’s or visits to hospital since he was elected leader of the roman Catholic church back in April 2005.

A number of public figures may well sue the News of the World newspaper over phone hacking. Many so it seems were victims of phone hacking by private investigators who were hired by the News of the World.

A lawyer who spoke to the BBC said that he had already received two enquiries and that both politicians and celebrities are seeking advice.

A news story in the Guardian that claimed the News of the World was willing to pay great sums of money to settle a legal case which may have exposed the use of illegal methods to get stories.

Scotland Yard have commented that the fresh allegations will not be investigated.

The new phone hacking allegations involve some well known sports celebrities such as Alan Shearer the former England Captain and also Sir Alex Ferguson who is the Manager for Manchester United.

Among the new Inquiries are the press complaints commission, the commons select committee and the director of public prosecutions.

It’s is not the first time that the news of the world have had allegations of phone hacking made against them. Back in 2007 an investigation was made by the Metropolitan police when it was found that News of the world Journalists were phone hacking messages left for the aides to Prince Charles.

This at the time resulted in six month Jail sentences for a private investigator (Glenn Mulcaire) and for Clive Goodman the Royal editor. The scandal was large enough back in 2007 to also result in the resignation of the editor Andy Coulson.

An exclusive 125% mortgage deal will now be made available to existing Nationwide customers who are presently in negative equity but would like to move house.(Negative equity is when the value of a house is less than the amount they currently owe on their mortgage)

Nationwide have stated that the 125% mortgage deal is very much a niche offer and that not all of its customers that are in negative equity will qualify for the deal.

Currently the Nationwide building society is offering 85% mortgages to new customers. 

Loans that are above 100% have already been focused on as “risky” and have come in for much criticism, especially when we consider those that were offered by the now nationalised Northern Rock Bank. Borrowers that choose the 125% mortgage deal will find themselves immediately in negative equity.

A Nationwide spokeswoman has said that the new 125% mortgage deal is “not about additional borrowing or additional risk”.

The new product would mean that borrowers would have the choice of taking on a loan of 95% of the value of their new property at an interest rate of 6.73 % for a period of three years or 7.48% for a period of five years.  They could then add on to the loan any negative equity from their old property, which could be up to 30% of the value of their new home.  They would then be given the choice of taking out an additional loan for this amount at a higher interest rate of 7.23% for a period of three years or 7.98% for a period of five years.