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Rolling Stones get Dartford Station plaque

8/2/2015

LONDON, February 8 -- The Rolling Stones have been immortalised with a plaque at the place Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first met in 1961.

A heritage plaque marking the historic meeting that led to the start of the Rolling Stones was unveiled at Platform 2 at Dartford Station by the Mayor of Dartford Avtar Sandhu and the current head of Mick's old school, John Oakes this week.

An the unveiling Dartford council's Jeremy Kite said, 'Platform 2 has a small but important role in pop music history. I hope that in the years ahead many thousands of rail passengers will enjoy looking at the plaque and realising the part the station played in bringing The Rolling Stones together.'

Keith Richards described the day he met Mick Jagger on October 17, 1961 in his autobiography 'Life'. In 1962, he wrote a letter to his Aunty Patty. 'You know I was keen on Chuck Berry and thought I was the only fan for miles but one morning on the Dartford Station I was holding one of Chuck's records when a guy I knew at primary school 7-11 years y'know came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry ever made and all his mates have too, they are all rhythm and blues fans, real R&B I mean (not this Dinah Shore, Brooke Benton crap). Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Chuck, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and all the Chicago bluesmen. Real lowdown stuff, marvellous. Bo Diddley, he's another great.

'Anyway the guy on the station, he's called Mick Jagger . Mick is the greatest R&B singer this side of the Atlantic'.

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BUSINESS : Unilever sales falls 2% in 3td quarter

23/10/2014

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ROTTERDAM, October 23 -- Anglo-Dutch food to detergent group Unilever saw sales fall 2% to €12.2bn in the third quarter of this year, as the poor European summer had a impact on ice cream sales.

The company said unfavourable interest rates and weaker markets, particularly China, were to blame for the continued downturn. Sales were already down 5.5% at €24bn in the first half, the trading statement said.

‘We expect markets to remain tough for at least the remainder of the year,’ chief executive Paul Polman said. ‘We have further accelerated our initiatives to remove unnecessary cost, simplify the business and ensure that Unilever is both agile and resilient.’

Analysts described the results as disappointing and Unilever shares fell 3% in early trading in Amsterdam.

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Woman arrested in UK on terrorism charges

22/10/2014

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LONDON, October 22 -- British police have taken a 25-year-old woman into custody on suspicion of terrorism offences related to the ongoing civil war in Syria, officials have said.

London's counter terrorism command said on Wednesday that officers had arrested the woman in Bedfordshire, north of the capital, on suspicion of preparing terrorism acts.

The police said she had been taken to a police station in London for questioning. Two addresses in Bedfordshire were being searched, they added. Last week, four men were charged with swearing allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), who have seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq, and preparing to launch an attack on policemen or soldiers in the capital.

On Tuesday, London police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said at least five Britons were travelling to Iraq and Syria every week to fight for ISIS, while the authorities estimate that about 500 Britons have already travelled to the region to join the fighting.

Mark Rowley, Britain's national policing spokesman for counter-terrorism, said last week that the police had made 218 arrests so far this year, and that detectives were carrying out security investigations at an "exceptionally high" pace not seen in years.

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