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Britons fear limited prospects due to rapid influx of immigrants

London, July 21: A rapid influx of immigrants in the UK has put pressure on housing and schools, making British citizens fearful of their prospects being limited, a new report has warned.

The claims come as it emerged that 1billion pound is being spent on putting up foreigners in council houses - despite two million people waiting for a home.

The report titled “Immigration and Social Cohesion in the UK”, uncovered a stark divide in how parts of the UK adapt to new migrants.

While many people value their children growing up with cultural diversity, some feel their opportunities are reduced because of immigration.

99 percent Brits say PM Gordon Brown betrayed the country

London,British Prime Minister Gordon Brown July 21: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been accused of betraying the country with a “grubby” surrender to Brussels by ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, a Daily Express poll has confirmed.

An overwhelming 99 per cent of readers felt cheated by the Prime Minister when he tamely surrendered ­sovereignty to Europe this week, the poll revealed.

Asked if Brown had sold us down the river, they answered with a resounding “Yes”.

Thousands demanded that Labour give the country the referendum we were promised before the last general election.

Gordon Brown to address Israeli parliament

Jerusalem - Gordon Brown to address Israeli parliamentBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown was set to address the Israeli parliament early Monday afternoon, before wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank. 

Brown will be the first British prime minister to speak before the Knesset. The address marks 60 years since Israel was founded. 

British Army to parachute spy dogs in war zones to minimise casualties

London, July 21 : British Army Special Air Service (SAS) team has revealed plans to cut down casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan by parachuting in German shepherds to spy on rebels.

The Sun reported that the dogs are being trained to leap from planes at 25,000ft wearing their own oxygen masks and strapped to Special Forces teams.

Once down in hostile terrain in Iraq or Afghanistan, the dogs will be sent in first to seek out insurgents'' hideouts with tiny cameras fixed to their heads. 

The cameras will beam live TV pictures back to the troops, warning of ambushes or showing enemy leaders'' locations. 

Asteroid may have switched Mars’ magnetic field on and off

London, July 20 : An asteroid may have flipped Mars’ magnetic field on and off like a light switch around 4 billion years ago, says a group of scientists researching on the Red Planet.

The scientists have said that Mars once had a magnetic field that could have been set in action by a dynamo created from the convection of material in the core, much like the Earth''s core.

However, according to crater records, it is believed that the Martian dynamo ceased in a short time of almost a few tens of thousands of years, a phenomenon that has not been explained by researchers as yet.

Large Hadron Collider becoming ''colder than deep space''

London, July 20 : The Large Hadron Collider, which is being built by the European Organization for nuclear research (CERN) in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271 degree Celsius), which is colder than deep space.

The most powerful physics experiment ever built, the LHC will re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang. It will search for the Higgs boson - the so-called "God particle".

According to a report by BBC News, currently, six out of the LHC''s eight sectors are between 4.5 and 1.9 Kelvin, though all sectors of the machine have been down to 1.9 Kelvin at some stage over the last few months. 

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