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Megan Fox ‘looking for multi-million dollar house in Hollywood Hills’

Megan Fox is reportedly looking for a multi-million dollars house in the Hollywood Hills.
According to the Daily Mail, the ‘Transformers’ star and a real estate agent were spotted looking for homes in the 2 to 3-million-dollar price range, reports the New York Daily News.
The 23-year-old is presently sharing a home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, with [...]

UK facing largest Post Office strike in years

• More than 12,000 postal workers to walk out on Friday
• Strikers protesting against cuts at Royal Mail

Thousands of postal workers across the UK will go on strike on Friday in protest against cuts at Royal Mail, threatening the worst disruption to deliveries in years.

The action will be the latest stage in a series of strikes over jobs, pay and services, which have hit parts of the country in recent weeks and are now set to escalate into a national dispute.

The Communication Workers Union said more than 12,000 of its members in cities ranging from London and Edinburgh to Bristol and Plymouth would walk out for 24 hours.

The union has accused Royal Mail of cutting the pay and jobs of postal workers without agreement, while also reducing services.

On Friday afternoon, a letter and postcard will be delivered to Royal Mail’s chief executive, Adam Crozier, and business secretary Lord Mandelson. This will be followed by a national balloon release, with thousands of balloons rising above Royal Mail workplaces across the UK.

Dave Ward, the CWU deputy general secretary, said: “There are serious and growing problems in the postal sector which urgently need resolving. We have renewed our offer of a three-month no-strike deal to Royal Mail in return for meaningful talks over modernisation. The current cuts, bullying managers and ever increasing workloads on a shrinking workforce cannot continue. Pressure and stress is at breaking point for postal workers so we urgently need a fresh start for a modern Royal Mail.

“The national day of action on Friday is in response to an ever growing number of requests for industrial action from postal workers across the country who feel let down by Royal Mail management. We have almost 400 ballot requests at the moment with more coming daily. Without progress, this could effectively turn into a national strike.”

Last week, Mandelson accused the union of boycotting talks on Royal Mail modernisation. He insisted that it was “inconceivable” that the public would support a bailout of the Royal Mail’s £10bn pension fund deficit without the organisation agreeing to overhaul the way it works.

The CWU was fiercely opposed to the plans for partial privatisation of the Royal Mail that have now been abandoned, and Mandelson has accused it of adopting a “head in the sand” approach to modernisation.

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Mac OS X Tip: Open at Log In

Do you use Safari, Mail, iTunes, or other Mac applications every day? Did you know that Mac OS X Leopard can automatically open your favorite applications for you when you start up your Mac? To find out how, watch the latest Mac OS X Tip in the Business Theater.

Ashes live – England v Australia

First Ashes Test, Cardiff, day five:
England v Australia

LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY (all times BST)

By Ben Dirs

606: DEBATE
Your thoughts on the action

e-mail tms@bbc.co.uk (with ‘For Ben Dirs’ in the subject), text 81111 (with "CRICKET" as the first word) or use 606. (Not all contributions can be used)

ENGLAND SECOND INNINGS

1040: Personally, I’m plumping for all out shortly after tea. And the only possible way England can escape this game without any mental scars is if they’re only five or six wickets down at stumps, with a couple of tons in the scorebook. Replay of Mark Butcher’s 173 not out at Headingley in 2001 on the telly, my God we could do with another one of those – but who’s going to hold their hand up today"Waiting for this morning’s action is a little like those days of watching Dr Who as a kid – you know it’s going to be scary, and you know those nasty creatures are about to try to destroy the good guys to continue their quest and for world domination, but you just have to watch anyway."
Ian, hiding behind the sofa in Muscat, in the TMS inbox "Why are we surprised at how England played Nine of this 11 participated in the last whitewash series Down Under…"
Andy in Aberystwyth in the TMS inbox "England are up the Taff without a paddle in this one, all over by tea me thinks."
Peter in the TMS inbox1033: Yep, Freddie, you’ve just got to bat out the day… simple as that mate…"We’ve got good players, we’ve just got to bat out today. We’re an attacking side and we’ve got to play our natural game, we can’t just play for a draw. It’s going to take someone to get a hundred, or maybe a couple of us, to save the day."
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff
BBC Sport’s Tom Fordyce on Twitter:"Sunshine in Cardiff. Shadows all over the place. If anything’s going to save England, it’ll be partnerships not precipitation." "What depresses me so much about this gutless England Display is what appears to be the total lack of desire to win from the England team. This is a very average Australian team but as usual they bring it to the opposition hard despite their limited talents."
CourageDirectors
Tom Fordyce’s Ashes blog1019: I’ve just heard the shocking news of Arturo Gatti’s tragic death. Now, if England are going to attempt to emulate anyone today, they could do a lot worse than Gatti. In fact, Gatti probably would have won the match from here.

The sun is out

1010: Bright sunshine in Cardiff, and my immediate reaction is "good". England don’t deserve to be saved by the weather. Throw them a shovel and tell them to dig their way out of this mess. Prove us wrong England, show us you’ve got some stones…<br/


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