News this
week
Two people
were killed and 12 were injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane in
central London. The helicopter hit the crane on top of The Tower, One St George
Wharf. Doctors said one of the dead was the pilot and the other was on the
ground. Five people were taken to hospital.
DVD rental
firm Blockbuster has become the latest UK High Street firm to go into
administration after struggling against internet competitors.
The chain
has 528 stores and employs 4,190 staff.
In the US,
an October storm in East Coast areas killed at least 120 people. An US House
has approved $51bn (£32bn) in 'super-storm' Sandy aid, despite opposition from
conservatives criticising the spending.
The US
state of Virginia is set to use the electric chair to put to death a man who
killed two fellow prisoners to speed up his own execution. Robert Gleason, 42,
is the first Virginia inmate to choose electrocution over lethal injection
since March 2010.
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