Street's Vera Duckworth quitting
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Actress Liz Dawn, best known for playing Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street, is to leave the show due to ill health.
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A top official from Sweden's opposition party quits over a political spying row - just days before elections.
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Actress Liz Dawn, who plays the feisty Vera Duckworth in Britain's longest-running soap opera "Coronation Street", is to leave the show due to ill health, she told the News of the World in an interview on Sunday.
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Add Elena Dementieva to the growing list of star players to pull out of the Pacific Life Open.
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One of the best-known names in camera film, Agfa-Gevaert, is quitting the industry due to the booming popularity of digital cameras.
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PeopleSoft Inc. founder David A. Duffield, who returned as chief executive during the company's losing battle to escape Oracle Corp.'s takeover, has quit the software maker weeks before the deal closes, according to a regulatory filing yesterday.
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Actress Jerry Hall pulls out of one-woman sjpw in London. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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The writer of an online journal describing her life as a London call girl has signed off.
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France's Eunice Barber pulls out of the European Championships.
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Britain's WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has confirmed his retirement from the sport because of injury.
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Beth Axelrod, chief talent officer at WPP and a member of its board, quit last week and is taking the top HR post at San Jose, Calif.-based eBay, a WPP rep confirmed.
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Patricia Dunn will step aside after the board's January 2007 meeting.
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Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller is to quit her post as head of MI5, the nation's security service.
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A University of South Florida women's basketball player who wanted to wear Islamic clothing on the court quit the team on Wednesday.
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Sander - who sold her fashion house to Prada four years ago, left four months later, then made a dramatic comeback in 2003 - has left the company again.
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Porcelain producer Royal Worcester ends production in its namesake city after more than 250 years.
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A surgeon who developed an award-winning technique to cut waiting lists quits Britain for Switzerland.