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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:49am GMT
Mortgage lending by major banks flattened out in July but the amount borrowed for day-to-day spending slowed, figures show.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:45am GMT
Police are pelted with bottles in two separate stand-offs with young men and teenagers connected to the Notting Hill Carnival.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:43am GMT
A plane carrying British tourists to Spain is forced to make an unscheduled landing due to a loss of cabin pressure.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:42am GMT
Profits at Bovis Homes plunge in the first six months of the year as the property market downturn begins to bite.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:28am GMT
Police are to search a property in Blackburn after a 25-year-old man is arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:27am GMT
It could be days before surgeons operate on an 18-month-old boy who was shot in the head with an airgun by his five-year-old sister.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:13am GMT
Gordon Brown faces pressure from Labour MPs for a windfall tax on energy firms who have recorded huge profits.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 8:01am GMT
The mother of a girl who was abducted and abused by a paedophile says a £9,000 compensation offer is "no justice" for her daughter.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 7:41am GMT
The public and politicians prepare to greet Welsh members of Team GB at the Beijing Olympics at a public celebration in Cardiff Bay.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 7:29am GMT
Petrol bombs and stones are thrown at police officers during disturbances in east and south Belfast on Monday evening.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 7:21am GMT
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are set to learn who will become the new leader of their party.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:32am GMT
At least 13 people are injured as two lorries, an empty coach and four cars collide on the M4 in Wiltshire.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:32am GMT
Pinsent's tips for 2012 Games
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:03am GMT
Claims that doctors in England are not telling cancer patients about potentially-life saving drugs are reported in Tuesday's papers.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 6:00am GMT
British Olympic chiefs say that sports which underperformed in Beijing will need to pull their weight at the 2012 Games.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:49am GMT
Kidney patients on holiday in north Wales can now use a purpose-built renal unit at a caravan park.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:23am GMT
A man knocked down and beaten up by so-called joyriders in Londonderry in July says he will not be intimidated.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 3:34am GMT
The head of BAE Systems says the company could consider leaving the UK if military spending ever fell below a "reasonable level".
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:57am GMT
Giant jails being proposed
could be dangerous and ministers have not explained why they would save money, a watchdog says.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:52am GMT
The home town of Olympic double gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington prepares to give her a hero's welcome.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 1:42am GMT
The majority of election officials in England support a ban on the sale of voters' personal details to companies, a survey finds.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:56am GMT
The government should spend biofuel subsidies on safeguarding rainforests and peatland instead, a think tank says.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:46am GMT
Firms in the professional services sector saw their biggest drop in business in a decade, a CBI survey suggests.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:26am GMT
A new technique involving magnets could cut the cost to the NHS of making cancer and arthritis drugs.
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Posted: August 26th, 2008, 12:18am GMT
Yorkshire miners' strike 'battlefield' redeveloped
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:46pm GMT
Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team search for a final explorer to complete their South Pole trek.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:26pm GMT
Children born by Caesarean section have a 20% higher chance of developing type 1 diabetes, claim researchers.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:25pm GMT
People with epilepsy are 19 times more likely to die from drowning than the general population, a UK study suggests.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 9:30pm GMT
Carnival revellers enjoy Europe's biggest street party
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:55pm GMT
Darren Fletcher's deflected first-half strike is enough to give Manchester United victory over Portsmouth.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 2:30pm GMT
Scrabulous fans are stunned, bemused and baffled
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 1:52pm GMT
An 18-month old boy is in a critical condition after being shot in the head with an airgun at his home in Birmingham.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 1:14pm GMT
A minor offence still affects one young man's life
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 1:08pm GMT
Many platitudes are uttered to steer us away from scrutinising things, writes Katharine Whitehorn.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 1:07pm GMT
Grampian Police confirm that a body found in Aberdeen is that of missing 32-year-old Stuart Campbell.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:49pm GMT
A Londonderry woman is told her life is under threat from dissident republicans who mistakenly believe she is in the police.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:48pm GMT
A murder inquiry is launched following the death of a student from Qatar who was attacked in a seaside town in Sussex.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:44pm GMT
Sinn Féin must make it clear it wants to remain in the Northern Ireland Assembly, warns DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:31pm GMT
A campaign group holds a picnic in Hyde Park to protest over a "creeping" increase in no-alcohol zones in public spaces.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:07pm GMT
Team GB are flying home from Beijing following their best Olympic medal performance for 100 years.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:38am GMT
A woman is jailed for eight years for starting a fire in a block of flats which killed her partner and another woman.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:28am GMT
Police reveal a barbecue caused a huge blaze which destroyed 12 cars in a car park at Reading Festival.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:09am GMT
Chef Jamie Oliver criticises the UK's alcohol and cuisine culture, saying people care more about getting drunk than good food.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:08am GMT
Middle class white men are discriminated against in the TV industry, presenter Jeremy Paxman claims.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:04am GMT
A British woman held in China following a Free Tibet protest is flying back to the UK.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 11:02am GMT
Fast bowler Ryan Sidebottom is ruled out of the remaining four matches in England's one-day series against South Africa with a groin injury.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:57am GMT
Will ploughing investment and new initiatives into tennis help change its image as a middle-class sport, or is there a bigger psychological barrier at play?
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:51am GMT
Downing Street and Boris Johnson criticise the use of a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley in a video shown at a London 2012 event.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:31am GMT
Police have arrested the partner of a woman who was attacked while pregnant and gave birth early, it is revealed.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:15am GMT
A man held over the murder of an 18-year-old, who was stabbed to death in east London, is released on bail.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:06am GMT
Mystery of Thai island backpacker's disappearance
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 10:00am GMT
The global downturn could "drag on for some considerable time", warns the Bank of England's deputy governor.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 9:15am GMT
Hundred of thousands of revellers attend the final day of Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's biggest street party.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 9:10am GMT
Police officers seriously injured in the line of duty are to receive higher compensation payments under new Home Office proposals.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:57am GMT
Elderly people are going hungry in hospital because staff fail to ensure they are fed, a charity says.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:51am GMT
Coastguard workers around the UK are in the middle of a 48-hour strike in a long-running dispute over pay.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:43am GMT
Friends and neighbours welcome back a grandmother as she completes a near-five year run around the world.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:43am GMT
Politicians are "leaving black youths to die" by cutting funding to community groups, claims a Home Office adviser.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:27am GMT
How Team GB can build on its success
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:21am GMT
All five Welsh Beijing Olympic medal winners confirm they will be at a public celebration of Team GB's success in Cardiff.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:19am GMT
England captain Kevin Pietersen welcomes the International Cricket Council's decision to postpone the Champions Trophy by 13 months.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 6:33am GMT
British number one Andy Murray beats Sergio Roitman of Argentina in round one of the US Open.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 6:31am GMT
The 2008 Beijing Olympics and Team GB's successes take up many column inches in Monday's papers.
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 1:12am GMT
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond says plans for a British Olympic football team are a "massive own goal".
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Posted: August 25th, 2008, 12:11am GMT
The government is criminalising young people for petty offences that could be better punished informally, a report says.
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Posted: August 23rd, 2008, 3:33pm GMT
Clickable map of where GB's Olympic champions hail from
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 12:34pm GMT
Is it fair that the country with the most golds tops the medals table? Here are five other "winners".
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Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 11:14am GMT
Can you really start bargaining on the High Street
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Posted: August 21st, 2008, 12:55pm GMT
What's with these unusual and rather plumptious clouds?
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:19pm GMT
A planned 72-hour Tube strike is called off following talks between rail unions and management.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:18pm GMT
The chief executive of the Irish Football Association is taking a grievance case against the organisation's ruling body.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:14pm GMT
Crash investigators work at the scene where a coach crashed down an embankment, killing one man and injuring 71 other people.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:07pm GMT
A father and his eight-year-old daughter are killed in a crash on a Jeep Safari in Turkey.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 4:47pm GMT
An 11-year-old boy tells a court how he spent two weeks in hospital after being hit by a motorbike at a parade.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 4:05pm GMT
A priest who sexually abused boys at a Manchester Catholic school in the 1970s and 1980s admits 27 assaults on children.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:49pm GMT
A soldier from Ayrshire killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan died a hero, doing the job he was devoted to, his widow says.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:34pm GMT
A special inquiry is to examine how a city centre underpass became flooded below 20 feet of water.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:20pm GMT
Whitehall departments lost data potentially affecting more than four million people in a year, BBC analysis shows.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:06pm GMT
A 14-year-old and another boy were forced to flog themselves until they bled during a Muslim ceremony, a court hears.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 2:45pm GMT
A honeymoon couple who were shot on holiday in Antigua are to be remembered at a cathedral service.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 2:45pm GMT
Two men found guilty of possessing or making documents promoting terrorism will serve 12 and 10 years in jail respectively.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 2:42pm GMT
Scotland's Commonwealth Games velodrome is to be named after triple Olympic cycling gold-medalist Chris Hoy.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 2:36pm GMT
Facial recognition scanners are introduced at Manchester Airport in a bid to improve security and reduce passenger congestion.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 2:17pm GMT
Christine Ohuruogu captures Olympic 400m gold for Great Britain with a late surge down the home straight.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:48pm GMT
An Algerian immigrant sent to an adult prison because he lied about his age is suing the Home Office.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:41pm GMT
A 16-year-old boy denies murdering a teenager who was stabbed after a party in Manchester.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:30pm GMT
Parents allowed to act as agents for their children
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:16pm GMT
A plan to indicate what age group children's books are most suitable for causes a stir in the book world.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:16pm GMT
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell tells the BBC there will be no more money beyond the £9.3bn allocated to the 2012 Games.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:59pm GMT
Police hunting the killers of a Chinese couple in Newcastle try to trace a lodger who rented a room from them.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:56pm GMT
Reality TV star Jade Goody leaves an Indian version of Big Brother after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:28pm GMT
Why do people violently attack the disabled?
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:19pm GMT
Fabio Capello appoints Chelsea defender John Terry as permanent England captain.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 11:22am GMT
British cyclist Chris Hoy claims a superb hat-trick of gold medals after beating team-mate Jason Kenny in the sprint.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 11:07am GMT
Victoria Pendleton wins Britain's sixth track cycling gold at this Olympics with victory over Australia's Anna Meares in the women's sprint final.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:46am GMT
Ex-BBC Wales sports presenter Bob Humphrys dies aged 56, two months after confirming he had cancer.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:34am GMT
Can your risk of dying really be as high as 114%
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 10:20am GMT
A forensic science student and her father catch a carer stealing from an elderly relative by hiding a camera in a teddy bear's eye.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 9:43am GMT
A manslaughter trial collapses after a juror admits undertaking his own investigation into the case.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 9:34am GMT
The tabloid life of Big Brother's biggest star
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 6:10am GMT
The Olympic successes of some British competitors, particularly the cyclists, are widely reported in Tuesday's papers.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:45am GMT
Paul Goodison makes up for his Athens heartbreak by winning sailing's Laser class to claim Great Britain's 13th gold in Beijing.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 1:19am GMT
The majority of British people make friends outside their own age group, according to a survey.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:50am GMT
The UK is expected to endorse the screening of families for an inherited cholesterol disorder.
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Posted: August 19th, 2008, 12:42am GMT
Chewing gum aids recovery from bowel surgery, mounting evidence suggests.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:36pm GMT
Police are to question motorists driving past the area where missing father Stuart Campbell was last seen.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:30pm GMT
Dozens of post offices across Edinburgh, the Lothians and South of Scotland are earmarked for closure or downgrading.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:14pm GMT
Pedigree dogs suffer from debilitating genetic diseases due to inbreeding, a BBC inquiry concludes.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:06pm GMT
The number of properties up for rent has jumped as people who cannot sell their homes decide to let them instead.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 10:45pm GMT
The tax advantages of letting rather than selling
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 10:35pm GMT
One person is killed and 70 injured as a bus crashes near Alton Towers in Staffordshire, emergency services say.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 10:15pm GMT
Ex-pop star Gary Glitter is deported from Vietnam after spending almost three years in jail for sexually abusing two girls.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 7:25pm GMT
A man dies after the car he was driving collides with another vehicle on the Curragh Road outside Coleraine.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 6:46pm GMT
A man whipped himself until he bled during a Muslim religious ceremony before allegedly forcing two boys to do the same, a court hears.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:59pm GMT
The bodies of five people killed in an aircraft crash are recovered from the wreckage.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:09pm GMT
A victory parade will be held in London to celebrate British medallists from the 2008 Beijing Olympic.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:01pm GMT
A director of the company which built Belfast's Broadway underpass has said a design fault was not to blame for its flooding.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:41pm GMT
David Beckham joins other England football stars to call for an end to knife crime deaths.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:28pm GMT
Two men who admitted filming themselves kicking an injured seagull to death are jailed for four months each.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:25pm GMT
Views from the UK on Musharraf's departure
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:24pm GMT
A boy of 17 and a man are charged with the murders of British honeymooners Catherine and Ben Mullany in the Caribbean.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:19pm GMT
Sir Jimmy Savile dons a police jacket and directs traffic around the scene of an accident in Leeds.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:19pm GMT
Three men - including a teenager - are found guilty of possessing or distributing documents promoting terrorism.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:12pm GMT
Tory leader not the first to talk of 'broken society'
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:09pm GMT
Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov drops his biggest hint yet that he does not see his future being at White Hart Lane.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:56pm GMT
The pilot of a passenger jet is blinded by a laser device as it comes in to land at Durham Tees Valley Airport.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:18pm GMT
Can police ever solve the Genette Tate case?
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:14pm GMT
A British soldier dies in an explosion in southern Afghanistan as insurgents attack a joint UK-Afghan patrol.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 3:02pm GMT
Christine Ohuruogu's 400m win takes Britain's golds to 16, their best performance for a century.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:30pm GMT
Super-heavyweight David Price is guaranteed a boxing medal after his opponent is forced to retire in their quarter-final bout.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 2:24pm GMT
A would-be thief was rescued by a police dog after jumping into a river in a bid to escape justice, a court hears.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:08pm GMT
How surveillance snared jihadist ring in Britain
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:03pm GMT
Now we're a sporting success, everything is different. Even the bad weather isn't important.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 1:02pm GMT
An unemployed man is jailed for his part in a global paedophile network that shared images of child abuse.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 12:44pm GMT
A woman from Kent turns her spare bedroom into a snail farm to supply local restaurants with the delicacy.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:33am GMT
Terry Pratchett on how he had to learn to type again
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:24am GMT
Child killer Robert Black is not to be prosecuted over the disappearance of Genette Tate 30 years ago due to "insufficient evidence".
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 11:11am GMT
Great Britain win a sixth gold in cycling, a silver in sailing, Usain Bolt strolls through the 200m heats, while Chinese star Liu Xiang limps out of the Olympics on day 10.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 10:36am GMT
Geraint Thomas's Team Pursuit gold makes the Beijing Games Wales' best Olympics for 88 years.
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Posted: August 18th, 2008, 6:16am GMT
Britain's weekend haul of eight gold medals has cheered Monday's press.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 11:22pm GMT
Many teachers say they are concerned about "hidden" surveillance cameras located in their schools.
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Posted: August 17th, 2008, 11:19pm GMT
There are calls for cyclist Chris Hoy to be knighted after he became Scotland's greatest ever Olympian.
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