Dyer disqualified after speeding in Suffolk
Football player Kieron Dyer has been disqualified from driving for six months and fined more than £1,000 after being caught speeding. The...
View ArticleWalkers to examine Hindhead's £371m tunnel
People will be able to walk through one of the country's longest underground road tunnels before it opens to traffic Hindhead Together said people would be able to walk the 1.2 miles (1.9km) of the A3...
View ArticleBelfast city centre 'Magic Jug' sculpture plan ditched
Budget constraints have caused the Department of Social Development to abandon plans to spend £100,000 on a 5.5m sculpture in Belfast. Plans for the Fountain Street edifice, nicknamed "The Magic...
View ArticleMusic ban for Truro half marathon runners
A ban on music devices such as iPods at the Truro Half Marathon has led to some runners withdrawing from the annual event in protest. The Cornish Grand Prix Road Running Group said it...
View ArticleDorset hairdresser died in mystery car explosion
The cause of an explosion which killed a hairdresser in her car remains a mystery, an inquest has heard. Jennifer Mitchell, 19, of Shaftesbury,...
View ArticleRare paintings found in Surrey attic saved from dustbin
A 75-year-old Surrey woman cleared out her attic and found two paintings that could fetch up to £30,000 at auction. The woman decided she wanted to throw the oil paintings away, but...
View ArticleResearchers develop tea bag filter that cleans water
A group of researchers in South Africa has developed a filter that can purify water straight from the bottle. It sits inside a tube that can be fitted on top of a bottle and purifies water as it is...
View ArticleIn pictures: Tango World Championship
Four hundred dancing pairs from around the globe have taken part in the eighth Tango Dance World Championship. This year the event was held in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires - known as the home of...
View ArticleKenyan ambassadors summoned over Omar al-Bashir's visit
Kenyan ambassadors in Europe have been asked to explain why Kenya did not arrest the Sudanese president during a recent visit to Nairobi. There is an International Criminal Court arrest...
View ArticleNetherlands releases Yemen flight suspects
Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of planning a terror attack have been released, prosecutors in the Netherlands have said. An investigation failed to find any evidence against the two...
View ArticleObama condemns 'slaughter' as Mid-East talks open in US
US President Barack Obama has condemned the "senseless slaughter" of four Israeli settlers, as a new round of Mid-East diplomacy opens...
View Article65-year-old Lisburn man crosses Irish Sea in bathtub
If you look at the waters around our...
View ArticleThetford road shut by fallen power cables
A major road through Norfolk will be closed into the night after an overhead power line was brought down by...
View ArticleOld star wallows in 'steam bath'
Europe's Herschel space telescope has looked on as an old giant star wallows in a "steam bath". CW Leonis, sited some 500 light-years from Earth, has long been...
View ArticleMan with handgun takes hostage at US Discovery office
One hostage has been taken by an armed man inside the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to police. A fire department...
View ArticleGoat's horns ripped out in Manchester sanctuary attack
A goat had to be destroyed after attackers wrenched his horns out and broke his leg in what the the RSPCA said was an "horrific...
View ArticleNew-style academies open doors across England
The first of 32 academies in England established under new...
View ArticleYmgynghorydd Hague yn ymddiswyddo
Mae ymgynghorydd arbennig yr Ysgrifennydd Tramor, William Hague, wedi ymddiswyddo oherwydd "honiadau celwyddog a maleisus" yn ei erbyn. Dywedodd Mr Hague fod sibrydion fod penodiad Christopher Myers...
View ArticleHas the identity Top Gear's 'The Stig' finally been revealed?
The BBC has lost a legal fight to stop publication of a book which...
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