Cost of policing the Pope's visit to top £1m
The cost of policing the Pope's visit to Britain next week will top £1m. Meredydd Hughes, of the Association of Chief...
View Article'Only rats' safe to eat at Indian restaurant in Devon
A judge fined a Devon restaurant owner £17,500 for food hygiene offences and said only rats and mice were safe to eat there. Exeter...
View ArticleBoy, eight, seriously hurt in Clifton crash
An eight-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with serious...
View ArticleDevon fatal crash mother 'over limit'
A police solicitor from London who killed herself and her daughter in a car crash was three times the drink-drive limit, an inquest has heard. Veronica Morley, 47, and Zoe, 12, from Dulwich, died when...
View ArticleBeef prices force East Sussex farmer to sell up
A cattle farmer from East Sussex has said he has been forced to sell up because he cannot make enough money from producing beef. David Burke, of Allens Farm, Five Ashes, has been auctioning his herd...
View ArticleIran to release one of three US hikers - report
Iran is to free on Saturday one of three detained American hikers accused of espionage, reports say. They say that Iran's culture ministry informed reporters about the planned release in a text...
View ArticleAlert as 'killer shrimp' found
The Environment Agency has issued an alert over what it describes as a...
View ArticleMan arrested after Brighton harassment appeal
A 39-year-old Surrey man has been arrested on suspicion of harassing a Brighton...
View ArticleDevon school isolated boy with wrong type of footware
A Devon mother says she is disgusted after her 11-year-old son's new school segregated him for...
View ArticleNorwich City Council draws up Connaught repair plan
A council in Norfolk says it is drawing up a plan to ensure bin collections and repairs continue after a company it uses was put into administration. The jobs of hundreds of Connaught employees...
View ArticlePassenger dies after cars collide in Leamington Spa
A woman has died following a collision in Warwickshire in which two other people were seriously...
View ArticleUS Marines capture ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia
US Marines have boarded and seized a vessel hijacked by pirates off...
View ArticleBiker killed in crash with car in Gloucestershire
A motorcyclist has been killed in a crash near St Briavels in...
View ArticleBedford men admit conspiracy to supply heroin
Two men from Bedford have been told to expect lengthy jail sentences after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin with a street value of £2.6m. Omar Khayam and Mohammed Arfaan, both 27,...
View ArticleMr Loophole 'will not defend daughter' over speed fine
A Cheshire lawyer, known as Mr Loophole for helping celebrity clients evade driving bans, has refused to help his own daughter fight a speeding ticket. Nick...
View ArticleFreedom honours for 3 Rifles Battalion in Stockton
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Rifles paraded through the centre of Stockton after being awarded the Freedom of the Borough. The regiment, which includes the former...
View ArticleIndia college urged to review professor sacking
An Indian university has appealed to an affiliate college to reconsider its decision to sack an academic whose hands were cut off in a brutal attack. The Mahatma Gandhi University in the Southern...
View ArticleUS pastor Terry Jones cancels Koran burning
The pastor of a small US church who planned to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11...
View Article'Sponge checks' for oesophageal cancer risk
Swallowing a sponge on a piece of string could help prevent a deadly form of cancer, UK experts claim. Medical Research Council scientists have created the "cytosponge" which collects cells from the...
View ArticleSir Walter Scott's 'lost poem' discovered
An unpublished poem by one of Scotland's greatest writers, Sir Walter Scott, is to be read in...
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