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A PETITION has been launched calling on borough council chiefs to rethink a plan to use nearly A 800,000 of taxpayers' money to buy a Costa Coffee restaurant at the Basingstoke Leisure Park.

Neighbour Madeleine Tosh became concerned she had not seen David Waring for several weeks, and alerted Wiltshire Police, who found his body at his home on Beech Avenue.

The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game, but one official estimated Friday that if it goes unclaimed the prize would zoom to nearly $1 billion.

Body: The tot was discovered by officers after they received a fear for welfare call at around 10am on Thursday The mother of a 20-month-old baby found dead in a house in Bicester is believed to have fled to Kenya.

It was the first week of my first job, and one of my co-workers was showing me around the building.

Walter Brazil, 41, of Collyer Avenue, is due to appear in custody at Worthing Magistrates' Court today.

The Basildon branch of Cure the NHS teamed up with London-based legal firms Leigh Day and Field Fisher Waterhouse to hold a public meeting at The Place in Northlands Pavement, Pitsea , yesterday afternoon.

CONFIRMED : A second man has been arrested in relation to today's stabbings, and the suspect taken away in an ambulance with a police escort.

FURIOUS motorists have hit out at yet more road closures being planned for routes in and out of south Essex.

The order was secured by CPC Worldwide, which is acting for a number of Harlequin investors seeking around A 1.1million, at a private High Court hearing which the couple were not notified of.

An industrial unit in Bloomfield Road was being used to supply illegal drugs with an estimated street value of A 3.8 million pounds to drug users all over the world.

Rev Mina Smallman has been given the title - which covers Rochford , Basildon , Thurrock and Hadleigh as well as the town itself.

A NUCLEAR weapons factory has apologised after admitting a health and safety breach after a fire in which a Basingstoke man received burns injuries.

WINCHESTER MP Steve Brine was among three Hampshire Tory MPs today set to defy the Prime Minister by demanding a quickfire referendum on whether Britain should quit the European Union.

A CONTROVERSIAL headteacher at a troubled school has gone on long-term sick leave.

New Yorkers might have felt they knew about the personal life of Christine Quinn, the veteran politician seeking to become the city's first gay and first female mayor.

Police were called to reports that a man had assaulted a man and a woman at a property in Pool, West Cornwall, at 10.15pm on Friday.

A May 15 article in The Telegraph made waves by reporting that the head teacher at a London Catholic School called in gay rights group Stonewall to educate on the need to avoid homophobic bullying after a five-year-old boy called another student's shoes "gay." Now it turns out that the incident never happened.

Three 22-year-olds were arrested at addresses in Hendon following a two-week surveillance operation by the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad.

Riders up to their late teens start riding in the park during the Spring and Summer every year, and the police say that they are already receiving 'three or four' calls a day about the problem.