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York, United Kingdom and Martinsried/Munich, Germany. October 06, 2008. ADVA Optical Networking today announced that THUS, one of the U.K.a s leading business service providers, has selected the ADVA FSP 150 to ...

Neighbour Williams, of Trimsaran, near Llanelli, appeared in Swansea Crown Court yesterday where he pleaded not guilty to murder.

Whether Alan Bennett's "The History Boys" is a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy is anyone's guess - because it is an accurate portrayal of over-achieving adolescent boys and adult men who cannot quite leave ...

J. K. Rowling poses during the South Bank Show Awards 2008 at The Dorchester on January 29, 2008 in London, England.

Ted Briggs, who was the last survivor of the sinking of the battle cruiser HMS Hood in World War Two has died in Portsmouth, his naval association said.

Governments across Europe scrambled to save failing banks on Sunday, working largely on their own a day after leaders of the continent's four biggest economies called for tighter regulation and coordinated ...

OXFORD: A blue plaque was put up Friday at the Oxford home of the late Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri, who spent his last 17 years in the leafy suburbs of this English university town.

Lazy Londoner Dennis Doyle is such a loser, he doesn't even realize he is a loser.

A former Salvation Army captain from Somerset has admitted stealing more than A 33,000 from the charity, and from the estate of an Alzheimer's sufferer over whom she had power of attorney.

Four terror suspects have appeared in court over an alleged threat to kill Gordon Brown.

The Melton Mowbray pork pie will now be protected by European law. The decision by the European Commission to grant Protected Geographical Indicator status means only pork pies made in the traditional manner ...

A man has died and another has been airlifted to hospital after the car they were in collided with another car.

A POOL of potential jurors has been chosen to try six defendants accused of murdering a biker who was shot on the M40.

Britain's financial regulator said Friday it would raise its compensation limit for bank deposits to 50,000 pounds per customer from 35,000 pounds and indicated more protection may be coming, as it moved to ...

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with a fire in which a mother died attempting to rescue her children.

The gang's crime spree was halted when the mastermind and his accomplice were shot dead by police... Four men were convicted of being part of a robbery gang whose crime spree only ended when the mastermind and ...

A MAN has sustained injuries to his head and faced after being punched and slapped outside a pub in Ilfracombe.

A priest who sexually abused a number of boys at a Catholic school over the course of 20 years has been jailed.

Three men are due to appear in court charged with conspiring to damage the home of a man who published a controversial novel about the prophet Mohammed.

Ruth Kelly says she will step down as an MP at the next General Election. Ruth Kelly with Gordon Brown at conference Ms Kelly announced she was resigning as Transport Secretary during the Labour Party ...