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A PENSIONER collapsed and died after coming face-to-face with a burglar who ransacked his home and set it on fire, a court heard.

A man has been taken to hospital with burns to his face and hands and a fractured leg following a house fire.

A rescue operation is under way after a passenger boat hit a rock at Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast.

Clashes erupted Saturday in northern England as a far-right group marched in a rally held as tensions rise over the slaying of a British soldier by attackers who claimed they were avenging the deaths of Muslims overseas.

A boy aged just nine has admitted burgling a house and stealing the keys of a car that crashed moments later, police said.

Sgt Rick Clement, who served with the First Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, announced he was leaving the military after 16 years of service.

His wife Rebecca, 30, mother of his son Jack, aged two, and stepfather Ian Rigby, 54, fought back tears as they spoke on behalf of the 25-year-old's whole family at a press conference at the Regimental HQ of his unit, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Bury, Greater Manchester.

LANCASHIRE'S new Labour leaders have been accused of 'conning' Burnley and Pendle's Liberal Democrats into supporting their minority administration.

An MP has asked for "dangerous" plans do downgrade and centralise parts of the district's hospital services to be referred to the Secretary of State for Health.

A father who stabbed his adulterous wife to death as she prepared for a weekend break with her new lover has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murder.

A van driver has admitted running down and killing a mother of three in a hit-and-run frenzy in which more than a dozen other people were injured.

A witness in the trial of two men accused of murdering three people in a Helensburgh house fire has been called a "bare-faced liar" by a defence QC.

Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a flight from Pakistan to Manchester was diverted to Stansted Airport in Essex.

The force is also working with and reassuring parents who have been affected by the alleged sexual assault of a child at one of the three branches of Bright Eyes Nurseries, which are in Bromsgrove, Redditch and Droitwich.

Londoner Christopher Simmonds, 28, was convicted of manslaughter following a six-week trial at Bristol Crown Court, while Zacharious Clayton, 19, Kendel Joseph, 19, and 18-year-old Eurico Tavares were each acquitted of a charge of murder.

Natasha Pollard's dogs Max, an 18-month-old West Highland terrier/King Charles spaniel crossbreed, and Molly, a five-year-old jack russell terrier, died earlier this month after falling ill following a walk at Stratton Meadows.

Strapping his baby into a car seat, Abu Khaled said it was unfortunate that a British soldier was hacked to death in an apparent Islamist attack a day earlier in London, but it was not the only misfortune on his mind.

Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said today, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.