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Following today's verdict, Ben Thompson's wife urged people to be careful when drinking, saying 'I don't want anyone else to go through what I've been through because now I'm left alone' An inquest into the death of Welsh rugby fan Ben Thompson has heard how he was in "good spirits" in the lead up to his death.

Emergency services were called to an address in Mayenne Place, Devizes, at 1pm today after a man arrested earlier in the day indicated there was an explosive device in one of the flats there.

Mr Graham, 51, of Beaufort Mansions, in Stallard Street, died at Royal United Hospital, Bath at 5.27am on November 20, last year, after being stabbed twice by his partner Louise Cox, 45, of Newtown.

Experts found "very strong evidence" of burnt human skull remains at the home of the man accused of murdering April Jones, a jury has heard.

Fire crews from Stourport and Kidderminster were first to arrive at Pelican Foods, Barracks Lane, Sandy Lane Industrial Estate at 10.20pm where they found a severe fire.

There was applause in the House after MPs voted by 366 to 161 to give the Marriage Bill a third reading The Government's controversial plans to legalise gay marriage have cleared the Commons despite efforts by Tory backbenchers to derail the legislation.

PUPILS will face longer lessons as a secondary school aims to improve attainment in order to become the best in Basildon .

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A WORCESTER man has been charged with attempted murder and Grievous Bodily Harm with intent following a double city knife attack.

Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals.

Detectives are treating the death of a 20-month-old girl as murder and have named her mother as a suspect.

Unsurprisingly the staid Royal Horticultural Society's decision to allow garden gnomes at the Chelsea Flower Show this year elicited a variety of responses. "Gnomes are very symbolic in English gardens, as an anti-class statement," said TV design guru Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who said he had a colony of gnomes in his garden. "It’s good to confront the received wisdom that all gnomes are nasty," Mr. Llewelyn-Bowen said, adding that his wife Jackie "has had to overcome her poshness and confront her gnomophobia".

A HEARTBROKEN couple, who tried for six years to have a baby, are searching for an answer as to why their young son died suddenly in his sleep.

Survey reveals more than 55% of people have recycled their mobile phones

Over the last year more than 1,000 county pensioners, out of an estimated 100,000, have been helped to claim more by the charity.

THE fire service's deputy chief has warned Southend's cluster of fire stations could be under threat as part of the cost-cutting programme.

Eight members of the same family have pleaded guilty to running a complex series of illegal waste businesses from a former small-holding near St Austell.

The incident occurred between 10.30pm and 11pm on Thursday, 2 May in the Smannell Road area, near to Cricketers Way.

Mr Smith said: "When you were talking to the jury last week and today why didn't you tell them about that?" JURORS have heard how the alarm was not set at the home of Mr Nowak and Catherine when he returned with her family after learning of her death.