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Householders who recycle could earn 130 a year in shopping vouchers under plans to be unveiled by shadow chancellor George Osborne.

Dead Claire Howarth was placed in the driver's seat of her car while her killer Martin Forshaw stood on the accelerator / AFP Cop admits killing fiancee Hit her five times with hammer Due to marry five days later AN English policeman who killed his fiance, a fellow officer, and tried to claim she died in a car accident has been jailed for 18 years.

Former British leader Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street Monday as she unveiled her own portrait, which has been installed in the official residence of Britain's prime minister.

The famous white glove worn by Michael Jackson when he performed Billie Jean at the Grammy Awards in 1983 is seen on display at 'Michael Jackson: The Official Exhibition' held at the 02 Arena on October 26, 2009 in London, England.

Detectives are investigating a report of a sexual assault in Banbridge. Sunday, 22 November 2009 Tags: police Local News In the early hours of Sunday morning an 18-year-old woman was reportedly attacked in the town centre at Rathfriland Road, police said.

Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday in flood-hit towns following the heaviest downpours ever recorded in England, as fears mounted for a woman thought swept into a swollen river in Wales.

Four men are due to appear in court charged with terrorism offences following counter-terror raids.

A WIRRAL man was killed in a car crash yesterday. The 53-year-old was driving his Vauxhall Agila when it was involved in a collision with a van on the A556 Chester Road in Tabley near Knutsford, on Saturday at 4.30pm. The man died at the scene and a 53-year-old woman who was in the car with him was taken to hospital after suffering serious leg ...

A Catholic priest has been asked to leave his post over child abuse claims dating back to the mid-1970s. Tags: church Police launched an investigation into the conduct of Fr Paul Symonds when he was working in England, the church authorities said.

Belfast - Gunmen ambushed and shot at police in Northern Ireland overnight and officers returned fire in a further incident of increasing violence in the province.

JCB Transmissions in Wrexham is to lose more jobs as part of 196 posts being axed across the firm.

A teenager murdered on a trip to local shops in north London was stabbed and then run over by a car, police said.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to residents at a rescue centre in Cockermouth, northern England, yesterday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds in the heaviest rainfall on record in England.

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Firefighters were called to a four car crash in Northamptonshire. Crews from Wellingborough and Rushden Fire Stations attended the incident along the A45 in Irchester, near Wellingborough, at 9.40am on Friday.

The emergency services are braced for more heavy rain after England's wettest day on record claimed the life of a "heroic" policeman and left thousands of others counting the cost of flooded homes and businesses.

Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.

A carjacker has been convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to a mother of four by running her over in her own vehicle.

Brian Thomas, who strangled his wife during a nightmare in the belief he was attacking an intruder, has walked free from Swansea Crown Court after the case against him was withdrawn.

KPMG said 381 stores would close with the loss of 1,908 jobs with a further 34 staff to go at the group's head office in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.