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3 hrs ago | Telegraph.co.uk

Man charged with murder of undercover British Army officer in 1977

Crilly was interviewed by detectives in the weeks after the incident but left for the United States before officers could arrest him on suspicion of murder Kevin Crilly, 59, from Lower Foughill Road, Jonesborough, Co Armagh, is already facing charges of kidnapping and falsely imprisoning the 29-year-old Grenadier Guardsman near the Irish border in ...

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Armagh County, Northern Ireland, Irish Republican Army, Lincolnshire County, England, Down County, Northern Ireland

7 hrs ago | Hampshire Chronicle

Teen jailed after second child rape

A teenage sex attacker who raped a five-year-old boy days after being spared a custodial sentence for a previous attack has been locked up for almost three years.

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12 hrs ago | Express India

Briton gets 18 years for racial killing of Indian

A Briton was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison for the 'racially aggravated' murder of Indian Navy officer Kunal Mohanty by a court in London.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Canoe

Stolen First World War medal returned to family

A stolen First World War medal found almost two years ago in a cardboard box in Victoria is now back in the grateful hands of family members who gave up hope of ever seeing it again.

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WAOW

Japan police arrest suspect in slain Briton case

Japanese police said Tuesday that they arrested the main suspect in the slaying of a British teacher whose body was found taped up and half-buried in a sand-filled bathtub, ending a more than two-year manhunt.

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WATE-TV Knoxville

Bodies of 6 UK war dead return from Afghanistan

Veterans saluted and mourners laid flowers on hearses as hundreds paid tribute Tuesday to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - including five shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Prison, Europe, World News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

news.bbc.co.uk | Sidsaucer

Panorama's ally wins Award for Hospital Exposé

A nurse who was initially struck off after secretly filming elderly patients being neglected at a Sussex hospital has won a national nursing accolade. Nursing Standard's editor-in-chief, Jean Gray, said: "The public has demonstrated its clear support for Margaret, by voting for her...she made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of patients."

Nurse Margaret Haywood, who has now been accepted back into the profession, filmed life at the Royal Sussex Hospital for a BBC Panorama programme broadcast in 2005. Her film showed examples of patient neglect.

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Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine, World News, Greater London County, England, Essex County, England

Banburycake.co.uk

Solemn return of six dead from Afghanistan

SIX British soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be repatriated to Oxford tomorrow.

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Daily Mail

Couple's noisy sex sessions made neighbours' lives hell'

A couple's 'unnaturally' noisy sex sessions made their neighbours' lives' hell, a court has heard.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Wrexham Leader

Teen charged with stabbing in Flint

A TEENAGER from Flint has been charged in connection with a suspected stabbing in the town.

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Marketrasen Today

Cheat murdered and buried mistress

A love cheat who strangled his mistress then buried her body in a shallow grave has been convicted of murder.

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Newsday

Dollar down again as G20 backs Further Stimuli

The euro moved back above $1.50 Monday after finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries steered clear from addressing the weakness of the U.S. currency against most of its competitors at a meeting about the global recession.

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BreakingNews.ie

Sinn Fein pushes for progress on policing

The UK government must not allow unionists in the North to block a deal on devolving policing and justice powers to the region's Assembly, Sinn FA©in said today.

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Sun Nov 08, 2009

News.com.au

Jogging Brown follows other world leaders

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined other world leaders in taking up jogging as part of a new exercise regime.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Take That's Mark Owen ties the knot

The 37-year-old singer married Emma Ferguson at Cawdor Parish Church in the town of Cawdor, near Nairn, this afternoon.

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Kansas City Star

Beauty and tragedy in global network of war graves

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

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KPLR-11

Britain honors war dead on Remembrance Sunday as Afghanistan death toll rises

In this photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence, showing British soldiers, forming Battle Group North West hold a Remembrance Sunday service and parade at the Musa Qal'eh District Centre Forward Operating Base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sunday Nov.

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News.com.au

Britons think Afghanistan war unwinnable

BRITISH public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 per cent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Enfield Independent

Lack of drivers hits rail route

Passengers have been warned not to travel on a busy rail route on Sunday because of a lack of available train drivers.

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Wigan Today

Pensioner dies in road smash

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