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A planning application to build the largest Tesco store in Ireland has been turned down, Stormont's Environment minister has said.

The Health Secretary has defended the Government's targets for the NHS in the wake of failings at several hospitals.

FIVE Britons have been detained in Iran after their racing yacht may have inadvertently strayed into Iranian waters.

Caption: Helen Mirren Los Angeles Premiere of 'Couples Retreat' held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood - Arrivals Los Angeles, California .... DAME HELEN MIRREN is reportedly set to reprise her role as British monarch QUEEN ELIZABETH II in an upcoming film about INDIRA GANDHI.

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The Central African nation of Rwanda today became the 54th member of the Commonwealth, a grouping of mostly former British colonies.

The public are being given the chance to vote on community service schemes for young offenders.

A former Labour Health Minister has claimed the party`s opposition to minimum alcohol pricing was wrong.

The Democratic Unionist Party is pursuing policies that will create a political train wreck in the North, Sinn Fein claimed today.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown attends a press conference during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port-of-Spain Britain aims to set clear goals in Afghanistan at top-level talks next year to help bring its troops home, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday, amid public anger at the rising death toll.

Scottish culture and heritage have been celebrated with a host of events across the country to mark St Andrew's Day.

Hospital watchdogs came under fresh pressure to intervene to protect patient safety after research found 12 trusts were "significantly underperforming". The latest analysis by the Dr Foster organisation also identified 27 trusts with unusually high mortality rates - totalling 5,000 more deaths than expected.

Four people were arrested in connection with a haul of drugs worth more than A 20,000 seized by police in raids in the north of Scotland.

THE BODY of a man has been recovered from the River Taff by police. Officers received a call from a member of the public at around 9.30am this morning, saying there was a body in the river at Sophia Gardens, in Cardiff.

Two other people, Wendy Edwards, 40, of Haybourn Road, Brighton, and Sebastian Flynn, 20, of Ringmer Road, Worthing, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial.

An investigation has been launched after the death of a motorcyclist following a crash with an ambulance car, police said.

A BLUE light has been stolen from the roof of a response vehicle used for medical emergencies.

A 25-year-old Hampshire man has been given a suspended prison sentence for endangering a police aircraft by directing a laser pen at it as it flew overhead.

An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at what is usually a low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.

A competition to design the first tartan for London will be launched on St Andrew's Day, organisers have said.

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The funeral of hero policeman Bill Barker, killed in the Cumbrian floods, is to take place, with hundreds of mourners paying their last respects.

A woman was convicted of stabbing three women in Leicester city centre. Saajidah Mullan, 20, was found guilty at Leicester Crown Court of three counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, police said.

An Olympic judo star has been convicted of being part of a 50 million drug gang.

The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, has been valued at 3.28 million, the British Museum has said.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two jockeys in a fire in Malton.

Hollywood star Nicolas Cage is set to turn on the Christmas lights in Bath. The star of The Rock and Con Air will bring some Christmas cheer to the Somerset spa town at 6.30pm. Thousands of people are expected to line Milsom Street where Cage - who won the best male Oscar for his role as a despondent alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas in 1996 - will ...

Bing Crosby didn't have to dream of a white Christmas - he could bank on it. The crooner was from Spokane, a city that is among the most likely to have a white Christmas each year.

Detectives are investigating whether a man suspected of stabbing his three-year-old son to death is related to a wanted evangelist.

Yves Rossy has failed in his attempt to cross the Strait of Gibraltar using a homemade, jet-powered wing. He was lucky to survive and soon airlifted for a hospital check-up.

Well-intentioned dam builders in Sleaford are increasing the risk of flooding by building amateur dams on the River Slea. The townsfolk are short of entertainment since their cinema closed.

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Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Wednesday 25th November 2009 - 8:37am Killer Jane Andrews back in custody after absconding from open prison A former royal aide on the run from prison for more than two days was back in police custody today after being found near the jail, police said.

Critics hope the hearings, which will call ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and are billed as the most sweeping inquiry into the conflict, will expose alleged deception in the buildup to fighting.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Tuesday 24th November 2009 - 12:35pm Four-year-old boy found stabbed to death in Southwark flat Detectives launched an inquiry today after a four-year-old boy was found stabbed to death at his home.

A man who killed his girlfriend and set her dismembered body on fire at a motorway lorry stop has been jailed for 20 years.

People in flood-hit Cumbria were braced for further misery with more heavy rain and flooding forecast.

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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.

About 200 people have been stranded after a town became cut off by floodwater. The incident, in Cumbria, followed heavy rain which battered parts of northern England, north-west Wales and western Scotland.

Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.

A TEARFUL father told a murder trial today of the moment his daughter told him: "I don't want to die, dad." a Jessica McCagh Garry McCagh, 50, said he rushed to his 17-year-old daughter, Jessica, after being wakened by a knock on his door from the teenager accused of her murder.

Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.

Millions of pounds of funding is in place for a hovercraft service across the Forth.

An investigation is being launched after a fisherman, who was pulled from the water after falling overboard, died in hospital.

An epileptic New York driver who mowed down a British couple with his dustbin lorry has been jailed for at least 20 years.

A woman has been charged with child sex offences following the investigation into paedophiles Vanessa George and Colin Blanchard, police have said.

A man appealing his conviction for murdering a British student in Italy testified Wednesday that he heard the victim arguing with an American defendant in the case minutes before she was slain.

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Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers Tuesday to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a series of international reinforcements.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will woo British voters with promises of new social programs and a clampdown on financial sector excess when the government's plans for the next parliamentary session are announced Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth II.

Photographs of a fire-damaged flat where a teenage girl was allegedly murdered have been shown to a murder jury.

A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.

OLD BAILEY bomber Marian Price was arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland.

A WARRINGTON railway station is one of 10 in England most in need of modernisation.

Alan falls for Jake's teacher , whose intelligence is a refreshing change from Kandi's flakiness.

The chief executive of Portsmouth Football Club appeared in court today charged with having ''cheated the public revenue'' over the signing-on fee to a midfielder.

The mother of a young soldier from Plymouth killed in Afghanistan fought back tears as his body returned to Wiltshire today.

DETECTIVES investigating a 500,000 jewellery theft on a train today appealed for help from the public.

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An official inquiry into a fire that killed 14 nursing home residents is due to begin.

Oct. 6 1950 b/w file photo of 10 year old twins Brian Thomas Sullivan and Kevin James Sullivan from Islington, London, who carry their luggage to the boat train "Rangitoto" as they leave Liverpool Street station in London bound for Auckland, New Zealand.

Ceremonial uniforms belonging to the father of modern-day unionism Sir Edward Carson have been sold at auction for 43,000. National Museums Northern Ireland bought the robes worn by the famous unionist politician who led the anti-Home Rule campaign which eventually resulted in the partition of Ireland in 1921.

Detectives investigating the death of a taxi driver found stabbed in the head in a country lane near Birmingham have arrested a man on suspicion of murder.

The trial of a Briton accused of shooting dead two men is expected to begin in Iraq.

THE British Red Cross is looking for people to find out more about the volunteering opportunities available during an open day in Yeovil next week.

FLASH floods have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to stock at The Builder Centre on the Bridge Road industrial estate in Haywards Heath.

Four people had to be taken to hospital after being crushed at a concert in Birmingham to mark the switching on of the city's Christmas lights.

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Detectives are hunting a convicted murderer who absconded while out on an escorted shopping trip.

Anti-racist protesters will gather to oppose a controversial "anti-Islamic" demonstration.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe poses backstage in the Awards Room at The Orange British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on February 10, 2008 in London, England.

Britain was braced for flooding and damage from gale-force winds as forecasters issued severe weather warnings about the worst storm of the year so far.

A slaughterman who executed a mother-of-three with a bolt gun in front of her daughters after becoming obsessed with her has been jailed for life.

Oil giant Total UK has admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the massive Buncefield oil depot explosion.

The search in Fermanagh for a light aircraft that was reportedly seen in difficulty west of Lough Erne has been called off.

A record 112 people hugged for one minute at St Pancras railway station in London yesterday.

Two of Scotland's most notorious killers sat side by side in court as they continued the fight to have their convictions overturned.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Thursday 12th November 2009 - 2:47pm Severed alligator head shock for dog-walker A painter and decorator described his shock today at finding the severed head of an alligator while he was out walking his dogs.

A former judge caught on the motorway nearly three times the drink-drive limit has been banned from driving for two years.

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If the bookies are right, Labour will win the Glasgow North East by-election by a comfortable margin.

A senior policeman who investigated the Omagh bomb has said intelligence information about suspects should have been shared with detectives at an early stage.

Mona Webster had two passions: birds and music. The Scottish widow, who died in August at the age of 96, traveled the world well into old age in pursuit of both.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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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Caption: Emma Thompson Premiere of 'An Education' BFI 53rd London Film Festival London, England .... THOMPSON 'WITHDRAWS POLANSKI SUPPORT' British actress EMMA THOMPSON has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free ROMAN POLANSKI after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker.

Police are treating the death of a woman in a house fire sparked by a firework as murder, and warned the culprits that they will be caught.

Karen causes a ruckus when she courts Stanley to relocate, prompting Michael to go on the offensive and recruit Jim in his battle.

A BRAVE mother died minutes after saving her bullied son from a house fire started by yobs who threw a lit firework through her letterbox on Bonfire Night.

Investigators are looking into whether a firework posted through the letterbox of a house could have sparked a blaze which killed a mother.

In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls.

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged on the eve of the meeting that there were "disparate views" on how to address the problem of banks being too big to fail.. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld November 6, 2009 Finance ministers from the world's leading rich and developing countries are gathering in St.

A police force has admitted following up leads supplied by "mystics" after a man's death.

Children living on a remote Scottish island are to hitch a lift to school on what is said to be the world's shortest flight, it was announced today.

THE mother of a soldier who died weeks after being wounded in Afghanistan today remembered her "brave" son as "the best there ever was". Corporal Thomas Mason, known as Tam, from Fife, was caught by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar province on September 15.

The body of Didcot-based Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid has been repatriated to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.

Wise, 61, who first represented Ukip before turning independent, spent a year channelling taxpayers' cash into a bank account he secretly controlled.

Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups.

An aunt of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is facing jail after admitting benefit fraud.

Producers of West End play PRICK UP YOUR EARS have brought the curtain down three weeks early after MATT LUCAS quit to mourn the death of his ex-husband. The Little Britain funnyman was devastated by the shock suicide of his former partner Kevin McGee, who was found hanged at his apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland last month .

What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication? In the case of comic magazine Viz , the ingredients are swearing, toilet humour, and biting satire.

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Irish Republican Army dissidents pose their greatest security threat in Northern Ireland since the province's peace accord 11 years ago and are being helped by a handful of IRA veterans in plotting attacks, an expert panel said Wednesday.

The Government is seeking urgent talks with General Motors after the car giant's dramatic decision to scrap plans to sell Vauxhall, a move welcomed by union leaders.

The Lloyds banking group has pledged to remain Scotlanda s largest financial sector employer after break-up plans were announced.

A 39-year-old woman was found dead on a railway line just three days after her father was killed on the same stretch of track, it has emerged.

The Army bomb squad had to be called to the Merseyside home of the former Liverpool and Blackburn manager when the live explosive device was found by police last July.

THE man accused of the murder of Indonesian divorcee Ermatati Rodgers played an online computer game as she lay dead on the floor, a court has heard.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Central Government and also in Bill Payments Tuesday 3rd November 2009 - 8:41am Plans to break-up UK banking giants confirmed Break-up plans for part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group to appease European competition fears were confirmed today.

The SNP`s candidate in the Glasgow North East by-election has been accused of dirty tricks for changing details of his birth to suit local campaigns.

Fancy a piece of British royal history? Then head to Christie's in London this month.

A delay-hit A 300 million rail project will not be completed until 2014, the national transport agency said.

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Water pouring from the Cathkin Braes in Glasgow caused this flooding in Cathkin.

A LITTLE foal had a lucky escape this afternoon after firecrews rescued him from a fence.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie set off sparks in this sizzling blend of action, romance and comedy.

Box-office superstars Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler go head-to-head in this madcap comedy.

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Mogadishu - Somali pirates said on Saturday that a captured British couple had been moved on shore from a container vessel and that there was a dispute between different groups over the two Britons.