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Wheelie bin revolt: Householders fight back over monster plastic bins blighting our front gardens

Jun 16, 2009 No Comments

Protesters say the bins blight their streets, warning council chiefs: ‘Not in my front yard.’ The issue has triggered petitions and public demonstrations, with residents in one town marching on the council offices.

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Why am I dark, daddy? The white couple who had mixed race children after IVF blunder

Jun 13, 2009 No Comments

Keith and Catherine are white, their son is black. The result

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Parents’ shock as mother-of-two nursery worker is arrested in child porn probe

Jun 10, 2009 No Comments

Vanessa George who has worked at Little Teds nursery in Plymouth for two to three years, was arrested at her home after detectives received a tip-off.

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‘Stand down for the sake of the party’: Brown openly challenged to quit as he faces fury of Labour MPs

Jun 08, 2009 No Comments

Gordon Brown was openly challenged to stand down tonight as he faced a fiery showdown with his party’s MPs.

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Mandelson email savages Gordon Brown as angry, insecure… and unable to win the next election

Jun 06, 2009 No Comments

Peter Mandelson’s claim that Gordon Brown is doing a great job is in tatters after it was revealed he called the PM ‘insecure, self-conscious physically and emotionally, uncomfortable in his skin and angry’ in a leaked email.

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Britain’s Got Talent the backlash: As Susan Boyle suffers ‘breakdown’, Ofcom pledges probe

Jun 01, 2009 1 Comment

TV watchdogs are set to investigate the treatment of Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent after a flood of complaints from viewers.

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Father who threw his six-year-old son off a Crete balcony is freed by Greek court after just three years

May 29, 2009 No Comments

John Hogan, 35, has spent nearly three years in a Greek jail and psychiatric hospital. This afternoon he was released by the court and told he would be allowed to return home ‘immediately’.

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People vs politicians

May 28, 2009 No Comments
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French D-Day surrender: Sarkozy makes U-turn and says Queen IS welcome at 65th anniversary

May 27, 2009 No Comments

The French have bowed to British anger but with only nine days to go until the celebrations, it was unclear whether any of the Royal Family would be able to attend.

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Under pressure MP Julie Kirkbride claimed £1,000 for digital gear bought by her IT consultant brother

May 26, 2009 No Comments

The revelation will increase pressure on the Tory whose MP husband Andrew McKay has already been forced to quit over their second home arrangements.

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Is the net closing? Paedophile named in search for Maddie faces quiz on second case

May 22, 2009 No Comments

Detectives are waiting to fly to Germany to question Raymond Hewlett, the predatory paedophile named as a possible suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

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Woman gives birth to sextuplets in just five minutes by Caesarean section

May 22, 2009 No Comments

It took just five minutes yesterday for six tiny brothers and sisters to arrive in the world. The sextuplets delivered in a UK hospital are the first born here for more than 25 years.

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