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+ Success of kites project marked + The success of a scheme to reintroduce a rare bird of prey to the skies of north-east England is ...

+ Founder of bardic druids honoured + The man who invented the Welsh order of the bards, the Gorsedd, 200 years ago is honoured with a plaque unveiling in ...

+ MPs 'over-claimed' on council tax + More than 50 MPs have claimed expenses for council tax they have not paid, the Daily Telegraph ...

+ Power firm's 99.9% 'success' rate + Guernsey Electricity says it achieved a 99.9% success with almost 17,000 customer-related incidents last ...

+ Thousands set sail in island race + Up to 16,000 people are taking part in the annual Round the Island race around the Isle of ...

+ Reporters' log: Iran's upheaval + The BBC's team of correspondents log their reports and personal impressions as the turmoil surrounding the disputed results of Iran's ...

+ Water plant work brought forward + Work to replace a 20-year-old filter system at a water treatment works is brought forward after a bacteria ...

+ Iranian protests 'will go ahead' + Protests against Iran's disputed presidential elections will go on, sources say, defying the country's supreme ...

+ Public call to help track moths + Scientists are asking for help to spot important species of moths to understand whether climate change is affecting populations. ...

+ Severed ear attack appeal renewed + Police renew an appeal for a man wanted in connection with an attack in West Sussex in which a 21-year-old man's ear was cut off with ...

+ Man is injured in M11 bridge fall + A man suffers life-threatening injuries in a fall from a railway bridge over the M11 in Essex, closing the northbound ...

+ Two held over missing Orkney man + Two men are being held in custody in connection with the disappearance of a man on ...

+ Schools to rethink 'i before e' + The spelling mantra "i before e except after c" is no longer worth teaching, according to the government. ...

+ Further protest over academy plan + Campaigners opposed to plans to replace three Cumbrian schools with an academy hold another ...

+ Back in headlines for wrong reasons + Belfast was back in the global headlines this week for all the wrong reasons - hate crime, with a post-conflict ...

+ Robber hits shop worker with pole + A Leicester shop worker is beaten with a pole during a ...

+ Teenage driver detained for death + The driver of a car in which his teenage fiancée was killed is given four-and-a-half years youth ...

+ Canine crime fighter to bow out + A hard-working police dog with more than 200 arrests under his collar ...

+ What the Scottish papers say + The stories making the headlines in Scotland's ...

+ Shooting victim undergoes surgery + A 19-year-old man is to undergo surgery to have a bullet removed after he was shot in the stomach in Manchester. ...

+ Soldier is guilty of sex assaults + A soldier who had consensual sex with a 13-year-old girl is found guilty of four counts of sexual ...

+ Thousands expected for solstice + Thousands of people are expected at the twin sites of Avebury and Stonehenge to celebrate the summer ...

+ Man charged with drug trafficking + A 50-year-old Glaswegian is charged with drug trafficking offences after cocaine and cannabis was found in ...

+ 'Devastating' death of crash girl + A mother describes how the death of her daughter has affected her family, as the driver responsible is ...

+ Anger over park and ride prices + A decision to increase ticket prices on park and ride services angers ...

+ You have been reading. + A round up of the stories you have been ...

+ Talks due on Madagascar stalemate + Southern African states are to hold talks on the political deadlock in Madagascar, after a previous effort ...

+ School flu outbreak 'contained' + The director of public health says an outbreak of swine flu at a Cornish boarding school has been ...

+ Funeral for baby killed in fire + The funeral of an 18-month-old baby girl who died in a house fire in Dungiven on Tuesday is to take place ...

+ Bus depot fire closes city roads + A major fire has damaged a Nottingham bus depot and disrupted traffic near the city ring road. ...

+ UN calls for Peru clashes probe + The UN envoy for indigenous people urges Peru to launch an independent probe into recent deadly Amazon ...

+ Apple boss 'had liver transplant' + Apple boss Steve Jobs has received a liver transplant and is expected to return to work later this month, a report ...

+ Daughter murder inquiry continues + Police continue to investigate the death of a four-year-old girl suspected to have been murdered by her ...

+ UK soldier killed in Afghanistan + A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. ...

+ Funeral due for stabbing victim + The funeral of a 20-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Lisburn last Saturday is due to take place later. ...

+ Rioter assaults priest at parade + A priest is pushed and jostled by a rioter as he worked to calm tensions at an Orange parade in Belfast on Friday ...

+ Minister won't seek re-election + Local Government Minister Dr Brian Gibbons announces plans to stand down as an assembly member at the next ...

+ Formula One on a budget + F1 racing team Force India give BBC business reporter Brian Milliigan a tour round their factory and reveal their plans for the ...

+ In pictures: Acropolis Museum + Inside the new Acropolis Museum, which opens in Athens on Saturday. ...

+ Woman charged in child abuse case + A woman held in connection with a child abuse inquiry at a nursery is due in court charged with a number of sex offences. ...

+ Fans set for Hillsborough march + Thousands of football fans are to march to Downing Street to call for a new investigation into the Hillsborough ...

+ Expenses blackouts anger papers + Outrage continues in the press over the blacking out of details in the published MPs expenses receipts. ...

+ Schwarzenegger in LA plane drama + Arnold Schwarzenegger's jet makes an emergency landing in LA, but the California governor seemed unfazed by the ...

+ Zimbabwe PM urges UK exiles home + Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai is to meet exiles living in the UK to urge them to return home and help rebuild the ...

+ NZ jury jails father of 'Pumpkin' + A New Zealand jury convicts the father of an abandoned girl, known as Pumpkin, of murdering his ...

+ Argentine golden shipwreck found + A vessel which sank carrying $18m in gold and silver ingots is found in the Magellan Straits off the coast of ...

+ US admits Afghan airstrike errors + US forces in Afghanistan carried out deadly airstrikes without following their own rules, a Pentagon inquiry ...

+ Obama says world is watching Iran + US President Obama warns Iran "the world is watching" after its supreme leader criticises those who protested over the ...

+ Paramedic who lost eye 'to be a nurse' + Nick Horobin, who lost an eye after thugs threw a concrete block through the window of the ambulance he was driving hopes to start ...

+ Harry Lauder walking sticks sale + A pair of walking sticks once owned by legendary Scots entertainer Sir Harry Lauder go on display ahead of their ...