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+ Dangerous driving footballer sentenced + Former footballer Steve Claridge is given a suspended jail sentence and a driving ban for speeding at ...

+ Shot officer 'playing criminal' + A police officer who was shot dead by a colleague was playing the role of a criminal fleeing in a ...

+ Mystery of dolphin mass stranding + Post-mortem tests on dolphins found dead in Cornwall reveal no clues to the cause of the mass ...

+ Afghan bomb attack men named + Three British soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan are named as the toll of dead reaches ...

+ Police lose pay award court fight + Police officers lose their High Court battle over the government's refusal to backdate a 2.5% pay ...

+ Schools told improve or close + Almost one in five English secondary schools is told to improve or close in a drive to raise ...

+ Accused 'made burial request' + A British man asked if his wife and daughter could be buried together because it was how he had "left them", a US court ...

+ Carers' respite leave 'to double' + Respite time for people who look after frail and disabled relatives in England is set to double, ministers ...

+ Prison confused over deportation + An Essex prison released foreign inmates wrongly believing they would be deported, a report ...

+ Husband death plotter wife jailed + A care worker who planned to hire a hitman to kill her husband is jailed for seven ...

+ Bus with children onboard crashes + A bus carrying schoolchildren crashes into a garden wall in ...

+ Large blaze at recycling centre + Firefighters spend the night damping down a recycling depot in West Sussex following a huge ...

+ Budget parking offered in London + Parking in central London becomes cheaper with the introduction of a first come, first served ...

+ Dando shot by 'irrational loner' + Ex-BBC presenter Jill Dando was killed by a "loner" with a "fixation with celebrities", a jury ...

+ Pedestrian killed in bus accident + A man dies when he is hit by a bus in central ...

+ Boy badly hurt in dog bite attack + A 13-year-old boy is taken to hospital after being bitten by a dog in the West ...

+ Hacker disables police website + A police website is taken down after a hacker publishes a cartoon and Muslim prayer on all its ...

+ Canoe capsize search resumes + The search resumes for a man missing after his canoe capsized on a river on the Essex and Hertfordshire ...

+ People warned over runway plans + Residents living near Birmingham International Airport are warned to expect increased noise levels by a ...

+ Royal couple at flood-hit railway + Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will finally take a ride on the Severn Valley Railway - a year after they had planned ...

+ Security change locks people out + Residents of a tower block in Nottingham are locked out of their homes after the security system is ...

+ Youth dies in police chase crash + An 18-year-old dies and three others are injured when a stolen car crashes after failing to stop for ...

+ Man guilty of beautician's murder + A man who strangled his beautician girlfriend is convicted of murder and jailed for ...

+ Driver dies in army vehicle crash + A driver is killed when two army vehicles collide near barracks in North ...

+ Man 'beaten to death with a cue' + A man battered his sister's boyfriend to death and forced her children to stamp and kick the dying victim's body, a court ...

+ Huge rise in church theft claims + A massive increase in thefts of metal from church roofs in the North East leads to a rise in insurance ...

+ Hospital unit opens after revamp + Patients with minor injuries should see a better service after a six-month refurbishment at Ripon ...

+ Man held in blast probe is freed + Police investigating an explosion at a restaurant in Exeter release a man without ...

+ Fire destroys disused warehouse + A disused two-storey warehouse in North Devon is totally destroyed in a ...

+ Head teacher fights gang culture + A headmaster who wants to prevent young people from joining gangs is setting up a youth community project at his school. ...

+ Three arrested after brothel raid + Three people are arrested in Cheltenham on suspicion of money laundering and running a ...

+ Police vehicle collides with car + A police vehicle on an emergency call collides with a car on the A39 near ...

+ Teenager's body is found in river + The body of a teenage boy is recovered from a river in ...

+ Ojo gets England debut against NZ + London Irish wing Topsy Ojo will make his debut in a much-changed England side to face the All Blacks on ...

+ Man Utd report Real Madrid to Fifa + Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon says Man Utd 'have no evidence' for their official complaint to Fifa over Real's interest in ...

+ Counties demand rebel ruling + English counties say they want clarification about players with rebel league connections for the Twenty20 Champions ...