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U.K. News
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- Miliband presses Iran on sailors
- Foreign Secretary David Miliband speaks to Iran's foreign minister about the five detained UK yachtsmen.
- UK soldier killed in blast named
- A soldier killed in Afghanistan on Monday has been named as Acting Sgt John Amer - the 99th UK casualty of 2009.
- Fatal attack dog 'illegal breed'
- A dog that killed a four-year-old boy at his grandmother's house in Liverpool was a banned breed, police confirm.
- Probe into Ofsted Baby P e-mails
- A High Court judge demands an explanation from Ofsted over suggestions its inspectors deleted e-mails relating to the Baby P case.
- Jones is new Welsh Labour leader
- Carwyn Jones wins the election to succeed Rhodri Morgan as Welsh Labour leader and first minister in the Welsh assembly.
- Cameron attacks health and safety
- Conservative leader David Cameron calls for an end to the UK's "over-the-top" health and safety culture.
- English and maths results decline
- The latest primary school league tables for England, based on children's Sats results, have been published.
- Big building societies may merge
- The Yorkshire and Chelsea building societies say they are in "advanced talks" about a possible merger.
- Rainy November wettest on record
- The Met Office says last month was the wettest November on record, with an average of 217.4mm (8.6in) of rain across the UK.
- 'Cornish' nationality snubbed for 2011 census
- A bid to allow people to list their nationality as "Cornish" on the 2011 census is rejected by MPs.
- Who hijacked Sarah Brown's Twitter page?
- Sarah Brown's Twitter followers were baffled earlier when the PM's wife "tweeted" a random set of letters.
- Tuesday football as it happened
- Man Utd cruise past Spurs 2-0, while Aston Villa win 4-2 at Portsmouth to reach the Carling Cup semi-finals.
- Man City boss defends agent fees
- Manchester City manager Mark Hughes defends the large sum of money the club has spent on agents over the past 12 months.
- Watford handed £1m survival loan
- Watford chairman Jimmy Russo loans the club's parent company £1m for the club to survive the next month.
- Z-listed
- Can you judge a town by who turns on its festive lights?
- Fergus on flu
- My experience of having swine flu in the family
- Muslims and HIV
- The British imam using Islam to battle the virus
- Listen up
- New research into how human voices work
- Repairing ravages
- 70ft up at Lincoln Cathedral, team tackles stonework
- Post Potter
- Young stars who grew up on the set contemplate future
- 'Superlorry' grounded by police
- A new 25-metre superlorry is grounded by police in Lincolnshire after it is deemed to be "unlawful" for roads.
- Terror suspects win bail battle
- Two men suspected of terrorist-related activities win a court battle against use of secret evidence to deny them bail.
- Computer hacker move defended
- The home secretary has defended his decision to allow the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
- House prices 'continue to rise'
- UK house prices have risen for the seventh month in a row, the Nationwide says, helped by better jobs market news.
- Doherty sorry for 'Nazi' anthem
- Pete Doherty apologises after being asked to leave a German stage for singing a verse of the German anthem with Nazi connotations.
- Wetherspoon to create 10,000 jobs
- Pub operator JD Wetherspoon announces it will open 250 pubs over the next five years, creating 10,000 jobs in the process.
- Prince's herbal medicine appeal
- Prince Charles is urging government to press on with regulating herbalists to safeguard the public.
- £1m raised for victims of floods
- A fund set up to help the victims of Cumbria's floods raises £1m in just 10 days thanks to a number of substantial donations.
- Jingle king
- If radio ditties drive you mad, then this man is to blame
- The big turn-off
- Are sex scenes in books always rubbish?
- Tartan try-hards
- Why do so many people want to be Scottish?
- Captured boat crew on front pages
- The detention of the British crew of a racing yacht that was seized by the Iranian Navy makes many front pages.
- Cyprus death crash two extradited
- Two men who were passengers in a car which hit and killed a teenager in Cyprus are extradited to the island.
- Parking on private land 'banned'
- A doctor loses a court battle over parking tickets issued on his own land - when a judge rules he only owns the subsoil.
- Illegal fuel plant largest in NI
- The largest fuel-laundering plant ever uncovered in Northern Ireland is shut down by customs officials.
- Dissident actions condemned
- The mother of two IRA men killed by the SAS calls on dissidents to give up violence after a bomb attack close to her home.
- Demoted minister backs successor
- Former Scottish education secretary Fiona Hyslop endorses her successor in the job, after she was demoted.
- Teenager's fire death 'barbaric'
- A teenager who died in a fire at her boyfriend's Angus home was "murdered pure and simple", a court hears.
- Victim 'told killer I love you'
- A man who stabbed his former partner to death tells a murder jury that she told him she loved him as he killed her.
- Harpist 'pressurised' into crime
- A former royal harpist felt forced to commit a crime by a man who threatened to expose her drug habit, a trial hears.
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