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Keir Starmer backs US-style murder charges for England and Wales
The Guardian
The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has said he supports the introduction of different degrees of murder charges in England and Wales. Starmer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he would back a system akin to that in the US where ...
Prosecutor backs murder law changeThe Press Association
US-style murder charges backedThe Sun
Pressure grows for reform of murder lawPolitics.co.uk
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UK News Cameron to be grilled on phone-hacking row
Scotsman
David Cameron is set to be quizzed today over the newspaper phone-hacking row that is threatening to engulf his communications chief Andy Coulson. The Prime Minister is to be tackled on the issue when he faces questions for the first time since ...
Phone-tapping row: I know what it's like to face John YatesTelegraph.co.uk
Phone hacking row gathers pace as MPs start new inquiryDaily Mail
David Cameron PR guru Andy Coulson to face police quiz over phone-hackingMirror.co.uk
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Protests over cuts 'will take us back to the poll tax riots', claims TUC chief
Daily Mail
The public will rise up in mass protests similar to the poll tax riots because of the Government's 'deeply mistaken' spending cuts, the country's top trade union boss predicted today. In a call to arms, Brendan Barber, general secretary ...
Union leader: Cuts will spark major protestsHerald Scotland
Unions plan to hit back against Tory cuts with 'grassroots' campaign of discontentScottish Daily Record
Cuts could spark poll-tax style riots, says union bossIndependent
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Woman murdered after crying wrong name during sex
Telegraph.co.uk
A mother of two was murdered by her angry live-in-lover after she accidentally cried out another man's name as they had sex. Joanne Kitchen, 41, was making love with 44-year old Gary Higgs in their bedroom when she suddenly cried out: ''Chris, harder. ...
Joanne Kitchen stabbed then throttled for calling out wrong name during sexMirror.co.uk
Woman killed 'after shouting out wrong name during sex'BBC News
Mother killed for crying wrong name during sexThe Bolton News
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How Tony Blair left New Labour as the Nasty Party
Daily Mail
Missiles fly,streets are cordoned off, demonstrators are arrested, book signings nervously cancelled, the ex- prime minister/author in danger of being hunted across london - was there ever such a publishing launch? ...
Ed Miliband appeals to Labour's lost votersThe Guardian
Ralph Miliband: The father of a new generationIndependent
Why I'm backing Ed MilibandProgress Magazine
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Britain falls behind Poland and Slovakia in university tables...
Independent
The UK has lost its edge as a world leader in providing higher education, one of the most authoritative international studies has revealed. It has plummeted from fourth place to 15th in less than a decade in the ...
Irish education spending at height of boom was fourth lowest in OECDIrish Times
UK slips down university education rankingsFinancial Times
'Nation of dropouts' warning as UK drops in education leagueThis is London
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Leylandii: the tree at the centre of suburban warfare
The Guardian
A fresh dispatch from the great leylandii war was noted this week, with news of yet another epic neighbourly dispute being triggered by the fast-growing, controversial cypress. David Alvand, a civil engineer living in Plymouth, is battling with his ...
Hedge wars! ... and other evergreen battles that make good neighbours turn nastyDaily Mail
Neighbours incensed over huge treesBBC News
Residents complain of 'Berlin Wall' neighbour's 35ft cypress treesTelegraph.co.uk
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Police sergeant Mark Andrews who threw woman onto concrete floor jailed
Daily Mail
A judge branded two police officers liars yesterday as he jailed a sergeant who hurled a woman headfirst on to a concrete floor. Sergeant Mark Andrews was caught on CCTV dragging Pamela Somerville, 59, by her wrists across the floor of ...
Six months for police sergeant who hurled woman into a cellThe Guardian
Policeman jailed after attack caught on filmAFP
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Blitz 70th anniversary sees bombers remembered with St Paul's service
Mirror.co.uk
The men and women who turned Britain's darkest hour into her finest hour were honoured yesterday - 70 years after the day the Blitz began. The special memorial service celebrated the courage of legions of our firefighters, nurses, ...
Britain remembers 70th anniversary of the BlitzAFP
A city remembersBBC News
Blitz remembered at St Paul's serviceABC Online
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