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Laura Robson becomes first British junior Wimbledon champion in 24 years
Britain's Laura Robson has won the Wimbledon girls' singles title by beating Thailand's Noppawan Lertcheewakarn 6-3 3-6 6-1.
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War veteran, 84, in suicide bid after energy firm hounded him for £6,600 that he didn't owe
A war veteran driven to despair by soaring electricity prices tried to commit suicide when a power company broke into his home and installed a pre- payment meter he did not know how to use.
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Three charged with murder after 17-year-old boy is tied to tree, forced to drink petrol and set alight
A teenager died after he was tied to a tree and made to drink petrol before being set on fire, police revealed yesterday.
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FTSE plunges to a two-and-a-half year low as Bradford & Bingley shares tumble
The FTSE index of Britain's 100 biggest firms closed yesterday at its lowest level for two and a half years.
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Children 'to be given compulsory sex education from age four'
Children as young as four are set to be given compulsory sex education in primary school. They will be taught the names of body parts and basic ideas about different relationships.
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I want my mum: The last words of teenager stabbed to death in 'planned ambush in dispute over girl'
A teenage boy sobbed for his mother as he lay fatally wounded after being stabbed with a 12-inch knife. Shakilus Townsend, 16, was attacked in the street by a gang of masked youths armed with baseball bats and a knife.
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Tory turmoil as Mayor Boris Johnson is forced to axe lying deputy
The Tories suffered an embarrassing setback last night after Boris Johnson was forced to sack his deputy for lying about his past.
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Marking fiasco delays more than a million children's SATs scores 'for weeks'
More than a million children will get their Sats results late because of administrative chaos, the Government admitted yesterday.
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Man arrested in French student murder in which pair 'were tortured and killed for their PIN numbers'
A man is being questioned by detectives in connection with the murder of two French students, who may have been tortured for their bank details, after being arrested earlier today. Detectives suspect Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were killed in a robbery that escalated into the horrific double murder.
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Rumbled: Illegal immigrants who stowed away on lorry end up at US airbase
Two Afghan teenagers smuggled themselves into Britain on a lorry - only to have their plan foiled when they emerged inside a giant US airbase.
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Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel down and pray to Allah
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and 'pray to Allah' during a religious education lesson, sparking outrage among parents who said it breached the boys' human rights.
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BBC in mourning after veteran foreign correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler dies at 85
Veteran journalist Sir Charles Wheeler - one of the BBC's longest serving foreign correspondents - has died from lung cancer at the age of 85.
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Ben Kinsella pleaded in letter to Prime Minister: Bring an end to youth violence
Teenage stab victim Ben Kinsella made an appeal to Gordon Brown to stamp out knife crime just weeks before losing his own life, it has emerged.
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Letter from Queen Mother asking her servant to 'pack some gin' is sold for £16,000
A letter from the Queen Mother instructing one of her servants to pack some Dubonnet and gin, "in case it is needed", has been sold for £16,000.
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'Vain' model escapes jail after cutting age in passport lie
An model who shaved eight years off her age in a bid to make it big in America escaped jail today. Saskia Porter, 35, was convinced she had to recapture her late twenties to get the Hollywood job she wanted.
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Cancer victim denied life-saving drugs in postcode lottery given fresh hope by judge
A grandmother denied life-prolonging cancer drugs has been given fresh hope by a judge who ordered her case to be reviewed.
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Why Pringles are exempt from VAT ... because a High Court judge says they are NOT crisps
They may be found next to each other in the supermarket - but Pringles are not potato crisps in the eyes of the law, a judge ruled yesterday.
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Policeman escapes jail after stealing confiscated cannabis 'to ease work traumas'
A policeman who stole and smoked cannabis which had been confiscated from criminals has walked free from court.
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Job centre advertises for naked cleaner, £10 an hour (but only £6 if you're fully clothed)
A job centre has been carrying an unexpected advert - for a naked cleaner. The advert is one you might expect to see in a top shelf magazine or on an x-rated internet site.
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Paediatrician David Southall cleared of conducting baby experiments without parental permission
A controversial paediatrician was cleared yesterday of experimenting on babies without their parents' consent.
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When is a garden not a garden? Judges call for a better definition
Two judges called for the definition of what makes a garden a garden to be rewritten yesterday after a High Court battle over a pensioner's uprooted saplings.
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The soft drink called Cocaine that claims to be a legal alternative to drugs
A soft drink named Cocaine could be on the shelves within weeks. Billed as the 'legal alternative' to the Class A drug, the high energy drink has three times more caffeine than its rival, Red Bull.
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The night police in Wales were summoned to deal with flying saucer... only to discover it was the MOON
Police were sent out on an emergency call after an anxious resident reported a 'bright stationary object' in the sky ... which turned out to be the Moon.
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GPs are making 'gentlemen's agreements' not to poach each others' patients
Some family doctors are denying choice by making ' gentlemen's agreements' not to take on each other's patients, a health minister said yesterday.
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Bob Geldof to back David Davis in 'civil liberties' by-election
Bob Geldof will join ex-Tory frontbencher David Davis's fight on Friday against Labour's alleged erosion of ancient liberties.
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Is Keith Vaz's plush new Westminster office a reward for terror vote?
Senior Labour MP Keith Vaz – who was told he would be rewarded for supporting controversial anti-terror laws – has been given a plush new office in Westminster.
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Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge
The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
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Now 'nanny' Balls is trying to turn our teachers into parents
Schools are to be judged on how they improve children's 'wellbeing' by tackling obesity, drug abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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When he learnt potatoes contain all the nutrients humans need, Tom Sykes set out to survive a whole week by eating nothing else
How bad could a mere week of subsisting solely on potatoes be? There was only one way to find out... Welcome to Tom Sykes' potato week.
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The Dirty Half-Dozen: The generals who are even more ruthless and bloodthirsty than Mugabe
The world thinks Mugabe has won. But as this brilliant dispatch reveals, he's lost power to a cabal of generals dubbed the Dirty Half-Dozen.
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On the Critical List: How the NHS is being killed by politics and bureaucracy
The NHS is 60 today. But a writer who's spent a year investigating it at every level says it's now in terminal decline - being killed by politicians, bureaucrats and the madness that's seen 30,000 beds disappear despite all the billions.
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The day the sea caught fire: 20 years after the Piper Alpha explosion, the survivors are finally able to tell their story
The Piper Alpha explosion was the world's worst off-shore oil disaster. Only now, 20 years on, are the traumatised survivors finally able to tell the full horrifying story...
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Pictured: Rush hour to crush hour ... the £330,000 supercar after smash with 18-wheel lorry
It's never a good day when you prang the car. And it's a particularly bad day when that car is a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren costing £330,000.
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Booze at ten: Trevor McDonald admits binge drinking with a bottle of wine every night
As the elder statesman of television news presenters, he might be expected to be a model of sobriety.
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Sales plummet at John Lewis as credit crunch takes a stronger grip
John Lewis yesterday revealed a sharp drop in sales as families appeared to tighten their budgets.
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Miracle escape of schoolgirl who walks away unhurt after car runs over her HEAD
A schoolgirl whose head was run over by a car miraculously walked away from the accident with only cuts and bruises because she was wearing a helmet.
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Organist quits village church in anger after 'trendy' vicar hires rock band with electric guitars
An organist has resigned over 'irreconcilable differences' with the vicar of a prestigious church. He is the fourth senior member to leave in the past four months, saying he couldn't work with Vicar Martin Burrell any more.
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'Blacked-up' white actor played African official in police recruitment test
Britain’s elite crime-fighting force faced accusations of racism today after it used a ‘blacked-up’ white actor to play an African official as part of a recruitment process.
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British spy chief in coma after falling mysteriously ill as Scotland Yard denies assassination claims
The head of the Government's top spy committee is in a coma in hospital after falling mysteriously ill, it emerged today.
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Sir Al Aynsley-Green
On June 15, 2008, we ran a story headlined “Children's Tsar has 9ft fence built around his house to protect him from the 'yoof' he champions”.
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