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Chemical deaths: Post-mortem examinations will be carried out on couple found dead in Edinburgh hotel
Friday 02 August 2013
Sixth floor of the Scotsman Hotel had to be evacuated after two bodies were discovered by staff
Ariel Castro sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison for abduction of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight
Thursday 01 August 2013
Judge insists on consecutive sentences for hundreds of counts, including kidnapping, rape and assault
Brecon Beacons deaths: Army names third soldier who died after SAS selection exercise
Wednesday 31 July 2013
A third soldier who died from injuries sustained in SAS selection training in mid-Wales last month, was today named as Corporal James Dunsby.
Switzerland train crash: Driver's body recovered after disaster leaves 26 injured
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Body recovered from drivers cabin amid wreckage at Granges-près-Marnand
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Wednesday 31 July 2013
Find your inner Tarzan, get up close to the beasts of the jungle or explore some of the nation's leading museums and attractions
Fifty Shades hotter? London Fire Brigade blames 'mummy porn' for rising number of handcuff incidents
Monday 29 July 2013
Fire fighters have linked increasing call-outs to people trapped in handcuffs to the popularity of books such as EL James' "mummy porn" trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey.
Boeing urges further inspections on its jets after Heathrow Dreamliner blaze
Monday 29 July 2013
Air investigators say emergency locator beacon checks should include five more aircraft types
Italy bus crash: Burst tyre may have caused coach to plunge from viaduct, killing at least 38
Monday 29 July 2013
Premier Enrico Letta cancels Greece trip, after 'huge tragedy'
Francisco José Garzon - driver in Spain train crash - suspected of negligent homicide
Saturday 27 July 2013
The 52-year-old had been in hospital since the crash under police guard
Foreign Office names British teenager feared drowned off French coast
Friday 26 July 2013
Kieran Knight, 16, was on holiday with his family in the Landes region near Bordeaux
Freckleton house fire: Teenager Dyson Allen guilty of killing four siblings in blaze
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Four-year-old twins Holly and Ella Smith and their two-year-old brother Jordan were asleep as the fire took hold
15 rescued after rip tide swept them out of depth on Cornish beach
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Lifeguards have pulled 15 people to safety after a flash rip current swept them quickly out of their depth.
Cleveland search called off in neighbourhood where bodies of three women were found
Monday 22 July 2013
But police are still concerned that they could find more victims as suspect appears influenced by Cleveland serial killer
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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