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Motoring Review: VW Beetle Cabriolet 50s edition
Sunday 07 July 2013
Do we still have the bug for the retro Beetle cabriolet?
Death crash footballer Courtney Meppen-Walter back in jail after being freed in error
Tuesday 02 July 2013
A footballer who killed two people in a car crash and was released from jail by mistake is back in custody, police said today.
Irish Open triumph is so sweet for Paul Casey
Sunday 30 June 2013
Paul Casey mastered difficult conditions to hit a five-under-par 67 and claim the Irish Open by three shots yesterday, securing his first European Tour victory in over two years.
Police arrest 11-year-old Rebecca Thompson's father over her murder in Hertfordhire
Monday 24 June 2013
52-year-old is currently in hospital after car crash hours before the girl's body was found
Motoring review: Jaguar XF Sportbrake Portfolio 3.0 DS
Sunday 28 April 2013
No matter how big the load, Jaguar's new estate will tow it in style.
The Masters 2013: Prime Minister reacts to Adam Scott victory on 'historical day for Australian sport'
Monday 15 April 2013
Scott became the first Australian to triumph at Augusta
Caravan, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Wednesday 09 January 2013
"It's surprising how physical those spoons were," Geoff Richardson confesses after his feverish spoon-playing on the giddy "Golf Girl", a song about affairs of the heart on a Canterbury golf course.
One dead as helicopter crashes at Bahamas millionaires' playground resort
Friday 23 November 2012
One person was killed and four others injured when a helicopter carrying five American passengers crashed in a Bahamas millionaires' playground resort.
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 TSI 140 GT
Sunday 11 November 2012
The latest VW Golf is lighter, roomier and greener than ever before
Ceasefire! It's a wedding
Sunday 28 October 2012
Firing off bullets into the sky has been a jubilant climax to thousands of weddings in Russia's remote areas - but now the custom is under threat, as armed guests venture closer to cities and stray bullets cause an increasing amount of mayhem.
Honda confirms new models for UK production
Thursday 04 October 2012
Honda has confirmed that it will produce two new versions of the Civic model at its UK plant in Swindon.
Kia Cee'd 1.4 CRDi 1 Sportswagon
Sunday 30 September 2012
Pensioner killed in crash after 'driving on wrong side of road'
Tuesday 07 August 2012
An elderly woman has died after her car hit another vehicle as she drove on the wrong side of the road, according to police.
Plugged in from the heart of the action
Thursday 02 August 2012
Anyone who doubts the important role of the smartphone at modern sporting events would have been instantly put straight during last week's Opening Ceremony at the Olympics, as the finest athletes in the world filed into the stadium while holding their phones aloft, filming and snapping as they waved to the crowd. The crowd itself may have been more nervous about capturing those moments for posterity; the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) made a stern declaration before the Games that images, video and sound recordings could be used only for "private and domestic purposes", thus clamping down on our natural impulse to share everything across the web with friends, family and complete strangers.
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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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