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Ten charged in Coventry over teen sex abuse
Friday 02 August 2013
At least four of the defendants are members of the same family
Drink-drive deaths soar by 25 per cent after decades of decline
Thursday 01 August 2013
An estimated 290 people were killed in drink-drive accidents in Britain in 2012
Don’t knock Ryanair – it’s created a revolution in air travel that we should all be celebrating
Thursday 01 August 2013
It’s the airline that everyone loves to complain about, but here’s why it’s my favourite
EADS changes name to Airbus in bid for Boeing competition
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Airbus Group will combine its defence and space activities in one division with Airbus Military transporters
May they all rest in peace: Funeral for 38 victims of Italian bus crash
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Relatives wept and clutched coffins draped with flowers at a mass funeral held in Italy for the 38 victims who died in Sunday’s bus crash.
Defendant in India gang-rape trial changes testimony
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Mukesh Singh says he was driving the bus and was unaware of the brutal attack, which shocked a nation
Police hunt for drivers after nine pupils killed in India school bus crash
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Two men fled the scene after a school bus and truck crashed head-on in the northern state of Rajasthan
Passengers on delayed easyJet flight are given 86 years to browse duty-free shops
Monday 29 July 2013
Britain’s biggest budget airline cancelled a late-night flight – then told passengers to wait 86 years and one day for a replacement.
Weather warning: Britain braces itself for worst weekend of the year to be on the roads
Friday 26 July 2013
Severe weather warning as 'torrential rain' disrupts holiday getaway traffic for millions
Flash floods and series of heavy thunderstorms mark end of heatwave
Wednesday 24 July 2013
A month's rain fell in just a few hours in some areas
Mind the gap! Commuters in Japan push 30,000kg train carriage off trapped woman
Tuesday 23 July 2013
She escaped serious injury and train left station just eight minutes after the incident
Gatwick bids for second runway as alternative to Heathrow expansion
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Sixty years after idea was first mooted, owners proposing new runway to south of existing one
Eight injured as two trains crash into each other in Norwich
Sunday 21 July 2013
Greater Anglia service travelling at "low speed" hit an East Midlands train parked in station
Costa Concordia staff found guilty over sinking of cruise liner
Saturday 20 July 2013
Captain Francesco Schettino only person still on trial
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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