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Trials: Danny and Sally Nightingale after the second guilty verdict

SAS sniper Danny Nightingale to be sentenced for a second time over possession of army gun

Sgt Nightingale has already been jailed - and freed - for the same crime

Wine: Something for the weekend?

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More than a third of patients had to wait more than six weeks to access memory tests after being referred by a GP

Elderly patients wait up to a year for dementia tests

More than a third of patients had to wait more than six weeks to access memory tests after being referred by a GP

Eddy Shah, cleared of raping girl

Tycoon Eddy Shah is cleared of raping girl

The former newspaper tycoon Eddy Shah was found not guilty torday of raping an underage schoolgirl at a string of London hotels.

Jury out to consider verdicts as newspaper founder Eddy Shah faces trial over schoolgirl rape allegation

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the Old Bailey trial of a former newspaper proprietor accused of raping a schoolgirl.

Newham in east London

Want nice neighbours and community spirit? Then move to the city

Country dwellers are less civil and more likely to be irritable, reveals study

A reveller, with a blanket wrapped around herself, celebrates the summer solstice at the ancient Stonehenge monument on Salisbury Plain in southern England

Thousands celebrate summer solstice ahead of 'historic moment' for Stonehenge

The neighbouring road is finally about to close

Rock stars: the summer soltice at Averbury, Wiltshire

Lord of the rings at Avebury on the longest day of the year

This weekend marks the celebrations for this year's summer solstice – but forget visiting Stonehenge. Hugh Thomson prefers the wonders of its nearby rival, the largest stone circle in England

1986/87
Alex Ferguson was appointed Manchester United manager on 6 November 1986 and lost his first game in charge against underdogs Oxford United. United would only manage one away win in the whole season. Having been 21st and second from bottom when he took over, he guided them to an 11th place finish at the end of the campaign.

Sir Alex Ferguson's first Manchester United team sheet to be sold at auction

Handwritten side expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000

Dr Davinderjit Bains used a hidden camera inside a hi-tech watch to film abuse on female patients

Family doctor who used 'James Bond-style' wristwatch to film himself abusing patients is sentenced to 12 years for string of sexual assaults

Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, used his position as a GP in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, to assault more than two dozen women

<b>John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831, oil on canvas 151.8 x 189.9 mm.</b>
<p>Purchased by Tate with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Manton Foundation the Art Fund and Tate Members in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, National Galleries of Scotland; and Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.</p>

John Constable’s cathedral masterpiece saved for the nation after £23m Tate deal

One of the great masterpieces of British art will remain in Britain and be displayed in five galleries across the country after the Tate secured Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows in a £23.1m deal.

Cows trample man to death and leave another injured in field

A man has been trampled to death by a herd of cows, police said.

Tim Key: 'We'd acquired the reindeer head from a Finnish military man called Snoopy'

I'm sat in my flat waiting for the paint to dry on the wooden hippopotamus's head I recovered from beside the road yesterday while we were driving back from a Salisbury-based taxidermist who had agreed to clean the maggots off the reindeer's head we imported from Lapland six weeks ago.

Newspaper founder Eddy Shah 'had sex with schoolgirl in hotel rooms'

Prosecution alleges abuse took place in the early 1990s

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