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SAS sniper Danny Nightingale to be sentenced for a second time over possession of army gun
Thursday 25 July 2013
Sgt Nightingale has already been jailed - and freed - for the same crime
Elderly patients wait up to a year for dementia tests
Friday 19 July 2013
More than a third of patients had to wait more than six weeks to access memory tests after being referred by a GP
Tycoon Eddy Shah is cleared of raping girl
Friday 12 July 2013
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
Tuesday 09 July 2013
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the Old Bailey trial of a former newspaper proprietor accused of raping a schoolgirl.
Want nice neighbours and community spirit? Then move to the city
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Country dwellers are less civil and more likely to be irritable, reveals study
Thousands celebrate summer solstice ahead of 'historic moment' for Stonehenge
Friday 21 June 2013
The neighbouring road is finally about to close
Lord of the rings at Avebury on the longest day of the year
Wednesday 19 June 2013
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
Sir Alex Ferguson's first Manchester United team sheet to be sold at auction
Monday 17 June 2013
Handwritten side expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000
Family doctor who used 'James Bond-style' wristwatch to film himself abusing patients is sentenced to 12 years for string of sexual assaults
Thursday 23 May 2013
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
John Constable’s cathedral masterpiece saved for the nation after £23m Tate deal
Thursday 23 May 2013
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
Tuesday 14 May 2013
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'
Saturday 11 May 2013
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'
Tuesday 07 May 2013
Prosecution alleges abuse took place in the early 1990s
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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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