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17 February 2008

• Pakistani shopkeeper dies after 'racist' arson attack that nearly killed his entire family
• Universities urged: Ban the freshers' week booze ups
• The teenager with FOUR kidneys who has promised to donate her extra organs to save lives
• Campaign to oust 'Air Miles Martin', the Speaker investigating MPs' expenses
• HMRC Ambition: The £1.5m slogan civil servants spent your hard-earned tax on
• Arab businessman pays record £7million for '1' private number plate 'to be the best'
• Sion Jenkins, tried three times for murdering Billie-Jo, outrages her family with tell-all memoirs
• BNP's website 'the most popular in politics'
• Fears of Taliban spring offensive grow as suicide bomber kills 80 in Afghanistan
• Yobs repeatedly stamp on man's head and leave him for dead after he asked them to keep noise down
• Parents WILL get powers to check up on paedophiles - but they face prosecution if they pass the information on
• A&E patients left in ambulances for up to FIVE hours 'so trusts can meet government targets'
• Unsold homes swamp property market as owners try to avoid big losses
• Burglar on day release from prison raids 56 homes after failing to return to jail
• Taxpayers to be saddled with 'rubbish' assets as banks protest over Northern Rock's 'blank cheque'
• McDermott mocks the odds after beating Hull
• Desperate foreign builders queue to earn just £40 a day in migrants' dawn patrol
• Get a life, Gordon! Minister says PM needs more fun
• Father of bruised Briton found dead in Venice canal insists his son wouldn't commit suicide
• Europe divided over Kosovo's independence
• Greece balcony leap father 'threw his children down first', claims damning new British witness
• Boyish Bell ready to come of age at last
• Harrington tailoring his run for the green jacket
• Wilko’s late blow stuns Saracens
• Ryan rant as leaders Gloucester go down
• Never-say-die Selby battles back to beat O'Sullivan
• Impressive Aussies see off India
• Rotting Reds - Liverpool are in crisis and Carragher admits they've been decaying for too long
• A ton of thanks - Lampard's salute after reaching Chelsea milestone
• Missing Briton found dead in Venice
• Centre worries for England boss Ashton
• Northern Rock to be nationalised
• Briton vanishes on Valentine's trip
• Madeleine McCann's disappearance is 'linked to a string of child abductions'
• Brown backs new powers for Holyrood
• Britain ready to recognise Kosovo
• 'Sarah's Law' scheme to be piloted
• Washed up timber set ablaze
• Ferguson - We were terrific
• Carter's calamity sinks Preston as James turns on the style for Pompey
• Lewsey makes mockery of England snub
• Grant: Frank will stay
• Chambers ponders Olympic ban challenge
• New anti-knives move to be unveiled
• 'Ludicrous' to free hotel fall dad
• Blaze at Brighton Grand Hotel
• So Andy, how is that knee doing?
• Rovers win is a career high - Trollope
• FAI chief slams Keane
• Murray secures final spot
• Finnigan earns McNamara praise
• Watchdog probes PM's rent row
• Luck out as Blackwell backs his old routine with Blades
• Wenger confident humiliated Gunners will bounce back
• Reading chief Madejski: 39th step plan 'consigned to the trash bin'
• My England pair are the heartbeat of Chelsea, says Grant
• Morgan praises battlers
• Labour regulations 'cost firms £66bn'
• F1 chief Ecclestone dismisses Hamilton racism row
• Indian collapse hands Aussies another easy win
• Mowbray still concentrating on League
• Jimmy has Jones jumping for joy
• Poll: 44% want new Chancellor
• Baggies produce five-star display
• Cardiff secure quarter-final place
• Finnigan shines in Bulls debut
• Cipriani stars for Wasps
• Unheralded Aguilar battles to maiden European Tour victory
• Wells issues Chambers ultimatum
• Sunderland boss Keane told to keep out of Irish affairs
• Injury scare will not hold up Kauto Star's Gold Cup preparations
• What the papers say - February 17
• Cup holders too strong for Terriers
• Rovers send Saints crashing out
• Howard winner sends Liverpool out
• United silence Gunners
• Speaker 'used taxpayers' air miles'
• Victims' families 'are neglected'
• Rapist hunted after hospital escape
• Warning over 'polyclinics' proposal
• Diners flee restaurant gunfight
• Community stunned by more deaths
• EU 'to kill off firework displays' as new safety regulations come into force
• Only February and the hayfever season is already upon us, as sales of remedies rocket
• Rapist at large again following second escape from life sentence
• Princes plan Operation ER ... that's Easy Rider, as Wills and Harry plot 1,000-mile African motorbike trek
• JFK's 'secret love child' had affair with President Bush's sister-in-law ... and she backs up his claims to the Kennedy bloodline
• Potty Pete pilgrims: Couple pay £15,000 for concert in Pete Doherty's front room
• My father the philanthropist rabbi and his affair with the butcher's wife
• Why was Hilary Benn's family home saved from the sea while the nearby harbour was abandoned?
• Adventurer Steve Fossett declared dead five months after disappearing in plane
• Together: The dead Georgian billionaire and the man accused of killing Litvinenko
• Spectacular scene as plunging temperatures freeze North East river waterfall
• FIRST PICTURE: Russian parents have five more reasons to smile as quins born in Oxford head home
• Three bridges within a mile hit SIXTY-TWO times by curse of satnav
• Diplomatic crisis looms as French bugs 'discovered in UK Defence Minister's office'
• Identity cards 'useless in fight against terrorism'
• Diplomatic row erupts between UK and Spain over extradition of September 11 suspect
• Labour plan to recruit teen tsar branded 'lunatic stunt' by Tories
• Major blaze at historic seafront hotel probed by fire investigators
• War hero told: You can't have jabs to save sight until you are blind in one eye
• China 'will make secret checks on backgrounds of Olympic visitors'
• Cameron taunts Brown after election pull-out ... but admits Tories would have lost anyway
• Now Brown faces sleaze probe over his expenses
• Punk frocker Vivienne Westwood's got designs on retirement
• A hug from Rod ... so is Penny wearing it swell?
• A night on the tiles with the stars and their latest obsession ... Scrabble
• Call for annual £10 smoking licence
• New sharia row over Chancellor's plans for 'Islamic bonds'