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07 April 2008

• Immigration adds a million new voters to the electoral register in just two years as total hits record 46million
• Nine Casablanca terrorists escape from Moroccan prison
• Jailed: The 'peeping Tom' sergeant major who dressed all in black to secretly film young girls at army camp
• Two million Muslims now live in Britain and 10,000 are millionaires, reveals Home Secretary Jacqui Smith during visit to Pakistan
• £22million bill for heroin substitute prescribed to addicts on the NHS
• Families throw away around one third of all the food they buy (including 4.4million apples every day)
• Brown is being 'undermined by cabinet members plotting for a leadership contest', claim ministers in 10p tax row
• Charity lottery boss pocketed £273,000 of ticket money and went on the holiday meant to be top prize
• Jehovah's Witness who died giving birth after refusing blood transfusion told doctor 'I'm dying faithful to my God', inquest hears
• Mother kept able-bodied son in a wheelchair for five years so 'he would never leave her'
• Why babies who miss out on sleep could pile on the pounds
• Who's a pretty naughty boy? Barney the foul-mouthed parrot teaches other birds how to swear at tourists
• Lawyer who killed his wife is released after just two years - and inherits £950,000 from her estate
• Man given heart of suicide victim marries donor's widow and then kills himself in exactly the same way
• Wenger insists faltering Arsenal can still do the double
• Hamilton vows to bounce back
• Morley called to disciplinary
• Ex-police chief welcomes verdicts
• Omagh: A 'massacre of innocents'
• Duo remanded in severed head probe
• Chambers thrilled as Cas topple Saints
• Murray drops outside top 20
• Renee Zellweger has v. good night with heavy hitter Harvey Weinstein
• Murray: I'll play for Britain in Beijing
• Diana and Dodi killed due to negligent driving of drunk Henri Paul and paparazzi, inquest jury rules
• Hand-in-hand Marc and Cerys show their I'm A Celebrity romance is back on
• Natural Born Stripper: Woody Harrelson skinny dips with Hollywood pal Owen Wilson
• Paris Hilton launches shoe line.... and models them with her own terrifying size 11s
• Lily Allen makes a great blonde (shame about the tatty old skirt)
• Pilots demand BA shake-up
• Crouch considering his options
• Operation for Cech
• Stella McCartney and Yoko Ono's tearful embrace at funeral of 'Fifth Beatle' - but Macca stays away
• Liverpool boss Benitez: We'll end Arsenal's hopes of silverware
• Cameron targets class troublemakers
• United will fight back - Ferguson
• Cardiff set sights on top flight
• Ferdinand worry for Fergie
• 2008: The year the world will cool down
• Milkmen brothers call it a day after competition from supermarkets turns business sour
• For sale: The £60,000 beach hut made out of driftwood and the roof of a grocery van
• Terror for London-bound easyJet passengers as engine catches fire mid-flight
• Nugent hopes to earn final spot
• Olympic torch relay snuffed out in Paris after rollerblading policemen and jogging firemen fail to protect flame
• Police fly in for Tapas Seven quiz
• Season is over for Cech after horrific facial injury
• Paris protests force Olympic flame to be extinguished
• Up Pompeii: Tate and Tennant head for ancient Rome as nine million viewers watch series opener
• Hollywood He-Man to the end, Charlton Heston dies aged 84
• Sarwan heroics secure series draw
• Kaka: Capello can lead England to glory
• 'Shadowy' terrorist sent to UK for jet bomb plot posed as a honeymooner on false passport
• English workers forced to eat noodles while Chinese staff tucked into 'finest' sushi win race case against restaurant
• Britons have credit limits slashed by £3.1bn over debt repayment worries
• Fenerbahce's Kazim-Richards proving homegrown threat to Chelsea's Champions League hopes
• Ten years on, Darren and Dion click for Canaries
• The sauciest link: Anne Robinson stuns viewers by asking contestant to feel her breasts
• Birmingham boss McLeish cautious over McFadden return
• Chat show queen Trisha Goddard reveals she is fighting breast cancer
• First Ronaldinho and then Kaka! City boss Eriksson responds to reports of Brazilian swoop
• Go-ahead for tidal power generator
• Chambers present for shock Tigers win
• Protesters disrupt Olympic torch relay
• Emergency landing for easyJet plane
• Cruise passengers return home
• Suffolk Strangler's lover 'hugging and kissing him in prison' despite branding him a monster
• HSBC loses disc containing personal details of 370,000 customers
• Fitzgerald 'comfortable' after undergoing eight-hour operation
• Americans the latest to call for sex-shame Mosley to stand down
• Baggies captain Greening: We gave Pompey a run for their money
• HOW about rewarding clubs with more points for more goals?
  A TIP on how to avoid moaning Arsene Wenger while it's squeaky bum time for United
  CARDIFF v Barnsley may have been a great cup tie but surely Cardiff shouldn't be allowed into Europe
• Portsmouth don't scare us, roars Cardiff hero Whittingham
• Gordon Brown hires a spin doctor to stop his visual gaffes... shame the Olympic torch set fire to his hair!
• T5 customers forced to spend night in cardboard boxes amid claims that nine out of 10 lost bags are gone for good
• Haven't we seen that pose before? Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct returns - as she finds a bulky new bloke
• Liverpool v ARSENAL: Gunners boosted by Van Persie
• Saracens set for semi-final debut
• Moyes sets sights on record haul
• Gunners striker Bendtner vows to silence the Anfield crowd as Arsenal hunt Euro glory
• Spurs say £40m Berb is staying
• Angry Grant inspired us to victory, says Chelsea skipper Terry
• Davydenko claims Miami crown
• Osman keeps Toffees sweet
• Duke recuperates at Windsor Castle
• Massa wins Bahrain Grand Prix
• Khan must wait for world title shot
• United hopes dashed by Alves brace
• Ledley breaks Barnsley hearts
• Escalator fall girl 'critical'
• Snow adds to Terminal 5 misery
• Interest rates set to be cut
• Brown puts pressure on Mbeki
• I was poisoned, says Russian ex-spy
• Sex offenders tracking plan shelved
• Delia Smith attacked for putting too much salt in her new recipes
• British workers DO lose out to migrants, reveal official figures
• In handcuffs: Shannon's mother arrested over her daughter's kidnap amid fears of abduction 'stunt'
• Mother sold 12 of her babies for £250 each to pay off debts
• Wonderful pictures: The day April showers turned Britain white
• Omagh bombing was 'massacre of the innocents', civil action against terror suspects hears
• One in four premature babies 'faces the risk of autism'
• After attacking faith schools, now Ed Balls turns his sights on grammar schools
• The first picture of the little girl fighting for her life after falling 100ft from an escalator
• Hope for homeowners: Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates this week
• Hillary Clinton angers family of dead mother-to-be with her latest gaffe
• Police ARE too focused on minor crime, admit ministers
• Husband and wife Labour MPs claim £40,000 expenses (without a single receipt)
• Police investigate shocking video of 17 drunken soldiers 'roasting' underage schoolgirl
• David Cameron slaps down Boris Johnson over call for amnesty for illegal immigrants
• Man faces five years in jail after hitting a boy with... a hedgehog
• Brown hints at compensation for low-paid hit by 10p tax band change
• No re-think on tax change - Hutton
• London's shame as protests plunge Olympic torch relay into chaos
• Celebrity clubs join campaign
• Tenors for a tenner as opera seeks new fans
• A bottle of finest Tooting
• Bridge rescue firemen wins bravery award
• Who's in and who's out
• Lily blames ill health for quitting as book judge
• Apprentice show caught in second fixing row
• Warden 'ticketed a carer helping epileptic with fit'
• Spurs may cash in on £40m Dimitar Berbatov
• Traffic stunt promising Londoners a better life Down Under backfires
• Politics, pah! But we'll fight like crazy to save our local
• Can he do anything to halt the housing slump?
• America's plague of precocious brats
• I never knew an Olympic event could be such fun
• Hockney's largesse as he gives big picture to Tate
• Mayor's watchdogs face a tough fight for seats
• Keeper has surgery after accident in training and will miss Euro clash
• Election Diary
• Paddick: I'll bring in green tram network
• Comment: Ken may be trailing but don't write him off
• Chelsea resilience is key in title race
• Boris is 13 points ahead in Mayor race
• Fulham pair committed to the cause
• 'The world is going to think 2012 will be chaos'
• Olympic officials and police blame each other over torch relay farce
• Mosley faces fresh call to stand down
• Comment: the shaming of London: part one
• Comment: the shaming of London: part two
• The Anfield roar won't worry us, says Bendtner
• A long cold night of misery at T5
• Nine out of 10 lost bags are gone for good, say BA staff
• Bremner unplugged
• Tenors for a tenner as opera seeks new fans
• Hockney's largesse as he gives big picture to Tate
• Capital's struggling firms call for rate cut
• Ken: true or false
• Entrepreneurs beat new CGT rules in selling spree
• Credit crunch causes dive in office demand
• Centrica bid fever at British Energy
• At last, M&C finds its new chief exec
• Page feeling the pinch as City jobs cull bites
• Angry DT investors in mass class action
• I can bounce back from Bahrain nightmare, vows fired-up Hamilton
• Jay-Z takes rap for not selling out Glastonbury
• Developers to cash in on London hospitals
• Lions board embroiled in row with their main shareholder
• Capital duo turn on the style to keep Heineken hopes alive
• Cort tells Stoke to watch out for Morrison
• Fairclough takes credit for fightback
• Shameful echoes in Lord Coe's defence of Olympic hypocrisy
• Classic FM rival to be unveiled
• I'll be back on top again, vows humbled Hamilton
• Yahoo on the retreat after Microsoft gets tough on bid
• Murdoch son's CMH bid fails
• Gladstone's Old Masters headed to auction
• Superbug health boss is suing NHS trust
• Taking sides over the future of banking
• Good Samaritan is beaten unconscious by train teenagers
• Livingstone pledge for 20mph London
• Don't laugh, but the fat cats are going hungry
• Ether 08 merges art with technology
• Ronson in attack on tax 'threat' to the City
• HSBC loses information on customers
• Cameron: My new school rules
• Win dinner for two and a night in a London Hotel
• Benitez: We'll end Arsenal's season
• Tom's Place is a slightly retro chippy
• Menace and mayhem
• Love keeps the surf sound going
• A hard lesson in becoming British
• Eagles fail to soar at O2
• Playing into spring
• Will Darius go with the wind?
• Literary works of art