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Father killed by train as he leapt back onboard to retrieve present for his son

A devoted father died under a train after he tried to jump back on board to retrieve some presents for his family he had left on the seat. David Davies got off the train without picking up flowers for his wife and a toy car he had bought his three-year-old son. He ran back to try to stop the train by banging on the windows but the driver did not see him. In a moment of madness, he then tried to jump from the platform on to a ledge between two carriages .. more |  Add your view (5)

 

Revealed: Afghan plane hijacker now working as a cleaner at Heathrow

One of the nine Afghans who won the right to live in Britain after hijacking a plane is now working at Heathrow airport as a cleaner, it emerged. Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of a group who took over an internal Afghan flight in 2000 and landed it in the UK.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

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Boris Johnson Boris Johnson is to hire a financial expert to scrutinise the spiralling 2012 budget

Routemaster return doubt

Routemaster The Mayor's plans for a newgeneration Routemaster may not happen

Barclaycard tempts thousands with 'instant cash' - but forgets to mention the massive interest charges

barclay card Barclaycard has been branded 'grossly irresponsible' for urging customers to take out 'instant cash' on their credit cards. Britain's biggest credit card company is sending letters to thousands tempting them with 'instant cash'.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

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Graffiti London's Jewish community has been targeted by a wave of anti-Semitic graffiti

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Sales signs London's £250billion economy faces its toughest test since the last recession

Cherie must resign over her diaries, says judge

Cherie Blair Cherie Blair should be sacked from the judiciary over her memoirs, a former senior judge said today... more |  Add your view (8)
 
 
 

Under-fire Brown admits: 'I'm the best man to do the job...probably'

Gordon Brown brushed aside calls for him to step aside yesterday and warned he is the only Labour politician capable of winning the next election. He sent a clear signal to his MPs that he has no intention of being bundled out if things get worse for his Government this summer.. more |  Add your view (9)
 
 
 

Fans won't go legal on downloads

iPod Music fans are continuing to download songs illegally instead of staying within the law and paying to use alternatives such as Apple iTunes... more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Husband arrested after body of missing BBC make-up artist wife is found

Diane Chenery-Wickens The husband of a missing TV make-up artist has been arrested, just hours after human remains were found in woodland near where he worked. David Chenery-Wickens, 51, is being questioned by detectives investigating the disappearance of his wife 48-year-old Diane in January.. more
 
 
 

Tormented mother of prison overdose girl found dead near her daughter's grave

Sarah Campbell's black granite gravestone bears the poignant postscript: 'Her mother left broken hearted'. But yesterday there was no more pain for Pauline Campbell, who never got over the death of the wayward teenage daughter who killed herself in prison. Five years after she buried her little girl, Miss Campbell's body has been found lying near Sarah's grave .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

'I want to marry you': Schoolgirl's gushing letter to the 46-year-old grandfather she has run away with

The family of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who has run away with a grandfather 30 years her senior fear she is planning to marry him. Lisa Wright left home nearly three weeks ago and has gone into hiding with Nigel Trowbridge. The schoolgirl has already contacted her mother, Angela, and admitted the unemployed 46-year-old was her lover.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Flexible working for 4.5m more parents will be a 'nightmare', claim business leaders

Brown The right to demand flexible working is to be extended to an extra 4.5million parents, it was revealed yesterday. They will be able to ask to work part-time, work from home, or make a range of other variations to their hours until their children reach 16 .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 
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Atkins IS better than the GI diet at keeping off the pounds, say scientists

Eating fish Some swear by Atkins, while others argue that the GI diet is king. Now, scientists may have settled the debate with a study showing that an Atkins-like high protein diet stops slimmers from piling the pounds back on .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Rampaging Rangers fans 'may have jeopardised England's bid to stage 2018 World Cup'

Rampaging Rangers fans are a 'disgrace' who could have jeopardised England's bid to host the 2018 football World Cup, Gordon Brown warned today. The Prime Minister hit out at the supporters involved in violent clashes with police in Manchester last night - and said public drinking laws would also be reviewed. 'What happened last night was a disgrace,' Mr Brown told reporters at this regular Downing Street press conference.. more |  Add your view (7)
 
 
 
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Focus report: A small donation can make a big difference to a child

World Vision is calling on Londoners to sponsor a child and help transform the lives of those hit by conflict, disaster and chronic poverty... more

 

Judges rule it is legal to ogle man boobs (but not women's breasts) as they overturn conviction of swimming pool 'peeping Tom'

man boobs It is a subject that most men manage to keep under wraps - or at least under their shirts. But yesterday male breasts, or moobs as they are sometimes known, were right out in the open in one of the highest courts in the land. Three senior judges grappled with the question of whether male breasts could be regarded as having any sexual allure.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Cherie demeans the legal profession and must resign over her £1million memoirs, says disgusted judge

Cherie Blair Cherie Blair should be sacked from the judiciary over her memoirs, a former senior judge said today. She is accused of bringing the legal profession into disrepute with her autobiography, which contains indiscreet revelations about figures from the Queen to Bill Clinton.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Council spends £1million protecting newt colony - then discover they don't exist

Generally speaking, no great crested newts is good news for developers. It illegal to capture or kill them or disturb their habitat. But a lack of them has left Leicestershire Council crestfallen and £1million poorer. Officers spent the money to protect a suspected colony, later discovering they didn't exist.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 
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Norwegian Blue parrot really DID exist - but now they are all 'stiff, bereft of life and ex-parrots'

blue parrot As we know, it has shuffled off its mortal coil and joined the choir invisible. Its metabolic processes are history. It is demised. But while the parrot in the celebrated Monty Python sketch is well and truly dead, those hilarious exchanges between John Cleese and Michael Palin have winged their way into comedy immortality.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Woman beat to death her grandmother to stop inheritance being spent on care bills

Frail and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, 76-yearold widow Annie Garbutt desperately needed the support of her family. Instead, however, her granddaughter beat her to death with a spade when she feared the old lady's savings would all be spent on care. Joanne Hussey, 33, had already used some of Mrs Garbutt's cash to pay for cosmetic work on her teeth and hair.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Three-quarters of women want 24-week limit on abortions reduced, says survey

pregnant woman Three-quarters of women want to see the 24-week limit on abortions reduced, according to a poll out yesterday .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Natascha Kampusch in court to hear her mother accused of 'masterminding' her eight-year dungeon ordeal

The mother of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch was accused in court yesterday of masterminding her abduction. Retired judge Martin Wabl said Brigitte Sirny wanted to cover up her sexual abuse of her daughter, then ten. He claimed she hatched the plot with Wolfgang Priklopil, who held Natascha in a dungeon for more than eight years and committed suicide hours after she escaped on 2006 .. more
 
 
 

World's animal population has plummeted by a third since the 1970s

The world's population of wild animals, fish and birds has fallen by almost a third since the early 1970s. Numbers are plummeting and some species disappearing altogether because mankind continues to live beyond its means, a report warns .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

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Brother who was lost for TEN YEARS was in care home after all

A man spent almost a decade searching for his disabled brother only to find he had been drugged and kept in a private care home for the entire time. Rod Fraser, 50, repeatedly asked police and social services for help in tracking down his brother, Ian, 57, who vanished in 1998 .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

New pill which treats abnormal heart rhythm could save thousands of lives every year

heart attack Thousands of lives could be saved by a drug which cuts deaths from a common heart rhythm disorder by almost a third. Findings from the largest trial of its kind show using Multaq led to a 30 per cent reduction in heart deaths caused by atrial fibrillation .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Girl, nine, had the embryo of her twin INSIDE her stomach

A 44-day-old human  embryo A girl of nine taken to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said yesterday. Experts believe that, as a foetus, the girl had absorbed her twin within her own body during the very early stages of her mother's pregnancy .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Al Qaeda threatens to attack next month's Euro 2008 football tournament

football stadium Al-Qaeda fanatics are threatening to launch an attack on the two host countries of the Euro 2008 football tournament next month, according to Swiss security sources.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

Five-year-old boy dies of chickenpox just days after doctors sent him home

Fabio Nunes A boy of five died from chickenpox after doctors told his parents he was fine, it is claimed. Fabio Nunes lost his fight for life when the disease sent his body into multiple organ failure.. more |  Add your view
 
 
 

BA profits up 45% to £883m - but boss won't take bonus due to Heathrow fiasco

British Airways boss Willie Walsh today turned down a £600,000 bonus due to the Heathrow Terminal 5 fiasco - despite the airline's making record profits of £883million, up 45 per cent .. more |  Add your view
 
 
 
 


 
 
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