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Derek Malcolm

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Speed Racer Restaurants

Fay Maschler

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Bruce Dessau

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Selwyn, Epsom

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Gone With The Wind Music

David, London

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Revealed: Afghan plane hijacker is 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

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

Lite poll: Ken speaking

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Standard poll: Cherie's book deal

Is it wrong for Cherie Blair to make Ł1 million from a book deal while serving as a judge? Vote

Olympics scrutiny

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

Routemaster return doubt

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

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

Message of hate

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

Are the 'Nice' times over?

London's Ł250billion economy faces its toughest test since the last recession

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

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

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

'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

Atkins IS better than the GI diet at keeping off the pounds, say scientists

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

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

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

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

Cherie demeans the legal profession and must resign over her Ł1million memoirs, says disgusted judge

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

Council spends Ł1million 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 Ł1million poorer. Officers spent the money to protect a suspected colony, later discovering they didn't exist.. more

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

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

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

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

Three-quarters of women want to see the 24-week limit on abortions reduced, according to a poll out yesterday .. more

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

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

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

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

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

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