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Abu Hamza

Lawyers seize Abu Hamza’s home to pay bills

Hate preacher Abu Hamza’s west London house has been seized and will be sold to pay his £300,000 legal aid bill

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Miserable millionaire raffles his lifestyle for charity

An Austrian who is giving away his £3million fortune because it makes him unhappy has launched an online raffle for his Alpine villa

London Dungeon's new scent of history: burning flesh

Visitors to the London Dungeon can today experience a scent which has not been unleashed on the streets for 300 years — the smell of burning human flesh.

Millionaire Austrian raffles away his lifestyle

An Austrian who is giving away his £3 million fortune because it makes him unhappy launches an online raffle for his Alpine villa

Indian doctor 'tortured British wife for dowry'

Doctor due to appear in an Indian court charged with attacking his British wife after her family refused to give in to his dowry demands

Punk rock stars reunite without a clash

Former Clash stars Mick Jones and Paul Simonon have recorded together for the first time in almost 30 years.

London musician drowns and bandmate still missing in Brazil

Two young London musicians are believed to have drowned while swimming off the coast of Brazil

Philip Lawrence stabbing school is most improved in London

Notorious school is hailed as the most improved in London, 14 years after its headmaster Philip Lawrence was stabbed to death

Amy Winehouse admits attacking theatre boss who refused her sixth vodka

Amy Winehouse admits assaulting and swearing at a theatre manager during a pantomime because he refused to give her more alcohol

Black-eyed Lucian Freud self-portrait set to pack a £4m punch

Self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a fight with a taxi driver is to be auctioned for an estimated £4million

Eat to defeat the Chinese mitten crab invasion of Thames

Londoners might have to eat their way through an invasion of Chinese mitten crabs in the Thames.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel statue ‘like stickman with hula hoop’

Descendents of Isambard Kingdom Brunel have criticised plans for a £500,000 sculpture in honour of the engineer

Home alone mother spared jail again

Mother who broke terms of a suspended sentence for leaving her four children home alone walks free from court for a second time

Squatters have ruined our dream home, say Tottenham family

A family forced out of their home by squatters who moved in over Christmas tell how they caused thousands of pounds of damage

Gerry McCann hits out at claims his daughter Madeleine is dead

Gerry McCann has heated exchange as he arrives in court for libel trial against the Portuguese police chief who wrote a book claiming the McCanns covered up their daughter's death

£60,000 appeal to airlift paralysed volunteer to UK

Friends of an 'exceptional' British charity worker paralysed in a diving accident in Colombia have raised more than £30,000 to airlift him home - but still need another £60,000

Louisa, 106, evicted as care home shuts

One of Britain's oldest women was forced out of her care home in the falling snow after attempts to save it from closure failed

Woman, 106, loses High Court fight to stay in care home

106-year-old Louisa Watts is forced out of her care home in the snow after attempts to save it failed

Doctor admits failure over death of Bupa boss at her own hospital

Doctor admits incompetence after a woman died following surgery to remove a kidney stone at a private hospital

25 gigs for next big thing in music

Budding stars will take part in a new music festival of 25 gigs across London next month.

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