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Claire Howarth

Pc killed lover and faked crash just days before their wedding

Latest: Policeman admits murdering his fiancee — also a constable — then staging a fake car crash days before they were due to marry in St Lucia  Comments
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Travel revolution: Oyster rail will cut fares by 30%

NEW: Some fares could fall by more than a third when Oyster is extended to every national rail station in London, it has emerged  Comments

Anti-BNP protesters outside the BBC

The £143,000 bill to protect BNP leader on Question Time

NEW: Taxpayers have been handed a £143,000 bill for protecting BNP leader Nick Griffin during his appearance on Question Time, it has emerged  Comments

David Cameron and Gordon Brown

Brown and Cameron join beauty pageant to woo business leaders

Britain's three main party leaders today staged a beauty pageant to woo business support ahead of the General Election  Comments

General Andrew Stewart

US military chiefs ‘like Martians’ to our troops in Iraq

Deep splits between British and American military chiefs were laid bare before the Iraq war inquiry hears claims that Tony Blair failed to prepare troops for the aftermath of the invasion  Comments

Ian Clement

Boris deputy peddles story of his credit fraud shame

NEW: Boris Johnson's disgraced former deputy mayor is trying to sell the story of his downfall to the highest bidder  Comments

Geeta Aulakh with her husband Harpreet

We’re living a nightmare say severed hand family

NEW: Family of a young mother left to die in the street with her hand cut off say they are living in a 'nightmare'  Comments

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Fury at academy consultants' £1m fees

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£15m fund for capital's artists to make films

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Police search river for missing woman

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Parents to pay £5 a minute if they pick up children late

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Governors of funding fiasco 'should resign'

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Peter Mandelson

Mandelson back in his old role as election mastermind

Lord Mandelson has started masterminding Labour's election campaign with six months until the expected polling day, according to reports  Comments

Justine Greening

Property boom lands firms with £1.9bn rates bombshell

London firms are to be hit with a £1.9billion increase in business rates over five years, it has emerged  Comments

Andrew Dismore and his partner Linda Julian

Sleazebuster reported to watchdog over expenses

Latest: Labour MP Andrew Dismore was reported to the Standards Commissioner over his £65,000 second home expenses  Comments

Michael McCarthy

First picture of teenager run over after being stabbed

First picture: This is the teenager who was stabbed and then run over in Stoke Newington  Comments

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling as Jedward

Tories make Jedward jibe at Brown and Darling

The Tories jumped on the Jedward bandwagon, branding Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling 'Deadwood'  Comments

Jermain Defoe

£10,000 is in the net with nine-goal bet

Two friends have won almost £10,000 after placing a bet on a Premiership team to score nine goals in a match  Comments


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Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher set for Downing Street return

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is returning to 10 Downing Street to attend the unveiling of her portrait  Comments

Harriet Harman

Tories vow to stop Harman closing early for Christmas

Conservatives sought to stop Harriet Harman closing the Commons early for Christmas  Comments

Lord Mandelson

Heads attack Mandelson over ‘sinister’ Oxbridge entry policy targets

Lord Mandelson faces a backlash from some of Britain’s leading schools over his 'sinister' plan to force Oxford and Cambridge to take more working-class pupils  Comments

Philip Larkin

Larkin letters reveal love for parents he pilloried in poem

Philip Larkin may accuse his mum and dad in verse of 'f***ing him up', but new letters reveal he shared a close bond with his parents  Comments

New 'intelligent' train which tells passengers where to sit

Train which tells passengers where to stand on the platform in order to get a seat could be operating on south London commuter services by 2013  Comments

Ann and Alan Keen

Now Mr & Mrs Expenses face question over £12,000 office

London's 'Mr and Mrs Expenses' are facing new questions for allegedly claiming more than £12,000 for an office at their home  Comments

Whitewater Bridge in Backbarrow

Claims for flood damage soar to £100million

Video: Insurance claims for damage caused by the floods have reached £100million, it was estimated  Comments

Suzanne and Cameron Poole

Orchestra's finance boss 'siphoned off £560,000'

Financial director of the publicly-funded London Philharmonic Orchestra faces claims that he took £560,000 to fund an extravagant lifestyle  Comments

Bob Crow

Rail union boss to appear on Have I Got News For You

Railway workers' leader Bob Crow is to become the first ever trade union official to appear on TV's Have I Got News For You, it was announced  Comments

Camden high street

Camden plays it safe with £1.5m facelift

Camden High Street is to get a radical overhaul to make visitors and residents safer  Comments

Sarah Lindsay

Skater switches from blades to bike for 2012

Speed skater Sarah Lindsay is to swap her blades for a bike in a bid for Olympic glory in her home city in 2012  Comments

Jean Charles de Menezes

De Menezes compensation 'cut because his family is poor'

Family of Jean Charles de Menezes are set to receive a reduced compensation package from Scotland Yard because they are so poor, according to reports  Comments

Mohinder Singh Pujji

Spitfire is not BNP's to use, says Sikh pilot who fought the Nazis

One of the last surviving Indian Second World War fighter pilots has launched an attack on the BNP after it used images of a Spitfire in its campaign  Comments

Old Bailey

Quarter of magistrates' courts could close in London shake-up

Magistrates warn that government plans to close as many as a quarter of London's courts could undermine public confidence in the capital's justice system  Comments

Quick Reads

Terminal 2 checks in last passengers

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Footballer fined for drink-driving

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Man to be sentenced for killing flatmate

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Death knell for CDs

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Troops in Afghanistan

MoD spends £149m on tanks unfit for Afghanistan

Ministry of Defence spent £149 million on an "urgent" upgrade to 900 tanks that are now only being used in training exercises, it was revealed  Comments

giant Ocado warehouse

Ocado's army gears up for Christmas

Inside a 21-acre warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, a small army is preparing for Christmas. The building, in Hatfield, is home to Ocado  Comments

Francis Bacon

The sado-masochistic relationships that drove Bacon to create his best works

Francis Bacon was once thrown through a plate-glass window by an enraged lover, damaging his face so badly that his right eye had to be sewn back into place, according to a biographer  Comments

Tosin Cole

Friends, mandem, lend me your ears ... actors stage Julius Caesar in street slang

Group of young actors have re-invented Julius Caesar as a cautionary tale of violence in urban London - with Shakespeare's script partly rewritten in street language  Comments


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