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Man guilty of pregnant girlfriend murder bid

14.10.09
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Hundreds evacuated after fire breaks out on train

26.08.09
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Loan saves thousands of Airbus jobs

14.08.09
Airbus has been lent £340 million by the government, a deal that should secure 5,000 jobs but which is thought to be half the amount that the plane manufacturer had wanted... more

Toyota ‘is set to build hybrid cars in Britain’

14.07.09
Toyota is to build a major hybrid car in the UK for the first time, possibly creating thousands of new jobs, reports claimed ... more

Killer conman jailed for life

03.07.09
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Bug shuts tills at 100 Tesco stores

11.05.09
The tills at 100 Tesco supermarkets went down with problems reported in Essex, Buckinghamshire, North Wales and Northern Ireland... more

Gallery up for prize after Lotto revamp

06.05.09
A small council-run London gallery which has been transformed with around £2 million of Lottery cash has reached the final of the UK's largest arts prize... more

Teachers: Train us to use force against pupils

07.04.09
Teachers demanded training in the use of force to restrain violent pupils amid warnings that classroom behaviour is out of control... more

Toyota set to cut pay and workers hours by 10%

11.03.09
Japanese car giant Toyota has announced cuts in production and pay at its two UK factories in another sign of the crisis facing the motor industry... more

High hopes, but we're still blowing hot and cold over wind

19.02.09
Energy analysis: It is being billed as the next North Sea boom. This week the tentative go-ahead was given for the construction of up to 2000 giant turbines off the coast of Scotland... more

Jailed for three years: Driver who killed family of six

16.02.09
A Portuguese lorry driver has been jailed for three years for causing the deaths of a family of six... more

Toyota in red for the first time in 71 years

06.02.09
Engineering: Carmaker Toyota, which employs 5000 in Britain, has plunged to a third-quarter loss of 164.7billion yen (£1.2billion), its first dip into the red in 71 years of trading... more

UK nuclear power struggle hots up as new team joins fray

04.02.09
Energy: The scramble for the British nuclear industry has intensified as it emerged that another French heavyweight is bidding to build new multi-billion-pound reactors in the UK... more

Should Centrica walk away from Britain’s nuclear timebomb?

22.01.09
Analysis: You could be forgiven for thinking the go-ahead for the unwanted construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport is nothing but a carbon dioxide-filled smokescreen... more

Toyota loss signals end of road for president

24.12.08
Manufacturing: Toyota's 5000 UK workers are to get a new boss as president Katsuaki Watanabe gets ready to step down, taking the blame for the carmaker's first-ever loss... more

Rio Tinto to sack 14,000 as metals demand plunges

10.12.08
Mining: London-listed mining giant Rio Tinto is to cut 14,000 jobs worldwide and slash capital expenditure by $5 billion... more

Babies share parents' coffins

04.11.08
Four coffins, including one painted to resemble a Tardis, were used at the funeral today of a family of six killed in a motorway crash.... more

Tributes are paid to family of six killed in fireball

22.10.08
These are the first pictures of two brothers killed in a fireball with four other members of their family when a lorry crashed into their car on the M6... more

Forgive me, said text of top officer who died on Snowdon

06.10.08
Police chief Michael Todd sent a last text message before he died, saying: "I'm sorry for what I have done, forgive me in another life," the inquest into his death heard... more

Prince William to become RAF search and rescue pilot

15.09.08
Prince William is to become a fulltime pilot with the RAF's Search And Rescue Force... more

Absolutely awful: Real life Edina's son says why growing up wasn't quite so fabulous after all

04.08.08
Nude rebirthing rituals. Daily Buddhist chants with Sting. Why growing up wasn't so fabulous for the real Edina's son.... more

Help! I'm suffering brickor mortis

25.07.08
It's the new buzzword that sums up the frozen state of the property market. Here we talk to three Londoners whose dreams of moving are going nowhere.... more

Sian Lloyd celebrates her 50th by dressing up in leather for a sexy Madonna tribute

07.07.08
Sian Lloyd gets into the groove with a tribute to Madonna in the year Both turn 50. The weather presenter celebrated her birthday on 3rd July and the Queen of Pop turns 50 on 16th August.... more

Summer Festivals Calendar

24.06.08
Whether you're after stadium-sized rock, all-night DJs or arty boutique bashes, use our handy calendar to plan your summer good times. ... more

Sex change couple: Writer Jan Morris remarries wife she wed as a man nearly sixty years ago

03.06.08
It is one couple's touching love story for our times: marriage, children, sex-change, divorce, cohabitation and, finally, civil union. The writer Jan Morris has remarried the woman she first wed nearly sixty years ago... more

Voice from heaven, family from hell ... The dangerous world that singer Duffy left behind

29.03.08
She's the new Dusty Springfield and the latest in an astonishing line of young female British singing talent. But what the fans who've made Duffy No 1 for five consecutive weeks - and the biggest-selling artist of 2008 so far - don't know is the harrowing story of the dark and dangerous world she escaped... more

The getaway girl: Flustered Sienna hitches a ride from strangers to escape the paparazzi

28.03.08
Sienna Miller was so keen to avoid the prying eye of the camera lens as she left a restaurant after a lunch date in Los Angeles yesterday, that she hitched a ride from a car load of strangers. Flustered Sienna, 26, seemed in a hurry to escape the attentions of Hollywood's ever-present paparazzi pack after lunching with former love, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, 33, star of US drama Brothers and Sisters at a Hollywood restaurant... more

Double take! The clean-cut young boyo who became ... Ifans the terrible

16.03.08
It is hard to imagine dishevelled Rhys Ifans without his trademark shabby chic style. But here's the Welsh actor looking, it has to be said, rather clean-cut. No lanky punk-rock appearance, no jangling jewellery and no leather jacket. Instead, the star is almost unrecognisable ... more

Earthquake hits London

27.02.08
Londoners were today rocked by the largest earthquake to hit Britain in 24 years... more

Great as the expectations

17.01.08
Amy Ann Duffy has a unique voice, a mighty roar seemingly defying the laws of biology by belonging to a tiny Welshwoman.... more

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