Judgement due in terror house case

29 September 2013 Last updated at 19:30 ET The Court of Appeal could pave the way later for the first ever seizure of a family home as a terrorist asset. Munir Farooqi was convicted of trying to recruit people for the Afghan jihad, including...

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Knox murder retrial to open in Italy

29 September 2013 Last updated at 22:16 ET The retrial of Amanda Knox over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher is due to open in Italy, but the American will not be in court. Ms Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito...

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UK A&Es seeing 'drunk children'

30 September 2013 Last updated at 03:14 ET Nearly 300 children aged 11 or under were admitted to A&E units across the UK last year after drinking too much, a BBC Radio 5 live investigation shows. Revealing UK-wide data for the first time,...

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Firm cancels Thames tours after fire

30 September 2013 Last updated at 04:07 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Eyewitness Phil Beasley-Harling: "There was a big plume of black smoke" An amphibious tourist boat company has suspended...

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Osborne in 'work for benefits' plan

30 September 2013 Last updated at 04:21 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. George Osborne: ''We are saying you are not going to be able to do nothing in return for your benefits' The long-term unemployed...

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Two more charged over fatal blaze

28 September 2013 Last updated at 17:34 ET Two more men have been charged with the murder of four members of a family in a house fire in Leicester. Shehnila Taufiq, 47, her daughter Zainab, 19, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamil, 15, died in the...

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All children offered flu nasal spray

28 September 2013 Last updated at 19:45 ET The flu vaccine is for the first time being offered to every child in Scotland, in the form of a nasal spray. Previously, only children in "at risk" groups were offered the protection. The country's...

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End war on drugs, says police chief

28 September 2013 Last updated at 19:54 ET Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts "treated and cared for not criminalised", according to a senior UK police officer. Writing in the Observer, Chief Constable Mike Barton of Durham...

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Dean criticises disability work test

28 September 2013 Last updated at 21:16 ET A letter urging Prime Minister David Cameron to get rid of work assessments for the disabled has been signed by the dean of St Paul's Cathedral. The Very Rev Dr David Ison was among campaigners to...

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Tories bring forward mortgage scheme

29 September 2013 Last updated at 03:58 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Grant Shapps: "People are living at home, often into their 30s, I think it's not right, it's not fair" A scheme designed...

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Social skills 'key to start school'

27 September 2013 Last updated at 19:02 ET By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Childcare workers are calling for more play in the early years after a survey suggested social rather than academic skills were key to school readiness....

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Murder charges after Leicester fire

27 September 2013 Last updated at 19:37 ET Four people have been charged with murdering four members of a family who died in a house fire in Leicester. Shehnila Taufiq, who was in her 40s, her daughter Zainab, 19, and sons Jamal, 15, and Bilal,...

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Charities warn on ageing population

27 September 2013 Last updated at 21:54 ET Ministers should do more to prepare for the impact of an ageing population, a group of leading charities has warned. A poll by care provider Anchor of 2,200 adults found more than three quarters (77%)...

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Cancer drugs fund 'to be extended'

28 September 2013 Last updated at 04:06 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said cancer sufferers in Wales were renting homes in England to access drugs A £200m-a-year...

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PM unveils marriage tax breaks plan

28 September 2013 Last updated at 04:31 ET Plans for some married couples to get tax breaks worth up to £200 a year have been announced by David Cameron. The prime minister said four million couples would benefit from a £1,000 transferable...

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Father speaks of fire deaths tragedy

26 September 2013 Last updated at 19:39 ET By Tom Bateman BBC Radio 4 Today Reporter Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dr Muhammad Taufiq Al Sattar: "We all know that we are going to die one day" A...

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Pound rises after Carney rejects QE

27 September 2013 Last updated at 03:39 ET The pound has jumped against the dollar after Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that he saw no need for further quantitative easing (QE). Under QE, the bank has added £375bn to the economy...

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Bank given wider Help to Buy role

27 September 2013 Last updated at 04:01 ET Chancellor George Osborne has asked the Bank of England to take a bigger role in ensuring his Help to Buy housing scheme does not fuel a property boom. The Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) will...

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Ban threat for car parking cameras

27 September 2013 Last updated at 04:19 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Roy Tunstall, from Liverpool City Council, says CCTV vans act as a "high-visibility deterrent" Fixed cameras and what critics...

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Royal Mail 'worth up to £3.3bn'

27 September 2013 Last updated at 04:29 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Business minister Michael Fallon: "This is a huge day for Royal Mail" Royal Mail is to be valued at between £2.6bn and £3.3bn,...

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Asda ditches 'mental patient' outfit

26 September 2013 Last updated at 02:21 ET Supermarket chain Asda has apologised and withdrawn a Halloween outfit it was selling online as a "mental patient fancy dress costume", after criticism. The £20 item included clothing, fake blood, a...

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Peru drugs women pleas 'not enough'

26 September 2013 Last updated at 02:59 ET Prosecutors in Peru are objecting to the guilty pleas by two UK women caught trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru. Michaella McCollum, of Dungannon, County Tyrone, and Melissa Reid, of Lenzie, near...

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MPs attack rural broadband rollout

26 September 2013 Last updated at 03:11 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter The way broadband has been rolled out to rural UK areas has been criticised in a damning report by MPs. The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the...

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Mandelson queries Labour energy plan

26 September 2013 Last updated at 03:20 ET Lord Mandelson has raised doubts about Labour's plan to freeze energy bills, suggesting people may think it is going "backwards" in its industrial policy. The former business secretary said he believed...

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HS2 chairman seeks all-party backing

26 September 2013 Last updated at 04:08 ET The newly appointed chairman of the HS2 rail link has said it is essential the £50bn scheme has cross-party support. Sir David Higgins told the BBC he would be frank with the public about spending...

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UK women admit Peru drug smuggling

24 September 2013 Last updated at 22:37 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The pair were arrested in August after cocaine was seized at Lima airport Two women from the UK have pleaded guilty to attempting...

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