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Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini expected to miss rest of the season

Carlo Cudicini, the Tottenham goalkeeper seriously injured in a road accident, is set to miss the rest of the season. Sidelined: Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini is expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing...

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C4 Dispatches films honoured

Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen Two films shown on Channel 4's Dispatches won recognition at the Rory Peck awards last night. Orphans of Burma's Cyclone,...

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Q&A: Floods

The financial effect of flooding can be devastating, but often it is the subsequent upheaval that causes the biggest worry. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) says that the average cost of flood damage to homes is...

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Floods continue to disrupt roads

Further rain has been forecast for County Fermanagh The Rivers Agency in County Fermanagh has been pumping water and laying sandbags in Enniskillen as Lough Erne continues to rise to record levels. Flooding has caused...

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Two killed in Moscow household gas explosion

Two people died in fire after a household gas explosion in the southeast of the Russian capital, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry's Moscow division said Saturday. Yevgeny Bobylyov said 20 people have been...

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Shape of emotion

Donatello was the first genius of the Renaissance, but his raw, expressive work also challenges all our assumptions about the period. He is justly the star of the V&A's triumphant new galleries The Ricordanze of Giovanni...

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Tributes paid to quad crash teen

Paddy McErlean, 14, was killed in the quad bike collision in Maghera Tributes have been paid to a 14-year-old boy who died in a quad bike accident in Maghera on Thursday night. Paddy McErlean was on the vehicle with a...

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Flood alert over threatened rains

Council staff remain on standby in Dumfries and Galloway with more rain forecast after flooding hit the region on Friday The south west of Scotland remains on flood standby with more rain forecast to hit the region over the...

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Britain braced for storms into December

Britain faces being battered by storms well into next month. The only comfort is that the Met Office believes that a slight shift in wind direction next week will bring cooler air, which means that rainfalls will diminish. But...

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Motorway exclusion zone is lifted

Firefighter Mark McGranaghan on explosion risk posed by acetylene cylinders A 200m exclusion zone set up near the M2 motorway has been lifted. It was set up around gas cylinders at Scullions Road in Mallusk which were at risk...

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