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A murder inquiry is under way into a fatal house fire in Cornwall which is thought to have been caused by a firework found behind the door. Mary Fox, 59, died in the fire in Bodmin on Thursday evening. Her son Raum, 17, jumped...
A former Army sergeant, Paul Alexander, who made guns for gangs operating in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, has been jailed indefinitely. Ammunition found at the home of Paul Alexander Photo: PA Detectives said...
Coronation Street actor Ryan Thomas has been questioned by police over a car crash in Manchester city centre. The 25-year-old, who plays builder Jason Grimshaw in the ITV1 soap, was spoken by officers over the collision in the...
Alex Salmond and key SNP figures admit nationalists have large gap to close to win seat on Thursday Gordon Brown today accused Alex Salmond's government of "letting down" the people of Glasgow as he sought to bolster Labour's...
• Train service taken over from next Saturday • Public ownership will last for at least 18 months Back in the day, British Rail was synonymous with soggy sandwiches, late trains – or no services at all. Deserved or not, it was...
We explain how the Lloyds and RBS sell-offs will affect customers Confusion reigned this week over which customers of Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would be switched to new businesses when parts of the...
More people than ever before were declared insolvent in England and Wales during the third quarter of the year. Figures released by the Insolvency Service yesterday reveal that there were 35,242 personal insolvencies over the...
Judge rules that information should not be forced upon families A judge has given parents whose children attended the nursery where paedophile Vanessa George worked the choice of knowing if she has named their children among...
Unmarried couples are often not recognised as families under the law Plans to give millions of cohabiting couples better inheritance rights are being criticised by lawyers, the BBC has learned. The Law Commission for England...
Scurvy is on the rise among children in England, according to official figures. Figures show that in 2004/05, 61 children were admitted to hospital with scurvy in England. But in 2007/08, the figure had risen to 94, a rise of...
