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Man admits Uefa Cup police attack

About 150,000 Rangers fans were in the city when the violence broken out A Rangers fan has admitted assaulting a police officer during rioting which broke out in Manchester after the 2008 Uefa Cup Final. Mark Stoddart, 25, of...

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Gordon Brown should demand Lockerbie bomber is returned says US Senator

Gordon Brown should demand the "immediate" return of the Lockerbie bomber to serve his sentence in a Scottish jail - because he is still alive exactly three months after his controversial release according to an American senator.

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Met chief cleared of card misuse

Suspended senior Metropolitan police officer Ali Dizaei has been cleared of misusing his corporate credit card. Mr Dizaei, 47, was accused of spending more than £5,000 on clothes and perfume during a trip to the United States....

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Automatism

Rock star Peter Buck used automatism as a defence in court Automatism is essentially a legal defence, arguing that a person cannot be held responsible for their actions because they had no conscious knowledge of them. There are...

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Police to request new death probe

Adrian Cooksey ran a building firm and was a keen cricketer Wiltshire police are to ask another force to review their investigation into the death of a man found on the street with fatal head injuries. Adrian Cooksey, 50, of...

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Dangerous seas

Why have the world's most advanced navies failed to end piracy in the seas around Somalia? The BBC's Middle East correspondent Paul Wood reports from the EU anti-piracy taskforce flagship, Evertsen, in the Gulf of Aden. Cdr...

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Las Vegas gambler sues Caesars Palace claiming casino plied him with drugs

A Las Vegas gambler who lost $112 million (£67 million) in a year, is suing the owner of Caesars Palace, claiming casino staff "milked" him by plying him with alcohol and prescription drugs. By Nick Allen in Los Angeles Terry...

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Tory donor probe 'could drag on'

Lord Ashcroft has become an influential figure at Tory HQ The Electoral Commission has refused to say whether it will complete a probe into £5m of donations to the Tory party before the next general election. But the election...

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Auditing the central bank: a jolly good thing!

What is so important about H.R. 1207: the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 aka the ‘Audit the Fed’ bill? This bill “To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the...

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Jail for cliff-jumping fugitive

Whalley jumped from cliffs in Cornwall after he was convicted An on-the-run criminal who jumped from cliffs into the sea to avoid arrest after being convicted of endangering his ex-partner's life has been jailed. At Preston...

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