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The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

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The head of the armed forces defends the conduct of British troops abroad after claims that soldiers abused an Iraqi boy.
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Bombardier Aerospace is investing half a billion pounds in Northern Ireland, which will sustain over 800 jobs.
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The National Alliance Against Tolls calls for the M6 Toll to be taken over by the Highways Agency.
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Bombardier Aerospace is investing half a billion pounds in Northern Ireland, which will sustain over 800 jobs.
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The government’s chief medical officer for England says superbug vaccines should be available within 10 years.
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The Home Office is to change a loophole in the nationality law after more than 20 years of campaigning by 85-year-old Thea Johnson.
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There is no change at the top of the album and singles charts as Coldplay and Dizzee Rascal sit firm at number one.
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Youths who carry knives will be made to visit stabbing victims in hospital in new shock tactics to tackle violent crime.
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A national newspaper claims to have discovered the true identity of guerrilla artist Banksy.
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Service personnel are to be allowed to study for a qualification free of charge after six years’ duty, it is reported.
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Bombardier Aerospace is investing half a billion pounds in Northern Ireland, which will sustain over 800 jobs.
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A man wanted by police in connection with two sex attacks in West Yorkshire is arrested in Cornwall.
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A leaked e-mail shows how university staff are being urged to increase the number of top degree grades.
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A Hampshire pub is the perfect place to get things off your chest as the home to the UK’s official Grumpy Club.
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The government has headed off a threatened Commons revolt over the scrapping of the 10p tax band.
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Two people charged with conspiracy to supply singer Amy Winehouse with drugs appear in court.
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Hundreds of people march in north London to protest against knife crime following the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.
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An ex-Body Shop employee is fined after using confidential information he stole to bet on the firm’s shares falling.
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UK house prices fell for the eighth month in a row, according to the latest survey from the Nationwide.
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Newcastle United footballer Joey Barton is given a four month suspended sentence for assaulting a team-mate.
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The Portuguese attorney general denies any decision has been taken on closing the Madeleine McCann case.
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A teenager dies in hospital hours after being stabbed during an argument with youths in north London.
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Gordon Brown promises the world would be prepared to put money into Zimbabwe if democracy were restored.
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Police say they have not received any complaints after Amy Winehouse appeared to lash out at a fan at Glastonbury.
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SNP leader Alex Salmond defends the standards committee of Holyrood against bias claims after Wendy Alexander quits.
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Ken Livingstone refuses to blame Gordon Brown for losing London and tells of his fascination with new mayor Boris Johnson.
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A British soldier is killed by stepping on a mine in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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The government is to set out plans to speed up the approval of drugs for use in the NHS and end the so-called ‘postcode lottery’.
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Some of Britain’s biggest firms are warned the ”game is changing” when it comes to investing in Zimbabwe.
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Former donor Sir Gerry Robinson tells BBC News the Labour Party is doomed under Gordon Brown’s leadership.
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The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, ordains his wife at Manchester Cathedral.
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A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs and knives under his bed is convicted of three terrorism offences.
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The US jury considering its verdict in the double murder trial of Briton Neil Entwistle is sent home for the night.
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A man is remanded in custody accused of murdering his elderly mother who was found in Dorset woodland.
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A man is sentenced to 116 days in jail by a US court for threatening to blow up an airliner bound for Dublin.
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Big increases in gas and electricity bills are likely this year, leading energy suppliers have confirmed.
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Plans for new laws on anonymous court witnesses could be announced within days, the government says.
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The public needs to be given more information about the dangers of flooding if dams fail, a government review says.
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Former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie brands accusations of rape as ”totally untrue”, and says he fears a ”trial by media”.
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A British tourist dies of suspected food poisoning at a luxury hotel at Lake Garda in northern Italy.
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The former employer of seven fishermen who drowned when their vessel sank in 2000 gives evidence in court.
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The universities’ watchdog has warned of problems with degree grades and overseas student over-recruitment.
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Farmers leaders demand action after a woman dies when a thief tries to escape with diesel from her farm.
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The bodies of four British soldiers, including the first woman soldier to die in Afghanistan, are flown back to the UK.
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The Scottish Ambulance Service says a computer disk containing some patients’ contact information has been lost.
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The head of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has said the public is confusing the costs of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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The 13-month-old son of two police officers suffered brain damage and died 10 months after he was ”shaken” by his nanny, a court hears.
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Gordon Brown says low-income parents who take action to support their child’s development will be offered a

The defence in the trial of Neil Entwistle, accused of killing his wife and daughter, ends without putting witnesses on the stand.
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Council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland vote for industrial action in a pay dispute, Unison says.
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The Football Association asks headhunters to recruit a team to run its bid for the 2018 football World Cup.
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Rising food and energy prices could push UK consumer inflation above 4% this year, the Bank of England warns.
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The policy of denying NHS services to patients who top up their care with private treatment is to be reviewed in England, the government says.
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Parliament’s standards watchdog is to investigate Caroline Spelman’s payments to her nanny.
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The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada is to be released from custody on bail within 24 hours, officials have confirmed.
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The theft of a PC containing restricted files from minister Hazel Blears’ office is ”alarming’, the Tories say.
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Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea call for British mercenary Simon Mann to serve 30 years in jail for his 2004 coup plot.
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Tanker drivers working for Shell settle a pay dispute with employers, averting a further strike later this week.
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Downing Street has announced that all Cabinet ministers will give up their pay rise for this financial year.
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Two men are found guilty of murdering a sleeping teenager whom they mistook for his older brother.
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A 19-year-old man from Bristol has been arrested under the Terrorism Act, Avon and Somerset Police say.
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A pilot manages to safely eject as an RAF Harrier jet crashes near a village in the East Midlands.
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A neighbour tells jurors she saw the man accused of Jill Dando’s murder outside the presenter’s house hours before she died.
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Talks aimed at ending a pay dispute between fuel tanker drivers and their employers are adjourned until Tuesday.
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Inquiries continue into the deaths of two children and a man, believed to be their father, found in a car in a beauty spot.
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Soul singer Amy Winehouse is taken to hospital for tests after fainting at her home in London, her spokesman says.
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An official report into the Uefa Cup Final finds evidence of anti-social behaviour eight hours before kick-off.
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Psychiatrist and broadcaster Dr Raj Persaud admits charges of plagiarism at a General Medical Council hearing.
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Prince William is to be made a Royal Knight of the Garter by the Queen at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel.
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The wife of attempted 21 July bomber Hussain Osman is jailed for 15 years for failing to tell police about his plot.
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The man accused of murdering BBC TV presenter Jill Dando bought a pair of rollerskates so he could follow women, the Old Bailey hears.
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Firefighters are fighting a blaze at an aluminium plant as an eyewitness describes how a large grey cloud has formed over the area.
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The shadow home secretary quits as an MP to fight a by-election over the ”erosion” of British freedoms.
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Last-ditch talks aimed at averting a strike by fuel tanker drivers have broken down, the Unite union says.
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A former police officer denies trying to conceal his son’s alleged involvement in the murder of a waiter in the Orkneys.
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Wayne Rooney has married childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin, according to an Italian mayor.
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A second person is charged with the murder of a shopper in a supermarket.
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An inquiry is underway into a ’serious’ security breach after top-secret documents on al-Qaeda are left on a train.
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The High Court must clarify the law on assisted suicide following a challenge by a woman with multiple sclerosis.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown wins a crucial Commons vote on increasing the time police can hold terror suspects.
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A crewman has died after becoming trapped and losing consciousness in the hull of a cruise ship in Hampshire.
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The wife of attempted bomber Hussain Osman is found guilty of not telling police about his plan to attack a Tube train in 2005.
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The BBC needs to improve its coverage of the UK’s nations and regions in its main news bulletins, a report says.
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A tax cheat hotline has been flooded with malicious and unfounded calls, a committee of MPs is told.
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Top-secret documents containing the latest government intelligence assessment on al-Qaeda are left on a train.
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A police force halts some firearms training after the death of an officer during an exercise in Manchester.
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A piglet scared of wallowing in mud overcame its fear with the help of some Wellington boots.
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The US trial of a British man accused of killing his wife and daughter hears police initially failed to spot the bodies.
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One of the Tory MEPs at the centre of an expenses row is replaced as the party’s chief whip in Brussels.
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A proposal to store millions of tonnes of harmful carbon emissions under the North Sea is unveiled.
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A teenager is given a life term for shooting dead a youth worker who he blamed for the theft of a gold chain.
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Rail maintenance workers will go on strike on 14-15 June in a dispute over jobs and conditions.
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Two British women and a man are among five scuba divers reported missing off the coast of eastern Indonesia.
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A boy is found hanged in his bedroom after the recent deaths of his mother and grandfather from cancer.
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James Anderson’s 6-42 leaves New Zealand 268 behind England at 96-6 after two days of the final Test at Trent Bridge.
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