Volcanic ash cost airport £600,000
The eruption of an Icelandic volcano that caused disruption to flights across Europe cost an airport £600,000. East Midlands Airport said the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in May, which sent a vast...
View ArticleHundreds join oil refinery protest
Hundreds of demonstrators have blockaded the road to an oil refinery and claim to have stopped 375,000 gallons of fuel from leaving the depot. The protesters, who barricaded the road leading to the...
View ArticlePublic puts trust in Tory duo: poll
David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne enjoy a substantial advantage over their Labour counterparts in terms of public trust as they go into next week's crucial spending review, according to a...
View ArticleBarrister tells of inquiry emotion
One of the UK's most celebrated barristers, Michael Mansfield QC, has revealed the culmination of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was the most emotional day of his career. The leading human rights lawyer,...
View ArticlePresident has rock gift for Queen
Chilean president Sebastian Pinera is taking in the sights of London on the second day of his visit to the UK. The billionaire flew in to Heathrow Airport on Saturday night bearing lumps of rock from...
View ArticlePoll: Public puts trust in Tory duo
David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne enjoy a substantial advantage over their Labour counterparts in terms of public trust as they go into next week's crucial spending review, according to a...
View ArticleOver 16s 'facing child benefit cut'
David Cameron and George Osborne are putting the final touches to the most brutal public spending review in several generations amid speculation that they will scrap child benefit for over-16s. The...
View ArticleBenefits cheats 'mugging taxpayers'
Chancellor George Osborne has announced a crackdown on benefit cheats, comparing them to muggers robbing taxpayers of their hard-earned money. A new drive to tackle benefit and tax credit fraud will...
View ArticleMan quizzed over farmer's death
A man is being questioned by police on suspicion of murdering a farmer believed to have died in a botched robbery. Julian Gardner, 53, suffered multiple injuries after apparently disturbing crooks at...
View ArticleAbducted Briton 'in good spirits'
A Briton abducted by masked gunmen in Somalia is "well" and "in good spirits", Save the Children has said. The aid worker was taken from a guesthouse compound in Adado, a small town close to the...
View ArticleGoat sacrifice 'triggered stampede'
An argument over sacrificing goats during a Hindu festival has triggered a stampede that killed 10 people in a packed temple in northern India, officials said. More than 40,000 people, many...
View ArticleEuroMillions ticket detail revealed
Lottery officials will this week announce where Britain's biggest ever jackpot winning ticket was bought. No-one has come forward to claim the record-breaking £113 million EuroMillions prize following...
View ArticleRepeat cheats 'will lose benefits'
Repeat benefit cheats will have their welfare payments halted for up to three years as part of a tough new crackdown announced by Chancellor George Osborne. And the Chancellor said that every wrongful...
View ArticleWorld Cup vote sale claims probed
An investigation is under way into allegations that two Fifa officials offered to sell their votes to one of England's competitors in the race to host the 2018 World Cup. The Sunday Times claimed to...
View ArticleCar ploughs into nightclub crowd
Fourteen people were taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a group of people outside a nightclub, police have said. Officers are hunting the motorist and his passenger who deliberately mounted...
View ArticleOsborne determined on spending cuts
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says he is determined to press ahead with the Government's multi-billion programme of public spending cuts, declaring: "We have to see this through". Mr...
View ArticlePlanes axed for aircraft carriers
Britain's aircraft carriers will be left without planes for a period because of cuts to the military budget in next week's spending review, Defence Secretary Liam Fox has confirmed. Two former heads...
View ArticleWarning over 'skinny celebrities'
Watching stick-thin female frames on television can have an impact on women's health, according to a new scientific paper. Dr Aric Sigman claims that seeing women on screen who are underweight but...
View ArticleMerkel: Multiculturalism has failed
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Ms Merkel told a meeting of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union that...
View ArticleEurope warned of new terror threat
France has received new warnings of a terror threat in Europe from Saudi intelligence services, French interior minister Brice Hortefeux said The minister said that the warning of a potential attack...
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