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Snow began to fall in Scotland and north-east England yesterday as the country prepared for an Arctic blast of blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures.
The BBC executive who could have stopped the Radio 2 broadcast of obscene phone calls by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand judged them 'very funny', it was revealed yesterday.
Soaring numbers of buy-to-let investors have not paid a penny of their mortgage and face losing their property, official figures revealed today.
The worst economic meltdown since the First World War has triggered a nightmare for the army of people with one of Britain's 1.1million buy-to-let loans.
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Election fever was sweeping Westminster amid persistent rumours that Gordon Brown is gearing up for a snap poll.
A girl of 13 who drank up to 50 energy drinks a week has been warned to beat her addiction or risk a heart attack. Naomi Haynes had always liked the buzz she got from the caffeine-laced drinks.
A 10-year-old boy has been told he can cycle to school - but only if his mother drives behind him and takes his bicycle home with her.
60 hooded yobs gatecrashed a restaurant after a girl advertised her 16th birthday party on Facebook. The private school teen's party, at a community centre in south London, was wrecked by thugs.
It was a cloudless night and the police helicopter was carrying out surveillance over Birmingham when the attention suddenly switched from ground to sky.
A teacher at a top prep school has been exposed as having worked for the British National Party. Emma-Louise Chamberlain has been at Dulwich College Preparatory School for two years.
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A man dumped his 84-year-old mother at council offices after claiming social services had failed to help him care for her.
A drunk businesswoman who killed a young couple while speeding 'grotesquely' at 113mph in a £50,000 Jaguar on her way home from the races has been jailed for nine years.
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