Five disabled social housing tenants lose their Court of Appeal bid to have benefit cuts for those with spare bedrooms ruled unlawful

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A driver who knocked down and killed a woman in a crash that narrowly missed her daughter, is given a suspended jail term.

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Liverpool priest Archbishop Vincent Nichols is made a cardinal at a ceremony in Rome

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Mark Reissing: Killed by dealer over £50 drug debt

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Clive Grunshaw: IPCC probes Lancashire PCC's expenses again

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A 6m (20ft) hole appears in a road in Broadstairs where families were forced to leave their homes four years ago because of subsidence problems.

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A man convicted of murdering an 85-year-old man in 1996 absconds while on a day release from prison in Rochdale.

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A murderer who spent 12 years denying he had killed a pensioner before admitting his guilt is found dead in prison.

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Scotland and the Republic of Ireland are drawn in the same qualifying group for Euro 2016, while England face Switzerland

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The UK and Scottish cabinets will hold separate meetings in the Aberdeen area on Monday as they address the future of the North Sea oil industry.

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Unrest in Ukraine poses "many dangers", the UK's foreign secretary says as he prepares for talks with the Russian foreign minister.

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Alexander Legkov wins gold as hosts Russia dominate the men's 50km cross-country race and finish top of the medal table.

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Taliban fighters kill 21 Afghan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in Kunar province close to Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.

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Live coverage from the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, where Russia topped the medal table and Team GB had their best Games

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Ukraine's parliamentary speaker is named interim president, a day after the dismissal of Viktor Yanukovych whose whereabouts remain unknown

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A knife is recovered by police investigating the fatal stabbing of a hairdresser in Gloucester.

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An increasing number of young people with mental health problems in England are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, it emerges.

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At least 150 police dog attacks on innocent people have been reported in the past three years, a BBC investigation reveals.

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A judge rejects an £85m (103m euros) damages claim against Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone but finds he did pay a bribe over a sale of F1 shares.

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Britain's women win curling bronze to ensure Team GB will equal their best-ever medal haul at a Winter Olympics

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A man is arrested in connection with the murder of a seven-year-old girl more than 21 years ago.

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Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks begins giving evidence as she is acquitted of one of five charges against her.

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Erin Alexis tweets: Situation in #Ukraine horrifying. Reports of #doctors being shot by snipers as they care for the wounded. Terrible.

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Facebook buys popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19bn (£11.4bn), in a deal Mark Zuckerberg describes as "incredibly valuable".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26266689

Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks begins giving evidence as she is acquitted of one of five charges against her.

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At least 17 protesters are reported killed in Kiev as talks between EU foreign ministers and the Ukrainian president get under way.

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At least 17 protesters are reported killed in Kiev as talks between EU foreign ministers and the Ukrainian president get under way.

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A new tailfin design for the Red Arrows jets is unveiled to mark the team's 50th display season.

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Wolverhampton City Council says it is shedding up to 2,000 jobs because budget cuts are 'worse than previously thought'.

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Moors Murderer Ian Brady says he still wants to die after losing his bid to be transferred from hospital to prison.

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French police investigating the killing of a British family in the Alps in 2012 arrest a man three months after an identikit image of a motorcyclist seen near the scene is published.

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The Court of Appeal upholds the principle of whole-life prison terms, increasing the sentence of a killer who had been jailed for 40 years.

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The UK's inflation rate falls to 1.9% in January, the first time in more than four years that it has gone below the Bank of England's 2% target.

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A South Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.

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At least four people are killed and dozens injured in violence that erupted as Thai police began clearing protest sites in the capital, Bangkok.

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What is the code behind coloured markings on the road?

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A six-day-old baby who died at a house where a dog was later seized is named as Eliza-Mae Mullane.

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Insurance companies responded well to the recent flooding to hit the UK, says the director general of the Association of British Insurers.

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Riot police arrest a man in Kiev, Ukraine (18 Feb 2014) Previous image | Pause | Next image1 / 6At least seven people are killed in clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Kiev, in the worst violence seen in Ukraine in weeks.

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Hundreds fail new compulsory police fitness test

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The father of Ellie Rowe, from Somerset, who died after taking the drug ketamine at a festival in Hampshire, says "one act of stupidity has destroyed our family".

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China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover has been declared dead on the surface of the Moon, state media have reported.

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Central African Republic leader Catherine Samba-Panza says she will "go to war" with Christian militias who are slaughtering Muslims.

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The UN-backed relief operation goes on in Homs, with aid supplies going in and more than 200 people evacuated - though hundreds remain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26148194

Veteran US comedian Sid Caesar, who appeared in the hit musical Grease, has died at the age of 91, according to American media reports.

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The main Westminster parties will declare that whoever forms the next UK government will not agree to an independent Scotland using the pound

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Two accomplices of "sadistic" triple killer Joanna Dennehy are convicted of helping her dispose of the bodies during her 12-day spree of violence.

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Man dies as winds gusting over 100mph lash parts of the UK in what the assistant chief of the defence staff describes an "almost unparalleled natural crisis".

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Indian scientist's long hours in pursuit of historic mission

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Glitz and golds in the first 24 hours of Sochi Winter Games

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Martin Skrtel and Raheem Sterling each score twice as Liverpool thrash Premier League leaders Arsenal 5-1 at Anfield

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Storms leaves heart-shaped hole in Sandbanks

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man aged in his 20s dies after being stabbed on a street in west London.

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The funeral is held of Jayden Parkinson, the teenager whose body was found in a disturbed grave in Oxfordshire.

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An appeal for help to find a student and a man missing since January will be made at York City's ground later.

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Man charged after 'Koran ripped up at football match'

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Homes are evacuated near a house in Surrey after an adult and child are taken to hospital.

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Three diplomatic protection officers have been arrested for allegedly exchanging "extreme" pornographic images, the Metropolitan Police confirms.

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McDonald's opens first outlet in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh

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Two people die and at least nine are injured when a falling boulder derails a tourist train in the southern French Alps.

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The Syrian government and rebels accuse each other of violating a ceasefire in the besieged city of Homs, where the UN is waiting to deliver aid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26096116

Spain's Princess Cristina is being questioned in court over a corruption scandal involving her husband, a historic first for Spain's royal family.

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Video and text commentary as Sage Kotsenburg wins the Games' first medal, but Britain's Jamie Nicholls and Billy Morgan miss out.

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Immigration minister Mark Harper resigns after it emerges his cleaner did not have permission to work in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26101442

Gusts reaching as high as 80mph are hitting southern and western parts of the UK as severe weather conditions continue.

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Primary schools in England are going to share an extra £150m per year sports funding until 2020, Prime Minister David Cameron announces

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More than 3,000 people who were subject to the government's cap on welfare payments have now found work, according to new figures.

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Global deaths from measles dropped 78% between 2000 and 2012, estimates the World Health Organization

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Londoners endure a second day of Tube disruption as strike action over planned job cuts and ticket office closures continues

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A soldier who hanged herself two years after claiming she was raped had a box of live crickets released in her room in a bullying campaign, an inquest hears

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A father's plea to watch a video based on his dead son's Facebook page provokes the network to look again at how families can remember loved ones

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Italy's navy rescues 1,123 people from inflatable boats south-east of Lampedusa in one day, while seven migrants drown trying to reach Spain.

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Pakistan's government holds its first formal talks with a Taliban-nominated team, setting out five conditions, including an end to hostilities

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Images show storm damage done to parts of England

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Bombardier has won a £1bn contract to provide trains for the London Crossrail project, the government announces

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A police officer who admitted lying about witnessing the "plebgate" row in Downing Street that led to the resignation of a cabinet minister is sentenced to a year in jail.

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As southern England braces itself for yet more severe weather, more money is pledged for flood repairs and marines move in to help on the Somerset Levels.

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William Roache and supporters outside court Previous image | Pause | Next image3 / 3Coronation Street actor William Roache found not guilty of all charges of two rapes and four indecent assaults against women

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Actor Steve Coogan and Philomena Lee, whose story inspired the Oscar-nominated film Philomena, meet Pope Francis in Rome.

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Many young people who chose a vocational route over an academic one say they were actively discouraged from following that path, a survey suggests.

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Conservative MP Aidan Burley, who was at the centre of a row over a Nazi-themed stag party, is to step down at the next election.

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Experts are concerned about the spread of a new strain of bird flu that has already killed one woman in China.

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The disputed suggestion drunkenness was a factor in the Hillsborough disaster will be explored in new inquests, lawyers for senior police officers say.

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Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has met MP Andrew Mitchell to apologise for one of his officers' roles in the "Plebgate" affair

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Tests on the body of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman are inconclusive, the New York city medical examiner says.

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Work is halted on the expansion of the Panama Canal, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, as negotiations over cost overruns break down

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In an unprecedented report, the UN demands the Vatican "immediately remove" priests who are known or suspected child abusers.

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Millions of passengers are hit by disruption and delays during London's 48-hour Tube strike.

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Thousands of Tube passengers are enduring delays on their journeys home because of strike action over planned job cuts and ticket office closures.

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Ten people are injured in a gas explosion that "flattened" two houses on a street in Clacton, Essex.

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Parts of Britain are battered by a storm which has washed away part of a railway line and seen homes evacuated - with more bad weather forecast.

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Copeland in West Cumbria is the fattest local authority area in England, according to new government figures.

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A teenager from Hull is found guilty of the murder of his grandmother and the attempted murder of his grandfather in an attack "like the film Psycho".

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A strike on the London Underground is due to start later as a row continues over the proposed closure of ticket offices.

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The Prince of Wales meets residents and farmers in the flood-hit Somerset Levels, and says it is a "tragedy" that nothing happened for so long.

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UK military advice was given to India before the 1984 Golden Temple attack but it had "limited impact", the foreign secretary says.

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The Prince of Wales meets residents and farmers in the flood-hit Somerset Levels, and says it is a "tragedy" that nothing happened for so long

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Why the global killer is an ever greater threat

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A man suspected of being involved in the assassination of two prominent Tunisian MPs is among eight killed in a police raid in Tunis

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Pakistani Taliban negotiators condemn the failure of government representatives to meet them in Islamabad, as peace efforts get off to a chaotic start.

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Technology giant Microsoft announces Satya Nadella will succeed Steve Ballmer as its chief executive, with Bill Gates becoming a "technology adviser".

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UK MAN SURFS BIGGEST WAVE INTO WORLD RECORD

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Technology giant Microsoft announces Satya Nadella will succeed Steve Ballmer as its chief executive, with Bill Gates becoming a "technology adviser".

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The Prince of Wales meets residents and farmers in the flood-hit Somerset Levels, and says it is a "tragedy" that nothing happened for so long.

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Oil giant BP boss Bob Dudley has warned there are "big uncertainties" for the company over the possibility of Scotland becoming independent.

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