Artist Ovenden Jailed Over Child Sex Offences

Artist Graham Ovenden has been jailed after judges ruled his non-custodial sentence for child sex offences was "unduly lenient". Court of Appeal judges sentenced the internationally-renowned painter to two years and three months in prison. Ovenden,...

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Sir Menzies Campbell To Quit At 2015 Election

Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell is to stand down from Parliament at the general election scheduled for May 2015. Sir Menzies - known to all at Westminster as "Ming" - said he had written to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to inform...

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Mid Staffs Trust Admits Failings Over Death

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has admitted breaching health and safety law over the death of a diabetic in-patient. The scandal-plagued hospital trust pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the safety of Gillian Astbury, who lapsed into a fatal...

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MI5 Boss Warns Of Growing UK Terror Threat

By Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor Britain will face at least one attempted major terror attack every year for the next few years, the head of MI5 has warned. In his first speech since taking over the Security Service in April, Andrew Parker...

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Great White Shark That Couldn't 'Seal' The Deal

For a heart-stopping moment a seal was inches from being crushed in the jaws of a great white shark off the South African coast. But the plucky creature evaded a gory death after balancing on the shark's snout and slipping back into the sea. The death-defying...

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Mexico: 13 Police Held In Kidnap Gang Swoop

Mexican authorities have arrested 13 federal police officers who were allegedly part of a kidnap and murder gang that operated in the resort of Acapulco. The officers were detained along with five civilians - four men and a woman - who also allegedly...

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Lampedusa Tragedy: Barroso And Letta Heckled

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta have been barracked during a visit to Lampedusa where a boat carrying African asylum seekers caught fire and sank, killing up to 350 people. Residents of the remote...

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Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Falls Ill

The pilot of a light aircraft who fell ill forcing his passenger to perform an emergency landing at Humberside Airport has died overnight. During the flight on Tuesday evening, the pilot made a distress call when he became so sick he was unable to continuing...

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Madeleine McCann Police Probe Possible Suspect

By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent Scotland Yard is to appeal for information about a new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Detectives are to issue an e-fit image of a man seen near the holiday apartment from where the then three-year-old...

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Japan: Leak Contaminates Fukushima Workers

Six workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been doused with highly radioactive water after wrongly disconnecting a pipe. The accident sent toxic water spilling on to them and the entire floor of the facility which houses a set of three...

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