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The entire membership list of the BNP has been posted on the internet. More than 10,000 members of the far-Right organisation are listed, including a serving police officer, a Church of England vicar and an actor.
Banking chiefs have been accused of bringing the economy to the edge of collapse through their 'excessive greed'. The top executives of five banking giants were paid more than £50million in five years.
Medals emblazoned across his uniformed chest, 74-year-old Tom Cattell attends a Remembrance Day parade in honour of fallen heroes. He has told of being one of the youngest servicemen to fight in the Korean War and one of the oldest to fight in the Falklands. However, it has emerged that Mr Cattell's stories are far from heroic as his glittering 30-year military career was all fake - and he bought his medals on the internet.
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Kerb crawlers face being named and shamed in a crackdown on prostitution. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will encourage police to make public the identities of convicted offenders in local newspapers.
A husband has been arrested in connection with the death of his wife whose body is believed to have been left hanging in their house for the past eight weeks after a bungled suicide pact.
The biggest fall in inflation for 16 years is expected to clear a path for the Bank of England to cut interest rates to just 2 per cent by Christmas.
David Cameron has gambled by making a decisive break with Labour on tax and spending.
A girl of two was crushed to death under the wheels of a neighbour’s car as her mother watched in horror.
Muslim peer Lord Ahmed is to be charged with dangerous driving after a six-car Christmas Day horror smash that claimed the life of a Slovakian driver.
The BBC chairman was forced to make a humiliating climbdown yesterday after suggesting Jonathan Ross could still face the sack over the obscene phone-call controversy.
A teenage beauty queen was stripped of her title minutes after being crowned amid allegations that she lied on her application form.
Pirates are expected to demand a record ransom of more than $10million for the release of the Saudi oil supertanker hijacked off the Kenyan coast.
Almost 300,000 foreigners a year are allowed into Britain with wrongly approved visas. Up to 15 per cent of short term visas issued by British embassies abroad are given in error, MPs were told.
Chartered accountant John Smith and his daughter Jacqueline had been drinking before they flew a plane that crashed on its way back from a family holiday, also killing the pair and his wife Angela, an inquest was told.Tests revealed that John Smith, 56, who was in the commander's seat, was five times over the flying limit with a reading of 99mg ofalcohol per 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 20mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. ...read
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