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Portsmouth set to ask court for adjournment in hearing over winding-up petition after talks with HMRC broke down

Portsmouth seek court adjournment

Portsmouth are set to ask the High Court for an adjournment in hearing their appeal against a winding-up petition after talks with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs broke down, it is understood.
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Gerry and Kate McCann will return to court in Portugal

McCanns back in court over book ban

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Gerry and Kate McCann are due to return to court in Portugal as a former senior detective continues his attempt to overturn the couple's ban on his book.
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Corporal John Moore of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

Troops poised for Taliban offensive

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

British troops are poised to launch a major onslaught against the Taliban as comrades hailed the bravery of two soldiers killed elsewhere in Afghanistan.
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Defence chiefs must do more to tackle a sharp rise in the number of British troops injured or ill

Rise in illness among UK troops

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Defence chiefs must do more to tackle a sharp rise in the number of British troops in Afghanistan suffering from illness and minor injuries, the National Audit Office has said.
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Police 'to tempt murder witnesses'

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Police are hoping to tempt people sheltering the murderer of a teenage boy with a £50,000 reward for information.
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Politicians have been urged to back a 'Robin Hood tax' on banks' financial transactions to raise billions of pounds

MPs urged to back tax on banks

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Politicians have been urged to back a "Robin Hood tax" on banks' financial transactions to raise billions of pounds to fight poverty, protect public services and fight climate change.
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Metropolitan Police CCTV still of a robbery of a sports shop

Burglaries fall as muggings rise

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Criminals are on the lookout for different loot since globalisation brought prices of some household goods down, new research has revealed.
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Seven years of fighting on two fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan have left the armed forces ill-prepared to take on any new tasks

Army 'ill-equipped for new tasks'

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Seven years of fighting on two fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan have left the armed forces ill-prepared to take on any new tasks, MPs warned.
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Survivors of the thalidomide scandal in Northern Ireland are to receive more than £1 million compensation

Thalidomide victims get £1m payout

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Survivors of the thalidomide scandal in Northern Ireland are to receive more than £1 million compensation, it has been announced.
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A man has been shot in the ankle in a suspected paramilitary-style attack

Probe after man injured in shooting

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A man has been shot in the ankle in a suspected paramilitary-style attack in Northern Ireland.
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Frosty start for new parades group

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Initial moves to implement the Hillsborough Agreement between the DUP and Sinn Fein got under way at Stormont yesterday — though not without controversy.
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Peter Robinson

Robinson warns Sinn Fein over policing and justice agreement

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson last night warned he would collapse the Stormont Assembly if Sinn Fein did not honour the landmark agreement on policing and parades, but stressed he was confident republicans would deliver.
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Man injured in west Belfast shooting

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A man was shot in the ankle last night in a suspected paramilitary-style attack in Belfast.
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Fears grow of increased Real IRA drugs war

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Gardai are cracking down on suspected dissident republicans in the Republic as fears grow of a turf war between the Real IRA and drug gangs.
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Playgroup sex attack suspect arrested

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault at a playgroup.
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Wife admits knife killing of husband

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A 27-year-old mother of four has pleaded guilty to killing her estranged husband.

Uri Geller in Ulster libel launch

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Michael Jackson's friend Uri Geller is to issue legal proceedings in Northern Ireland as part of his libel action against US TV network CNN.
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A forensic officer joins police at the scene where Mr Fitzpatrick's beaten body was found

Shopkeeper so badly beaten ‘paramedics thought he was shot’

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A man found murdered in an alleyway on Easter Sunday morning was so badly beaten that paramedics thought he had been shot in the head.
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Devlin accused insists: I did not murder teenager

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

The man accused of stabbing schoolboy Thomas Devlin to death told police he knew “100% it's not going to court”, a jury has heard.
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Donaldson was killed by Real IRA, say Gardai

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Police in the Republic are now satisfied that a faction of the Real IRA was behind the murder of former Sinn Fein administrator-turned-spy Denis Donaldson.
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UDR Four man loses compensation appeal

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

A former soldier acquitted of involvement in the murder of a Catholic man has lost his legal challenge to being refused compensation for two-and-a-half years spent in custody.
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