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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Terry axed as England captain
Was England manager Fabio Capello right to strip John Terry of the England armband?
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