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Ma'am must rhyme with ham ? how the Queen ruled Britannia
FOR almost half a century the Royal Yacht Britannia regally ruled the waves as the Queen's floating palace.
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After 445 days of missing Maddie, cloud of suspicion over parents lifts
IT IS now 445 agonising days since their three-year-old daughter Madeleine became the world's most famous missing child.
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MPs demand probe into Muslim torture claims
MPS are demanding a full investigation into allegations that British Muslims have been turned over to Pakistani security services so they can be tortured during interrogation.
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One in three medics back mercy killing
ONE in three doctors believes the law should be changed to allow euthanasia for the terminally ill.
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Ofcom chief hints BBC could be forced to share £3bn licence fee
THE head of the broadcasting watchdog has given a strong indication the BBC might be stripped of part of its licence fee.
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Gas price hike 'should propel Government towards green power'
THE Government must raise its commitment to green power as gas prices look set to soar, according to the renewable energy industry's chief representative body.
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Technology news
ONLINE SALES SOAR
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Environmental news
ECO-TOWN BLOW
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Discussion of Doctor Who is strictly academic
IT'S a university challenge with an intergalactic difference.
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New father dies after stabbing in London
THE latest victim of knife crime was the father of a newborn baby who was in the capital to help decorate his mother's home, neighbours said today.
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Continental drift for music festival fans
THOUSANDS of Britons who are fed up with mud, soaring ticket costs and the sky-high price of beer are heading to the continent for music festivals.
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Ministers warned no extra cash available
CABINET ministers have been warned there will be no more money for public services, as taxpayers are reaching the limits of what they are willing to pay.
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Mobile users hold out for a guitar hero
GET ready to rock ? on your handset.
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People in the news
RAIL BONUS
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Censure for Channel 4 over misquoted scientist
CHANNEL 4 misrepresented comments by a former Government scientist but did not materially mislead viewers with a controversial documentary on climate change, Ofcom is expected
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Lonely wedding for Middleton
KATE Middleton attended her second royal wedding of the year without Prince William yesterday.
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Officer dies
A police constable, cleared of any wrongdoing after he was captured on video hitting a black mother-of-one as he tried to arrest her, has died after being airlifted off a moun
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Child porn arrest
A 21-YEAR OLD man suspected of 16 offences of child porn in Britain has been detained in Prague, Czech police said yesterday.
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TV kills boy
A toddler has died after a television apparently toppled over and fell on him.
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Follow a vocation
BRITISH employers believe more young people should be taking vocational qualifications, research has found.
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Hostage fear
There were unconfirmed reports last night that a British hostage who has been held in Iraq since May 2007 had committed suicide.
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Fake-death canoeist's wife tells court: 'I didn't want the money. Money was not important to me'
THE wife of the back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin told jurors yesterday that she did not want a £250,000 life insurance pay-out and "money was not important" to
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Friends celebrate murdered teenager's life
FRIENDS of murdered teenager Ben Kinsella wore fancy dress to celebrate his life yesterday.
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Litter attack mob worse than animals, says PC
TEENAGERS who attacked a policeman after he asked one of them to pick up litter behaved worse than animals, the officer said yesterday.
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Muslim panel to focus on wearing of Islamic veils in UK
THE wearing of the Islamic veil is one of the issues to be examined by a panel of Muslim experts being set up by the government, it was announced yesterday.
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