Weather: Compensation Boost After Power Cuts

Households hit by power cuts after the Christmas storms will get extra compensation, one of the country's biggest power distributors has said. UK Power Networks - which owns electricity lines in London and the south east - said it would compensate those...

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Sandy Hook Shooting Documents Released

A police report into the Sandy Hook school massacre has revealed harrowing new details about the murders and the gunman's family life. The paperwork, much of which is blacked out, includes several videos and hundreds of photographs from inside Sandy...

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Reflected Eye Photos Could Help Solve Crime

Reflections in the eyes of people who feature in photographs could increasingly be "mined" to help solve crimes, researchers say. Zooming in on high-megapixel images can capture recognisable images of the person taking the photo, or other people present...

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Tenerife: Three Britons Injured In Explosion

Three British people were among five injured after an explosion in a hotel pool bar on the island of Tenerife, according to reports. A woman suffered serious burns to her face and scalp in the blast in Adeje, on the south-west coast of the island, on...

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Python Kills Security Guard At Bali Hotel

A security guard has been killed by a python outside a luxury hotel on the resort island of Bali. Agung Bawa, assistant security manager at the Bali Hyatt hotel in the Sanur area of the Indonesian island said the man had spotted the snake crossing a...

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Antarctica: Icebreaker Nearing Trapped Ship

A ship which became trapped in ice while on a scientific mission to Antarctica is about to be reached by a rescue vessel, scientists hope. Those on board the Academic Shokalskiy have spotted the Chinese icebreaker The Snow Dragon on the horizon. Some...

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Footballer Needs Face Surgery After Attack

An amateur footballer's face will have to be rebuilt after he was knocked unconscious and beaten during a night out. Richie Robins is understood to have been set upon by up to half a dozen men as he apparently stepped in to protect a woman. The 21-year-old,...

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Weather: Ireland And UK Battered By Storms

Hurricane-speed gusts and driving rain have been lashing Britain and Ireland for the second time this week, with warnings of more flooding and trouble for travellers. Just a few days after thousands of people's Christmas travel plans were ruined, the...

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Avalon Nightclub Shooting: Man Killed

A man has died after a shooting inside a nightclub in London's West End, according to Scotland Yard. Police have arrested one man on suspicion of murder and are currently holding him at a police station in south London.  The shooting occurred around...

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Arsonists Torch Autistic Boy's Christmas Gift

An arson attack which destroyed a sensory room built as a Christmas present for a severely autistic boy has been condemned as a "disgusting and cowardly crime". Fiona and Wesley Ratcliff, from Woodhouse Park in Wythenshawe, Manchester, had spent the...

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Bargain Hunters Flock To Boxing Day Sales

Bargain hunters flock to the high streets in their thousands as shops open for the Boxing Day sales. Keen shoppers started queuing before dawn to ensure they were first in line when the shops opened. Harrods provided mugs of hot chocolate, smoked...

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Christmas Flood Misery Continues For Thousands

More weather chaos is due over the next few days - with the Environment Agency (EA) saying flooding may get worse in some areas. Thousands of people spent Christmas Day without power and many were evacuated due to flooding. With stormy weather expected...

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Iraq: Christmas Bombers Target Christians

At least 22 people have been killed in Christmas Day bomb attacks targeting Christians in Iraq. A car bomb went off near a church during Christmas Mass in Baghdad's southern Dora district, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 30, a police...

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Christmas Benefit Payments: Thousands Miss Out

Tens of thousands of people have not received benefit payments in time for Christmas. The money for jobseekers, low earners and pensioners had been due to arrive in their accounts on Tuesday, but will now not arrive until Friday. Up to 32,000 people...

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Queen's Message: Monarch Reflects On 2013

By Paul Harrison, Royal Correspondent The Queen will reflect on key events of the past 12 months in her traditional Christmas broadcast, including the birth of her great-grandson Prince George and the 60th anniversary of her coronation. In her...

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Severe Weather: Families Forced From Homes

Almost 50,000 people are without power on Christmas Day and dozens have been evacuated from their flooded homes following severe weather. Many of those affected by the storms that battered the UK in the run-up to Christmas will not have power restored...

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Alan Turing: WWII Code-Breaker Granted Pardon

Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity. Dr Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking the Enigma code, arguably shortening the war by at least two years,...

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South Sudan: Refugees Flee As Violence Escalates

Hundreds of civilians in South Sudan, the world's newest state, are believed to have died as fighting continues between government forces and rebels. The official toll is 500 dead, although the real figure is believed to be far higher, aid workers say....

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Weather: Christmas Travel Plans Hit By Storms

Fire crews have rescued around 25 people from cars trapped in flood water in Dorset as severe weather batters the UK. Dorset fire control said rescuers helped get people out of stranded vehicles in the Sturminster, Blandford, Shaftesbury, Sherborne...

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