A motorway was forced to close yesterday not because of icy conditions, snow drifts or poor visibility but because a herd of pigs managed to escape from the truck they were travelling after it crashed. The lorry which was carrying a total of eighty-two porcine passengers crashed close to Stansted ...
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Australian power company Western Power has admitted that the fires that raged to the north of Perth destroying forty homes could well have been started by toppled power lines. A natural disaster has been declared after two bush fires were said to be the worst to have been seen in ...
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Britain's severest winter weather in years claimed the lives of three climbers yesterday. Two men attempting to climb up Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, were swept to their deaths by an avalanche. The alarm was raised after a member of the public reported seeing them being carried away by the ...
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The country's weather forecasters all agree on one thing as revelers gear up to celebrate the New Year - it is going to be very cold. Snow has fallen in the Pennines and across much of the higher ground in Wales. Further snow is to be expected in some areas ...
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British computer expert Peter Moore who was kidnapped in Iraq on May 29th 2007 has been released. Speaking about the release Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that he could report that Mr. Moore was in remarkably good health but was undergoing routine checks at the British Embassy in Baghdad. He ...
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President Obama has said that the failure to prevent Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab boarding a Northwest Airlines jet with the intention of blowing it up was unacceptable. In a press conference in Hawaii where he is spending his Christmas holidays the president said that the situation was the result of ...
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An alleged row between a mother and father over who should get custody of their young daughter yesterday has ended in tragedy. It is thought that fifty-six-year-old Andy Copland shot forty-four-year-old Julie Harrison and four-year-old daughter Maisie in the head before turning the weapon on himself. Police were called to ...
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A man who used to weigh 61 stone says that the operations he had to make him lose weight were the best things ever to happen to him. Former publican Colin Corfield has managed to lose 46 stone since he underwent a procedure to shrink his stomach. His mother Jean ...
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Britain's motorists are being warned that their wallets are about to become a bit lighter as petrol prices are set to soar in the New Year. On January 1st VAT rises back up to 17.5 percent adding 2.4 pence to a litre of petrol. However some experts predict that a ...
Police have confirmed that the body discovered in Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland is that of twenty-three-year-old Londoner Myles Robinson. The graduate from Wandsworth went missing a week ago after walking a friend back to her hotel after a night out at the Blue Monkey Bar in the ski resort of Wengen. ...
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