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VIDEO: Moyles 'honoured' to carry torch

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles says it was a "massive honour" to carry the Olympic torch through the mid-Wales town of Aberystwyth.
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Two held over death of student

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Two American men are being held in Japan over the death of an Irish student.
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Day in pictures: 28 May 2012

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
24 hours of news photos 28 May 2012
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Bahrain bails leading dissident

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab is released on bail, after he was arrested on 5 May returning from Beirut.
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EU fishing reforms face weakening

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
European governments are backsliding on commitments to make fishing sustainable, campaigners warn, with commitments weakening on banning discards and achieving healthy stocks.
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Bridge chosen for heritage bid

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
The Forth Bridge comes a step closer to being designated as a world heritage site.
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Jobs rescued as baker collapses

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
More than 240 jobs have been saved at troubled Mathiesons Foods after several of its shops are sold to a rival baker.
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Facebook phone 'due next year'

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Social networking giant Facebook is preparing to launch its own smartphone by next year, reports say.
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A medic's pictures of the Falklands war

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Personal photos from the Falklands conflict
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Harry Hill to be art tour guide

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Comedian Harry Hill is to act as a tour guide at a new art exhibition by the surreal cartoonist David Shrigley in Manchester later this year.
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VIDEO: Racist abuse in Euro 2012 stadium

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
BBC's Panorama looks at racism and violence in Euro 2012 host nations Poland and Ukraine.
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Teachers in autumn strike threats

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
The two biggest teachers' unions threaten industrial action against what they call the "denigration" of the teaching profession.
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Warsi refers expenses to watchdog

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Conservative Party co-chairman Lady Warsi asks a parliamentary watchdog to consider allegations about her expenses, saying she takes them "very seriously".
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Sacked surgeon patients get £651k

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
An NHS trust paid £651,000 in out of court settlements to 15 former patients of a Kent surgeon dismissed in 2007, it is revealed.
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Call for infrastructure funding

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
The government should do more to encourage private pension funds to invest in public sector infrastructure projects, the CBI says.
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Beckett radio play to be staged

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Samuel Beckett's 1957 radio play All That Fall is to be performed professionally on stage in London for the first time.
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The world of sofa-surfing and hostel rooms

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Homelessness doesn't just mean sleeping rough. Life is also a struggle for those who have to live on friends' sofas.
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Four injured in hit-and-run crash

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
Four people, aged between 62 and 70, suffer serious injuries in a hit-and-run incident in Greater Manchester.
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VIDEO: How important is a Royal Warrant?

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
The Queen has granted around two thousand Royal Warrants during her sixty year reign but do Royal Warrants make a difference?
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Briton held in Bali over cocaine

BBC - News - Fri, 2024-11-29 13:17
A British woman is arrested for allegedly smuggling cocaine worth £1.6m million into the Indonesian island of Bali, a customs official says.
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