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7 questions on defunct coins

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
How much do you know about defunct coins?
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New older people's champion named

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Sarah Rochira, a director of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, is named new commissioner for older people in Wales.
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Airlines fear Easter 'gridlock'

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
The home secretary has been warned by 11 airlines that Britain "risks gridlock" at airports over the Easter break because of staff shortages.
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Economy fears depress the markets

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Stock markets decline on fears over the state of the US and European economies, led by a disappointing Spanish bond sale.
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E.On sales investigated by Ofgem

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
The big energy supplier E.On becomes the latest UK energy provider to have its sales techniques investigated by regulator Ofgem.
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ANC bans youth leader Malema

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
South Africa's ruling ANC party bans its youth leader Julius Malema from all party activities for accusing the president of being a "dictator".
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Strauss & Cook dominate Sri Lanka

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Openers Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook share a 122-run stand to put England in a strong position in the second Test against Sri Lanka.
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Cable: Imposing lower pay wrong

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Business Secretary Vince Cable says there is no question of the UK government imposing lower rates of pay on public sector workers in Wales.
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Lawyer 'unaware' of NoW evidence

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Police assured the barrister prosecuting a News of the World reporter for phone-hacking there was no evidence against its other journalists, the Leveson Inquiry hears.
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Police cleared over undercover PC

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
A report into the collapsed prosecution of six protesters accused of trying to close a power station clears Nottinghamshire Police of misconduct.
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Day in pictures: 4 April 2012

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
24 hours of news photos: 4 April 2012
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Day in pictures: 4 April 2012

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
24 hours of news photos: 4 April 2012
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Mobile photo snares sex attackers

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Two teenagers who took part in an indecent assault on a student are caught after they took a photo of the attack on their victim's phone.
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Eight radical solutions for the water shortage

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
With hosepipe bans imminent, there is growing concern over drought. But with population rising, how can a water crisis be averted?
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VIDEO: Luxury cars seized by US customs

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
US customs officials have seized 16 luxury cars which had been stolen and were being smuggled out of the country on cargo ships.
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Healthcare market faces inquiry

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
The Office of Fair Trading asks the Competition Commission to open an investigation into the UK's private healthcare market.
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Deadly landslide hits Kenya slum

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
At least six people are dead and other residents are believed to be trapped after huge boulders hit a slum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say.
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Murder witness in 'Dunblane fear'

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
A witness tells the Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll murder trial she thought she was caught up in "another Dunblane" massacre.
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Yahoo fires while Skype hires

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
Yahoo confirms it is axing 2,000 posts to save $375m a year, but Skype is hiring in London and elsewhere.
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TomTom issues 'fix' for GPS fault

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 02:12
TomTom releases a software fix for a fault that caused 12 of its sat-nav devices to malfunction.
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