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A motorway is shut after a lorry sheds its load of baked beans across three lanes of the southbound carriageway in Essex.

Health chiefs are investigating an outbreak of a flu-like illness at a residential home in Carmarthenshire.

Researchers prove a novel method of determining whether atmospheric CO2 was created by natural sources or by the burning of fossil fuels.

Parliamentary officials have reportedly cut a deal to almost halve the cost of indoor House of Commons fig trees - from £32,500 to £18,500 a year.

If the rich stop giving to the arts, will we all end up paying?

Rock group Alabama Shakes debut at number one on the first ever Official Record Store Chart, which reflects sales at the UK's independent record shops.

Labour's Ken Livingstone and the Green Party's Jenny Jones pull out of a BBC London radio debate over the inclusion of the British National Party.

We chase "fast culture" at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us, says Will Self.

A former bank worker is jailed for eight months for stealing more than £20,000 from two of his former colleagues.

A woman who killed her five-year-old son set fire to herself in a train's toilet cubicle on the 14th anniversary of his death, an inquest hears.

Prosecutors say the Ched Evans case proves it is a "myth" that rape victims are "somehow responsible" for being attacked.

Harry The Viking, part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson, is favourite for the Scottish Grand National at Ayr on Saturday.

A rare steam-propelled toy tin-plate battleship becomes the most expensive single toy ever sold in the UK after fetching £76,000 in Berkshire.

The IMF says it has pledges for $430bn (£247bn) of the extra funds it was seeking to help economies in trouble - including just under $15bn from the UK.

Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany complete a Kenyan double at the London Marathon, as Claire Hallissey shines for Britain.

Opposition supporters in Bahrain attend a mass protest demanding an end to the crackdown on dissent and the cancellation of Sunday's Grand Prix.

As China's communist party admit that Neil Heywood may have been murdered, there are still questions about whether the real reason for the British businessman's death will ever emerge.

Convicted US killer Marcus Robinson is ordered off death row after a judge determines that racial bias was evident during jury selection in his 1994 trial.

A man jailed for the homophobic murder of CountyTyrone supermarket boss Shaun Fitzpatrick has failed in his bid to have his conviction overturned.

A judge sets bail at $150,000 for George Zimmerman, charged with murder over the death of unarmed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.