A man paid his friend to murder his possessive partner after striking up a relationship with a woman, a court in Bradford hears.
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An 88-year-old woman seriously injured in a road traffic collision in Greater Manchester dies in hospital.
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Ministers will have to cut back all but the most essential defence projects to meet a funding shortfall, a former defence chief warns.
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Plans for a community centre combining doctor, dentist and library facilities in Leicester have been scrapped.
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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is given the go-ahead to expand the capacity of its ground in Bristol.
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A 30-year-old Tyneside man has been charged with a series of terror offences, police said.
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A British poker champion accused of killing his wife and dumping her body in a US national park will find out in April if he is to be extradited.
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A memorial service is to be held in Oswestry for a man suspected of murdering his wife and daughter.
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The BBC's Paul Reynolds says the UK is concerned that the Afghan government is not doing enough politically to deal with the Taliban.
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A former pub landlord who flouted the smoking ban is released from prison after a campaign to raise funds to secure his release.
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A reopened Irish Sea ferry service is making its first sailing after completing safety checks, say owners Fastnet Line.
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A government minister says it is too early to judge the success of high-speed trains to London in a parliamentary debate.
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A motorist is spared a driving ban after being caught playing chicken with a train on a railway crossing.
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Police charge a fifth person with the murder of a Huddersfield shopkeeper who was attacked during a robbery at his store.
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There is a renewed threat to the Tyrone Crystal factory in Dungannon, County Tyrone, according to staff.
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Microsoft has expanded its video offering, MSN Video Player to include 700 extra hours of popular TV shows and clips, but does not provide a catch-up service.
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A surgeon who mistakenly removed 90 per cent of a baby girl's bladder in a 'catastrophic' operation was told she could continue to practise.
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The Malaysian girlfriend of a British man found stabbed to death last week in a flat the couple shared in Kuala Lumpur was charged with his murder on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of Tibetans were rounded up in Lhasa on Wednesday on the anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule as the Dalai Lama accused Beijing of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet.
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A man from Preston appears in court charged with grooming and raping a 12-year-old girl he met on Facebook.
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