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Daily Mail, 12.03.10 11:48 UTC

Your dad was a hero: Brave fiancée takes 18-day-old baby to pay tribute as dead soldier is flown home from Afghanistan

This is the moment the distraught fiancée of a fallen British soldier watched his body being returned home from Afghanistan yesterday - with the newborn son he never met. Grieving Michaela Lindley, ...

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BBC Technology, 12.03.10 11:47 UTC

Net clash for web police projects

Social media activists are up in arms over plans by the UK's police watchdog for a project with the same name as an existing web initiative.

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Times Online Business, 12.03.10 11:47 UTC

British law firm cleared way for Lehman cover-up

Linklaters, one of Britain s leading law firms, approved controversial accounting practices that allowed Lehman Brothers to shift billions of dollars of debt off its balance sheet and mask the ...

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The Register, 12.03.10 11:47 UTC

UK shoppers ignorant of online rights

UK web users are Europe's biggest online shoppers but are not aware of their consumer rights when it comes to e-commerce, a government survey has found. UK shoppers spent Â£38bn online in 2009, 10 ...

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Times Online, 12.03.10 11:47 UTC

British law firm cleared way for Lehman cover-up

Linklaters, one of Britain s leading law firms, approved controversial accounting practices that allowed Lehman Brothers to shift billions of dollars of debt off its balance sheet and mask the ...

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Belfast Telegraph, 12.03.10 11:45 UTC

Hargreaves return in sight

Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to let Owen Hargreaves take the next step on his road to recovery. Hargreaves was due to play in a reserve team encounter with Manchester City on Thursday night and end a ...

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Belfast Telegraph, 12.03.10 11:45 UTC

Hicks loses billionaire status

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has lost his billionaire status, according to Forbes magazine's latest rich list. However, the Texan businessman was still ranked 701st richest man in the world, with an ...

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guardian.co.uk, 12.03.10 11:45 UTC

Alastair Cook hundred gives England total control against Bangladesh

There is something about Asia's cricketing outposts that brings peace to Alastair Cook. It was in Nagpur where he made a Test hundred on debut and today, in the equally unrarified surroundings of the ...

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BBC World News, 12.03.10 11:24 UTC

Cook and Pietersen dominate Test

Alastair Cook scored a century on his debut as Test captain and Kevin Pietersen hit 99 as England made 374-3 in the first Test against Bangladesh.

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Daily Mail, 12.03.10 11:24 UTC

Bosnian millionaire banker's wife bails country's ex-president facing war crime charges

Diana Jenkins quit Britain for Malibu last year because she said that high society wives in London treated her 'like an Eastern European mail-order bride'. Yesterday she put up the money to have Ejup ...