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Housing group 'near administration'

BBC News - 5 hours 36 min ago
Connaught, the property services group that specialises in social housing, is on the brink of going into administration, the BBC learns.
Categories: Current Affairs

What to do if you get a tax letter

BBC News - 5 hours 41 min ago
Thousands of people will find out if they have been undercharged or are overpaid by the taxman. Up to six million people have been paying the wrong amount and the treasury says it cannot afford to write off the money.
Categories: Current Affairs

France strikes over pension plans

BBC News - 5 hours 43 min ago
France is braced for disruption as a strike over pension reform gets under way, with parliament also debating a ban on full face veils and a security bill.
Categories: Current Affairs

Philippines death report doubt

BBC News - 5 hours 51 min ago
The stepfather of an Aberdeen man stabbed and killed in the Philippines questions media reports of why he was there.
Categories: Current Affairs

Key Asian interest rates on hold

BBC News - 6 hours 31 min ago
The cost of borrowing in Australia stays at 4.5% and Japan at near zero amid continuing global economic uncertainty.
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Priest to meet dissident families

BBC News - 6 hours 38 min ago
A priest in Londonderry who challenged dissident republicans over their violence is to meet families who claim they are being harassed by the PSNI.
Categories: Current Affairs

£90m village by-pass opens early

BBC News - 6 hours 41 min ago
A £90m bypass, first suggested in the 1980s, is being opened two months ahead of schedule.
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Tax letters

BBC News - 6 hours 47 min ago
If a letter says you have paid the wrong amount of tax - what next?
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AV referendum bill passes MP vote

BBC News - 6 hours 48 min ago
Plans to change the way MPs are elected to Parliament survive their first Commons hurdle - despite criticism from Tory MPs.
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Newspaper review

BBC News - 7 hours 8 min ago
Speculation over Andy Coulson's future
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Inside UK's first Sikh temple school

BBC News - 7 hours 19 min ago
Khalsa Primary school is the first Sikh school in the UK to be backed and partly funded by a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple.
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'The Blitz brought everybody together'

BBC News - 7 hours 30 min ago
Alf Morris, who was 10 at the time of the Blitz, took BBC News back to the site of his former home in Bethnal Green to relive the events of the first night of Nazi Germany's assault on London.
Categories: Current Affairs

Cutting it

BBC News - 8 hours 43 min ago
Why is sunburn remedy being sold as cocaine?
Categories: Current Affairs

Christchurch hit by aftershocks

BBC News - 8 hours 55 min ago
Violent aftershocks rattle the New Zealand city of Christchurch following the weekend's powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage.
Categories: Current Affairs

Poor children dying 'of neglect'

BBC News - 9 hours 11 min ago
Save the Children says there have been four million preventable child deaths over the past 10 years because the poorest have not been the focus of aid.
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Federer cruises into last eight

BBC News - 9 hours 42 min ago
Roger Federer continues his smooth progress through the US Open draw with a straight-sets win over Jurgen Melzer in round four.
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Ringo's debut nightclub on fire

BBC News - 9 hours 53 min ago
Fire crews tackle a blaze at a former nightclub in Southport where Ringo Starr made his Beatles debut.
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Fears over street light cut-backs

BBC News - 10 hours 9 min ago
The growing number of councils across the UK switching off street lights prompts criticism from MPs and road safety groups.
Categories: Current Affairs

How to fix Pakistan

BBC News - 10 hours 17 min ago
Should Islamabad surrender some sovereignty to save the country?
Categories: Current Affairs

Guatemala mudslide search halted

BBC News - 11 hours 19 min ago
Teams in Guatemala have to halt the search for bodies following devasting mudslides which have killed at least 45 people.
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