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Spending cuts 'to hit north harder'
Industrial towns in the north east of England may be least able to cope with deep cuts in public spending, BBC-commissioned research suggests.
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McGuinness 'forgot deathbed talk'
Martin McGuinness says he forgot a deathbed conversation he had with the priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing.
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MPs set to debate phone hacking
Parliament is to debate allegations that MPs had their mobile phones hacked into by News of the World journalists.
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Morrisons to test online shopping
The UK's fourth biggest grocer, Morrisons, says it hopes to trial online shopping and convenience stores next year.
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New rules urged for N.B. hydro-fracking mining
New Brunswick should issue an immediate moratorium on the new mining practice of hydro-fracking until more research into potential risks is completed, says an environmental policy expert.
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Vitamin 'may help prevent' spina bifida
Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.
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Explosive EastEnders plot could signal end of Peggy
An explosive EastEnders storyline which could see the end of Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, begins on Thursday.
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Huge protest over India CCTV plan
Students from different political affiliations are staging a huge protest at one of India's top universities over plans to introduce CCTV.
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China abortion activist 'freed'
A blind activist jailed after revealing right abuses under China's one-child policy has been freed after a four-year prison term, a rights group says.
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World Cup knocks trading at HMV
Music, computer games and book retailer HMV says that its sales were disrupted this summer by the football World Cup.
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New evidence for rare black hole
Researchers say they may have found further evidence for the existence of an unusual type of black hole.
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Police may have shot HK hostages
Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.
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Broadband speed gets laser boost
A kind of "auto-tune for data" developed by a European team may help increase the capacities of long-haul fibre optic cables.
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Colorado fire destroys homes
A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, according to officials.
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Woman pulled from house fire
Firefighters revive a woman found slumped in her living room after she was overcome by smoke in her north Belfast home.
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Toshack poised to quit Wales job
John Toshack is set to announce his resignation as Wales manager at a media conference on Thursday.
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Crumlin alert device was 'viable'
The police say a device left close to a primary school in Crumlin, County Antrim was "viable".
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Pakistan roadside bomb kills nine
A roadside bomb kills nine people and injures at least four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border, reports say.
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