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Bobbies on the beat will help tackle terrorism, says Met chief

Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe says offciers on the street can help curb radication of young people

David Cameron tells Brussels £1.7bn bill is pushing voters toward EU exit

Mystery over 'poisoned' ducks in town that inspired Hound of the Baskervilles

Ed Miliband pleads with Labour's plotters to back his leadership

Police mistakenly use 'hot chilli' riot spray on four-year-olds during lesson

The four ways to withdraw your pension cash

Son of man killed by foreign doctor Daniel Ubani ordered to pay thousands of pounds for insulting him

Pension bank accounts 'won't be ready next year', millions warned

Politics»

David Cameron tells Brussels £1.7bn bill is pushing voters toward EU exit

David Cameron at the EU council headquarters:

The Prime Minister brandishes polling showing their has been a surge in the number of Britons wanting to leave the union

Ed Miliband pleads with Labour's plotters to back his leadership

Ed Miliband: How Labour rebels turned on their leader

Miliband dismisses plot rumours as 'nonsense'

David Cameron joins plea to extend Tower of London poppies

Picture galleries»

Frosty Britain

The UK woke up to a winter wonderland

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Bonfire Night

In pics: Fireworks and effigies burnt as Guy Fawkes celebrated around UK

Peak District joins Google Street View: in pictures

The Peak District has become the first national park to become fully navigatable via Google Street View

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When politicians shed a tear

Nigel Farage is not the first politician to cry in public

Elvis's Graceland comes to London

Music News

Take a look at the largest Elvis Presley retrospective ever mounted in Europe

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Save our Ocean Giants

17 megafauna hotspots and calls for their protection

Gunman confesses to TV cameraman then hijacks his car

Men make up 89 per cent of all shark bite fatalities

Australian man jumps on tiger shark for a dare

Lest we forget: an installation of ceramic poppies surrounds the Tower of London

Time-lapse: poppy memorial from dawn to dusk

Prince Harry visits Field Of Remembrance

Jacob Rees-Mogg canvassing for the Conservative party with his son Peter in Rochester, Kent

Conservative MP (and son) take fight to Ukip in Rochester

Watch: Monty the Penguin stars in John Lewis 2014 Christmas ad

Supermarkets cut fuel prices again

Asda and Tesco cut petrol price by 2p a litre

Another penny taken off the price of petrol and diesel, but motorists call for Danny Alexander to reduce fuel duty

Fuel prices: the 'rocket and feather effect' explained

Safety 'star rating' for UK roads

Diesel cars more efficient than hybrids outside city centres

Chris Boardman branded 'fool' for not wearing cycle helmet on TV

Veteran car run 2014: fires, breakdowns and celebs

UK's most dangerous road named

The Royal Family»

Gold, Buckingham Palace, review: the exotic and the ostentatious

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Art Reviews

Remarkable - and remarkably expensive - artefacts from the Royal Collection are on show in this new exhibition, says Alastair Sooke

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Queen opens garden created with soil from WW1 battlefields

Prince Harry meets Afghan war widow at Fields of Remembrance event

Queen lays wreath at opening of WW1 memorial garden

Prince Harry visits Field Of Remembrance

Oldest objects owned by the Queen go on display in Buckingham Palace exhibition

Prince Charles puts his best foot forward in Mexico

Defence»

MI5 and GCHQ documents allow spying on lawyers

Guidelines indicate the security services have been targeting communications between lawyers and their clients for years

Top secret documents, released in a legal case, show the security services have permitted their operatives to intercept communications between lawyers and their clients

Destroying online freedom in the name of counter-terrorism will make the world a more dangerous place

Britain steps up military aid for Kurds waging war on jihadists

Libyan soldiers who went on rampage were 'beyond the pale'

Why 'Sandhurst in the Sand' hasn't worked in Iraq

Sgt major hit soldier after finding him in bed with female gunner

Britain to send military personnel back to Iraq

Education»

Rise in number of pupils given extra time in GCSEs and A-levels

Almost one in ten pupils granted “access arrangements” such as extra time in the exams hall this year, according to Ofqual figures

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Alex Salmond challenged over 'shameful' education record

Childhood reading and broadsheet newspapers are best for boosting vocabulary

Quiz: how good is your vocabulary?

Oxford bursar sacked by former BBC controller after she 'tried to remove dyslexic colleague'

What is the child sexual behaviour traffic light tool?

Cambridge University tells schools: retain AS-level exams

Health»

Son of man killed by foreign doctor Daniel Ubani ordered to pay thousands of pounds for insulting him

Daniel Ubani, left, killed David Gray, right, with a massive drug overdose on his first shift as a locum doctor

Rory Gray, whose father was killed by foreign doctor Daniel Ubani, has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds in court costs after being sued in Germany

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