Wednesday 14 January 2015

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Latest breaking UK news, including politics, crime and celebrity.

Low prices are here to stay, says George Osborne

The Chancellor says that Britain should 'celebrate' as inflation hits a 15-year low

Britain could descend into 'vigilantism', ex MI5 boss warns

Former MI5 chief Sir Jonathan Evans joins HSBC

Baron Evans of Weardale says Charlie Hebdo attacks have bred "vulnerability and fear" which can only be countered with increased security

Up to 5,000 Europeans pose terror threat after going abroad to fight jihad

Newsagent defies threats by stocking Charlie Hebdo magazine

Ila Aghera will sell the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo in her newsagent

Leafy village shop owner leads freedom of speech fight by becoming one of the few UK outlets to stock the controversial Charlie Hebdo magazine when it is published on Wednesday

David Cameron personally orders Tories to open Whips 'dirt books' to child abuse investigators

The Prime Minister's decision comes as 200 child abuse victims and campaigners meet in Parliament on Wednesday

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50 die under secret 999 policy

The alleged incident involved the East of England Ambulance Service

Terminally ill wait an hour for ambulance after 999 call downgrade by East of England ambulance trust

Ofsted Trojan horse inspectors ‘asked 10-year-olds what do lesbians do?’

Around 140,000 Scottish pupils will be told their exam results on Tuesday

Christian school accuses Ofsted of ‘hostile’ and ‘predetermined’ stance to religious ethos in ‘British values’ inspection

Council 'revolving door' staff arrangements costing up to £5bn

The entrance to the Essex County Council Offices in Chelmsford, Essex

Councils are rehiring staff previously made redundant and using lavish £1000-a-day consultants in a nationwide scandal thought to be costing billions

ME: fear of exercise exacerbates chronic fatigue syndrome, say researchers

ME is characterised by fatigue, muscle aches and memory loss

Kings College researchers found patients who were able to overcome their fear about exercise showed the greatest improvement in symptoms

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Tony Blair: Apology to Hyde Park IRA bomb victims after 'On The Run' letter blunder

Tony Blair answers questions at the parliamentary inquiry at the House of Commons

But former Prime Minister appears before MPs to defend other letters sent to suspected republicans assuring them they were not being pursued by UK authorities

Video: headmaster having affair with Cameron cutie videoed teaching pupils 'virtues of married life'

Keely Huxtable denied being caught in a compromising position

A promotional video on school's website shows Richard Tattersfield, 44, bragging that his students were taught the importance of 'strong relationships'

'Diary' of Virginia Roberts reveals details of her contact with Duke of York

Prince Andrew and Virginia Robertsin 2001

A diary claimed to belong to the woman at the centre of a series of allegations concerning Prince Andrew has emerged

'Tornado' flattens garage after striking Harrow in 'scene from Wizard of Oz'

Some of the damages in harrow, following the

Garage collapses and roof tiles blown off houses in north west London as Britain braced for another storm gathering pace across Atlantic

Drivers warned amid severe weather conditions

A man working on his broken down car in the snow

The Met Office advise drivers to be prepared for disruption and difficult conditions, as they issue either ice or snow warnings for most of the UK

Neighbours convicted of felling another man's clematis

The clematis bush in Rhona Parkers garden which had covered the seperating wall for 18 years and was destroyed by two oaps

Two neighbours conspired to cut down a 45ft-wide clematis in another neighbour's garden have been convicted of causing criminal damage

Rise of smart phones and social media makes people crave real books, British Library report finds

Walking tall: Roly Keating returned £187,000 of severance pay as a matter of principle

Boost in visitors to the British Library suggests the rise of the digital age has left people craving 'real human encounters and physical artefacts'

Noel Gallagher condemns Ed Sheeran for 'selling out'

Britpop sensation Noel Gallagher has slammed 'subversive' pop star Ed Sheeran for selling out

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Dog finds a home after 14,000 rejections

New owner Ian Woodcock and a Dogs Trust staff member with Jed the lurcher who has finaly been rehomed after seven years

Jed, dubbed the 'most overlooked dog in Britain', is adopted after 50 dog years searching for a new home

Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey: the 2015 cultural highlights to boost the economy

Will Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke, pictured) finally win back her throne in season five?

DCMS reports a record high for growth in creative industries, as it predicts the 'highlights' of this year which will help boost the economy

Foreigners' occupation of social housing: A correction

GM crops could be planted in England this year

Genetically modfied crops are likely to be grown commercially in Britain after a new European ruling

New legislation, which will be in place by Spring, could mean that commercial GM crops including maize and oil seed rape are grown in Britain

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How I created the Charlie Hebdo magazine cover

Scaling El Capitan: the hardest climb in the world almost done

Watch: Brian Harvey smashes up records

Cafe creates whopping 8000 calorie breakfast

Could you eat an 8,000 calorie breakfast?

Prince Andrew is 'a humongously good man', says Duchess of York

Watch: 3D printed car to hit the roads this year

Golden Globes 2015

Joanne Froggatt, Eddie Redmayne and Ruth Wilson win in Hollywood

Jack Nicholson's women

In pics: Some of the ladies linked to the actor over the years

Hollywood says Je Suis Charlie

George Clooney and Helen Mirren honour Paris attack victims

A mum who was persuaded to try for 'one last child' by her husband was stunned when she beat odds of two million to one - to have naturally conceived identical triplets

Pictures of the day

A car-squashing elephant, bump starting a helicopter and the Pope in Sri Lanka

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Working more than 48 hours a week increases risk of alcohol abuse

Finnish researchers found that longer working hours increased the likelihood of higher alcohol use by 11 per cent.

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School sport slumps after 2012 Olympics

A new report said that children's education was poorer if they were deprived of the chance to compete

Exclusive: Amount of PE offered to children in England has plummeted, in defiance of goverment promises made to use London 2012 to ‘Inspire a Generation’ of youngsters to become more active

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NHS bed blocking doubles, costing public purse £640m

Rise in 'bed blocking’ is costing the NHS £500,000 every day

The number of healthy hospital patients who have concluded treatment but cannot be discharged has almost doubled with an expected cost to the public of £640 million

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Sketch: The strange smile of Tony Blair

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The former PM is summoned to Parliament to explain why letters were sent to IRA suspects, including John Downey, telling them they were no longer wanted by police

Tomb Raider fan 'stabbed women in random attacks'

A teenager obsessed with Tomb Raider attempted to murder three women

Portsmouth teenager Ben Moynihan accused of attempting to murder three women over virginity anguish before leaving letter with 'symbol from video game Tomb Raider'

Up to 5,000 Europeans pose terror threat after going abroad to fight jihad

Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, warned that Europe is facing the “most serious terrorist threat since 09/11”

Director of Europol warns Europe is facing worst terror threat since the September 11 attacks

Politics»

Sacrifice Green Belt land near stations, recommends report

Green belt under threat from mining, warns MP

Adam Smith Institute says Green Belt planning laws should be relaxed to solve housing crisis

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May's general election? It will be like 1992 all over again, says George Osborne

Sketch: The strange smile of Tony Blair

Obituaries»

Sir Jack Hayward

British patriot and philanthropist whose generosity won him a role in the Jeremy Thorpe scandal

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Elena Obraztsova

Staff Sergeant Arthur Shackleton

World news»

Silk Road founder accused of running $200m online drugs empire

Silk Road drugs website Internet's 'most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace'

Prosecutors face daunting task of navigating the dark web to prove that Ross Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts are one and the same

Ice cream keeps Rio zoo animals cool in heatwave

A chimpanzee named Paulinho holds two popsicles at the city zoo, in Rio Janeiro, Brazil.

Animals need special care as summer temperatures soar

Hunt for terror cell spreads as suspect held in Bulgaria

Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during a session at the National Assembly in Paris to pay respects to the victims of last week's Islamist militant attacks.

Police search for as many as six accomplices who may have helped the three gunmen carry out attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket

Petition to honour Muslim hero of Paris siege

Lassana Bathily, originally from Mali in west Africa, is said to have shepherded terrified customers to safety in a chiller as the Islamic gunman took hold of the Hyper Cacher supermarket

150,0000 petition France to bestow highest honour and citizenship on a west African immigrant who risked his life to rescue Jewish hostages

Charlie Hebdo issue 'to make world laugh, not mourn’

Editor Gerard Briard, contributor Renald Luzier aka Luz and Columnist Patrick Pelloux

New issue shows cartoons previously published by slain cartoonists Wolinski, Charb, Tignous and Honoré, and texts by Bernard Maris and Elsa Cayat, who were also killed

Man in China recovering in hospital after wife chopped off his penis

The man fighting with his wife after she chopped his penis off twice

A man in China is recuperating after his wife chopped off his penis when she found out he was having an affair - and when he had it sewn back on, she stormed the hospital and chopped it off again

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