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Brian Thomas, who strangled his wife during a nightmare in the belief he was attacking an intruder, has walked free from Swansea Crown Court after the case against him was withdrawn.

KPMG said 381 stores would close with the loss of 1,908 jobs with a further 34 staff to go at the group's head office in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

About 200 people have been stranded after a town became cut off by floodwater. The incident, in Cumbria, followed heavy rain which battered parts of northern England, north-west Wales and western Scotland.

Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan are due to be returned to Britain in the 100th repatriation ceremony to pass through the market town of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.

A TEARFUL father told a murder trial today of the moment his daughter told him: "I don't want to die, dad." a Jessica McCagh Garry McCagh, 50, said he rushed to his 17-year-old daughter, Jessica, after being wakened by a knock on his door from the teenager accused of her murder.

Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.

Millions of pounds of funding is in place for a hovercraft service across the Forth.

An investigation is being launched after a fisherman, who was pulled from the water after falling overboard, died in hospital.

An epileptic New York driver who mowed down a British couple with his dustbin lorry has been jailed for at least 20 years.

A woman has been charged with child sex offences following the investigation into paedophiles Vanessa George and Colin Blanchard, police have said.

A man appealing his conviction for murdering a British student in Italy testified Wednesday that he heard the victim arguing with an American defendant in the case minutes before she was slain.

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Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers Tuesday to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a series of international reinforcements.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will woo British voters with promises of new social programs and a clampdown on financial sector excess when the government's plans for the next parliamentary session are announced Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth II.

Photographs of a fire-damaged flat where a teenage girl was allegedly murdered have been shown to a murder jury.

A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.

OLD BAILEY bomber Marian Price was arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in Northern Ireland.

A WARRINGTON railway station is one of 10 in England most in need of modernisation.

Alan falls for Jake's teacher , whose intelligence is a refreshing change from Kandi's flakiness.

The chief executive of Portsmouth Football Club appeared in court today charged with having ''cheated the public revenue'' over the signing-on fee to a midfielder.