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30 min ago | Wisbech Standard

GALLERY: All quiet on the Wisbech front as anti-immigration protest passes peacefully in front of 300

They gathered to hear speakers, many carrying placards calling for an end to migration and for Britain to leave the EU.

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Related Topix: Norfolk County, England, World News, Cambridgeshire County, England

30 min ago | Wisbech Standard

Protest organiser says UKIP withdrew from anti immigration rally for...

WISBECH anti immigration demo organiser Dean Everitt said that UKIP speakers withdrew from today's rally for fear the media "would use their appearance as racist propaganda". Mr Everitt told a crowd of some 300 in Wisbech Park that two Lincolnshire UKIP councillors originally due to speak had sent letters explaining their position.

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Related Topix: Norfolk County, England, World News, Cambridgeshire County, England

4 hrs ago | Daily Herald

N.Y. police say fatal shooting was anti-gay hate crime

A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), New York, North Yorkshire County, England, World News, East Riding of Yorkshire County, England

4 hrs ago | Witney Gazette

Mum salutes people who gave blood in memory of son

Buy this photo Chris Gorman, left, and Peter Harvey, who organised the blood donor session in memory of their friend.

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Related Topix: Oxfordshire County, England, United Kingdom, World News, Northamptonshire County, England, Buckinghamshire County, England,

4 hrs ago | BBC News

Tributes at service for murdered vet

People who attended the service in Buckley shared memories of Miss Gowing, who was described as a lovely person with a great sense of humour.

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Related Topix: Flintshire County, Wales, World News, United Kingdom, Pembrokeshire County, Wales,

6 hrs ago | Thurrock Gazette

Factor Essex talent show boss held in rape inquiry

A TALENT show organiser who helped to launch the career of Stanford-le-Hope X Factor star Rylan Clark has been arrested on suspicion of rape.

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Related Topix: Essex County, England, United Kingdom, World News,

10 hrs ago | Tay AM

Briton Drowns In Rough Seas Off Italian Coast

A British tourist has drowned in front of his wife while swimming in rough seas on a holiday in Italy.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Italy,

11 hrs ago | Andover Advertiser

Petition lauched against council Costa deal as plan comes under fire from opposition members

A PETITION has been launched calling on borough council chiefs to rethink a plan to use nearly A 800,000 of taxpayers' money to buy a Costa Coffee restaurant at the Basingstoke Leisure Park.

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Related Topix: Hampshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom

15 hrs ago | www.bbc.co.uk | Sidsaucer

Scenic village approved near Ashford in Kent

Planning permission has been granted for a lakeside "village" including 300 homes on the outskirts of Ashford, Kent. The Conningbrook Lakes country park, on the site of a former quarry, will have recreational facilities for sailing, canoeing, and fishing.

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15 hrs ago | www.bbc.co.uk | Sidsaucer

Coffin and church unearthed beneath Castle

A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle. It is thought that the stone church was built in the Anglo-Saxon period, after the Romans left Britain, but before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science, Anthropology

15 hrs ago | Wiltshire Times

Body of former council officer discovered in Melksham

Neighbour Madeleine Tosh became concerned she had not seen David Waring for several weeks, and alerted Wiltshire Police, who found his body at his home on Beech Avenue.

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Related Topix: World News, Wiltshire County, England,

Fri May 17, 2013

This is Oxfordshire

PCSO arrested after pulling a motorist over admits drink-driving

A PCSO was arrested by colleagues from his own force for drink-driving when he called for back-up after pulling another motorist over, a court heard today.

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Related Topix: Oxfordshire County, England, United Kingdom, Buckinghamshire County, England, World News,

Mirror.co.uk

Mum of baby found dead might have fled to Kenya

A tot was discovered alone at home by officers after they received a call at around 10am on Thursday. The mother of a 20-month-old baby found dead in a house in Bicester is believed to have fled to Kenya.

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Related Topix: Oxfordshire County, England, Buckinghamshire County, England, World News,

Chichester Today

Bognor Regis man charged with murder

Walter Brazil, 41, of Collyer Avenue, is due to appear in custody at Worthing Magistrates' Court today.

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Echo-news.co.uk

Patients pack meeting to demand action against Basildon Hospital

The Basildon branch of Cure the NHS teamed up with London-based legal firms Leigh Day and Field Fisher Waterhouse to hold a public meeting at The Place in Northlands Pavement, Pitsea , yesterday afternoon.

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Related Topix: World News, Essex County, England, United Kingdom

Malvern Gazette

Two people stabbed in south Hereford

A second man has been arrested in relation to today's stabbings in Hereford, and the suspect taken away in an ambulance with a police escort.

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Related Topix: Powys County, Wales, World News, Herefordshire County, England

Echo-news.co.uk

Church appoints first woman Archdeacon of Southend

Rev Mina Smallman has been given the title - which covers Rochford , Basildon , Thurrock and Hadleigh as well as the town itself.

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Related Topix: World News, Essex County, England, Suffolk County, England

www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk | Sidsaucer

Leicestershire facing 'Problems on industrial scale'

Villagers claim their community is going to be overwhelmed and roads brought to a standstill if plans for a giant industrial park are approved.

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