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A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.

UKIP has thrown down the gauntlet in Great Yarmouth and vowed to build on its county council triumphs by winning the parliamentary seat there.

A man has died while a boy and another man are fighting for their lives after a light aircraft crashed on the approach to an airport runway.

A man has died and two other people are critically ill after a light aircraft crashed at Caernarfon Airport in Gwynedd, police have confirmed.

An independent Scotland would have a vastly oversized financial sector that would leave it vulnerable to a Cyprus-style banking crisis, Britain's finance ministry says.

Oxford charity Pond Conservation has received initial support for a £965,000 bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

A residential building was completely wrecked and cordoned off with police tape across the front gate this morning.

NOVICE female cyclists who are put off by doing so by groups of men can take part in a series of women-only rides in Winchester .

JUST like everyone else, the owners of a new children's adventure park are hoping for a good summer this year.

AN investigation has been launched after a fire broke out in a Laindon home in the early hours of the morning.

A factory worker accused of murdering his girlfriend after hatching a plot with his jealous ex-lover and her uncle denied killing her yesterday.

Protesters gathered in a fenland town to hear speakers, many carrying placards calling for an end to migration and for Britain to leave the EU.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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