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Costs warning over road tax plans

Truckers are planning a fuel price protest drive on the M6

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

Treasury plans to raise around £2 billion in road taxes before 2011 will cost motorists four times more than would be saved by the dropping of the proposed October 2p fuel duty increase, the RAC Foundation has said.

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Noise complaints up since smoke ban

Smoking

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

Noise complaints have soared in some areas as residents protest about smokers congregating in beer gardens and outside pubs.

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UK's Muslims under siege - minister

MP Shahid Malik hits out over teenager's park killing.

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

A minister has warned that many British Muslims feel "like the Jews of Europe".

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Brown 'fall' mirrors Major's - book

Sir John Major's downfall as PM is compared to Gordon Brown

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

The collapse in popularity of Gordon Brown's government mirrors the fall of John Major's administration in the 1990s, according to a new book on the Conservatives' "wilderness years" by a former Tory chairman, Lord (Norman) Fowler.

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Armed forces' IT system over budget

A soldier has been killed in a firefight in Iraq

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

A £7.1 billion programme to equip the armed forces with a new computer system is running 18 months behind schedule and £182 million over budget, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned.

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Spy chief 'in a coma'

The MI5 building in London

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

Britain's top spy is in a coma after collapsing at his home, according to reports.

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MPs braced for expenses backlash

MPs have published amendments to the Government's Counter-Terrorism Bill

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

MPs are facing further outrage over their expenses regime after they rejected calls for the abolition of the "John Lewis list" and independent scrutiny of their claims.

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Murder probe explores burglary link

Murder victims Laurent Bonomo, left, and Gabriel Ferez

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

Detectives investigating the brutal murder of two high-flying French students are exploring the possibility it was linked to an earlier burglary.

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£275-a-head cost of crime

'Money-saving' transport scheme to cost £81m, watchdog warns

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

The cost of tackling recorded crime is £15 billion a year or £275 per person, according to a new report.

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Kinsella stab death: three in court

Ben Kinsella, who died after he was stabbed in Islington

5:23am Friday 4th July 2008

Three teenagers are due to appear in court charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.

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£275-a-head cost of crime

'Money-saving' transport scheme to cost £81m, watchdog warns

Updated 3:55am Friday 4th July 2008

The cost of tackling recorded crime is £15 billion a year or £275 per person, according to a new report.


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It is an absolute disgrace to the town planners who, I believe, are supposed to have qualifications in street and urban management.  − GODFREY PHILPOTTS, Stourport

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Pedal power: Charity cyclist Thomas Briggs.
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Relief at fine appeal victory

AN elderly Stourport man has won an appeal against a parking fine and will be seeking compensation from Wyre Forest District Council for the stress he says it caused him.

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WYRE Forest District Council has come in for stinging criticism from a Kidderminster woman left “gobsmacked” by its refusal to act when bees made her family’s life hell.

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FOR those who dream of releasing equity in their home or owning that perfect holiday getaway, the National Park Home and Leisure Lodge Show, which runs at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire from July 16 to 20, is the place to be this summer.

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