Liverpool Remembers Hillsborough Disaster

By Mike McCarthy, North of England Correspondent The city of Liverpool fell silent today - exactly 25 years to the second when the FA Cup semi-final match was abandoned at Hillsborough stadium Church and town hall bells throughout Merseyside tolled...

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School Places: Parents Warned About 'Crisis'

Families are facing a "growing crisis" when it comes to getting their children into primary schools, the head of a teaching union has said. The warning comes as figures indicate tens of thousands of youngsters have missed out on their first choice of...

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UK Worst Country For 'In Your Face' Sexism

By Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent Britain's "boys' club" culture, with wolf-whistling and Page 3, makes sexism more prevalent than in other countries, a senior UN official has warned. Rashida Manjoo, the special rapporteur on violence...

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Hairdresser's Kim Jong-Un Poster Angers N Korea

Two men claiming to be North Korean officials have confronted a London hairdresser who filled his salon window with a poster of Kim Jong-Un, alongside the words: "Bad Hair Day?" Police told Sky News they had also received a complaint from the North...

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Army Failings Blamed Over Camp Bastion Attack

By Alistair Bunkall, Defence Correspondent British commanders must take some blame for inadequate security at Camp Bastion when it was attacked in 2012, a parliamentary report has concluded. Fifteen Taliban insurgents broke through the perimeter...

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Ed Balls Facing Police Probe Over Car Prang

Ed Balls is facing a police investigation after hitting a car and driving off without reporting it. The shadow chancellor was leaving the Labour rooms in Morley during a constituency visit when he damaged the car. West Yorkshire Police have confirmed...

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Official: Average Earnings Outpace Inflation

Average UK earnings increased by 1.7% in the year to February, above the inflation rate of 1.6%, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it was the first time since spring 2010 that the consumer price index for inflation...

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Coulson Tells Trial He Heard Hacked Voicemail

Former News Of The World editor Andy Coulson has told a jury he heard voicemail messages hacked from David Blunkett's phone. The 46-year-old told the Old Bailey the paper's then-chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, phoned him to say Mr Blunkett, who was...

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Drug Charges For Former Co-op Boss Flowers

Former Co-op Bank boss Paul Flowers has been charged with two counts of possession of a class A drug and one of a class C drug. The former Methodist minister was arrested in Liverpool by West Yorkshire Police officers last year. A police spokesman...

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Tesco Full-Year Profit Slumps 6% To £3.3bn

Tesco has reported a 6% fall in full-year group trading profit of £3.3bn. Stripping out exceptional items incurred in the last year, pre-tax profit was down 6.9% to £3.1bn. The UK's biggest supermarket chain also announced like-for-like sales, excluding...

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