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UK & World News: Father's call over friendly fire

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:05:16 GMT

The father of a young soldier who was accidentally shot dead by a comrade while on active service in Afghanistan has called for "lessons to be learned" from the tragedy.

UK & World News: Talks avert Jubilee strike at BBC

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:17 GMT

The threat of a strike by BBC journalists and technicians over the Diamond Jubilee weekend has been removed after talks over pay.

UK & World News: Clegg hits out at class divides

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:16 GMT

The UK is still a "long distance" from becoming a classless society, Nick Clegg has warned.

UK & World News: IMF calls for Plan B on economy

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:15 GMT

The Government should prepare a Plan B, featuring temporary tax cuts and increased spending on infrastructure, to support the UK economy in the case of a collapse in the eurozone or the failure of recovery to take off, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

UK & World News: £350m contracts for new submarines

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:05:19 GMT

The Government has awarded contracts worth £350 million to UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear submarines.

UK & World News: Private rocket heads for spaceport

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:05:18 GMT

A commercial rocket has blasted off with a load of supplies for the International Space Station.

UK & World News: Clegg hits at 'easier sacking' plan

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:05:18 GMT

Nick Clegg has condemned proposals to make it easier for businesses to fire workers, saying he has never supported the scheme.

UK & World News: Pc denies racial abuse after riots

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:05:17 GMT

A Scotland Yard officer has denied racially abusing a suspect after the summer riots.

UK & World News: New plans for anti-social behaviour

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:05:16 GMT

A new community trigger to force police to investigate repeated complaints will make it quicker and easier to stop anti-social behaviour blighting the lives of communities, the Home Secretary has said.

UK & World News: IMF in eurozone 'shock' warning

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:05:15 GMT

An escalation of the eurozone crisis would deliver a "substantial contractionary shock" to the UK economy, setting back progress made towards recovery, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

UK & World News: Inflation falls to 26-month low

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:05:15 GMT

Inflation fell to its lowest level in more than two years last month, official figures showed, as high street discounting took the pressure off household budgets.

UK & World News: M&S targets cut amid profits fall

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:05:15 GMT

Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland slashed his sales targets for the high street retailer as he unveiled its first fall in profits in three years.

UK & World News: Watchdog: Give women over 40 IVF

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:05:16 GMT

Women struggling to have babies should be offered IVF treatment into their 40s, the health watchdog has said.

UK & World News: Ofsted: Maths teaching must improve

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:05:15 GMT

More must be done to help both weaker and stronger pupils in maths, according to a major survey.

UK & World News: Inflation set to hit 20-month low

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:05:15 GMT

Cost of living figures are to provide further evidence that the consumer spending squeeze is loosening its grip as the rate of inflation falls to a 20-month low.

UK & World News: Allies on path to end Afghan war

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:05:14 GMT

World leaders have set the seal on their exit path from the war in Afghanistan, saying they would close the largely-stalemated conflict at the end of 2014 but keep their troops fighting there for two more years.

UK & World News: Six hurt as gas blast destroys home

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:05:14 GMT

A suspected gas explosion has injured six people, including three police officers.

UK & World News: William 'tore up wedding guestlist'

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:33 GMT

The Duke of Cambridge has revealed how he tore up the official guestlist for his wedding on the Queen's advice.

UK & World News: UK voices fears over Yemen massacre

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:31 GMT

Britain has promised £28 million of aid to Yemen but warned that the major terror attack which killed 96 soldiers underlined the risks of an even greater humanitarian crisis.

UK & World News: MPs hit out at nursery top-up fees

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:30 GMT

Some families are being denied access to free nursery education unless they agree to pay compulsory "top-up fees" for extra hours, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

UK & World News: Clegg condemns social mobility myth

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:29 GMT

Inequality in modern Britain is a form of social engineering, and claims that promoting social mobility artificially skews society are nonsense, Nick Clegg is to insist.

UK & World News: Give women over 40 IVF - watchdog

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:28 GMT

Women struggling to have babies should be offered IVF treatment into their 40s, the health watchdog has said.

UK & World News: Asbo replacements 'won't work'

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:05:16 GMT

A new community trigger to force police to investigate any incident of anti-social behaviour reported by at least five people will do little to tackle the problem in the long-term, campaigners have said.

UK & World News: 'Evil' boyfriend guilty of murder

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:05:17 GMT

A violent boyfriend who strangled his aspiring-model girlfriend in a jealous rage has been described as "evil" by the dead teenager's grieving family.

UK & World News: PM reaffirms Afghan pull-out date

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:05:16 GMT

David Cameron has reaffirmed plans to withdraw British troops from Afghanistan amid fresh warnings the country could re-emerge as a terrorist haven once international forces have gone.

UK & World News: Daughter 'murdered out of shame'

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:05:15 GMT

A couple murdered their "westernised" teenage daughter because they believed her conduct was bringing shame on the family, a court has heard.

UK & World News: Man guilty of murdering girlfriend

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:19 GMT

A violent and obsessed boyfriend has been found guilty of murdering his aspiring model girlfriend in a jealous rage.

UK & World News: Police lost vital boxes of evidence

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:19 GMT

A multimillion-pound prosecution after the murder of private detective Daniel Morgan collapsed because police lost four crates of evidence, a review has found.

UK & World News: 'Disgust' at police killer sentence

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:18 GMT

The widow of murdered police officer Constable Stephen Carroll has spoken of her "disgust" at the jail term handed to one of the killer gang.

UK & World News: Leaders 'too close' to Murdoch

Ellesmere Port Pioneer — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:05:17 GMT

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown may have grown "closer than was wise" to Rupert Murdoch, former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson acknowledged, although the former business secretary denied there had been any "Faustian" pact between Labour and the media baron.