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Nissan is to build its new electric car, the Leaf, in Sunderland, safeguarding hundreds of jobs, the Japanese firm announces.
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Police want to trace a "mystery boyfriend" with whom York chef Claudia Lawrence spent the night two days before she vanished.
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BBC Radio 3 DJ Charlie Gillett, renowned as a champion of world music, has died aged 68 after a long illness, his family confirms.
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Three quarters of England's universities are facing real-term budget cuts - for the first time since Labour came to power.
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US President Barack Obama denies there is a crisis in ties with Israel over its settlement plans, as a war of words continues.
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A damning verdict on the UK's £24bn second-hand car market is published by the fair trading watchdog.
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A total of £780m was spent on reorganising government departments and agencies in four years, a report says.
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A senior HSBC bank clerk from north London who stole £120,000 is found hanged a day after fleeing a sentencing hearing.
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Nearly a quarter of MPs would not enter politics if they were starting a career now, a poll for the BBC suggests.
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Two suspected bank robbers, one of them wearing a St Patrick's Day leprechaun costume, die in a shoot-out with Tennessee police.
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A group of Cornishmen sign a deal with Universal Records after catching the ear of a visiting music mogul.
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John Lloyd resigns as Great Britain's Davis Cup captain in the wake of the humiliating defeat by Lithuania.
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Lionel Messi scores twice as Barcelona sweep aside Stuttgart to reach the last eight of the Champions League.
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England replace fly-half Jonny Wilkinson with Toby Flood, one of six changes for Saturday's final Six Nations game against France.
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A review is pledged into its legality following the deaths of two teenagers. Your views?
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Would you pay $200,000 for a degree?
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One year of searching for Claudia Lawrence
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Helping India's Muslims get into the best schools
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McLaren boss launches new road car company
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'I'm never going back to the job centre'
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Is Charlie Whelan Labour's Lord Ashcroft?
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Police question a man over the death of a human rights campaigner found stabbed at his south London home.
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Police divers attempt to recover a body believed to be inside a stolen van which plunged into a Fife dockyard.
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A report into the Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership finds evidence of alleged financial mismanagement.
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The head of the Catholic church in Ireland apologises for his role in mishandling the case of a serial child abuser.
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Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the cabinet five weeks after assuming executive powers.
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Cuban police detain about 30 of the wives and mothers of political dissidents at a demonstration in the capital, Havana.
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Baroness Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, is to visit the Gaza strip in a rare visit by a senior Western official.
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Thai 'red shirt' opposition demonstrators, albeit in smaller numbers, say they plan to stay in Bangkok indefinitely.
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Germany's chancellor says the eurozone should find a mechanism to exclude a member if necessary amid the crisis over Greece.
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A key al-Qaeda man, wanted for a deadly attack on a CIA base, was killed in a drone strike, US officials believe.
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Support for a planned walk-out by British Airways cabin crew grows, with overseas unions backing the action.
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David Cameron says Gordon Brown "misled" the Iraq inquiry by claiming defence spending had risen each year since 1997.
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Nutrition needs to be made a more important part of the doctor training system, a leading expert says.
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One in seven female students has been the victim of a serious sexual or physical assault, a survey suggests.
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Europe's Planck space telescope pictures the colossal swathes of cold dust that spread through the Milky Way galaxy.
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The UK premiere of The Blind Side is scrapped after its Oscar-winning star Sandra Bullock pulls out of the event, organisers say.
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The mobile network condemns a law firm for sending letters to alleged illegal downloaders, including its own customers.
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