Britain’s oldest employee has told how he single-handedly fought off a gang of muggers.
Buster Martin, 100, a van cleaner for Pimlico Plumbers, was walking to a bus stop in south London when three youths pounced on him from behind.
Despite their best efforts to subdue him, the Second World War veteran launched a counterattack [...]

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BNP leader Nick Griffin is trying to boost his party’s prospects in Wales by standing in May’s Assembly election.
The far-right party said it was fielding candidates in each of the five proportional representation regions. Mr Griffin, who lives in mid Wales, is taking the number two slot on the BNP’s south west Wales regional list.
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A 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a man who abducted her from the street in what police say was a “terrifying ordeal”.
The man stopped and offered the teenager a lift in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, as she walked home early on Sunday morning.
When she refused he dragged her into his car before sexually [...]

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A BRITISH soldier died after sustaining “very serious injuries” in an attack while on patrol in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The soldier was serving with 2nd Battalion The Rifles - formerly 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets - when he came under fire in the Al Maqil district of Basra yesterday morning. [...]

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One in seven of the migrants arriving from eastern Europe will not be working to support themselves, Home Office figures have revealed.
The statistics show that in the final three months of last year 59,970 migrants, accompanied by 9,695 dependants, registered to work in Britain.
They also show that child benefit payments rose dramatically with [...]

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PENDLE Council has agreed a budget which will result in a council tax rise of 4.95% - meaning an increase of 14p a week for Band A properties.
The figures were agreed at a special meeting of the council. Liberal Democrats voted in favour, the sole BNP councillor - Brian Parker - voted against, and the [...]

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Troubled planemaker Airbus has announced it is to cut 10,000 jobs across Europe over the next four years.
France will be worst hit with 4,300 job losses. Germany will see 3,700 jobs go while the UK and Spain will see 1,600 and 400 jobs cut respectively.
Airbus said no compulsory redundancies would be imposed but unions [...]

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Tony Blair will be named in a police file to prosecutors on the cash for peerages affair.
He remains one of four suspects at the heart of Government who are at the centre of the Scotland Yard investigation.
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IT recruitment companies are calling for the Home Office to close a loophole in the work permit system that is allowing a flood of cheaper information technology workers from abroad.
The warning came as new Home Office figures data showed a 32 per cent rise increase in the number of foreign IT staff entering the UK [...]

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Eurotunnel, which runs the undersea rail link between Britain and France, has won a historic arbitration decision against both countries’ governments over the security breach that saw thousands of asylum seekers invade the tunnel crossing the English Channel.
The decision, which heralds the company’s first injection of public money, could be worth millions of pounds in [...]

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NHS bosses sparked a storm of criticism last night after abolishing Easter celebrations to avoid offending other religions.
Health chiefs who scrapped the traditional Christian break claimed recognising the festival would insult Muslims and foreign staff.
They say allowing employees at their “multicultural” hospitals to take time off at Easter could upset ethnic minorities and [...]

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A former UVF member, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1995, has been jailed for the manslaughter of a 93-year-old woman in Kent.
Maidstone Crown Court was told Colin McCurry, 32, attacked Ethel Pym two weeks after being released from jail for drugs and driving offences.
He attacked her in Margate after she got off a [...]

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Road signs have been put up in Polish in Cheshire to stop Polish-speaking drivers getting confused and to help make sure they follow diversions.
Some Polish lorry drivers have not understood diversion signs in the past and have come “into conflict” with road workers, the county council said.
The current roadworks on the A49 start on Cheshire’s [...]

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Police are hunting a teenager who carried out a humiliating sex’ assault on a 26-year-old woman as she walked to a corner shop.
The woman was left frightened and shaken by the thug who was accompanied by another teenager at the time.
The victim was walking alone along Temperance Street, Chorley, at about 7pm on Sunday.
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A children’s nursery has been petrol bombed in a mystery arson attack.
Bosses at Little People Day Nursery, Piccadilly Road, Burnley, said £5,000 worth of damage was caused.
And police and fire chiefs have slammed the callous’ arsonists for the attack.
Police and firefighters were called to the nursery at about 11.15pm on Saturday.
The blaze was contained to [...]

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FIVE Romanians, one of them a 13-year-old girl, were caught stealing clothing worth £1,200 from Marks and Spencer in Blackburn.
The town’s magistrates heard that one of the four women claimed she thought it was a charity shop.
But the chairman said it was clear the women had travelled to Blackburn from Manchester with the intention of [...]

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London: Cherie Blair today faced fresh accusations she was cashing in on her husband’s name after registering a potentially lucrative website. The internet domain name www.cherieblair.org.uk has been reportedly registered by the American socialite Martha Greene on behalf of the prime minister’s wife.
The choice of her married name for the site - she practises as [...]

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Wales has been urged to take “urgent action” to prepare for the impact of coastal erosion and flooding.
The National Trust says three-quarters of the Welsh coastline it owns could be badly affected over the next century.
It owns a sixth of Wales’ coast, or over 143 miles (230km), and its report, Shifting Shores, says policymakers must [...]

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Wales’ first minister has said that climate change would not be “entirely unhelpful” if it brought summer weather similar to California’s or Spain’s.
Opposition politicians called Rhodri Morgan’s remarks a “blunder” and “utterly irresponsible”.
Mr Morgan told assembly members some climate change was unavoidable and would have to be adapted to.
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One of the alleged 21 July terror plotters thought the 9/11 attacks were a “good thing”, a court has heard.
Yassin Omar believed Muslims were right to bomb the US because the West was against Islam, a jury was told.
His brother-in-law, known only as Mr A, told Woolwich Crown Court: “He confirmed that it’s a good [...]

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