A MAJOR police alert was sparked after up to 40 Hungarian and Pakistani yobs brandishing machetes and knives clashed in Ravensthorpe.
Tensions boiled over in the multi-racial community on Tuesday night amid claims that an Asian girl was “touched” by the Hungarians.
The rival gangs clashed in Spen Valley Road and one resident said: “The Hungarians just [...]

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Plans to publish the first daily newspaper in Welsh have been abandoned, it has been announced.
The company behind Y Byd (The World) said a £200,000 annual grant for the next three years was “insufficient”.
Dyddiol Cyf also criticised the assembly government for not meeting a commitment to expand its funding and support for Welsh-language press.
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A Heathrow immigration officer offered a deportee his ‘papers’ in return for the deeply religious Cameroonian man performing oral sex on him, a court heard.
The married family man in his 30s, who sought asylum here claiming to have been persecuted and tortured in Cameroon as a follower of the prophetess Mallah, had had his application [...]

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The UK government is to launch a formal review into whether British astronauts should take part in the international exploration of space.
The review has been prompted by growing fears that the UK might lose out in the next wave of space travel.
International space agencies have set out ambitious plans in a document called the Global [...]

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A record number of rare large blue butterflies were counted at a key breeding site during 2007.
A survey at Collard Hill, Somerset, counted 354 adults during 2007, beating the previous record of 300 in 2003.
Experts believe a warm spring helped the caterpillars at the National Trust-owned site develop quickly before the arrival of a very [...]

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A businessman was jailed indefinitely today after his wife found sickening films of him raping a 12-year-old girl.
Kenneth Creswell had made more than 270 hours of recordings over three years of the horrific abuse of his young victim.
In one film, the 51-year-old predator even held his thumb up and winked at the camera as the [...]

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Senior police officers today said they are struggling to cope with a whopping 800 per cent rise in crimes committed by Romanians in this country.
Top officers spoke to respected force magazine Police Review to express their fears after an unprecedented rise in offences by the east Europeans.
They say the “dramatic increase” is putting a strain [...]

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Rioting youths set fire to cars and trash bins and hurled rocks at police overnight as a spate of vandalism continued in Copenhagen and other Danish cities.
Nine youths were arrested in the capital after a fifth consecutive night of unrest, mostly in immigrant neighborhoods. Six of them would likely be charged with violence for throwing [...]

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Iraq mistakes must not halt global push for “democracy“, says Miliband
David Miliband will attempt to recast British foreign policy in the post-Iraq era tonight, arguing that mistakes there and in Afghanistan should not derail the moral imperative to intervene abroad in the pursuit of spreading democracy.
The Foreign Secretary will cite China’s growing [...]

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