The owner of a Chinese restaurant who was jailed a year ago for money laundering has been imprisoned again.
Kin Kwan Chan, 43, who runs the Happy Gathering in Cowbridge Road East, Canton, Cardiff, repaid only a third of a £1.2m compensation order.
In 2005 Chan and his wife Carina, 33, admitted concealing criminal property and were [...]

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man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Belfast mother-of-one.
Grace Moore, 38, was found dead by her daughter in her flat at Erris Grove in the Suffolk area in November 2006.
Kristoff Emmanuel Alauya, 23, a Nigerian national with an address given as Churchfield in County Carlow denies the murder.
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A TERRIFIED pensioner and her grandson had a lucky escape when a gang of yobs threw a brick and a wrench through their window.
Around 15 youths shouted rascist abuse and attacked 74-year-old Jean Mills’ home in Victoria Walk, Chadderton, after threatening to burn it down.
The ordeal happened when her 13-year-old grandson, who she does not [...]

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The Queen has officially opened Heathrow Airport’s controversial Terminal 5, describing it as “a 21st Century gateway to Britain”.
Hundreds of airport and construction workers attended the opening ceremony.
The £4.3bn terminal, set to begin operating on 27 March, will offer extra passenger capacity but no more flights.
Operator BAA said it would put Heathrow at “the leading [...]

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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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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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The “doom and gloom” being spread about the state of UK physics and the funding of research is unhelpful and paints an inaccurate picture, says Keith Mason.
The chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council claims the likely fallout from its spending settlement has been exaggerated.
The Council, which looks after some of the largest [...]

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A senior British diplomat has admitted that Polish immigration to Britain has spun out of control.
Paul Fox, who is consul general at the British Embassy in Warsaw, said that the influx of Poles in the last three years was “one of the largest immigrations Britain has ever seen, in such a short time”.
He said that [...]

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White people are less likely to feel they can influence decisions on running Britain than other ethnic groups, a government survey suggests.
Some 19% of white people agreed they had a say, compared with 33% of other groups, the Department for Communities and Local Government found.
Black African people were most likely to think they could have [...]

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A girl of 13 has been stabbed in a school playground in a fight with another pupil.
She suffered injuries to her leg and chest after being attacked with a craft knife her assailant had taken from the art department at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Secondary School in Camberwell, London.
A 14-year-old boy, also a pupil [...]

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A SCHOOLGIRL was raped by a gang who poured caustic soda over her body to destroy DNA evidence.
The 16-year-old was left fighting for life with terrible burns from the drain-clearing chemical.
She was under heavy sedation at a specialist burns unit last night as sickened police called the attack by five youths a new low.
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Snow and bitter winds are sweeping across some areas of Britain and the Met Office has issued a weather warning for motorists.
The first falls have already started in Scotland and north east England as strong easterly winds bring temperatures down.
Part of the A1 has been closed because of cars getting stuck in the snow.
The Highways [...]

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The outspoken culture minister, Kim Howells, last night found himself at the centre of a race row after claiming that the time had come to stand up to the “idiots” of rap culture.
Mr Howells, who previously attacked exhibits at the Turner Prize show as “cold, mechanical conceptual bullshit”, launched into an extraordinary attack on black [...]

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A 21-year-old man fears he will be scarred for life after he was allegedly assaulted in a Bristol city centre street.
Jake Peters was left needing 15 stitches to patch up wounds on his face. It is claimed that Mr Peters was set upon by a gang of up to 15 black youths who were [...]

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