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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Freezing weather hits parts of UK
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Minister labelled racist after attack on rap ‘idiots’
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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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Hip Hop dance champion attacked by racist thugs
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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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Woman is assaulted inside own car
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A woman was indecently assaulted while getting into her car after shopping.
The incident happened in the Alldays store car park in Belgrave Road, Lightwood, Stoke-on-Trent, about 1520 GMT on Tuesday.
She was getting into her Freelander when an Asian man, aged 65 to 75, opened the driver’s door and assaulted her, Staffordshire Police said.
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Colchester: Woman attacked by gang member
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A teenager was assaulted by one of a gang of seven men after she refused to engage in a sex act.
Police today launched an appeal for witnesses to the attack in Queen Street, Colchester.
Officers called for calm to prevent further violence tonight, with hundreds of revellers expected to hit the pubs from the afternoon to [...]
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Dog attack woman loses left arm
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A kennel worker who was attacked by a Rottweiler dog has had her left arm amputated, and may lose the other one.
The animal turned on Mandy Peynado and sank its teeth into her arms while she was exercising it at Knightwood Kennels in West Grimstead, near Salisbury.
Ms Peynado was airlifted to Salisbury District Hospital where [...]
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Youths hold knife to baby’s neck
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Two youths who may be as young as 12 have held a kitchen knife to the neck of a four-week-old baby while breaking into a flat and stealing cash.
Police said the two brandished kitchen knives at the baby and threatened her mother, aged 25, before they fled with the money.
Officers said a second flat was [...]
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Islamic beheading in UK
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A couple have appeared in court accused of murdering a Chinese student whose headless body was found floating in the River Thames.
The body of Xing Xing Xie, 23, was found in a laundry bag in the Thames at Rotherhithe, south London, in April.
Noor Azura Mohd-Yusoff, 22, of Ealing, west London, and Trach Lon Gian, 26, [...]
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Four jailed for their parts in the Birmingham Lozells race riots
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FOUR men are today starting long jail sentences after taking part in terrifying, racially-motivated mob violence when rioting erupted on the streets of Birmingham.
During the violence in October 2005 in Lozells and Handsworth, one man was murdered, many were attacked and shops were looted.
The outbreak followed unsubstantiated rumours of a gang rape by a group [...]
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Asian man charged with rape of 12 year old
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[There is widespread grooming of white girls in the NW of England by Muslims that media also ignores-ed]
A man has been charged following the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Oldham.
Shakeel Afzal, aged 32 of Foster Street, Oldham was charged with rape.
He appeared at Oldham Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody.
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UK military spacecraft launched
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Britain has launched Skynet 5B - the latest spacecraft in a sophisticated new military communications system.
The satellite rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Kourou spaceport, in French Guiana.
Over the course of the next month, 5B will take up a position over the Indian Ocean and begin handling secure traffic for UK [...]
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Ian Smith 1919 - 2007 RIP
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Eight hurt in snow on road crash
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Eight people were taken to hospital following a motorway crash as snow swept across central England.
Ambulance crews were called to the M42 southbound between junction 10, Tamworth, and junction nine, Sutton Coldfield, during Sunday night.
About 20 vehicles got stuck in snow near Bewdley, Worcs, and 4,000 people were without power as up to four inches [...]
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Fourth Meredith suspect is named
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Police have confirmed the name of a fourth suspect they want to speak to over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.
Officers want to speak to Rudy Herman Guede, 21, originally from Ivory Coast.
Bloody fingerprints found on Miss Kercher’s pillow and on toilet paper in her bathroom are reported to match his.
Two [...]
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Drug-mule mum on ‘Caribbean holiday’ dies after swallowing 34 cocaine packets
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A mother died after packages of cocaine she smuggled into the UK from Trinidad burst in her stomach, a court heard today.
Nicola Last’s family and friends thought she had gone to Spain to celebrate her 40th birthday, but she was part of a drugs gang that conspired to import the drug for sale in the [...]
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Jail terms cut for wage theft pair
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TWO brothers who conspired to plunder the wages of British Army and Navy servicemen while they fought for their country in Iraq have had their jail sentences cut by top judges.
Abiodun Adepoju, of Goffsmill, Bretton, Peterborough, used false documents to open a string of accounts with his half-brother Omowale (21) and illegal immigrant Abdul Malik, [...]
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Schoolchildren tested in TB scare
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Dozens of schoolchildren in Wiltshire are being tested for Tuberculosis after a member of staff was diagnosed with the contagious infection.
Up to 76 pupils at the Harnham Junior School in Salisbury are now being offered screening for the condition.
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WALES: Sikh pupil’s exclusion sparks row
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A leading member of the Sikh community and a south Wales AM have spoken in support of a 14-year-old excluded from school for wearing a religious bangle.
Sarika Singh has been temporarily excluded after Aberdare Girls School said her bangle or Kara broke its code of conduct, aimed at ensuring equality.
The secretary of Sikh Federation UK [...]
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Britons ‘lose out on jobs and housing’: Race chief inquiry into claims of bias against whites
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[I have been saying this for years-ed]
The row over immigration reignited today amid claims that white Britons are losing out to foreigners on jobs and homes.
Equalities supremo Trevor Phillips announced he is launching a full-scale investigation into allegations that migrants are allowed to jump the housing queue.
The bombshell news broke on the same day as [...]
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‘Minicab’ rapist tricked victim
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A WOMAN trying to get home after a row with her boyfriend was raped by a man who offered her a lift.
Claiming to be a minicab driver, Mahad Ahmed, 40, of Oxleas, Winsor Park Estate, Beckton, picked up his victim at 1am as she waited at a bus stop.
On the journey Ahmed stopped the car [...]
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