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Public to meet on Olympic missiles

Residents are to meet over plans to position surface-to-air-missiles on flats in Bow during the Olympics

3:38pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

The first public meeting to discuss controversial plans to position surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics is to be held on Thursday.


Two cleared over firefighter deaths

Two firefighters have been cleared of the manslaughter of four of their colleagues who died in a blaze

3:25pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Two firefighters have been cleared of the manslaughter of four of their colleagues who died in a warehouse blaze in 2007.

'Veiled threats' over bid: Cable

Business Secretary Vince Cable arrives to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards

3:18pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Rupert Murdoch's media empire made "veiled threats" to punish the Liberal Democrats if its controversial BSkyB takeover was blocked, Vince Cable has told the Leveson Inquiry.

Six found guilty over summer riot

Canning Circus police station in Nottingham was firebombed during riots in the city last summer

3:16pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Six people have been found guilty of rioting last summer during which a police station was firebombed.

Kylie tells of her sister's hurt

Kylie Minogue says her sister Dannii is 'going through a difficult time'

3:08pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Kylie Minogue has told of the hurt caused to her sister Dannii after Simon Cowell's biography revealed that she had a fling with the TV and music mogul.

Sister: Murder claim not made up

Shafilea Ahmed's decomposing body was found in Cumbria in 2004

1:14pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Shafilea Ahmed's sister has denied that she invented a "wicked" story that the teenager was killed by her parents.

Doctors' day of action on pensions

The British Medical Association said doctors have voted to take industrial action over planned pension changes

12:55pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Doctors are to take industrial action for 24 hours in protest at the Government's controversial pension reforms.

Cable 'under siege' over BSkyB bid

Business Secretary Vince Cable arrives to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards

12:50pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

Business Secretary Vince Cable only told undercover reporters he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch because he felt "under siege" from his media empire and wanted to highlight his independence, he said.

Life term for wife murderer Fraser

Nat Fraser has been found guilty of murdering his estranged wife

12:49pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

A "possessive and controlling" businessman who arranged the murder of his estranged wife after she began divorce proceedings has been jailed for life following a retrial.

Aid worker freed by Sudan gang

British hostage Patrick Noonan has been freed after three months in captivity in Sudan

12:33pm Wednesday 30th May 2012

A British aid worker has been released almost three months after being kidnapped by an armed gang in Sudan.



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