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PM backs powers to stop sexualisation of children as there are calls for pre-watershed crackdown on smut

By Tim ShipmanLast updated at 11:35 PM on 5th June 2011 David Cameron has backed demands to introduce wide-ranging changes to prevent the sexualisation of children.The ...

Coalition justice crisis as 10,000 criminals could see jail terms cut under plans to shorten sentences for guilty pleas

By Tim ShipmanLast updated at 11:16 PM on 5th June 2011 Sentences could be cut to 50%Justice Minister says knife-crime must be punished'Tories can't be ...

First western geisha quits after 'bringing movement into disrepute'

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 11:15 PM on 5th June 2011 It is a notoriously secretive world, shrouded in mystery and renowned for its ancient ...

We're all in this together? William Hague forks out more than £4,000 - for a TWO-DAY break (and that doesn't include spending money)

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:53 PM on 5th June 2011 Foreign Secretary William Hague is under fire after splashing out thousands of pounds on ...

My daughter was so pretty, no one took her depression seriously. Then she hanged herself on a hospital ward

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:53 PM on 5th June 2011 Smiling for the camera, Louise Noon appeared to be a young woman without a ...

Teenager raped as thousands descend on famous fair which featured on My Big Fat Gipsy Wedding

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 8:02 PM on 5th June 2011 Police are investigating after an 18-year-old woman claims she was raped yards from Britain's ...

Baby girl survives 15ft fall from bedroom window landing on concrete pavement below

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 7:57 PM on 5th June 2011 A one-year-old baby girl survived after tumbling 15ft out of a bedroom window and ...

Not so sweet 16: Birthday girl goes into hiding after 15,000 Facebook users said they would attend

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 7:44 PM on 5th June 2011 A German teenager fled from her own birthday party after more than 1,500 guests ...

David Cameron's bother with big brother Alex over legal aid spending cuts

By Black DogLast updated at 7:04 PM on 5th June 2011 Family tension: David Cameron's legal aid spending cuts have caused a clash with barrister brother ...

You want louts like Wayne Bishop punished? You must be a 'nasty extremist' like me

Last updated at 7:02 PM on 5th June 2011 I regret to inform you that you are an extremist, bonkers, a spittle-flecked member of the lunatic fringe. ...

New crackdown on home-grown terror will broaden definition of Islamic 'extremism'

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 7:00 PM on 5th June 2011 Getting tough: Prime Minister David Cameron says extremist group should not be supported Muslim ...

Glastonbury 2011: BBC books 200 rooms in 14 hotels for its festival army

By Chris HastingsLast updated at 6:55 PM on 5th June 2011 Music-lovers famously 'rough it' in tents come mud, rain or shine during the Glastonbury Festival. ...

Alastair Campbell gets into a bust up with singer Tom Parker at charity football match

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 5:45 PM on 5th June 2011 Singer Tom Parker was later carried off the pitch with a broken legIt was ...

Britain's top academics to teach at £18,000 a year private university rival to Oxford and Cambridge

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 4:43 PM on 5th June 2011 A private £18,000-a-year university to rival Oxford and Cambridge is to be launched by ...

Afghanistan: What next in this futile war... The Only Way Is Helmand?

By Sarah OliverLast updated at 1:39 PM on 5th June 2011 This September it will be ten years since 9/11. In the days after the fall ...

BBC pays £40k for Harvard course for executive who must defend vast cuts

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:27 AM on 5th June 2011 Sabbatical: BBC Head of Corporate Communications Ed Williams has been away for two months ...

Ovarian cancer discovery gives hope to women after biggest breakthrough in two decades

By Mail On Sunday ReporterLast updated at 1:44 AM on 5th June 2011 A drug has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough in 20 years of ...

Whitehall farce as police probe chewing gum theft

By Brendan CarlinLast updated at 11:37 PM on 4th June 2011   Whitehall sources say the gum didn't belong to William Hague War was raging in Afghanistan at ...

Sorry James, drink loosens the tongue, it doesn¿t write the script, says TV presenter Ben Douglas after he was called the N-word eight times

By Ben DouglasLast updated at 11:34 PM on 4th June 2011 Vocal: Ben has received plenty of support - and some criticism - after speaking out Last ...

Barrett's oesophagus patients get balloon to deflate the risk of cancer

By Martyn HalleLast updated at 10:11 PM on 4th June 2011 Pioneering: The new treatment for Barrett's oesophagus removes the need for surgery A new procedure ...

'I will never go back to Manchester,' says City's Argentine star Carlos Tevez on £286,000 a week

By Tom WordenLast updated at 10:05 PM on 4th June 2011 They chant his name, cheer his goals and pay him a wage said to be ...

JAMES FORSYTH: David Cameron must show that his word is law...not Ken Clarke's

By James ForsythLast updated at 10:02 PM on 4th June 2011 David Cameron returns from his holiday in Ibiza today with two political priorities. First, he ...

Osama Bin Laden 'replacement' Ilyas Kashmiri killed by US drone missile in Pakistan

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 8:23 PM on 4th June 2011 Ilyas Kashmiri in a July, 2001 file photo. Officials claim he has been killed ...

Meet Buster, the lost dog that made 1,200 mile journey from Colorado to California

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 6:41 PM on 4th June 2011 When Buster the dog disappeared from his home in Colorado, his owner spent ...

Britain and France will share aircraft carrier to combat defence cuts, says admiral

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 1:48 PM on 4th June 2011 They are neighbours and former enemies.But Europe's only nuclear powers - with a centuries-old ...

Live Aid's corrosive legacy, David Cameron and the UK's overseas aid budget

By Ian BirrellLast updated at 1:06 PM on 4th June 2011 Influence: Bob Geldof wanted to feed the world, but decades on we can see Live ...

Who is going to replace Chris Huhne in David Cameron's Cabinet?

By Quentin LettsLast updated at 1:01 PM on 4th June 2011 Thought MPs were on holiday this week, the bitching did not stop. No, siree! The ...

Kate Middleton's childhood home bought by 2 teachers for £485k

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 1:43 AM on 4th June 2011 The house that Kate Middleton called home for 13 years has been snapped up ...

The £100m Reggie Perrin? The dead City tycoon who fled his creditors to Borneo but may still be alive

By Ben LauranceLast updated at 1:39 AM on 4th June 2011 At the height of his City career, he was the most colourful of businessmen. He ...

Britain's Got Talent 2011: Simon Cowell fears backlash after claims that show is fixed

By Sara Nathan and Paul RevoirLast updated at 1:04 AM on 4th June 2011 On the warpath: Simon Cowell, appearing on last night's (Friday) semi-final, has ...

E.coli outbreak hits Britain: 11 UK victims have contagious strain that's killed 18

By Vanessa AllenLast updated at 1:31 AM on 4th June 2011 More than 1,800 ill as outbreak spreads across EUWHO says E.coli bug is 'super-toxic' mutant ...

Radical overhaul planned for John Lewis as it aims to shake off 'fuddy-duddy' image

By Fay SchlesingerLast updated at 1:22 AM on 4th June 2011 For years, it has been a bastion of tradition on the High Street, with a ...

Revealed after 60 years... the real Green Lady whose face is on a million living room walls

By Dan NewlingLast updated at 1:16 AM on 4th June 2011 The flowing black locks are instantly recognisable, as are the  flared nostrils and ruby lips.But ...

SPECIAL REPORT: The corrosive legacy of Live Aid

By Ian BirrellLast updated at 1:04 AM on 4th June 2011 Influence: Bob Geldof wanted to feed the world, but decades on we can see Live ...

QUENTIN LETTS: So who is going to replace Chris Huhne?

By Quentin LettsLast updated at 1:02 AM on 4th June 2011 Thought MPs were on holiday this week, the bitching did not stop. No, siree! The ...

Give Brussels power to veto Britain's tax policies, urges Euro bank chief

By Tim ShipmanLast updated at 12:59 AM on 4th June 2011 Collision course: European Central Bank boss wants to set up a central finance ministry run ...

Chevron refinery blast at Pembroke Dock was 'time-bomb waiting to go off'

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 12:52 AM on 4th June 2011 Four dead, another in serious condition after explosionA former worker at the refinery where ...

Mail WAS right and ofcom was wrong over X Factor 'soft porn'

By Paul RevoirLast updated at 12:47 AM on 4th June 2011 The broadcasting regulator Ofcom caused outrage with its judgment over December's final of The X ...

Asda shopper Thomas Wardler's £10,500 payout after slipping on bunch of GRAPES

By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 12:41 AM on 4th June 2011 A supermarket shopper has secured a £10,500 payout after slipping on a grape in ...

Civil service sick pay: Francis Maude pledges to end 'archaic' benefits system

By Daniel MartinLast updated at 12:30 AM on 4th June 2011 Overhaul: Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude plans to shake up the civil service More than £300million ...

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Nigerian nurses caught sleeping in care home 'after turning off elderly patients' alarms so they wouldn't be disturbed

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Flash: SASCOC President Appointed By Commonwealth Games Federation Executive Board To Chair Development Committee

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Should I Tell My Husband Our Twins Were Adopted And Not His Own?

I wish God will forgive me ,it started 2004 when I got married and after some years we could not conceive. Me and my husband ...

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Lincolnshire's Jade Windley won her first match in slam qualifying to move to within two victories of a place in the Wimbledon main draw.The 23-year-old ...