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CONSERVATIVES have hung onto power at Coventry City Council by the narrowest of margins. |
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NEW plans for the £1 billion transformation of Coventry city centre are unveiled today in response to thousands of comments from city people. |
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JAMES Blunt weepy Goodbye My Lover has been named as Coventry and Warwickshire’s favourite funeral song. |
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A 73-YEAR-OLD grandad sparked a massive armed police response after confronting travellers who had encroached on a field next to his land. |
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JOHN Sherry has spread a little love – by hugging people in his native Coventry. |
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LOVESICK soldier James Miller has been banned from every football ground for three years after streaking during a Coventry City match on Valentine’s Day. |
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Low-fare airline Ryanair is considering charging passengers to use the toilets on its planes. |
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Gordon Brown has voiced "anger" over the £693,000-a-year pension awarded to the former boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin. |
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A five-year-old boy has burned out his own bedroom in the hope that his family would move away from a gang that is terrorising them. |
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Councils will have to disclose the pay and perks of their chief executives under new measures designed to crack down on town hall "fat cats". |
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ONE of the largest exhibitions catering for disabled children will be at the Ricoh Arena next month. |
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PARATROOPERS who took to the saddle to remember fallen friend Jeff Doherty have completed a 122-mile cycle from their Essex barracks to his Warwickshire grave. |
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DETECTIVES were last night questioning a lorry driver on suspicion of murder after a 36-year-old man died of stab wounds. |
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SINGERS and comedians will be performing at a social club to raise cash for Coventry’s Myton Hospice Appeal. |
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THE cost of keeping the summer playscheme in Nuneaton and Bedworth has been spelled out to protesting parents. |
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WARWICKSHIRE has been chosen to pioneer a project which will see health and social care providers pool information about patients. |
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POLICE are appealing for help after the body of a man was discovered in a hedge near a Stratford primary school. |
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A COVENTRY woman has been accused of “taking risks” with the life of her baby daughter who died in a house fire after allegedly being left home alone. |
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Iraqi leaders are now "impatient" to run their affairs as conditions in the country improve by the week, David Miliband has said. |
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Wendy Richard is believed to have sent a message of encouragement to fellow cancer sufferer Jade Goody shortly before the actress succumbed to the disease aged 65. |
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Lloyds Banking Group has said it expects to be loss-making this year following its takeover of ailing rival HBOS. |
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Pressure is mounting on the Government to take action over the controversial £693,000-a-year pension of ousted Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin, after he rejected ministers' pleas to give up some of his retirement pay voluntarily. |
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A former soldier who saved a policeman from a gang of football hooligans is due to be sentenced for impersonating a police officer. |
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Lloyds Banking Group will count the cost of its rescue takeover of ailing rival HBOS when it unveils annual losses of up to £10 billion. |
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A 46-year-old man is due to appear in court charged with the murder of a father-of-two and the attempted murder of his 14-year-old son. |
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A British charity working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip did not do enough to check that partner organisations were not promoting terrorism, the Charity Commission has ruled. |
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Police and forensic officers are expected to give evidence in the trial of two former lovers for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. |
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The Government is legally entitled to take court action to recover social security benefits paid "by mistake" to claimants innocent of any wrongdoing, a judge has ruled. |
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Beleaguered HBOS has slumped to annual losses of £10.8 billion and the bank's new owner has warned of a slide into the red this year. |
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A FESTIVAL set-up three decades ago to promote world peace is gearing up for another summer of love in Warwickshire. |
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TWO Champions League tickets, sitting behind Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford, are up for grabs in a fund-raising event to help Nuneaton’s Riding Centre for the Disabled. |
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A FORMER hairdresser who ran over a police support officer before driving at more than 70mph through the streets of Leamington in the middle of the afternoon has been spared a jail sentence. |
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HOUSEHOLDERS in North Warwickshire will pay an extra two per cent in council tax from April. |
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CAPPING junior doctors’ hours is set to cost a city hospital £2.8million, according to new figures. |
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A woman lived the high life funded by £20,000 worth of stolen cheques, a court has heard. |
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Energy supplier Scottish Power has become the latest firm to cut gas and electricity prices. |
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An armed gang have held a family with a young child hostage in a so-called tiger-kidnapping as they launched a multi-million euro robbery at one of the Bank of Ireland's flagship branches. |
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An armed gang has stolen up to £6.2m (7m euro) after kidnapping a Bank of Ireland worker and holding his family hostage. |
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A fit and healthy teenage rugby player died 12 hours after taking treatment for acne, a coroner has said. |
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Italian investigators told the Meredith Kercher murder trial that Amanda Knox did cartwheels in the police station where she was taken for questioning. |
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A NUNEATON firm is defying the economic downturn after securing almost £4 million of new business. |
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THE new heart of Coventry city centre will be showcased at the world’s biggest commercial property show next week. |
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BUSINESS leaders in Coventry are being given an insight on how to survive the recession from the world’s largest chief executive membership organisation. |
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FORMER smokers who have given up are being asked to share their story as part of No Smoking Day. |
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A VIDEO posted on internet site YouTube by West Midlands Police has been attracted more than 9,000 views. |
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The parents of a baby boy endured a "horrendous" 30-minute wait before a car thief who drove off with their son inside their vehicle returned to the scene and dumped him in the street. |
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Veteran Irish rockers U2 mimicked the Beatles by performing an impromptu gig live from the top of a London landmark. |
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Jade Goody has gone into a hospice for the weekend, her spokesman Max Clifford said. |
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Six men and a woman have been arrested by detectives in the hunt for an armed gang who escaped with a 7 million euro (£6.2m) cash haul from the Irish Republic's largest ever bank heist. |
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A man has been blinded after a stranger threw acid in his face following an argument in the street, police have said. |
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A man is being questioned on suspicion of kidnapping and theft after a relieved mother hailed the "miracle" return of her baby son who was in the back seat of a car driven off by a thief. |
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The Premier League has called for tighter laws against IT theft to stop the unauthorised online broadcasting of football matches. |
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A sex offender who went on the run is due to be questioned over the murder of a prostitute. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a showdown with critics of the Government's controversial plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail when he attends a meeting of Labour's national policy forum. |
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Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal closed his award-winning Michelin-starred restaurant following a food poisoning scare. |
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A murder investigation has been launched after the body of man was discovered by walkers at a rural beauty spot. |
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THREE Coventry teenagers are behind bars after bursting into a Bedworth betting shop and robbing the staff at gunpoint before speeding away in a stolen car. |
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The body of a British teacher who vanished in the French Alps more than six months ago has been found. |
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Shops closed down by the recession should be turned into community facilities such as youth clubs and libraries to prevent high streets becoming "ghost towns", the Local Government Association (LGA) has said. |
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The Army's most decorated serving war hero has claimed the Government is failing to care for soldiers with mental trauma caused by combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Public services have been warned by an independent spending watchdog to brace themselves for "substantial" funding cuts after the recession. |
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Jade Goody will spend the weekend in a hospice as she struggles to control the effects of her terminal cancer. |
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Two British tourists have fallen to their deaths in the French Alps, the Foreign Office said. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody remains positive after spending a "far more comfortable night" at a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Parents will "go through hell" next week as they wait to find out if their child has secured a place at the secondary school of their choice, campaigners have warned. |
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Gordon Brown has renewed the pressure on former bank chiefs to give up huge pensions as he demanded a clean-up of the banking system to eradicate "indefensible" practises. |
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Gordon Brown has taken on critics of Government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail - urging them to face facts about the massive problems facing the postal service. |
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Terminally-ill reality television star Jade Goody is feeling a "lot brighter" after being admitted to a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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The Prime Minister has set out a blueprint for the future of the banking system as he renewed pressure on ex-banking chiefs to give up generous pensions or be stripped of them. |
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At least half of the cash stolen in Ireland's largest ever bank robbery - a 7 million euro (£6.2m) 'tiger' kidnap raid - has been recovered. |
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David Cameron has opened his heart publicly for the first time over the sudden death of his son - telling well-wishers the loss of Ivan had left a hole in family life "so big that words can't describe it". |
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At least 100 fire-fighters have been involved in a national training exercise to test their response to a large-scale emergency. |
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Noisy protests failed to persuade Gordon Brown to drop plans to sell off part of Royal Mail as he warned critics there was no other way to secure postal services. |
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TV chef Heston Blumenthal said he was baffled by what may have caused a health scare that forced him to close his award-winning restaurant. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to join fellow EU leaders in Brussels for another emergency summit on the economy amid fears national protectionism will scupper hopes of recovery. |
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The Treasury has been challenged to explain an alleged secret dossier at the heart of the Lloyds takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland. |
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February was "a month of two halves" as Britain was battered by wintry weather followed by a two-week mild spell, meteorologists have said. |
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Terminally-ill reality television star Jade Goody is feeling a "lot brighter" after being admitted to a hospice, her publicist Max Clifford has said. |
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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has issued a stark warning to unions and MPs opposing his Royal Mail sell off plans: back me or put postal services at risk and let the Tories return to power. |
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Parents will be told that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines do not work on children under 12 and can even cause side effects like hallucinations under new advice. |
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The Government will look into whether the use of lotteries to award school places is having a harmful effect on children, it has been reported. |
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A Scottish man is in a coma in hospital after being attacked while on a stag night in New Zealand. |
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A CONTINUOUS water leak which ran through a Coventry street “like a river” lasted four months before the problem was fixed. |
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Minority groups will get extra help in a bid to protect them from the economic downturn, it was reported. |
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Animal rights activists will stage a protest against the use of elephants at the Great British Circus. |
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Mideast envoy Tony Blair was in the Gaza Strip to discuss reconstruction efforts. |
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Ministers faced calls to allow a full judicial inquiry into the role of British intelligence agents over the rendition of terror suspects. |
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The Government is prepared to change the law to strip former banking chief Sir Fred Goodwin of his £650,000-a-year pension, Commons leader Harriet Harman hinted. |
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Animal rights activists have demonstrated outside a circus that has controversially introduced three elephants into its show. |
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Lord Mandelson remains on collision course with unions and Labour MPs after launching a furious attack on opponents of his plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. |
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Sir Fred Goodwin will not get his £650,000-plus pension even if he is legally entitled to it, Commons Leader Harriet Harman vowed in the strongest Government attack yet on the former banking chief. |
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Gordon Brown has insisted the European Union was united in its response to the global economic crisis after joining fellow leaders for an emergency summit in Brussels. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody is facing the prospect of an operation to relieve her "awful pain", her publicist Max Clifford said. |
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Safe and ethically uncontroversial stem cell treatments for a host of diseases were closer to becoming a reality thanks to a major breakthrough by British and Canadian scientists. |
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The Government department responsible for animal welfare is looking at the possibility of regulating the use of wild animals in circuses. |
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Jurors trying a man accused of murdering Harry Potter actor Rob Knox are expected to be sent out to consider their verdicts. |
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Treatment of wounded British troops on the frontline is so good that NHS accident and emergency departments in the UK should learn from it, a report has said. |
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A further 320,000 jobs look set to be culled during the coming three months as companies respond to the recession, it has been warned. |
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Banking giant HSBC is expected to announce a £12 billion rights issue when it reports its annual results. |
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Gordon Brown will fly to the United States on a mission to deliver a "clear message" to Barack Obama from Europe about the need for urgent worldwide action to counter the economic crisis. |
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Holyrood ministers are due to unveil the Scottish Government's plans for tackling the country's £2.25 billion alcohol misuse problems. |
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The number of people planning to buy a car has dipped to a four-year low, it has been revealed. |
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Jessica Rabbit, Betty Boop and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bunny were named as the sexiest cartoon characters. |
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The husband of terminally-ill Jade Goody is due to appear in court accused of assaulting a taxi driver. |
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COVENTRY council taxpayers could be clobbered with a staggering £30 million bill to settle controversial equal pay claims for council workers. |
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SCHOOLS in Warwickshire are expelling more than 100 pupils a year, the Telegraph can reveal. |
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A pensioner will finally receive her Second World War Medal - 66 years after she first risked her life for Britain. |
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Banking giant HSBC has called on shareholders for a record £12.5 billion after profits slid 62% last year. |
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Britain risks becoming a "second division" player in global affairs because the Armed Forces are severely under-funded and over-stretched, according to a new report. |
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Jessica Rabbit, Betty Boop and the Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bunny have been named as the sexiest cartoon characters. |
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Cancer specialists have brought Jade Goody's pain under control and she has been able to have her first "good night's sleep" for several days. |
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New community sentences introduced four years ago are failing to have the intended effect of reducing the prison population, according to a new report. |
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FIVE people were rescued after a severe fire broke out in a row of derelict shops in Coventry city centre last night. |
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AN ADDITIONAL £40 million cash boost will be announced later today for the radical multi-billion pound transformation of Coventry. |
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A ROUTINE eye check-up turned in to a drama for Coventry pensioner Marjorie O’Callaghan. |
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THOUSANDS of Sky Blues fans queued overnight to grab the remaining tickets for Saturday’s big FA Cup game against Chelsea. |
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Mortgage lending dived by more than 60% during January to just one 10th of its level 12 months ago, figures show. |
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The husband of reality television star Jade Goody attacked a taxi driver and threatened to stab him, it has been alleged in court. |
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Gordon Brown has hailed the benefits of working with the US to boost the global economy. |
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Scottish government ministers have announced plans to set a minimum price for alcohol in a bid to stop drink being sold for "pocket money prices". |
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A motorcyclist caught speeding at 122mph with his 14-year-old son on the back has been jailed for six months. |
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A POLICE chief has said he would like to see this year’s Bulldog Bash festival scrapped because of security fears. |
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A DOUBLE glazing sales firm’s leaflet delivered to homes in Coventry was today dismissed as “scaremongering” by police. |
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THE BATTLE against gun crime received a major boost today as a new service providing crucial firearms information was officially opened in the West Midlands by home secretary Jacqui Smith. |
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ANGRY motorist Mark Alford is counting the cost after a huge pothole broke the family car. |
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Gordon Brown has appeared to confirm that the Government is considering whether it would be "justified" to change the law in order to claw back Sir Fred Goodwin's £693,000 pension. |
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Cancer-stricken Jade Goody has left hospital after being admitted for an operation to relieve her pain. |
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PEOPLE in Earlsdon will soon be able to talk to their local councillor via the internet. |
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HUNDREDS are expected to experience a colourful array of performances and workshops on women’s issues and achievements in Coventry this week. |
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THE NUMBER of apprentices in Coventry has more than doubled in four years – although not with the city council. |
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DOG lover Maureen Burns says pet collie Max saved her by detecting she had breast cancer. |
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SPIRITS of a different kind are being served up at a nightclub in Coventry city centre tomorrow night as ghosthunters try to contact the dead. |
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CAR giant Jaguar Land Rover has signed a “very significant” order to supply 13,000 vehicles to China. |
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A CORONER ruled “further consideration” should be given to increasing air support to British soldiers on foot patrol in Afghanistan following an inquest into the death of a Coventry-born solider. |
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THE SECOND plaque on the city’s 2-Tone trail has been revealed at the Binley Oak pub to celebrate the music genre’s 30th birthday. |
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COVENTRY’S Binley Oak pub bounced its way back to 1979 last night to celebrate its 30 year link with 2-Tone. |
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The husband of reality television star Jade Goody threatened to stab a taxi driver who asked for the fare in advance, a court has heard. |
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A spiritualist minister has been jailed for life for murdering his Emmy award-winning TV make-up artist wife and dumping her body in woodland. |
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A CORONER ruled “further consideration” should be given to increasing air support to British soldiers on foot patrol in Afghanistan following an inquest into the death of a Coventry-born solider. |
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A COVENTRY man has been jailed after attempting to smuggle almost 400,000 illegal cigarettes into the country. |
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GOLFER Geoff Webb is lucky to be alive after he “died” four times following a heart attack during a golf competition. |
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Cancer stricken Jade Goody was being operated on to relieve pain in her bowel, her spokesman said. |
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown was flying to America for a meeting with Barack Obama at which he hopes to secure the US President's agreement on international action to tackle the global economic downturn. |
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The Oxford University team which won this year's series of University Challenge has been disqualified after fielding an ineligible contestant, the BBC said. |
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The husband of dying Jade Goody threatened to stab a taxi driver who asked for the fare in advance, a court heard. |
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Banking giant HSBC led the FTSE 100 Index to another 'meltdown Monday' as London's leading shares nose-dived to a six-year low. |
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A council admitted a "serious error of judgment" after a disturbed teenager it placed with a couple sexually abused their children. |
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The Tory team of David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne are now more trusted by voters than the Government to run the economy, according to an opinion poll. |
