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Bill Gates in £22bn bid to beat Google

Computer giant Microsoft has launched an audacious £22 billion takeover of search engine Yahoo

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Microsoft moves to check upstart rival Chris Blackhurst
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Morgan Stanley is set to scoop one of the biggest fees in Wall Street historyMorgan Stanley in Yahoo bid money

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief' Allan Chappelow A millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home, hears the Old Bailey   More...
67,000 drivers win challenges against unfair parking tickets Parking wardens Almost half of a council's parking fines drivers challenged were cancelled   More...
The academy class with 60 pupils ... and three teachers Big class at Leigh Technology Academy A city academy head has called for pupils to be taught in supersize classes   More...

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Amazing 2012 gravy train

The full scale of the bumper salaries being paid to London 2012 Olympic chiefs has been revealed - with senior executives being paid up to £110,000 each more than previously thought

This rash of carbuncles

Prince Charles has gone to war with Mayor Ken Livingstone over the London skyline, criticising the Mayor's policy of encouraging the building of skyscrapers

Council tax bills double in a decade under Labour

Londoners paid nearly £3billion in council tax last year - more than double a decade ago, figures reveal

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Olympic chiefs create the great wall of Stratford ... with windows

This is London's first true Olympic landmark - an 11-mile perimeter fence which has been erected around the 2012 park


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The Elephant and Castle development

Mayor's megamalls 'killing high streets'

Ken Livingstone has been accused of jeopardising London's high streets by giving the green light to dozens of huge shopping centres
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Crowded train

Commuters on track for 100,000 extra seats

Full details of a plan to ease overcrowding on London's busiest rail routes have been unveiled
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Sponsor a seat for West End restoration drama

The West End's crumbling theatres could be saved by fundraising schemes such as corporate sponsorship and charging to name seats
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Safer cycling

Number of cyclists treated for serious injuries doubles

The number of seriously injured cyclists being treated in London hospitals is soaring, official figures have revealed
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