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Suu Kyi is director of Brighton Festival
The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will be a guest director of this year's Brighton Festival. The Nobel Prize winner will not attend the event in May but organisers said it would celebrate and champion her cause.
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Belfast flight crashes at Cork, killing six
Friday, 11 February 2011
Investigations have begun into an air crash that killed six people and injured six others at Cork airport in southern Ireland yesterday morning.
Town cleared over bomb report
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Part of a town centre was evacuated today after a man brought what was believed to be a Second World War bomb to a police station.
Bomb death 'was not preventable'
Thursday, 10 February 2011
A bomb disposal hero did not have equipment to detect a new Taliban device which killed him in Afghanistan, an inquest heard today.
Tom Hicks in High Court over 'epic Liverpool swindle'
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Former Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks yesterday applied to the High Court to lift orders preventing him from launching a massive damages claim in the US courts over the sale of the club.
Final hours of bomb disposal hero in Afghanistan relived
Thursday, 10 February 2011
A bomb disposal specialist was "under pressure" and told a fellow soldier to "hurry up" the day before he was killed in a blast in Afghanistan, an inquest heard yesterday.
David Beckham rescues stranded motorist
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Paul Long from Hertfordshire was having a rather bad start to the day yesterday, when his Nissan Primera broke down on a roundabout halfway through the school run. A man in a hoodie approached his vehicle to see if he needed help, who turned out to be David Beckham.
Torpedo found in shipping lane
Thursday, 10 February 2011
A 20ft torpedo has been found floating five miles off Beachy Head, near a busy cross-Channel shipping lane. Fisherman Peter Storey was on board his boat when he spotted the torpedo near Eastbourne.
Bomb disposal hero was 'impatient'
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
An inquest begins today into the death of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid of the Royal Logistic Corps.
Video: Near misses at UK's level crossings on CCTV
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Network Rail has released more CCTV images of pedestrians and motorists putting their lives on the line at Britain's level crossings in a bid to raise awareness against it.
More drivers in train near-misses
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
The number of motorists involved in near-misses with trains at level crossings increased by 15% in 2010.
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