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Santa punch-up park is closed
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
A Christmas Lapland style attraction dubbed a "glorified car boot sale" by disgruntled visitors has closed.
Teddy bears blast off into space
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Four teddies have taken a giant leap for bear-kind after being blasted to the edge of space by university boffins.
Smith defends police call decision
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended the decision to call in the police to investigate leaks from the Home Office.
Bank cuts interest rates by 1%
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Interest rates stand at their lowest level since 1951 after the Bank of England took more drastic action to prop up the UK economy.
Britons win DNA landmark decision
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Nearly a million innocent people could have their records removed from the national DNA database after a court ruled holding them breached their human rights.
Menezes family in courtroom protest
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes staged a courtroom protest - just minutes before jurors were sent out to consider their verdicts.
Shannon mother guilty of kidnapping
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
The mother of Shannon Matthews has been condemned as "pure evil" and told she faces a substantial jail sentence after being found guilty of kidnapping her own daughter.
More MPs rebel under PM Brown
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Labour MPs rebelled on more occasions during Gordon Brown's first full parliamentary session as Prime Minister than during the whole of Tony Blair's first four-year term in office, a new report has shown.
Soldier shot in head in Iraq
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
A British soldier has died in southern Iraq after suffering a gunshot wound to the head, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
Brown defends mortgage break scheme
8:48pm Thursday 4th December 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the Government's plan to give struggling homeowners a two-year mortgage payment holiday would make people "feel more secure in the downturn".
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