UK news
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Five other people taken to hospital after Audi smashes through window of cafe in Westerham
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Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo sentenced to death for the murder of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller
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Diane Taylor returns to the Manchester Stock Exchange, where squatters are spending Christmas courtesy of owners Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs
UK politics
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Mark Thompson said it is wrong to force corporation to shoulder cost of ‘social transfer’ to over-75s and that charter renewal talks have been acrimonious
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Political leaders issue their Christmas messages and Jeremy Corbyn promises a New Year one
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GDP estimate for third quarter cut from 0.5% to 0.4% after sharp slowdown in services, meaning UK chancellor is unlikely to hit growth forecasts
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Property guardianship was once a win-win situation: empty buildings secured and bargain rents offered. For many the reality is different: an underclass of renters with limited rights in grim conditions – and landowners milking the system to pay less tax. So has this small housing revolution died?
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George Osborne's economic year ends with a bump
Phillip Inman Economics correspondentWith the ONS cutting the UK growth rate and government borrowing now much higher than forecast the chancellor’s star appears to be waning -
Our readers are generally happy with his job so far, but they have a few suggestions for Corbyn and his advisers to ponder over Christmas
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This disastrous illness barely features in textbooks. So far too many doctors dismiss very real symptoms, and tell sufferers the problem lies with them
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Letters: In one borough where we work the council has agreed to cut its annual spend on single homelessness by 72%
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NHSNHSIt was a Christmas miracle that one mother never claimed her babyThe ambulance crew had reported the home environment was not ideal and baby Eve suffered withdrawal from drugs
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CrimeCrimeMan arrested over death of sex worker in LeedsMurder investigation launched after death of woman who was found unconscious with serious injuries
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Aerial footage shows emergency services at a Costa coffee shop branch in Kent, after a car ploughed into the cafe in market square in Westerham
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A four-year-old girl speaks to a 999 call handler after her heavily pregnant mother fell down the stairs
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Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, whose British Muslim family were banned by the US from flying to Los Angeles to visit Disneyland, describes their ordeal
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The Afghanistan government says reinforcements reached Sangin on Wednesday to help the army hold back a Taliban assault
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Distraught after the death last summer of her much-loved eight-year-old boxer dog Dylan, Laura Jacques and her partner Richard Remde tell how they found a way to keep their pet’s memory alive
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Business owners in the Cumbrian town of Appleby say they didn’t expect another flood on Tuesday just days after they finished cleaning up from Storm Desmond
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People celebrate the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain
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The cheapest flat in London? Clapton 'studio' on sale for £75k