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Customers at John Lewis who got used to the fact they can take back an item for up to 90 days, providing it was unused, have been told the deadline is being cut to 35 days.

Pam Smart, 59, claims British Gas held up the sale of her mother's Gateshead home after she died in November 2006 - alleging they threatened to break in to take meter readings.

Theresa May vowed to reduce the number of cases being pursued by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, which allowed Phil Shiner to 'make a business' out of hounding former troops.

Highways England had planned a 1.8mile tunnel under Stonehenge, costing taxpayers up to £1billion, designed to tackle a bottleneck on the A303 in Wiltshire.

The subject of his address last night was Brexit - something he knows all too much about having gambled his ministerial career on Project Fear warnings during last year's referendum campaign.

National Savings & Investments yesterday announced it is reducing the rates on its range of popular accounts by up to 0.25 percentage points.

Blackpool-based Great Northern Sandwich Co Ltd is recalling six different sandwiches and rolls containing chicken because of a blue discolouration on the meat.

Bernadette McCormack was caught when a drugs package due to be shipped to her Manchester home from Spain was intercepted by customs officers.

Striker Gurdeep Mudhar, 21, was ordered to take the headwear off ahead of Leicester Nirvana's match away at Huntingdon Town in Cambridgeshire in the United Counties Football League.

Logan Bastow, 20, captured the 'surreal' moment at 4am on Sunday following a night out in Newcastle, when a hungry group of revellers were denied entry due to high volume of customers.

Former RAF officer John Clayton, 41, left the service to live his dream of being a mature student studying animal geographies at Cardiff University.

Paul Griew, 68, of Cliff Road in Sidmouth, Devon said he received a call from a neighbour to tell him a cliff fall swept away part of his garden on Tuesday - and he had a lucky escape.

The Pakistan International Airlines plane, on its way from Lahore to Heathrow, was diverted after an anonymous phone call sparked a major security alert on Tuesday afternoon.

Jailed Royal Marine Alexander Blackman was 'suffering from the trauma of war' in Afghanistan when he shot a wounded Taliban fighter dead, an appeal court heard.

Two Afghan interpreters who worked alongside UK troops during the war have been murdered by the Taliban in the past few months, MPs have been told.

Peter Atilla denied attacking the woman on his return from a half-year tour of Afghanistan in 2013. The 46-year-old told jurors he had a 'bad recollection' of the night.

Five hoteliers were arrested yesterday over their alleged involvement in a people-smuggling network that charged illegal immigrants up to £9,000 for a 'guaranteed passage' to Britain.

Officials in Camden, north London, will close the street outside St Joseph's Catholic Primary each morning and afternoon to protect children from pollution and traffic as they come and go from school.

Lord Fowler may have only been Speaker of the House of Lords for five months but has greater composure and gravitas than John Bercow after eight years, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

With his red-eyed rant, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has plunged his high office into controversy and may have damaged a trade deal with the US, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Theresa May will visit China later this year as she continues her efforts to build trade links around the world ahead of Brexit.

Britain is suffering from a sugar addiction that will require a revolution to break, the public health minister warned last night.

The figure charged by Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest could be as much as £180 under a worst case scenario if the 30 days ran across two billing periods.

Mondelez is looking for a chocolate and cocoa beverage taster to work seven and a half hours a week from their Reading campus to help them try their new products before they're launched.

At least three young adults have needed specialist treatment after breaking bones in their backs at one trampolining park alone in recent days in Britain.

Women who work night shifts may find it harder to become pregnant, experts have found. Shift work could be linked to lowered fertility, according to a study led by Harvard Medical School.

A study by the University of Michigan in the US said teenagers who use electronic cigarettes are four times more likely to smoke tobacco, despite UK research calling them 'significantly safer'.

Laura Costello, a mother-of-one from south east London, said she has been left unable to withdraw compensation she fought for from her Barclays account after they placed a block on it.

Tory backbencher Johnny Mercer, who is leading a parliamentary inquiry into Ihat, said he believed a 'rotten core' of civil servants had warped the purpose of the process.

The veteran left-winger is facing another tortuous week as the Theresa May pushes through legislation that will allow her to trigger Article 50.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT -- Lee Michael, 23, was walking home from a friend's house in Manchester city centre on Sunday night when he was followed by two men for five minutes.

The famous fashion designer's company claims it's landlords in Conduit Street, Mayfair, have proposed a 'revised yearly rent of £300,000 per year'.

Crucially, there is little support for a snap referendum held before the Brexit negotiations complete and Britain actually leaves the EU.

Kamran Chaudhary claims his request to fell the trees, both protected by tree preservation orders refused because planners at Burnley Council felt they complemented the area.

Mia Ayliffe-Chung (pictured), 21, was stabbed to death at a hostel in Queensland, Australia, last August. Rosie Ayliffe - Mia's mum - blasted Donald Trump for calling it terrorism.

The gang is accused of stealing 100 high value cars and then selling them on the black market both in the UK and overseas, using 'sophisticated software' to bypass keyless technology.

Darryn Madigan, 38, stabbed John Martin, 41, in the heart with a carving knife in their street in
Kingsbury, north London. Madigan denied murder but was jailed for 16 years at the Old Bailey.

Romanian Alin Apopei, 27, dialled his sister's number and was allegedly recorded on her voicemail telling 25-year-old Denisa Silman 'I'm going to kill you now' during the incident in East London.

Daniel Harris, 33, from Theydon Bois, Essex, was allegedly behind a three-and-a-half year plot to deal the Class A drugs around London on specially adapted mopeds.

Ben Kitto was tearing along the A64 in Yorkshire when his £300 gadget sounded an alarm as it jammed a police speed gun, he was later handed five penalty points but avoided jail.

Lisa Murphy, 39, of Northampton, who aborted his baby, and her colleague Violet Smith, 27, of Berkshire. were handed a 22-month sentence suspended for two years.

A jury at Southwark Crown Court has still not reached a verdict on other charges. Judge Alistair McCreath gave the jury a majority direction.

Conman Stephen Probert, 40, and girlfriend Vicky Banks, 31, from Blackwood in south Wales, were on the run for two years before the television appeal helped police to catch them.

A man was taken ill in Oxford on Tuesday afternoon after handling the poisonous Abrus Precatorius seed. He was taken to hospital where his condition remains unknown.

While the death rate for women has dropped across the South East and East of England, it has gone up sharply in the rest of the country.

Financier Randy Work is appealing the decision of a High Court judge in London to award Mandy Gray (pictured) half of his fortune, despite her having an affair with a physiotherapist.

Hypnotist Steve Miller said health professionals should lead the fight against the flab. He wants overweight NHS staff to carry 'I'm fat, but I'm losing it' badges.

Paramedics rushed to the level crossing near Frampton Mansell in Gloucestershire, at 3pm, however the driver was pronounced dead. Police are now trying to identify the man.

Firefighters spent hours removing bricks with a hand chisel after Mickey the cat got stuck in a tiny hole between two walls at his home in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.

Stephen Allen, who works at the Liverpool hospital, is alleged to have inappropriately examined a child's genitalia, patted a colleague's bottom and made inappropriate comments about patients.

James Tomilson Hill III, president of the Blackstone Alternative Asset Group, had agreed to sell Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (pictured) to the gallery for just over £30million.

Yanis, aged five, was allegedly made to run 'several kilometres' in his underwear in the middle of the night as punishment. He was discovered by a canal near his home in northern France.

Emerging nations will outstrip the world's most powerful economies over the next 30 years according to PricewaterhouseCooper, in a major new study released today.

Iraqi officers fired their guns into the clear Mosul sky as newlyweds Jassem, 20, and Rana, 18, made their way to his family home in the eastern half of the city which has been finally liberated from ISIS.

The 62-year-old faces jail if he is found guilty of a range of crimes including fraud, false accounting and breach of trust. He was indicted for 'financing an illegal campaign'

Andrew Marr (pictured) said his relationship with his wife and fellow journalist Jackie Ashley became 'warmer' following his stroke in 2013 - after she nursed him back to health.