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News • British Broadcasting Corporation
A campsite base for anti-badger cull protesters in Somerset could be moved on to land owned by the Crown.
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The first phase of a £1bn project to redevelop Longbridge's MG Rover factory site is unveiled in Birmingham.
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Three remaining Remploy factories in England and Wales are to close putting a total of 196 workers at threat of redundancy.
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Lessons from online learning
28 Aug 2013 4:01:05
Does the growth of online courses threaten the future of colleges?
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EU trade sanctions on the Faroese fishing fleets provoke anger on the islands.
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Commended images from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards
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A "renewed recovery is taking hold" in the UK economy, but its pace will be "measured rather than rapid", says Bank of England governor Mark Carney.
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South African motor industry workers have failed to reach a deal with their bosses at Toyota, Ford and BMW. The BBC's Lerato Mbele says the workers face inflation but "the economy is not growing".
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Online and phone scams rose by £36m in the last financial year, driven in part by a new variation of card fraud, figures show.
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Turkish side Fenerbahce fail in an appeal against their ban from Europe following involvement in domestic match-fixing.
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BBC Breakfast's Dominic Hughes explains how pension annuities can vary by as much as 40% on retirement.
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A diverse range of life forms exists deep below Earth's surface, but they live at an incredibly slow pace.
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A team of researchers claims to have created the world's fastest-spinning man-made object.
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New Zealand has said that Fonterra products at the centre of a global contamination scare did not contain botulism-causing bacteria.
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A thresher shark is photographed leaping out of the water off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
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A new app is aiming to help you make better use of the world's resources by letting you pass on your restaurant "doggy bag" - or uneaten food.
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TV chef and restaurant owner Jamie Oliver says young British people are "wet behind the ears" and European immigrants are "tougher" workers.
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The possibility of military action against Syria sends the price of oil higher and global stocks lower.
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In large groups money increases trust and co-operation between people, but in small groups it makes people less trustworthy, a study shows.
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The proportion of UK households where no adult aged 16 to 64 is in work is at its lowest since comparable records began in 1996, official figures show.
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Global security group G4S announces plans to issue new shares and sell off some divisions as it struggles to cut debt and overcome a series of setbacks.
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One in four of us are at risk of a new type of phone scam that involves the victim being duped into transferring money into an account accessible to a fraudster.
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The Faroe Islands face trade sanctions from Wednesday because of an international dispute over who has the right to fish herring.
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India's rupee sinks by nearly 4% to a new low against the US dollar amid growing concerns about the health of the country's economy.
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Most patients in UK private hospitals are paying more than they should for treatment because of a lack of local competition, an inquiry has found.
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