News in Newcastle-U-Lyme

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  VIDEO: Miller's joy at Orange Prize win

  Debut novelist Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with The Song of Achilles, a story of same-sex romance set in the Greek age of heroes....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  VIDEO: Anglers hook '550lb shark'

  Two anglers claim to have hooked a '550lb' Porbeagle shark off north Cornwall....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Parents charged over fire deaths

  The parents of six children who died in a house fire in Derby are charged with murder....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Eddy Shah faces child sex charges

  The former newspaper proprietor, Eddy Shah, is charged with child sex offences by the Metropolitan Police....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  War veteran carries Olympic torch

  The Olympic torch visits Much Wenlock, Shropshire, whose Games were an Olympic forerunner....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Coulson held in perjury inquiry

  Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson is detained by police investigating allegations of perjury....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Debut novelist wins Orange Prize

  US author Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Song of Achilles....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Care home fire death 'dreadful'

  A 96-year-old woman was unlawfully killed in a care home when her bed was deliberately set alight, a coroner rules....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  VIDEO: New technique to boost lung transplants

  A radical new technique in use in transplant centres across the UK aims to "re-condition" donor lungs...

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Alliance boycott 'was ludicrous'

  First Minister Peter Robinson accuses the Alliance Party of being "belligerent and bellicose" over its decision to pull out of a Stormont group aimed at agreeing a shared future strategy....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Sky blocks access to Pirate Bay

  Sky has become the third internet service provider to prevent its users accessing file sharing site The Pirate Bay....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Independence site makes changes

  The company behind the "Yes Scotland" campaign to win independence has been forced to make changes to its website, just days after being launched....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Injured Roach out of England tour

  West Indies pace bowler Kemar Roach is ruled out of the rest of their England tour with a shin injury....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Fire officers cleared over deaths

  Two senior fire officers are acquitted of the manslaughter of four colleagues who died in a blaze in Warwickshire in 2007....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  New sprinkler law 'despite cost'

  The Welsh government is to press ahead with its policy of fire sprinkers in all new homes from 2013 - despite being told that it is not cost effective....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Should we stop calling people 'overweight'?

  Should we stop calling people 'overweight'?...

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Detective found guilty of rape

  A Nottingham detective is convicted of raping a woman in her home after forcing his way in....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  VIDEO: Assange loses extradition appeal

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his UK Supreme Court fight against extradition to Sweden to face accusations of sex offences....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  VIDEO: ASA flags most complained-about ads

  The UK's advertising watchdog has released a list of the most complained-about ads of all time with some surprising results....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details

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  Professions 'must be more open'

  Professions such as law, journalism and medicine must do more to widen their intake, the deputy prime minister's social mobility adviser says....

  Date: 30th May 2012 Full details