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The Treasury is locked in a battle with Downing Street over Gordon Brown's demands for a bank-busting tax giveaway, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Inflation figures are today set to fall for the first time in 15 months thanks to easing petrol prices, experts have revealed.
Immigration has swollen the population of Britain by 1.8million since Labour came to power, according to Government statistics.
A tanker carrying up to two million barrels of oil hijacked off the African coast is nearing the coast of Somalia, according to the U.S. Navy.
A pensioner who died after confronting two joggers who threw their bottles of water into his front garden is a former police inspector, it has emerged.
A doctor who missed her train because she was tending to an injured pensioner outside the station was told by staff that her ticket would not be transfered.
A pensioner has launched a High Court battle against a Government-funded organisation which has told him he must allow his cliffside home to fall into the sea.
The woman killed during a high-speed police chase had only just got into the car after accepting a lift home.
A father butchered his two young children, their mother and uncle in a fit of jealous rage before calling 999 and telling police: 'I have murdered my entire family'.
A growing number of public figures are joining a backlash against the BBC licence fee. Opposition to the annual levy has been stoked by the Ross/Brand scandal.
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