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No plans to review India aid, says UK

Britain today defended its multi- million pound aid to India, amid demands by ruling Conservative party MPs and others to end it, saying 'now is not the time to quit'.

International aid is among few

Three British policemen sacked every week

At least three police officers in Britain are thrown out of the force every week for misconduct such as sexual assault, discriminatory behaviour and rudeness, official figures from the Home Office say

Man seeks driving licence despite 92 failures!

A man has proved himself to be probably the worst learner driver in Britain by failing in driving theory tests for a staggering 92 times.

The 28-year-old from Leicester city has not even been behind

Man rams tanker into ex-wife's house

An estranged husband in Britain made his wife run for life as he tried to blow up her house by ramming it with a fuel tanker.

Christine Billington, 53, fled in terror as husband Hugh, 51, twice crash

Brit couple hid child’s sex for 5 years to give ‘gender neutral’ upbringing

A couple in Britain have revealed their boy’s sex now, five years after he was born, because they wanted him to grow without the pressure of gender stereotypes.

Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Co

Britain axes 400 Gurkha jobs amid defence cuts

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Around 400 of Britain's Nepalese Gurkha fighters will lose their jobs as part of defence cuts announced on Tuesday, which will see more than 4,000 posts slashed from the armed forces in total.

The Mi

British Muslims on trial for 'execute gays' leaflets

Five Muslim men in Britain have been charged with distributing leaflets calling for gay people to be executed.

The men distributed the leaflets outside a mosque in Derby and through letter-boxes befo

Match-fixing fears cloud Olympics runup

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Britain is worried that the Olympic Games in London this summer will face a massive threat to their credibility from attempted match-fixing and spot-fixing of sporting events by illegal betting syndic

Britain won't negotiate Falklands sovereignty: Cameron

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Britain would 'never' negotiate the sovereignty of the Falklands against its citizens' wishes, Prime Minister David Cameron said in a Christmas message to the islands claimed by Argentina.

"We will a

Britain to axe 700 of military's top brass: Report

The British government will axe more than 700 top-ranking military officials, including rear admirals, major generals and air vice-marshals, in the next three years, a media report said, citing a l

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