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The public are being consulted over plans for an £85m eco project which developers say will create jobs and boost tourism.

A shoe repair shop on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast is badly damaged in a fire.

Maria Sharapova wins her 16th consecutive match on clay with a 6-4, 6-3 triumph over Li Na to retain Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

David Willey finds some optimism after months of stalemate

The family of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found on the M9 near Grangemouth describe him as a quiet boy who "loved his family deeply".

Labour leader Ed Miliband should promise to outlaw "zero hours contracts," says shadow cabinet minister Andy Burnham.

A murder investigation is launched after the body of a 54-year-old man is found at a flat in Dumfries.

The fugitive owner of a building that collapsed killing hundreds in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka is arrested, as rescuers battle to find more survivors.

Sports presenter Clare Balding is to receive a special award for outstanding achievement in factual presenting at this year's TV Baftas, organisers announce.

Five people are injured when an inflatable slide is blown over at a car boot sale in North Yorkshire.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is flown to hospital in Paris after suffering a mini-stroke but is "progressing well", doctors say.

Motherwell guarantee European football for the 2013/14 season by coming from behind to beat Celtic at Fir Park.

A Tory MP disagrees with a cabinet minister's call for well-off pensioners to return any unwanted benefits, and urges them to give to local charities instead

The bike at the centre of the Downing Street "plebgate row", which cost the then chief whip Andrew Mitchell his job, has gone on sale on eBay.

Chris Froome of Team Sky wins the Tour de Romandie after finishing third in the final stage.

Afghan policewomen face a high risk of sexual assault, and often it takes place in police bathrooms and changing rooms, a human rights group says.

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Wealthy elderly people who do not need benefit payments to help with fuel bills or free travel should voluntarily give the money back, Iain Duncan Smith says.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev "vaguely discussed" jihad during a 2011 phone conversation with his mother, a U.S. official tells the Associated Press. The call, taped by the Russian government, reportedly did not include any mention of a plot in the U.S.

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Ricky Walden holds a 5-3 lead over Robert Milkins in their World Championship second-round match at the Crucible.

The Zambian football fraternity mark the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed its entire national football team.