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Council backs 'largest' wind farm

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:44
Highland Council is to raise no objections to plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Activists switch on net 'bat signal'

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:37
Activists switch on an internet signalling system to help co-ordinate protests about a draft law in the US.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Arrest over Mayfair flat murder

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:34
A 36-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a man in Mayfair, central London.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Cannabis-scented cards sent to homes

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:27
Hundreds of people are being sent marijuana-scented scratch and sniff cards to help them recognise the smell of illegal cannabis farms and alert the police.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Peter Shilton admits drink-driving

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:21
Former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton is banned for 20 months after admitting drinking and driving in Essex.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Retiring Owen leaves memories to savour

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:16
Retiring Michael Owen leaves memories to savour
Categories: International News, National / International News

UK's Afghan war effectively over

Tue, 2013-03-19 04:03
UK combat operations are effectively over, Mark Urban hears
Categories: International News, National / International News

Bowie tickets V&As 'fastest-selling'

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:55
The upcoming David Bowie exhibition at London's V&A museum is the fastest-selling in the museum's history.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Day in pictures: 19 March 2013

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:53
Twenty-four hours of news photos: 19 March
Categories: International News, National / International News

Papacy begins with plea for poor

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:51
Pope Francis inaugurates his papacy at a Mass in Rome, calling on global leaders and all people of the world to defend the poor and the weak.
Categories: International News, National / International News

School pupil TB case confirmed

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:48
NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirms a "single isolated case" of tuberculosis in a school pupil from the region.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Papers seek legal advice on watchdog

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:47
National newspapers take "high-level legal advice" on whether to co-operate with a new press watchdog established by royal charter and backed by law.
Categories: International News, National / International News

White Mars rock dazzles scientists

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:47
A rock crushed under the Curiosity Mars rover's wheels has dazzled mission scientists with its brilliant white interior.
Categories: International News, National / International News

'Deterrent' US B-52s fly in S Korea

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:47
The US is flying nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over South Korea, in what it says is a response to escalating North Korean rhetoric.
Categories: International News, National / International News

BBC Worldwide sells Lonely Planet

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:44
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, is to sell travel guide business Lonely Planet to US media company NC2, at a loss of nearly £80m.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Peer's office £70k spend revealed

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:44
Office staff of Lord Hanningfield spent about £70,000 on Essex County Council credit cards in his last two-and-half years there.
Categories: International News, National / International News

AUDIO: Coogan welcomes new press watchdog

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:40
Comedian Steve Coogan has welcomed a deal to create a new press watchdog as a 'solid first step' to 'standing up to the school bullies'.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: How to regulate news-based websites

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:38
Newsnight's David Grossman tries to make sense of how a new press regulation regime will apply to the internet and news-based websites.
Categories: International News, National / International News

What does a pope do?

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:10
What exactly does a pope's job entail?
Categories: International News, National / International News

Damage limitation in Cyprus

Tue, 2013-03-19 03:09
Cyprus deal looks like mistake, says Stephanie Flanders
Categories: International News, National / International News
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