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Liberata, the company behind severe delays in students' education maintenance allowances, has lost its contract to Capita.

Al-Qaeda deputy leader calls on Muslims to harm America, describing President-elect Obama as a "house slave".

Lloyds TSB shareholders vote in favour of taking over HBOS as well as taking bail-out money from the government.

John Sergeant has pulled out of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing because winning would have been "a joke too far", he says.

The owners of a Saudi oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are negotiating a possible ransom, the Saudi foreign minister says.

Shannon Matthews' mother said she reported her daughter missing after a plan to go and live with her co-accused went wrong, a court hears.

The trial of three men over the murder of Russian reporter and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya is closed to the public.

Two UK hostages on the Saudi Arabian oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are named, as families call for a safe return.

Net immigration to the UK increased by 46,000 in 2007 to 237,000, according to official statistics.

Police are searching for a suspected murderer who escaped from a south London mental health unit.

US consumer prices dropped by a record 1% in October as fuel costs kept falling for a third month in a row.

The chief officer of West Midlands Fire Service resigns after his arrest in a child pornography inquiry.

Inadequate reviews of child abuse cases in England mean lessons are not being learnt, says Ofsted's annual report.

An inquiry is launched after a fire crew was delayed reaching a blaze in which a pensioner died.

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BNP members say they have received threatening phone calls and e-mails after their details were published on the internet.

Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps or illegally trafficked to the UK is to be outlawed.

The County Down father of a Royal Marine who died in an explosion in Afghanistan says he has forgiven his son's killers.

The owners of a Saudi oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates are negotiating a possible ransom, the Saudi foreign minister says.

A boy of 13 who was a gang member is the youngest person ever found with a gun, silencer and bullets, a court hears.