Retailers Geared Up For 'Busiest Day'

By Tadhg Enright, Business Correspondent As the last full shopping day before Christmas Eve, today is expected to be the busiest day of the year on high streets and in shopping centres. The British Retail Consortium expects between £4bn and £5bn...

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School Shooting: Tributes To British Victim

The family of a six-year-old British boy killed in the Sandy Hook shootings have paid tribute to their "joyous" son at his funeral. Dylan Hockley was one of 20 children shot dead by gunman Adam Lanza at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut,...

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Women Drivers Face Insurance Premium Rise

By Darren McCaffrey, Sky Reporter Women drivers could see insurance premiums increase by around 25% as new laws come into force that ban setting prices according to gender. Researchers believe it could force nearly a quarter of women drivers to...

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CRB Check Rules To Be Relaxed By Home Office

Millions of employees and volunteers will no longer have to apply for a new criminal records check every time they apply for a job, the Home Office announced today. Individuals will only need to apply once to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)...

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Energy Bill Breakdown Demanded By MPs

Energy firms should be forced to inform every customer what proportion of their bills will contribute to the supplier's profits, MPs are demanding. The cross-party Energy and Climate Change Committee called for householders to be given a breakdown of...

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Man Charged With NI Prison Officer Murder

A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black. Mr Black, 52, was shot as he drove to work on a motorway in Co Armagh on November 1. Dissident republicans claimed responsibility. A spokeswoman for...

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Newsnight Savile Report: Inquiry Findings Due

The findings of an inquiry into Newsnight's shelving of a report into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile are due to be published. Top BBC executives and journalists on the flagship current affairs show have given evidence, some under questioning from a QC,...

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Hillsborough Inquests Set To Be Quashed

By Nick Martin, Sky News Correspondent An application to quash the original Hillsborough inquest verdicts is due to be heard at the High Court today. Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who will put forward the application, said the main basis for...

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Hospital Surgery At Weekends Under NHS Plans

By Becky Johnson, Sky Correspondent Routine operations, scans and consultations could be set to take place on weekends under new proposed changes to the NHS. The plans are part of a raft of measures being discussed by the new NHS Commissioning...

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HMIP Care Report: 'Distressing' Findings

Up to 3,000 vulnerable children are being failed by a care system that has seen sex attackers placed with abuse victims and a third of children moved 100 miles from home, inspectors say. A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) has...

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Bradley Wiggins Is Sports Personality Of Year

Tour de France champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The 32-year-old cyclist was presented with the trophy by the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, who was making her first public appearance...

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Kate In First Public Engagement Since Hospital

Wiggins Sports Personality Of Year Updated: 11:40pm UK, Sunday 16 December 2012 Tour de France champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. The 32-year-old cyclist was presented with the...

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Norovirus: Hospitals Shut Doors To Visitors

Hospitals across the country are closing their doors to visitors because of outbreaks of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. Birmingham City Hospital has asked visitors to stay away after closing four wards while at Maidstone Hospital in Kent three wards...

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Royal Prank Call Nurse's Family 'Shattered'

The children of the nurse found dead days after taking a prank call say they are "shattered" by their loss. Jacintha Saldanha was discovered in a nurses' accommodation block close to King Edward VII's Hospital, London, where the Duchess of Cambridge...

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