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Extreme walkies: New gadget for pet owners fires tennis balls up to 100ft

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:18
The K-9 Kannon helps kick walkies up a notch by adding real firepower to an amble in the park. And it is also an ideal remedy for the lazy pet owner, as it takes all the effort out of throwing a ball around.

Sande in double win at song awards

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:17
Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sande scoops two prizes at the Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and composing.

Hong Kong official Lai Tung-Kwok tells women: 'Don't drink too much if you want to avoid being raped'

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:10
The remarks were made by Secretary for Security Lai Tung-Kwok who was presenting figures on crime in the city for the first quarter which showed rape cases had risen by 60 per cent.

England make slow progress at Lord's

BBC England - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:00
England labour to 160-4 as New Zealand enjoy the better of an attritional opening day of the first Test at Lord's.

England make slow progress at Lord's

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 17:00
England labour to 160-4 as New Zealand enjoy the better of an attritional opening day of the first Test at Lord's.

Wartime Britain's extraordinary methods devised for sending pigeons to take on Hitler

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:59
A set of valuable 'Dickin' bravery medals awarded to the flock of plucky birds has come to light revealing the ingenious ways the British went about spying on the enemy

Tanya Blackman: Businesswoman fined for parking on 'wobbly' yellow lines that shouldn't have been there

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:59
Tanya Blackman (pictured), 37, came home to find the markings had appeared in her road in Truro, Cornwall, but realised the 'wobbly' lines were a ruse.

Train death girl 'did not look'

BBC England - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:56
A shocked driver saw a teenager "walk out without looking" moments before she was struck by his train, an inquest hears.

Chaos in Turkey as police use tear gas and water cannons to put down rioters protesting over Syria

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:55
Two groups of protesters were marching to Besiktas district near the Dolmabahce Palace on the European side of the city when officers blocked their path.

Police digging in residential garden for remains of a missing Frenchman discover a body as two men are held on suspicion of murder

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:49
The remains found in a back garden in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, are believed to be those of Christophe Borgye, 35, who has not been seen since going missing in 2009.

Stripper who stood in for male model appears in court accused of attacking three women who booed him off stage

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:46
Leon Zbudowskyj, 30, was arrested after violence allegedly broke out at the strip show at the Baltic Inn, near Llanelli, South Wales.

In pictures: Dambusters flypast

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:39
Dambusters bomber in flight for 70th anniversary

Children as young as five watch in horror as pensioner walks into their Paris kindergarten and shoots himself dead

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:36
The horrifying scene took place at the St Pierre La Rochefoucauld School, in one of the most upmarket areas of Paris close to the Eiffel Tower.

MPs challenge Google over UK tax

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:33
MPs challenge Google over reporting of income for UK tax, but the internet giant says there are no transactions executed in Britain.

Hoarder is rescued through the window of her rubbish-filled flat by firefighters in a SEVEN-HOUR operation

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:29
The woman, who has not been named, lived in the flat in Rush Green, Romford, Essex, with her adult son. Both were described as 'vulnerable' by social services.

Stonehenge bones druid loses again

BBC England - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:28
A druid leader who has lost a second legal bid to get human remains reburied at Stonehenge says he will fight on.

Benefit assessments 'are unfair'

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:27
A doctor, who worked for the private company which assesses people for disability benefits, says its methods are "unfair".

Two British pensioners tied up by violent burglars and forced to play Russian Roulette in Costa Brava holiday home

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:23
Three armed raiders subjected the couple, who have not been named, to an hour-long ordeal at their house in the Costa Brava town of Santa Cristina d'Aro on Monday night.

Executed as they waited on a pavement kerb: Terrifying assassination video of three men by 'Islamist rebels' shows new front in Syrian propaganda war

Daily Mail Home - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:22
The footage, filmed in the northern city of Raqqa, purportedly shows Islamist rebels shooting dead government soldiers.

Bercow tweet 'pointed to McAlpine'

BBC News - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 16:19
A tweet by Sally Bercow pointed the "finger of blame" at Tory peer Lord McAlpine, a hearing in a High Court libel action is told.
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