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The Serious Fraud Office is to investigate the collapse of MG Rover, the Midlands carmaker, after a long-running government inquiry concluded there were grounds for a criminal investigation.  
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A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives.  
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Q: What are the things I should be looking for when purchasing a computer monitor?  
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FLORENTINO PEREZ, the big-spending president of Real Madrid, wants the worldâs wealthiest football clubs to create a European Super League, and is ready to take on Uefa if they do not adapt the Champions League to better suit the ambitions of the biggest clubs. 
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Not all the arrangements which awaited him at Celtic met with Tony Mowbrayâs approval. A hectic pre-season, including a gruelling journey to Australia and back for a single match, surely presumed they would win the title and not have Champions League qualifiers to negotiate. There is also the Wembley Cup immediately before the first leg of the first qualifier and a home friendly with Sunderland sandwiched between it and the second leg. Although such games can be lucrative, they will become expensive should they prevent the club from reaching the Champions League group stage and Mowbray would have preferred a less arduous lead-in to his first major test as Celtic manager. 
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APPARENTLY, Newcastle United first learnt that their talented Canadian centre-back David Edgar had joined Burnley when they saw the news reported on television. They then rang the player to find out if it was true. âUm.....yes, really.....sorry, bye....â Edgar replied. I donât suppose they were daft enough to ask him why he had left, although one underestimates the stupidity of the club at oneâs peril. 
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Hereâs a conundrum: many think NestlĂ©, the worldâs biggest food company, is a little dull. It grows a bit every year, rarely makes a false move and prides itself on doing much the same with rigorous efficiency all the time.  
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My father always said he could spot me in any crowd of women wearing burqas because I walk like a penguin. You have no peripheral vision because of the netting in front of your eyes â and itâs hot and suffocating under there.  
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âThis is an important victory for love,â says Katrin Radmacher, the beautiful German heiress who last week made legal history when her prenuptial agreement was recognised at the Court of Appeal in London.  
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Behind a 19th-century facade in Regent Street, London, lies a gleaming office complex that controls the Crown Estate. Its mission: to raise ÂŁ250m a year for the public from the land and property of the monarch by 2012.  
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âThis is an important victory for love,â says Katrin Radmacher, the beautiful German heiress who last week made legal history when her prenuptial agreement was recognised at the Court of Appeal in London.  
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A VET has escaped with a caution after the death of one of his labradors, which was left in a car for six hours on a hot day.  
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As a BBC âliferâ, Alan Yentob has stayed for more than four decades, as first Morecambe and Wise, then Des Lynam and Michael Grade jumped ship for the rewards of the commercial sector.  
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Tomorrow morning Rachel Wardell, a 35-year-old housewife, will step onto a hydraulic lift in Trafalgar Square and will be hoisted onto the empty plinth near Nelsonâs column. There she will stand for an hour begging for funds for the NSPCC.  
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In the baking heat and dust of Afghanistan last week Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe was heading into hostile territory to check on his men engaged in a big operation against the Taliban.  
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Secret âdoomsdayâ plans for 20% cuts in public spending are being prepared by senior civil servants, who fear politicians are failing to confront the scale of the budget black hole.  
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Gordon Brown is to announce a root and branch rethink of Britainâs defence strategy within weeks, throwing the future of the Trident nuclear deterrent into doubt.  
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THE inspiration for Goldfinger, the arch villain created by Ian Fleming to rival James Bond, could have been a German spymaster who plotted to blow up gold reserves at the Bank of England. 
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Ministers have devised plans to get slothful Britons active in time for the 2012 Olympics by exploring disused mines, tight-rope walking and playing underwater hockey. 
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