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Portugal passes austerity budget
Fri, 12 Mar 10 23:22:29 GMT Portugal's parliament backs an austerity budget aimed at cutting its deficit to the level permitted for countries using the euro. |
Teenager gets UK Eurovision vote
Fri, 12 Mar 10 23:08:20 GMT A teenager from Essex is chosen to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. |
New BNP rules rejected by court
Fri, 12 Mar 10 23:03:55 GMT The British National Party is forced to rewrite its membership rules again after a court rules them discriminatory. |
Trichet backs new bail-out fund
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:50:18 GMT The head of the European Central Bank gives his tentative support to the idea of a bail-out fund to bolster the eurozone's financial stability. |
List of participating schools
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:48:05 GMT This alphabetical list shows schools that took part in School Report News Day 2010. |
List of participating schools
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:46:57 GMT This alphabetical list shows schools that took part in School Report News Day 2010. |
Weather update
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:41:26 GMT Latest weather forecast from Northern Ireland |
BBC to 'look at' SNP debate ideas
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:35:11 GMT The BBC says it will consider SNP proposals over forthcoming general election TV debates, after talks with Alex Salmond. |
Cameron's wife tells of home life
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:25:04 GMT Samantha Cameron speaks publicly for the first time of her relationship with the Conservative leader. |
Items removed as city alert ends
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:24:53 GMT A security alert in Armagh has ended and a number of items have been removed for examination, the police say. |
Clinton rebukes Israel over homes
Fri, 12 Mar 10 22:10:30 GMT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over new settlements in East Jerusalem. |
Wall Street Market Report
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:58:30 GMT Wall Street Market Report |
Chile puts quake damage at $30bn
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:46:20 GMT The cost of rebuilding Chile after its monster earthquake will be at least $30bn, the country's new president announces. |
'Healer' fined for cancer adverts
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:46:12 GMT A man describing himself as an "international healer" pleads guilty to offences under the Cancer Act. |
Probe into boy's 'firearm' death
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:46:12 GMT Police investigate the death of a 14-year-old boy who is believed to have been shot with a firearm in Surrey. |
Pope's diocese 'rehoused abuser'
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:45:15 GMT The Pope once unwittingly approved housing for a priest accused of child abuse, his former diocese in Germany says. |
Mother 'murdered' after night out
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:41:01 GMT A mother-of-three whose body was found in undergrowth in Dundee after a night out was murdered, police confirm. |
Row over old police station plans
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:36:17 GMT Planners deny claims they did not consult Bodmin town councillors over supermarket plans for the old police station. |
List of School Report schools
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:35:50 GMT This alphabetical list shows schools that took part in School Report News Day 2010. Click on the names of the schools (in blue) to see the news made by each school. |
A303 reopens early after works
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:32:03 GMT Maintenance work on the A303 on the Wiltshire-Somerset-Dorset border is completed nine days ahead of schedule. |
Coroner in nursing homes appeal
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:31:27 GMT A coroner calls for an investigation unit to carry out unannounced inspections at nursing homes after a man's death in Birmingham. |
Jobs at risk at engineering firm
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:15:16 GMT More than 200 jobs are at risk in Lincolnshire at an engineering company which has gone into administration. |
'Last' Hardy player back on stage
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:08:27 GMT One of the last people alive to have known Dorset author Thomas Hardy and perform in his plays is to take to the stage at 104 years old. |
Reward for student missing in US
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:04:17 GMT A university in the US offers a reward for information which could help find a missing foreign exchange student from Guernsey. |
Five charged over alleged bribery
Fri, 12 Mar 10 21:00:47 GMT Five rail contractors appear in court accused of bribing a Network Rail manager who later killed himself with his wife. |
Inquest for elderly crash victim
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:32:11 GMT An inquest is to be held into the death of an 83-year-old man who died in a crash on the A30 in Cornwall. |
Protests over Egypt blogger case
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:25:40 GMT A human rights organisation in Egypt accuses the interior ministry of manipulating the legal system to target a blogger. |
Vauxhall gets UK loans guarantee
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:22:21 GMT The UK announces a 300m-euro (£270m) loan guarantee for Vauxhall and Opel, the European arm of General Motors. |
Plans for new homes win backing
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:17:22 GMT A scheme to build more than 100 new homes in a Northamptonshire town is given the go-ahead by a development corporation. |
Woman stabbed to death in street
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:11:19 GMT A murder investigation is under way after a woman is stabbed in front of residents on a Lancaster street. |
Lib Dems set for election battle
Fri, 12 Mar 10 20:10:02 GMT The Lib Dem leader rallies delegates for the "biggest fight of their political lives" at his party's spring conference. |
Closure risk for teenage shelter
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:59:56 GMT London's only refuge for under-16s who have run away from home says it may have to close soon because of a lack of funds. |
Parents neglected hanged girl, 8
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:58:27 GMT The parents of an eight-year-old girl with learning difficulties found hanged in her "foul and disgusting" bedroom admit neglecting her. |
'Cider' teen inquiry is widened
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:47:00 GMT The police watchdog takes control of inquiry into claims a teenager was given cider by detectives and asked to confess to crimes. |
Copper piping thieves risk death
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:41:53 GMT Thieves break into electricity sub-stations stealing copper piping but putting themselves at risk of electrocution, police say. |
Row over funding for model toads
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:40:20 GMT A row breaks out over funding for model toads which are to be placed around Hull to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of poet Philip Larkin. |
Shrovetide organiser spared jail
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:36:28 GMT A Derbyshire man has been given a two-year suspended sentence after cash was lost from the Shrovetide football match. |
Police seek open prison absconder
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:27:26 GMT A man from County Durham who absconded from an open prison in Derbyshire is being sought by police. |
Hermon 'disappointed' by party
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:12:21 GMT Stephen Walker reports on Lady Sylvia Herman's future as a member of the Ulster Unionist party. |
Police seize drugs in dawn raids
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:12:12 GMT More than £250,000 worth of drugs are seized by police in Fife, following early morning raids on 12 properties in the area. |
Antrim drummer boy wins title
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:07:37 GMT BBC Newsline's North-East reporter, Nicola Weir, reports on the Antrim boy crowned Northern Ireland Musician of the Year. |
Supervisor jailed for pupil sex
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:07:31 GMT The fifth staff member at a Bridlington school to face court over inappropriate sexual conduct is jailed for having under-age sex with a 15-year-old pupil. |
Posters appeal after man killed
Fri, 12 Mar 10 19:06:36 GMT Multi-lingual posters appealing for information about the killing of a Leicester man are put up in part of the city. |
Pensioner hit on head with hammer
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:57:49 GMT A 74-year old woman has been attacked by a man wielding a hammer in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, police say. |
Charges over Parliament protest
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:51:50 GMT A total of 55 people are charged over a climate change demonstration on the roof of the Houses of Parliament. |
Day in pictures
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:50:23 GMT Striking images from around the world on Friday, 12 March. |
Payout over cancer misdiagnosis
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:38:58 GMT A Lincolnshire woman is awarded more than £500,000 damages from the NHS after her cervical cancer was misdiagnosed. |
Fears over Muslim prison 'gangs'
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:34:14 GMT Muslim prisoners are forming gangs and becoming an increasingly powerful force in some UK prisons, former inmates and prison officers say. |
Pope defends celibacy: Your views
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:30:05 GMT BBC readers respond to Pope Benedict XVI's defence of celibacy for Catholic priests, amid a new controversy about child sex abuse in Germany. |
Firm gets carbon capture funding
Fri, 12 Mar 10 18:26:21 GMT Energy firm E.On is awarded a share of a £90m pot to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility designs for Kingsnorth. |