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Car industry squares up to economic storm
The global car industry prepares to party the night away at the Paris motor show in an effort to suppress the way most ordinary people are focusing more on their next mortgage payment than on their next car.
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Stolen cars worth £100K recovered
Three stolen cars worth more than £100,000 in total are recovered by police in Bristol.
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Sledgehammer used in armed raid
A gang of armed robbers use a sledgehammer and a knuckle-duster to smash their way into a clearance bargains warehouse.
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Drugs baron jailed for 18 years
A man who led a drug empire that funded a millionaire lifestyle is sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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Snared in a homemade 'NitroNet'
Humans are using too much nitrogen, and leaving so much of it that the natural world is struggling to cope.
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German burns BMW in fuel protest
An unemployed German man sets his car on fire in protest at rising fuel prices, police say.
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Diplomacy across the tennis-table
The BBC's James Reynolds meets the original ping-pong players whose legendary 1971 mended bridges between China and the US.
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Profits seized from drug dealers
Two drug dealers are ordered to hand over profits they made from trafficking cocaine and amphetamine.
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Luxury cars 'avoiding c-charge'
Luxury car owners avoid congestion charge by falsely claiming their vehicles are taxis, a motor group claims.
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New appeal over M5 car shooting
A fresh appeal is made for information to find a BMW which fired two shots at a pursuing police car on the M5.
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Consumer group slates dodgy cars
The best cars on the market are praised and the worst slated by the readers of Which? magazine.
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Europe diary: Your comments
Your comments on Mark Mardell's diary on a call from the European Parliament to ban cars that go more than 100mph.
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Fake students net loan millions
Criminal gangs obtain millions of pounds in student loans by enrolling "ghost students" in universities.
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The art of fooling around
It's 50 years since Panorama pulled off the most celebrated April Fool's spoof and duped Britain - and beyond - about spaghetti crops in Switzerland. So what makes a great April Fool's joke?
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Aberdeen murder victim identified
Dozens of officers continue their inquires after the body of a man was found in the Northfield area.
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Europe diary: Denying war crimes
BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on a German attempt to criminalise Holocaust-denial across Europe.
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Bank robber CCTV image released
A CCTV appeal is made to try to identify a man who tied up two female members of staff during a bank robbery.
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Ad Breakdown's pick of 2006
Indians on a train, builders' bums and a paint explosion - a review of the best and worst adverts of 2006. Advertising has again this year shown its power to inspire and infuriate.
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Timeline: Suffolk killings
The series of events in the police investigation into the deaths of five Ipswich prostitutes.
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BMW's hydrogen car: Beauty or beast?
BBC News drives the world's first series produced car that is powered by zero-emission hydrogen.
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