There were reportedly concerns about the behaviour of a British man in the months before he was arrested for allegedly trying to cross illegally into Syria.
Waheed Ahmed, 21, was among nine members of the same family who were detained in Turkey on Wednesday and are set to be deported.
British police have been searching the home of his father Shakil Ahmed, who is a Labour councillor in Rochdale.
They have also searched four other properties - two in Heywood and two in Rochdale. Two of the searches are ongoing.
Mohammed Shafiq, who is a friend of Shakil Ahmed, said of Waheed: "There were concerns in the last six months to a year about a change in his behaviour.
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"And a change in his attitude towards various different issues."
He also told Sky News: "That was causing concern for people in the community and his family."
Waheed Ahmed was with his aunt, two cousins and the wife of one of his cousins when they were stopped by authorities in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. They had also taken four children with them.
The 21-year-old is due to be sent back to the UK along with Zareeda Bi, 47, Maboob Yasin, 22, Habib Yasin, 24, and Samia Bi, 22, and the youngsters aged one, three, eight and 11.
They are understood to have been kept in a police station in Turkey on Thursday night.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: "It remains the case that we are not aware of any time scale for the potential return of the nine individuals."
Most of the group flew from Manchester on 27 March and Waheed Ahmed joined them three days later on a flight from Birmingham.
Shakil Ahmed, who represents the Kingsway ward on Rochdale Borough Council, said the group were on holiday but he had thought his son was on a work placement in Birmingham.
"My son is a good Muslim and his loyalties belong to Britain, so I don't understand what he's doing there.
"If I thought for a second that he was in danger of being radicalised, I would have reported him to the authorities.
"I just want to speak to my son and get him home as soon as possible so I can find out what's going on."
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Usman Nawaz, who went to the same school as Waheed Ahmed in Rochdale, said mosques and his school in Rochdale were not to blame for Waheed's actions.
The 25-year-old, a former member of the Young Muslims' Advisory Group and mentor to young Muslims through Rochdale's Youth Council, said: "For some it's an adventure but for some they think that they are doing something noble.
"The ideology which is peddled, this very hardcore understanding of the faith, one which is state sponsored by Saudi Arabia, that has to be challenged and it's quite difficult to challenge it in a coherent manner when the Saudi ideology has the backing of petrodollars."
A friend of Waheed Ahmed believes he could have travelled for humanitarian reasons.
Bassat Yussu said: "We used to talk about Palestine and Syria and what was going on around there and sometimes he used to collect charity money."
Neighbour Mohammed Sharif said he "never had suspicion about the family" and remembered Waheed as a "nice quiet young lad" who would "speak to you with respect".
Officers are trying to establish their reason for travelling to the Syrian border.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "What is obviously concerning is why a family were seemingly attempting to take very young and vulnerable children into a war zone.
"Such a volatile and dangerous environment is no place for them whatsoever."
The Metropolitan Police believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the conflict began, while around half are thought to have returned to the UK.
The UK will get its first three proton beam therapy centres from next year in what experts say is a significant breakthrough for cancer treatment.
The first centre will be opened in Cardiff by local company Proton Partners International Ltd, with two others to follow in London and Northumberland by 2017.
The centres will be available for NHS patients from England, Scotland and Wales, as well as self-paying patients and those with private medical insurance.
Currently patients must head overseas for this type of treatment.
Life sciences entrepreneur Professor Sir Chris Evans says there are more than 150,000 people treated for cancer each year and that demand for treatment is growing.
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Health insurer Bupa has estimated that by 2021 the UK's ageing population is likely to see a 20% rise in the number of new cancers and a 62% rise in the cost of treatment - to £15.3bn.
Proton beam therapy is a targeted type of radiotherapy that can treat hard-to-reach cancers, such as spinal tumours, with a lower risk of damaging the surrounding tissue or causing side effects.
The announcement comes just weeks after the parents of brain cancer survivor Ashya King told how the five-year-old made a "miracle" recovery after receiving proton beam therapy in Prague in the Czech Republic.
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The treatment was not available for him on the NHS, although the health service later agreed to fund it.
Professor Gordon McVie, senior consultant at the European Institute of Oncology, who has been appointed chairman of Proton Partners International, says the development is "exciting and important".
He added: "As things stand, patients who can benefit from this treatment have to go abroad for treatment, often at great expense to the NHS.
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"The creation of these centres will go a long way to ensuring the very best of treatment is available in the UK."
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon wants an inquiry into how a controversial memo about a meeting with the French ambassador was leaked.
A Daily Telegraph report claims a leaked UK government memorandum - likely from the Foreign Office - sets out an account of a meeting between Ms Sturgeon and the French ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann.
It claims she told the ambassador she would rather see David Cameron than Ed Miliband as PM after the election, a claim she strongly denies.
She has now asked for Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood to investigate how the memo was released.
She said: "The bigger question and one I am raising with the head of the civil service is who wrote this memo since the Foreign Office seem to be denying all knowledge of it.
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"How did it come to contain such an inaccuracy and how did it get into the hands of the Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph?"
The memo was written by a British civil servant after a conversation with France's consul general in Edinburgh, Pierre-Alain Coffinier, who was present.
But speaking to Sky News on Saturday, Mr Coffinier said that no preference for Prime Minister was discussed at the meeting in February.
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"At no stage did anyone comment on their preference regarding the elections."
The memo reportedly said: "Discussion appears to have focused mainly on the political situation, with the (First Minister) stating that she wouldn't want a formal coalition with Labour; that the SNP would almost certainly have a large number of seats ... that she'd rather see David Cameron remain as PM."
It added that Ms Sturgeon said the Labour leader was not "prime minister material".
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The final line of the memo, however, read: "I have to admit that I'm not sure that the FM's tongue would be quite so loose on that kind of thing in a meeting like that, so it might well be a case of something being lost in translation."
Mr Miliband said: "I think these are damning revelations.
"What it shows is that while in public the SNP are saying they don't want to see a Conservative government in private they're actually saying they do want a Conservative government.
"It shows that the answer at this General Election is that if you want the Conservatives out the only answer is to vote Labour for a Labour government."
Sky's political correspondent Anushka Asthana said: "The fact that Nicola Sturgeon has 'categorically' denied that she expressed a prime ministerial preference during a private conversation with the French ambassador will do little to stem the political fallout from this story.
"After all, the very suggestion of a conversation could be political gold-dust for Labour, whose national electoral hopes hinge on how well the SNP perform in Scotland."
Meanwhile, campaigning continues into Easter with Labour unveiling a plan to build 125,000 homes by creating a £5bn housebuilding fund.
The Tories, meanwhile, are unveiling a pledge to force pornography websites to use effective age-verification tools to keep out under-18s.
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Ms Sturgeon is due to join the annual Scrap Trident group march in Glasgow, only a short distance from the Faslane home of nuclear-armed submarines.
The latest Survation/Mirror poll puts Mr Miliband ahead of Mr Cameron, with 33% and 31% of the vote respectively.
UKIP polled at 18%, the Liberal Democrats 9%, the SNP 5% and Greens 3%.
These results are markedly different from a YouGov/The Sun poll which was published on Thursday night.
It suggested that the Conservative Party had hit a three-year high - with 37% of those questioned stating they would vote Tory if the General Election was tomorrow.
Labour was on 35%, the Lib Dems on 7%, UKIP on 12% and the Greens on 5%.
Written By Unknown on Jumat, 03 April 2015 | 22.11
Families have been warned that using bleach to clean the home could be to blame for higher rates of infection in children.
A study led by the University of Leuven - KU Leuven - in Belgium found the chance of flu was 20% higher and recurrent tonsillitis 35% greater amongst children whose parents used bleach to clean their home.
Also, the risk of recurrent infection was 18% higher amongst children of regular bleach users.
The results were calculated by looking at the effects of bleach in the homes of more than 9,000 children aged between six and 12 in the Netherlands, Finland and Spain.
Parents were asked to complete a questionnaire on their bleach use and the number of times their children had tonsillitis, sinusitis, flu, bronchitis, otitis (ear infection) and pneumonia in the previous 12 months.
The results found that use of bleach was common in Spain - 72% of respondents - but rare in Finland where only 7% of people used it.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, also noted that all Spanish schools were cleaned with bleach, while Finnish schools were not.
Researchers said after taking into account a number of influential factors, such as passive smoking at home, the presence of household mould, and whether bleach was used in the children's schools, the prevalence of infections was higher in children of bleach users.
The study said: "Domestic cleaning involves exposure to a large variety of irritants and sensitising chemicals that are used following certain cleaning patterns.
"Unfortunately, we did not have information on the use of other cleaning products and we cannot exclude the possibility that the observed results are due to the use of other irritants or to their combinations."
Researchers said "the high frequency of use of disinfecting cleaning products - caused by erroneous belief, reinforced by advertising, that our homes should be free of microbes - makes the modest effects reported in our study of public health concern".
Nicola Sturgeon denied handing the keys to 10 Downing Street to David Cameron with her commanding performance during last night's leaders' debate.
The Scottish First Minister said that if the election delivered a landslide for the SNP and Labour made a deal with the nationalists then together they actually lock the Tories out of number 10.
Ms Sturgeon is widely considered the winner of the high-stakes, seven-way showdown, although snap polls gave no clear victor, particularly in Scotland where she is being praised for delivering a "Sturgeon surge".
Among her champions this morning was Tory Chief Whip Michael Gove who said she had given an "impressive" performance.
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Labour accused the Conservatives of "bigging up" Ms Sturgeon in an attempt to return Mr Cameron to power.
The SNP is forecast to deliver a significant blow to Labour in Scotland, all but wiping out the number of the party's MPs.
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This could be crucial at a time when neither Labour nor the Conservatives are expected to win a majority on 7 May.
However, Ms Sturgeon said the SNP was not planning on delivering a victory to Mr Cameron and added: "If Labour and the SNP combined to have more seats than the Tories we can lock the Tories out of government.
"But crucially if SNP is a big force in Westminster we can make sure a Labour government does not sell out on its values like the last Labour government did."
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Speaking in Manchester, where he was meeting people who had benefited from the Government's Help To Buy scheme, Mr Cameron issued a warning about a coalition including the small parties.
He said: "My impression of the debate is very much that there is one person, one leader, one party that is offering the competence of a long-term plan that is working and then there is a kind of coalition of chaos out there that wants more debt, spending and taxes."
His comments echoed those made by Mr Gove earlier in the day. He said: "If the country chooses to, it could vote for a patchwork coalition ... I prefer to say a lethal cocktail of different parties which all have different objectives - there would be an automatic instability."
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Speaking shortly after the Labour campaign bus arrived in Blackpool, Ed Miliband said his position on ruling out a formal coalition with the SNP had not changed as a result of Ms Sturgeon's success in the debate.
Labour's Caroline Flint said: "There is not going to be a coalition with the SNP and there are not going to be any SNP ministers, I can assure you that and Alex Salmond certainly won't be Deputy Prime Minister.
"I think there is something pretty shallow about the processing discussions about coalitions and deals. You know we hear George Osborne and Michael Gove bigging up the SNP because they know that every vote for the SNP is more likely to secure David Cameron the keys to number 10 for another five years."
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The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the debate had made it increasingly clear that another coalition would be the outcome of the vote in May.
He said: "The fact that there were seven there just shows that politics is becoming more fragmented. The only people who don't realise that are Ed Miliband and David Cameron - they think it's still a game of pass-the-parcel between the two old parties."
A young campaigner who fought to raise awareness of progeria, which causes sufferers to age eight times faster, has died at the age of 17.
Hayley Okines, from Bexhill in East Sussex, became known as the "100-year-old teenager" and won thousands of hearts as she and her family raised funds for her medical treatment and to raise awareness of her condition.
She also published an autobiography Old Before My Time at the age of 14.
Her mother Kerry announced the death on Thursday on her Facebook page, writing: "My baby has gone somewhere better.
"She took her last breath in my arms at 9.39pm."
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome causes accelerated ageing and people with the condition also suffer heart problems, lack of growth and loss of body fat and hair.
The Progeria Foundation also posted a tribute on its Facebook page: "The entire Progeria family mourns together with many as we say goodbye to Hayley Okines, our smart, beautiful and spirited English rose, who passed away today at age 17.
"Gone from our sight but never our memories, gone from our touch but never our hearts. We will miss you."
Hundreds of others have taken to Hayley's Facebook page to leave their tributes.
The nine Britons stopped by Turkish police for allegedly trying to cross the border into Syria illegally will be deported tomorrow.
Officers in the UK are searching the home of Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed whose son is among the group.
Waheed Ahmed arrived in Turkey on 30 March, three days after the rest of them.
The 21-year-old will be sent back to the UK along with four other adults and four children also stopped in Turkey's Hatay province on Wednesday.
Shakil Ahmed, who represents the Kingsway ward on Rochdale Borough Council, said the group were on holiday but he had thought his son was on a work placement in Birmingham.
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"My son is a good Muslim and his loyalties belong to Britain, so I don't understand what he's doing there. If I thought for a second that he was in danger of being radicalised, I would have reported him to the authorities.
"I just want to speak to my son and get him home as soon as possible so I can find out what's going on."
Neighbour Mohammed Sharif said he "never had suspicion about the family" and remembered Waheed as a "nice quiet young lad" who would "speak to you with respect".
Greater Manchester Police says the group includes two women aged 47 and 22, three men aged 24, 22 and 21, along with children aged one, three, eight and 11.
Officers are trying to establish their reason for travelling to the Syrian border.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "What is obviously concerning is why a family were seemingly attempting to take very young and vulnerable children into a war zone.
Video:Manchester Police Statement
"Such a volatile and dangerous environment is no place for them whatsoever."
The group is understood to have been kept in a police station in Turkey on Thursday night and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was unable to confirm when they were expected back in the UK.
Usman Nawaz, who went to the same school as Waheed Ahmed in Rochdale, said mosques and his school in Rochdale were not to blame for Waheed's actions.
The 25-year-old, a former member of the Young Muslims' Advisory Group and mentor to young Muslims through Rochdale's Youth Council, said: "For some it's an adventure but for some they think that they are doing something noble.
"The ideology which is peddled, this very hardcore understanding of the faith, one which is state sponsored by Saudi Arabia, that has to be challenged and it's quite difficult to challenge it in a coherent manner when the Saudi ideology has the backing of petrodollars."
The Metropolitan Police believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the conflict began, while around half are thought to have returned to the UK.
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The family of a three-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a runaway trailer have criticised a judge after a delivery driver escaped a jail term.
Freddie Hussey suffered fatal injuries when he was pinned against a wall as he walked home from buying a birthday card for his grandfather with his mother Donna.
Driver Tony Davies, 38, had failed to ensure a 1.7-ton trailer was correctly attached to his Land Rover Defender.
He was sentenced to 200 hours' community service at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday and was banned from driving for six months.
In court, Freddie's father Scott said Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC's sentence was a "f****** joke" and called Davies a "f****** t***".
Freddie Hussey was walking home from the shops with his mother Donna
Donna Hussey shouted: "I hope you rot in hell. You are scum. He was a beautiful little boy."
The court heard the trailer came loose from Davies' Land Rover on Parson Street in Bedminster on 27 January last year.
Prosecutor Anna Vigars said Freddie had been walking behind his mother, playing in puddles, when the accident happened.
The trailer, a portable cabin, detached from the vehicle, travelled up to 12 car lengths before mounting a pavement and crushing the toddler against a wall and a telegraph pole.
A passing lorry driver tried to resuscitate Freddie, but he died shortly afterwards at Bristol Children's Hospital.
The court heard the handbrake lever on the trailer was in the wrong place, which caused it to come loose.
At a previous hearing, Davies, of Hallen, Bristol, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. He denied the more serious charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Adam Vaitilingam QC, defending, said the accident had left his client "a shell".
He said: "The consequence of the accident is too awful to contemplate but his culpability is at the lowest level it could be.
"He has accepted responsibility for the death of this young child. It is not something he will be forgiven for but he will not forgive himself either."
Passing sentence, Judge Mercer said: "The grief of his parents and those that knew and loved him, the loss to them is beyond words.
"The terrible consequences of your carelessness are a factor to be taken into account in determining the sentence."
Davies, who has qualified as a HGV driver since Freddie's death, did not comment as he left court.
His solicitor Tim Hayden said afterwards: "Mr Davies doesn't regard this outcome in any way something to be celebrated and his feelings all the way through have been for the family and the loss they have suffered.
"Ever since this accident, he has effectively been withdrawn and the shell of a man he once was previously and that will continue because the circumstances of this child's death have not altered as a result of the hearing that has taken place today."
Speaking after the sentencing, Freddie's parents said in a statement: "Our son has been taken away from us, and we will never have the opportunity to see Freddie grow and have his own life.
"No sentence will ever reflect the enormous loss and devastation we as a family have suffered. We have to find a way to live with this, but we're relieved the court process is now over."
The number of teachers being abused online by parents and children has risen sharply.
Some 40% of teachers say they have been attacked by parents on social media in the past year - up from 27% from the 2014 figures.
School staff are facing sexist, racist and homophobic comments, as well as offensive remarks about their appearance and competence, according to the NASUWT union.
The number of teachers who have suffered abuse from either pupils or teachers in the past 12 months is 60% - a huge rise from 21% last year.
One post about a teacher read: "I hope she gets cancer."
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A heavily pregnant teacher was called an "ugly f*****g b***h", while others have had photos posted alongside words such as "b***h" and "t**t".
One teacher said they were harassed for nine months by children who sent sexually explicit messages and set up a fake social media account in their name.
In another example, a teacher was described as a "b***h" for making her child do PE without her inhaler.
The most common age of pupils dishing out abuse was 14-16 (57%). Five percent were aged 7-11.
NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said: "It is deeply worrying to see that the abuse of teachers has risen by such a huge margin this year.
"Equally concerning is that it appears that more parents are the perpetrators of the abuse.
"The vile, insulting and personal comments are taking their toll on teachers' health and wellbeing and undermining their confidence to do their job.
"Many teachers tell us that they suspect they are being abused online but dare not look, for fear they could never walk into their school again to have to face their abusers.
"While there has been some improvement in action taken on reported abuse, there are still too many cases where no appropriate action is taken and teachers are being left devastated, humiliated and traumatised."
A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a five-month-old girl in Perry Barr, Birmingham.
West Midlands Police said officers were called to an address in Perry Barr shortly before 1am on Wednesday after reports of a baby struggling to breathe.
The girl was taken to hospital but died that afternoon.
Police say her death is being treated as suspicious. A post-mortem examination was due to be carried out.
A man aged 25 and a 22-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of the girl's murder.
The man who mugged disabled pensioner Alan Barnes, sparking a charity campaign that raised £330,000, has been jailed.
Richard Gatiss was sentenced to four years in prison by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court.
The 25-year-old drug addict pushed Mr Barnes over as he put his bins out in Gateshead, breaking his collar bone.
He was trying to get money to buy legal highs when he carried out the mugging, but ran off empty handed.
Gatiss has been jailed for four years for mugging Mr Barnes
Judge Paul Sloan QC said: "I have no doubt he was picked on by you because of his vulnerability.
"It was on any view a despicable offence."
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Gatiss, from Gateshead, was caught after analysis of DNA evidence from the pocket of Mr Barnes's jacket.
Mr Barnes was too scared to return to his home in Low Fell, Gateshead, and has said he will buy a new house with the money raised online.
The fund was started by beautician Katie Cutler, 21, who initially set a target of £500 to buy new carpets and curtains.
Mr Barnes' disabilities were caused when his mother contracted German measles while she was pregnant.
After he was arrested, Gatiss denied being involved in the mugging, saying he had been brought up better than that, but then later claimed a knifeman made him do it.
When he was challenged, he confessed. Prosecutor Nick Dry said: "He said he wanted money to buy legal highs to which he had become addicted, then breaking down, he was distressed at what he had done."
Jamie Adams, defending, said that Gatiss had recently been diagnosed with epilepsy and that his medication when mixed with legal highs would have a "deleterious effect".
He added that publicity surrounding the case had made Gatiss "the subject of some pretty awful double-standard behaviour" from other inmates.
He said: "Life is not easy for him. He is going to be in the public glare for a long time to come and he knows that.
"There is a lot for him to deal with."
After the sentencing, Mr Barnes said he hoped Gatiss would "do some thinking" while he was in prison.
He said: "I'm pleased he's been sentenced and I think the sentence of four years is just about the right length.
"I hope while he's in prison he'll do some thinking and when he comes out he'll do something useful.
"Maybe he might decide to help people, which I think would be a good idea for him.
"It's sad that he was brought to the stage of doing something like this - not necessarily just me, it could have been anybody and they might not have got over the incident."
Mr Barnes added that his injuries have now virtually healed and he has found a new house in Low Fell that he hopes to buy.
In a letter to the judge, Gatiss' father Karl said he had disowned his son after the mugging, but said he had since decided he could not abandon him.
He wrote: "He started on the slippery slope of drug-taking. He latterly used legal highs and the likeable lad we had known slowly drifted away from us.
"Our family observed the deterioration of our formerly cheeky boy into a shadow of himself, obviously with whom we were unable to communicate.
"He recognises the gravity of what he has done and is disgusted with himself and is full of remorse."
Counter terrorism officers have launched an investigation into nine people arrested by Turkish authorities for trying to cross illegally into Syria.
Officers from the Greater Manchester Police and North West Counter Terrorism are working with Rochdale Borough Council, local partners and faith leaders to establish why the family were found at the border.
The five adults, aged 21, 22, 22, 24 and 47, as well as four children aged one, three, eight and 11, are believed to be related and currently live in Rochdale.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett said: "What is obviously concerning is why a family were seemingly attempting to take very young and vulnerable children into a warzone; such a volatile and dangerous environment is no place for them whatsoever.
Detained British citizens leaving hospital after medical checks
"We have commenced an investigation to try and establish their reasons for travel and as this is a live investigation - which is very much in its infancy - we are not in a position to comment further.
"One of our primary concerns is the safety and welfare of the young children and we are working with partners to ensure a full safeguarding strategy is in place upon their return to the UK."
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It comes as the nine Britons are expected to be deported from Turkey on Thursday.
They were held by Turkish officials at a military outpost at Ogulpinar, in the south of the country.
Footage released earlier on Thursday showed the Britons arriving at a police station in Southern Hatay province.
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Turkish MP Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, speaking on Wednesday, said: "They are being held at a paramilitary outpost. Probably, they will be deported to their country tomorrow."
It is unclear why the Britons were trying to cross the border.
Thousands of foreigners have joined the ranks of Islamic State and other radical groups in Syria and Iraq, many of them crossing through Turkey.
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UK security services alone estimate 600 Britons have gone to Syria or Iraq to join militant groups.
Turkey has faced criticism for not doing enough to control its southeastern borders.
The country has in turn accused European nations of failing to prevent would-be jihadists from travelling in the first place.
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Among Britons thought to have travelled to Syria are Bethnal Green Academy pupils Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana. They are believed to be in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an IS stronghold.
The girls were last seen on CCTV at a bus station in Istanbul on 17 February.
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A mafia gangster who was due to be extradited to Italy from the UK has been told he no longer has to serve his sentence.
Domenico Rancadore, known as "The Professor", hid out in Britain for more than 20 years until he was discovered living in west London in 2013.
Italian authorities wanted the 65-year-old returned to his native country because they said should spend time in jail for being head of an organised crime group.
He lost his battle against extradition in February but it emerged on Wednesday that the punishment he was due to serve has been "extinguished" since last October.
The house in Uxbridge where Rancadore lived
His solicitor Karen Todner said: "Domenico Rancadore's sentence in Italy extinguished due to age of conviction.
"I have sent a consent order for the discharge of Rancadore to the Crown Prosecution Service to sign."
Before his arrest, Rancadore was living in Uxbridge with his family under the name Marc Skinner.
After a year-and-a-half long extradition battle, the Sicilian was told he must return to Italy to serve his seven-year sentence.
He was never convicted of murder but was tried in his absence in 1999 for "association with the Mafia" because he was a member of the Cosa Nostra.
A mugshot photo of Rancadore in 1994
The mobster claimed he came to England out of fear in 1995 as he wanted to give his "children a good life" and that he felt "their life wasn't secure" in Italy.
He was first arrested on a European arrest warrant at his semi-detached London home in August 2013.
His lawyers initially defeated an attempt to extradite him on human rights grounds in March 2014 but they failed at a second attempt this year.
It is understood that under Italian law, although a conviction stands, a sentence expires once a period of more than double the time of the penalty has passed.
With a seven-year sentence, the 14-year period would have elapsed some time last year.
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The inquests into the 96 deaths started 25 years after the event
By Nick Martin, North Of England Correspondent
Survivors of the Hillsborough tragedy have given moving accounts of what happened to them that day.
They were called as witnesses to the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who died at the semi-final on 15 April, 1989.
Ian McDermott, who paid £6 for his ticket to attend the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, told the jury that he was one of the fans who entered the stadium through a side gate which had been opened by police to allow fans into the ground.
He told the inquest he went through a tunnel at the Lepping's Lane end and arrived at a crowded pen three.
"I just describe it was a swirl. It was completely rotating all the time, never stayed still," he said.
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"I was completely compressed from all sides, I just couldn't move at all. I wasn't in control of my own movement.
"I knew instantly that there was a problem. The match was very quickly erased from my mind. I wasn't interested in anything that was happening on the pitch."
Shortly after kick-off Mr McDermott said he lost consciousness and woke up on the floor of the terraces.
He said: "There was a lot of people standing on my legs and there was someone holding my head. I could hear people shouting into my ear."
He told the inquest that he believed someone had given him "the kiss of life" and placed him face down on the pitch in the recovery position.
He told the inquest that in the days after the disaster he had suffered chest pains and panic attacks.
Gillian Edwards had attended the semi-final the year before with her friend Fiona and had stood in the same pen with a fence between them and the pitch, she told the inquest.
"We both said to ourselves we had to make sure we never had a barrier in front of us because we got crushed that year. It was uncomfortable which made us scared," she said.
She said on the day of the tragedy they had both returned to the stadium and also stood in pen three.
"It was fine. We were just having a laugh, banter with people I remember a beach ball going over head," the jury heard.
Shaking and tearful giving evidence, she said: "Two specific memories I have is one of the push forward and then another push, which scared me.
"I was used to football crowds and movement because of going to the various matches. That scared me but then it eased off. But then there was a second surge forward.
"There was no police. I knew there was something really wrong happening.
"I was making sure that I was breathing. I was making sure, just thinking 'What the hell is going on here?'.
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Policemen aid football fans at Hillsborough stadium
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"And there was a man who was shouting 'There's girls here, there's girls here. Get the girls out. Stop pushing!'.
"I could hear more panic in his voice, which was making me even more aware then how bad the situation really was."
Christina Lambert QC, on behalf of the coroner, asked: "You lost consciousness in the crowd that day?"
"Yes. I did yes," Ms Edwards replied.
The jury heard that Gillian Edwards suffered a "severe brain injury" during the crush and woke up in hospital having been in a coma for five days.
She was "totally blind" when she woke up and had since regained some sight since, the inquest heard.
John McCarthy told the inquest that his younger brother Ian was one of the 96 who died.
He recalled the crush and being told that his brother had died. He said he went to a gymnasium which had been set up as a temporary morgue.
"There was a pile of bodies on the floor, all over the place, laid out in lines. We had to step over them all to get to Ian because he was on the far side. Once we got there we wouldn't leave him alone.
"When we first got to Ian we knelt down beside him. He had his eyes open. I put him on my knee I said 'wake up'.
"I just couldn't believe he was gone. I sat there cradling him."
He told the inquest that several months ago police showed him video footage of the gymnasium and that he had identified his brother.
"The video zoomed in and I saw Ian. His face was covered and I couldn't work out what it was. Then I could see it was a bin liner. They put a bin liner over his face."
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The inquests into the 96 deaths started 25 years after the event
By Nick Martin, North Of England Correspondent
Survivors of the Hillsborough tragedy have given moving accounts of what happened to them that day.
They were called as witnesses to the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who died at the semi-final on 15 April, 1989.
Ian McDermott, who paid £6 for his ticket to attend the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, told the jury that he was one of the fans who entered the stadium through a side gate which had been opened by police to allow fans into the ground.
He told the inquest he went through a tunnel at the Lepping's Lane end and arrived at a crowded pen three.
"I just describe it was a swirl. It was completely rotating all the time, never stayed still," he said.
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Sir Norman Bettison was involved in the original internal inquiry for South Yorkshire Police and is now chief constable of the West Yorkshire force. Insists he has "nothing to hide"
David Duckenfield was chief supt of South Yorkshire Police and in charge of policing on the day of the disaster
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Former South Yorkshire Police superintendent Bernard Murray was Duckenfield's deputy at the game. Was acquitted of manslaughter charges brought in a private prosecution in 2000. Died in 2006
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Former South Yorkshire Police chief constable Peter Wright gave his backing to police version of events blaming fans. Died in 2011
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The former Police Federation spokesman Paul Middup was among those who sought to place blame on Liverpool fans and his version of events contributed to the now notorious Sun front page
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"I was completely compressed from all sides, I just couldn't move at all. I wasn't in control of my own movement.
"I knew instantly that there was a problem. The match was very quickly erased from my mind. I wasn't interested in anything that was happening on the pitch."
Shortly after kick-off Mr McDermott said he lost consciousness and woke up on the floor of the terraces.
He said: "There was a lot of people standing on my legs and there was someone holding my head. I could hear people shouting into my ear."
He told the inquest that he believed someone had given him "the kiss of life" and placed him face down on the pitch in the recovery position.
He told the inquest that in the days after the disaster he had suffered chest pains and panic attacks.
Gillian Edwards had attended the semi-final the year before with her friend Fiona and had stood in the same pen with a fence between them and the pitch, she told the inquest.
"We both said to ourselves we had to make sure we never had a barrier in front of us because we got crushed that year. It was uncomfortable which made us scared," she said.
She said on the day of the tragedy they had both returned to the stadium and also stood in pen three.
"It was fine. We were just having a laugh, banter with people I remember a beach ball going over head," the jury heard.
Shaking and tearful giving evidence, she said: "Two specific memories I have is one of the push forward and then another push, which scared me.
"I was used to football crowds and movement because of going to the various matches. That scared me but then it eased off. But then there was a second surge forward.
"There was no police. I knew there was something really wrong happening.
"I was making sure that I was breathing. I was making sure, just thinking 'What the hell is going on here?'.
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Gallery: Day Of Tragedy
This gallery contains images of the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people died. Here, people try to help those caught up in the crush
Policemen aid football fans at Hillsborough stadium
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"And there was a man who was shouting 'There's girls here, there's girls here. Get the girls out. Stop pushing!'.
"I could hear more panic in his voice, which was making me even more aware then how bad the situation really was."
Christina Lambert QC, on behalf of the coroner, asked: "You lost consciousness in the crowd that day?"
"Yes. I did yes," Ms Edwards replied.
The jury heard that Gillian Edwards suffered a "severe brain injury" during the crush and woke up in hospital having been in a coma for five days.
She was "totally blind" when she woke up and had since regained some sight since, the inquest heard.
John McCarthy told the inquest that his younger brother Ian was one of the 96 who died.
He recalled the crush and being told that his brother had died. He said he went to a gymnasium which had been set up as a temporary morgue.
"There was a pile of bodies on the floor, all over the place, laid out in lines. We had to step over them all to get to Ian because he was on the far side. Once we got there we wouldn't leave him alone.
"When we first got to Ian we knelt down beside him. He had his eyes open. I put him on my knee I said 'wake up'.
"I just couldn't believe he was gone. I sat there cradling him."
He told the inquest that several months ago police showed him video footage of the gymnasium and that he had identified his brother.
"The video zoomed in and I saw Ian. His face was covered and I couldn't work out what it was. Then I could see it was a bin liner. They put a bin liner over his face."
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A Labour government would threaten jobs, deter investment and put Britain's economic recovery at risk, according to a letter signed by more than 100 leading business figures.
Senior executives from some of Britain's best-known businesses hailed the Government's economic policies, which they claim show that "the UK is open for business".
The move was orchestrated by Conservative Party co-chairman Lord Feldman, who is continuing to email business leaders asking them to "consider adding your name as a signatory to this letter".
The top executives - including BP's CEO Bob Dudley and West Ham United vice-chairman, the Conservative Peer Baroness Brady - argue that keeping the Tories in power is the best way to ensure continued growth.
In an open letter to The Daily Telegraph, the signatories, who had been approached by the party to add their names to the letter, said the Conservatives' economic policies have supported investment and the creation of jobs.
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The letter has been signed by at least five former Labour backers, including the chairman of Dixons Carphone and Talk Talk plc Sir Charles Dunstone, and former Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne.
The business figures write: "We believe this Conservative-led Government has been good for business and has pursued policies which have supported investment and job creation.
"David Cameron and George Osborne's flagship policy of progressively lowering Corporation Tax to 20% has been very important in showing the UK is open for business. It has been a key part of their economic plan.
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"The result is that Britain grew faster than any other major economy last year and businesses like ours have created over 1.85m new jobs.
"We believe a change in course will threaten jobs and deter investment. This would send a negative message about Britain and put the recovery at risk."
Mr Cameron was quick to welcome the letter tweeting: "Today's #businessletter in the @Telegraph shows job creators support our long term economic plan. Labour's taxes will cost jobs."
Mr Osborne told Sky News: "This is an unprecedented intervention in a British General Election. A hundred business people, employing over half a million people and leading some of Britain's best-known companies, from Primark to the Prudential and from BP to Britvic and Mothercare, have spoken out.
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Duncan Bannatyne backed the Labour government under Blair and Brown, stating he would 'hate' to see David Cameron in power. He joined Gordon Brown on part of the campaign trail in 2010
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A Lithuanian builder has pleaded guilty to stabbing a couple to death as they slept in their home.
Viktoras Bruzas, 39, killed Patrick and Gillian Kettyle at their detached house in Fetcham, Surrey, in November.
He carried out the murders because he wanted to take revenge on Mr Kettyle, 55, who he blamed for "ruining his life" and for the break-up of his marriage, the Old Bailey heard.
Patrick and Gillian Kettyle were killed at their Surrey home
The killings came after he learnt of "flirtations" between his wife and the victim, the court was told.
Bruzas arrived at their home - at which he had previously fitted a kitchen - armed with a kitchen knife after midnight on 27 November.
He left six minutes later after stabbing his victims multiple times.
Prosecutor Alan Kent QC said the attack on Mr Kettyle was "particularly brutal", adding that it was likely he stabbed Mrs Kettyle as she tried to protect her husband.
Bruzas, from Walton-on-Thames, admitted the killings on Wednesday after pleading not guilty at an earlier hearing.
Bruzas was caught 18 hours after the attacks in nearby Oxshott.
When he was arrested, he calmly asked police: "How long do you get for murder in this country?"
The court heard that in the months before the killings Bruzas made threats against Mr Kettyle and was given a police notice in January last year.
A law student cleared of plotting an attack in the UK's first secret terror trial has been jailed for having a bomb-making guide.
Erol Incedal was jailed for three-and-a-half years for possessing a memory card with what the judge said were viable instructions for making an explosive device.
Last week, the 27-year-old broke down in tears as he was found not guilty after a retrial of plotting with a terrorist in Syria to either target individuals such as former prime minister Tony Blair or carry out a "Mumbai-style" outrage using a Kalashnikov.
But, referring to the bomb-making manual, Mr Justice Nicol said: "The potential for such bombs to cause death, injury and destruction is obvious.
"The fear, panic and terror which explosions also bring are often a deliberate part of the terrorist's ambition."
Incedal was convicted last year of possessing the manual on a memory card at the time he was arrested in October 2013. His friend Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, also 27 and from London, admitted having an identical document.
Rarmoul-Bouhadjar was jailed for three years.
Mr Justice Nicol told the pair that even though they were not terrorists, Parliament had made possessing such documents an offence because of the danger of them being in circulation.
As Incedal had admitted in his trial to discussing a plan to buy and sell class A drugs and to acquire a gun with his friend, their mitigation of previous good character was "somewhat blunted", the judge said.
Both defendants have been in custody since their arrest 17 months ago, so they could be eligible for parole within months.
The case became a legal first after an attempt by the Crown to hold the entire trial in secret was scuppered by a media challenge at the High Court.
Today, Mr Justice Nicol refused a bid by the media to be allowed to report a "Part 2" section of the trial which was held behind closed doors but with 10 accredited journalists allowed to take notes.
While a small section of the trial was held in public, the lion's share of the evidence, including most of Incedal's defence, was completely in secret.
Outlining the case against the pair today, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the court how the defendants travelled to the Turkey-Syria border in early 2013 in support of opposition to the Syrian regime.
The prosecution case was that they crossed the border into the war-torn country and Incedal accepted they stayed in a house or compound on the border where they mixed with other Islamists.
While it had been their intention to travel into Syria for humanitarian reasons, while at the house, they were shown how to strip and reassemble Kalashnikov rifles and how to make improvised explosive devices, Mr Whittam said.
During the trial, Incedal said they decided to go back to London because the conditions were "harsh" and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar wanted to return to the UK and to his job.
Written By Unknown on Selasa, 31 Maret 2015 | 22.11
Police have made an urgent public appeal for help locating a convicted murderer who has breached his release licence.
53-year-old William Kerr, who was jailed for life for murder in 1998 before being released on licence on 23 January, is wanted for emergency recall to prison.
Detectives have described Kerr as "dangerous" and warned the public not to approach him.
North Yorkshire Police were asked for help locating Kerr after the National Offender Management service said he had absconded from approved premises in Hull.
He is known to have links in Humberside, West Yorkshire and London, but his current whereabouts are not known.
Detective Inspector Eamonn Clarke said: "To assist our already extensive efforts to trace William Kerr, I am urging people to keep an eye out for the man in the photographs.
"We ask that you do not approach Kerr, as he is considered dangerous. You should contact the police straight away on 999 and officers will be dispatched to arrest him or investigate the sighting."
The police have also made a direct appeal to Kerr, saying: "William, you know you have breached your licence conditions, and by continuing to do so you are only making things worse. It is now time to do the right thing and hand yourself in to the police."
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By Mark Stone in Beijing and King Chai Woon in Kuala Lumpur
A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the killing of two British medical students on the island of Borneo last August.
Fishmonger Zulkipli Abdullah faces death by hanging once his appeals has been exhausted.
Newcastle University students Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, were found lying in a road in Kuching, the capital of Malaysia's Sarawak state, on 6 August.
An inquest heard how they were stabbed to death following an incident at a bar or cafe in the early hours of the morning.
Prosecutor Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad said Zulkipli admitted to the court that he was involved in a fight with the two Britons, along with two of his friends, but claimed he punched one of them rather than stabbing either of them.
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The two men with him on the night testified for the prosecution and said Zulkipli told them he wanted to "test his power" against bigger and taller foreigners.
After the killing, he sniffed the blood on his hands and told his friends that "the blood of white men smells nice," the prosecutor said.
But speaking to Sky News, Zulkipli's defence counsel Anthony Tai said he believes there are "material, fundamental contradictions" by one of the witnesses, who changed her story and testimony.
According to Mr Tai, the unnamed witness initially told the police that she saw three people getting out of a car to attack one foreigner, but during cross-examination, she said she was "mistaken" and claimed that only one person got out of the car and attacked two foreigners.
Mr Tai described the contradictions by the witness as "lies" and expressed surprise that the court still found her to be credible. He said the contradictions will be an important issue during the appeal process.
The fourth-year students were in the Malaysian part of the island on attachment to a hospital in Kuching and were due to finish their placements two days after they were killed.
In a joint statement, their parents said they were "pleased" with the verdict but added it would not bring their sons back.
"They were two exceptional young men with such promise - kind, funny and full of life," Phil and Jan Dalton and Paul Brunger and Sue Hidson said.
"Their deaths have left their families and many good friends utterly devastated.
"Our sons would soon have qualified as doctors. Their unprovoked and senseless murders as they were walking home after a night out with other medical students mean that Aidan and Neil will never have the chance to spend their lives caring for and helping others.
"They would have given so much to the world. We are so very proud of both of them and in what they achieved in their all too short lives.
"Although we are pleased that the man responsible for their murders has been held accountable, the guilty verdict does not bring our sons back."
Winds of up to 70mph battered parts of England and Wales overnight, causing widespread travel disruption and flooding in some regions.
In the northwest, firefighters spent three hours removing a 20ft tree which had fallen onto a house in Leigh - ruining a family's plans to go on holiday.
And at an Esso refinery in Hampshire, a crewman was rescued from a sinking tug by a heroic employee who jumped into the water to save him.
In Worsley, a 20ft tree fell onto a house. Pic: @manchesterfire
Without hesitation, he swam to the capsized vessel and smashed a window to help the trapped crew member, who only had access to a small pocket of air inside.
All of the employees have been accounted for, according to the coastguard - although one person had to be treated for hypothermia following the incident.
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Earlier, journeys on the West Coast Main Line between Warrington and the Lake District were delayed by up to an hour - while trees on the line caused considerable disruption between Exeter and Taunton, Salisbury and Romsey, and Aylesbury and London.
Several bridges on the motorways were closed as a precaution, including the Dartford Crossing on the M25, the Severn Bridge on the M48, and the Ouse Bridge on the M62.
There was also bad news for fans of the Thunderbirds, as an event to promote the new series on the River Thames was cancelled.
Although it will "gradually quieten down" as the Easter weekend approaches, the Met Office predicts the strongest winds are yet to be seen in northwest England.
And, even though it is the first day of April on Wednesday, wintry showers are expected over higher ground in Scotland, spreading into northern England and parts of north Wales.
Sky News weather producer Becky Yussuf said: "The unsettled, wet and windy weather will continue through until Good Friday.
"High pressure will build across the UK and Ireland over the Easter weekend, bringing largely dry and settled conditions.
"There is expected to be a lot of cloud around, and so brightness might be at a bit of a premium.
"Temperatures will be around average for the time of year, with highs of 14C (57F)."
Revised official figures show that the UK economy grew last year at the fastest pace since 2006.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy expanded at 2.8% in 2014, approaching the figure of 3% seen eight years before.
The ONS boosted the figure after a standard revision to growth in the last quarter of 2014 was calculated.
It said Q4 growth was 0.6%, up from the previous estimate of 0.5%.
This took growth for the whole of 2014 to 2.8%, from the earlier published figure of 2.6%.
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It said several factors were behind the greater pace increase, including a big boost to exports, along with increased household spending and services spending.
The ONS made the announcement at the same time as revealing the latest current account figures for income received and liabilities paid to the rest of the world.
It said the record current account deficit of £27.7bn in Q3 had been reduced to £25.3bn by the end of December.
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New measures to calculate wellbeing of households were also released by the ONS.
It said real household disposable income increased by 1.9% last year, but overall it showed only a 0.2% increase from the figure at the end of Q2 in 2010.
It said household optimism over finances has continued to increase from a low point seen at the start of 2012.
Malakhi Chijiutomi-Ghosh, who went missing from his south London home this morning, has been found and taken to hospital.
The youngster, who suffers from a genetic condition that requires medication three times a day, was discovered by an off-duty police officer in Hertfordshire.
Police had said they were "extremely concerned" for the welfare of the 10-year-old boy because he had not had his medicine today.
There had been a "very real chance" that he could have fallen into a coma if he did not receive his medicine.
A major police search was launched after Malakhi was thought to have run away from his home in Thornton Heath, Croydon, around 1am.
Written By Unknown on Senin, 30 Maret 2015 | 22.11
A murder investigation has been launched after a British couple were found shot dead in their villa near Benidorm.
Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said the couple, aged 77 and named by Spanish police as Peter and Jean Tarsey, were found dead in the villa in Xalo at around 4pm on Sunday.
He said: "Yesterday they were expecting dinner guests. Last night the guests got into the villa and found them, it's been described to me locked in each other's arms on the sofa.
"Both of them had been shot dead by a small calibre gun. Police say that various gunshots had been fired."
Peter Tarsey, 19, after he was chosen to represent GB in the 1956 Olympics
The Guardia Civil said post-mortem examinations have not yet been completed, but they are believed to have been killed in the last few days.
The couple, known to have been residents in Spain for 18 years, had no known criminal history and "had not been doing anything strange", according to police. Reports in Spanish media said they had been living in the area for 22 years.
Officers said there was no sign of forced entry and the case is being treated as homicide. A TV was found to be missing in the property and a computer had been thrown into the swimming pool.
The couple were found at their villa in Xalo
A spokeswoman for the Guardia Civil said: "At around 4.15pm yesterday, some friends of the couple went to their villa because they had not been seen for a few days.
"They found the door was open and there were no signs of a break-in.
"The couple, who had been living in Spain for 18 years, were found dead with gunshot wounds on the sofa.
"The Guardia Civil is now awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations and investigations continue."
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We can confirm the death of two British nationals in Alicante, Spain.
"We stand ready to provide consular assistance."
Xalo mayor Joan Miquel Garces told Spanish media that the friends who raised the alarm "used to go round for lunch every Sunday".
Mr Tarsey is a former Olympic diver who competed for Great Britain at the 1956 games in Melbourne, Australia.
A staff nurse at an Oxford hospital has pleaded guilty to a series of sex offences committed in A&E - with victims as young as 10.
Andrew Hutchinson has been convicted of crimes against 11 women, many of which were conducted in the emergency department of the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The counts against the 29-year-old included rape, voyeurism, outraging public decency, and sexual assault.
His campaign of abuse also extended to other locations across Oxfordshire, including the White Horse Leisure Centre in Abingdon, and the medical tent of a festival.
Thames Valley Police believes Hutchinson's many attacks took place between October 2011 and November 2013.
Further offences levelled against the nurse include making indecent images of children, the theft of medical equipment, and the possession of the class B drug, ketamine.
Images of sex offences were found by police on his mobile phone and camera. When the victims featured in the photographs were approached by detectives, many did not know they had been recorded or filmed.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Johns said Hutchinson's guilty plea has spared victims the distress of having to endure a trial.
Some of the offences took place at the John Radcliffe Hospital
He added: "I have no doubt that Hutchinson would have continued to offend had he not been arrested.
"This has been a complicated and unusual case as the victims of his sex offences were not aware that offences took place because they were not conscious.
"Thames Valley Police sent specially trained officers to personally speak to all of the victims, who showed great courage when informed with such distressing news."
Mark Power, director of workforce for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "I can confirm that in November 2013 the Trust was informed by Thames Valley Police of the arrest of a male nurse, who at the time was employed at our John Radcliffe Hospital.
"Subsequently, Thames Valley Police have been conducting an extensive investigation and we have done everything possible to support this process. Since his arrest, the individual has not worked in any part of the Trust and is no longer an employee of ours.
"Our thoughts today are with the victims, whose trust was so betrayed in our hospital and elsewhere.
"We have been shocked and horrified by the behaviour of the individual, who so badly let down both the patients he was entrusted to care for and his fellow colleagues, and who totally failed in his professional duties and responsibilities as a nurse.
"I would wish to reassure members of the public that the welfare and safety of our patients is always our first priority."
Hutchinson has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 27 April.
A black cab driver has been jailed for 10 years after he admitted sexually assaulting young women as he drove them home from nights out.
David Perry – a taxi driver with 25 years' experience – pleaded guilty to the attempted rape of one victim as she slept in the back of his cab.
In the January 2013 attack, he climbed into the passenger compartment and removed her clothes.
During another incident in May 2014, he preyed upon a heavily drunk woman who was in her 20s.
According to Judge John Lafferty, both victims suffered "serious psychological harm" because of the abuse.
Perry will also be placed on licence for five years once his jail term concludes.
Scotland Yard believes more women may have been assaulted by the 52-year-old during his career, and are urging potential victims to contact the police.
When Perry was arrested, he told officers that he had been "worried about what he might do" because his hormone levels had increased following the breakdown of a relationship.
Prosecutor Peter Clement told Snaresbrook Crown Court: "Both victims had been out with friends, both had been drinking and both were at the relevant time highly intoxicated.
"They were, by virtue of their drunkenness, particularly vulnerable. Their incapacity made them no less deserving than anyone else of being safe.
"Whilst each was asleep in what should have been the relative safety of his black cab, he stopped, got into the back of his cab and stripped and sexually assaulted each victim while they slept or were semi-conscious."
David Cameron said in five years he had put Britain "back on her feet again" as he formally fired the starting gun on the election race after a meeting with the Queen.
Speaking on the steps of Number 10 after returning from Buckingham Palace where he asked the Queen to dissolve Parliament, Mr Cameron said voters face a "stark choice" between him and Ed Miliband.
With 38 days to go until the election, the Conservatives would offer strong leadership and a country that was safe and secure but Mr Miliband would offer a country mired in "economic chaos".
He said: "Britain is on the right track. This election is about moving forward, and that is what, as Prime Minister here at Downing Street, I will deliver."
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And he warned that if voters put Mr Miliband in Number 10 working families would face a £3,000 tax hike.
In a YouTube video released by the Conservatives before Mr Cameron's journey to Buckingham Palace, the leader said 7 May was "the most important General Election in a generation".
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also made the trip to Buckingham Palace for a meeting with the Queen in his role as President of the Privy Council.
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Speaking ahead of the meeting Mr Clegg predicted another coalition government come 7 May and said: "It is my view that the era of single-party government is now over in British politics."
"About the very last thing the country now needs is a lurch to the left or the right and yet that is exactly what the Conservative and Labour parties are now threatening."
He added: "I think what the vast majority of people in this country want is that we keep this country and our government anchored in the centre ground, which is where the Liberal Democrats have anchored the government over the last five years."
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The final act of pomp and ceremony of the coalition government fires the starting gun on the General Election campaign.
As the formalities played out at Buckingham Palace, Ed Miliband was attempting to win over business with the launch of its first "mini manifestos" in which the Labour leader warned of the "clear and present danger" of leaving the EU.
He said: "There could be nothing worse for our country or for our great exporting businesses than playing political games with our membership of the EU. David Cameron used to understand that. But in the past five years our place in the European Union has become less and less secure."
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage was due to launch his party's five election pledges this afternoon along with a new poster.
The pledges are: "1. Say No to EU 2. Control our borders 3. Extra £3bn for the NHS 4. Cut foreign aid spending 5. No tax on the minimum wage."
With Parliament dissolved, MPs immediately lose their title and are asked to remove references to it, or place disclaimers on any email or social media account which names them as an MP.
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It has already prompted a Twitter squabble with the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Worsley and Eccles South posting: "I'm sure it's an oversight that my Labour opponent's Twitter name now breaches Parliamentary rules after dissolution."
Some, including Conservative MP Maria Miller, were refusing to remove the MP on their accounts. Ms Miller argued the Twitter account was set up before dissolution.
MPs elected in 2010 will also find their parliamentary pass for Westminster Palace ceases to work.
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Winston Churchill was the first prime minister to serve under Queen Elizabeth. His second term under Queen Elizabeth lasted from 1951-55
Anthony Eden served from 1955-57. Eden strongly believed in keeping the Queen informed of state affairs and was the first prime minister to show her secret government papers
