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5:14pm Friday 1st June 2012

Plans to disrupt this weekend's Jubilee celebrations have been called off after the taxman took action to defuse anger over levies charged for disposing of waste.

3:57pm Friday 1st June 2012

Twelve men and two youths have been sentenced for their part in riots during which a police station was firebombed during the disorder last summer.

2:27pm Friday 1st June 2012

Shafilea Ahmed's sister denied telling her police handlers she "made up" the story of how her parents murdered the teenager, a court has been told.

2:13pm Friday 1st June 2012

The "desperately worried" family of a British sailor missing in Dubai have issued a plea for information on his whereabouts.

1:03pm Friday 1st June 2012

An NHS trust has been fined £325,000 by a data protection watchdog after highly sensitive files of tens of thousands of patients, including details of HIV treatment, ended up being sold on eBay.

12:02pm Friday 1st June 2012

Allegations of sexual assault have been made at a training centre for junior soldiers, the Army confirmed.

11:32am Friday 1st June 2012

Former energy secretary Chris Huhne's ex-wife has denied perverting the course of justice by taking a speeding penalty for her former husband.

11:18am Friday 1st June 2012

The boyfriend of a woman found dead in a lake six years ago has won £125,000 libel damages over a police claim that he probably killed her.

10:53am Friday 1st June 2012

A lorry driver has died after his vehicle left the road and overturned, police said.

10:51am Friday 1st June 2012

A man who shot dead an Indian student at close range will go on trial for murder.