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BA staff boosted by global support

A union in the US said it would do all it can to offer assistance to striking BA workers

11:09pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

The union representing British Airways' cabin crews is gathering international support from across Europe and the US, including the Teamsters' union, ahead of a walkout due to begin this weekend.

Factory awaits news on electric car

Nissan is reportedly planning to build its new electric car at its Sunderland plant

10:41pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Motor giant Nissan is reportedly planning to build its new electric car at its plant in Sunderland.

Five held after kidnap cash traced

Sahil Saeed was found safe and well after his father paid a ransom, which was then traced

10:22pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Dramatic new details have emerged about the kidnapping and release of a five-year-old British boy in Pakistan.

Cameron in pledge to black voters

Conservative leader David Cameron addresses members of the local community in Peckham, south London.

10:05pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

David Cameron has reached out to black voters telling them that the Conservative Party had come "a long way" when it came to opening itself up to ethnic minorities.

Police recover kidnap ransom money

Sahil Saeed was found safe and well after his father paid a ransom, which was then traced

10:04pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Spanish police have confirmed they have recovered more than £100,000 in ransom money after arrests were made in the case of a five-year-old British boy's kidnapping in Pakistan.

Sian Williams 'would appear nude'

Sian Williams

8:59pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

TV presenter Sian Williams's accountant told a tax tribunal she would be willing to present her BBC show naked, but BBC bosses would not let her.

Brown admits defence spending slip

Gordon Brown is to clarify his evidence to the Iraq Inquiry over defence spending

6:45pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

Gordon Brown has admitted he wrongly claimed defence spending had risen in real terms every year when he gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry.

Afghan victim's family heartbroken

Captain Martin Driver, 31, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment who died in hospital in Britain, from his wounds that he suffered while serving in Afghanistan.

6:33pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

The family of a British Army officer who died in hospital three weeks after being wounded in Afghanistan said they were "heartbroken" by their loss.

Bid to ban mephedrone within weeks

Nicholas Smith died after apparently taking the legal drug mephedrone

6:33pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

The Government's drugs advisers could recommend a ban on mephedrone within weeks following the deaths of two teenagers thought to have taken the drug.

Pilot cleared over gyrocopter death

Bryan Griffiths, 55, of Bedworth, north Warwickshire, has been cleared of killing a hunt supporter who died after he was hit by a gyrocopter's rotor blade.

4:47pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

The partner of a hunt supporter who was killed by a gyrocopter's rotor blade spoke of her devastation after the aircraft's pilot was cleared of manslaughter.


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