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Thai police probe death of Britons
Thai police probe death of Britons (Shropshire Star)
Wednesday 23rd February 2011, 12:30PM GMT. A British couple have been found dead in northern Thailand An investigation has been launched into the deaths of a British couple found dead in their hotel room in Thailand.

NHS apology over death crash pair (Shropshire Star)
Wednesday 23rd February 2011, 1:30PM GMT. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust apologised for below-standard care of a mentally-ill woman An NHS Trust has apologised unreservedly for below-standard care of a mentally-ill woman who ran over a mother and daughter, leaving them dead.

'Force-feed' baby couple face court (Hampshire Chronicle)
A couple have appeared at the Old Bailey accused of causing the death of their baby by force-feeding her.

Irish Government planes on standby for Libya evacuation
Irish Government planes on standby for Libya evacuation (Irish Examiner)
Two Government planes are on standby in Malta to evacuate 40 Irish citizens trying to flee Libya.

Palestinian house inside cage in Jewish settlement (KansasCity)
The al-Ghirayib family lives in one of the stranger manifestations of Israel's 43-year occupation of the West Bank: a Palestinian house inside a metal cage inside an Israeli settlement.The family's 10 members, four of them children, can only reach the house via a 40-yard passageway connecting them to the Arab village of Beit Ijza farther down a ...

Debt soars as Tories spend (Community Press)
As more than a dozen Conservative cabinet ministers and MPs spread out across the country to make government spending announcements, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched its National Debt Clock Tour to call for a return to fiscal sanity.

Britons being evacuated from Libya
Britons being evacuated from Libya (Hampshire Chronicle)
The Foreign Office has been organising the evacuation of British nationals from Libya after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi vowed to fight to his "last drop of blood". The Libyan dictator sparked fears that violent reprisals against protesters could escalate still further as he called on his supporters to take to the streets and "attack them in their ...

Just In-Anti-Immigrant Vigilante Gets Death Penalty for Murder of 9 yr old Mexican Girl (hispanicallyspeakingnews)
The leader of an anti-illegal immigrant vigilante group has been given the death penalty for the shooting of a nine-year-old girl and her father in a horrific Arizona home invasion.

Big airlines try to raise fares again (KOMO-TV Seattle)
Major U.S. airlines are trying to revive fare increases for high-end tickets after failing to impose bigger price increases last week.

Plastic Surgery Requests Differ Depending on Ethnicities (hispanicallyspeakingnews)
Ask plastic surgeons what procedures they do the most often and you'll likely get a different answer from each depending on where they are located and who their clients are.

Vatican Finds Chilean Priest Guilty of Sexual Abuse of Minors (hispanicallyspeakingnews)
On behalf of the Vatican, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati of Santiago announced that an elderly reverend has been found guilty of sexually abusing minors in Chile.

Somos Republicans Call For Law to Fight Domestic Terrorism Following AZ Minutemen Conviction (hispanicallyspeakingnews)
Todays Contributor is Somos Republicans. The Somos Republicans are a national watchdog group and the largest Hispanic Republican grassroots organization in the nation because of our leadership that is pro immigration reform.

Cornish pasty gets protected status
Cornish pasty gets protected status (Salisbury Journal)
Soon only pasties made in Cornwall will be able to be labelled as a Cornish pasty.

Farmers Worry About Proposed Immigration Legislation (hispanicallyspeakingnews)
Farmers fear that if Georgia's proposed immigration legislation comes into effect it will not only cost them time and money- it will put them out of business.

Worker 'tried to fight tunnel fire' (Shoreham Today)
A railway worker tried to fight a blaze following an explosion in a tunnel underneath the Thames which killed two of his colleagues, including a man from Kent, he has told an inquest.

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