Twin brothers have told of their “devastation” after both dramatically lost their sight to a rare condition that affects just a few hundred people in the UK.
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The Bafta film awards began with a bang last night with Sir Tom Jones belting out the theme to the James Bond film Thunderball - more than 40 years after he first recorded the song - to mark half-a-century of the superspy’s cinema adventures.
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A man is believed to have become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth despite his sex change operation.
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Police have launched a fresh bid to catch the gunmen who killed two soldiers in Northern Ireland, as a terminally-ill man convicted of trying to torch their getaway car was told he must serve a minimum of 25 years in jail.
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The father of schoolboy Damilola Taylor called yesterday for a public inquiry after one of his son’s killers was recalled to prison for a second time.
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David Cameron has warned that the UK’s economic recovery is being held back by a lack of women in boardrooms.
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The former wife of Sir Paul McCartney never authorised former News of the World editor Piers Morgan, or anyone else, to listen to her voicemails, she told the Leveson inquiry into press standards yesterday. Morgan, now a chat-show host, previously told the inquiry he listened to a voicemail message left to Ms Mills by Sir Paul, but refused to say when or where he heard it because he wanted to protect a “source”.
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The Bank of England injected a further £50billion into the economy yesterday as the UK battles to stave off another recession.
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