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Peter Stringfellow, a long-term Conservative supporter, is backing the UK Independence Party candidate in a forthcoming Westminster Council by-election, the party says.

Launch your own lucky dip for the big race at Aintree

On 3 May, 10 cities will hold referendums on whether to have a directly-elected mayor and across England, Yes and No supporters are pressing their case.

Pinstickers' guide to the Grand National runners at Aintree

Andy Farrell will not join Stuart Lancaster's England coaching team and will remain at Premiership side Saracens instead.

Uefa President Michel Platini accuses "bandits and crooks" of hiking up hotel prices ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships.

A 42-year-old man is remanded in custody charged with the murder of Coleraine pensioner Norman Moffatt.

A wedding proposal is the most intimate of occasions - so why do so many people propose in public?

A sketch in a TV comedy show, which saw a blind man groping a life model, is pulled after police were called.

The transsexual techno-rapper taking Angola by storm

Police in Turkey raid the homes of 30 former military figures as an arrest warrant is issued for a retired general.

Alan Shearer says the Football Association must appoint its new coach to succeed Fabio Capello immediately.

Readers photos on the theme of spring

Liverpool director of football Damien Comolli leaves the Premier League club by mutual consent.

A Sussex company has developed a pioneering car seat that cocoons a baby in a protective shell if it is involved in an accident.

Parliamentary speaker Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as Mali's interim president, after last month's coup - and threatens "total war" on northern rebels.

The UK's trade deficit widened to £3.4bn in February from £2.5bn in January as exports of goods to non-EU countries dropped, figures show.

Police name two men wanted in connection with a raid on a Durham University museum in which artefacts worth almost £2m were taken.

Ryanair announces further cuts in its operations at Edinburgh Airport, with eight winter schedule routes to be axed.

Lawyer Mark Lewis says he is taking legal action in the US on behalf of three alleged victims of phone hacking by the News of the World.