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Food and drink leads rise in exports
Official statistics show Scotland's exports grew slightly in the third quarter of 2012, led by the food and drink sector.
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Flooding payouts broke £1bn in 2012
Insurers paid out £1.19bn for flood and storm damage in the UK in 2012 - the highest annual figure for five years, an insurance trade body says.
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Students' rooms: 1890s v 2010s
Students have always used their rooms to express their personality, but how have student digs changed over the past 100 years?
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Pupils hurt in school bus crash
A double-decker school bus and a van are involved in a crash near the village of Murthly in Perthshire.
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MPs: Lending schemes have 'failed'
Attempts to stimulate the economy with quantitative easing and lending schemes are dubbed expensive experiments by an influential group of MPs.
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Over one in 10 providing unpaid care
The number of unpaid carers in England and Wales has reached 5.8 million - a rise of 600,000 since 2001, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.
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Cardiff pursues its 2026 games bid
Cardiff council confirms its commitment to bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2026.
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Kidnap 'kingpin' sent back to China
A Chinese national suspected of heading a kidnapping ring targeting Chinese citizens in Venezuela is brought back to China, officials say.
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Nazi-looted Louvre art returned
Seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners in the 1930s are being returned to their surviving relatives as part of an ongoing French effort to give back looted artworks.
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Edwards secures third for England
Charlotte Edwards scores a century as England beat New Zealand by four wickets to finish third in the Women's World Cup.
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Rethink urged on child poverty
The government should focus less on how to measure child poverty and more on how to eradicate it, a leading children's charity argues.
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Dog attacks action plan 'inadequate'
Government plans aimed at limiting the number of attacks on the public by dogs in England are labelled woefully inadequate by a committee of MPs.
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Mali prisoner: 'Militants cut off my hand with a knife'
The Mali man whose hand was chopped off for stealing a mattress
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Mali to hold 'early July election'
Mali will hold presidential elections on 7 July, a key step to stabilising the country after the intervention of France to oust Islamist fighters, the government says.
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Honeyghan shows Rees the way
Ahead of Gavin Rees' tall world title task against Adrien Broner, Lloyd Honeyghan discusses his greatest-ever upset
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Prince to headline Montreux festival
Rock star Prince will return to the Montreux Jazz Festival for three nights in July, organisers announce.
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Hales fires England to series win
Alex Hales hits 80 as England thrash New Zealand by 10 wickets with 44 balls remaining to win the Twenty20 series 2-1.
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Fire at former asbestos factory
A huge fire breaks out at a former asbestos factory in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
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Backpacker missing in outback found
A British backpacker who went missing after setting out on a run in the Australian outback has been found, Queensland Police say.
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McCallister and McCrea quit the UUP
Ulster Unionist Party MLA Basil McCrea and former deputy leader John McCallister resign from the party following the decision to field a unionist unity candidate in Mid-Ulster.
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