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01/07/2009 12:13 PM
Warning for drivers after new low
Motorists were warned to take care on the roads after temperatures plunged to -12C (10.4F) overnight, on the coldest night so far of Britain's big freeze.


01/07/2009 12:12 PM
Dover Strait World Heritage bid
The Strait of Dover could join the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site if a joint bid by Eurotunnel and officials in France is successful.


01/07/2009 12:01 PM
Shedding light on a secret service
For more of its 100 years, MI5 has stayed in the shadows, but new chief Jonathan Evans seems keen to change its image and open it up.


01/07/2009 11:49 AM
UK car sales fall to 12-year-low
UK car sales in 2008 are 11.3% lower than they had been in 2007, following a 21.2% drop in December.


01/07/2009 11:48 AM
M&S to close stores and cut jobs
Marks and Spencer says it plans to close 25 Simply Food stores and two of its regular stores, and cut 1,230 jobs.