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Man jailed for staging car crashes for money - BBC stands by invitation to Griffin - BNP leader will be allowed on Question Time.



Man jailed for staging car crashes for money

A man who staged car crashes for money, helping fraudsters claim 1.6 million pounds from insurance firms, was jailed Wednesday for four and a half years.

BBC stands by invitation to Griffin

British National Party leader Nick Griffin will be allowed to appear on Question Time tomorrow after the BBC Trust rejected appeals against the far-right politician's invitation.

BNP leader will be allowed on Question Time

BNP leader Nick Griffin will appear on Question Time o Thursday night, after the BBC Trust rejected appeals against his invitation.

Country facing two-day post strike

Postal workers are to stage a two-day nationwide strike on Thursday and Friday, the Communication Workers Union confirmed, in a bitter row over pay, conditions and modernisation.

Sister of Dunblane victim drowns

A woman who drowned while on holiday in Spain was the half-sister of one of the victim's of the Dunblane massacre.

Dems go after anti-trust exemption for insurers

Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws, part of an increasingly bare-knuckled struggle over landmark health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama.

Feds: Mass. man planned terror attacks on US malls

A pharmacy college graduate made a defiant appearance in federal court Wednesday, hours after being charged with conspiring with two other men in a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq.

Woman in W.Va. torture case now says she lied

A black woman whose racially charged allegations of horrific abuse helped put several people in prison now says she lied when she alleged she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and tortured in a ramshackle West Virginia trailer.

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