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Food industry experience offered

Major firms are participating in the Feeding Britain's Future skills training project

12:09am Sunday 27th May 2012

Thousands of unemployed young people are to be given free skills training from giants of the food industry.


Saltire Games ban 'ridiculous'

The saltire has been banned from being flown over Hampden during the 2012 Olympics

12:09am Sunday 27th May 2012

Olympic organisers have been criticised for a "completely ridiculous" ban on the saltire being flown over Scotland's national stadium during the Games.

Another Eurovision disaster for UK

Engelbert Humperdinck performs during the final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest (AP/Sergey Ponomarev)

11:49pm Saturday 26th May 2012

The UK's hopes of breaking its Eurovision curse came crashing down when veteran crooner Engelbert Humperdinck scraped into last-but-one place in this year's contest.

Peer faces probe call over expenses

Baroness Warsi is facing allegations she claimed for overnight accommodation when staying at a friend's house rent-free

11:24pm Saturday 26th May 2012

Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi is facing calls for an investigation into her expenses over allegations that she claimed for overnight accommodation when staying at a friend's house rent-free.

Soldier killed in Afghan blast

The MoD said a British soldier killed in Afghanistan was travelling in a vehicle at the time of the blast

8:27pm Saturday 26th May 2012

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.

Mini-heatwave sparks safety warning

Britons headed for the beach as the UK basked in summer sunshine

6:55pm Saturday 26th May 2012

The death of a teenager in the Thames prompted a warning of the dangers of cooling off in rivers as the UK's mini-heatwave continued.

Girl's royal design takes to skies

Eleven-year-old Katherine Dewar's Diamond Jubilee design has been placed on a British Airways 747 jet

5:10pm Saturday 26th May 2012

A 11-year-old schoolgirl has spoken of her pride at having a 747 jumbo jet decorated with her Diamond Jubilee artwork.

Boy drowns after jumping off bridge

The boy was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he was pronounced dead

5:05pm Saturday 26th May 2012

A 15-year-old boy has drowned after jumping from a bridge into a river.

Second body found in Indian river

The Foreign Office confirmed the body of a second Briton missing following a river trip in India has been found

4:56pm Saturday 26th May 2012

The body of the second of two British men who died during a trip on a crocodile-infested river in India has been found.

Hundreds celebrate birth of Church

The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu led a Pentecost service at Whitby Abbey

4:40pm Saturday 26th May 2012

More than 1,000 people have celebrated the birth of the Christian Church with the Archbishop of York in one of the north of England's best known landmarks.



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