Balmy Winter Creates Perfect Storm For Crops

By Emma Birchley, Sky News Correspondent Bumper fruit and vegetable crops are expected this summer after an unusually mild, wet winter and spring. At Dedham Vale Vineyard in Essex the vines are a good month ahead of where they would usually be....

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Saturday's National Newspaper Front Pages

:: The Independent, The i, The Financial Times UKIP's strong showing in the local elections is described as a political "earthquake" and a "hurricane" which has shaken up the establishment :: Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph Ed Miliband is reeling...

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Tragic Sailors: Skipper 'Dearly Missed'

The family of yachtsman Andrew Bridge say they are "deeply saddened" by the discovery of the upturned hull of the missing boat Cheeki Rafiki. The search for the four British sailors ended at 3am UK time after a search of the capsized vessel found...

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Parties Reel From UKIP Election Success

UKIP's haul of seats in the council elections is up to 184 with the main parties now mulling the prospect of four-party politics in next year's general election. Nigel Farage has said his anti-EU party is a "serious player" for 2015 after they added...

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Stuart Hall Jailed For Sex Assaults On Girl

Ex-broadcaster Stuart Hall has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for indecently assaulting an underage girl. The former It's A Knockout presenter had been convicted of carrying out an attack on the youngster by a jury at Preston Crown...

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'No Evidence' To Place Rolf At 'Groping' Events

By Richard Suchet, Sky News Correspondent The barrister for Rolf Harris has told the jury at his sex assault trial there is no evidence to place him at events where he is alleged to have groped two girls. Despite police searches of newspaper archives,...

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Glasgow Art School Blaze: Salvage Operation

Firefighters battling a blaze at a historic art school building in Glasgow say they have managed to save the majority of its contents, including student art work. Crews were called to reports of a blaze at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh...

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Sex Offenders Face Lie Detector Tests

By Afua Hirsch, Social Affairs and Education Editor A thousand of the UK's most high-risk sex offenders are to undergo mandatory lie detector tests, under new measures announced by the ministry for justice today. Probation officers are being trained...

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Labour Badly Bruised By UKIP In Stronghold

Why The Only Way For Essex Is UKIP Updated: 8:12pm UK, Friday 23 May 2014 By Jason Farrell, Political Correspondent Standing by the roadside in their purple rosettes are two retired Essex men, Malcolm Elliott and Dave Morrish. They are brothers-in-law,...

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Putin Brands Charles Hitler Slur 'Unacceptable'

Vladimir Putin has branded a comparison made by the Prince of Wales in which the Royal likened the Russian president to Hitler as "not what monarchs do". Mr Putin said Prince Charles' reported comments were "unacceptable" and "wrong". The president...

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