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Saturday - September 11th | | 3:30 | | Tax boss: 'No need to say sorry'
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| The UK's top tax man says he has no need to apologise after taking the wrong amount of tax from six million people. |
Friday - September 10th | | 18:30 | | Obama pleads for Koran row calm
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| US President Barack Obama warns Americans they must not turn on each other in the row over a pastor who wanted to burn the Koran. |
| 18:30 | | 40,000 police jobs 'threatened'
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| As many as 40,000 front-line police jobs may be at risk across England and Wales if 25% funding cuts go ahead, the Police Federation says. |
| 13:00 | | Police force plans 1,400 job cuts
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| Hampshire Constabulary plans to axe 1,400 posts - 20% of its workforce - including police officers. |
| 13:00 | | Royal Mail to be floated or sold
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| The government is to press ahead with privatising or selling the Royal Mail, following an updated review of the postal service. |
| 13:00 | | Koran protests sweep Afghanistan
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| Anti-American rallies sweep Afghanistan over plans, now on hold, by a US church to stage an 'International Burn a Koran Day'. |
| 13:00 | | Connaught sale saves 2,500 jobs
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| About 2,500 jobs are saved after administrators KPMG agree to sell most of Connaught's failed social housing group. |
| 4:01 | | US Koran burning event 'on hold'
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| The pastor of a US church at the centre of a row over plans to burn copies of the Koran says the event has not been cancelled, but is only 'on hold'. |
| 2:30 | | US pastor cancels Koran burning
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| US pastor Terry Jones cancels his Koran-burning event, claiming those behind an Islamic centre near New York's 'Ground Zero' had agreed to relocate it. |
| 2:30 | | Soldiers 'kept Afghan body parts'
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| A group of US soldiers murdered a number of Afghan civilians and took body parts as trophies, documents released by military officials suggest. |
| 2:30 | | Prison scheme backed by investors
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| A 'payment-by-results' project to cut re-offending is being officially launched, with investors getting a return only if reoffending drops. |
Thursday - September 9th | | 18:30 | | Alien 'killer' shrimp found in UK
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| An invasive species of predatory shrimp has been found in the UK for the first time. |
| 18:30 | | Rodney King tying knot with his juror
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| Nineteen years after his brutal beating by four LA police officers, Rodney King is marrying a juror from the case. |
| 18:30 | | Victoria Wood to star in Morecambe and Wise film
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| Comedians Victoria Wood and Vic Reeves sign up to star in a feature-length film about the comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. |
| 18:30 | | Second death linked to Legionnaires'
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| Health officials are investigating a second death which is being linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in south Wales. |
| 18:30 | | Chote set to head Budget office
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| Economist and former journalist Robert Chote is to become the new head of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). |
| 18:30 | | MPs get first vote on Afghanistan
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| The Commons is to vote for the first time on whether UK troops should remain in Afghanistan - almost nine years after the war started. |
| 18:30 | | British hostage freed in Pakistan
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| A British journalist held captive by militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released. |
| 18:30 | | Euro MPs condemn France over Roma
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| Euro MPs call on France to suspend its deportations of Roma (Gypsies), as Paris seeks co-operation from Romania. |
| 18:30 | | Iran 'set to release a US hiker'
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| Iran is set to release on Saturday one of three detained American hikers held since last July and accused of espionage, reports say. |
| 18:30 | | Obama condemns Koran burning plan
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| US President Barack Obama says a small church's plans to burn the Koran are a 'recruitment bonanza' for al-Qaeda, while Interpol warns it will provoke violence. |
| 18:30 | | MPs back new phone hacking probe
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| MPs back calls for a fresh parliamentary investigation into phone hacking claims after criticism of News of the World journalists. |
| 18:30 | | Defence firm BAE cuts 1,000 jobs
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| BAE Systems announces it is to axe almost 1,000 jobs across the UK, with 740 to go from five sites in England. |
| 18:30 | | Welfare bill 'to be cut by £4bn'
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| The government is planning to reduce the annual welfare bill by a further £4bn, Chancellor George Osborne tells the BBC. |
| 7:00 | | Spending cuts 'to hit north harder'
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| Industrial towns in the north east of England may be least able to cope with deep cuts in public spending, BBC-commissioned research suggests. |
| 2:30 | | US economic growth 'decelerating'
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| US economic growth showed 'widespread signs of deceleration' in August, says the Federal Reserve's Beige Book. |
| 2:30 | | Two missing in China rig accident
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| At least 30 workers are rescued and at least two are missing after a storm causes an oil rig off China's north-east coast to list dangerously. |
| 2:30 | | Merkel defends Danish cartoonist
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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused outrage in 2006. |
| 2:30 | | Dublin to break up Anglo Irish
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| The Irish government says it will break up the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank as part of the failed lender's resolution. |
| 2:30 | | Gunmen hit Honduras shoe factory
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| Men armed with automatic weapons burst into a shoe factory in northern Honduras, killing 18 people in a suspected gang attack. |
| 2:30 | | Castro criticises Iranian leader
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| Cuba's Fidel Castro criticises Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes. |
| 2:30 | | Second Iraqi TV presenter killed
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| Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad. |
| 2:30 | | Iran stands firm on stoning case
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| Foreign powers should stop interfering in the case of an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning, Iran's foreign ministry says. |
| 2:30 | | Vodafone to pay India $2.6bn tax
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| An Indian court tells Vodafone it has to pay $2.6bn in tax for its takeover of Hutchison Telecom's Indian phone assets. |
| 2:30 | | Man in court over India Pune bomb
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| A man appears in court in Mumbai in connection with a bomb blast at a German bakery in the Indian city of Pune six months ago. |
| 2:30 | | Koran bonfire 'still going ahead'
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| A US pastor says he is not 'backing down' from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation. |
| 2:30 | | Australia, NZ top 'giving' index
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| Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high. |
| 2:30 | | UN seeks to placate Rwanda leader
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| The UN's secretary general urges Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide. |
| 2:30 | | Nigeria replaces security leaders
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| Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed new military and police chiefs ahead of planned January presidential election. |
| 2:30 | | Clan 'behind Philippine massacre'
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| The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner. |
| 2:30 | | Shot boy's family still suffering
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| Police use the anniversary of the killing of Manchester schoolboy Jessie James to once again appeal for help to catch his killer. |
| 2:30 | | Boundary move 'gives Tories hope'
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| Boundary changes for the next Scottish Parliament elections suggest a possible boost to the Conservatives, according to experts. |
| 2:30 | | Nutrient clue to common disorder
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| Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect. |
| 2:30 | | MP met Claudy bomb suspect priest
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| The priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing met Martin McGuinness shortly before he died, the deputy first minister confirms. |
| 2:30 | | Cuts 'must be resisted' says SF
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| Sinn Fein says cuts 'proposed or imposed by the British goverment must be challenged and resisted', following Peter Robinson's call for savings. |
| 2:30 | | New-style device killed soldier
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| A 29-year-old soldier on foot patrol in Afghanistan was killed by a sophisticated explosive device which was hard to detect, an inquest hears. |
| 2:30 | | Metal plant to be decommissioned
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| Metal plant owners Anglesey Aluminium confirm production will not restart at their Holyhead factory which was mothballed 12 months ago. |
| 2:30 | | Cameron's father dies in hospital
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| David Cameron's father Ian dies in hospital in France shortly after the Prime Minister joined other members of his family at his bedside. |
| 2:30 | | Child detention 'harm' documented
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| A medical charity says it has documented for the first time the effects of immigration detention on children facing removal from the UK. |
| 2:30 | | Google unveils 'instant' searches
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| Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product, Google Instant, that displays results as soon as users type in queries. |
