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A fish and chip chain has said it would save the original Harry Ramsden's restaurant with a £500,000 investment.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, smiles during a visit to Kings Lynn Town Hall in eastern England Monday, Feb.

Australia Monday congratulated Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on her 60 years on the throne, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard describing the milestone as "truly remarkable". The queen drew cheering crowds in their thousands when she toured Australia last year, with the country's head of state fondly regarded Down Under despite fitful starts towards ... (more)

Two brothers have been charged with murder after the body of a man was found with serious head injuries.

The 2012 presidential campaign is like no other with nearly half of the TV ads being funded not by the campaigns, but by political action committees formed to support the candidates.

A top girls' school is planning a "failure week" to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. The independent school in south-west London hopes to make its pupils less afraid of occasional failure and will be using YouTube to this end.

The Twin Sails Bridge in the Dorset town of Poole might be the "dawn of a new urban renaissance", and a "catalyst for change", and will have a firework-studded celebration when it officially opens on 9 March. Some retired residents would rather like the town to stay off the developers' radar, so discontent still simmers.

Travellers expressed disbelief as Britain's busiest airport axed half of all flights amid forecasts of dry weather following a nationwide blanket of snow.

Past the glass case containing sketches for his novel "Oliver Twist," beyond the handwritten letter to his publisher about Little Nell, and away from the first published installments of "Hard Times" sits Charles Dickens' pet bird.

When Princess Elizabeth succeeded to the British throne in 1952, Canada hailed her as the country's queen even before the declaration was issued in her homeland.

Mr Whalen stood against her for the city council in 2010, when she won by 14 votes, and they were at loggerheads over city council plans to build accommodation for homeless families off Newtown Road.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will attend a church service on the eve of the monarch's Diamond Jubilee anniversary.

New engineering and business apprentices at BAE Systems will include 136 posts at the company's submarine building site in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria - the highest intake at the yard for five years.

A growing number of Scottish hotels are rolling out the red carpet for canine guests.

"A lot of people still don't have a clue about it," reveals Mark Somerville of Midhurst TV firm CJ Hampshire on the hugely-significant digital switchover.

London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its futile invasion of the Falkland Islands. A frigate and submarine have been sent to the area.

Firefighters yesterday said a chimney fire was the most likely cause of a major blaze which tore through a row of historic thatched cottages in a Devon town at lunchtime on Thursday, leaving families homeless.

NEW evidence on the Omagh bombing has emerged to strengthen calls for an international inquiry into the atrocity, bereaved families have said.

Optimism in the housing market has grown in recent months, with more Britons predicting prices will rise this year than those forecasting a fall, a study has found.