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MERSEYSIDE police are set to put the brake on motor cyclists riding illegally on open land. Police are warning riders they could face charges and hefty fines for riding on land without permission or on the road without tax and insurance. The move follows an increase in complaint

Briton on way home BRITISH Oxfam worker Peter Coleridge left Lebanon for his Oxford home today, two days after he was freed by a radical Palestinian group. "I am very happy to be joining my family tonight,' Mr Coleridge, 44, told reporters In Arabic.

A HUYTON-BORN diplomat narrowly escaped death when a grenade was thrown at a restaurant in Vietnam. Nicholas Enescott, British vice consul to Vietnam, was about to climb into his car when a man hurled the grenade. Nicholas was blown over as his car exploded, but escaped with shr

By Lynda Roughley TWO young children watched in horror as their father was blasted with a shotgun by a next door neighbour, it was alleged at Liverpool Crown Court. As he lay seriously injured on the ground, James Dykstra, 37, shouted to his wife, who was frozen to the spot, to

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