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25 September 2010 Last updated at 23:03 ET

Ed Miliband is new Labour leader

Ed Miliband beats his brother David by a wafer thin margin to be elected leader of the Labour Party.

Scottish knife convictions fall

The number of people convicted of carrying a knife in a public place in Scotland drops 22% in a year and is now at a nine-year low.
Banks urged to widen web access

People without the internet are losing out on the best deals for banking services, consumer group Which? says.
Medals for Afghan rescue soldiers

Two soldiers are to receive the Queen's Commendation for Bravery after diving into a freezing canal to save a comrade injured by a Taliban bomb.
UK's worst rail crash remembered
City life 'boosts bug resistance'
'17 applicants' for Scots teaching posts
Scots team heads to Delhi Games
Taxman targets Swiss bank clients
Rally driver dies in competition
Balloon teams lift off for race
Blast bomb found in north Belfast
Red Cap trial families 'excluded'
Probe over Briton's disappearance

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