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3 February 2013 Last updated at 04:42 ET

Tory chairs urge gay marriage delay

Senior local Conservatives are urging the prime minister to delay any Parliamentary decision on gay marriage until after the next election.

Grayling defends child smacking

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling says he smacked his own children when they were young and defends the right of parents to smack.

Three rescued following avalanche

Three people are air-lifted to hospital after an avalanche in the Cairngorm mountains.

UK to host Afghan-Pakistani talks

UK PM David Cameron will hold talks with the Afghan and Pakistani presidents to discuss regional co-operation ahead of Nato's withdrawal in 2014.
Jobless 'pushed to self-employment'

Some welfare-to-work advisers are inappropriately telling the unemployed to become self-employed, a BBC investigation has found.
Staffing danger on wards, say nurses
Eight more held over stabbed boy
Wind turbines 'safe' insists industry
Small shop closures are 'progress'
'Steep decline' in child epilepsy
Midwife 'role' to target mutilation
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