Private school in swine flu scare after 120 pupils are struck down with sickness

Over 120 cases of sickness absence have been recorded in the school in the last two weeks, not all of which are associated with influenza-like illness.

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Mr Smith said: "The Julian Assange I know has a number of qualities: he's a very honourable person, hugely courageous, self-deprecatory - none of the things you read about."

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A spokesman for the Met Office said: 'A band of rain and snow will move southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland during the early hours of Thursday with widespread icy surfaces then rapidly developing, potentially around the morning rush-hour period.

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A close relative of Dr David Kelly broke the family's silence yesterday to voice fears that he was murdered.

Wendy Wearmouth said she found it 'incredibly unlikely' that he committed suicide and suggested he was assassinated.

Dr Kelly, 59, is alleged to have committed suicide after being unmasked as the source of a BBC report questioning the grounds for Tony Blair taking Britain to war in Iraq.

Unusually, no coroner's inquest has ever been held into his death.

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'Gift wrap it please, Benskin. I don't want Camilla to see her Christmas present too early.'

Mac on... the use of water cannon to control student riots

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And he has accused global giants Visa, MasterCard and PayPal of being “instruments of US foreign policy” after they severed links with WikiLeaks since it began publishing its trove of about 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables.

The accusation came in a statement passed on by Mr Assange's mother Christine ahead of the Australian's appearance at an extradition hearing in London tonight, The Australian reports.

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