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A TELEVISION campaign targeting young people and the stigma of mental illness is being launched today.

THE 14-word question which will confront voters in a referendum over the European Constitution was published yesterday.

KENNY Richey, the Scot who had his murder conviction overturned after spending 19 years on death row in the United States, is likely to reject any plea deal that demands an admission of guilt for a lesser crime in order

A BOGUS doctor who made at least £1.5 million treating patients and helping asylum seekers stay in Britain was jailed for ten years yesterday.

THAI rescuers yesterday were searching for four tourists missing after a boat capsized and sank, killing at least eight.

THE TRUCE lasted for a fortnight, but Tony Blair and Gordon Brown resumed their cold war yesterday as they made competing speeches on their agenda for changing the world.

THE biggest computer calculation of its kind has forecast a degree of global warming greater than previously predicted, with Britain becoming an unrecognisable tropical country in a few generations.

A SOLDIER convicted in connection with the Iraqi abuse court martial was described at the trial yesterday as "a bit of a nutter" who loved violence so much that he was ordered to undergo psychiatric counselling.

ALASTAIR Campbell has made a full-time return to politics, resurrecting New Labour's winning general election team in readiness to fight a possible snap poll.

CONTROVERSIAL new laws to tackle international terrorism could be used to put British National Party members and animal rights activists under house arrest without criminal trial, a government adviser said yesterday.

THE four Britons who were returned to the UK after being detained without trial at the United States prison camp in Guantanamo Bay for three years were freed last night without charge.

THE Scottish Parliament has called in its auditors to examine the £41,154 travel claims of the former MSP Keith Raffan, it was disclosed last night.

A LIBERAL Democrat Party worker told a court yesterday of the moment a helicopter he was in crashed in Midlothian, shortly after dropping off the Scottish leader Jim Wallace during the election campaign two years ago.

EUROPEAN regulations that directly affect British life will not be subject to public scrutiny after a vote by Labour MPs.

CONDOLEEZZA Rice was confirmed as United States Secretary of State yesterday as a large majority of senators swept aside objections from some Democrats that she be held accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war.

MPs yesterday voted to spend less time with their families, opting to return to late-night sittings of the Commons one day a week.