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Body Found In Burning Car Near Golf Club

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 15 Maret 2015 | 23.39

A woman has been arrested after firefighters discovered a body in the boot of a burning car.

The 34-year-old is being held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, after the unidentified victim was found in the back of the badly damaged Volkswagen Jetta.

Fire crews were called to Ifield Golf Club near Horsham, West Sussex, on Friday afternoon after receiving reports that a vehicle was on fire.

A post-mortem examination is being carried out on the body, and investigators from the Surrey and Sussex major crime team have been unable to determine the victim's gender so far.

Detective Chief Inspector Jason Taylor said: "We are treating this as a murder investigation and are following several lines of inquiry.

"Anyone who has any information about the car, or saw it being abandoned and set on fire, is asked to contact police."

The unnamed suspect is from Dulwich in south London.


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'Poo Bus' Set For Number 2 Passenger Service

Britain's first "poo bus", which runs entirely on gas generated by human and food waste, is to go into regular service later this month.

Powered by biomethane gas, the Bio-Bus will use waste from more than 32,000 households along its 15-mile route.

Operated by bus company First West of England, the bus will fill up at a site in Avonmouth, Bristol, where sewage and inedible food waste is turned into biomethane gas.

The bus, which can seat up to 40 people, was unveiled in the Bristol area last autumn.

Transport company First is showing off the bus in Bristol on Tuesday and it will operate four days a week on Service 2, which stretches from Cribbs Causeway to Stockwood, from 25 March.

If the route proves a success, First will consider introducing more "poo buses".

First West of England managing director James Freeman said: "Since its original unveiling last year the Bio-Bus has generated worldwide attention and so it's our great privilege to bring it to the city, to operate - quite rightly - on Service 2.

"The Bio-Bus previously made an appearance running between Bath and Bristol Airport at the end of last year, but it's only actually been used once before in the centre of Bristol itself."

He went on: "The very fact that it's running in the city should help to open up a serious debate about how buses are best fuelled, and what is good for the environment."


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Budget: Osborne To Extend Pension Freedoms

Chancellor George Osborne is expected to extend pension freedoms to some five million people who have already purchased an annuity.

The change - due to be announced in Wednesday's Budget - will remove limits on buying and selling existing annuities.

The reform lets people cash in their annuity without incurring heavy tax penalties.

It also allows pensioners the same access to their retirement funds as the Chancellor announced last year for people who have yet to take their pensions.

Under those changes, from 6 April people can cash in their pension savings when they retire, rather than purchase an annuity.

With just weeks to go before the General Election, the announcement is expected to be popular with elderly voters.

The Chancellor is also reportedly considering cutting inheritance tax in a move which could allow millions to pass on their homes to their children tax free.

The Sunday Express reports that Mr Osborne is considering raising the death tax threshold from £325,000 to £1m, or abolishing the tax for a main family home.

The reform will either be announced in the Budget or as part of the Conservative manifesto, according to the newspaper.

Mr Osborne is expected to say on Wednesday that his Budget will deliver "a truly national recovery".

The Chancellor will outline measures to invest in industries around Britain, not just in London and the South East.

The measures are expected to include increased support for regional technology clusters and investment in the chemical sector in the North East.

Writing in The Sun On Sunday, Mr Osborne said: "We mustn't go back to the bad old days of just relying on the City of London for growth.

"New analysis shows that if all parts of England outside London and the South East grew at the national average then the UK economy as a whole could be an extra £90bn bigger by 2030.

"And it can be done. Between 2010 and 2013 Yorkshire and the Humber alone created more jobs than the whole of France, and in the South West over the last year someone has got a new job every 10 minutes."


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Liam Gallagher Tweet Signals End To Oasis Feud

One of rock music's longest feuds appears to be over - after Liam Gallagher buried the hatchet with brother Noel by going to see his new band on tour.

Liam famously quit Brit rock group Oasis just before they were to go on stage in 2009.

But on Saturday he tweeted a photo of himself holding an Access All Areas pass for his brother's band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Beside the picture was the caption: "Keeping it in the family...LG x".

And last week, ahead of the band's concert at Manchester Arena, he posted: "Hometown gig tonight. Keeping it dangerous."

The messages come after years of bickering between the pair, with Noel, 47, recently labelling his younger brother as "crazy" and saying he was making "a f****** mess" of his personal life.

He had said: "As we know, you can't plan 30 seconds of your life with him, as it can go t*** up any time.

"It can be in a lift going up to a hotel room or at the side of the stage before you go out to 25,000 people."

Liam, 42, had accused his brother of being a control freak, adding that he had hated working alongside him during their time in Oasis, which was formed in 1991, with Noel joining four years later.

By the time Liam walked out on the group, they had sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide and spent 765 weeks in the Top 75 singles and album charts between 1995 and 2005.

Any hopes that there might be an Oasis reunion, however, were dashed two years ago when Liam said: "Everyone knows my feelings, I'm not shy with that.

"I love our kid - as in the Noel that's not in a band.

"But the geezer that's in the band? I f******, absolutely f******, despise him."


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Friend Or Pho? Clarkson's Apology Revealed

Jeremy Clarkson is filling his days getting into a different kind of stew - as a friend revealed he phoned BBC bosses to apologise for his notorious "fracas" to avoid a formal bureaucratic inquiry.

The presenter, who has joked about his ham-fisted, "Keith Floydish" foray into Vietnamese food, called Danny Cohen, director of television at the corporation, even though Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon had not made a complaint.

It is understood Clarkson, 54, hoped this would draw a line under the matter - "not least for the sake of the hundreds of people standing by to carry on with the rest of the show," according to his friend AA Gill.

"It was Jeremy who handed himself in. He ... explained he had lost his rag after a difficult and tiring day," the food critic wrote in The Sunday Times.

Gill praised his "mate" as a hard-working broadcaster who had earned the BBC "hundreds of millions" and slammed Mr Cohen's investigation into the row as "preposterous and ponderous".

He said: "Jeremy reported the incident. It was over the absence of hot food at the end of a long and frustrating day with the prospect of another early start in the morning.

"The producer, Oisin Tymon, had not made a complaint. Jeremy called Danny Cohen, the director of BBC television, directly and explained he had lost his rag.

"Cohen had a choice: to do the right thing or the bureaucratic thing, but at the BBC no good intention goes unquestioned."

He added: "People work long hours with a great deal of stress, and small things - almost invariably food - are tetchy trip-wires.

"Whatever did happen, in mitigation to Jeremy, nobody works harder or under more stress than he."

Mr Cohen suspended Clarkson and cancelled the next three episodes of the BBC2 programme after reportedly hearing that Clarkson threw a punch at Mr Tymon.

He also announced an inquiry into the incident, due to begin on Monday.

It will be led by Ken MacQuarrie, the head of BBC Scotland, who carried out the investigation into Newsnight's false expose of Lord McAlpine.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Clarkson described himself as a "not very interesting fat man" and joked about retirement while he awaits the disciplinary hearing.

"We read often about active and busy people who die the day after they retire because they simply can't cope with the concept of relaxation," he said.

"So as I seem to have a bit of time on my hands at the moment, I thought it would be a good idea to take up some kind of hobby.

"I began by watching daytime television, and soon felt myself starting to slip away. So I turned over to the news and it was all about a not very interesting fat man who had been suspended from his not very important job.

"But watching the fat man made me hungry and that's when the penny dropped: I'd take up cooking."

He added: "I decided to get ambitious and cook the most delicious thing I've eaten in  my life: a pho ... a Vietnamese noodle soup that contains about 128 ingredients."

However, after tucking into wine while waiting for the beef broth to cook and adding chillies "that sat on the Scoville scale just above lava" he went to bed "hungry, drunk and with an ulcerated, gangrenous mouth".

Following his comments on Saturday that the time may have come for him to leave Top Gear, was he hinting at a possible new career as a restaurant critic?

"My new hobby is called 'going out to restaurants and letting people who know what they're doing cook my food," he wrote at the end of his column.

The BBC investigation will try to establish what happened on the night of 4 March at the Simonstone Hall hotel in Hawes, North Yorkshire, after Clarkson was told the chef had stopped serving hot food.

It will also take into account Clarkson's other controversies of the past two years, and could take weeks until his fate is decided.

The delay already appears to have irked fellow Top Gear presenter James May, who tweeted on Saturday: "So; it's been a week, and still no answer. How exactly do you pronounce 'fracas'?"

Nearly one million people have signed a petition calling for Clarkson to be reinstated, but not everyone at the BBC wants him back.

The BBC's in-house magazine, Ariel, published a letter from a receptionist at BBC Oxford that reflects the mood of some staff.

Pat Noel argued "there are only so many warnings the BBC can give one person. There is a lot of great talent in the BBC; let's not make one man a god."

Last month, the BBC approved its new bullying and harassment grievance policy, agreed with unions, and some are seeing allegations that Clarkson threw a punch at a producer as a test case.

Luke Crawley, assistant general secretary of the broadcast and workers' union Bectu, told The Observer: "If it turns out that the allegations are true, then the BBC must take a very firm line.

"Otherwise it seems to be open season for star presenters taking a pop at staff. This is a pretty serious test case."


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WATCH: 'Mouth Of Hell' Bus Station Demolished

A Northampton bus station dubbed "the mouth of hell" has been demolished.

The Greyfriars bus station was built in 1976, an example of brutalist architecture, and was so despised that the Lonely Planet guide once described it as "infamously ugly".

It was costing taxpayers £500,000 in repairs each year and the council claimed it would cost almost £30m to renovate it. So the three-storey building, which included a car park and offices, had been left to deteriorate.

A new bus station opened last year and so Northampton Borough Council decided the old one should go, in an event streamed live to more than 1,300 people in order to discourage them from risking their safety at the scene.

The council set up an exclusion zone and evacuated 414 homes near the four-acre town centre site as a precaution.

David Macintosh, leader of the council, said, despite the building's ugliness, residents had expressed some sadness leading up to its demolition.

He said: "It's funny because, in the last couple of months, people have said, 'we will miss it'.

"It's not very well-liked, and is now redundant. 'The mouth of hell' sums it up perfectly."

The bus station also featured on a Channel 4 series called Demolition in 2005, when it was voted third favourite out of 12 buildings that should be demolished.

It was during this programme that the "mouth of hell" moniker was coined by broadcaster Kevin McCloud.


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Clegg Insists Lib Dems Are 'Here To Stay'

Nick Clegg has delivered a defiant pre-election message at his party's spring conference by insisting the Liberal Democrats will do "better than anyone thinks" at the 7 May election.

Despite opinion polls indicating the Lib Dems could lose dozens of seats, the Deputy Prime Minister told delegates that the party "can and will win" in areas where it can mount a strong campaign on the doorstep.

Hailing the party's "incredible resilience", he declared: "It is because of our resilience that Britain has a strong, stable Government and a strong, stable recovery.

"It is because of our resilience that we have been able to achieve incredible things. And it is because of that resilience that we will defy the odds and win again this May.

"So when people tell you we can't, tell them where to go. I have a message for all those who are writing us off once again: the Liberal Democrats are here to stay."

Mr Clegg insisted that the Lib Dems can defy the odds in the 56 seats they currently hold.

"I've heard the predictions. I've seen the polls. But let me tell you this: we will do so much better than anyone thinks," he said.

"In those seats where we are out in force, making our case loudly and proudly, we are the ones making the weather. I've seen it for myself in Liberal Democrat seats across the country.

"We are showing that with hard work, strong local campaign teams and a record of delivering for people in national and local government, we can and will win."

At the conference in Liverpool yesterday, Mr Clegg said the final significant decisions of the current coalition Government had already been taken, with negotiations over Wednesday's Budget almost finalised.

He told activists that the fact the coalition has lasted the full term of the parliament meant the Lib Dems had "changed the political landscape forever".

Meanwhile, Mr Clegg faces a leadership challenge after top Lib Dem MP and former party president Tim Farron vowed to bring the party "back from the dead".

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, the hot favourite to succeed Mr Clegg said the party had been "tarnished" by the coalition with David Cameron.

Brushing aside alleged claims by the Clegg camp that he is a "sanctimonious, God-bothering, treacherous little s***", Mr Farron made it clear that, if there is another hung parliament after the election and he is in charge, it will take more than a limo to see him jump into bed with the Tories or Labour.

He said: "If you believe what really matters is that ministerial car, you will give way to the other side more than you should."


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End Of Life Care Should Be Free, Say MPs

By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent

End of life care should be made available free of charge, MPs have concluded.

A report by the Health Select Committee found that acute and community care for people reaching the end of their lives varies around the UK and has called for long-term sustainable funding for hospices.

Report author Dr Sarah Wollaston MP said: "There are unacceptable levels of variation in the care that people receive and this needs to be addressed so that high quality end of life care is available to everyone regardless of their age, medical condition or where they live.

"We must make sure that specialist palliative care expertise is accessible within hospitals and community settings as well as within our hospices."

In patient Vera Clark, 87, is currently being treated for lung and heart problems at the highly rated Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted, Herts.

Her son Brian, who visits her every day, told Sky News: "We do feel lucky that she is where she is, it makes such a difference knowing she is in the right place."

Hospice director Dr Ros Taylor, who is also national director of Hospice UK, explained that some patients still get lost within the NHS system.

"There isn't the confidence of nurses and young doctors in hospital to have those conversations to recognise that somebody might be towards the end of their life, so the planning doesn't happen and people die waiting to leave hospital," she said.


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Tory Grandee Dismisses Pact With 'Angry' UKIP

Former Tory cabinet minister Ken Clarke has said he would be "fiercely opposed" to any post-election deal with UKIP - dismissing the party as "just angry protest".

The veteran MP's withering comments came as UKIP leader Nigel Farage outlined his demands for propping up a minority Conservative government after the poll in May.

His terms would include holding an EU referendum this year.

Mr Clarke told Sky News' Murnaghan programme: "I would be fiercely opposed to anybody doing any deal with a hardline right-wing nationalist party that wants to blame foreigners and Brussels for all our problems.

"It would be an extraordinary thing to do to enter into an agreement with a party that is just angry protest.

"I understand angry protest but it is not a party that any of the serious governing parties should enter into deals with."

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised the British people a vote on whether to leave Brussels by the end of 2017 if he remains in Downing Street after the General Election.

But Mr Clarke, who is pro-European, said he agreed with the UKIP leader - at least on the timing of a referendum.

He said: "If we have a referendum, I would quite like it to be done early.

"We have achieved most of the things that David Cameron set out in his Bloomberg speech when he announced his desire to have a referendum and I think having this neurotic debate with occasional interventions from Mr Farage for the first two years of the next parliament is a nonsense that no government, whoever is elected, would really seriously want to put up with."

Mr Farage's demand for a 2015 referendum on EU membership was made in a four-point ultimatum published in an extract from his memoirs in the Sunday Telegraph.

He said he would ban EU citizens from voting in it unless they also held a British passport, even though this would see his German wife Kirsten unable to take part and could also lead to a legal challenge.

However, the UKIP parliamentary candidate for South Thanet says that his party will not enter a formal coalition with the Tories and he is not interested in a "ministerial car".

Mr Farage says his deal "would be very precise and simple".

He says: "I would look to do a deal where we would back key votes for them - such as the Budget - but in return for very specific criteria on an EU referendum.

"I want a full and fair referendum to be held in 2015 to allow Britons to vote on being in or out of the European Union. There would be no wiggle room for 're-negotiation' somewhere down the line'."


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British Teenage Terror Suspects Back In UK

Three British teenagers are back in the UK after being detained for allegedly trying to travel to Syria to join terror group Islamic State.

The group, a 19-year-old male and two boys aged 17, are being held at a central London police station after being arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, said Scotland Yard.

They were apprehended at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Istanbul.

They first travelled from England to Spain before flying on to Turkey, according to Sky sources.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said counter-terrorism officers were alerted on Friday that two 17-year-olds from northwest London had gone missing and were believed to be travelling to Syria.

Enquiries revealed they had gone with a third male, aged 19.

Officers alerted Turkish authorities who intercepted all three and prevented them crossing into Syria.

A Met police spokesman said: "On Saturday, 14 March the three males returned to the UK and at approximately 11.10am were arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts contrary to section five of the Terrorism Act 2006.

"All three have been taken to a central London police station, where they remain in custody."

The detention of the males reveals cooperation between the UK and Turkish police forces, which has faced criticism after three British schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS.

Kadiza Sultana, 16, Shamima Begum, 15, and Amira Abase, 15,  flew from Gatwick to Istanbul on 17 February and are feared to have continued to Syria to become so-called "jihadi brides".

The girls, who all attended Bethnal Green Academy in East London, are believed to be staying in a house in the IS militants' stronghold Raqqa.

The teenagers are thought to have stolen family jewellery to fund their trip, according to police.

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  1. Gallery: Three Schoolgirls From East London Missing

    These pictures were taken from Kadiza Sultana (l) and Shamima Begum's (r) Twitter accounts

Kadiza and Shamima are feared to be on their way to Syria with a third girl, 15-year-old Amira Abase

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