A fishing disaster which claimed almost 200 lives is to have its 125th anniversary marked later this year.
“Black Friday” saw huge loss of life in waters just outside Eyemouth harbour in Berwickshire on 14 October 1881.
A meeting in the Borders town has drawn up plans to commemorate the tragedy including a sculpture of a mother […]
The heady heights of big business may seem out of reach for most of us.
But in a weekly series, BBC News Online looks at the lives of the UK’s top bosses - and uncovers the early secrets of company head honchos.
Matthew Emmens, 51, joined Shire Pharmaceuticals as chief executive in March 2003 after almost 20 […]
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More than 150,000 copies of Coldplay’s new album X&Y were sold on its first day of release.
Music experts expect that up to 500,000 copies of the album will be sold this week, sending it to number one.
X&Y could have the UK’s highest first week sales since Be Here Now […]
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Travel expert Peter Nunn and Kim Winter from Holiday Which? answer your questions on holidays.
Peter answers:
Tina is getting married next year and wants to know if there is a good time to book her honeymoon? Do holiday companies offer discounts for early booking?
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Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti says he will return to the stage in 2007 despite recent surgery for pancreatic cancer, according to reports.
“I have every intention of returning to singing,” the tenor, 70, told Italy’s La Stampa newspaper.
“I’ll have to discuss it with the doctors, but I think I’ll start again next year,” he […]
Hackers have stolen information from at least 45.7 million payment cards used by customers of US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx, and UK outlet TK Maxx.
BBC News explains how the fraud may have taken place and what you should do if you think you could have fallen victim.
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The fight to give the Lindisfarne Gospels a permanent home in the North East of England will be debated in the House of Commons next week.
Campaigners have been battling to move the Gospels from their current home at the British Library in London, to Durham Cathedral or Holy Island.
Gateshead East MP […]
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Middlesbrough’s Stewart Downing says he needs England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson to watch him more regularly if he is to play in this summer’s World Cup finals.
Downing, a regular for England Under-21s, has been strongly tipped to establish himself in the senior side.
“Sven watched me play for Boro in Rome, that’s the first […]
The bronze pan, dating from the second century AD, when the Romans built the dividing wall across the north of England, was found in the Staffordshire moorlands.
Archaeologists are excited because the names of four forts located at the western end of Hadrian’s Wall - Bowes, Drumburgh, Stanwix and Castlesteads - are engraved on the vessel.
The […]