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Music tuition falling, poll says
Sep. 4 | Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents’ generation, a survey suggests. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external...
Plane body women face no charges
Sep. 3 | Two women who were arrested after trying to take a dead relative on to a plane will face no charges. Gitta Jarant and her daughter, Anke Anusic, were arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport when it emerged Curt Willi Jarant, 91, was dead. The women...
India Maoists kill police hostage
Sep. 3 | The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the poor Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar have said they have killed one of four policemen they have been holding hostage. The claim has not been independently verified. The rebels had told...
School lottery ‘failed in aim’
Sep. 3 | A lottery system for school places in Brighton failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external...
Memristor revolution backed by HP
Sep. 2 | A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external...
Girl in hospital after dog attack
Sep. 2 | Toni Clannachan was bitten as she played in a schoolfriend’s garden A 10-year-old girl has been hospitalised after she was bitten by a dog in Kilmarnock. Toni Clannachan, 10, was bitten in the face by a Japanese akita dog while she was playing...
Obama demands Mid-East progress
Sep. 2 | President Barack Obama said the goal of the talks was to resolve all final status issues US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a permanent peace deal “slip away”. “This moment...
Boy hit by boat is critically ill
Sep. 2 | A six-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was hit by a boat in County Down on Monday afternoon. The boy was struck by the boat on Cranfield Beach just before 1700 BST. Police said he was taken to Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry following the...
India growth rate rises to 8.8%
Sep. 1 | India is the world’s second fastest-growing economy India’s economy grew at its fastest rate for more than two years in the last quarter, according to official data. In the three months to June, GDP was up 8.8% compared with the same period...