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Blair cancels book signing amid Iraq protest threat (AFP)

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AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair on Monday cancelled a planned book signing session in London to promote his memoirs after anti-war protestors threatened to target it.

Duck house, symbol of UK expenses scandal, sold (Reuters)

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Reuters - A floating duck house, which came to symbolize a parliamentary expenses scandal that rocked British politics last year, has been sold and the money given to a cancer charity, the organization said on Monday.

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Get the celebrity scent with UK tabloid's perfume (Reuters)

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Reuters - Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper launched its own celebrity perfume on Monday to provide readers with the scent of showbiz.

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Coulson under pressure over hacking row (AFP)

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AFP - Opposition lawmakers called for Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief to quit Monday over fresh allegations that he knew about illegal phone tapping by reporters when he was a tabloid editor.

EU budget chief sparks row over British rebate billions (AFP)

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AFP - Europe's budget chief sparked a fierce row with Britain on Monday over the 'Thatcher rebate' which sees billions returned to London in lieu of farm payments to France and Germany.

UK police may probe alleged tabloid phone hacking (AP)

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AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, a former tabloid editor, offered Monday to meet with police as they consider reopening an investigation into claims his newspaper's reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities.

Schoolboy finds pipe bomb in Northern Ireland (AFP)

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AFP - A Northern Ireland school was evacuated Monday after an eight-year-old boy found a pipe bomb in the playground, in what police said was a "cowardly" attack blamed on militants opposed to the peace process.

Govt to announce student visas crackdown (AFP)

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AFP - The government is to outline a crackdown on people arriving on student visas Monday as it bids to tighten its immigration system, described by a minister as "largely out of control".

Police release new shots after MI6 death (AFP)

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AFP - Police released new images Monday of a British spy whose naked, decomposing body was found padlocked into a bag in his bath tub.

Ex-headteacher jailed for abusing boys (AFP)

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AFP - A former boarding school headteacher who subjected his pupils to a brutal regime of sexual abuse and beatings during the 1970s and 1980s was jailed on Monday for 21 years.