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Dec 12 2011 POLICE are checking a detached house for chemicals or other substances after two adults and two children were found dead. Emergency services were called to a quiet cul-de-sac in Pudsey, near Leeds, late yesterday afternoon. Neighbours living nearby said the people who lived in the modern stone-built house were an ordinary family who had lived there for only a few months. One woman who laid flowers at…

12 December 2011: 7:08pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2011/12/12/gallery-santa-dash-2011-in-glasgow-edinburgh-86908-23629774/

12 December 2011: 9:23pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/12/12/scotland-faces-second-battering-with-strong-winds-set-to-return-86908-23629418/

12 December 2011: 7:11pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2011/12/12/royal-mail-expects-christmas-rush-will-ensure-busiest-day-of-the-year-86908-23629825/

12 December 2011: 12:45pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/business-news/2011/12/12/disadvantaged-communities-to-be-boosted-by-175m-regeneration-plans-86908-23629829/

Dec 12 2011 BT’s investment in superfast fibre broadband will see more than 277,000 homes and businesses across Scotland benefit. The communications company announced today that 34 new exchange areas will be targeted in the next part of its ongoing £2.5 billion investment to take fibre broadband to two-thirds of the UK by 2014. It includes four exchange areas in Aberdeen, seven in Edinburgh, six in Glasgow and two in…

Dec 12 2011 A FORMER News of the World investigative journalist revealed at an inquiry into press standards that his work had led to more than 260 “successful criminal prosecutions”. Mazher Mahmood, who was the defunct newspaper’s investigations editor, told the Leveson Inquiry that his most high-profile inquiry had been into Pakistani cricketers who were subsequently convicted of match-fixing. Mr Mahmood, who became known for disguising himself as a “fake sheikh”…

Dec 12 2011 THE lead investigator for the police watchdog inquiry into the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan was forced to admit a “mistake” was made in releasing information he fired at officers first. At a pre-inquest hearing into the death of the 29-year-old in Tottenham, north London, on August 4, Michael Mansfield QC, representing Mr Duggan’s family, grilled Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigator Colin Sparrow about the lack…

12 December 2011: 9:25pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/12/12/paramedic-pedestrian-hurt-as-emergency-vehicle-crashes-into-paisley-bus-stop-86908-23630183/

12 December 2011: 9:27pm | Article source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/12/12/power-restored-to-homes-affected-by-storms-that-battered-scotland-86908-23630112/