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Nick Clegg has defended plans for a referendum on changing the Westminster voting system amid criticism from his own side.

The Government has ordered an independent review of an RAF Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Nick Clegg has confirmed.

A former air steward was charged today with the murder of a woman found in a suitcase at Heathrow airport.

GRAN given weeks to live 'was treated like a nuisance and fobbed off for months' by docs

DAYBREAK'S new features editor Grainne Seoige has shrugged off the comparisons to The One Show saying “we're not here to ape anyone else”.

A scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired

The country "cannot afford" to write-off underpayments of income tax caused by problems with the calculation system, a minister says.

Dramatic CCTV footage emerges of people and furniture being thrown around inside a P&O cruise liner as the ship is caught in a severe storm off the coast of New Zealand.

The world has a new shortest man - a 27in-tall person from Colombia. but is the title itself in poor taste?

Nasa have urged amateur astronomers to watch the skies as the Earth has a near encounter with two asteroids.

A woman who was thought to be the oldest person in Britain has died at the age of 111.

Prime Minister David Cameron today flew to southern France to be with his parents after his father Ian suffered a stroke on holiday.

The Secretary of State warns that the government will reappoint the Parades Commission if there is no local agreement on parading.

The Government's review of extradition arrangements will consider whether the treaty between the United States and the UK is "unbalanced", Home Secretary Theresa May said today.

Police beating victim reportedly to marry Cynthia Kelley after calling her on impulse four months ago - years after they last met

Rodney King, the man whose beating in 1991 by Los Angeles police sparked riots in which dozens died and blocks of the city were torched, is reportedly to marry a member of the jury that awarded him $3.8m (£2.5m) compensation three years after the assault.

According to the Radar online magazine, King is to marry Cynthia Kelley after calling her on impulse four months ago - years after they last met.

The couple, both then married to other people, shared a pizza the day after the 1994 compensation case, and began a relationship, but later broke up. Kelley was the only black juror, and said at the time that other jurors had suggested $100,000 would be appropriate.

In 1991, after a car chase through the San Fernando valley, King was dragged from his car by four white police officers and repeatedly beaten with clubs, kicked and punched as he lay on the road. The assault was captured on video by a passing amateur cameraman, and horrified the American public when it was televised.

When, the following year, all four police officers were acquitted, the city erupted: in six nights of rioting, 53 people died, thousands were injured, and the damage caused to property was estimated at over $1bn.

In a tearful television interview during the riots, King pleaded: "Can't we all just get along, can we stop making it horrible for the older people and the kids?"

King is now a grandfather, with three grown up children. In the years since the assault he has battled alcoholism, and appeared in a reality television series following rehab programmes, but in an interview last year he said: "My life is finally at a resting point."

This week he told Radar: "She [Kelley] is a godsend, a blessing in my life."

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REBECCA Kelly went on a diet because her boobs were too big for her new sports car

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