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On the theme of cooking

Guerra, whose work helped define post-war Italian cinema, dies in Rimini after a short illness.

Next reports strong 2011 profits but says it is cautious about this year as consumers continue to be squeezed.

A London council offers to pay the £199 that Olympic torchbearers will be charged if they want to buy their own torch as a memento.

A High Court judge has ordered Force India to pay more than £700,000 in unpaid fees to Italian race car design company Aerolab.

Regional pay in the public sector is criticised by the Welsh government as socially divisive, but the Treasury says too much is paid for staff in some areas.

An information breach at an English law firm leads to the publication of confidential documents about victims of the Omagh bombing.

The family of a Sheffield student who faces extradition to the US confirms that an appeal has been lodged by lawyers.

Twelve men are arrested in Oxford during a police operation tackling child exploitation offences including trafficking, grooming and rape.

B&Q owner Kingfisher has reported a 19% rise in annual profit, but sales in the UK and Irish Republic fell last year.

A woman kidnapped from a remote beach resort in Kenya and held hostage in Somalia for more than six months is preparing to return home to Britain.

Whales and dolphins can focus with a beam of sound - pinpointing their target with a narrow stream of clicks to study it in detail, according to scientists.

Poole's new £37 Twin Sails bridge could be open to traffic early in April, says the council.

Firefighters rescue three people, including a resident, after a fire breaks out in a first floor shower room at a care home.

"At times, a player can lose up to three kilos in a session just from sweat"

The BBC learns that two brothers who built one of Ireland's biggest construction groups had a bitter feud which threatened the business.

Japan posted a surprise trade surplus for February, after a record high deficit the previous month, as external demand picks up.

The longest running public inquiry in the history of the Irish Republic is expected to conclude later with the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report.

UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says it will invest £500m in manufacturing in the nation, including building a new factory in Ulverston, Cumbria.

Papers mull Osborne's Budget