25th July 17:38BST, UK evening news flash:

25, July 2008 by whitdawg

Main:

Times - On the ropes: PM ‘Brown and out’ suffers humiliating defeat in Glasgow by-election, own MP calls for him to quit.
Sky - Around 50 deaths as boat sinks in northern Congo.
Guardian - Stall tactics: War crime monster Radovan Karadzic is expected to lodge a last minute appeal against extradition to the Hague.
Times - Aviation experts have said that the Qantas 747 terror could have been caused by bomb.
Metro - Josef Fritzls family have fall-out and mother is thrown out.

Economy:

ITN - A study has shown that the average Brit is 52 days from ruin if unable to work.
Independent - UK growth slumps to ‘zero’, economy a cats whisker away from recession.
Telegraph - US mega bank, JP Morgan, leads possible break-up initiative of HBOS.

Other:

Sky - Dominatrix: ‘My biggest mistake’ - Sex, uniforms, Max Mosley and me.
London Paper - Amazing 3D street art stuns passengers at Waterloo station.
Metro - Penis artist projects his ‘power’ onto buildings.
Sun - Virgin billionaire Richard Branson is set to unveil his ’space tourist’ mothership.
Times - Mystery oyster killer threatens to deprive France of its precious delicacy.
Metro - An ‘impossible’ Heather Mills is dumped by her agent as she strives to conquer the US.
Mail - A bride buys a £1500 bespoke wedding dress for just £2.50 on eBay.

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24th July, UK evening news flash summary:

24, July 2008 by whitdawg

Main:

President of FIA Max Mosley wins £60,000 damages (+ costs) over News of the World ‘nazi style’ orgy case.
First pictures of WWII bunkers being searched by police in the ongoing case of Jersey child sex abuse.
Zimbabwes army could go unpaid as sanctions bite and limit supply of paper for banknotes.
Opposition Conservative leader, David Cameron, has bike stolen from outside his local Tesco.
Berlin awaits Obama speech.
Internet firms in purge on download pirates.

Economy:

Ontario Teachers Pension Plan admits ‘moneysupermarket.com’ bid talks.
New Northern Rock boss to pocket £1.2 million.
Consumer spending falls to lowest level for 20 years.

Other:

Pictured: First man in the world to give birth shows off his new baby girl.
Man breaks ‘underwater’ cycling record.
Invasion of the jellyfish: Mediterranean on alert as hundreds suffer from stings.
Once upon a time in Narnia, a little Scots boy lost a battle with corporate lawyers.
Girl, 8, kicked out of tennis tournament after father gave her secret instructions through a hidden ear-piece.
Bears eat two workers in remote Russian region.

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23rd July, UK evening news flash summary:

23, July 2008 by whitdawg

Main:

Back from the dead canoeist John Darwin and wife Anne are sentenced to more than a total of 12 years over £250,000 fraud case.
Revealed: Karadzic’s ‘General Mladic’ gave information to investigators to save himself from capture.
A marine is awarded the ‘George Cross’ after throwing himself on an exploding grenade to protect 3 comrades.
A protesters tries to super-glue himself to PM Gordon Brown.
Irans Ahmadinejad has stated that there will be ‘no nuclear retreat’.
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has lost his appeal against extradition to the US.

Economy:

UK mortgage approvals reach record low, down nearly 70%.
FTSE rises as Vodafone enters £1 billion buyback.
Months of pressure see BP recall its last engineers and tech staff from oil-rich Russia.

Other:

Drama at zoo as escaped chimp grabs gun.
Galapagos: Giant tortoise bachelor LOnesome George may finally be a father.
US Matchbox car collector set to auction entire collection for around £500,000.
Musician ‘Seal’ has said that London is more violent than Los Angeles.
Army Sergeant made £200,000 in 12 weeks, selling beer to troops.
Bull ring collapses in Colombia.

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22nd July, UK evening news flash summary:

22, July 2008 by whitdawg

Main:

The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes for over 10 years has been arrested.
A bulldozer driver has been shot dead after he staged a copycat attack on two cars in Jerusalem.
One in five 14/15 year olds admit to carrying weapons.
Overcrowded British prisons mean that prisoners are forced to sleep in toilets.
Gordon Brown has the same effect on Israeli young people as he does with most people, they fall asleep as he gives a speech.

City:

Hedge funds may have made £1 billion after the disasterous HBOS £4 billion rights issue.
The Governor of the Bank of England has called for all banks to put billions of pounds into a fund in case a bank collapses in the future.

Other:

Get your tissues ready: Dying boy, 8, ‘marries’ school sweetheart in last wish before telling mother: ‘I can go now’.
Peaches Geldoff lives life like her late mother Paula Yates, and has a suspected drugs overdose.
Flesh eating fish give pedicures.
Batman star in holy bust up.
Experiments on animals rose to 3.2 million last year.
Anti alien hats for Wales.

Todays ‘Just for fun’:

Video: This little girl wants a toy from inside the ‘claw game’ and figures out a way to cheat.

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21st July, UK evening news flash summary:

21, July 2008 by whitdawg

Main:

Portuguese authorities have lifted the ‘arguidos’ status (official suspect) of the parents of missing Maddie McCann. The case has been shelved due to a lack of evidence.
Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai shook hands today as they signed an agreement to hold power sharing talks between the two parties in Zimbabwe.
PM Brown became the first British PM to address a speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. He warned Iran to abandon its nuclear programme or face growing isolation.
French PM Sarkozy has arrived in Ireland for talks regarding the previously rejected EU treaty.
The government has warned that the world is failing to guard against an inevitable flu pandemic which could kill 50,000,000.
Shock: UK homeowners must let local council officials in their houses to check for DANCING BEARS after a vast array of laws were issued.
Revealed: Crime isnt just for older teenagers and adults, children as young as three years old are committing crimes.

City:

As more doom and gloom hits the UK economy, a call has been made to cut interest rates.
Homes are selling for alot less. Figures show that the average asking price is down £4,000 on a year ago.
Official: The underwriters of HBOS’s £4 billion rights issue have been left with £3.8 billion of shares as the bank is shunned by its shareholders.

Other:

A sickening ‘fight club’ craze is sweeping North Wales where fights are arranged and then posted on YouTube.
Shock review: Film critic Jonathon Ross has dismissed the new Batman movie as ‘boring and gloomy’.
Madonna in alleged sex video shocker.
Pictured, the Raptor, the new £71 million US fighter plane.
More than 300 women strip off for charity on freezing UK beach, but fail to beat record.

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