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<TEXT>MP Eric Joyce has avoided a prison sentence after pleading guilty to assault
following a bar brawl in the House of Commons.

The member for Falkirk attacked four fellow politicians while drunk and swore
at police.

He's been given a 3-thousand pound fine and isn't allowed in pubs for three
months.

He told reporters outside court he was 'lucky' to escape jail.

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<TEXT>Portuguese police have reportedly launched a review of the Madeleine McCann case.

A team of detectives are re-examining the original investigation into the little girl's disappearance in 2007.

Officers from Scotland have been carrying out their own review since last May.
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<TEXT>Questions are mounting about a mission to rescue two engineers held hostage in Nigeria that left both men dead. 

The Italian president says he finds it 'inexplicable' that the British government hadn't warned Italy about the operation.

Chris McManus from Oldham and his Italian colleague were killed when the rescue mission went wrong.
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<TEXT>Mid-Dorset and North Poole MP Annette Brooke has broken her hip and wrist.

She tripped over a paving stone in London and is in hospital in the capital - but says she hopes to be back at work soon.
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<TEXT>Most great-grandmas don't fly 300 metres across a river valley on a zip wire on their 70th birthday.

But that's exactly what June Richards from Upton in Poole is doing tomorrow - to raise funds for Action for Children, who support vulnerable and neglected youngsters.

June's raised over thirty thousand pounds for different causes over the years, including doing half-marathons and a parachute jump.
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