Two footballers have gone on trial accused of raping a drunk teenage girl at a hotel in North Wales.

Sheffield United's Ched Evans and Port Vale's Clayton McDonald admit having sex with the 19-year-old in Rhyl, but deny rape.

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A man's been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for setting fire to a south London furniture store during last summer's riots.

34-year-old Gordon Thompson torched the Reeves store in Croydon, which became an iconic image of the trouble.

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Almost 20 horses at a sanctuary near Poole could have to be put down - unless a new home can be found for them..

Happy Horse at Lytchett Matravers rescues unwanted, injured and sick horses...and they've got three weeks to vacate their current site on Broadmoor Road after the landowner died.

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After almost 8 weeks there...Occupy Boscombe protestors are gonna be evicted from the Bournemouth Centre for Community Arts.

The Council's obtained an order to move the anti-capitalist demonstrators on from the empty building on Haviland Road..