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September 4, 2001

 

The housing boom is to end next year as the slowdown in world economies takes its toll on the property market, the big lenders has warned.

 

Security man on secrets charges for stealing top secret British and Nato defence secrets.

 

Patients will be able to have a one-to-one chat with nurses via TV under a pilot scheme launched.

 

City of London workers are facing a 40 per cent cut in their bonuses as the big investment banks attempt to cut costs.

 

2000th case of foot and month has been confirmed.

 

Man jailed for faking £8.4 million win on lottery.

 

England beats Germans 5-1 in football a record since 1966.

 

Fifty billion freshly minted euro coins began to roll across the Continent this month in heavily armored trucks. Over 6,000 tonnes of the new single currency - including 15 billion notes hit the road in the countdown to its launch in 12 countries on January 1, 2002.

 

British Army called in to help after a new out break of foot and mouth disease.

 

Three Kenyans dies in London this week. (See orbituaries).

 

British troops arrived in Macedonia and vowed they were "ready for anything".

 

British schoolgirl was killed and then kept in a freezer for 10 months before the body was dumped by killer.

 

Princess Margaret's health has deteriorated so much in a year says former aide

 

Queen 'will let Charles wed Camilla'.

 

The A-level pass rate has hit a new record despite claims from the Institute of Directors that standards are actually falling.

 

A British woman gave birth to six premature babies by Caesarean section. Five of the sextuplets - two boys and three girls survived and the sixth died after birth.

 

A fertility doctor has vowed to start work on human clones within weeks - despite warnings that the babies could be born with severe abnormalities.

 

Seventy tons of heroin and cocaine and more than 100 million ecstasy tablets flooded into Britain last year.

 

Asex attacker who bit his victim was identified by a dentist who made a mould of his teeth after his arrest and compared them with victims' wounds. Syed Mokit, 25 admitted attempted rape and indecent assault at Portsmouth Crown Court. He will be sentenced later.

 

Britain's economy faces a grim 12 months, with growth slowing and unemployment rising and business struggle to cope with the worldwide slump in demand, the Bank of England has said.