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Refund concerns for scam victims - Refunds and discounts should be easier to claim by consumers who have suffered from aggressive sales techniques, Law Commissions say. [Business]

'Top up' in case of strike - PM - Motorists should top up their tanks in case a strike by fuel tanker drivers goes ahead but there is no need to queue, the PM says. [Business]

UK's Advertising Standards to investigate Apple over 'misleading' 4G claims after company offers refund in Australia - Britain's Advertising Standards Authority said that it was investigating a number of complaints that Apple's advertising for the new iPad was misleading. [Sciencw]

Illegal tyre dumping 'nightmare' - A warning is issued of the dangers of illegal tyre dumps as officials start to clear 7,000 left on farmland. [Front Page News]

Ship sinking costs Carnival $95m - The sinking of the Costa Concordia could cost parent firm Carnival up to $95m (£62m; 75m euro), the firm says. [Front Page News]

Sherlock Holmes WILL return for a third series next year, BBC confirms - Audiences were left unsure if the cantankerous detective would return after he appeared to 'die' with his reputation in tatters in Sunday night’s show. [Show Biz]

Luton airport planning expansion - Plans to increase annual passenger capacity to 18 million at London Luton Airport and create 6,000 new jobs are revealed. [Business]

Yummy mummies take to the catwalk as New York Fashion Week set to star a mothers-only runway show - Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show will give women inspiration when it comes to wearing outfits that can be easily transformed to take a mom from homes to evenings out. [Femail]

British surgeons pioneer surgery with robotic arm to fix blood vessel - Doctors at St Mary's Hospital in London have saved a man's life by performing a world-first heart operation using robotic technology. [Health]

Nationwide launches market-leading 18 month 0% purchase credit card - but there¿s a catch - Nationwide Building Society is launching an 18 month 0 per cent interest purchase credit card tomorrow – but you must be a current account customer to get it. [Money Mail]

Sainsbury's lands latest blow in supermarket petrol price war with '10p off a litre' promotion - The promotion will last from tomorrow until Sunday, and also applies to online shopping. Morrisons are also slashing prices at the forecourt from Monday. [Money Mail]

Games legacy boost for graduates - Glasgow City Council is unveiling a £10m scheme that aims to provide 1,000 jobs for graduates as a 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy. [Front Page News]

Nasa announces 2014 test flight of its Orion deep space capsule - The Orion capsule, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp, would fly aboard a Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [Sciencw]

Colombia fashion week 2011: Butt implants and 'mountains of cocaine' - A behind-the-scenes look at Colombia fashion week makes up the latest installment in the Fashion Week Internationale series - and reveals the Colombian obsession with plastic surgery. [Femail]

Thousands join remembrance events - Thousands of people of Wales across are joining remembrance events as a weekend of tributes begins to war victims. [Front Page News]

Outside of no.10, Meadow Road, the road surface has been eroded over years, patches have washed out and now there is a significant pothole.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 12 Meadow Road, Windermere
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The red and green man pedestrian crossing lights at the Netherhall Corner junction on the north east crossing of the A596 are not illuminated.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Wood Street, Maryport
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There are several deep potholes between Spout and Dovecote Gill
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Dowbiggin Lane, Dowbiggin
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This pavement by the fitness gym is in a very poor state. Please fix this by resurfacing or repairs.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 55 School Street, Barrow in Furness
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This pavement by the fitness gym is in a very poor state. Please fix this by resurfacing or repairs.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 55 School Street, Barrow in Furness
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Large deep pothole on Whitehead Street where it meets Rawlinson Street Barrow.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Whitehead Street, Barrow in Furness
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The east section of Warwick Square, near junction with Warwick road, on east pavement Street light 478 not working at all.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 14 Warwick Square, Carlisle
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A 200 Mtr stretch of road (100 Mtr either side of the cottages) is in V-poor condition.....Potholes + bad 'Ripple' surface breaking -up previous repairs (People are divrting across the road to avoid the ripple surface
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Rampside Road, Barrow in Furness
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There is a dead sheep in the water just after the waterfall near the amazing metal bridge. The bridge is in Birk Rigg Park

Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): arterial, Little Langdale
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The wall on the left here keeps being hit and then encroaches on the road . The newer white edge lines show the road width has been narrowed. This causes frequent accidents/near misses on a blind bend used by many HGVs. Can Cumbria Highways get together with the landowner(? Penny Bridge Hall Estates) and bring the road between Penny Bridge and the Farmers Arms at Lowick up to A road standards?
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): A5092, Ulverston
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I've watched children climbing up and playing on top of the united utilities waste water pumping station and would hate to see one fall off some anti vandle paint would prevent this
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Shore Road, Salterbeck
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Does the width of the road and the maintenance of the edges here meet A road standards?
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): A5084, Water Yeat
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An increasingly large pothole developping
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Outcast
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Hardly any surface on several areas in both directions from the point marked, up to Flan corner and down to 30 sign.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Town Bank Road, Ulverston
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The footpath from Maryport to Dearham along the River Ellen was the subject of some recent improvements. Unfortunately, some of the improvements were merely levelling the muddy clay surface. Especially at this point on the map, this has made the muddy area much worse. Proper repairs or improvements are urgently needed.
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There are multiple pot holes at this busy road junction
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Curzon Street, Maryport
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A684 (station Road Sedbergh) Breaking up into numerous potholes between Brimhaw and junction with Highfield Road.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Station Road, Sedbergh
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There are some diversion signs which have been left here and forgotten to be collected since the road closure at Dean over 4 months ago. Can they be collected and removed. Thank you.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Greysouthen
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Numerous potholes between Skelwith Bridge and Colwith Top.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): A593, Skelwith Bridge
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This stretch of road has deteriorated very badly in the winter and multiple deep potholes have developed which are very hazardous especially at night.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Kirkby Stephen
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A parliamentary committee questions the length and quality of some apprenticeships, saying six month programmes are of no real benefit.

Plans to use private firms in police roles in Surrey are put on hold, but West Midlands Police says the delay will not affect the process in its area.

The 44-year-old former supermodel Carla Bruni (pictured) had a 'brief but very passionate' relationship with Laurent Fabius, 65, before she married the then President Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2008.

The PM's stark comments put Britain on a collision course with new French president Francois Hollande who has promised voters yet more spending - despite debt levels spiraling out of control.

John McDonnell defies odds of 58,000 to 1 to again top the ballot to allow MPs to bring in a Private Member's Bill.

John McDonnell defies odds of 58,000 to 1 to again top the ballot to allow MPs to bring in a Private Member's Bill.

Arriving at the Grosvenor House Hotel, both Gary's wife Dawn and Mark's wife Emma were showing off the growing stomachs but were wearing very different outfits.

Alan Hansen says his old club Liverpool will need to move quickly to fill the void left by the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish.

Alex Cuthbert's decision to stay with Cardiff Blues will help his development, says director of rugby Phil Davies.

Not only did the bond markets force Spain to pay punitive and unsustainable rates to borrow, but also shares in the country's fourth-biggest bank Bankia plunged 22 per cent as its customers fled.

Hailing from Stockholm and with a BBC Sound Poll nomination already up their sleeve, the threesome released their debut album Instinct this week and have already had an overwhelming response.

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre says the club had "plenty of contact" for the vacant managerial position following Kenny Dalglish's departure on Wednesday.

Iain Balshaw aims to deny fellow England World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson a European trophy as Biarritz tackle Toulon in the Amlin Challenge Cup final.

The head of Syria's main opposition umbrella body, the Syrian National Council, says he will resign amid growing criticism and rifts within the group.

Robotic arm controlled by thought - Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts. [BBC Health]

Google 'Knowledge Graph' turns entire internet into one big Wikipedia - Google says this is a 'critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.' [Daily Mail IT]

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Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves) - Now we are getting ready to enter the world of thought-control, with headsets that can read our minds now available for as little as £300, and the software to turn our dreams into actions starting to take shape. [Daily Mail IT]

Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business]

Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business]

Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT]

Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health]

New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business]

Local elections 2012: Bloody nose for David Cameron as Labour on course to gain 700 seats - The PM, who suffered embarrassing losses in his own Oxfordshire constituency, apologised to Tory councillors today as more than 700 were expected to lose their seats in the crushing defeat for the party. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV]

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German state prosecutors quiz Ecclestone - German state prosecutors confirm questioning Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone over the 2006 sale of the sport's commercial rights. [Motorsport]

O'Driscoll declines royal invite - Ireland rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll turns down the chance to attend Friday's royal wedding in order to prepare for Leinster's Heineken Cup semi-final. [Rugby Union]

Wembley Arena to host 2012 events - Wembley Arena is confirmed as the venue for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events at the 2012 Olympics. [Gymnastics]

Biggest transfer saga ever? - LeBron James's summer move has basketball fans enthralled [Basketball]

Aberdeen sign goalkeeper Howard - Goalkeeper Mark Howard completes a move to Aberdeen after being released from his contract at St Mirren. [Football]

Racing in crisis, says Johnston - Middleham trainer Mark Johnston says the racing industry needs to change if it is to survive. [Horse Racing]

ITV sacks Earle over cup tickets - ITV World Cup pundit Robbie Earle is sacked by the broadcaster after tickets for his family and friends were passed onto a third party. [World Cup]

Tuesday's World Cup 2010 round-up - Carlos Tevez says only outright victory in South Africa will suffice for Argentina [World Cup]

Cup chiefs rule out vuvuzela ban - World Cup organisers say they will not ban vuvuzelas from stadiums in South Africa despite numerous complaints. [World Cup]

Cahill hopeful of beating Germany - Australia and Everton midfielder Tim Cahill is hopeful his side can get a positive result from their World Cup opener against Germany. [World Cup]

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