The plane caught fire as it crashed into Adur Recreation Ground (picture by Andy Cloke)
One person is thought to have died after two planes crashed in the air near Shoreham Airport in West Sussex.
A light aircraft crashed into nearby Adur Recreation Ground but the second aircraft involved landed safely.
Police said it was thought one person had died in the incident at about 1630 BST on Monday but that no-one on the ground had been injured.
A volunteer worker at the airport said the planes collided shortly after one of them had taken off from Shoreham.
“A plane had taken off from Shoreham and was heading out to sea and another one was coming west to east,” he said.
“The one that was coming from west to east came straight across the front of the one that had taken off.
“I saw the wing hit the other one and a lump fell off.
“That aircraft actually managed to land again but the other one – it was just awful.
“It came straight down and a plume of black smoke went up.”
Police have put a cordon around the wreckage at Adur Recreation Ground and at Beach Green.
The A259 has been closed in both directions and diversions are expected to be in place for some time.
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The WJEC said it was always ‘extremely meticulous’ in its treament of exam papers
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Hundreds of GCSE examination papers were sent to the home of a dentist in north Wales by mistake.
A courier delivered the maths papers to Erik Lof’s home in Colwyn Bay instead of an examiner’s.
The Welsh exam board, the WJEC, and the Welsh Government said the issue had since been resolved and that no-one had been adversely affected.
Mr Lof took the papers to the headteacher of nearby Eirlas High School. He returned them to the WJEC.
A WJEC spokesperson said: “We are always extremely meticulous in our treatment of examination papers and completed scripts.
“The papers in question were wrongly delivered despite having the correct house number and street name on the label, and despite the examiner in question having received deliveries successfully on several previous occasions over a number of years.
“We have been in contact with WJEC and are happy to hear that the papers have reached the correct destination and that nobody will be disadvantaged”
Welsh Government spokesperson
“We are pleased to report that a combination of sensible actions on this occasion ensured safe receipt of the scripts by the examiner within a very short time.”
Initially, Mr Lof thought the package may have been for a neighbour, but did not recognise the name.
It was only on closer inspection he realised the importance of contents and alerted his neighbour, Eirlas High head teacher Phil McTague.
He said he hoped the issue would lead to a tightening of procedures and improve advice given to courier companies.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: “We have been in contact with WJEC and are happy to hear that the papers have reached the correct destination and that nobody will be disadvantaged.”
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Jurors in the murder trial of a Florida mother, Casey Anthony, has been sent out to consider whether they believe she is guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter.
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A friend of a schoolboy accused of murdering his former girlfriend denies the defence team’s claim that he is the real killer.
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Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar is accused of being a founder of the Zetas
Mexican officials say they have arrested a leader of the feared Zetas drug gang, Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar.
Mr Rejon is alleged to be the third in command of the Zetas, a drug gang formed by former Mexican special forces soldiers.
He is suspected of involvement in various crimes and is being linked to the murder of US immigration agent Jaime Zapata, officials said.
The US had offered a $5m (£3.1m) reward to find those behind the attack.
Mexico’s public security ministry said Mr Rejon, known as El Mamito, had been arrested in Atizapan de Zaragoza, in Mexico State, on Sunday “without a shot being fired”.
A police officer with him was also detained, and officers recovered weapons, money, various documents and communication equipment.
A ministry statement said Mr Rejon was a founding member of the Zetas and one of the most wanted criminals in the country, sought by both the Mexican and US governments.
He is accused of involvement in a series of murders in north-east Mexico.
Mr Rejon is also being investigated for links to the shooting of two US immigration agents in February, the security ministry said.
Agent Zapata was killed and his colleague, Victor Avila, was injured when their car was ambushed outside San Luis Potosi.
Mexican authorities have made several arrests in connection with this case.
Mr Rejon was a member of the Mexican special forces but deserted in 1999, officials said.
They described him as a founder member of the Zetas, who first acted as armed enforcers for the Gulf Cartel.
The Zetas have since split with their former paymasters, and have been engaged in brutal turf wars for control of smuggling routes.
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The rains have failed for the last two years while crops and livestock have died, leaving people with no food.
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The MoD launched an extensive operation to find the soldier
A British soldier who went missing in Afghanistan has been found dead, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The soldier, from the Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, was found with bullet wounds by a patrol.
An “extensive search” had been launched after he left the base in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan alone in the early hours of Monday morning.
The soldier’s next of kin have been informed of his death.
Taskforce spokesman, Lieut Col Tim Purbrick, said: “He had suffered gunshot wounds. His exact cause of death is still to be established and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and death are currently under investigation.
“It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”
The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville, in Kabul, said a local Taliban fighter told the BBC that insurgents had captured a foreign soldier in the Babaji area and, after a firefight, the soldier was killed.
But our correspondent said the Taliban often made exaggerated claims for propaganda reasons.
The international mission in Afghanistan, Isaf, denied that any gun battle took place.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is visiting Afghanistan, said he was “deeply saddened” by the death of the soldier.
His schedule had to be revised as the helicopters which were due to take him on a tour were being used to search for the soldier.
The number of British military deaths in operations in Afghanistan since 2001 now stands at 375.
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Mr Cameron had been due to tour patrol bases in Afghanistan but his plans were changed
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David Cameron has said there will be only a “modest reduction” in British troops in Afghanistan next year, during a visit to Helmand Province.
There are already 400 British troops returning home this year, leaving a core of 9,500 service personnel.
He is expected to confirm that 500 will be withdrawn next year. Defence chiefs have reportedly warned against bringing too many troops home too early.
His visit coincided with a British soldier going missing in Helmand.
Mr Cameron, who cancelled his plans to visit Lashkar Gar saying he wanted the British military to concentrate on finding the man, described it as a “very disturbing incident”.
All available helicopters were being used on the search for the soldier, so Mr Cameron met British and US troops at Camp Bastion instead of touring patrol bases.
He said there would be “challenges and problems right up until the end of this mission”.
The prime minister has already said that British troops will not be involved in a combat role in Afghanistan from 2015.
But he said the campaign was entering a “new phase” where the Afghan National Army and police force could take on more operations.
The BBC’s deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Cameron was expected to tell MPs later this week that he was looking to withdraw around 500 more next year.
“We have to build up the Afghan army and police as our ticket home.”
David Cameron
He added that Mr Cameron appeared to be heeding commanders’ warnings that a rush for the exit could take pressure off the Taliban just at the wrong time.
The prime minister said British troop levels would not see a “radical change for the fighting season of next year”.
Mr Cameron said: “We’re talking about a modest reduction in troops, remember that Britain has got more troops in Afghanistan than any country other than the Americans, some 9,500, so it’s a modest reduction.
“I do think it’s right that we start planning how we hand over control in this country to the army, the police and the government because the British public don’t want us to be here forever, the British Army doesn’t want to be here forever, the Afghan people don’t want us here forever.
“We have to build up the Afghan army and police as our ticket home.
“When we have gone we will still have a strong and long relationship with Afghanistan, a relationship of aid and trade and diplomacy and military training because we want this country to be free from terrorism and to be a success.”
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An investigator working for the News of the World newspaper allegedly hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler, a lawyer has said.
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Schoolgirl Milly Dowler went missing nine years ago
An investigator working for the News of the Worldnewspaper allegedly hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler, a lawyer has said.
Mark Lewis, who represents the Dowler family, said her parents were told by police that Glenn Mulcaire hacked into her phone while she was missing.
The Guardian has claimed he intercepted messages left by relatives and said the NoW deleted some it had listened to.
NoW parent company News International said the news was of “great concern”.
Mr Lewis said the hacking dated from 2002 when the News of the World was under the editorship of Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) – now News International’s chief executive.
In a statement he said: “Sally and Bob Dowler have been through so much grief and trauma without further distressing revelations to them regarding the loss of their daughter.
“It is distress heaped upon tragedy to learn the News of the World have no humanity at such a terrible time.
“The fact that they were prepared to act in such a heinous way that could have jeopardised the police investigation and gave them false hope is despicable.”
Solicitor for the Dowlers, Mark Lewis: “It is distress heaped upon tragedy”
The Guardian claims that after Milly’s voicemail facility became full, the News of the World deleted messages it had already listened to.
It quotes one source as saying that this gave false hope to friends and family, who mistakenly believed that Milly herself had cleared her message inbox and that therefore she was still alive.
By that time, she had been murdered by a nightclub doorman, Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of the killing last month.
The Guardian also alleges that the News of the World employed another private investigator, Steve Whittamore, to illegally obtain ex-directory numbers for families called Dowler living in Walton-on-Thames, where Milly and her family lived.
A News International spokesman said it had been co-operating fully with the police inquiry into hacking since News International’s “voluntary disclosure in January restarted the investigation into illegal voicemail interception”.
He said: “This particular case is clearly a development of great concern and we will be conducting our own inquiries as a result.
“We will obviously co-operate fully with any police request on this should we be asked.”
Reacting to the story, Tom Watson MP told the Commons it was a “despicable and evil act that will shock parents up and down the land”.
He also said it strongly suggested that parliament was misled in the press standards inquiry that was held by the Department for Culture Media and Sport last year.
The claims about Milly Dowler are significant in the overall phone hacking inquiry, which has until now focussed largely on the intrusion into the private lives of celebrities.
In January, the High Court will hear claims from five test cases involving public figures who say their phones were hacked into.
They are former footballer Paul Gascoigne, actor Jude Law, sports agent Sky Andrew, interior designer Kelly Hoppen and MP Chris Bryant.
The cases arise out of the disclosure of information by the Metropolitan Police relating to material forfeited by Mulcaire.
He and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman were jailed in 2007 over tapping the phones of members of the royal household.
Five alleged victims have reached out-of-court settlements with the newspaper, including celebrity publicist Max Clifford, who received a reported £1m.
Five journalists have been arrested over the allegations.
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Friday’s protest in Hama was one of the largest in three months of demonstrations
Syrian troops are raiding houses and arresting people in the central city of Hama, reports say, after massive anti-government protests there on Friday.
Residents had set tyres on fire and blocked roads to delay the movement of troops, who were arriving in busloads and “firing randomly”, residents said.
Meanwhile, tanks that were surrounding Hama have moved towards villages in the north, sparking fears of clashes there.
And in Damascus, two protesters were reportedly shot dead on Sunday.
The killings took place in the Hajjar al-Aswad suburb of the capital amid ongoing arrest campaigns there too, human rights activists said.
The latest deaths and detentions come at a time when the government is pushing for a national dialogue next week, says the BBC’s Lina Sinjab in Damascus. The opposition has refused to take part in any dialogue while the violence continues.
Activists say more than 1,350 civilians and 350 security personnel have been killed across Syria since protests began in mid-March.
“They are firing randomly in residential neighbourhoods”
Ahmad, Hama resident
On Monday, a resident of Hama told the Reuters news agency that he had seen dozens of Syrian soldiers surround a house in the Mashaa neighbourhood and make arrests.
“At least 30 buses carrying soldiers and security police entered Hama this morning. They are firing randomly in residential neighbourhoods,” the resident, a workshop owner who gave his name as Ahmad, told Reuters by telephone.
Other residents reported hearing gunfire in the western areas of the city.
Security forces had detained more than 20 people in early morning raids, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement obtained by the AP news agency.
Reports cannot be independently verified as the Syrian authorities have banned most foreign media from the country.
On Friday, the city saw some of the biggest demonstrations yet against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. A day later, Mr Assad sacked the local governor, Ahmad Khaled Abdel Aziz for reportedly failing to suppress the protests.
Hama was the scene of a Muslim Brotherhood uprising against Mr Assad’s father, Hafez, in 1982, which the army crushed, killing at least 10,000 people.
Also on Monday, tanks and armoured vehicles that had been surrounding Hama moved north towards the province of Idlib, activists said, sparking concerns that the situation there could get worse.
Many of the deaths during the recent uprising are said to have happened in the north-western province, where there has been a heavy army crackdown on protests.
At least 10,000 people fled to Turkey, following attacks in the town of Jisr al-Shughour. Some 9,300 still remain camped there in tents, Turkish officials say.
Activists say that the army is now intensifying its operations in the nearby towns of Kfar Nubbul and Kfar Roumah, where at least six people were wounded when tanks opened fire on Monday morning.
The uprising shows no sign of letting up despite a deadly government crackdown that has brought international condemnation and sanctions.
President Assad is facing the most serious challenge to his family’s four-decade ruling dynasty in Syria.
His administration has blamed a “small faction” of “saboteurs” of exploiting popular grievances.
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