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Jordan & Alex confirm their divorce as Kate admits: I’ll always love my Peter EXCLUSIVE ®Êby GEMMA WHEATLEY KATE PRICE and Alex Reid’s 11-month marriage is over. The couple have met lawyers to draw up their official announcement after Kate admitted that sad Alex, left, could never live up to her love for first husband Peter Andre, right. Full story: Pages 4-5
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Cheers actress Kirstie Alley will raise a glass to being 60 today.
POWER giant E.on last night announced a major rise in gas and electric prices for over four million customers. The firm will push up electricity bills by 9% and gas by 3% from next month, adding around £60 a year to bills for dual fuel customers on standard tariffs. Bosses blamed the soaring cost of wholesale energy. E.on’s Graham Bartlett said: “It’s been over two years since we last increased our prices.” But Richard Hall, energy expert at Consumer Focus, said: “Consumers simply don’t trust that suppliers are asking them to pay a fair price for their energy.”
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A BID to save RAF Lossiemouth got a boost as a 31,000-name petition was delivered to Downing Street yesterday. It is feared that the base in north-east Scotland could lose its fleet of fast-jet Tornadoes to a site in England after the Government’s recent strategic defence review.
NEARLY 15,000 police jobs will go because of cash cuts, Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls warned yesterday. He said 14,482 posts, including 6,257 police officers, are earmarked for the chop. Mr Balls said: “This research shows the huge impact that the Conservative-led Government’s huge 20% cuts to policing are already making. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of police forces have not yet announced how many jobs will go.” His warning came as he presented his findings to MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee.
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SO WHAT IF WE’RE GREEDY BANKERS! Stop bashing us, says boss with £8m bonus
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BARCLAYS boss Bob Diamond called for an end to bank-bashing yesterday as he bagged an £8million bonus. The mega-rich trader said Britain’s banks could fuel the recovery but only with the “blame game behind us”.
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He admitted it was wrong that taxpayers’ cash had been used to bail out the City. And he agreed pay restraint was needed, despite raking in a £100m fortune at Barclays. But he refused to comment on the massive payout he will be getting.
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NICK Clegg looks bleary-eyed as he meets workers he called “the backbone of Britain” for a 6.30am photocall. The Deputy PM was at the Jewson factory in Cricklewood, north London, to announce £200 tax cuts for everyone earning less than £42,000 a year.
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@e[`X BELATED happy new year to everyone from India Reynolds, making her first Page 3 appearance of 2011. The 20-year-old babe from Reading would have been here earlier, but she has only just got over all the partying. It wasn’t the hangover that kept her away, she couldn’t find the camouflage trousers she’d been wearing.
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Scary snubs her kin SCARY Spice Mel B, 35, has not spoken to her family for two years, says her sister. Danielle Brown, 30, a former Emmerdale actress, told OK! magazine: “I don’t even know if she’s aware I’ve had a baby. “I don’t have her number, I don’t know where she lives, I wouldn’t know how to get in touch.”
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