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On this day...
5:29am Saturday 12th April 2008
12th April
1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the official British flag.
1992 - Euro Disney opens at Marne-la-Vallee in France.
2000 - Arsenal footballer Emmanuel Petit is fined £5,000 for making obscene gestures at Aston Villa fans.
2001 - It emerges that Norwich police are unable to produce a photo-fit of a mugger, because their computer didn't contain any Asian facial features.
2002 - A football fan who almost wins a car by keeping her hands on it for three days misses out when she raises her fist to salute her team.
2002 - A judge in the US stuns his court when he hands his judicial robes over to a repeat offender and says: "Sentence yourself". Judge James Warren tells Albert Brown: "This is your life - and you
are your own judge". Brown puts the robes on and sentences himself to six months in jail, as well as ordering himself to get cleaned up for the sake of his children. Judge Warren says it is exactly
what he would have given.
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Drive-by victim family's plea to killers
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Bungled NHS IT system costs hospital £500,000
The botched NHS IT system, due to arrive two months ago, has cost Kingston Hospital more than £500,000 so far.
Shops caught in 'ridiculous' VAT drop mess
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Epsom anger at Derby 'don't care' comment
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Warnock hoping for Eagles injury boost
Neil Warnock is hoping to have a selection headache when the Eagles travel to Derby this weekend.
Terry: Dons need a Plan B
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In this section
- Unpaid staff close golf club doors
- Drive-by victim family's plea to killers
- Car hits bus during police pursuit
- Bungled NHS IT system costs hospital £500,000
- Cops probe Gipsy Hill death
- Shops caught in 'ridiculous' VAT drop mess
- Epsom anger at Derby 'don't care' comment
- Bobby Davro and school kids recording Xmas single
- Menezes inquest drawing towards close
- Woman gets £85,000 crash compensation
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