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Profits at John Lewis rise 9.7%

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Department store group John Lewis reports a 9.7% rise in annual profits to £306.6m as staff share a bumper bonus.

Flat deaths 'murder and suicide'

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Police believe the deaths of a man and a woman found with gunshot wounds in Hertfordshire may have been murder followed by suicide.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Inspections on the four Welsh police forces to be published on a new website finds services are generally "fair" or "good".

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - School Report's definitive guide to teenage slang

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - More than 100 firefighters tackle a major fire at a restaurant and office block in central London.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Two people are rescued from a first floor flat in the Ballysillan Road area of north Belfast which is destroyed in a fire.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Police in Pakistan dismiss reports a five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped last week has been released.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - The prime minister will attend a service to rededicate the Basra Memorial Wall following its relocation to Staffordshire.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - The UK's fourth biggest supermarket group, Morrisons, reports a 30% rise in annual profits after it opens more stores.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - A patients' group says access to NHS dentists in Wales has got better - as dental charges remain frozen for a fourth year.

Source BBC on Thursday, March 11, 2010

World - Failings by police and social services over two sisters raped by their father over many years is widely reported in Thursday's papers.