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FIREFIGHTERS kept watch today on a blaze that swept through a vast stretch of moorland. Strong winds fanned the fire yesterday around Baitings Reservoir in Ripponden, on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border.

At one stage there was a two-mile-long fire front along the side of the main A58 road between Lancashire and Yorkshire.

AN MP today called for "a change in society" after the brutal killing of a teenager in a park near his home. Speaking after police made a series of arrests in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Amar Aslam, Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik said young people were trapped in a "culture of violence" which must be broken.

KARL Bishop, 21, of Carlton Road, Sidcup, was due to appear in court today charged with murdering Harry Potter actor Rob Knox, (above), who was knifed outside a bar. Mr Knox, 18, was stabbed to death in a fight outside a bar in Sidcup, south-east London, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A MAN was being questioned by police today after the death of a three-year-old girl who was a passenger on a mini-motorcycle that collided with a pick-up truck in Lincolnshire. The man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving in connection with the crash in Louth, Lincolnshire.

A RARE portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a princess has been discovered in a private collection. The picture, found in the Duke of Buccleuch's private collection at Boughton House in Northamptonshire, shows Elizabeth as a teenager alongside her siblings Edward VI and Mary I, father Henry VIII and his jester Will Somers.

A RARE Diana monkey abandoned by its mother at birth will be cared for during its early years thanks to a £30,000 donation from a music festival. The male Diana monkey, which was born on Good Friday, was nicknamed Baby Ronnie after the musician Mark Ronson who is to headline the Zoo 1008 Music Festival. in July.

POLICE are trying to identify the bodies of two men discovered in a cargo ship hold. The bodies were found in the Pascal, which was docked in Ayr harbour, south-west Scotland.

DISABLED footballers will be travelling in style thanks to a donation from healthcare company Southern Cross. The company has handed over a special minibus to Merseyside football charity, Everton In The Community (EITC). The specially adapted vehicle will be used by EITC to take disabled footballers to and from training and league matches.

THE hotly-anticipated James Bond novel Devil May Care is on sale today, marking the centenary of the birth of the super-spy's creator Ian Fleming. Such is the clamour for the new book Amazon.co.uk said it has already shot to the top of its charts, its biggest fiction pre-order of 2008.

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