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Colonel Gaddafi aide cannot challenge PC Yvonne Fletcher ruling (BBC News)

A former aide to ex-Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has lost a bid to challenge a judge's conclusion he was jointly responsible for the killing of police ...

Mr Justice Martin Spencer ruled in November that Mr Mabrouk, who denied any wrongdoing, "clearly assisted in the commission of the shooting", although he was not alleged to have been the gunman. Mr Mabrouk was a member of the pro-Gaddafi Libyan Revolutionary Committee that ran the embassy at the time. A former aide to ex-Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has lost a bid to challenge a judge's conclusion he was jointly responsible for the killing of police officer Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.

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Scarborough bin lorries to run on recycled vegetable oil (BBC News)

Scarborough Borough Council estimates the year-long trial will save 900 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

"We're now running about 65% of the fleet on HVO with another 10 ride-on mowers due to go on to HVO in the next fortnight," he added. Fleet manager, Steve Hood, said HVO gives an "almost like-for-like replacement of diesel" and said there had been "no issues" in the initial part of the trial with most vehicles able to use it without any modification. The vehicles will run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) instead of diesel in a bid to slash carbon emissions.

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Smudge the stranded M18 motorway kitten on road to recovery (BBC News)

Motorway traffic was brought to a standstill while a National Highways officer rescued the young cat. Anna Leather, who is caring for her, says she improved ...

"I got a good hiss and nearly a good scratch, so I thought I'd leave her be and retreated back to the hard shoulder." Traffic officer Gavin Buffam, who rescued the cat, said: "The first time I tried to scoop her up she decided she didn't like me and wanted to take my finger off. A kitten which was rescued from the central reservation of a motorway is said to have made a good recovery from its ordeal.

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