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A lorry driver was being quizzed by police today after a motorway smash left six people dead and one man fighting for life in hospital. THE mother of missing Maddy McCann today begged her kidnapper not to hurt her "beautiful" daughter. REID resigns and opens door for Straw to be Home Secretary again.

A HERO policeman was yesterday blasted to death by a gamekeeper with a hunting rifle after being called to a row at a house. 2M worth of fake DVDs have been seized in the biggest UK haul. TWO children found dead in a flat may have starved to death, say detectives.

A HOSPITAL where up to 100 jobs face the axe is spending 18,000 on photographs. NHS patients will soon have to pay for some non-vital treatments, doctors leaders warn this week. A BRITISH soldier has died following a roadside bomb attack in Iraq.

AN MI5 request for police to investigate the ringleader of the 7/7 terror attacks was not acted on, it was claimed yesterday. JUNKIE rocker Pete Doherty is facing jail after yet another alleged drugs bust. PARIS Hilton last night hit out at her 45-day jail sentence.

SCREEN legend Sophia Loren wows fans at a movie gala. A MISSING mobile phone could hold vital clues to the murder of a university student, police confirmed yesterday. EXCLUSIVE: GREASE Brian Friedman will replace Louis Walsh on The X Factor.

CHERIE Blair waltzed cheek-to-cheek with TV's Anton du Beke. GLOBAL warming could mean the end for the most commonly grown British strawberry. IT may soon be possible to take a power nap at the flick of a switch.

TEACHERS' careers should not be blighted by children's unproven allegations, the Lord Chancellor said yesterday. FIRMS must fork out if they blight areas by leaving shops and offices empty, the Government will announce this week. STAR Wars is out of this world as a classic movie, especially for blokes.

THEY may not be the greatest films ever made but for sheer feelgood escapism, few movies rival the likes of Star Wars, Dirty Dancing or It's a Wonderful Life. EXCLUSIVE: Behind the ice-cool looks, Girls Aloud are no different to the rest of us. A SIMPLE saliva test can save mums-to-be and their babies from a killer condition, scientists have revealed.

A mangled wasteland is all that is left of a small town after it was hit by a twister. AN Army general responsible for decaying military housing gave his own grace-and-favour residence a 13,000 makeover. ROSSLYN Chapel is, of course, best known as the scene of the climax to The Da Vinci Code.

SIR Bobby Robson yesterday vowed to "battle as I've always done" after being diagnosed with cancer for a fifth time.