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• Buyer found for £85m development
  A buyer is found to proceed with plans to build 200 apartments and a hotel on the site of Rhyl's former funfair.
  
  
• Seven arrests follow drug raids
  Seven people are arrested on suspicion of being involved in the illegal supply of drugs in a seaside resort in Devon.
  
  
• Stand-off ends as man arrested
  Police storm a flat in Kent and arrest a man who barricaded himself inside the property for 18 hours.
  
  
• Men arrested 'days before attack'
  Two students fighting deportation to Pakistan were arrested days before they planned a terror strike in the UK, a court hears.
  
  
• Annie Leibovitz signs debt deal
  Photographer Annie Leibovitz does a deal with Colony Capital to clear huge debts that meant she may have lost her library of famous pictures.
  
  
• Truck vibrations 'damage houses'
  Villagers claim vibrations from trucks travelling to a wind farm construction site are causing cracks to appear in their homes.
  
  
• Nanotech 'fuse' for novel battery
  A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.
  
  
• 'Insurance for all' plan for dogs
  All dog owners in England and Wales would need insurance against their animals attacking people under Labour proposals.
  
  
• Bid to scrap right of entry laws
  A Tory peer unearths 1,200 powers of entry laws - including one that allows people following bees on to private land.
  
  
• Rains raise Australia drought hopes
  Heavy rains in Australia's parched New South Wales raise hopes the worst drought in a century could be nearing its end.
  
  
• Police to retrace mother's steps
  Officers will reconstruct the last known movements of a mother who has been missing for more than two weeks.
  
  
• Body discovered behind building
  The death of a person found behind a building is not being treated as suspicious by police who are investigating.
  
  
• Hotel in move to oust noisy gulls
  Councillors approve plans to fix netting to Scarborough's Grand Hotel which is being plagued by noisy seagulls.
  
  
• Boy under duvet catches burglar
  A 14-year-old boy who helped catch a serial burglar when he broke into his Dorset home is praised by police.
  
  
• States 'will work to stop floods'
  Jersey's government will "do anything it can" to prevent homes flooding, the housing minister says.
  
  
• Stand-off closes town centre road
  Homes are evacuated and a road is closed after a man barricades himself into a flat in a Kent town centre.
  
  
• Housing development plan proposed
  Proposals for a new housing development on La Rue des Bas Courtils in St Sampson are put forward by the environment department.
  
  
• Labour peer to end non-dom status
  Labour peer and donor Lord Paul has said he will end his controversial "non-dom" status from the next tax year.
  
  
• Police discover two dead at flat
  A 37-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman are found dead with gunshot wounds at a flat in Hertfordshire.
  
  
• Knives cache seized in house raid
  More than 40 bladed weapons are seized during a police raid on a house on North Tyneside.