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• Rubber bullets fired at SA youths
  South African police use rubber bullets to disperse children protesting at a rapper's court appearance on murder charges.
  
  
• 'Fraud' found in community scheme
  A report into the Plas Madoc Communities First Partnership find evidence of financial mismagement, theft and fraud.
  
  
• Terry's car hits security guard
  Chelsea captain John Terry injures the leg of a security guard as he drives out of Stamford Bridge then leaves the scene.
  
  
• Man died from internal bleeding
  A man who died after an incident outside a Tyneside pub suffered massive internal bleeding, a post mortem examination reveals.
  
  
• Stein statue set for Celtic Park
  Celtic will erect a statue in memory of former manager Jock Stein outside their stadium in Glasgow.
  
  
• Safe driving film shown on web
  A hard-hitting film warning young people about the dangers of driving under peer pressure is released on the internet.
  
  
• Rope parks planned for ski resort
  Two new adventure areas with rope swings and zip wires are being proposed for the Nevis Range ski resort in Lochaber.
  
  
• Test show woodland body is male
  Tests reveal that human remains found by a man walking his dog in East Sussex are those of a man.
  
  
• Man killed after car strikes wall
  Police appeal for witnesses after a 38-year-old man died when his car collided with a wall in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
  
  
• Woman drives car with bonnet up
  A car driver travelling with her bonnet up completely obscuring her view is among 30 dangerous drivers caught by Dorset Police in a crackdown.
  
  
• Beckham leaves Finnish hospital
  England midfielder David Beckham leaves the Finnish hospital where he underwent surgery on the Achilles tendon he ruptured while playing for AC Milan.
  
  
• Scrubbing Up: sleeping killers
  Sleeping killers: Your comments on this week's Scrubbing Up
  
  
• Man denies derailed train crash
  A man pleads not guilty to dangerous driving following a crash which derailed a train in Suffolk.
  
  
• Behind the scenes at the Bahrain GP
  Pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz on the stories behind the headlines
  
  
• Island fatal crash witness appeal
  Police seek witnesses to a single vehicle car crash in which a 41-year-old local man was killed.
  
  
• Your silliest job titles
  When UK-based weight-loss company Proactol Ltd wanted to recruit individuals to trial their fat-busting pill, they opted for the rather grand-sounding title of Product Testing Associate - someone who eats junk food and lazes about. In other words, a professional couch potato. Just two weeks ago, we asked Magazine readers to send us their own obscure job titles. So in the spirit of Proactol, here are the 30 most original.
  
  
• French policeman 'killed by Eta'
  Spain's prime minister blames the killing of a French policeman shot dead near Paris on the Basque separatist group Eta.
  
  
• Wednesday's F1 gossip column
  Jenson Button must up his game to beat Lewis Hamilton says his former boss, Fernando Alonso predicts eight-way title race, plus other gossip and rumours
  
  
• Pathologist to stop crime writing
  Pathologist Bernard Knight is to stop writing crime books claiming the 'CSI-effect' has blurred the line between fact and fiction.
  
  
• Family's appeal over road death
  The family of a man who died one year ago after being struck by a car on Merseyside in unexplained circumstances say they have "so many questions".