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Downing won't 'spit the dummy'
Stewart Downing admits it would have been easy to "spit the dummy" after a testing start to his Liverpool career.

Shock exit for Vinci
Roberta Vinci crashed out of the Whirlpool Monterrey Open after Nina Bratchikova sprung a huge upset.

Oxfordshire Local News: 130+ Residents Escape 22 Storey Tower Block Fire


More than 130 people have been evacuated from a tower block in North-West London after a fire started.

Flames took hold of the 22-storey building in Swiss Cottage at approximatly 10:00PM on Monday.

The 17th floor was partially gutted and 130 people were evacuated to a local community centre.

It took firefighters more than three hours to bring the fire under control, Station Manager Rod Horton, who was at the scene, said: "This was a big block of flats and at that time of night a lot of people were inside the building. Crews worked extremely hard to get the fire under control and to confine the fire to the seventeenth floor. Thankfully no-one was injured"

Tuesday January 17th 2012
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