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The Electronic Telegraph  25 April 1995  THE FRONT PAGE

Sinn Fein deal ends the long deadlock

AFTER weeks of stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace process, the Government said last night that it was ready to talk to Sinn Fein at ministerial level for the first time since the IRA ceasefire nearly eight months ago.

Parents sue for £50,000 over killing of daughter

THE parents of a teenage girl who was killed on a piece of wasteland began unique legal proceedings yesterday against the man who was acquitted of her murder. Joe Duffy, 44, and his wife Kate, 40, are suing Francis Auld for £50,000 for the loss of their daughter. A jury found the murder charge against him not proven, a decision that has prompted calls for this third verdict in Scots law to be abolished.

Abbey National seeks £1bn takeover of N+P

ABBEY National opened up the prospect of the first hostile takeover bid for a building society yesterday by asking nearly two million National & Provincial members to vote in favour of a £1 billion-plus offer which could give them £400 each.

Churchill just a footnote in VE Day video

CHURCHILL'S role in the 1939-45 War is dismissed in 14 seconds of a 24-minute Government-backed video on VE Day sent to all secondary schools, the Campaign for Real Education complained yesterday.

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