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December 2004 in Britain and Ireland
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*A [[murder]] hunt has started as the [[strangled]] body of a heavily [[pregnant]] 14 year old girl is found in a [[Telford]] churchyard. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4130483.stm (BBC)]
*A rise in the number of escaped [[prisoner]]s has been the target of attacks from the [[Conservative]]s. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4130457.stm (BBC)].
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*The South African [[cricket]] team has been set a target of 378 to win the the second Test Match in their series against England.  When played closed on Wednesday, they had reached 21-1. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2004/12/7345/html/scorecard.stm (Full scorecard from BBC)]

==[[28 December]] [[2004]]==
*The list of British casualties in [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Sunday's earthquake]] currently stands at 13 (nine in [[Thailand]], four in [[Sri Lanka]] and 3 in the [[Maldives]]) as the first survivors begin to arrive home. There are no Irish casualties currently reported, although concerns are growing about two Irishwomen missing in [[Thailand]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127447.stm (BBC)] [http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1228/quake1.html (RTÉ)]
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== News collections and sources ==
* [[Wikipedia:News collections and sources]].
* [[Wikipedia:News sources]] - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage [[NPOV]] in our news reporting.

[[Category:2004]]