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• Credit card rates option 'risky'
  Finance Minister Sammy Wilson should scrap the option to pay rates bills by credit card, the Consumer Council says.
  
  
• Human remains found in garden dig
  Human remains are found in a garden in south-west London after a tip-off about a body at the property, police confirm.
  
  
• Banks face harsher stress tests
  Further stress-testing of UK banks will take place to ensure they can survive a 'double-dip' recession, regulators say.
  
  
• Truck vibrations 'damage houses'
  Villagers claim vibrations from trucks travelling to a wind farm construction site are causing cracks to appear in their homes.
  
  
• Rare medals worth £45,000 stolen
  Engraved medals worth £45,000, including a St George Cross, that were awarded to an Essex woman's grandfather are stolen from her home.
  
  
• Man charged over bungalow arson
  A 74-year-old man is charged with arson following a fire in a Nottinghamshire town.
  
  
• Chester City gone in 30 seconds
  Football clubs are fighting for survival, not on the pitch but in the court.
  
  
• 'Berserk' son stabbed his father
  A man who stabbed his 84-year-old father in London after going "berserk" is given an indefinite sentence.
  
  
• Owner fined for 23 barking dogs
  A man who kept 23 dogs at his home in Witney, Oxfordshire is prosecuted for failing to stop them barking.
  
  
• Work to start on council housing
  The first council homes are to be built in a Nottinghamshire town for more than 30 years as part of a £5m project.
  
  
• Night-time tests on flood barrier
  A flood barrier which has been modified to increase defences for 80 properties in Shrewsbury is to be tested late at night.
  
  
• Science 'is a key election issue'
  The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding.
  
  
• Warning by pyramid scam victims
  A warning is made by the Welsh victims of a £34m pyramid scam warn others to avoid falling for such schemes.
  
  
• Farsley Celtic finally disbanded
  Farsley Celtic are disbanded after their administrators turn down fresh consortium rescue bids.
  
  
• More time for trafficking probe
  Police are granted more time to question six men and a woman arrested in Shropshire on suspicion of human trafficking.
  
  
• Alarms not working in fatal fire
  Smoke alarms were not working in an Aberdeen flat where an elderly woman died following a fire, it is revealed.
  
  
• Smaller losses at Northern Rock
  Northern Rock says that it made "good progress" in 2009, after reporting a sharp fall in its annual losses.
  
  
• Can you fit a wind turbine in a housing estate?
  Whatever the theory of renewable energy-generating technology in the home, an expert asks how can it work in practice?
  
  
• Council to act over empty homes
  A Berkshire council agrees to renew a compulsory purchase policy to tackle owners of vacant properties.
  
  
• 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.