Police continue investigations after a woman and an eight-year-old girl – named locally as Sarah Laycock and daughter Abigail – were found dead in Leeds.

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Golfers Darren Clarke and Rory McIlroy receive awards in the New Year Honours list while taekwondo world champion Sarah Stevenson and broadcaster Stuart Hall are also recognised.

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Golfers top New Year Honours list

Children’s minister Sarah Teather is to launch a trial of free parenting classes for those with children under the age of five.

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Plans for free parenting classes

The mother of murder victim Sarah Payne and murdered schoolgirl Megan Russell’s father are taking legal action over alleged phone hacking.

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Payne sues over alleged hacking

Here’s my question for the Republican Party: How’s that Rick Perry stuff work­in’ out for ya? You’ll recall that Sarah Palin asked a similar question last year about President Obama’s “ hopey-changey stuff .” Indeed, hopey-changey has been through a bad patch. But now the GOP is still desperately seeking a presidential candidate it can love. Or even like. Read full article > >

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Republicans falling in and out of love

1. From Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “Not just the 16th and 17th Amendments — I want to get rid of a whole bunch of ‘em.” 2. From Mitt Romney: “RomneyCare — what did you expect? It’s Massachusetts , for goodness sakes!” 3. From Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.): “I’d love to have Sarah Palin as my VP!” Read full article > >

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Ten things you won’t hear at the GOP debate

The 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s released e-mails complete her transformation from one of the most obscure politicians in America to one of the most scrutinized.

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Palin’s E-Mails Undercut Simplistic Views of Her, Both Positive and Negative

Newly released emails sent by former Gov. Sarah Palin to her staff and family show that rumors about Trig’s birth started even before she hit the national stage. In the 2008 election, claims circulated that Trig was actually the son of Sarah’s daughter…

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Emails: Trig Rumors Started Early

The messages that Sarah Palin wrote just before and right after she was chosen as John McCain’s running mate show that she had almost no warning of what was about to happen to her.

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In E-Mails, A Glimpse From Inside Palin’s Rise

More than 24,000 pages include e-mails from Sarah Palin’s official and private accounts. The release covers requests up to her 2008 entry into the national spotlight.

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Alaska releases Palin e-mails

Here comes the motherlode. Alaska will release 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s emails from her two years as governor on Friday. The emails were first requested during the 2008 presidential election, but the delay has been attributed to the sheer volume of the…

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It’s your lucky day, Sarah Palin: Mitt Romney will skip the Iowa straw poll in mid-August, his team announced on Thursday. The decision confirms what many had already suspected: that Romney would rather present himself as a pragmatic businessman than…

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Romney to Skip Iowa Straw Poll

The Fix’s Rachel Weiner sits down with The Post’s Anqoinette Crosby to discuss what is expected after the release of Sarah Palin’s e-mails on Friday. Read full article > >

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Video: Background on Palin e-mails

The Fix’s Rachel Weiner sits down with The Post’s Anqoinette Crosby to discuss what is expected after the release of Sarah Palin’s e-mails on Friday. Read full article > >

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Video: Background on Palin e-mails

Here’s a hint to Sarah Palin: If your political followers call themselves the “Tea Party,” they might not be greeted so warmly by the British. Palin said last week that while on the way to Sudan, she hoped to stop over in Britain and see Margaret…

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Thatcher Will Not Meet Palin