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British actor Michael Pennington, one of the stars of Return of the Jedi, has died at the age of 82.A masterful interpreter of Shakespeare, Pennington was nevertheless perhaps best known for playing Moff Jerjerrod, the military officer responsible for overseeing the construction of the second Death Star in George Lucas' 1983 sci-fi classic. A versatile performer, in 2011 he channelled former Labour Party leader Michael Foot alongside co-star Meryl Streep in the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady. Born June…

A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Friday evening after riding a stolen motorbike which crashed into a car before the rider ran from the scene, it was reported.Police spotted a suspected stolen motorbike while on patrol near Killinghall Road in Bradford at 5.03pm and gave chase.While racing away from the officers, the rider crashed into the side of a Vauxhall Corsa and was thrown into the air, landing heavily on the road.But after rolling over the rider, dressed all in black, got back to his feet and made to run from the…

With her puppies snuggled up beside her, rescue dog Patsy looks a picture of contentment.But the two-year-old's introduction to parenthood was somewhat more traumatic – after she gave her new owners Christine and Leslie Reading the slip, then dragged them almost a mile through countryside, woodland and brambles to the litter she gave birth to during six weeks on the run.Mr Reading, 74, told how he crawled on hands and knees through a bramble thicket to reach the seemingly cold and lifeless puppies – before putting them down…

Eight British Army personnel completed a daring mission to parachute onto the world's most remote inhabited island to treat a British citizen suffering from the rat-borne hantavirus.A specialist team parachuted onto the British overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha to treat the British national, who disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius onto the island, where they live.Six paratroopers, an RAF consultant and an Army nurse from 16 Air Assault Brigade, had to be airdropped onto the island in the South Atlantic, as the…