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# PERUGIA MURDER update: A fourth suspect, Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, who has been arrested in the Meredith Kercher murder tells web users: 'I am a vampire who sucks blood.'

Meredith's American flatmate Amanda Knox ["foxy knoxy"] and Knox's boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 24, are still being held in connection with the murder, but bar owner Diya Patrick Lumumba has been released. They are also suspected of sexual violence but so far none has been charged.

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*Guede was detained after using a computer for several hours on Monday night to chat with friends and send messages, including one to The Daily Telegraph. During that time, he became traceable through the IP address of his computer.*

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# The recently established Smoking Ban is destroying the traditional British pubs. As the weather gets colder, the pubs are getting emptier.

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# FIN BOOSTING: *Fish theft has been a problem for British fisheries for a long time, but with the opening up of the borders it has greatly increased in recent years... A series of warning signs has been launched which use pictures to warn immigrants not to steal fish from the UK's rivers for their Christmas dinners.*

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