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  The sixth and final report of the Denham group has recommended that the conduct of judges be regulated by an independent judicial body.

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  More than a third of the plutonium dumped in the Irish Sea by Sellafield is unaccounted for, according to scientists at Britain's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.

• 15 houses at £1m each sold in four hours

  Fifteen houses in a new development in Dublin, costing about £1 million each, were sold within four hours of going on the market yesterday. The lavish, detached houses in the fashionable Carrickmines area of south Dublin were sold mainly to professional and business couples in their 30s, according to Mr Ronan O'Driscoll of Hamilton Osborne King.

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