London - Three people died today when a helicopter crashed in a field in Gloucestershire, the Air Accident Investigation Board said Saturday.

The private Gazelle helicopter came down and burst into flames near Langley Hill Farm in Winchcombe near Cheltenham, some 150 kilometres west of London, at about midday.

Witnesses said there was heavy fog at the time of the crash, but no cause for the crash could be determined as yet.

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London - Furious at a furniture store for failing to deliver a bed ordered in July, a mother took her three-year-old daughter and made herself at home in the store itself, taking over a bedroom suite.

The 30-year-old hung up clothes in a wardrobe, then snuggled down with her daughter in a nearby bed and read her a story. It took half an hour for the store manager to react, it was reported Saturday.

"I just wanted to see what my daughter's things looked like hung up in a wardrobe and what it feels like to sleep in a bed again," said the mother. The store's failure to deliver had meant she had to sleep on the floor at home.

London - Deployment of British and other European troops might be necessary if diplomacy fails to stem the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior British government official told the BBC Saturday.

"We have certainly got to have it as an option which is developed and on the table if we need it," Mark Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, told the BBC.

He said that if diplomacy fails, the first step should be the redeployment of United Nations troops already operating elsewhere in the Congo.

London - A British commander of reservist Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan has resigned in protest over what he has called the "chronic underinvestment" in protective military equipment for use in Afghanistan, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday.

Major Sebastian Morley in his resignation letter singled out the continued use of the so-called Snatch Land Rover vehicles commonly used in Afghanistan to transport troops, which have been criticized for their lack of sufficient armour.