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Clare Spencer|14:59 UK time, Thursday, 3 February 2011

A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.

Proving popular with readers of the Independent is the shop that time forgot. Photographer Chris Frears says when he turned up to take pictures of the village hardware store in Dumfriesshire the assistant, Hugh, disappeared downstairs to brush his comb-over and put his blue jacket on. Some items are still labelled in pre-decimal prices. Mr Frears adds "if you go to this shop and Hugh turns around and tells you 'It canna be got,' which has become a local name for the place, then you really know it can't be.

The Daily Mail's most read story says a four-year-old girl died when her father's sat-nav wrongly told him to take a turn at an accident black spot. He turned right at a junction leading him to steer their Astra car into the path of a two-ton Audi A5, an inquest heard.

The top 10 uncracked codes are popular on the Telegraph. At the top of the list is the Phaistos Disk which is considered the most important example of hieroglyphic inscription from Crete. Discovered in 1903, both sides of the clay disc are covered with hieroglyphs arranged in a spiral zone.

Sun readers prefer to catch up on where singer Cheryl Cole has moved to. The paper jokes "Forget Hollywood, Cheryl's moved to...Hadley Wood". Her new abode is in a north London suburb.

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