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Privatised service puts patients at risk with lack of out-of-hours GPs
Mid Staffs scandal: NHS managers will be blacklisted for failure and patients will rate hospitals in major shake-up, announces Jeremy ...
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England Wales Bishops Host Scripture Conference
Bishop Brignoll: Giving People Confidence in the Word So As to Proclaim ItBy Ann SchneibleROME, April 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) - A conference aiming to promote a deeper understanding of sacred Scripture among the Catholic community in England and Wales concluded last week in Durham, England."The Word of the Lord" sponsored by the Bishops' Conference for England and Wales, focused ...
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Broad best as England thrash NZ at Lords
Man-of-the-match Stuart Broad routed New Zealand on Sunday but insisted "attack leader" James Anderson was the man behind England's thumping 170-run first Test win at Lord's.Fast-medium bowler Broad took a Test-best 7-44 as New Zealand were dismissed for just 68 in pursuit of a target of 239 to give the home side victory with more than a day to spare.Anderson, set to be ...
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Independent Scotland might not be able to guarantee savers deposits
An independent Scotland might find itself unable to guarantee the deposits of savers in the event of another financial crisis, the Treasury warns ...
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The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey pays more income tax than big cities of the North
A small leafy enclave to the south-west of London, where Elton John, Cliff Richard, Ringo Starr and Jenson Button live, has been revealed as the biggest payer of income tax in the ...
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Stuart Broads best burst sets up key England win but all is not yet rosy
England won the opening Test of the summer on Sunday with a compelling exhibition of fast bowling. They dismissed New Zealand for a total of 68 to secure a 1-0 lead in the Investec series by 170 ...
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Tory co-chairman Feldman to face meeting over swivel-eyed loons claim
The Tory co-chairman, Lord Feldman, will meet with the party board over claims allegedly made about party activists. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex ...
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Sean Riggs death must be the catalyst for a reform in policing | Observer editorial
police custody. The IPCC has come in for severe criticism on many occasions but never more so than in last week's independent review of its investigation into the death ...
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Broad leads England rout of New Zealand
England Stuart Broad bowled England to victory in the first Test as New Zealand suffered a dramatic fourth-day collapse at Lord's on Monday morning.New Zealand, chasing 239 for victory, was dismissed for just 68 in under two hours, with Broad taking 7 for 44 runs in a mere 11 overs.South Africa born duo BJ Watling (13) and Neil Wagner (17), who got to 10 with a six off Broad, were the ...
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Former Google exec says he has 100000 emails showing how immoral company avoids paying UK tax
A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of ...
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G8 summit will put Northern Ireland in security lockdown
Belfast-born David McKittrick has been reporting on Northern Ireland since 1971, He has written for the East Antrim Times, the Irish Times and was The Independent's Irish correspondent for many years. He is the author of several books including Making Sense of the Troubles (2000) and Lost Lives ...
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England march on Broads way past New Zealand
New Zealand, 2nd innings Fulton c Prior b Broad 1 Rutherford b Broad 9 Williamson c Finn b Broad 6 Taylor c Cook b Broad Brownlie c Cook b Anderson 5 McCullum lbw b Broad 8 Watling c Trott b Anderson 13 Southee c Root b Broad 7 Wagner run out Brstow/Andrsn 17 Martin b Broad 1 ...
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Cameron had the chance to defy the swivel-eyed loons and remake his party. He failed | Steve Richards
parts of its membership as "swivel-eyed loons" . Equally, it is not exactly sensational news that party members are far from thrilled to be viewed in such terms.Relations between the leadership of the party and its activists are more strained and complex than at any point since the removal of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Focus on the policy trail rather than the Harold Macmillan-like ...
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Arsenal wins race for fourth Fergie bows out
England Arsenal won the race for fourth place in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory at Newcastle, while Alex Ferguson's extraordinary career ended in remarkable fashion as Manchester United drew 5-5 at West Bromwich Albion on Monday morning.Arsene Wenger's side needed three points to guarantee a spot in next season's Champions League qualification rounds ahead of north London ...
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Letters Europe and the fight for fair wages
Exit Europe from the left , 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business and finance demanding lower wages in order for the UK to receive investment or prevent relocation.Instead, the answer has to be to align the public anger about austerity and businesses anxiety about declining ...
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Scotlands tough call stay in the UK or stay in the EU | Angus Roxburgh
a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union . That's because the next British general election could conceivably not merely give the Scots yet another government they didn't vote for, but bring on a referendum that could take Britain out of the EU - something that is opposed, by all accounts, by a majority of Scots.Having the wrong government imposed on you can at ...
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Sydenham headteacher pays tribute to Chloe Johnson who died in Egyptian swimming pool
Chloe with her father Tony. THE headteacher of a Sydenham school has paid tribute to five-year-old Chloe Johnson who died in a swimming pool in Egypt. Chloe, who lived in Forest Hill, was on holiday with her mother Sarah Thompson and her father Tony Johnson in Sharm el-Sheikh when she was found unconscious in a pool on Friday. She was a pupil in the reception class at Kelvin Grove ...
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Civil partnerships amendment could wreck gay marriage bill Government sources warn
Historic legislation that for the first time would allow gay couples to marry could be delayed by up to two years and cost the taxpayer 4bn because of a "wrecking amendment" being supported by Labour, it was alleged on Sunday ...
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Editorial Another week another bout of Conservative Party in-fighting
David Cameron was in a tricky enough spot last week, forced to pretend it was, if not desirable, then at least acceptable that more than 100 obstreperous backbenchers voted their "regret" at his Government's legislative programme. Between the high-profile grandees (Lord Lawson, Michael Portillo) and the existing cabinet ministers (Michael Gove, Philip Hammond) all voicing their ...
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Lord Feldman spoke to journalists who wrote swivel-eyed loons story but denies words were his
The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as "swivel-eyed loons", it emerged on ...
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Lord Howe David Cameron is losing control of Conservative party over Europe issue
The former conservative minister Lord Howe, who served as foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher, has claimed that David Cameron is "losing control" of his party over ...
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Arsenal claim fourth Fergies farewell rains 10 goals
Source: Reuters Arsenal claimed the final Champions League spot at the expense of their arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the Premier League season today with a 1-0 win at Newcastle United. Defender Laurent Koscielny put visitors Arsenal ahead in the 52nd minute to secure fourth place with 73 points, one point ahead of fifth-placed Spurs who mustered a late goal from Gareth ...
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Letters The benefit of European Union membership outweighs the cost
The economic case to stay in the EU is overwhelming. The creation of the Single Market was instigated by Britain, and is now the world's largest trading bloc, containing half a billion people with a GDP of 10 trillion. To Britain, membership is estimated to be worth between 31bn and 92bn per year in income gains, or between 1,200 to 3,500 for every ...
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England v New Zealand 1st Test England win by 170 runs on dramatic fourth day
In the end it took England less than an hour to wrap up proceedings on Day Four and secure victory by 170 runs in the first Test with New Zealand at ...
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Andrew Feldman - David Camerons loyal friend and tennis partner
forced into the media spotlight to deny calling grassroots Tory activists "swivel-eyed loons", few outside Westminster had heard of him.The successful former barrister and businessman had managed to keep a low profile despite his rise through the party over the past eight years.Born Andrew Feldman, in London in 1966, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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