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New pay squeeze on public sectors workers expected to be unveiled by Chancellor
Nurses, teachers and council workers face another attack on pay in measures to be unveiled by the Chancellor next week, leaked plans revealed yesterday. George Osborne wants to scrap raises based on length of service and passing of tests for public sector workers already set to lose 1.5billion after the next election. Government workers could also lose out after ministers offered to axe the ...
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Girl writes heartbreaking open letter pleading for more organ donors after dad saves four lives
A little girl penned a heartbreaking letter begging people to be organ donors after her dad saved four lives when he died.Caitlin Robertson, nine, wrote the touching tribute after "funny, caring, loving and brave" Gary died suddenly of a brain aneurysm on his 39th birthday.Caitlin, who has brothers Ben, eight, and two-year-old Joe, learned his organs meant four families did not go ...
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Nigella Lawson attacked How 1 in 4 women are victim of domestic violence
Domestic violence is very common with at least one in four women experiencing abuse in their relationships during their lifetime. On average two women in England and Wales are killed every week by a current of former partner. Perpetrators of domestic violence often appear very charming and likeable - consequently women experiencing abuse are often reluctant to tell anyone in case they ...
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Mum diagnosed with multiple sclerosis discovers it was really parasitic tick bite
A mum treated for multiple sclerosis for two years was actually infected with a parasitic tick bite and cured herself with antibiotics.Julia Marshall-Wessendorf, 37, was diagnosed with the potentially crippling disease after visiting her GP with a numb finger.The mum-of-three had injection every other day to battle the MS, fearing she would end up in a wheelchair.But when she started getting ...
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Tia Sharps grieving dad Steven Carter set to become father again
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Stressed mums cooking up to TEN meals a day for fussy families
Fussy kids and partners are pushing mums to breaking point with their menu orders.Meeting their demands mean one in four mothers cook as many as nine times a day, with some serving 10 meals or even more.The figures come from The Modern Mum Report based on a poll of 1,000 women with kids aged five and under. Most admit to feeling stressed at least five times a day and one in seven said 10 times a ...
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Stafford Hospital nurse who thought dead patient was asleep CAN carry on working
A nurse at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital escaped being struck off yesterday after she claimed that a dead patient was sleeping.Evelyn Agbeko had found the 81-year-old woman unresponsive.However, she did not try chest compressions or call the hospital's resuscitation team, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.Agbeko wrote in her notes that the patient was asleep between 4am and 6am, but ...
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Paddy Power wins landmark ruling against council that tried to block branch
Paddy Power has won a landmark ruling against a council that tried to stop the bookie opening a branch.Newham Council in East London had rejected its application on the grounds that it would attract crime and antisocial behaviour.The council said it was "deeply disappointed" and would consider whether to appeal against the ruling by Thames magistrates. Newham, home of the Olympic park, ...
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Junk food still marketed to children as companies bypass rules
Family entertainment shows such as Britain's Got Talent are exempt from the rules governing the marketing of junk food. Photograph: Rex Features/Ken ...
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Maria Miller warns internet firms on child abuse images
ISPs .In a sign of the government's impatience with the likes of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter, sources say the firms must do more after acting as though "blind" to the problem of child abuse images.Miller said: "Child abuse images are horrific and widespread public concern has made it clear that the industry must take action. Enough is enough."In recent days we ...
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Covenant University’s Former Vice-Chancellor Suspended For Examination Fraud
By SaharaReporters, New York Professor Aize Obayan, a former Vice Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota has been suspended from his position as director of the Education Commission of the Winners Chapel by the church’s general overseer, Bishop David Oyedepo. Ms. Obayan was suspended for reportedly altering examination results for several students in the department of Mass Communications. ...
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Danger for children of texting while crossing roads
Children are putting their safety at risk by being distracted by their phones when crossing the road, according to a report published ...
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ITV sitcom Vicious is cliched and outdated says Barry Cryer
ITV sitcom Vicious, featuring Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi as an ageing gay couple, has been accused of peddling homosexual cliches that would make "John Inman look restrained".Barry Cryer, the ...
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Hormone breakthrough offers hope of safer fertility treatment
The first baby in the world to be born to a woman who was given a naturally occurring hormone to stimulate egg production instead of the usual fertility drugs could herald a safer era of IVF treatment, scientists believe.The baby, a healthy boy weighing 7.15lbs, was born in April. His mother took part in a trial run by Hammersmith hospital and Imperial College in London designed to ensure that ...
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Tim Tebow Can Make New England Patriots Roster Most People Believe
A poll of over 7,000 people has found that most believe popular Christian athlete Tim Tebow will be able to make the New England Patriots' 53-man roster and be on the team next ...
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Snowden to The Guardian NSA and British Secretly Intercepted World Leaders Communications at 2009 Conference
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Glass of wine per day OK during pregnancy study claims
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Dont arm organ-eating Syrian rebels Putin
Syrian rebels who "kill their enemies and eat their organs". Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of betraying humanity by supporting Syrian rebels with "blood on their hands". He said Russia would continue to arm the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in the face of international protests. Putin's comments, ahead of ...
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Cameron will go to Kazakhstan despite dubious record on rights
David Cameron is to pay a two-day visit to the dictatorship of Kazakhstan at the end of this month despite the country's chequered human rights record. It would be the first time that a serving British Prime Minister has ever visited the Central Asia ...
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Hugh Muirs dairy Revealed – the misery of the governments welfare assessments
if the strain is showing , that's no surprise. And strain there is, as we see from a leaked email from one of the medical experts employed by Atos to sort the strivers from the skivers. He was exhorted to put in that little bit more effort. His reply is now prized by all those under the cosh. "Our task is becoming ever more complex and ever more futile as we bend over backwards to ...
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In praise of … Northern Irelands G8
Northern Ireland for the benefit of global visitors are reminders - if they were needed - that such summits have their civil liberty price and their shameless dimensions. All the same, there is something genuinely heartening about a world event of this kind happening in Northern Ireland. It goes without saying that such a gathering would have been unthinkable for much of the past half-century. ...
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UK govt refuses to let Julian Assange leave
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying the reasons for which he was granted asylum were still relevant. Assange has been stranded at Ecuador's embassy in London since he was granted asylum in 2012. But Britain has since refused to give him safe passage to travel to the South American country. "Assange continues with the protection we have given him under asylum in our country, ...
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Britain’s Weatherbys Bank is famed for its personal touch
Workmen put the finishing touches to the gates at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England, as final touches are in preparation for Royal Ascot horse race meeting. The race's official bank has grown its banking business by 30 per cent over the past three years. (David ...
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Nigella Lawson attacked by Charles Saatchi Profile of her husband
Baghdad-born Charles Saatchi founded the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency in 1970 which made him his millions as it became the world's biggest ad firm a decade later. He was responsible for the Conservative ad campaign in the run up to the 1979 election with the slogan 'Labour Isn't Working'. The poster included a snaking dole queue and many believe this helped ...
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Nadine Dorries calls Tories who think David Cameron will win next election “idiots”
Tories who think David Cameron will win the next election are "idiots", rebel MP Nadine Dorries has said. The I'm A Celebrity flop said Tory MPs were "foolhardy and setting themselves up to look like idiots" if they were predicting a Conservative majority after the next election. Ms Dorries also said the party's MPs would "have to be idiots" not to ...
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Edinburgh's tram of indefinite delays
The development of a new tram system for Edinburgh has not been without controversy. Since the project was first proposed as far back as 1999 it took until 2006 for work to actually begin. Since then, there has been one failing after another, with many Edinburgh residents now wondering whether the new tram system will ever see the light of day and, more to the point, whether it is in fact necessary.
Edinburgh had a tram system up until the 1950s and, like many developed cities, it did away with the network in favor of other forms of public transport, mainly buses. Increasingly heavy traffic jams in the capital, however, have prompted city leaders to reconsider and in 2006 two bills went through parliament and were approved. Read more
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