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UK considers 10-20 percent price cut for medicines
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Department of Health said on Thursday it was considering cutting drug prices by between 10 and 20 percent under pricing arrangements with industry to ensure the state healthcare system gets good value for money.Governments across Europe have been taking a tough line on medicine costs as stagnant economic growth hits budgets. (Reporting by Ben Hirschler; editing ...
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British Royal FamilyRoyal Baby Surprise 2 weeks for Prince William Duches Kate baby UK News
Will it be a girl or a boy ?In less than Two weeks, the Royal offspring at Windsor is expected,The British bursting with curiosity, but the expectant Prince William and Kate want to be ...
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Mickey Arthur says Australia have better bowlers than England for Ashes
the Ashes with a superior bowling attack.In an extended interview with ABC radio in Australia, Arthur declared his confidence that Michael Clarke will return from his back problem to lead the team in their first four-day tour match against Somerset starting in Taunton on Wednesday, and insisted that Warner could still come into contention for the first ...
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Richard Dawkins on memes - Cannes Lions 2013 video
Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' to mean a unit akin to a self-replicating gene which transmits cultural ideas. But even he could not predict its influence when he wrote his seminal work The Selfish Gene in 1976. Now, the concept is well established in marketing, as he tells the Guardian's John Plunkett at ...
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Online shopping drives UK retail sales higher than expected
UK retail sales jumped far more than economists expected in May, supporting hopes that a modest economic recovery is gaining momentum.The volume of sales rose 1.9% compared with a year earlier, and 2.1% compared with April, largely driven higher by internet shopping, according to the Office for National Statistics.The value of sales was 27.1bn, up 3.1% on an annual basis and 2.1% on a monthly ...
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British and Irish Lions 2013 Tourists demand better refereeing
The World Cup-winning Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer may have taken the first shot in the war over Test match refereeing and be held responsible for the outbreak of hostilities ahead of the Lions series, but the visitors have fired ...
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How a Manchester co-op is getting the food revolution moving
Manchester Veg People was set up to bring organic, sustainable farmers together with buyers from the restaurant and catering industries. Photograph: David ...
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Miss Saigon confirms West End return
took over Les Misrables for its 25th anniversary , is a flexible version of the original capable of nationwide and international touring. It has previously played around the country for two years, debuting in 2004.Miss Saigon is set in the final days of the American occupation of the Asian city and charts the burgeoning romance of an American GI and a young Vietnamese ...
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Children hurt in car crash near school in south Wales
Several children have been hurt after a car overturned near Rhoose primary school in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Photograph: Jack ...
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LGBT people existed long before 1967 – as the British Museum reveals | Andrew Dobbin
'The Warren cup [at the British Museum], as well as being a sublime objet d'art, may bring a smile to the face of anyone who remembers the dinner scene in the 1996 film The Birdcage.' Photograph: Martin Godwin for the ...
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Anterior Approach Minimally invasive Hip replacement News
The traditional hip replacement is a highly successful operation, where a great number of people have regained mobility and quality of life. However, as with all operations the recovery is often quite demanding on the patient, and requires good pain control and plenty of physiotherapy to keep patients mobile in the those early stages. The Anterior approach is an innovative technique to hip ...
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Cardiff surgeon performs stent procedure to prevent erectile dysfunction
Dr Nick Gerning (Cardiologist), and colleague Dr Andrew Wood (Radiologist) based at Spire Cardiff Hospital in Pentwyn, performed the groundbreaking procedure using a stent - the result of a three-year research project in conjunction with other cardiology specialists in the USA, and a Cardiff based group of vascular surgeons, physicists and urologists. Stents are artificial tubes traditionally ...
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U.K. retail sales exceed forecast pound pares losses
Retail sales with auto fuel for the month of May showed 2.1% advance, compared to both revised and expected readings of -1.1% and 0.8% respectively, where the annual reading edged up 1.9% from a revised of ...
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Nigella Lawson photos Battered wifes open letter to TV chef after shock pictures
But, after 70-year-old Saatchi accepted a caution for assault, friends and family are reported to be urging the celebrity chef to think again about going back to her ...
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James Gandolfini died on boys trip with teenage son after suffering heart attack in hotel bathroom
The 51-year-old actor is believed to have collapsed in a bathroom of his Rome hotel while at dinner with 13-year-old Michael and his ...
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British Olympic rowing champion Hosking retires aged 27
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review
It's an odd title for a book about the preservation of ancient monuments, but there's a political point to it. Civil servants have always been the butts of ridicule - wasn't there a radio comedy series many years ago ...
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Films made in 3D are a marketing gimmick says director Alan Parker
Alan Parker has dismissed 3D films as a marketing gimmick and said he is unlikely to direct any more movies - but would consider working in TV, where "the very best work is being done".Parker said that big budget films were made in 3D because the Hollywood studios thought that was necessary to make it appealing to a mainstream audience."Everything has to be 3D if it is over a ...
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Outgoing Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King to get life peerage
Mervyn King will retire from Threadneedle Street on 30 June after a decade at the helm, and will become a member of the House of Lords after his nomination by the prime minister for his "significant public service".King joined the Bank as a non-executive director in 1990 during Margaret Thatcher's premiership, and subsequently served as executive director, chief economist, and ...
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Qatada could step closer to extradition with UK days away from ratifying treaty
The UK parliamentary process of ratifying the treaty, expected to be completed by Friday, has already had the agreement approved by the King of Jordan and the Jordanian parliament in their country.To complete the process the treaty will have to be published in the Jordanian government's official gazette and a number of ratification instruments must be exchanged.The agreement was unveiled by ...
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Jeffrey George President Barack Obama confuses UK Chancellor Osborne for his favourite rb singer during G8 presentation
The Chancellor George Osborne has been called many things in his time - but Barack Obama confusing him for his favourite R&B singer must be a ...
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DealBook British Banks to Raise Extra $21 Billion in Capital
LONDON - British authorities on Thursday called on five of the country's largest banks to raise a combined 13.4 billion ($20.7 billion) in extra capital by the end of the year to protect against future financial shocks.The demands form part of attempts by the Prudential Regulatory Authority, a British regulator, to strengthen the capital reserves of British lenders after many suffered major ...
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Re-privatising East Coast rail company makes no sense | Sheila Gilmore
'East Coast has proven refreshingly good at what it does. The trains are clean and punctual and journey times have been cut.' Photograph: ...
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Nick Clegg warns over Syria intervention
Nick Clegg, who claims Barack Obama described him as the better-looking half of the coalition, has urged caution over Syria. Photograph: John ...
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Britains high society playground
Royal Ascot: In numbers245 private viewing boxes400 VIP helicopters1,000 visitors' limousines51,000 bottles of champagne174,000 pints of beer5,000 kilograms of salmon2,050 lobsters8,000 Angus steaks"You turn left for the expensive end of things -- the Royal Enclosure and the grandstands' snootier reaches -- or right for economy class, which is epitomized by the Silver Ring. "Behind the velvet ...
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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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