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Parents warned sharing bed with babies increases risk of cot death
A new study found breastfed babies under three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a significantly increased risk of cot death.Researchers estimate that 40 per cent of the 300 cot death cases in the UK each year could be prevented if parents only brought children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.Presently, NHS officials only advise parents against sharing ...
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Editorial Gay marriage is a large liberal step
For all our liberality, Britain still has a way to go. Last weekend - ironically, just one day after the International Day Against Homophobia - two gay men were attacked in a south London park. Then, yesterday, more than a handful of MPs lined up to resist government plans to allow same-sex couples to marry. The two are, of course, not linked; it would be fatuous - not to say, unfair - to ...
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Poll puts Ukip just two points behind Tories
The data by Survation, a member of the British Polling Council, puts Ukip on 22 per cent, its highest poll rating ever. Labour is on 35 per cent, 11 points ahead of the Tories, while the Lib Dems are in fourth place on 11 per cent. If the results were repeated at a general election on a uniform swing, Labour would have a majority of 104 seats. The survey canvassed 1,000 adults in England, ...
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The chasm that could swallow Cameron alive
or that life should be made miserable for David Cameron , or both, they knew they had cover from local party associations. Far from condemning their disloyalty to the party leadership, as might have been done in times long past, those associations knew that Cameron would support them. It's unlikely that without that activist momentum (partly fuelled by the competition from Ukip, of course) ...
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British Deep Water Diver Dies At Italy Wreck
A British man has died during a dive on a wreck in Italy, coastguard officials have confirmed. The man was in a group of six divers taking part in a week-long programme involving several deep water explorations on ships that had been sunk during World War Two. Coastguard officials said the man had been diving at a depth of around 300 feet when he got into difficulty and died shortly after ...
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MPs debate gay marriage bill Monday 20 August as it happened
Adam Afriyie (Windsor), Peter Aldous (Waveney), Steven Baker (Wycombe), Andrew Bingham (High Peak), Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West), Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire North West), Steve Brine (Winchester), Robert Buckland (Swindon South), Aidan Burley (Cannock Chase), Christopher Chope (Christchurch), Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswolds, The), David Davies (Monmouth), Glyn Davies ...
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Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment
Ed Miliband, right, agreed to vote against an amendment to the gay marriage bill after an appeal by Tory whips for Labour support. Photograph: ...
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Royal Mail privatisation will plunge post offices into crisis
The Post Office network will be plunged into crisis with dozens of closures if Royal Mail is privatised, ministers were warned today.The National Federation of SubPostmasters urged the Government to delay the 3billion sale until the PO network's future is secured.Post offices receive millions each year from Royal Mail to provide services like special delivery and registered post. But the ...
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Lyon double death CCTV shows happy kids choosing sweets with dad hours before he slit their throats
murdering his two young children by slitting their throats was today described as a Jekyll and Hyde character.Neighbours said 48-year-old Julian Stevenson was normally mild-mannered and friendly - but his mood could change dramatically after a few drinks.And they fear he may have finally snapped following a bitter custody battle.But there was no sign of the impending horror as British expat ...
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Nigel Evans faces third sex attack probe as police raid his House of Commons office
Tory Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans of sexual assault, it emerged today.And MPs appeared stunned when his boss John Bercow announced that police with a crown court warrant had searched Mr Evans' office in the Commons.Detectives investigating allegations against the Conservative MP seized "parliamentary material" during the operation.Speaker Bercow told a hushed afternoon sitting: ...
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Ray Manzarek dies aged 74 The Doors keyboard player passes away after cancer battle
Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founding member of The Doors, died today after a long battle with bile duct cancer. He was 74.His manager said he died this afternoon in Rosenheim, Germany surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and brothers Rick and James.Manzarek is best known for his work with The Doors who formed in 1965 when Manzarek had a chance encounter on Venice Beach with poet Jim ...
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Hugh Muirs diary were holding out for a hero over tax. Could it be Ed Miliband
o It must have seemed a no-brainer. The people who rule the 21st century offering a platform to the man who would run the country. And so it was little surprise that Ed Miliband made himself available. He wasn't to know that in the intervening period, his hosts Google would be reborn as public enemy No 1; castigated as tax-dodging "evil" by Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the ...
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Gay marriage David Cameron tonight takes on the wreckers among Conservative MPs in key vote
Moves to legalise gay marriage cleared a crucial parliamentary hurdle as it emerged that civil partnerships could be abolished as the price for getting David Cameron's plans on to the statute ...
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Still behind bars Abu Qatada denied bail over seized jihadist files
The radical Islamist, who has become a thorn in the Government's side, said recently that he would voluntarily return to Jordan if a new law banning the use of evidence procured through torture is passed.The 52-year-old remains at Belmarsh prison, having breached his bail conditions. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission heard yesterday that jihadist material was found on a USB stick ...
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A gnome grows in Chelsea - at the flower show that is
Decorated garden gnomes designed by celebrities are seen at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on ...
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Business travel must remain focus of employers duty of care
Organisations whose staff travel outside of the UK on business, must ensure they continue to focus on their duty of care to these employees says AXA ...
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Bupas global dementia charter
Bupa and global dementia federation Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) have launched a joint global dementia charter. ADI represents 75 Alzheimer associations around the ...
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Police raid British pols office after rape charge
British police said they searched parliamentary offices of the House of Commons deputy speaker after allegations he sexually assaulted three men. Nigel Evans, the Conservative MP from Ribble Valley who holds the leadership post, denied accusations by two individuals made May 4 that he raped one of the men and sexually assaulted another. In the days following, a third individual came forward ...
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Britain aims to make gene testing accessible for cancer patients
Britain launched a research program on Monday that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of genetic analysis that led Angelina Jolie to decide to undergo a double mastectomy.The project, involving the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, the U.S. gene sequencing firm Illumina, geneticists and cancer doctors, aims to find a way to allow more cancer genes ...
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UNC-Wilmington Chancellor Hears From UNCW Swimming and Diving Supporters
WILMINGTON, North Carolina, May 20. IN the fight to keep men's and women's swimming and diving at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the backers of the "Save UNCW Swim & Dive" have sent a letter to University Chancellor Gary Miller. In it, they state the case for keeping the program, which is in danger of ending in a few months after the release ...
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Another shooting on Lutons troubled streets as man blasted near school
A man was shot near a school this morning in yet another Luton gun attack.The incident - the 10th shooting in the town this year - followed a rush-hour collision not far from Downside Primary School.A 27-year-old Asian man was in serious condition in hospital after he was shot in the leg. His attacker - described as white, skinny and around 6ft - fled in a silver saloon and is being hunted by ...
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David Cameron writes to Tory activists in bid to repair Loongate damage
the damage wreaked by "Loongate" . The PM says he has been a Conservative through good times and bad and insists he has a deep, lasting friendship with the party. Mr Cameron adds: "I am proud to lead this party. I am proud of what you do. "And I would never have around me those who sneered or thought otherwise." It comes after party chiefs quashed calls for an ...
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Major Tim Peakes pride at becoming the UKs first true astronaut
He led Army platoons into war zones, flew daredevil missions for special forces and was a test pilot on Apache helicopter gunships.So when Major Tim Peake is launched into space as the first "real" British astronaut, the dangers won't worry him at all.The former pilot in the British Army Air Corps today spoke of his excitement at the historic five-month mission which will see him ...
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Broadways biggest theater sold to British group
FILE - This May 12, 2011 file photo shows the marquee for "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" outside the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. Ambassador Theatre Group said Monday, May 20, 2013, it has acquired The Foxwoods Theatre, the current home of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The theater has about 2,000 ...
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Man Citys Rodwell called up to England squad
Roy hits out at club friendlies Rodwell, 22, endured an injury-hit debut season at the Etihad Stadium after joining City from Everton last summer.However he returned to the first-team fold towards the end of the campaign, featuring in four of City's last five games ...
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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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