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Workers are more stressed and worried about keeping their jobs than ever before
Workers are more stressed, more under pressure and more worried about keeping their job than at any time since records more than 25 years ago, a damning study revealed ...
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Disabled girl judged not worth saving Charity claims hospital doctors let Tina Papalabropoulos die
In a highly critical report, the health ombudsman said doctors missed chances to save her life. Mencap called the death ‘an avoidable ...
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How echo technique could help the blind Visually impaired can locate items by listening to echoes - like dolphins and bats
The study involved a series of experiments with sighted and blind people to investigate their ability to identify the positions of an object using ...
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch attack on failings of inaccessible family GPs
In a major speech, the Health Secretary will condemn the scandal of out-of-hours services where ‘you speak to a doctor who doesn’t know you from ...
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Cameron sends love letter to Tory loons As UKIP close to within two points the Prime Minister offers an olive branch to activists
The peace offering followed revelations that a senior ally of the Prime Minister had branded the party faithful ‘swivel-eyed loons’. MPs warn that his leadership is in peril amid discontent on Europe and gay ...
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Is this the only way we can match the Germans New England shirt looks just like 1966 rivals
Now, it seems, they’ve got their wish. For the England team’s latest kit bears a striking resemblance to the strip worn by West Germany in ...
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Stigma of divorce is a thing of the past says Steadman TV stars heartfelt lament that broken homes are now the norm
Speaking at the launch of her new ITV drama Love and Marriage, in which she plays a retired woman who walks out on her uncommunicative husband, Miss Steadman said she hoped the younger generation would ‘think again’ before ending their ...
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Ash dieback Ministers ban sweet chestnut as they aim to prevent repeat of dieback crisis
Ministers are set to ban imports of sweet chestnut trees to prevent a repeat of the ash dieback crisis threatening to devastate Britain’s ...
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Boriss secret lovechild and a victory for the publics right to know Judge rejects lovers attempts to keep daughters birth quiet
It rejected claims by Helen Macintyre, with whom the married Mayor of London had an affair, that the birth of their daughter Stephanie must remain ...
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The Doors founding member Ray Manzarek dies at 74
Manzarek formed the band along with charismatic frontman Jim Morrison after a chance meeting on Venice Beach in 1965 with his former classmate at the prestigious University of California, Los ...
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Chelsea Flower Show Must-have al fresco garden accessories include heated seats and a fridge
The al fresco kitchen: Showcased at Chelsea, the latest must-have garden accessories include heated seats, a fridge, a wood-burning ovenand even a ...
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Tim Peake Britains new astronaut and his bizarre training
So you want to be a spaceman? 12 days on the seabed, a week in a cave, lessons in Russian (and the didgeridoo)the gruelling training of Britain's new ...
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Gay marriage closer to becoming law after MPs vote strongly in favour of legalising same-sex weddings
Despite the opposition of half the Tory backbenchers, the 11th-hour deal, a humiliation for the PM, means same-sex marriages could take place next ...
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Archers doesnt copy EastEnders Radio soaps editor forced to deny deliberately sensationalising storylines
Now the editor of The Archers has been forced to deny she has deliberately sensationalised life in Ambridge to compete with gritty TV soaps such as ...
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Obesity heart disease and asthma could all be determined in the womb due to a mothers diet
A BNF taskforce has been looking at aspects of nutrition and early life development, including the impact of a mother's health and eating habits on her baby even before ...
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Whos in charge of the clattering Tory Party
Press baron Lord Beaverbrook used to ask of his newspapers when they seemed rudderless: ‘Who’s in charge of the clattering train?’ The same question may be asked of the Tory Party, which has been through a horrible few ...
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Now FTSE hits 13-year high as traders buy in to modest recovery in UK economy
Last night experts predicted the FTSE would this year hit an all-time record of 6,950.6 points, set in December 1999 at the height of the ‘dot com’ boom, and could even break the 7,000 ...
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Anorexia One in ten teenage girls has an eating disorder and boys as young as ten are also at risk
Modern society exerts pressure for children to be and look perfect at a young age, a pressure which experts say often leads to eating disorders (picture posed by ...
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Sudden infant death Risk five times higher if baby sleeps in parents bed
Bed sharing is on the increase despite warnings that parents should have their babies in bed with them - particularly smokers and those who have been drinking alcohol or taking ...
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New genetic test for cancer patients will tell sufferers if they are likely to pass risk onto their relatives
The ‘revolutionary’ test will be offered to sufferers to check if they - and in some cases, members of their family - are carrying mutated genes which make them genetically prone to certain forms of ...
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QUENTIN LETTS Fingers were wagged about not respecting minorities
Yes, folks, it was another day in the modern politics of egalitarian one-upmanship and legal menaces, another day of MPs wagging fingers about the wickedness of not respecting minorities – and then shouting down Hon Members who disagreed with ...
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DOMINIC SANDBROOK What an insult to all of us MPs demand for a huge pay rise shows the gap between rulers and ruled has never been so wide
'Unacceptable': Labour's John Mann said on the proposed pay rise for MPs: 'They should throw this proposal in the bin,' accurately predicting it would 'just create more bad publicity for ...
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Soulumination Photographers capture images of families ravaged by terminal illness
The joy of life - in the face of death: Heartbreaking but extraordinarily uplifting images of families with their children before losing them to terminal ...
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN The paying public are sick and tired of being ignored and patronised. So who are the real swivel-eyed loons
When I saw the juxtaposition of ‘Feldman’ and ‘swivel-eyed loon’ in the same sentence, I immediately thought of the late Marty Feldman, the original swivel-eyed ...
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Staggering three million parents over 50 still have grown-up children living at home
But the report from Saga, the old age experts, also raised fears about the pressure on millions of parents who never thought their children would still be living at ...
Mexico Feature
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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