The true toll may be even higher because victims of care home neglect who die in hospital are not included in the totals. During Labour’s period in power the number of deaths linked to dehydration doubled while those involving superbugs rose sevenfold.
The accident happened this morning in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, just four miles from a similar crash that claimed the lives of three teenagers just a month ago.
At least 102 people have been killed, more than 2,000 are injured and there were calls for a multi-party democracy to emerge as President Hosni Mubarack's grip on power loosens.
The Deputy Prime Minister has told other Whitehall departments that routine reports and memos should not be put into his red box after three o'clock.
Katie Waring's parents, Ken and Eveline, claim the 19-year-old could not get a vital appointment, and say they were told to 'wrap her up warm and give her fluids'.
Philippa Corbin, 27, pictured with the celebrity chef, left school at 18 to follow her parents' passion for real food but was found hanged in an outhouse at their farmhouse in Dorset.
The Chancellor said no politician liked cutting spending and raising taxes, but the measures were necessary to clear up the 'mess' left by the Labour government.
A new book says Mr Assange, 39, has 'a bit of Peter Pan in him' and brands the WikiLeaks founder as a man who behaves erratically - despite his undoubted intelligence.
The Maharishi School in Ormskirk, Lancashire, will be part of the first batch of education secretary Michael Gove’s free schools.
PC Paul Rice, who was Mr Johnson’s protection officer when he was Home Secretary, has kept a low profile since the relationships came to light. But the shamed policeman was photographed as he peered over the balcony of his sixth-floor apartment at the weekend. The 45-year-old has been suspended from Scotland Yard’s elite specialist protection unit while the affairs are investigated. He is likely to be sacked. ...read
A teenage girl was killed in a horrific head-on car crash after a slug caused a set of traffic lights to fail. Katie Dagley died in the West Midlands.
A mother-of-three was forced to sell her home after being conned out of £80,000 by fraudsters posing as an American solider on a dating website.
Radical health reforms which will allow private companies to provide NHS services, have less than a third of the public's support, a poll has revealed.
Lord Mandelson gave him informal advice ahead of his appearance before the Treasury select committee earlier this month.
Sarkozy, who has recently come under fire for his own grasp of Francais, has said that he wants France's youngsters to learn 'the language of Shakespeare'.
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is the first politician to make a link between first-cousin marriages and sex crimes by Pakistani men.
A lost pet poodle has been reunited with his owners after being found 115 miles away from home over 18 months after he first disappeared.
Amanda Prentice, 38, phoned Central Bedfordshire Council to report the fault when three lights stopped working in December.
Labour leader pledged not to play ‘party politics’ with the military campaign in Afghanistan after making his first visit to the war-torn country.
Gas worker James O'Neill, 28, left one victim with a broken nose and the other with a broken ankle, a court heard.
Children donned scarves, boots and mittens to play in the snow in North Yorkshire this morning, while walkers in County Durham also had to wrap up warm.
A new environmentally-friendly milk bottle is set to go on sale in supermarkets throughout the UK.
‘It was no accident that the terrorist act was carried out in the international arrivals hall,’ the inquiry team said. ‘This was aimed at foreign citizens.’
Russell Thorne, Simon Dykes and Christopher Bevan are accused of being intimately involved with the female prisoners. Between them they are charged with 10 separate offences.
The passenger train was hurled from the tracks due to the force of the collision at Hordorf, five miles from the town of Oschersleben, shortly after 10.20pm last night.
Under the original arrangement, RBS boss Stephen Hester would have received up to half the bonus in cash and the rest in shares. The moves being considered mean shares would be placed in a long-term fund.
Katharine Birbalsingh, who received a standing ovation for her attack on the 'broken' education system, is blamed for the shutdown of St Michael and All Angels in Southwark, South London.
The Government investigated its flagship Equality Act – to see if it would discriminate against the very minority groups it was designed to protect.
Polish migrants in Britain are being urged to launch compensation claims for thousands by companies luring them with promises of no-win, no-fee deals.
The credit reference agency has been accused of misleading customers who sign up for a supposedly free service to check their financial records.
China is the most gung-ho: the Beijing government employs around 50,000 people in various weather modification centres.
The 34-year-old woman has not been named following the charge relating to an attack on police horses Bella and Biscuit while on patrol in Chelmsford this month.
Eminent fertility doctor is at the centre of a fresh row over his role with a controversial Chinese IVF clinic. Enda McVeigh has regularly travelled to Shanghai.
The payment to Alivia Kratke came to light after Conservative MP Dominic Raab was publicly rapped by Home Secretary Theresa May, who told him denouncing feminists was not the way to tackle sexism.
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Nineteen-year-old Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles.
Zoe Anderson, 24, was found slumped in the bathroom of her publisher father’s house. Police believe her death was caused by a carbon monoxide leak from a boiler and have arrested the man who fitted it on suspicion of manslaughter. ...read
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