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Help to Buy risks new house price 'bubble', warns Cable

Houses now taking longer than ever to sell

George Osborne's plan to offer Government guarantees for mortgages risks triggering another house price "bubble", the Business Secretary warns.

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Eight out of 10 GP practices want 111 to be axed

Eight out of ten GP practices are so unhappy about the new 111 non-emergency phone line for patients that they believe it should be abandoned, a new survey has found.

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Cameron dragged into immigration row over 'stupid' Go Home poster

The Home Office vans encouraging illegal immigrants to 'go home or face arrest'

A provocative government poster campaign telling illegal immigrants to “go home” or face arrest is “stupid and offensive”, the Liberal Democrat business secretary has said.

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'Prince George should never be King of Scots'

Dennis Canavan has said Prince George should never become King of Scots

Prince George of Cambridge should never be King of Scots, the chairman of the Scottish Independence Group has said in an outspoken attack on the monarchy that provoked a row with Unionists.

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Andrew Marr 'delighted' to be returning to TV in September

Andrew Marr says he is "hugely looking forward" to returning to present his Sunday politics show, nine months after suffering a stroke.

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Theresa May reveals she has Type 1 diabetes

Mrs May says she has been told by doctors she must inject herself with insulin at least twice a day for the rest of her life.

Ronnie Biggs 'proud' to have been part of Great Train Robbery

Fifty years after the world-famous Great Train Robbery, notorious criminal Ronnie Biggs says he has few regrets about the crime that made him a household name.

Women delay careers to have children

Record numbers of babies were born to foreign mothers last year, while fewer British women gave birth.

Women are putting off their career to have children, research by the London School of Economics has found

Spanish train crash: 'shocking' images of British survivor

At least 77 people have been killed and more than 143 injured after a passenger train derailed outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela.

The stepfather of the only Briton injured in Spain's worst train disaster for decades speaks about his shock at seeing photos of him staggering away from the wreckage.

Lockerbie bomber release linked to arms deal, according to secret letter

Tony Blair during one of his meetings with Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.

Release of the Lockerbie bomber was linked to a £400 million arms-export deal to Libya, according to secret correspondence.

French storms will cause school holiday washout

A tornado was spotted as storms hit the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, on Friday evening

First week of school holidays looks set to be a washout after forecasters predict more heavy rain following storms from France which struck large parts of the UK on Saturday.

How much debt is your neighbourhood in?

Interactive map: Stories of debt-ridden homeowners and near-bankrupt business have been a common feature of the economic crisis. Now a new interactive online map has allowed Britons to check exactly how much of a crisis their local neighbourhood is in.

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Joss Stone: I pity men who plotted to behead me

Joss Stone has revealed she “feels sorry” for the two men convicted of a plot to kidnap, rob and murder her in her home.

School bans girls from wearing skirts

Girls as young as nine have been banned from wearing skirts to school because of concerns they are getting too short and “unladylike”.

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Top Gear embroiled in another row over faked scenes

A scene from Top Gear in which a home-made hovercraft driven by Jeremy Clarkson left a trail of havoc at a peaceful riverside location was faked, it has emerged, with professional actors hired to play startled diners.

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First case of man 'sexually aroused by flatulence'

To most, smelling another person's flatulence is an unpleasant experience. But the world's first case study of a man who is sexually aroused by other people passing wind has now been published.

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Woman who campaigned for Jane Austen bank note receives Twitter death threats

Co-founder of the Women's Room, Caroline Criado-Perez faced a deluge of hostile tweets

The woman who convinced the Bank of England to make Jane Austen the new face of the £10 note has received rape and death threats from Twitter users.

PA tells of last moments with Michael Winner

'Perfect darling, perfect': Sir Michael Parkinson and Bill Wyman attend funeral of Michael Winner

Michael Winner’s personal assistant has spoken of the “heartbreaking” moment her boss died as she struggles to cope with the loss of her friend and shock of finding he was £12m in debt.

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Life on the London Underground

Two decades of the London Underground in the 1970s/80s caught on camera by photographer Bob Mazzer.

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Pilgrims lie in sleeping bags next to Copacabana Beach after a mass by Pope Francis on his sixth day in Rio de Janeiro

Pope's Mass sleepover

1000's of Catholic pilgrims sleep on Rio's Copacabana beach.

Christie's National Geographic auction

125 iconic pictures in celebration of National Geographic's 125th anniversary to auction online.

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The colourful signal box at Bury St Edmund's Yard, Suffolk.

Britain's listed signal boxes

Twenty-six UK railway signal boxes have been granted Grade II listed status.

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New cat playing piece unveiled for monopoly as iron finally cast out

A silver cat has been unveiled a the new playing piece for Monopoly to replace the iron.

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SNP state pension promise 'to cost £700 million a year'

Scotland's population is ageing at a much faster rate than the rest of the UK's

SNP ministers have been challenged to explain how they would fund their promise of a higher state pension in an independent Scotland after it was estimated the extra cost would reach £700 million a year.

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Stephen Hawking: doctors offered to turn off life support 27 years ago

Dissuading Prof Hawking from attending a conference with a focus on Israeli innovation seems particularly invidious in view of the many ways in which Israeli technology has changed the lives of those with special needs. Indeed, Prof Hawking’s own speech-generation device is operated by a silicon chip designed in Israel

Professor Stephen Hawking was once so close to death that doctors had offered to switch off his life-support machine, but his wife refused.

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A time capsule for Prince George

Gary Goldsmith, the Duchess of Cambridge's Uncle, has revealed he has created a time capsule for Prince George, filled with a DVD of Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and a copy of Hello magazine.

Storms from France set to make first week of school holidays a washout

The first week of the school holidays looks set to be a washout after forecasters predicted more heavy rain following storms from France which struck large parts of the UK on Saturday.

Your tattoo is not Pc, officers told

Surrey police at Epsom racecourse before the ban came in.

A police force has ordered officers to cover their tattoos and to wear a shirt and tie, in an effort to raise standards.

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SNP state pension promise 'to cost £700 million a year'

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Government slammed over migration data

Police due to probe assault claims at Ukip conference

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Virginia Johnson

Researcher into sexual behaviour whose work made her controversial and rich in equal measure

Myles Bowen

Lance-Corporal Paul Burns

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Mali defies Islamists to vote in first post-coup election

Voters defied Islamist warnings to cast ballots in Mali’s presidential election on Sunday, 16 months after an army coup which plunged the country into chaos and led to French intervention against a militant uprising.

Venice cruise ship row inflamed by 'sail-past scrape'

A row over the giant cruise ships that squeeze down Venice's narrow canals has been inflamed by claims that a vessel veered off course on Saturday to within 20 metres of the lagoon city, nearly squashing a water bus.

China landslide engulfs car

A car travelling along a mountain pass in China is engulfed by a landslide.

Dramatic CCTV footage shows a car being engulfed by a landslide in China, forcing the four people in the vehicle to make a hasty escape.

Armed robbers steal €40 million of jewels from Cannes hotel

Jewels worth €40 million have been stolen during a brazen daylight raid on an exhibition in Cannes.

Jewels worth €40 million have been stolen from a hotel in Cannes, during a brazen daylight raid on an exhibition of diamonds owned by a London-based Israeli businessman.

Wife of John Kerry leaves hospital three weeks after seizure

Teresa Heinz Kerry and husband John Kerry

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry, has discharged from hospital three weeks after she suffered a seizure earlier this month, a State Department spokesman confirmed.

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Warning for Britons in Tunisia

The Foreign Office has urged Britons visiting Tunisia to take extra care following the assassination of the secular opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi on Thursday.

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