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Cigarette companies pushed EC’s Better Regulation agenda to secure three-year moratorium on plain packaging
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Councils were warned against providing radios and TV sets in advance of Theresa May immigration speech
UK politics
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Cross-party bid for military action that would enforce safe havens and no-fly zone to protect refugees
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New rules mean students will no longer be registered automatically to vote
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Figures show a record 50,000 teachers left the profession in a year, even though pupil numbers continue to grow
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Even the Beckhams are supposedly regulars in their local branch of the value pub chain. Does that mean it has become an integral part of national life?
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As Russia continues its airstrikes, decision to withdraw troubled programme caps grim few weeks for US policy on Syria
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Nurse’s readmission with complications arising from infection is a reminder of how devastating virus can be even to survivors
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Popular TV reveals a great Britain, not hate Britain
Jenny ColganTelevision has a proud history of capturing our better selves. Bake Off’s Nadiya sits in this happy tradition -
Focus on celebrity cases must not detract from advances in tackling child sexual abuse – and in persuading victims that, if they speak up, they will be heard
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NHSNHSNHS workers from abroad: 'I don't think people here appreciate what they have'One in four doctors in the UK is now non-British, and there are thousands more foreign-trained nurses. Do they feel welcome? And how does healthcare in Ghana or the Philippines compare?
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CrimeCrimeDon’t let ‘ordinary’ child sexual abuse fall back into the shadowsFocus on celebrity cases must not detract from advances in tackling child sexual abuse – and in persuading victims that, if they speak up, they will be heard
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Geoffrey Howe delivers his resignation speech in the House of Commons in 1990
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Home secretary Theresa May says she admires former prime minister Margaret Thatcher but does not consider her a role model
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Dr Derek Gatherer says traces of virus can remain in bodily fluids for months, but it is unusual for Ebola to be detected again in someone who has already overcome it, such as nurse Pauline Cafferkey
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Karrissa Cox, a mother whose baby was taken away after her and her partner were wrongly accused of child abuse, sends a message to her child
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CCTV footage has been released of Becky Watts’ step-brother Nathan Matthews browsing for circular saws in a B&Q shop on February 20
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Nadiya Jamir Hussain is tearful after being crowned winner of BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off
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Timelapse footage shows the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, as seen from Eglinton in County Derry, Northern Ireland
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Geoffrey Howe, Margaret Thatcher’s nemesis, dies aged 88
Geoffrey Howe, the close cabinet ally who became Thatcher’s assassin
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