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BBCs expenses bill up by 50 Huge surge in amount claimed for flights and rail travel by senior executives
The BBC’s expenses bill for its top executives has increased by nearly 50 per cent in just three months, fuelled by a huge surge in the amount spent on ...
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Pushy parents are chasing lost dreams trying to make their children succeed
Pushy parents who go to great lengths to make their children succeed are attempting to make up for their own failed dreams, researchers have ...
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GM farming would save countryside and cost less Ministers controversial claim
Britain should lead the way in producing genetically modified food because it would lower prices and free up the countryside, Owen Paterson will argue ...
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Reaching retirement age Itll make you feel healthier Over-65s say they feel decades younger
Official research measuring the nation’s ‘happiness’ found those who have reached retirement age are happier about their own health than they have been for ...
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Crowning glory for Carole the new Queen Mother Royal baby will be brought up more Middleton than Windsor
View comments Should there have been any doubt remaining, let it be extinguished now. We may not yet know the sex of the baby, but we know its true people. The Royal Baby will certainly be royal, but it will be brought up more Middleton than Windsor. The word is that the first people to find out the sex, the hair colour, the weight, and the distribution of pudge and dimples of our future ...
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Exposed the bosses in hospital deaths cover-up Two women hid baby-deaths evidence
Cynthia Bower, former chief executive of the Care Quality Commission, and her deputy Jill Finney were 'round the table' when the decision was taken to delete evidence of a botched CQC ...
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT This bungling quango is a health risk to all
The more we learn of its incompetence, secrecy and deceit, the longer the charge sheet grows against the quango entrusted with safeguarding standards of healthcare in ...
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Chancellor George Osborne uses Mansion House speech to declare Britain has left intensive care
Britain's economy has left intensive care: Chancellor tells bankers that recovery means taxpayer-owned Lloyds and RBS can start to be returned to private ...
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Probe into why firms cant get loans Banks investigated for first time in a decade
Probe into why firms can't get loans: Banks investigated for first time in a decade after claims some small businesses can't even open current ...
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Bathtime lasts 100 hours a year Average Briton spends that amount of time getting clean
The average Briton now spends 100 hours in the bath and shower each year – and several more hours arguing over the bathroom ritual, says a ...
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Women give short shrift to any chap under 6ft Two thirds of women consider taller men sexier than their smaller rivals
But it looks like disappointment is inevitable, as the poll of 1,400 Britons found the average man is just 5ft 10in, two inches short of the ideal. The average woman measures 5ft ...
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A runaway witness his glamorous lawyer and a sinister new twist in Putins bid to crush his nemesis
Officially, Mr Polonsky remains on bail in Cambodia pending his own trial. But when contacted by the Mail two weeks ago, his local lawyer, Kong Radi, admitted: ‘I don’t know where he ...
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UK summer Its already over Weathermen say we face 10 years of soggy summers says MAX HASTINGS
Summer? It's already over! Weathermen say we face 10 years of soggy summers. MAX HASTINGS – convinced this year's sun has been and gone – is taking drastic ...
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Tillie Esper who wrote message in bottle almost 100 years ago has her story told
'It’s like she came back to life': The woman who wrote the message in a bottle almost 100 years ago has her story told as her descendents are ...
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Ex-HSBC boss who oversaw bank as it laundered money for terrorists quits as a minister after scathing report
Number 10 sources insisted the peer's role at the bank had nothing to do with his decision to stand down, saying he had always intended to go after two to three ...
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Empire with no shame The new baby deaths cover-up proves secrecy infects the entire NHS bureaucracy says JULIE BAILEY who exposed the Mid-Staffs scandal
But in recent years something has gone badly wrong with certain parts of the healthcare system. The uplifting rhetoric about service is not always matched by the reality of practice in some of our NHS hospitals, where patients have been put at sometimes fatal risk by incompetence, squalor and ...
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STEPHEN GLOVER God help us when Girl Guides ditch religion for the shallow cult of the individual
Obviously I’ve never been a Girl Guide. Nor did I ever join the Scouts. I was briefly a member of the more junior Cubs — but got out as soon as I ...
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Your dress size dear Erm... Nearly half of British men dont know their partners measurements
However, an overwhelming majority, a full 73 per cent, felt it was not important to know that they knew things like their partner’s dress or shoe ...
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Worlds first beer-ordering app translates beer into 59 different languages
British holidaymakers can order a beer wherever they are in the world without resorting to pidgin language, thanks to the world's first 'beer' translator ...
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David Cameron We WILL jail reckless bankers
The Prime Minister revealed the Government would change the law to catch reckless behaviour in the City and claw back bonuses from banks which had been bailed out with taxpayers' ...
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Its not a tiger or a lion... its a liger Mother gives birth to three adorable rare cubs which will grow to be among the largest cats in the world
Bizarre: A Russian zoo is home to a unique animal - the liger. It is half-lioness, half-tiger. Mother Zita is pictured licking her one month old liliger ...
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The pictures that draw you in... Amazing 3D sketches that look as if objects are flying sailing or crawling off the paper
A Dutch artist has created a series of 3D illustrations using a technique similar to airbrushing, making everything from planes to contorted faces pop out of the ...
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Nigella Lawson throat attack Charles Saatchis ex wife Kay says he was never physically abusive
She said: 'Whilst Charles has always had his faults, I never experienced him to be physically abusive. He may be hard work, but I feel he is being treated ...
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Diet determines heart disease risk as early as age 3
A study found that the effects of unhealthy eating begin at an early age, with the tell-tale signs of cholesterol noticeable in children aged between three and ...
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Are YOU addicted to the internet Doctors draw up list of symptoms including mood changes and a poor social life
Do you stay up late into the night using the internet? Are you grumpy or anxious when you can't log on? Do you need to use the internet more and more to feel ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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