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Cobalt hips | Senior police at Leveson inquiry | JB Priestley in Deal | Collapsed football clubs• A piece about concerns over all-metal hip implants – 50,000 face health checks over hip replacements,...

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Steve Hilton's exit signals the slide of David Cameron into fuzziness |...

The blue-skies thinker was an asset in the bold early days of power. But now the cloud cover of government has rolled inThere is the honours system; and then there is the real honours system, the one...

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NHS changes may increase risks to vulnerable children, warn trusts

Health bill could weaken child protection procedures, PCTs claim in their risk assessment analysis The government's NHS reform bill could increase the dangers facing vulnerable children, according to a...

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Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk: The rare song of the skylark

Claxton, Norfolk: Out of that hovering speck came that glorious rolling sound which has inspired more English poetry than any other birdsong except the nightingale'sThe recent warmth has inspired...

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Unemployment matters more than GDP or inflation | Mehdi Hasan

Jobless figures are the one major economic indicator that measures people. And they demonstrate the toll in misery across EuropeThere is a spectre haunting Europe – the spectre of mass unemployment. On...

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Letters: Privacy and the power of Google

Jonathan Freedland falls for the Google story that it can "join the dots of its users' electronic lives" (Our digital masters must themselves be watched, 2 March). If it can, it makes a pretty poor job...

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Letters: Britain's shameful treatment of its elderly people

It has the ring of a 19th-century Dickens or Balzac story: "Mary's cleaner, chosen by a local support agency, left dirty washing in the sink because, she said, Mary was blind so couldn't see if the...

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Letters: The Queen and the Co-op

Wonderful centrespread of the Queen, Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Cambridge leaving Fortnum & Mason (2 March). Happily the Queen is starting her tour in Leicester next Thursday, which is...

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Vladimir Putin: 'We have won. Glory to Russia'

Putin claims resounding election win as opposition activists allege widespread fraudVladimir Putin has claimed a resounding victory in Russia's presidential election, provoking a furious response from...

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One Jesus for liberals, another for conservatives | Johnjoe McFadden

New research shows how believers tailor Christian teachings to fit their own political viewpointLove thy neighbour, so long as he is not an illegal immigrant. Blessed are the poor, so long as they are...

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Neuroscience and philosophy must work together | Barry Smith

Theories of consciousness are challenged by recent research into the impact of brain function on the sense of selfHuman beings are part of nature. They are made of flesh and blood, brain and bone; but...

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Russian elections: Putin has six more years to draw level with Brezhnev |...

Despite the whispers of revolution, who would bet against Vladimir matching Leonid?Sunday night was Vladimir Putin's Brezhnev moment. It was when he ceased simply being an elected leader and segued...

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Whitehall defends dual health roles of chairman of NHS watchdog

Lord Carter chairs the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) and is UK head of US-owned healthcare firm McKessonThe Department of Health said it had "every confidence" in the head of the body...

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The future face of Ukip?

There were younger voices mingled with the middle-class, middle-aged moans at this year's Ukip conferenceIf David Cameron had been watching Ukip's spring conference on the Skegness seafront, the critic...

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Weatherwatch: Freezing classrooms in a country church school

Daily accounts of life in 1867 in the church school in Linslade, then a fast growing town in Buckinghamshire, shows preoccupation with the weather and cleanliness. Children must be "warm and clean". On...

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The weather in February

It was a month of two halves, with the coldest first fortnight of February for 11 years, but the warmest second half since 1998. There was a temperature range of 37 degrees, between a low of -18.3C and...

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Working tax credit changes should be postponed, child poverty activists say

Osborne urged to act after April change will raise threshold for families with children from 16 to 24 hours work a weekChild poverty campaigners will call on the government on Monday to postpone...

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Vladimir Putin's critics cry foul over alleged voter fraud in Russian election

Opponents say there is 'no legitimate president' and upload to the internet examples of what they claim is evidence of fraudTwo women hover over a ballot box in the industrial Russian city of...

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Red Arrows pilot takes ground role after deaths

Red Arrows' first female pilot is retired from flying duties after two colleagues were killed in the same yearBritain's first female Red Arrows pilot is to move to a ground role after two of her flying...

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Russian election dogged by accusations of vote fixing

Opposition leaders say vote even more rigged than December's parliamentary electionsOpposition leaders said that Russia's presidential elections on Sunday were even more rigged than December's...

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