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High street outlets ignoring guidelines on providing calorie information
Food outlets such as Costa Coffee, Pizza Express and Garfunkels have shunned initiative to reduce obesityMajor high street food outlets such as Costa Coffee, Pizza Express and Garfunkels have shunned a...
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Asian universities challenge US-UK domination of rankings
Survey puts Harvard in top spot, while all the leading Asian universities gain higher rankings than in 2011• Data blog: get the full university rankings hereThe UK has better universities than any...
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Breastfeeding advice unhelpful to mothers, researchers claim
Recommendations by the WHO and Department of Health that babies should be breastfed for six months 'unrealistic for many'New mothers can feel set up to fail by "unhelpful" advice telling them to...
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Drug users might give up if the warnings were plausible | Zoe Williams
The Guardian survey reveals that many people take drugs without suffering, but they are interested in evidenceHere are the top lines from the Guardian/Mixmag drug use survey: 15,500 people responded,...
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Tesco UK boss quits supermarket in aftermath of shock profit warning
'You can't have two captains' declares Philip Clarke as he takes direct control of UK operations at Britain's largest retailerTesco chief executive Philip Clarke declared "you can't have two captains"...
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Briton and his wife murdered in Thailand resort
Michael Raymond, 68, and Suchada Bowkamdee, 52, found robbed and beaten to death in Prachuap Khiri Khan provinceA British man and his Thai wife have been robbed and beaten to death at a resort in...
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Human rights court backs police 'kettling'
Majority of Strasbourg judges rule in favour of Met in case brought by demonstrator and bystanders over 2001 incidentA controversial police operation to "kettle" protesters in Oxford Circus has been...
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Plaid Cymru to name new leader
Leanne Wood, Elin Jones and Dafydd Elis-Thomas vie to lead Welsh nationalist partyPlaid Cymru is unveiling a new leader with two women and one man hoping to be take the Welsh nationalist party to a...
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Egyptian prosecutor charges 75 over Port Said football riot
Nine police officers charged over violence at match in Mediterranean city in which 74 people diedEgypt's top prosecutor has charged 75 people with murder and negligence in connection with a deadly...
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German celebrity bunny crushed to death by cameraman
Rabbit born without ears killed by TV crew member just as Saxony zoo prepared it for global fameAn earless baby rabbit that became a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had its 15 minutes...
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Jeff Mangum – review
Union Chapel, London"Five years ago, I didn't think I'd be doing this," says Jeff Mangum, perched on a stool, skinny and intense. In that respect he is not alone. In 1999, shortly after Neutral Milk...
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Leveson inquiry: Scotland Yard 'investigated Stephen Lawrence leaks'
Head of Lawrence investigation says contact warned him that a senior member of the Met passed information to the mediaTwo investigations have been carried out into allegations that a senior member of...
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Unionists have 'nothing to fear' from Northern Ireland border poll
Former TV news presenter Mike Nesbitt makes comments before announcing his Ulster Unionist party leadership bidUnionists should have nothing to fear from a border poll on the future of Northern Ireland...
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Greece on the breadline: HIV and malaria make a comeback
Jon Henley finds a medical aid organisation trying to plug the gaps as the health service nears breakdownThe incidence of HIV/Aids among intravenous drug users in central Athens soared by 1,250% in the...
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Parties 'failing to push for more women' in Scottish and Welsh parliaments
Electoral Reform Society accuses all the large parties of allowing the issue of equal representation for women to 'fester'The UK's major political parties have shown open hostility or indifference to...
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'Good Samaritans' who robbed Malaysian student in riots are jailed
John Kafunda and Reece Donovan jailed for robbing Ashraf Rossli while pretending to help him after he was attackedTwo men have been jailed for posing as Good Samaritans to rob a Malaysian student...
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Recreational drug users take medicines to control side-effects, survey finds
Warning of long-term harm for those who take prescription drugs, such as sleeping pills, to deal with 'weekend high'Many people who use drugs recreationally also take prescription medicines such as...
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Rob Bennett obituary
My friend Rob Bennett, who has died of muscular dystrophy at the age of 60, was a peace campaigner, human rights activist and civil servant. Born and brought up in Hampstead, north London, he was the...
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Suzanne Pilley murder: David Gilroy found guilty of killing former girlfriend
Jury finds 49-year-old Gilroy guilty of killing Edinburgh bookkeeper, who went missing in May 2010A man has been found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend in a rare case in which detectives were unable...
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Eurozone crisis at heart of UK's economic woes, MPC member says
Bank of England's Ben Broadbent warns interest rates could climb as soon as eurozone crisis is resolvedThe eurozone crisis and the sucker punch it delivered to the UK banking sector is at the heart of...
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