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Air travel poses no risk to pregnant women and unborn babies as long as they fly before the 37th week
Air travel poses ‘no significant risk’ for pregnant women and their unborn babies – even up to three weeks before the birth, doctors ...
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SANDRA PARSONS Can no one force GPs to do their job properly
Tomorrow, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is due to make a speech criticising GPs for failures that include not knowing their patients’ names and hiving off out-of-hours care to outside agencies. He will also highlight the fact that admissions at A&E departments have soared as a ...
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From hedgehogs to otters our wildlife winners and losers 60 of species decline... as others thrive
Sixty per cent of the animals, plants and insects studied in the first ever national report on the state of Britain’s natural world have fallen in number, including hedgehogs, red squirrels and turtle ...
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Miliband to make tax jibe at Google just days after Cameron failed to do so when he met internet giants boss
Ed Miliband will today challenge Google on its tax affairs just days after David Cameron failed to do the same when he met the firm's chief ...
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Nick Clegg pours petrol on Tory infighting Get back to governing he tells Coalition partners
In a speech today Nick Clegg will say Tory infighting over Europe and gay marriage has been an 'unwelcome distraction' which is undermining public support for the ...
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Handsome men are less prone to COLDS - but the same cant be said for beautiful women
The scientists, led by Markus Rantala, of the University of Turku, Finland, then photographed the women, who had an average age of 20, and asked 18 heterosexual male undergraduates to rate their ...
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Chris Grayling launches crackdown on criminals who are freed from jail halfway through their sentences
Changes: Whitehall insiders said Justice Secretary Chris Grayling (pictured yesterday) had ordered a review on changing the current sentencing ...
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Why women struggle more than men with life after retirement 80 feel they have no purpose in life after quitting work
While men enjoy starting new hobbies and interests and are happy to just relax at home, women are more likely to spend their twilight years worrying – particularly about their lack of income and social ...
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Rendition case involving Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhadj who is suing the British Government could be heard in secret
Ministers are set to use the controversial secret courts law in the case of a Libyan man who is suing the government over his rendition into the hands of Colonel Gaddafi’s ...
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QUENTIN LETTS These Tories of the baleful brigade less trainable than Burmese cats
Little sign of the baleful brigade on the Tory backbenches yesterday morning. Were they still in their caves, sated by Monday’s bloodfest and picking mammoth gristle out of their rear ...
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Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to help British forces to get right to live in the UK
Interpreters who have regularly served on the frontline will get visas for themselves and their ‘immediate dependents’ to come to Britain for a period of five ...
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SIMON HEFFER The ugly truth is a smug Tory elite has sneered at the party faithful for decades
A measure of the bizarre political times in which we live is that the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative party felt yesterday that he had to email his dwindling band of activists and urge them to believe how much he values ...
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MS gives up on building new stores Retailer will stop construction in three years as customers increasingly buy goods online
Bosses believe that the popularity of 'click and collect' means people will be buying more online and either collecting from its existing stores or getting home ...
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Oklahoma tornado Elementary school where 7 children were killed by tornado couldnt afford storm shelter
The elementary school in which seven children drowned after a monster tornado barreled through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday had not built a tornado shelter as they could not afford it, officials have ...
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Camomile tea fights cancer Chemical contained in drink takes away superpowers in diseases cells
Scientists at Ohio State University found apigenin can block the ability of breast cancer cells to live far longer than normal cells, halting their spread and making them more sensitive to drug ...
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How teens are shunning Facebook in favor of Twitter and Tumblr to avoid peers oversharing and prying parents profiles
Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online ...
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Microsoft unveils the new Xbox One - with improved voice controls an exclusive Halo TV show built-in Skype and a redesigned Kinect sensor
The Xbox One can be completely controlled using voice recognition and hand gestures, and with the new Instant Switching feature users can ask the Xbox to 'watch TV', 'open Internet Explorer' or use it to change channels quickly without having to find the remote ...
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Business is booming for sex shop boss who turns fourth former Little Chef into couple friendly adult superstore
Neither objector agreed to be named but both claimed the location on the main western approach road to Hull was not a suitable location for a sex ...
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How the word skinny is easier to digest than diet when it comes to low-calorie food and drink
. Apparently calorie-counting consumers find the word 'skinny' easier to digest than 'diet' because the latter is more negative and associated with ...
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Schoolgirl 17 raped twice by stranger in park after she lost her friends at nightclub
A teenage girl separated from her friends on a night out was put in a taxi and driven to a muddy park 25 miles away, where she was raped twice and thought she was going to die, a court heard ...
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Broadmoor wing which holds dangerous killers is run like a social club with patients giving each other BACK WAXES on a pool table
Legal battle: Former Broadmoor manager Stephen Rooney (pictured) is suing the top-security hospital for unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal where it was claimed the Kempton Ward was being run like a social ...
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Poplar party host 24 accused of raping woman guest was sleepwalking during sex attack
Darren Ramsey, 24, of Poplar, east London, was allegedly linked to the crime with a one-in-a-billion DNA match - but insisted he was unconscious and remembers ...
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Babies who breathe second-hand smoke are more likely to be aggressive adults
Young children and babies forced to breathe second-hand cigarette smoke are more likely to be aggressive and anti-social as adults, according to new ...
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Runaway bride Woman in wedding dress flees as she is chased across grass by excitable dog
The Youtube video features an unnamed woman called Morgan being filmed by a friend or family member after visiting her grandmother in the shimmering ...
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Ultimate tribute to a selfless hero Parents of British soldier killed while protecting his comrades in Afghanistan accept his posthumous Victoria Cross from the Queen
The mother of a 'supremely courageous and inspiring' British soldier who died protecting the lives of his comrades in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has spoken of her pride after accepting his posthumous Victoria Cross ...
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Mexico City launches eco-friendly and cash friendly project
Mexico City has joined a global movement that has taken many major city municipalities by storm in recent years, the eco-friendly movement of bicycle-sharing. The city joins the ranks of Montreal, Paris, Barcelona and many other major cities across Europe and the world, such as Beijing in China and Melbourne in Australia. The scheme, once rolled out in its entirety, is expected to play a part in relieving some of the burden on Mexico City’s streets.
Mexico City, the largest and richest city in Mexico, is also one of the worst for traffic jams. A recent study by IMB, the IMB Commuter Pain Study, found Mexico City and Beijing to be the two worst cities in the entire world for traffic jams, ours are among the longest and most frequent with the city getting a score of 99 out of 100 on the commuter pain index, this compared to Stockholm, which scored 15. Read more
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