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The Budget: The full story
All the key points, analysis and reaction to George Osborne's first Budget as chancellor in the coalition government. |
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The Budget: The full story
All the key points, analysis and reaction to George Osborne's first Budget as chancellor in the coalition government. |
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The basketball solution to student debt
Student debt is an increasingly unpalatable fact of higher education. But for a select band of tall and athletic teenagers there could be a way to sidestep the crippling cost of university - a basketball scholarship to the US. |
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Do you know how much you drink?
Doctors should ask patients about their drinking habits as a matter of routine, say health advisers. But giving an accurate answer is not easy. |
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All baby deaths 'must be probed'
A senior coroner says reporting all baby deaths in hospital might spotlight the causes of stillbirths and neo-natal deaths. |
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Suspended term for 'fairy' attack
A Stockport woman who used a fairy ornament to attack a love rival in Devon is given a suspended jail sentence. |
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'Chronic' foster carer shortage
Councils across the north west are struggling to find enough foster carers as the number of children in care continues to increase. |
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Ambulance off road after attack
An ambulance is taken out of service while en route to an emergency, after it comes under attack by a man throwing stones. |
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Foster mother's plea for carers
As Stockport Council calls for more foster carers, BBC News speaks to a foster mother who has been caring for children for the past 21 years. |
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Reunited with the Vietnamese 'girl in the picture'
Kim Phuc, the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who was photographed as she ran screaming from a Napalm chemical attack, is reunited by the BBC with Christopher Wain, the ITN reporter who helped save her life 38 years ago. |
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Academy is judged as 'inadequate'
An academy in Stockport becomes the third school sponsored by the United Learning Trust (ULT) to be judged as "inadequate" in less than a year. |
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Owl adopts ducklings born in nest
A tawny owl adopts two ducklings which hatched in a nest box up a tree after their mother laid her eggs in the wrong nest. |
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Manx bee saviours posted to UK
Healthy bees from the Isle of Man are to be posted to the UK to try to replenish ailing hive populations. |
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Scrubbing up: Your comments
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Dr Catriona Morton warns that many Scots are drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol, putting their health at risk. |
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Boy, 12, tells of anorexia battle
A 12-year-old schoolboy tells how he became so scared of putting on weight he lost four stone and ended up in hospital. |
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After the crash - a new direction for climate policy
It is time for a radical reshaping of global climate policy as the current approach is doomed to failure. |
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Labour holds its Manchester seats
Labour retains many of its seats in Greater Manchester, including Bolton West, where they beat the Conservatives by 92 votes. |
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Appeal after shots fired at house
Police investigate a series of attacks on houses in Greater Manchester, including one where shots were fired at a property. |
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NHS staff help plea over prisoner
NHS walk-in centre staff may have treated an escaped prisoner with an injured ear, Greater Manchester Police say. |
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Asthma knowledge gap 'dangerous'
The lack of knowledge about asthma in Wales is "shocking and dangerous and cannot continue", claims a charity. |