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Shadow minister Alan Duncan's skiing trip leaves Tory chiefs red-faced
The Conservative Party leadership was embarrassed last night by the decision
of its business spokesman to go on a skiing holiday rather than attend a
Shadow Cabinet away day.
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Neonatal ward sealed off after baby dies in bacteria outbreak
A baby has died and seven others have been put into isolation after a deadly
bug outbreak in a hospital's neonatal unit.
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'I'm on the plane'
Mobile phones were once considered to be potentially lethal. They had the
power to blow up petrol stations, bring down aircraft and get you a
particularly deadly look from a fellow commuter on a train.
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'£2,000 debt nearly cost me my home'
Patience Iweta's council tax arrears of less than £2,000 escalated to a debt
of more than £20,000 when she was forced to take out a huge loan to avoid
losing her home.
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A classroom saga: can Dr Evil get boys to start reading again?
A series of storybooks for primary schools, using digital pictures and
action-packed storylines, has been created to encourage boys to read.
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UK car sales tumble by 20 per cent amid calls for Government help
The British car industry will suffer a fresh blow today when new figures are
expected to show that sales fell by more than 20 per cent last month. The
sharp drop coincides with mounting concern over whether the Government will
deliver an aid package that had been expected before Christmas.
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Duke gets £280,000 of public funds for bridge over his river
The Duke of Beaufort has been paid more than £280,000 of taxpayers' money for
allowing a footbridge to be built across a Welsh river.
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One return, once a week
It took several calls and e-mails to the Department for Transport for The Times to establish the facts about the ?ghost bus? of Ealing.
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£6m of sick miners' awards went to Arthur Scargill's union
Arthur Scargill's trade union was paid more than £6 million by a firm of
solicitors that deducted the money from compensation awarded to sick miners
for industrial disease, a tribunal was told.
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Mobile phones are finally passed fit for use in hospitals
As one of the golden rules of hospital visits, the mobile phone ban was the
most likely to be obeyed: do it, or risk unsettling a pacemaker or shutting
down a high-dependency unit. But after years of dogged compliance by
patients and visitors, the Government has admitted finally that the ban is
based on mythical safety concerns and should be relaxed.
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