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New hospital ward for hurt soldiers

Defence Under Secretary Derek Twigg announced plans for military hospital ward

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

A new military hospital ward for injured soldiers is to be built, the Ministry of Defence has announced.

Legal action threat on badger cull

The government has rejected plans for a badger cull

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

Farmers have threatened legal action if the Government decides not to allow a cull of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle.

Children's exam results delayed

Ed Balls: Ofsted report dilemma

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

Around 1.2 million children across England will be kept waiting for results to key school tests after administrative chaos delayed the marking of papers, it was announced.

Emmerdale actor Hornby dies aged 63

Clive Hornby has died at the age of 63

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

Clive Hornby - Emmerdale's flat cap-wearing Jack Sugden - died on Thursday night at the age of 63, it was announced.

Detention plans repulsive - Geldof

Bob Geldof speaks in Hull's Guildhall. He is backing David Davis

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

Bob Geldof has called the Government's plans for holding terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge as "constitutionally repulsive".

Call to over-rule drug refusal

Government NHS reforms have not yet achieved all that was promised

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

A judge has asked an NHS panel to reconsider its decision to refuse a powerful cancer drug to a woman who is the sole carer of her seriously ill husband.

Theft link probed in murder case

Laurent Bonomo was stabbed to death in a flat

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

The victims of a sadistic double murder might have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles, police have said.

Stab victim pleaded for his mother

Police at the scene where Shakilus Townsend was stabbed in south London

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

The latest teenage victim of London's knife crime crisis pleaded for his mother as he lay dying in the street.

Kinsella stab death: Three remanded

Ben Kinsella, who died after he was stabbed  in Islington

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

The family of teenager Ben Kinsella came face to face with the three youths accused of his murder.

Dedicated taskforce to target gangs

Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson says tackling knife crime is priority

6:13pm Friday 4th July 2008

A dedicated 75-man taskforce to target gang members and their associates is to be created in the fight against knife crime.


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Pensioners see living costs soar

Working families have been promised extra help in the Budget

Updated 5:17am Saturday 5th July 2008

Pensioners have seen the cost of the goods and services they use soar by more than a third during the past 10 years, research has showed.


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