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Package in first stage of review will scrap £1,200 special priority payments and place two-year freeze on automatic promotionA major hurdle in a radical overhaul of police pay and conditions was cleared on Monday when the home secretary, Theresa May, announced she has accepted a compromise package [...]
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Benefits cap concessions likelySign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Benefits cap concessions expected to win support for welfare reform bill
• Welfare reform bill: Liam Byrne's letter to Nick Clegg
• Labour MP backs smacking of children
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Union says poll of its members showed 91.6% had voted in favour of government's final offerA teaching union has decided to accept the government's pension reforms after a poll of members voted in favour of the proposals.The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), which represents 160,000 teache[...]
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A report details the lessons learned from Medicare demonstration projects that tried to reduce costs and improve quality of care.
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By presenting disabled people as scroungers Liddle has done a lasting damage. We must help the public see us as we really are"My new year's resolution for 2012 was to become disabled. Nothing too serious, maybe just a bit of a bad back or one of those newly invented illnesses which make you a bit pe[...]
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The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. 'Padma Vibhushan' is awarded for ...
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BASILDONâS âBooks For Freeâ store has been given a lifeline after its lease was extended. The administrator for Blacks Leisure Group, has accepted a short-term lease while charity group Healthy Planet, tries to find a new home. The shop reopened today
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The gap between social care funding and need has grown by £500m for older people in England in 2011-12, compounding a situation in which 800,000 pensioners were already going without services. (Image: Rex Features).
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A Norfolk chartered accountant is preparing for an emotional walk inspired by the loss of his stillborn daughter and seeing his grandfather suffer with Alzheimer?s disease. Ben Aldridge, 28, of Blenheim Way, Watton, will be walking 40 miles from the
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A Norfolk chartered accountant is preparing for an emotional walk inspired by the loss of his stillborn daughter and seeing his grandfather suffer with Alzheimer?s disease. Ben Aldridge, 28, of Blenheim Way, Watton, will be walking 40 miles from the
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Five Angus primary schools have been chosen to have a healthy Scottish Farmhouse Breakfast experience provided by RHET Angus Countryside initiative (ACI) this week. The initiative, which has been running for a number of years, is organised as part of the
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Sister Glenda Lenaghan with Uphill schoolchildren Daniel, Cerys, Reuben, Thomas and Toby and their teddy bear patients 5:58 PM POORLY teddy bears were stitched back together at Weston General Hospital this week when pupils visited the emergency
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PITTSBURGH - Picture a boxy old delivery truck with a huge pink breast on top. The nipple is a flashing red light. It's the Milk Truck, spreading the message that nursing mothers have the need and right to feed their infants in public. Jill Miller, an
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2:02 AM EST By (Updates with Bloomberg comment in seventh paragraph.) Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told state lawmakers he backs Governor Andrew Cuomos proposals to increase payments for Medicaid, reduce pension-benefit costs
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Spending on older people's social care in England has fallen by half a billion pounds, according to a new report. The charity Age UK - combining Age Concern and Help the Aged - said that, in order to maintain the same levels of service before the
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UK plastic surgery is on the increase, despite the recession. Find out which procedures are going up - and which are down
• Get the dataPlastic surgery is big business in the UK - and despite the recession, it's a growing one.Breast augmentations are still by far the most popular cosmetic sur[...]
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SMOKING will be completely banned across the Derriford Hospital site within weeks. The hospital's two remaining smoking shelters will be removed and the total ban enforced from March 14 national No Smoking Day. Anyone lighting up in the grounds,
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Concerns have been raised over new plans for the provision of fertility treatment in south Wales. From April, there will be a single new IVF service, based at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff, and Neath Port Talbot Hospital. Opponents to
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A hospital is aiming to slash the huge cost of missed appointments by sending patients text messages. People who are due to go into hospital will receive a text reminder three days before their appointment. NHS bosses hope it will ‘significantly’
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Information Commissioner's Office penalises council over five breaches of data involving children's social service reportsThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Midlothian council £140,000 for disclosing highly sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wron[...]
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THE NHS watchdog has accused health boards of dragging their feet over improvements to hospital environments. The annual Hospital Patient Environment report reveals Wales? seven health boards have yet to complete 55% of the actions required in the 2010
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SMOKING will be completely banned across the Derriford Hospital site within weeks. The hospital's two remaining smoking shelters will be removed and the total ban enforced from March 14 national No Smoking Day. Anyone lighting up in the grounds,