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4 days ago
Violence that has claimed 50,000 lives is horrific but not mindless: it is inter-cartel turf wars played out in body countThis weekend's discovery in Mexico of 49 headless, handless and footless bodies dumped alongside a road just outside the northern industrial hub of Monterrey was the worst event [...]
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Aditya Chakrabortty (The academics show their anger but they can't answer my criticism that there's too little analysis of our current crisis, G2, 7 May) raises the question of the relationship between intellectual radicalism and historical crisis, and how perhaps this has been dulled because of the[...]
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School Food Trust study contradicts Michael Gove's claim that academies would champion government's nutritional standardsNine out of 10 academies are selling pupils junk food such as crisps, chocolate and cereal bars that are banned in maintained schools to protect children's health, research has re[...]
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George Monbiot: Conservatives' concerns about marriage seem to be based on a past that is fabricated from their own anxieties and obsessions
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Conservatives' concerns about marriage seem to be based on a past that is fabricated from their own anxieties and obsessions'Throughout history and in virtually all human societies marriage has always been the union of a man and a woman." So says the Coalition for Marriage, whose petition against sa[...]
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Sketch: Health secretary tells nurses the NHS must do better. You could have heard a bedpan fall in Tredegar hospitalHow different things might have been if Andrew Lansley, not Jeremy Hunt, had been appointed culture secretary in 2010. Instead of addressing the Royal College of Nursing's conference [...]
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After his sending off against Manchester City, the famously hot-headed footballer must finally learn to control his anger. Here are a few tips …'Learn from Wayne Rooney." This is what Joey Barton – the famously hot-headed footballer sent off against Manchester City for hitting out at a rival pla[...]
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Union leader encourages nurses to use sheer force of numbers to oust elected representatives who cut NHS servicesNurses should use their sheer force of numbers to unseat politicians who do not support the NHS, the leader of the profession has warned coalition MPs.In his keynote speech to the Royal C[...]
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A new report reveals that many academies are selling unhealthy food and drinks that are banned in other schools. Now doctors and campaigners are calling on the government to interveneWhen Michael Gove wrote to Jamie Oliver last August in response to the chef's concerns about the coalition's school f[...]
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The problems that lead to a lack of educational achievement lie in a child's background and environment, not in school fundingAccording to Nick Clegg, who announced a range of education measures on Saturday, the pupil premium will play a key role in boosting social mobility. But just what is the pup[...]
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I first met Michael Butler (obituary, 7 May) when I was 10, and in a proper fix. My father and older brother had died, and my mother wanted me to attend Christ's Hospital, Horsham, a boarding school where almost every pupil receives a bursary.Though I did not meet the conditions of any specific awar[...]
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Despite the justified fears about a record low turnout in Scotland's council elections on 3 May, there are no plans to publish the true figure before SeptemberAnxieties about the state of public interest in politics surged in the run-up to the council elections, and they have continued since, when p[...]
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Register Login Consultation on social work bursary scheme launched Ministers seek views...to use the bursary to drive up the quality of social work students. Should social work students receive a bursary? Posed by models...
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Nurses brand the health secretary a liar over his claims that the number of clinical staff in the NHS has increased since the 2010 election
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Royal College of Nursing conference delegates berate health secretary's claim of rise in number of clinical staff in NHSAndrew Lansley has been accused of lying about staffing levels in the NHS amid angry scenes at the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress.The health secretary's claim that the [...]
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It would make the perfect bolthole for anyone trying to escape the turbulence of the world’s economic woes. But with a £65m price tag only the super rich need apply.
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Restraining people with mental health problems is a delicate task – tactics used against criminals are not appropriateThe case of Peter Russell, a 58-year-old man with Alzheimer's, being repeatedly tasered by police officers as he resisted being taken into hospital under section, was horrifying. I[...]
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A homeless man was discovered sleeping on an “all mod cons” children’s ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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... Atkinson Lewis, a leader in the provision of expert witness evidence and advice to both the legal profession and social services, has chosen court bundling software from Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) Date: 9th May 2012 | Published By: Zylpha...
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Islington council wants locals to use their bathwater to water street trees. Tell us how you've helped improve public spacesSometimes the simplest things can brighten your rainy commute to work. To wit: as I was making my way to the Guardian's offices this morning, I noticed that each of the small t[...]
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Disability Living Allowance claimants have risen by 30% – but for more complex reasons than Iain Duncan Smith would have you believeFew people would argue with the government's desire to tackle benefit fraud. But more problematic is the persistent exaggeration of the scale of abuse within the syst[...]
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Private security firm patrolling streets and issuing fines raises liberty questions, say campaignersThere are precious few welcoming smiles or friendly greetings for Mark Withers and Craig Dredge as they patrol the streets of Abertillery, a former coal-mining town in the Welsh valleys. Smokers nervo[...]
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Some payments were based on incorrect assessments and some were paid at wrong rate, National Audit Office findsThe error-strewn accounts of the organisation in charge of enforcing child support payments have not been fully signed off by a government spending watchdog.Some payments at the Child Maint[...]
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14/5/2012 - Local communities encouraged to plan for emergencies
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