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Immigration facts and figures
Posted on June 29, 2009
As promised, here’s the full story of those immigration statistics that I obtained from the ONS. In our new e-world, I can pass on all the results  to you – and they’re worth discussing.
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Six new rights for every NHS patient
Posted on June 29, 2009
Patients will today be promised six new rights to NHS treatment as the Government attempts to push through a new raft of public service reforms in the run-up to the forthcoming general election.
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    The future of the Swedish model
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    "Filippa, where are you?” The question is asked every Thursday at public meetings in Tensta, a poor suburb north-west of central Stockholm. Filippa Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party is responsible for health care in Stockholm County Council, where the centre-right majority has introduced Health Choice Stockholm (Vårdval Stockholm).
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    Sports roundup
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Lions 2009: Schalk Burger banned for eight weeks for gouging, Bakkies Botha receives two-week ban
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    Westminster Abbey wil get its crowning glory with £23m upgrade
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    St Paul’s and St Peter’s are famed for their spectacular domes, and Florence Cathedral is regarded as a wonder of Renaissance architecture.
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    Lose Trident and win the moral war
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Forget the financial, military and political arguments, owning nuclear weapons makes us hypocrites
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    India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    India, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of 'neo-colonialism' in Africa where its business people have joined a race with China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to buy up agricultural estates and take advantage of cheap labour.
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    Labour vows to put Britons at the front of council house queue in bid to win back voters from the far-Right
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    British-born families will jump ahead of immigrants and asylum seekers in the queue for council housing under far-reaching plans unveiled today. The 'British homes for British workers' plan, if it succeeds, will force councils to end the unfairness which sees immigrants with large families vault to the top of the council house list. 
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    Dreaming of a Ministry of Imagination
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Depressingly, the only place to go is Tescos if you despair at the loss of community spirit and dream of a better Britain
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    Britain has 85 sharia courts: The astonishing spread of the Islamic justice behind closed doors
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts.
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    Best of the fest: the great big Glastonbury music roundup
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Lily Allen was rude, Neil Young was gleeful and Dizzee Rascal was, well, dizzy. We look back on the hottest bands at Glastonbury 2009
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    Teachers go back to school in bid to raise classroom standards
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Master's degree will be offered free to all teachers under £30m scheme.
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    Berlusconi turns to G8 and Gaddafi for comfort
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Italian leader shrugs off claims he hired call girls as he prepares to host summit
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    Britain is no longer a Christian nation
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Annual decline in Sunday attendance is running at around 1 per cent. At this rate it is hard to see the church surviving for more than 30 years though few of its leaders are prepared to face that possibility.
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    EU unites to warn Tehran over arrest of British embassy staff
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Foreign ministers promise 'strong and collective response' to intimidation.
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    Chavez threatens to invade as Honduran army stages coup
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Venezuelan leader vows to 'act militarily' after leftist ally Manuel Zelaya is overthrown and exiled to Costa Rica
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    Gordon Brown to keep spending high despite recession, Ed Balls indicates
    Posted on June 29, 2009
    Gordon Brown is to reject warnings about the scale of the public debt and press on with high levels of spending through the recession, according to the Prime Minister's closest ally Ed Balls.
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