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Former GP welcomes prosecution for paying towards assisted suicide trip
Posted on July 31, 2009
Dr Michael Irwin wants to highlight 'hypocrisy' of system that prices poor people out of receiving euthanasia.
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Shake, rattle and roll
Posted on July 31, 2009
Why so few Japanese pagodas have ever fallen down
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    Boris v US in battle over huge American embassy
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Boris Johnson has gone into battle with the American government over plans for a new embassy in London.
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    Hacker loses extradition appeal
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States.
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    Beyond belief
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    The comedy scene has become the latest arena for the God debate. A new wave of irreverent, atheist stand-ups are taking on the rise of religion.
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    Spain terror campaign set to hit British holiday plans
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    British holidaymakers face a summer of extra security measures and potential disruption as Spanish police step up security amid fears of a terror campaign in tourist resorts.
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    Pleading for peace, again
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    King Hussein and my father, Yitzhak Rabin, ended war between Jordan and Israel in 1994. Why can’t today’s leaders show similar courage?
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    Why I prefer to Wake Up To Wogan
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    The Irish veteran's warm-hearted whimsy is far preferable to the quarrelsome heavyweight news on Today
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    Labour's £34m fundraising puts Tories in the shade
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Conservatives are biggest spenders as Brown's party uses cash to pay off debts
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    Transplant queue-jumpers banned
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Foreigners will be banned from having organ transplants in the UK as private patients, under new rules being considered by the Government.
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    Drugs are evil. We should legalise them now
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    The harm this market causes comes both from its existence and its illegality. And there’s only one of those we can tackle.
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Aggressive Australia put England on back foot in third Ashes Test
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    General Dannatt is right – Britain is at war
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    “We should be under no illusion: we are at war and if we want to succeed, which we must, we must get onto a war-like footing – and as I said to the Officer Cadets being commissioned from Sandhurst last Christmas - you enter an Army that is at War – even if not everyone in our nation realizes that… we must ensure that we succeed in the current campaign."
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    Recession 'could force the unemployment toll to 4m'
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    A doomsday scenario by the Centre for Economics and Business Research think-tank says unemployment could rise to 3.8million from its current level of around 2.4million. At the same time national debt could soar to £2trillion
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    Justice for wounded: we failed Armed Forces, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth admits
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Labour did not do enough to support the Armed Forces on the front line in the first years of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defence Secretary has admitted.
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    Motorists to pay £250 tax for parking at work
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Government's workplace parking levy - condemned by the AA as a "tax on jobs" - could generate £3bn in taxation.
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    Iraqi government officials may have colluded in British hostages' kidnap
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    An investigation into the kidnapping of five British men in Iraq has uncovered evidence of possible collusion by Iraqi government officials in their abduction, and a possible motive – to keep secret the whereabouts of billions of dollars in embezzled funds.
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    Verdict delayed in Suu Kyi trial
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    EU diplomats at the trial in Rangoon told the BBC that the court had delayed the verdict until 11 August, so that judges could review the case again.
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    Gordon v David: coming to a TV screen near you?
    Posted on July 31, 2009
    Tony Blair wanted to do it with John Major but John Major was too coy. William Hague, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy all wanted to do it with Tony but he said no.
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