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Fukushima radiation levels ’18 times higher’ than thought
Radiation levels at some parts of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan are 18 times higher than previously thought, it has emerged.
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4G expands, but are we ready for ‘super-fast’ mobiles?
Mobile phone company EE launched it’s 4G data services ten months ago. Now its rivals O2 and Vodafone are offering their own services, but is 4G really all its cracked up to be?
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FactCheck: is Big Brother watching you?
One Nation Under CCTV? Maybe, but claims about the numbers of cameras watching Britain are often exaggerated, FactCheck discovers.
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Erika Kacicova found ‘safe and well’ in Bradford
After being missing for one week, 13-year-old Erika Kacicova is found by police in Bradford city centre while five are being held on suspicion of child abduction.
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Estate of mind: politics, design and social housing
As a notorious, now regenerated, council estate gets shortlisted for a coveted architectural award – Channel 4 News wonders if this is a sign of social housing en vogue, or a system that is broken.
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‘I got angry’ says the poet who fought female incarceration
As a film about the life of famous Indian poet Salma is shown at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, she tells Katie Razzall about her strict Muslim family who kept her locked up for years on end.
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Anti-EDL Muslim plotters sentenced at Old Bailey
EDL supporters mount a demonstration outside the Old Bailey as six jihadists are sentenced for a plot to attack a rally by the right-wing group.
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Championship play-off to the Promised Land – and back?
It’s the last big game of the 2012-13 football season – no, not the Champions League final. Malcolm Boughen looks at the successes and failures among teams who have made it to the Premier League.
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Ground control to Major Tim – Briton to join space station
Former British helicopter pilot Major Timothy Peake becomes the UK’s first home-grown astronaut after being selected as one of six candidates to join the International Space Station.
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HS2 rail project faces £3.3bn funding gap, says NAO
The HS2 high-speed rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap which the government has yet to decide how to fill, a report from a Whitehall spending watchdog says today.
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Six admit English Defence League bomb plot
Six Islamist extremists admit planning a bombing attack on a rally organised by the far-right English Defence League.
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Hillsborough inquests: police may refuse to answer questions
The Police Federation’s evidence at a pre-inquest hearing drew gasps from the gallery as it called for a delay to proceedings and suggested some police officers may refuse to answer questions.
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‘Economic miracle’ in Britain’s former coalfields?
Margaret Thatcher is often credited with reviving Britain’s ailing economy in the 1980s. But what has happened in the former coalfields since the mines closed?
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Tributes and rejoicing follow Thatcher’s death
As foreign leaders send tributes to Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday following a stroke, there are celebrations in Brixton and Glasgow by those who continue to oppose the “Iron Lady”.
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David Miliband quits Sunderland FC role
David Miliband quits his role as vice-chairman of Sunderland football club on account of the fascist past of new manager Paolo Di Canio.