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Antidepressants could aid stroke recovery
Antidepressants could help patients recover better from the physical effects of a stroke, a study finds.
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Where are the best and worst places to live in the world?
Ongoing turmoil is blamed for African and Middle Eastern countries being named as the worst places to live in the world, with European cities the best.
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Olympic technology creates education legacy
It took millions of pounds worth of equipment to keep the Games running smoothly, with Locog leasing 15,900 computers. But now that it’s all long over where has the equipment gone?
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UN report links Rwanda to Congo rebel group M23
A report from the UN links Rwanda’s defence minister James Kabarebe with the rebel group which has been taking over towns and cities in the mineral-rich east of Congo.
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Payday loans: the key questions
It may be easy taking out a so-called payday loan, but what do you do if you are struggling to pay back the money you have borrowed?
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Brought to book: boosting the profile of our libraries
We asked our Twitter followers if they agreed with novelist Jeanette Winterson, who says there needs to be a radical change in the way public libraries in this country are funded.
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FactCheck: the final word on police cuts
The effect of all this is to artificially make it look like there has been a real increase in neighbourhood policing.
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FactCheck: Why Osborne is calling the kettle green
If Mr Osborne is doing the right thing by the planet and only boiling enough for one cup of tea, say 250ml instead of a litre, this brings the figure down to perhaps 80kj per brew.
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William Hague: snake charmer?
The Foreign Office spends £10,000 re-stuffing an old snake named Albert, deeming the dead anaconda “essential maintenance of a historical asset”. The Twitterati’s response? Get stuffed.
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EU budget: what Britain pays and where it goes
With some Conservative MPs posing a threat to EU budget vote in the House of Commons, Channel 4 News looks at what Britain pays towards the EU budget and how it is spent.
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Call for inquiry into miners’ strike ‘Battle of Orgreave’
The police complaints watchdog is under pressure to look into claims South Yorkshire police fabricated evidence and tried to “frame” miners following clashes at the Orgreave coking plant in 1984.
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Hillsborough coroner’s verdicts set to be quashed
The attorney general is to pave the way for fresh inquests into the deaths of 96 football fans in the Hillsborough disaster by applying for previous coroners’ verdicts to be quashed.
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Five Royal Marines charged with murder
Five Royal Marines are charged with murder in relation to an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Hillsborough: UK’s ‘largest ever’ police inquiry launched
Serving and retired police officers involved in the Hillsborough disaster are to be investigated by the IPCC in what will be the UK’s largest investigation into police conduct.
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FactCheck: The Ukip manifesto – Farage or farrago?
Ukip’s popularity with voters has nudged 10 per cent this year, making the party more popular than the Liberal Democrats at times.