Search results for ‘science’
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FactCheck: did austerity kill 120,000 people?
That was the claim shared by Jeremy Corbyn — but is it true?
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FactCheck: No evidence for government’s plastic straw claims
The government says up to 47 million straws enter the sea from the UK each year. But now it admits that’s just an assumption – and appears to have no evidence to back it up.
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Damilola Taylor’s father: killings now ‘regarded as an everyday occurrence’
In an emotional interview, Richard Taylor spoke out about the death of Joel Uhrie, who died in an arson attack on his home in Deptford exactly a year ago.
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Cutting ammonia emissions from farming ‘could save thousands of lives’
Cutting levels of ammonia in the air could prevent at least 3,000 premature deaths every year in the UK.
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FactCheck: is austerity reducing life expectancy?
Life expectancy in England is not growing at the rate that experts predicted before 2011. What’s going on?
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FactCheck: what is the row about transgender athletes all about?
Martina Navratilova has been accused of being “transphobic” after saying that some transgender women should not be allowed to compete against other women in sport. The tennis star has criticised International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, which say transgender athletes can compete as women if they reduce their testosterone levels. Trans activists have accused her of…
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Sam Gyimah resigns over May’s Brexit deal
The latest minister to resign from the government over Theresa May’s Brexit deal says it would leave the country ‘outnumbered and outmanoeuvred’ in future negotiations with the EU. Sam Gyimah stepped down as universities and science minister – calling it a ‘deal in name only’.
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Police officers sacked after arrested man left paralysed
Julian Cole was a 19-year-old sports science student when he went for a night out in Bedford in 2013. He ended up brain damaged and paralysed after a scuffle with nightclub doormen and police officers. Now three of the Bedfordshire Police officers involved in his arrest have been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct. A…
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DUP lock horns with Theresa May over Brexit deal
The DUP’s leader, Arlene Foster, said the EU’s proposed deal would give Northern Ireland “the worst of one world”, saying that at present her party could not “in good conscience” recommend it.
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FactCheck: has Jeremy Corbyn ever voted with the Conservatives in Parliament?
We’ve found seven examples of Mr Corbyn voting with the majority of Conservatives and against the majority of Labour MPs.
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MPs call for vaping rules to be relaxed
Vaping on an e-cigarette is much less harmful than smoking regular cigarettes, according to MPs, who say the rules around using them should be relaxed. In their report, they suggest e-cigarettes could be allowed on buses and trains and should be available on prescription to help people give up smoking. But is enough known about…
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Chemical giant Monsanto ordered to pay California man $289 million damages after weed-killer trial
The chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay more than two hundred million pounds in damages – after a jury in the United States backed a claim by a groundsman that a pesticide contributed towards his terminal cancer. The firm has insisted British consumers are safe to use the product – declaring the “science…
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FactCheck: What do Brits think about banning the burqa?
It seems those who want a ban outnumber those who don’t, but are attitudes softening?
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Climate change: How can governments avert “Hothouse earth”?
It sounds like the title of a disaster movie, but a “Hothouse Earth” is what a group of climate scientists say we could be heading for – even if current carbon reduction targets are met.
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FactCheck: Vote Leave’s “dark” Brexit ads
For the first time, we can see what kind of messages Vote Leave and others were targeting at key voters in a referendum campaign dominated by false statements and half-truths.