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British health worker returned to UK for Ebola monitoring
A British military healthcare worker is returned to England for Ebola monitoring following a needle injury after treating a patient in Sierra Leone.
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Are garden cities all they’re cracked up to be?
A new garden city is to be built in Oxfordshire as part of the coalition’s plans to deal with the housing shortage, government sources say.
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Mental health pledge welcomed, but when will it help teens?
A government pledge to improve access to mental health treatments by bringing in targets is widely welcomed. But it falls short when it comes to talking therapies for teens and children, say experts.
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Rolf Harris: ‘Demon lurking beneath the charming exterior’
He was one of Britain’s most cherished TV personalities, inspiring generations of children. But Rolf Harris will finish his career in prison after being found guilty on 12 counts of indecent assault.
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Phone-hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared
Former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World, but ex-colleague Rebekah Brooks is cleared.
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Swinging sixties: older people and sex in the internet age
Online dating has made sex more accessible for men and women over 60. But as well as offering the possibility of greater sexual fulfilment, the internet is also throwing up new challenges and dangers.
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David Cameron… you just got fracked (by Greenpeace)
Campaign group Greenpeace turns David Cameron’s country home into a fracking site.
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Hacking trial hears how Princess Diana ‘leaked to NoW’
Princess Diana leaked information on the Prince of Wales to the press in order to “take on” her estranged husband, former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman tells the phone hacking trial.
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Hacking trial: Coulson ‘completely trusted’ Rebekah Brooks
Former editor of the News of the World Rebekah Brooks tells a jury that Andy Coulson “completely trusted” her at the time the tabloid hacked the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
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FactCheck: is childhood obesity getting worse?
Scare stories about dangerously overweight children abound this week – but the government says obesity rates are levelling off. Who’s right?
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Rebekah Brooks denies six-year affair with Coulson
Rebekah Brooks laid bare her “car crash” personal life in court this morning, but denied having a six-year affair with her former colleague Andy Coulson.
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Waterworld: Britain’s wettest winter on record
From the storm surge in December through the wettest January on record, Channel 4 News tracks the stormiest winter in memory which has left two people dead and thousands flooded and without power.
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‘Town or country’: Britain’s flood defence dilemma
Britain faces the “difficult choice” between saving “town or country” from future flooding because it is too costly to defend both, the chairman of the Environment Agency says.
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Tories ‘suppressing’ garden cities report
The Conservatives are accused of suppressing a report that calls for two new garden cities to combat the housing shortage.
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Missing Jayden: body found in church grave
The family of missing teenager Jayden Parkinson are “heartbroken” and “devastated”, police say after finding a body buried in a grave in Didcot, Oxfordshire.