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How a no-nonsense approach turned a ‘troubled family’ around
There would be many who would be horrified to find themselves an advert for the government’s Troubled Families programme. But 40 year-old Lou is proud. I met her and heard her story.
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There would be many who would be horrified to find themselves an advert for the government’s Troubled Families programme. But 40 year-old Lou is proud. I met her and heard her story.
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The foreign secretary and the US secretary of state head to Geneva amid growing optimism that a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme is close to being struck.
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