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Spending cuts 'to hit north harder'
Industrial towns in the north east of England may be least able to cope with deep cuts in public spending, BBC-commissioned research suggests.
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Vitamin B 'puts off Alzheimer's'
High doses of B vitamins may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, a study says.
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Cameron tribute to 'amazing dad'
David Cameron pays tribute to his late father, describing him as a "amazing man" who had "touched a lot of lives".
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Fees rise 'best' for universities
Vice chancellors are expected to be told raising student tuition fees is the best way to ensure future funding for higher education.
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MPs set to debate phone hacking
Parliament is to debate allegations that MPs had their mobile phones hacked into by News of the World journalists.
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British hostage freed in Pakistan
A British journalist held captive by suspected militants in north-west Pakistan since March is released.
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Planes in 'near-miss' over London
A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals.
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Goldman Sachs fined £17.5m by FSA
Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £17.5m by the UK's financial watchdog.
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Clegg seeks to calm cuts anxiety
Nick Clegg has sought to calm fears over the impact of spending cuts, insisting they will be spread over four years not implemented immediately.
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Erdogan raps rivals ahead of poll
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticises the tactics of his opponents, in a BBC interview ahead of Sunday's constitutional referendum.
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Vitamin 'may help prevent' spina bifida
Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.
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Prize budgies killed and stolen before show
Police in Cornwall are investigating after three budgerigars were stamped to death and 21 others were stolen from a leading breeder's house.
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Explosive EastEnders plot could signal end of Peggy
An explosive EastEnders storyline which could see the end of Peggy Mitchell, played by Barbara Windsor, begins on Thursday.
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Toshack poised to quit Wales job
John Toshack is set to announce his resignation as Wales manager at a media conference on Thursday.
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Adkins set for Southampton role
Scunthorpe give boss Nigel Adkins permission to talk to Southampton over the vacant manager's job at St Mary's.
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Brilliant Federer beats Soderling
Five-time champion Roger Federer produces a stunning display to beat Robin Soderling and reach the semi-finals of the US Open.
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Higgins cleared of fixing claims
John Higgins is cleared of all match-fixing allegations but admits bringing snooker into disrepute, resulting in a £75,000 fine and a ban until November.
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Live - County Championship
Nottinghamshire look to hold off the chasing pack of Somerset, Yorkshire and Lancashire, while Kent and Hampshire battle against relegation.
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Woman charged after boy stabbed
A woman is charged with the attempted murder of a 12-year-old boy at her home in Liverpool.
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Exeter city election polls open
Voters in Exeter are electing 13 councillors to bring the city council back to its full complement after the new government denied it unitary status.
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Boundary move 'gives Tories hope'
Boundary changes for the next Scottish Parliament elections suggest a possible boost to the Conservatives, according to experts.
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Soldier's body brought back home
The body of a Scottish soldier killed rocket-propelled grenade attack in Afghanistan is brought back to Britain.
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McGuinness 'forgot deathbed talk'
Martin McGuinness says he forgot a deathbed conversation he had with the priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing.
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Woman pulled from house fire
Firefighters revive a woman found slumped in her living room after she was overcome by smoke in her north Belfast home.
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Rural Wales waits for funding axe
Some of the largest conservation bodies in Wales fear they will have to find massive savings following the UK Government spending review.
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Plaid will 'change not manage'
Plaid Cymru's conference opens with a pledge to transform, not simply manage, Wales.
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South Sudan vote is 'time bomb'
The referendum on independence for Southern Sudan is a "ticking time bomb", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
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UN seeks to placate Rwanda leader
The UN's secretary general urges Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide.
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Police may have shot HK hostages
Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.
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Japan-China boat spat escalates
China warns Japan that their wider relationship will suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat seized in disputed waters.
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Big toll in Russian market bomb
At least 11 people are killed and 20 wounded in a bomb attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, local officials say.
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Merkel defends Danish cartoonist
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused outrage in 2006.
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Mexico crime 'like an insurgency'
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.
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Honduras massacre 'gang rivalry'
A mass shooting in a shoe factory in Honduras is blamed on rival street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels.
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Second Iraqi TV presenter killed
Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad.
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Castro criticises Iranian leader
Cuba's Fidel Castro criticises Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes.
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Taliban chief says victory close
Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".
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Huge protest over India CCTV plan
Students from different political affiliations are staging a huge protest at one of India's top universities over plans to introduce CCTV.
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Obama defiant on tax cut stance
President Obama defends his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier people and criticises what he calls Republican obstruction.
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Rig firms hit back at BP report
Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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World Cup knocks trading at HMV
Music, computer games and book retailer HMV says that its sales were disrupted this summer by the football World Cup.
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Morrisons to test online shopping
The UK's fourth biggest grocer, Morrisons, says it hopes to trial online shopping and convenience stores next year.
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US slips in competitiveness poll
The United States has been overtaken by Sweden and Singapore in the World Economic Forum's competitiveness survey.
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Hague: Axing embassies 'unlikely'
Closing dozens of small embassies to save money would be a "false economy" as they do not cost much, says William Hague.
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MPs to probe Cameron-Clegg deal
MPs are to examine how the coalition was formed after the election and issues arising from the negotiations between the two parties.
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Labour MPs to pick shadow cabinet
Labour MPs have rejected a move to allow the new party leader to choose who serves in the shadow cabinet.
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Outbreak probe at industry sites
There are now 12 cases linked to a Legionnaires' outbreak, as health officials focus on south Wales industrial sites in the search for the cause.
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More obesity ops 'will save cash'
Millions of pounds are lost in England by the failure of the NHS to provide more obesity operations, a study says.
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Inquiry to hear from HIV victims
The injury into contaminated NHS blood products in the 1980s will hear from the victims who contracted HIV and Hepatitis.
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Vocational courses to face review
Education Secretary Michael Gove is to announce an independent review of vocational qualifications for students aged 14 to 19 in England.
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