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700,000 Britons swell the ranks of 'underemployed'
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Number of people who cannot work as many hours as they want rises to 2.8m
Long-term jobless total highest since 1997
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Claimant count increased to 1.64 million - the worst figure since 1997.
Judge acts to prevent strike by port workers
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
A High Court judge today granted an injunction preventing a two-day strike - due to start tomorrow - by workers at one of Britain's busiest ports.
Probe into soldiers 'friendly fire' death
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
A probe into the death of a British soldier from suspected "friendly fire" was under way today as troops fought to gain control of Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan.
Stop locking up asylum children, ministers told
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Children's Commissioner lambasts conditions at Yarl's Wood detention centre
Anger as ex-pats claim winter fuel payments
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Nearly 65,000 Britons living in European countries including Spain, Portugal and Greece are receiving state-funded winter fuel payments designed to help them cope with cold weather, it emerged today.
Police drone grounded in licensing probe
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
A police force has grounded a £40,000 "eye in the sky" amid concerns it was being used illegally.
Unions warn against pay freezes
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Freezing workers' pay will reduce consumer demand and could threaten the UK's "fragile" recovery from recession, union leaders warned today.
Twitter 'is a weapon in cyber warfare'
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Head of the RAF says armed forces must embrace internet technology
Broadcaster Ray Gosling admits mercy killing of lover
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
A freelance BBC writer and broadcaster has admitted smothering his ailing lover in a mercy killing. Ray Gosling, 70, made the admission in a documentary on death and dying broadcast on BBC1 last night.
Baha Mousa case: Colonel 'kept out of the loop'
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Officer tells inquiry into Iraqi's death that his subordinates let him down.
Researchers link poverty and cancer
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Scientists today established a link between poverty and a rogue gene which could explain why women from poor backgrounds are less likely to survive breast cancer.
Georgina Downs: Britain's Erin Brockovich
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Georgina Downs is fighting to stop farmers spraying toxins on crops. Can she win?
Avalanche kills climber in the Highlands
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
A Scout Association member was killed in an avalanche on a mountainside, police said last night.
Bacon butty celebration for £56m lottery winner
Monday, 15 February 2010
Self-confessed "white van man" celebrates Britain's biggest ever lottery win with a bacon roll.
Mendonca 'out of the loop' on prisoner abuse
Monday, 15 February 2010
A former Army commanding officer insisted today that he knew nothing about alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by his men.
Transatlantic plane turned back in terror alert
Monday, 15 February 2010
A British Airways transatlantic flight had to return to London two hours into its journey because of a "data discrepancy" concerning an American passenger, it was revealed today.
Airport body scanners 'may be unlawful'
Monday, 15 February 2010
The use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned today.
CND plan nuclear weapons site blockade
Monday, 15 February 2010
Hundreds of peace activists from across the UK will today try to blockade a nuclear weapons site where warheads for the Trident submarines are made.
Campaign warns teens over abusive relationships
Monday, 15 February 2010
Teenage boys were urged not to violently abuse their girlfriends in a new Government campaign launched today.
Prince to save historic pottery from closure
Monday, 15 February 2010
Charles's charity to turn Victorian site into tourist attraction, protecting 40 jobs
Abducted girl is reunited with her family
Monday, 15 February 2010
Nadia Fawzi, a six-year-old girl abducted and taken to Libya almost three years ago, is pictured with her mother Sarah at Manchester Airport yesterday on her return to the UK. She was snatched from her home in Wigan by her father Fawzi Abuarghub in May 2007. Sarah moved to Libya to track her down and launched a campaign that was backed by her local MP Andy Burnham and Gordon Brown, who petitioned Colonel Gaddafi. Nadia was eventually found by British embassy staff and mother and daughter were reunited in the Libyan capital Tripoli last December. Her grandmother Dot Taylor said: "The family are ecstatic to have her back. It is the best feeling. Now we want to spend some time together." Chris Foster/MEN/PA
Lord Goldsmith calls for torture investigation
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Goldsmith demands 'clarification' on activites of intelligence agencies.
Top economists call for rapid deficit cut
Sunday, 14 February 2010
A group of leading economists warned today that the Government was putting Britain's economic recovery at risk without a "credible" plan for cutting its massive budget deficit.
Archbishop urges hospitals to adopt 'culture of compassion'
Sunday, 14 February 2010
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales criticised the NHS for treating some patients with a lack of compassion.
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