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AXA PPP cancer expert in live chat
During the clinic, visitors are invited to ask questions on the prevention and treatment of bowel cancer, and will receive a live response from a medical ...
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Westfield welcomes increase in organ donation
Organisers of the Westfield Health British Transplant Games have welcomed news that organ donation has risen by 50 % in less than five ...
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NFU Mutual for Shakespeare Marathon
On Sunday 28th April a team of 16 from Stratford based insurer NFU Mutual will be running the Rotary Shakespeare Marathon and Half Marathon in aid of Macmillan Cancer ...
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Legal General adds face to face counselling to group income protection
Employees can benefit from up to five face-to-face counselling sessions if they need them, to support them in dealing with a wide range of work and personal life related ...
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Travel illness could cost uninsured travellers dearly
Uninsured travellers who fall ill on holiday this summer could face an average extra 900 on the holiday bill according to the Association of British ...
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Southee Polishes Off England NZ Need 239 for Victory
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The probe into price-fixing by Shell and BP is oil tanks to the European Union
Hooray for the heroic truth-seekers of the European Commission whose competition authorities are investigating allegations of price fixing by major oil companies in the ...
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BoE governor King warns of euro risk to British recovery
Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King speaks to employees during the opening of the Prudential Regulation Authority, in central London April 2, ...
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Grieving father finds $4.85million winning lottery ticket in dead daughters bedroom days before facing eviction
A grieving father facing eviction over unpaid bills found a $4.85million winning lottery ticket in his dead daughter's bedroom. Ricardo Cerezo was left devastated by the death of his 14-year-old daughter Savannah, who died in August last year following a number of seizures. In February, the family was dealt another blow after they were warned they faced losing their home, in Chicago, to ...
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England v New Zealand – live | Rob Bagchi and John Ashdown
First hour on Sunday will be crucial, says Root Joe Root said that the first hour on Sunday would be crucial if England were to get on top of New ...
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Independent Scotland open to Cyprus-style bank risks says Britain
Reuters © Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney gestures during his draft budget address in the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland September 20, 2012. REUTERS/David ...
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Paul Hollywoods wife spotted without ring and tells pals I was blindsided by his betrayal
The wife of TV chef Paul Hollywood left home without her wedding ring yesterday after telling friends she just did not see his betrayal coming. Alexandra Hollywood, 49, suddenly has to come to terms with the end of her 15-year marriage to The Great British Bake Off star, 47. A family friend told the Sunday People: "She's been completely blindsided by this and sees it as a terrible ...
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The secret to pulling Why men should carry a GUITAR if they want to get a girls number
Guys, are women deaf to your romantic overtures? Well don't sit there fretting - get a guitar. At least that's my tip after a spot of in-depth research sparked by a recent scientific experiment. And you don't even have to play the instrument. Boffins in France found that a bloke carrying a guitar case had far more success at pulling total strangers than one armed with a sports ...
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Heartbreaking words of adoring wife in blog to husband left brain-damaged blind and paralysed by rugby injury
Tamsyn Wood and husband Alex had just started a new life in France when her world was turned upside down in a split second, the Sunday People ...
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Outgoing governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King issues warning over Help to Buy scheme
The outgoing governor of the Bank of England has warned that George Osborne's plan to boost the housing market is "too close for comfort" to a general state guarantee for ...
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Lawyers treatment of Oxford abuse ring victim prompts call for reform
Campaigners demand urgent shake-up of court procedure after seven barristers cross-examined a girl every day for three weeks in Oxford child-grooming ...
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JK Rowlings personal copy of Harry Potter to go on sale
Harry Potter book , complete with handwritten notes which reveal the author invented the fictional sport of Quidditch after a row with her then-boyfriend, is going up for sale. Rowling will auction a hand signed, annotated ...
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Science promises strawberry fields forever
As Britain steels itself for the prospect of yet another washout summer, strawberry growers are finding themselves forced to come up with increasingly sophisticated ways of assessing the threat posed to their livelihoods by inclement weather.For fruit growers, predicting the weather is vital. It causes fruit yields to vary by as much as 70%, making for an erratic growing season if poor ...
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East Coast trains is on the wrong track with ticket fine
I inadvertently boarded an East Coast train from London to Newark which was an hour earlier than the one I had booked. It's a journey I regularly take, but I had had a harrowing experience that morning trying to help save a child's life and so had forgotten to put my watch back an hour after returning from France. I therefore believed I was on the correct ...
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More use internet for care funding advice
The internet is a fast growing avenues for those seeking advice about the costs of elderly care, says Partnership, whose second annual care index compares attitudes towards the cost of long term ...
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Dental insurers bringing a smile
Millions of people are still affected by poor oral health. Two in every three adults have visible dental plaque, and three in every ten suffer from regular dental ...
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MLS New England 2 Houston 0
Diego Fagundez scored in the 51st minute Saturday and the New England Revolution handed Houston a second straight home loss, 2-0. After getting a pass ...
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Julian Assange vigil costs British taxpayers more than $5 million
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks gestures as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. Assange who faces extradition to Sweden over sexual assault, claims which he denies, took refuge in the embassy in June. The estimated cost to Britian of keeping him contained is more than $5 ...
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Teenage sex abuse victim in tears as SEVEN different barristers brand her liar in court
A shattered teenage sex abuse victim broke down in tears after SEVEN barristers had repeatedly branded her a liar during the trial of her paedo attackers.The child - just 15 when she was first targeted - was one of five girls who fell prey to a gang who used them to satisfy their own vile lusts before selling them on to other perverts across Britain.But after her torturers were finally caught, ...
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Two out of three motorists with more than 12 points are still on the road
Two out of three motorists with more than 12 points are still on the road, according to Whitehall figures.Of the 12,470 whose records show enough penalties on their licence to trigger a ban, 7,842 are still allowed to ...
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Scotland's waterways seeing revival
Scotland’s waterways, the canals used to transport bulky goods and vast quantities of coal in the days before the development of the railways, are of great significance in terms of their role in the development of the country, new projects are making sure they remain so.
Scotland recently began investing heavily in its canal system with the introduction of the Millennium Link, a project to restore the Union Canal and Forth and Clyde Canals for use by recreational boaters, tourists and to encourage investment in the tourism, retail and commercial sectors. Read more
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