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By Jane Kirby, Press Association More than one in 10 people (11 per cent) do not realise a woman can get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a poll out today. The Department of Health and the Department for...
Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall...
• Missing police officer named as Bill Barker • Hundreds evacuated as riverbanks burst A policeman swept away during devastating flooding was trying to save lives by directing motorists off a bridge across a swollen river. PC...
Greg Hurst, Education Editor Universities have been warned to expect heavy cuts next year as the head of their funding body told them that the “golden age” of rising budgets was over. Fields for research funding would become...
The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamber Is it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights above the chamber of the Commons , drove out those atmospheric,...
David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...
Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting. Mr Brown took questions from an invited audience at the Albert Hall ahead of the meeting. As part of the visit,...
Martin Bell tells Sarah Falkland about his general election plans The leading independent campaigner Martin Bell says he is "unlikely" to stand at the next general election. Mr Bell says he has not completely ruled out another...
The Prime Minister has paid tribute to the policeman who died in the floods in Cumbria in the early hours of Friday morning. Pc Barker, 44, was directing motorists off the bridge in Workington "saving lives" when it caved in as...
• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster' • Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findings Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical...
