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Capello urged to give Gerrard a break

Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez says injured star can play through the pain for his club, but not for his country Rafael Benítez is braced for a dispute with Fabio Capello over Steven Gerrard after demanding the England...

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Simon MacCorkindale has terminal cancer

The actor Simon MacCorkindale has revealed he is suffering from terminal cancer. Simon MacCorkindale as Harry Harper Photo: BBC MacCorkindale, 57, who played Harry Harper in the BBC series Casualty, has been battling the...

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Government targets increase superbug risks say NHS infection chiefs

Deadly superbugs have increased despite a crackdown on the best-known infections such as MRSA, a parliamentary report will warn this week. By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent Around 300,000 infections are diagnosed in...

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Warning on mixing cocaine and alcohol

A third chemical – cocaethylene – builds up in the liver over a number of years among those who mix the two drugs. And this is now having major health consequences "I first took coke when I was 18 and at university. I remember...

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Should we bring our troops home from Afghanistan? | The Observer debate

YES, says the Observer's foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont, we've lost sight of our aims. I'm no longer sure why we're there NO, says the Observer's expert on al-Qaida, Jason Burke, it would be a betrayal of the people we...

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Barack Obama visits Capitol Hill to plead for Democrats to back health reforms

President Barack Obama has made a last-ditch plea to Democrat lawmakers to back a bill revamping the country's health care system on a rare Saturday trip to Capitol Hill. By Philip Sherwell in New York After meeting behind...

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Ding ding: end of round two of the banking bailout

Bar staff at the Westminster Arms are used to a political class of clientele. That morning, in a series of co-ordinated announcements, the Treasury, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group had revealed a long-awaited...

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Professor David Nutt's take on cannabis is a creed and not science

The evidence shows that cannabis is more damaging than Professor David Nutt believes, says Alasdair Palmer Professor David Nutt Photo: UPPA To listen to some of the reactions to Alan Johnson's decision to sack Professor David...

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Families ready for UK's first three-way kidney swap

BRITAIN’S first three-way series of kidney transplants is planned to take place within weeks. It will involve three donors and three recipients. Each couple will be a husband and wife, parent and child or brother and sister,...

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In search of a family: The 'problem' children left behind

Picture this: a six-year-old little boy, born eight weeks prematurely, suffering from heroin withdrawal symptoms because his mother was unable to stay clean during the pregnancy. He spent eight months with his mother who...

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