# united-kingdom - Thursday 29 November, 2012
The full report has been published along with an executive summary. Read it here.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 27 October, 2012
The study published in The Lancet found that the earlier women give up, the more likely they are to not to see their lifespan cut by a decade.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 22 October, 2012
The 33rd annual conference of European liberals will be taking place in Dublin next month.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 20 October, 2012
We’ve always decried interference into our affairs on this island – it would serve us well to afford the same approach to the 2014 referendum in Scotland.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the incidents yesterday afternoon in the Welsh city.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 24 September, 2012
John Alan Brooks was today sentenced at a court in England for his involvement in a plot to smuggle 1.5 tonnes of cocaine.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 21 September, 2012
Conservative minister Andrew Mitchell is reported to have sworn at and called police officers ‘plebs’ earlier this week outside Downing Street and is now facing calls to resign.
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# united-kingdom - Thursday 20 September, 2012
Cheryl Jones was not officially told by police that her daughter had died until hours after she read about it on Facebook.
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Dale Cregan faces four murder charges and four charges for attempted murder following his arrest in the aftermath of the brutal murder of two Greater Manchester police officers on Tuesday.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Seven-year-old Zainab remains in a medically induced coma after being shot and badly beaten in the attack.
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# united-kingdom - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
Jeremy Hunt was the surprised appointment to the Ministry of Health as David Cameron conducted his first reshuffle since taking office over two years ago
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# united-kingdom - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Queen Elizabeth’s husband, 91, returns to hospital only two months after treatment for a bladder infection.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 20 July, 2012
A domestic disturbance alerted police to the possibility that Mohammed Sajid Khan and his wife Shasta had planned attacks.
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# united-kingdom - Thursday 19 July, 2012
The vote – which the West says is “appalling” – put the future of the on-the-ground observer mission in serious doubt.
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# united-kingdom - Sunday 8 July, 2012
But this isn’t about Ireland for a change as the Falklands and Scotland look to upcoming referendums on their future, writes David McCann from the University of Ulster.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 2 June, 2012
Queen Elizabeth is heading to Epsom for the Derby, as Britain begins a four-day weekend to mark her 60 years.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 5 May, 2012
In an unexpectedly tight race, the Conservative politician won by 51.5 per cent of the vote to Livingstone’s 48.4 per cent.
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# united-kingdom - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Gordon Thompson, 34, stole a laptop from the House of Reeves department store before setting fire to a sofa.
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# united-kingdom - Wednesday 21 March, 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has also raised the thresholds for income tax and child benefit, as well as hiking excise on cigarettes.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 16 March, 2012
Nigel Dodds asks Sir George Young, the Leader of the House of Commons, if March 17 will be made a holiday in the UK.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 9 March, 2012
Chief executive Bob Diamond was paid £6.3m (€7.5m) for 2011 – but had been originally meant to take a total of £9m (€10.7m).
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# united-kingdom - Thursday 8 March, 2012
A report compiled by an all-party committee says the government must accept that Britain’s global clout is fading.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 5 March, 2012
The pilot scheme means that people living in certain parts of England and Wales can request police information about whether their parter has a history of domestic violence.
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# united-kingdom - Wednesday 22 February, 2012
The UK, Sweden and the Netherlands refused to sign off after the European Court of Auditors reported accounting errors.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 6 February, 2012
Britain’s King George VI died sixty years ago today – making his eldest daughter, then 25, the head of seven different countries. She’s now the head of 16 – and has ruled over no fewer than 32.
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# united-kingdom - Saturday 14 January, 2012
The Taoiseach wouldn’t answer the question yesterday so we’re asking you today…
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# united-kingdom - Friday 13 January, 2012
Residents complain that Thomas McFeely will be out of debt in 12 months, while they face years of financial turmoil.
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# united-kingdom - Thursday 12 January, 2012
Danny Grehan – who owes NAMA €308m – follows his brother’s lead by declaring himself bankrupt in a court in Slough.
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# united-kingdom - Wednesday 11 January, 2012
Even if Ireland does not need a referendum on ratifying the deal this year, one may be required later in the decade.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 6 January, 2012
Ray Grehan, who was ordered to repay €312m to NAMA two months ago, is declared bankrupt at a court in London.
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# united-kingdom - Tuesday 3 January, 2012
The black teenager was stabbed to death in 1993 by a white gang apparently motivated by little bit his skin colour.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 19 December, 2011
# united-kingdom - Thursday 15 December, 2011
The Manchester United star acknowledges that the glamour model had not threatened to sell her story to a tabloid newspaper.
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# united-kingdom - Monday 12 December, 2011
David Cameron will defend using his veto to the House of Commons – which his deputy prime minister said was “bad for Britain”.
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# united-kingdom - Friday 9 December, 2011
Ireland’s one of the 26 Euro members signing up to a new financial agreement. Do you support our signing up?
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We try to cut through the legal language and figure out precisely what 26 EU members have signed up to in Brussels.
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Hungary may now also sign up to the deal agreed by euro members overnight – leaving the UK as the only EU member outside it.
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The full text of the deal adopted by euro members, and by at least six – and potentially nine – of the other 10 EU members.
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Calls for Tory minister’s resignation after allegedly calling police ‘plebs’
Conservative minister Andrew Mitchell is reported to have sworn at and called police officers ‘plebs’ earlier this week outside Downing Street and is now facing calls to resign.
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