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Letters: Women who lost out in pension reform

Jackie Ashley points out that the coalition agreement states women's pension age will not begin to rise to 66 until 2020, ie after men's and women's pension ages were due to equalise at 65 (This new...

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Social mobilty: hopes and dreams | Editorial

Nick Clegg's plan to make internships transparent is all very well, but for the government's real priorities, follow the moneyIt is easier to identify practices that block social mobility than policies...

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Letters: Vanished landscape

Surely Jane Austen would recognise a remarkable change to the landscape of the South Downs since her time (Report, 1 April)? Natural history writers such as WH Hudson would be devastated by it. Grazing...

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Letters: Conflicting data on sports participation

There is something very odd about the statistics on sports participation (Olympics minister admits 2012 legacy targets will be scrapped, 29 March). You quote the Active People survey but do not mention...

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Letters: A segregated society

Peter Preston spoiled his article (The limits of peace politics, 4 April) by referring to the "RUC" (Corrections, 5 April). The reality is that 10 years of positive discrimination have transformed the...

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Letters: No definitive answers in the nuclear debate

George Monbiot is, at best, confused about debates over nuclear power (The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all, 5 April). The real issue is not which individual "foremost...

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Corrections and clarifications

• Among photographs illustrating a film article on war documentaries – A grunt's eye view, 5 April, page 19, G2 – we meant to publish a still from The Battle of Midway, John Ford's 1942...

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Letters: New Labour elite still don't get it

Seizing on Alastair Bonnett's arguments about the power of nostalgia to launch an appeal for "conservative socialism" or "Blue Labour" demonstrates yet again that the New Labour elite still haven't got...

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Letters: Militant atheism

Your coverage of the interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Doulton was deeply disturbing (RAF stretched to the limit, air chief warns, 4 April). Try reading it while replacing "the RAF" with...

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Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley

Rain has darkened the earth of arable fields sown with barley and refreshed pastures occupied by ewes with lambs or suckler cows just turned out of winter quarters with their calves. Primroses deck the...

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Hugh Muir's Diary

My cup runneth over, says Jeremy the culture secretary. But it is my cup. Get your own• In an ideal Con-Dem world it would be every man for himself, but circumstances dictate that we are all in this...

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Wastwater - review

Royal Court, LondonAlthough the title of Simon Stephens's new play refers to the deepest lake in Britain, it is set on the fringes of Heathrow; and part of its point is that the airport environs, like...

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Japanese nuclear engineers plug Fukushima leak

Workers stem flow of radioactive water into sea using mixture of sawdust, newspaper, concrete and a type of liquid glassEngineers battling to contain the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant...

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Press Awards 2011: Guardian wins Newspaper of the Year

Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger singled out coverage of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaksThe Guardian's groundbreaking journalism and innovation were recognised at the Press Awards where it...

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Phone hacking: two News of the World journalists arrested

Police search homes of paper's chief reporter and former news editor as CPS and police row over failure of first inquiryScotland Yard's inquiry into allegations of phone hacking by the News of the...

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Ed Balls clashes with Treasury over 'black Wednesday' for families

Shadow chancellor says today's tax and benefit changes will hurt working families, but Treasury insists only richest will loseWorking families face losing up to £1,560 a year from Wednesday under the...

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Hip patients in pain now wait longer to get surgery

118 surgeons said hip and knee surgery had been regarded as a procedure of low priorityPatients waiting for hip and knee surgery are left in pain for longer after being denied the surgery to save...

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English words fail to take root in Polish vernacular

Polish has resisted the influx of English words brought back by migrant workers, but swearwords are proving resilientThe constant shuttling of hundreds of thousands of mostly young Polish workers...

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NHS reforms: senior ministers go on the road to listen to workers' concerns

• Ministers will talk to staff at a hospital in home counties• Nick Clegg rules out any moves towards privatising NHSDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg are joining forces with Andrew Lansley to launch the...

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Child maintenance changes will penalise single mothers, warn charities

Charities urge Theresa May to rethink child maintenance proposals in a letter saying women will suffer most from new chargesRead the letter hereChanges to the child maintenance system will have an...

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