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Star Trek actor says euthanasia should be everyone's human right
Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart reveals support for organisation seeking to legalise assisted deathThe actor Sir Patrick Stewart has spoken out about his decision to join an organisation...
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Children's behaviour at school deteriorating, say teachers
Boys more likely to be violent while girls call one another names, Association of Teachers and Lecturers survey findsChildren's behaviour has worsened over the past five years, according to a survey of...
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Paul Stephenson returns to desk at Metropolitan police
Commissioner faces major challenges to force's reputation over phone hacking and failures in public order and serious crimeThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, returns to his desk...
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Britons 'confused over refugees'
Refugee Council survey finds many don't understand difference between individuals forced to flee homes and economic migrantsA survey carried out to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN convention on...
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Police used kettling tactic too readily on protest march, says Liberty
Human rights group: There seemed to be "a continual expectation containment would be used" on London TUC marchSenior officers policing protests in London last month focused too heavily on kettling to...
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Corrections and clarifications
• "The long-lost remains of Alfred Adler, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, have been rediscovered in a crematorium in Edinburgh nearly 74 years after he died suddenly on a lecture tour,"...
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Afghanistan: No endgame in sight | Editorial
The key to ending the conflict in Afghanistan may be for us to stop thinking of it as a unified stateNearly two years ago David Miliband, then foreign secretary, addressed a meeting of Nato confident...
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Birdwatch: Kestrel
As a child, I usually only saw one bird of prey: the kestrel. Buzzards, peregrines and sparrowhawks had been poisoned and persecuted, ospreys were confined to the wilds of Scotland, and hobbies were...
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Letters: Opening the door on the immigration debate
The prime minister asserts that immigrants should learn English, and blames too much immigration and too little integration for the disintegration of communities (Immigrants should learn English – PM,...
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Weatherwatch: why grass made Britain great
April showers interspersed with warm sunshine provide perfect conditions for grass to grow at maximum speed. Listening to the whirr of lawn mowers it is easy to forget that it was grass that made...
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Letters: Nuclear review
Dr Paul Dorfman is not right to claim that "the HSE review is looking increasingly narrow, with fact-finding and weighing of evidence limited to the usual suspects, excluding involvement from energy...
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Letters: Market in care can't provide security
It is both remarkable and disturbing that we need to be reassured that vulnerable and elderly people will not "end up on the streets" (Southern Cross seeks lifeline from No 10, 13 April). There was no...
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Letters: A wake-up call for NHS maternity services
How shocking, when there are such concerns over the quality of maternity care (Maternity staff blunders leave NHS facing £85.8m compensation bill, 14 April), that the national confidential inquiries...
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Letters: Silent flight
I'd be interested in Simon Hoggart's tips on what to do to silence a screeching baby on a plane, since he claims the mother "did nothing" – presumably he thinks she was OK with being kept awake for...
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Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
The first great show of spring has come to our parish. It's produced by the goat willow flowers, which many of us probably know better as "pussy willow". It's not a particularly bright colour, nothing...
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George Osborne backs 61 PFI projects despite earlier doubts over costing
Chancellor discredited funding mechanism in opposition but has pushed forward PFIs worth £6.9bn since electionGeorge Osborne, the chancellor, is pressing ahead with private finance initiative (PFI)...
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Soy sauce company symbolises Japan's determination after the tsunami
Michihiro Kono has taken over a company destroyed by the disaster, and is determined to reopen its doorsRead more stories from tsunami survivorsIn less tumultuous times, Michihiro Kono could have...
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Japan tsunami survivors: defiance and dignity amid the wreckage
The stories of seven Japanese people who survived the 11 March tragedy and are trying to rebuild their livesEvery one of the tens of thousands of survivors of Japan's tsunami disaster has a unique...
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In praise of... Mike Leigh | Editorial
The big mistake people make with Mike Leigh is to simplify him into caricature; he is much too various for thatThe big mistake people make with Mike Leigh is to simplify him into caricature; he is much...
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Elected mayors: Where Leicester leads | Editorial
Will the prospect of being a hands-on mayor soon confer more political clout than the uncertain chance of a cabinet seat?Amid the many elections due on 5 May – to the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish...
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