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BBC World News, 24.04.13 03:48 UTC

UK Peace Index highlights rate of fall in violent crime

Rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than anywhere else in Western Europe, researchers say.

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BBC World News, 24.04.13 01:43 UTC

Struggling hospitals losing patients, say nurses

Patients are getting lost in hospitals across the UK because they are constantly being switched from ward to ward amid pressures on A & , nurses say.

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BBC Business, 23.04.13 23:11 UTC

Jeans making returns to UK's former denim capital

A little over a decade ago, a small town in west Wales was the largest manufacturer of jeans in the UK.

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Daily Mail, 23.04.13 14:15 UTC

'It would be nice if British hotels had British receptionists': Labour's immigration spokesman slams tourism industry

PUBLISHED: 11:45 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 14:09 GMT, 23 April 2013 Hotels have come under fire for hiring foreigners instead of British people. Mr Bryant, the MP for Rhondda in south Wales, said ...

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Telegraph, 23.04.13 06:35 UTC

Hundreds of sex offenders escape with cautions

Almost 1,500 sex offenders were let off with a caution last year in what campaigners criticised as a wholly inappropriate and worrying trend.

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Telegraph, 23.04.13 05:29 UTC

Teaching college established to combat classroom 'fads'

A new training college for teachers is to be established by the Prince of Wales to combat the fads and fetishes of the classroom and create a traditional approach to education, it is announced today.

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BBC World News, 23.04.13 00:59 UTC

Scottish independence: Treasury says currency pact case 'not clear'

Scotland becoming independent from the UK would "be a profound economic change for both states", according to Treasury analysis.

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Telegraph, 22.04.13 23:05 UTC

Britain is in the depths of an economic depression, Archbishop warns

Britain is in the depths of an economic depression from which it could take a generation to escape, the Archbishop of Canterbury claimed last night.

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Daily Mail, 22.04.13 18:31 UTC

Mum blames Suarez after son is bitten by another child in 'copycat' incident

PUBLISHED: 17:46 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:46 GMT, 22 April 2013 A mother from Wales believes Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is to blame after her son was bitten by another child at school this ...

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Daily Mail, 22.04.13 18:31 UTC

Search for missing schoolgirl April Jones is finally called off by police six months after five-year-old was last seen alive

PUBLISHED: 17:48 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 18:17 GMT, 22 April 2013 Police have ended their search for the body of missing five-year-old April Jones, it was announced today. In the UK's biggest ...

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