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Small businesses on the up, but most headed up by men
Results from the Annual Small Business Survey (2006/07) have shown that small business are making…
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The Sainsbury’s GPs: checkout, then check-up
The future of primary healthcare in Britain, it seems, is down past the deli counter,…
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Fewer parents getting secondary school of their choice for children
The government's promise to give every parent a choice of secondary school for their child…
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The age of innocence: Is it extinct?
Childhood is over by the tender age of 11, research published today suggests.Parents admit giving…
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?100 from the State if you split up: How ordinary families would get better benefits living apart
Three out of four ordinary families would be better off living apart than sharing a…
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New NHS test that predicts premature birth
Thousands of women at risk of giving birth dangerously early are receiving a new test…
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Want to play? Bid for it!
Sixty-five local authorities have been invited to bid for their share of the Government's ?225m…
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Older mothers on the increase, teenage pregnancies at a low
While teenage pregnancies are at a twenty-year all time low, pregnancies of the over-40s are…
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Warning! This toy contains magnets
New measures to better protect children from unsafe toys have been announced today. Toys that…
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Celebrity yummy mummies make the rest feel like failures
Looking after the children, keeping a spick and span house and perhaps juggling a job…
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Millions of benefits claimants who get jobs are back on dole in six months
Four out of ten unemployment benefit claimants who get jobs are back on the dole…
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Cash aid to help grandparents care for children in drug-risk families
randparents are to be given financial support and legal backing to make it easier for…
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?27m extra for Social Enterprise
By Sasha Glasgow? A ?27 million funding boost for social enterprises has been announced today.…
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?170m to expand psychological therapy sector
Health Secretary Alan Johnson today unveiled plans for a major new programme to train an…
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Fearful schools banning staff from touching children
Rising numbers of schools and nurseries are banning staff from touching children because they fear…
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The baby blues: Study finds a third of mothers slip down career ladder
For decades mothers of young children have complained about not being taken seriously in the…
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Good news for commuters
A remedial plan to amend the unacceptably high level of disruption to train services from…
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How the fashionistas are helping to mentally damage our children
Children obsessed with fashionable clothes and technological gadgets could be at higher risk of mental…
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4,000 extra midwives for the NHS
Health secretary Alan Johnson announced a new initiative to recruit 4,000 extra midwives to the…
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Prozac: A placebo, according to new research
Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor…