Hotspots fuel capital's soaring murder rate
The boroughs of Havering, Bexley and Redbridge may not be the most sought after areas of London, but in one respect, at least, places with unfashionable postcodes have a ...
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Second rate
The best thing about the world transfer record being smashed to smithereens, apart from the sheer sanity of being able to read about football again and stop having to pre...
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Death rate nearly double for night births, researchers say
Babies born at night are almost twice as likely to die as those born in the daytime, researchers say.
A study of 380,000 "low risk" babies born in hospitals in the Germ...
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Oftel orders BT: open lines to 'flat rate' net rivals
Telecommunications regulartor Oftel yesterday ordered BT to allow its competitors to use its network to sell unmetered net access in direct competition to its forthcoming...
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Asylum decisions at record rate
A record 11,340 asylum claims were processed last month after hundreds of extra caseworkers were taken on to clear the huge backlog of cases, according to Home Office fig...
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Creatures are becoming extinct at a frightening rate. So who cares?
Life began on earth around 3.8bn years ago. From the first, death and extinction were part of the story.
For more than 2bn years, the planet was occupied only by microb...
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Voters rate devolution a failure, says survey
Most British voters do not think devolution has been a success, according to the first countrywide opinion poll on the new political set-up.
The ICM survey found that 9...
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Mystery of murder rate drop solved
A US criminologist has solved the great American murder mystery: why the national homicide rate has been falling for the past six years.
Part of the answer was quite sim...
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Cable firm offers flat-rate internet
From today 4.5m homes will have cheaper access to the internet as a result of a move by Telewest to charge a flat £10 monthly fee for dialling up the worldwide web. ...
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Mandelson 'made dome third rate
The Millennium Dome might have been saved from becoming a "mad woman's breakfast" if Peter Mandelson had kept his nose out if it, its former design guru claimed yesterday...
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