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I’d never even tasted Black Forest gateau before Bake Off

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Record NHS deficit puts emergency care at risk

A&E units face closure, health chiefs warn

Up to 50 hospitals face losing A&E or specialist units after running up record deficits, health chiefs warn today. Emergency departments near others may have to close because it is no longer safe to keep them open without enough staff to cope with the rising number of patients, hospital...Up to 50 hospitals face losing A&E or specialist units after running up record deficits, health chiefs warn today. Emergency departments near others may have to close because it is no longer safe to keep them open without enough staff to cope with the rising number of patients, hospital...Up to 50 hospitals face losing A&E or specialist units after running up record deficits, health chiefs warn today.

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Fast-track police chief causes fury by comparing bobbies to binmen

Bobbies on the beat were already rankled enough when 180 years of tradition was abandoned to allow bank workers, civil servants and former members of the military to leapfrog them into senior policing ranks. That disquiet has exploded into outright resentment, however, after one of the cohort of the Conservative government’s new-style...Bobbies on the beat were already rankled enough when 180 years of tradition was abandoned to allow bank workers, civil servants and former members of the military to leapfrog them into senior policing ranks. That disquiet has exploded into outright resentment, however, after one of the cohort of the Conservative government’s new-style...Bobbies on the beat were already rankled enough when 180 years of tradition was abandoned to allow bank workers, civil servants...

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Woman critical after attack on shoppers

Four women were stabbed in a supermarket car park yesterday morning by a man “moving around seemingly at random” among terrified shoppers. The man arrested had been released on bail hours earlier after he had been charged with assaulting a police officer in a separate incident. One of the injured women, aged 62, was...Four women were stabbed in a supermarket car park yesterday morning by a man “moving around...Four women were stabbed in a supermarket car park yesterday morning by a man “moving around...

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