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Government scales back child worker vetting scheme
Plans to vet millions of people working with children and vulnerable adults are to be scaled back to “common sense” levels, the Government announced today
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Live: Bloody Sunday families shown Saville report
9.40 BST On a January morning 38 years ago, 13 protesters died at the hands of British paratroopers and 14 were injured, one so seriously he died four months later. For many of their relatives, the years since have been dominated by the search for truth about what happened during 25 chaotic minutes in central Londonderry.
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Inflation eases as food prices begin to fall
Inflation eased in May to 3.4 per cent from a 17-month high the previous month, helped by weaker rises in food and petrol prices.
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News Corp reaches for the Sky with takeover offer
News Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake.
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Emails ‘prove BP systematically put safety at risk’
Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.
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Uzbekistan closes borders to refugees
Uzbekistan last night closed its borders to refugees fleeing neighbouring Kyrgyzstan as the numbers killed in the ethnic violence spiralled and aid agencies reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.
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Benayoun could prompt Anfield exodus
Yossi Benayoun has taken a significant step towards leaving Liverpool for Chelsea by agreeing in principle a four-year contract with the Barclays Premier League champions.
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BNP leader invited to meet Queen at Buckingham Palace garden party
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has been invited to attend a Buckingham Palace garden party hosted by the Queen, The Times has learnt.
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Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to international pressure
Israel bowed to international pressure yesterday when it agreed to reopen crossing points into Gaza for everyday goods.
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Economy may never recover from banking crisis, warns OBR
The economy, more damaged by the banking crisis than previously admitted, will grow more weakly and may never fully recover, the new Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said yesterday.
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Taleban zone's mineral riches may rival Saudi Arabia, says Pentagon
Afghanistan is sitting on mineral resources worth $1 trillion and could become one of the world$’s most important mining centres, the Pentagon announced yesterday, as it tried to drum up foreign investment and wean the country off the opium trade.
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Families call for the truth 38 years after Bloody Sunday
On the edge of the Bogside in Londonderry stands a granite monument to the 14 men “murdered by British paratroopers on Bloody Sunday”. The simple signs at its foot proclaim: “Hope for Truth.”
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BBC to break ranks on public sector pay
The BBC has ignored pleas for public sector pay restraint with a multimillion-pound offer to boost the salaries of more than 13,000 workers.
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Bloody Sunday victims must be declared innocent, says McGuinness
Martin McGuinness has called for the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings to exonerate all 27 of those killed and injured from claims that they posed an armed threat to British soldiers.
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President Obama compares Gulf of Mexico oil leak to 9/11
President Obama predicted a wholesale rethink of America’s love affair with oil today, saying he believed the Gulf disaster would have as profound an impact on the American psyche and policy as 9/11.
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Israel promises to ease its three year blockade of Gaza
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Tax-cutting blow as CGT to raise £1.5bn less than planned
George Osborne faced a fresh blow over capital gains tax today after it emerged it is due to raise £1.5 billion less than expected.
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OBR slashes economic growth forecasts
UK economic growth forecasts have been slashed, as the damage wreaked by the recession on long-term growth were assessed independently for the first time.
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BP shares dive amid US senators’ £20bn escrow plan
Read how BP managers face years in jail and how America snubbed British offer of help with spill at The Times's new website
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