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Fussy eaters – what's wrong with GM?
With the world's food security facing a looming "perfect storm", GM food crops need to be part of the solution. |
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Today: Monday 12th July
The Health Secretary is announcing the biggest shake-up of the NHS in England for decades. A series of bombings in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, have killed at least 64 people. And Ed Miliband explains why he should be Labour's next leader. |
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Tougher search powers: Your comments
Your comments on more powers to be given to head teachers in England to be able to search pupils. |
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Hysterical, deluded and thoroughly English
Why do English football fans never learn to manage expectations? |
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Decision time for whale conservation
It is time for International Whaling Commission members to end two decades of deadlock and reach a shared vision on conservation. |
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Club faces legal action on fence
A Northampton nightclub, housed in a Grade II listed building, is facing legal action to remove timber fence panels. |
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High living, high spending
A tabloid sting has highlighted the Duchess of York’s difficulty with funding a lavish lifestyle on low earnings. Is it worse to have had money and lost it than never to have had it at all? |
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Concerns over development raised
Concerns are raised over the stability of a green field site in Northampton earmarked for 80 new homes. |
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Firm fined over bulldozer death
A company is fined £210,000 over the death of a driver crushed between a lorry and bulldozer in Northamptonshire. |
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Plans backed for ex-post office
Plans to turn a former Northampton post office into a community centre are set to be approved. |
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The decline of instant messaging
Instant messaging was once tipped to overtake e-mail, but recent figures suggest that it has lost ground sharply. Why? |
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Ice cream van driver hurt in crash
A driver of an ice cream van suffers serious injuries in a head-on crash with a car in Northamptonshire. |
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Are you enjoying 'Sunny Britain'?
This weekend is set to be the hottest in the UK since last September. How hot is it where you are? |
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Pc awarded after gunman challenge
A Northampton police constable receives a national bravery award after challenging a man with two guns. |
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Is the British banger dangerous?
Is a sausage dangerous? In his regular column, Michael Blastland puts claims this week that it causes heart disease and diabetes through the Go Figure risk-o-meter. |
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Executor spent cash on QE2 cruise
An executor from Northampton who stole more than £100,000 from a dead man's estate is jailed for two-and-a-half years. |
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Man, 76, dies in fall from bike
A 76-year-old man dies in hospital after suffering head injuries when he fell from his bike in Northamptonshire. |
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New academy named after composer
A Northampton school is to be renamed after the celebrated composer Malcolm Arnold when it reopens as an academy. |
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Scrubbing Up: Your comments
Pharmacists have been shouldering an increasing number of challenges without any increase in staffing over the past decade, says David Pruce of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. BBC News website readers have been reacting to his column. |
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Balloon gun threat farmer jailed
A woman is jailed for 18 months for pointing a loaded shotgun at a man who was in a hot air balloon which landed on her farm. |