Nearly 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the UK every year could be avoided through lifestyle changes, according to new research. Smoking is the biggest avoidable cause of cancer, followed
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Big Issue founder Lord Bird has admitted to beating his father after finding him pouring hot water over his mother. In a debate on domestic abuse, Lord Bird said that
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Ellie Butler’s grandfather vowed her death “cannot have been in vain” as he described her murderer father as a “brutal maniac” in an inquest into her death. The six-year-old girl
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Nearly 40 women who were sexually exploited and forced to live in unsafe cave-like houses have been freed from a gang of human traffickers. It follows an international operation involving
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Scientists believe a new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs and has been successfully used to treat an infection could lead to the first new class of antibiotic drug
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A man who runs a Facebook page with tens of thousands of followers has been jailed for 21 months for a seven-month stalking campaign of “psychological warfare” against a woman
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Celebrities will take a back seat on Comic Relief’s on-location appeals following complaints about “poverty tourism”. The moves comes after an appeal fronted by Ed Sheeran for Comic Relief last
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Two social workers who say an inquiry report into allegations of child abuse on the British overseas territory of St Helena destroyed their professional reputations have taken legal action. Claire
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The Oxfam sex scandal in Haiti is just the “tip of the iceberg”, a parliamentary gathering has been told. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Haiti heard calls for a
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A father convicted of murdering his daughter 11 months after she was put back in his care has denied causing her “any injury” at an inquest into her death. Ben
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