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Ads overstate climate change risk

Two Government climate change ads have been banned, it has been revealed

12:34am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Two Government adverts which used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change have been banned for overstating the risks, a watchdog has announced.

Talent shows miss out at TV awards

Louis Theroux won the best presenter gong at the Royal Television Society awards

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent have been snubbed at the Royal Television Society Awards.

£1.85bn owed by benefits claimants

Benefit claimants owe almost two billion pounds in overpaid money, report says

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Benefit claimants owe an "immense" £1.85 billion in overpaid money but the Department for Work and Pensions is recovering less than £300 million a year, according to a parliamentary report.

Civil servants' Budget day strike

Alistair Darling will give his Budget on the same day that civil servants walk out on strike

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to stage their first national strike on Budget day in an escalation of a bitter dispute over cuts in redundancy pay.

Date set for Pope's visit to UK

Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the Pope is to visit the UK in September

5:21pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

The Pope is to meet the Queen and take part in an ecumenical service at Westminster Abbey as part of the first official Papal visit to Britain, it has been confirmed.

Boy, 12, one of youngest prisoners

A 12-year-old boy is one of the UK's youngest prisoners after he was given a 10-month custodial term

4:57pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

A 12-year-old boy who has committed more than 30 crimes has become one of the UK's youngest prisoners when he was given a 10-month custodial term.


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I WOULD like to express my concern at the parking at the Uplands medical centre in Whitefield. I recently took my ill one-year-old son to the surgery and found the parking at the Uplands and the roads around it terribly dangerous, due to the limited parking.  − Name and address supplied

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Once again, snow caused chaos on the roads of Greater Manchester on the evening of February 3 and, not for the first time this winter, First Bus failed its paying public. − Noel Bayley, Whitefield Labour Party candidate for Prestwich, St Mary’s ward

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