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Queen's party tickets all gone

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Ten thousand free tickets for a public party to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee are snapped up within minutes.
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Yakking with Yoko

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Will Gompertz on Ono's intriguing story
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VIDEO: Inside the world's largest iron ore mine

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Carajas mining complex is a series of vast man-made chasms, extracting iron ore around the clock.
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Lords reform battle lines drawn

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Tory MPs will meet later to discuss opposition to the plans - while the coalition is forced to assemble its rarely-used dispute committee, the BBC learns.
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VIDEO: Prince calls for end to rhino poaching

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
The Duke of Cambridge is supporting a conservation project which is releasing three black rhino from Kent, back into the wild in Tanzania.
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VIDEO: Fans views on key England game

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Fans Theo Laycock and Bobby Faghihi give their views on England's crucial game against Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine.
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Microsoft unveils Surface tablets

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Microsoft has shown off an own-brand family of tablets called Surface which will help it challenge Apple's dominant iPad.
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Brics nations to boost IMF funds

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
The Brics economies say they will increase their contribution to the International Monetary Fund.
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David Cameron's Swede dreams

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Is Sweden the big society blueprint David Cameron is looking for?
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Is this the end of the composer?

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
De-composer - will a music machine kill off the composer?
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The science of home advantage

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
England's crunch Euro 2012 group game is in Ukraine against Ukraine. Sadly for England, home advantage is real.
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The re-re-re-rise of the corset

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Corset sales are booming. But what do the peaks and troughs of demand say about body image over the last 200 years?
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Maude: Civil servants want reform

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Plans to make it easier to sack under-performing staff members are "not an attack on civil servants" and part of reforms backed by workers, says Francis Maude.
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University 'crime table' released

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
A university guide compares local crime rates - with London institutions at the top of this robbery league table.
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A-levels limited to 'one re-sit'

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Fewer re-sits and end of year exams rather than modules are proposed in plans to make A-levels more challenging.
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Smartphone users 'risking health'

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
People are risking their health by working on smartphones, tablets and laptops after they have left the office, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
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US warns MEK to leave Iraqi camp

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
The US warns an Iranian dissident group it must leave a camp in Iraq, if it hopes to be removed from a US list of terrorist groups.
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City waterfront seeks investment

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Roadshows are being held in Edinburgh and Glasgow to encourage businesses to invest in the £1bn Dundee waterfront transformation.
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Locked-in man's 'years of misery'

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
A paralysed man who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully kill him is being condemned to live in a state of "suffering and indignity" by the current law, a court hears.
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New law on prostitution proposed

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-03-28 23:01
Proposals which would make it an offence to pay for sex are to be considered by the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee.
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