When Emel Murat discovered a lump in her breast she did not go to her doctor for nine months.
Emel, an ethnic Turkish-Cypriot living in Britain, said she had known little about breast cancer, as it is a taboo subject in her community, and had not known how dangerous her lump was.
A recent study [...]

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When history comes to make a final judgment on the Blair government — and we can be forgiven for hoping that moment is not too much longer delayed — there is one key statistic by which to assess the Prime Minister’s performance. Since 1997 the Labour government has created no fewer than 700 new criminal [...]

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Doctors say they want to investigate the case of a British man with HIV who apparently became clear of the virus.
Two Sunday newspapers report Scotsman Andrew Stimpson, who lives in London, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2002 but found to be clear in October 2003.
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust, which carried [...]

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The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian.
More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 [...]

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Nurses and pharmacists are to be given greater powers to prescribe drugs by the government, in a move being vigorously opposed by doctors.
Both professions will have to undergo training to get the extended powers, which will allow them to prescribe all but the most powerful drugs.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has given the green light [...]

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North Belfast UDA leader Andre Shoukri has been in court accused of blackmail, intimidation and money laundering.
Facing the same charges was John Boreland, 36, who was also additionally charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear.
Shoukri, 28, replied not guilty when the charges were put to him. Mr Boreland made [...]

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Ian Paisley

Ian Paisley

Vandals attack Paisley’s church

Vandals have caused damage put at more than £1,000 to the DUP leader Ian Paisley’s church in east Belfast.
Twelve windows were smashed at the Martyrs’ Memorial Free Presbyterian church on Ravenhill Road. The attack was discovered by the church caretaker.
Mr Paisley said it was the latest in a [...]

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A new diagnostic test for active tuberculosis infection could potentially save million of lives.
The test, developed by Imperial College London, has won a £10,000 award for medical innovation.
By growing samples in a special liquid, and analysing them with a sophisticated microscope, the TB bacteria can be identified in days, rather than weeks.
TB [...]

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The transcript of a recent 60 Minutes interview with the Prince of Wales. Interesting comments on architecture, ecology, “progress”, etc. The interviewer referred to Charles as an ‘Edwardian Hippy’ in his commentary, although this doesn’t appear in the transcript.
“I was saying recently somewhere else that, you know, we rush now at such a speed everywhere [...]

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Lee Gaukrodger, 27, is accused of assaulting a 32-year-old woman while she was unconscious and being prepared for treatment.
The incident is alleged to have happened at Scrafton, Bond and Ablett in Flagg Court, South Shields, when a dental nurse had left the room, Newcastle Crown Court heard yesterday.
The South African-born dental surgeon faces charges of [...]

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NURSES who have just qualified are finding it difficult to get jobs in the NHS and are taking on other work to make ends meet, it is claimed today.
The Nursing Standard magazine says that across Britain graduates who had spent three years studying to become nurses were taking any job they could - including [...]

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A LEADING community councillor has called for a fairer distribution of asylum seekers across Leeds.
People seeking asylum should be placed in homes across the city rather than in just a handful of neighbourhoods such as Beeston, Harehills and Holbeck, says Coun Angela Gabriel (Lab, Beeston and Holbeck).
The latest figures show that 2,712 asylum seekers are [...]

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SHOCKED Muslim worshippers, horrified by videos and DVDs they say are being used to recruit terrorists in Dewsbury mosques, have called in the police.
The tapes were found in Savile Town in Dewsbury – where the alleged ringleader of the July 7 London bombings Mohammed Sidique Khan lived.
Dewsbury resident Safiq Patel said he and other Muslims [...]

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A former producer of the rap group So Solid Crew has been jailed for at least 30 years for murdering a love rival.
Earlier this month a jury found Carl Morgan, 24, of Battersea, south London, guilty of shooting Colin Scarlett in Tooting, south London, last year.
They failed to reach a verdict on the same charge [...]

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Sixteen months after EU enlargement, an average of 16,000 eastern Europeans are arriving each month in the UK to work.
This is much more than expected ahead of enlargement, with a government study last year forecasting an annual total of just 5,000 to 13,000 workers.
But multicultural Britain has so far been able to absorb all the [...]

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A father and his two sons have been found guilty of murdering his daughter’s boyfriend in an “honour killing” after she became pregnant.
Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, 19, was found stabbed 46 times in a car in Rosehill, Oxford, on 20 November last year.
The Iranian Muslim had been studying at Oxford Brookes University.
Chomir Ali, [...]

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Dozens of Muslim grave stones have been smashed and pushed over in a cemetery in Handsworth in Birmingham.
The desecration was discovered on Friday by relatives visiting the Muslim part of the cemetery.
Leaflets were scattered, with insults against Muslims which were attributable to “Black Nation”.
Last month, riots involving Asian and black youths took [...]

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