Elderly people are going hungry in hospital because staff fail to ensure they are fed, a charity has said.
An Age Concern study of 110 English and Welsh NHS trusts found 43% did not run protected mealtimes - where non-urgent work stops to make sure patients eat.
Age Concern’s Patrick South said: “Tackling malnutrition should be a [...]

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While politicians wrestle with Ireland’s future in the EU, the owner of one Shetland island is certain: he wants out.
Stuart Hill, sole owner and resident of a 2.5 acre island off Scotland, declared his independence from the UK this weekend, saying he wanted the territory to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands.
He named [...]

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Muslim prisoners who were offered ham sandwiches during the holy month of Ramadan have received a letter of apology from the Government.
Officials said sorry to the 200 Muslim inmates of HMP Leeds believed to have been offered the meat, which is forbidden by Islam.
ack Straw said in a letter that a “regrettable administrative error” [...]

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All UK citizens in ID database by 2017
All British citizens will have their fingerprints and photographs registered on a national ID database within 10 years under plans outlined by the Government.
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Should there be limits to free speech on campus [to begin with]?
The Oxford Union, one of the world’s oldest debating societies, described by a former British prime minister as “the last bastion of free speech in the western world” [I though we were free! Aren't we lecturing the whole world on free speech?], broke on [...]

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[Be warned, you can rop old folk and get slap on wrist, but you steal for the theives (government) you will get jailed time-ed]
A counterfeiter who produced fake £1 coins with an estimated total value of £14m, has been jailed for five years.
Marcus Glindon, 37, from Enfield, north London, made the coins over seven years [...]

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MORE than 120 men have been identified as taking part in sexual activity in a public toilet, after a covert police sting in Wirral.
Hidden cameras were installed in the men’s lavatories in Harrison Drive, New Brighton, following complaints that men were meeting for anonymous gay sex.
On Monday, three men appeared before Wirral magistrates after they [...]

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A former Iranian nuclear negotiator has been charged with giving classified information to the British embassy, it emerged today.
Hossein Mousavian will now be tried after he was detained and bailed earlier in the year over the allegations.
It is feared that the close friend to former premier Hashemi Rafsanjani - a leading rival to President Mahmoud [...]

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A 60-year-old Palestinian is to file a lawsuit with the High Court against the UK government over ‘illegal sales’ of arms to Israel.
Saleh Hassan, who lives on the West Bank, also says his land was confiscated by Israel to make way for its barrier, BBC reported.
He says Israel uses military equipment bought in Britain to [...]

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North Wales police chief Richard Brunstrom has called for all drugs, including heroin, to be legalised because current policy is based on “dogma rather than evidence”.
Brunstrom said the Misuse of Drugs Act should be repealed as the current UK drugs policy is based upon a “wholly outdated and thoroughly repugnant moralistic stance based upon rhetoric [...]

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Children who call their classmates “gay” risk being arrested for committing a hate crime even if they do not know what the word means, a leading charity warned last night.
Under new proposals issued by Justice Secretary Jack Straw, it will be illegal to use threatening words or behaviour on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Those convicted [...]

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Almost every pub and club in Wales has complied with the ban on smoking in public places brought in six months ago, say health officials.
Wales’s chief medical officer said only 25 penalty notices had been issued since the ban began on 2 April.
Dr Tony Jewell said: “A number of licensees have commented that trade has [...]

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Ringed by a clutch of Zimbabwean soldiers clicking automatic weapons, Charles Lock handed over the keys to his farm and drove off his land for the last time.
Scores of white farmers, the last survivors of President Robert Mugabe’s land grab, and thousands of their black workers are going through similar agonies.
They now face the final [...]

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His face may be covered in tar and feathers - but his body language clearly spells out the shame he feels.
And the words scrawled on a placard around his neck announce the reason for his very public humiliation.
Though undoubtedly crude, this is justice, as carried out by a group of Northern Irish vigilantes frustrated at [...]

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Stoke-on-trent city councillors launched a furious attack on the British National Party (BNP) at a meeting yesterday.The tirade came after BNP councillors demanded an apology from elected mayor Mark Meredith for refusing to include them in discussions about policy-making.
Councillor Alby Walker, leader of the BNP Group, said: “More than 8,000 people voted for the [...]

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Confectionery giant Cadbury is to plead guilty to six charges under food and hygiene regulations.
More than one million chocolate bars were recalled in the UK after salmonella was found in some products between January and March 2006.
The charges on Tuesday related to conditions at the company’s Marlbrook site near Leominster in Herefordshire.
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Ken Livingstone has blocked the appointment of nine white men because they are “unrepresentative” of London.
The Mayor used his powers to promote equality to stop them serving on the London fire authority.
He refused to confirm all but one of the Tory and Liberal Democrat nominations to the body that sets the brigade’s budget [...]

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WORKERS employed by Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s richest man, are accusing the billionaire of cashing in on “slave labour” conditions after scores have died in accidents in his mines.
Coalminers working in Mittal’s Kazakh mines claim his firm is endangering their lives by using dangerous, outdated equipment and by cutting corners. More than 90 have died [...]

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[These racist teachers are at it again-ed]
Teachers are demanding to be equipped with stab and bullet-proof vests to protect them from being attacked as they frisk pupils for knives and guns.
Laws coming into effect next week allow staff to conduct forcible searches of students suspected of carrying weapons.
But teachers are saying they should not [...]

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A cancer-stricken RAF hero who suffers from TEN debilitating ailments has been denied NHS nursing care and told to pay the £600-a-week bill himself - because he isn’t sick enough.
World War Two navigator Eric Friar, 90, can barely walk, is almost blind, has bowel cancer, dementia, shingles and non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
He has also caught [...]

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