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Why Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies is in rude health

2010/09/05 by Eva Wiseman

A sweaty morning at Thorpe Park, and the smell of sunblock and ketchup hangs heavy in the air. In the shade of Saw, a freefall rollercoaster based on the torture-porn franchise, and beside a grey but warming lake, a crowd is gathering by the Embarrassing Bodies truck. For one day only, Dr Christian Jessen and Dr Dawn Harper will be consulting in the back of their well-lit van, a televised surgery open to anybody passing between rides…

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50 side businesses to set up from home

2010/09/04 by Graham Snowdon

Happy days are here again ? or so you might assume from a recent wave of optimistic reports about the economic outlook and rising consumer confidence. But while unemployment is down, the latest labour market figures reveal a surge in part-time jobs as employers remain anxious about long-term recovery prospects, suggesting it may not be time to hang out the bunting just yet.

With more of us working fewer hours and with a resulting earnings gap to close, there's arguably never been a better time to set up a business you can run in your spare time from home…

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Pakistan betting scandal - live!

2010/09/03 by Andy Wilson, Simon Williams and Owen Gibson

6.59pm: As we said first thing this morning: what a week. See you again on Tuesday - though the comments section below will stay open for chat through the evening…

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Bike bother

2010/09/03 by Dave Hill

The Mayor's "cycling revolution" will get another forward shove on Sunday from the annual Skyride, an enjoyable event despite the oppressive self-promotion of the corporate sponsor, the goodie bags filled with marketing litter and the microphone jockeys bellowing about what a great time we're all having just in case we're too stupid to work that out for ourselves. I'll be dragged there by my fearless eight year-old, who loved every second of last year's ride despite falling off her bright pink wheels three times. I wish I had her nerve…

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Sacked beefeater paid compensation by Tower of London

2010/09/02 by Mark Tran

The Tower of London has apologised and paid compensation to a beefeater who was sacked for alleged harassment of the first female yeoman warder in the tower's 1,000-year history.

Mark Sanders-Crook, 44, was dismissed last November after an investigation into allegations of a bullying campaign against Moira Cameron. Two other male beefeaters were investigated following Cameron's complaints…

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It's not all gloom for newspapers as evenings fall

2010/08/29 by Peter Preston

The Liverpool Echo I joined in the 1960s sold over 400,000 a day. That figure had halved by the end of the 1980s. Today, in the latest regional ABC circulation report, it's 89,140…

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Right on queue

2010/08/27 by Tim Hayward

A couple of weeks ago we went out for dinner at a well-reviewed, newish restaurant. Though we arrived at a reasonable time, we were forced to queue for just over an hour, packed shoulder to shoulder with jostling punters. I had to fight my way to the bar while busy staff forged their paths through the crush…

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Millions plan bank holiday trip, despite travel disruption and rain showers

2010/08/27 by Helen Carter

The final bank holiday weekend of the summer will see millions of Britons taking to the roads from tonight.

Despite a dreary weather forecast, huge numbers will brave traffic jams and roadworks to escape to the country or coast.

Almost 29 million Britons are expected to take a car journey of more than an hour over the long weekend, with one in five travelling for more than four hours…

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Gareth Williams's parents identify body

2010/08/26 by Sam Jones and Matthew Taylor

The grieving parents of an MI6 intelligence officer whose decomposed body was discovered in a flat in London formally identified their son's remains today, as detectives continued to search for his killer.

Gareth Williams's body was discovered in a holdall in the bath of a flat in Pimlico on Monday. Police believe he may have been dead for two weeks…

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GCSE results: Britain's star performers

2010/08/24 by Jessica Shepherd, education correspondent

• A five-year-old girl has become the youngest to pass a GCSE. Dee Alli, from Southwark in London, achieved a C grade 11 years before most of her peers will sit the exam. "I treat maths as a game so I don't think of it as an exam…

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