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Spare a thought for Britain’s veterans navigating the minefield that is the UK’s benefits system.
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A proposed ‘tidal barrage’ could exploit the Mersey Estuary’s strong tides and narrow mouth.
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It’s not just babies who have trouble sleeping.
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People with darker skin tones get less reliable readings from fitness trackers.
The Edwardian Bourne Estate, showing fine building work and attention to open space, as far back as 1901.
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There are benefits to society of good housing for all – health, wellbeing, savings from costs of crime and health – that are not captured in its price.
Supplies of medicines used to produce scans like these is under threat from Brexit.
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Supply chains for advanced medical practices are threatened and there is no easy solution.
Demonstrators in Scotland make their feelings toward Boris Johnson known.
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The £300m extra funding apparently bypasses the official block funding mechanism that has been in operation since devolution.
Cummings giving evidence to a committee.
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The man who led Vote Leave now has the ear of the UK’s prime minister.
Joe Biden: running for president again.
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As Joe Biden runs for US president, the strange tale of how he helped shape the UK Labour party.
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The approach to housing in the UK hasn’t worked for years. What could we learn from how it’s done in other countries?
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
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Plants clearly lack brains but does all intelligence have to look like our own?
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The independence movement is growing in Wales but it’s not clear whether it would be able to go it alone.
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Cooperation is far from easy in the furious tribalism of Westminster.
Health secretary Matt Hancock understands the importance of technology in healthcare.
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To be sustainable, the NHS needs to invest in AI and other advanced technologies.
Protein-rich foods.
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An enzyme called TOR could hold the secret to a longer, healthier life.
The Deep Space Gateway.
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By 2069, we could be seeing the start of regular journeys from the moon to Mars.
Enough of this rubbish.
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From Orwell to Trump, the wealthy have a long tradition of stereotyping working-class communities as “dirty” – that has to stop.
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This is how to design schools for autistic children.
Episode five of To the moon and beyond, a podcast series marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.
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We haven’t heard anything from alien civilisations, but perhaps they’ve heard us.
The fifth episode of the To the moon and beyond podcast series explores where we will be travelling in 2069.
Examples from Leeds of 1920s spacious semi-detatched homes built after the Addison Act to replace crowded slum housing.
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The Addison Act of 1919 introduced admirable housing standards, but in the century since the industry has put a sqeeze on space and quality.
Naughty but nice? Barbara Windsor in 2008 at the launch of a new set of stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carry On films.
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Carry On films have been compared to a Leave voter’s wet dream. But they were more thoughtful and honest than that.
Under the new curriculum, Welsh will be used in every single lesson, not just language lessons.
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Wales’s schools mostly teach in English at present but its new curriculum will make Welsh language part of every lesson in all schools.
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Those money-saving black boxes reveal a lot about the rules that govern our lives.