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The BBC has ignored pleas for public sector pay restraint with a multimillion-pound offer to boost the salaries of more than 13,000 workers.

It is an irony of the Bloody Sunday inquiry that the most expensive and long judicial investigation in history was chaired by a judge chosen for his efficiency.

The former England World Cup star Pau Gascoigne was in hospital today after suffering serious injuries in a car crash.

Martin McGuinness has called for the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings to exonerate all 27 of those killed and injured from claims that they posed an armed threat to British soldiers.

Two students found dead in a Scottish hotel perished in a double suicide according to post-mortem tests, The Times has learnt.

More than 40 Victorian and Edwardian fountains are to be restored in the capital’s Royal Parks, enabling the public to drink water from them for the first time in decades.

A GP who saw Baby P eight days before his death missed a “unique opportunity” to save the toddler’s life by failing to investigate the signs of child abuse, a misconduct hearing was told today.

The Government will act “ruthlessly and without sentiment” in finding savings in the defence budget, the Defence Secretary Liam Fox warned today as he set out his priorities for a major review.

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Labour’s leadership hopefuls today came to what seemed to them to be a promised land, a place where many people still vote Labour — Scotland.

A key figure from the Thatcher era is to review Britain’s health and safety legislation.

Antidepressants of the Prozac type are no better than a placebo, a leading psychologist has claimed. According to Irving Kirsch, the evidence is overwhelming that there is no link between depression and serotonin, the brain chemical that such drugs are supposed to affect.

Two university students found dead after apparently agreeing a suicide pact may have filmed their final moments, police believe.

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David Cameron has not yet decided whether to give up his £66,451-a-year pension entitlement.

The first independent audit of the nation’s finances sounds a grim warning about Britain’s public sector pensions bill as Nick Clegg steps up efforts to prepare voters for deep cuts to public spending.

Amid the pomp of the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris next month, Alex Rowe, Newcastle-born and Gloucestershire-raised, will be invested as a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur for his service in the French Foreign Legion.

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David Cameron is preparing for his first confrontation with the European Union later this week by rejecting demands that he should submit Budget proposals for the approval of Brussels.