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Birthday boy Prince Harry celebrates in the sky

15.09.09

Prince Harry celebrates his 25th birthday today will spend the day flying Squirrel helicopters as part of his routine pilot training... more

Prince Harry set to inherit millions for 25th

09.09.09

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Man charged over bid to kill himself on DLR tracks

24.08.09

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Lord Mandelson has prostate operation

21.08.09

Lord Mandelson was in 'good form' after undergoing an operation on his prostate after experiencing bladder problems... more

Police sued by drug charity boss over sniffer dog search

03.08.09

Director of a national drugs charity is suing police for damages after he was targeted by a sniffer dog at a Tube station... more

Victim Chloe's parents speak of their 'fun-loving baby girl'

14.07.09

Parents of six-year-old London swine flu victim tell of their agony at the loss of their 'fun-loving baby girl'... more

Parents at dead girl's school plead for advice on virus

14.07.09

Parents in the west London district where six-year-old Chloe Buckley died from swine flu appeal for more information on the virus... more

London school child and GP die of swine flu

10.07.09

A six-year-old girl and a GP have become the latest victims of swine flu, taking the number of UK deaths linked to the virus to 17... more

Surgeon who operates through your belly button

17.04.09

A London surgeon is pioneering a "scarless" operation in which patients' organs can be removed through their belly button... more

Heart op breakthrough

03.04.09

Doctors in the capital have pioneered a life-saving treatment that uses a "toolkit" to repair leaky heart valves... more

NHS offers Ł5,100 champagne births in private wing

19.03.09

A London hospital is expanding private maternity care after its boss admitted the NHS could not provide "calm and tranquillity"... more

Grieving David Cameron to take two weeks off

26.02.09

David Cameron has begun preparing for his son Ivan's funeral... more

We know the Camerons' agony: we lost our disabled son, too

26.02.09

As the Camerons are consumed with grief for their son Ivan, a mother tells her own deeply moving story... more

Inflatable valve that can save patients too ill for heart surgery

11.02.09

Patients who are too ill to have open heart surgery are being offered a potentially life-saving alternative... more

Woman is expecting twins with one body

12.01.09

A woman pregnant with Siamese twins with two heads and one body has spoken of her decision to keep them... more

We're in and out of A&E with disabled son says Samantha Cameron

22.12.08

The wife of Conservative leader David Cameron gave a hint of the difficulties in coping with her disabled son as she opened a new children's ward... more

Doctor 'gave lover abortion poison'

03.11.08

A hospital consultant gave his girlfriend tea laced with drugs in an attempt to abort her pregnancy, it has been alleged... more

Top hospital cut out healthy gall bladder

13.10.08

An investigation is under way after a woman had her healthy gall bladder removed in a blundered operation at one of the country's leading hospitals... more

Baby boy for woman in double transplant

10.10.08

A woman who had a double organ transplant has defied the odds to become a mother, the Standard can reveal... more

Kidney stone surgery for Mandelson after 3am dash to hospital

06.10.08

Peter Mandelson was set to have an operation for kidney stones after being rushed to hospital at 3am by health minister and surgeon Lord Darzi... more

Girl, 14, nearly blinded by glass thugs at carnival

28.08.08

A 14-year-old schoolgirl says she has been scarred for life after being nearly blinded by a glass bottle at the Notting Hill Carnival... more

So if George didn't kill Jill Dando, who did?

01.08.08

From sweating man to Serbian warlord, there are plenty of theories about who really did kill Jill Dando... more

Extra-ordinary journey of Edgware Road Tube bomb survivor

07.07.08

Three years today after her husband David lost his leg in the Edgware Road Tube bombing, Angela Gardner talks for the first time about his extraordinary journey to recovery... more

Hospitals to get cash for 'happy' care

30.06.08

Hospitals are to get special cash payments for ensuring patients are happy with their treatment, the Government has announced ... more

Airshower sucks up dust as asthma sufferers sleep

24.06.08

London doctors are taking part in the world's first major trial of a "space age" cure for asthma... more

I don't dream about murdered Victoria ... I live with her every day, says social worker who became scapegoat

14.06.08

Eight years after Victoria Climbié's murder, the social worker who was made a scapegoat tells of her guilt, her grief and the little girl she can never leave behind.... more