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'Garden tax' to hammer homeowners in London

16.09.11
Wealthy Londoners with big gardens would be clobbered by a land tax being proposed by senior members of the Coalition... more

Britain's political landscape shifts in day of high election drama

06.05.11
Nick Clegg suffers a hammering and Scotland sends a clear mandate to nationalists who want to break up the United Kingdom ... more

MP's Twitter rants to opposition for keeping them up past 4am

04.05.11
Coalition MPs use Twitter to vent frustrations at Labour MPs who kept them in the Commons until the small hours... more

Deaths at baby unit lead to new fears over NHS reforms

27.04.11
A leading maternity unit was today attacked for failing patients in a damning report that raises new fears about reforms of the NHS... more

Nick Clegg backs 'I'll quit' aide over need to make reforms work

11.04.11
Nick Clegg backed a key aide who threatened to resign over concerns about the Government's NHS shake-up ... more

Why it won’t be the newspapers wot won the election

05.05.10
Media Analysis: History shows there are limits to the press’s influence in elections — even before Lib-Dems’ shock rise in 2010 ... more

David Cameron ‘lying’ over Labour’s funding for elderly care plan

12.02.10
David Cameron accused of a 'lie' over Tory claims that Labour is planning a £20,000 'death tax' to fund care for the elderly... more

GlaxoSmithKline keeps eye on image with cheap Third World drugs

21.01.10
Analysis: Convenient timing? Just before posting eye-wateringly high profit, GlaxoSmithKline announces plans to slash the cost of medicine to the world's poorest people... more

Cocaine overdose deaths increase to record levels

26.08.09
Number of cocaine users dying after overdosing on the drug reaches record levels... more

‘Not enough distribution points to give out Tamiflu’

24.07.09
Thousands of swine flu patients will be left without medication as there are not enough Tamiflu distribution centres in the capital... more

Glaxo charges £6 for £1 swine flu vaccine

22.07.09
Drug company producing most of Britain’s swine flu vaccine accused of profiteering from the pandemic as it hikes prices with 600% mark-up... more

Mums-to-be told not to worry about swine flu until autumn

21.07.09
Pregnant women are confused by mixed messages over what precautions they should take to avoid catching swine flu, it was claimed... 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

It's not the doctor's fault that recession breeds depression

24.06.09
The powers that be, or in this case the powers that want to be - the Lib Dems - have reported that we doctors are prescribing too many antidepressants... more

Campaign to oust Speaker gains cross-party support

18.05.09
15 MPs back historic motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker Michael Martin... more

Opposition MPs line up to denounce wounded Speaker

14.05.09
Top Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers today joined unprecedented moves to oust Michael Martin... more

NHS spends millions paying suspended GPs

12.05.09
London NHS trusts are paying out millions of pounds each year on doctors suspended for alleged misconduct... more

Get as fit as the athletes, walk up escalators escalator

24.03.09
A campaign to get Londoners fit before the 2012 Olympics has been launched... more

Deaths from hospital error increase 60 per cent

06.01.09
The number of patients killed by hospital blunders has risen by 60 per cent in two years, according to new figures.... more

One in three children is too fat by the age of 11

11.12.08
Nearly a third of children are officially overweight or obese by the time they reach secondary school, figures reveal... more

NHS blunders expose private details of 40,000 people

27.11.08
The full details of how NHS staff have lost confidential data on thousands of Londoners can now be revealed... more

'Fit notes' launched to get the sick working

25.11.08
The Government has declared war on the "sick note" culture with a £45million campaign to get people off benefits and back to work... more

Norwich and Derby in match-fix allegations

16.10.08
The Football Association are investigating allegations of match-fixing in a Championship game between Norwich City and Derby County... more

GPs set for pay rise to work evenings

18.09.08
Doctors earning more than £110,000 a year could see their salaries rise further if they return to working out of hours... more

London NHS care is postcode lottery

08.09.08
Patients in London face a postcode lottery on how much health bosses spend on urgent care, a report reveals... more

Ambulance crews suffer record levels of assaults

09.04.08
London ambulance crews are facing record levels of abuse and attacks, new figures reveal... more

Superbugs kill nine a week

10.03.08
More than nine patients a week are dying from hospital superbugs in London, the Standard can reveal... more

Attacks by dangerous dogs rise sharply to 4,000

27.02.08
Hospitals are treating record numbers of people, including children, attacked by savage dogs, new figures reveal... more

83% rise in teen binge drinkers admitted to hospital

13.02.08
The number of London schoolchildren needing medical treatment after binge drinking is soaring, figures show... more


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