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Economic storm not over, says PM

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Gordon Brown confirmed the Budget will be in two weeks Prime Minister Gordon [...]

March 10, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Hard drive evolution could hit XP

By Mark Ward technology correspondent, BBC News Windows 7 is one of few operating systems that are “4K aware” Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.By early 2011 [...]

March 9, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Illegal cord blood sample warning

By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. [...]

March 9, 2010 | Posted in health | Read More »

PM’s Iraq evidence ‘disingenuous’

Former military heads say a request for helicopters was denied Former heads of the armed forces have strongly challenged Gordon Brown’s evidence to the Iraq war inquiry.The prime minister, who was chancellor when the war began, said the military had been given everything [...]

March 6, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Same surgeon in child op deaths

The hospital was criticised over adult heart patient death rates in 2007 Four children who died during heart surgery at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital were all operated on by the same surgeon, it has emerged.BBC Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh said the consultant, Caner [...]

March 4, 2010 | Posted in health | Read More »

US urges ‘action’ on net attacks

By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco All Americans have a role to play in securing cyberspace says the DHS Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano has admitted there is an urgent need to step [...]

March 4, 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

Bulger murderer returned to jail

James Bulger was murdered in Liverpool in 1993 One of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger is back in prison after breaching the terms of his release, the Ministry of Justice has said.Jon Venables, now 27, along with his friend Robert Thompson, murdered [...]

March 3, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

NHS IT deal ’stitch up’ claims

The government is trying to fix a quick deal with suppliers for its controversial £12.7bn NHS IT programme ahead of the next General Election, the BBC has been told. The NHS IT project is years behind schedule Industry insiders and the Conservative Party allege [...]

March 2, 2010 | Posted in health | Read More »

Threat to 25,000 jobs in councils

By Paul Deal BBC News Workers could find themselves out in the cold as councils cut budgets At least 25,000 council jobs in England will be under threat in the next three to five years, a [...]

March 1, 2010 | Posted in Top Stories | Read More »

Bradshaw queries licence fee deal

Mr Bradshaw has called for a debate over the licence fee Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has queried the value of the BBC’s licence fee and said there is "good reason" for a debate over its future.Mr Bradshaw told Sky News there were questions [...]

February 28, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment | Read More »