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Bbc 5

‘This is the voice of what remains of the BBC, coming to you from a hidden bunker somewhere in the UK…’

Locust

‘Of course I understand your concern about always being on your own — you’re a locust, after all.’

Portrait of the week | 18 July 2013

Home Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, put into ‘special measures’ 11 hospitals among the 14 with the worst death rates examined in an inquiry by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. Professor Sir Brian Jarman, a contributor to the report, said: ‘If you don’t have enough trained nurses, as with doctors, you get higher death rates.’ The

Leader: Ring-fencing the NHS is only making matters worse

According to popular wisdom on the left — and even among some in the Conservative party — this ought to have been a tough week for the government. On Monday, the new £26,000 cap on benefits came into effect and with it a new principle: that no one on welfare should receive more than the average working