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Childcare costs more than public school

The spiralling cost of childcare in Britain is exposed today by figures which show it can now cost more to send a toddler to nursery than to one of the country's most prestigious private schools.

A Palestinian leads a calf through a smuggler's tunnel from Egypt into the southern Gaza Strip at the Rafah Refugee Camp

Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground

Robert Fisk meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege.

Man vs marine in the Chagos Islands

Conservationists want to turn archipelago into a giant sea-life reserve. But what about the exiled population, asks Michael McCarthy

Restaurant loses its Michelin star for third time

Chef walks out as owner plans to turn award-winning eatery into a pub

Gordon Brown at Royal Geographical Society yesterday, where he met staff back from stints in Afghanistan and Haiti

Brown wins big Commons victory for vote reform

Labour unites as Tories fail to block referendum on AV system.

EU President's secret bid for economic power

Leaked documents reveal he is using the fininancial crisis to his advantage, writes Sean O'Grady.

Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist

Sir John Houghton explains to Steve Connor how global warming sceptics have misrepresented his views.

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Genetic disorder turns risk-averse into gamblers

The brains of people who risk everything when gambling may be wired up differently to those of the naturally cautious, according to a study that appears to have discovered a neurological basis for reckless behaviour.

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Health awareness has risen but actual intake has hardly changed

Decade of spending on health messages 'has had little effect'

People are eating as badly as they were 10 years ago despite hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money being spent on healthy-eating campaigns, the Government's food watchdog admitted yesterday.


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