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Education Secretary Michael Gove

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Emma Way's tweet that was posted on Sunday
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18,300,190 people attended A&E units in England between February 2012 and January 2013

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The 37-year-old said she no longer trusted her husband and didn’t want to be a single mother

Troops in Afghanistan are searching for Mullah Fazlullah

China is the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide
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Pope Francis appears to have been captured on video performing an exorcism in St Peter’s Square
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Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions

Keir Starmer defies Home Secretary, claiming ‘blanket rule’ on arrest is wrong

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France prepares to accept English teaching for university sciences
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