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NHS patients to get charter of rights

Hospitals, care homes and GPs could be judged against a new set of patient rights following a radical overhaul of standards to be announced by the health watchdog.

Brian Barwick with Fabio Capello during his time at the FA

Brian Barwick: Rugby Football League gets a chairman who says the unthinkable

Brian Barwick, the new boss of the RFL, tells Dave Hadfield he wouldn't mind a Super League with no London club

Cara Delevingne’s career suffered an early knockback when she was dubbed a dwarf

Cara Delevingne was a 'dwarf' before she hit the giddy heights

She’s one of the most photographed, talked about and in demand models of the moment, and at 5ft 9in tall, she is well above average height for a UK woman, but Cara Delevingne’s career suffered an early knockback when she was dubbed a dwarf.

Ronald Payne: Acclaimed foreign correspondent

Ronald Payne: Acclaimed foreign correspondent

He became an expert on terrorism

The Authors XI, by The Authors Cricket Club

It could all have gone terribly wrong.

Slow burn: Blezard was sacked from The Lady under the editorship of Rachel Johnson

The Lady's for turning... into a revenge novel

Paul Blezard has written a book about a genteel magazine with a bold new boss. What an idea!

The Sea of Innocence

Review: The Sea of Innocence, By Kishwar Desai

Trouble in paradise for Simran Singh

Light fantastic: One of the bright, spacious apartments

Stay the Night: Baixa House, Lisbon

A dozen apartments in a converted 18th-century building offer an insight to local life in the city, says Caroline Kamp

Bob Dwyer's experience and knowledge of the game could be just what the England set-up requires

Bob Dwyer launches scathing attack on British and Irish Lions

World Cup winning coach labels the Lions as cheats ahead of their game with the NSW Waratahs

Fabricio Coloccini tells Alan Pardew he'll stay at Newcastle next season

Fabricio Coloccini has told the Newcastle manager Alan Pardew that he will stay at the club next season.

Love struck: Photographs of JFK's visit to Berlin 50 years ago reveal a nation instantly smitten

Photographer Ulrich Mack accompanied Kennedy on the entire trip. The results, published this month as Kennedy in Berlin, have mostly never been seen before and are an astonishing record of a watershed moment, says John Walsh.

On left, Ian Hammerton with his fellow Normandy veterans George Batts, Jim Radford and George Dangerfield

Normandy Voices: 'We must cherish D-Day veterans while we can. They can teach us so much'

Terri Judd watches a group of men of who stormed the beaches at Normandy relive their memories as part of a project to make sure we never forget

Bob Dylan set to blow into Europe for 33-date tour

US singer Bob Dylan will embark on a 33-date tour of Europe starting in Oslo on 10 October and ending at London's Royal Albert Hall on 28 November, a statement on his website confirmed today.

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