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Sonic youth: The high-pitched sound alarm for under 25s
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Is Mosquito, the high-pitched alarm only under-25s can hear, a blessing or a bane? Jamie Merrill sounds it out
Engineering giant Smiths Group in talks over medical sale
Friday 31 May 2013
Engineering giant Smiths Group is in talks over a reported £2 billion sale of its medical division that was involved in the first successful IVF treatment.
Oldham Athletic 1 Yeovil Town 0 match report: Johnson Junior victorious over senior to give Latics hope
Wednesday 17 April 2013
The match that pitted the generations against each other went the way of youth and optimism rather than old age and cunning.
Once-in-a-generation game: More than family honour at stake for Gary and Lee Johnson who will be in opposing dug-outs tonight
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Clash between father and son managers could decide the fate of Yeovil and Oldham
Sun fined £3,000 for Oldham gas explosion reporting breach
Friday 05 April 2013
A national newspaper has been fined more than £3,000 for breaching reporting restrictions when it published a story about a man accused of causing a huge explosion which killed a two-year-old boy.
Not so Universal Credit: Government puts the brakes on trials of its controversial new benefits programme
Thursday 28 March 2013
Ministers tonight significantly scaled back plans to begin piloting their controversial universal credit programme next month amid fears that the scheme is behind schedule and facing major problems.
Sun publishers to face court over 'prejudice' in toddler's arson death case
Friday 15 March 2013
The publisher of The Sun newspaper will appear in court next month for allegedly reporting material likely to prejudice the trial of a man who blew up his house killing a two year-old boy who lived next door.
CCTV footage released of man wielding knife at drivers in petrol station
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of a knife-wielding man who threatened a number of people on a petrol forecourt.
Phil Jagielka to have ankle surgery
Saturday 02 March 2013
Everton defender Phil Jagielka is to have surgery on a badly gashed ankle, manager David Moyes has confirmed.
Everton are 'starting to flow again' says assistant manager Steve Round
Wednesday 27 February 2013
The Toffees beat Oldham in the FA Cup last night
Match Report: Everton heed David Moyes warning to end Oldham's FA Cup adventure
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Everton 3 Oldham Athletic 1
FA Cup: Everton v Oldham Athletic match preview
Tuesday 26 February 2013
A look ahead to tonight’s FA Cup fixture at Goodison Park
Oldham wingers relishing FA Cup replay against Everton
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Lee Croft and Jordan Obita looking forward to testing themselves at Goodison Park
Matt Smith: The brains behind Oldham's FA Cup cup shocks
Monday 25 February 2013
Matt Smith, the League One striker whose goals stopped Liverpool and Everton, tells Tim Rich about life as a football rarity: a player with a degree
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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