Figures revealing children with levels of body fat far above what is considered a healthy range have outlined the scale of England's childhood obesity problem.

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Completing a trilogy begun with Love and continued in Faith, this is the gentlest and most amenable of Ulrich Seidl's dramas of female sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is spending the summer at an Austrian diet camp where "discipline" is the watchword for the tubby teen inmates.

Handout photo issued by West Midlands Police of Daniel Pelka who was battered to death by his mother and stepfather

Daniel Pelka murder: Grandmother blames UK social services over the four-year-old's death

A serious case review will investigate what opportunities to save Daniel were missed

Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek

Starved, beaten, poisoned: The tragic death of Daniel Pelka at hands of mother and partner

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The Home Secretary was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes two months ago and must now inject herself with insulin at least twice a day for the rest of her life, the Mail on Sunday revealed.

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Home Secretary insists: 'It doesn't and will not affect my ability to do my work'

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7.1million children will be in homes earning below minimum income standards by 2015

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Out of the blue: Lee Westwood on the 13th tee at Muirfield on his way to a two-stroke lead

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As he rolled it fully 60 feet into the hole for an eagle to take the outright lead, you could sense Briton felt the moment that could define his career may be close

A pill that does the exercise for you? Let's hope lazy, overweight people don't take advantage

The problem is that it won't just be used by disabled people. It will also be used by fat people who cannot be bothered to jog. And that bothers me.

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