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The General Medical Council said it was dropping cases against four doctors who worked at Stafford Hospital at the height of the scandal of neglect and abuse there. Bail until October was given to eight people, including five policemen, arrested during investigation of an incident last year in which Andrew Mitchell, the former chief whip, was accused of calling police ‘plebs’, which he denies. Two men were charged with the computer theft of £1.3 million from Barclays Bank in Swiss Cottage, north London. A photograph was published of the Queen in a cardigan entertaining the prime minister of New Zealand at Balmoral in a room with a tartan carpet, an electric fire, a stuffed toy corgi and twin beds for the real thing. Scotland’s women footballers beat the Faroe Islands 7-2.
In a speech of more than an hour without notes, Ed Miliband told the Labour party conference that if his party won the general election, it would give the vote to 16-year-olds, freeze energy and electricity prices for 20 months, raise the minimum wage in line with inflation, cut business rates for the country’s 1.5
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