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Hospitals condemned for poor care standards

Poor hospital standards see a chairman removed in Colchester and a Basildon trust condemned for a catalogue of failings despite its hygiene being approved by officials. Rags Martel reports.

Basildon hospital report prompts reform call

Basildon Hospital

After a Care Quality Commission report detailing hygiene failings and an unusually high death rate at two Essex hospitals, the Patients Association calls for trust management to be reformed.

Hendrix guitar riff still a winner

Jimi Hendrix (Credit: Getty)

Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child is today named the greatest guitar riff of all time, more than 40 years after he first recorded the classic cosmic jam. Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports.

Schools system 'lets down poor boys'

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Thousands of Britain's most vulnerable children are being let down by the education system, particularly white and Caribbean boys from low-income communities, according to a new study.

Iraq inquiry: UN diplomat 'considered resigning'

Sir Jeremy Greenstock

Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former British ambassador to the UN and key figure in efforts to resolve the Iraq crisis, tells the Iraq inquiry he considered resigning over the push to regime change.

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