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2 February 2011 Last updated at 23:15 ET

Aid money 'spent on Pope visit'

A Commons committee asks ministers to explain why £1.85m of foreign aid money was spent on the Pope's UK visit in September.

Patients 'too fat for ambulances'

Some patients are getting so fat that ambulance bosses are having to revamp their fleets to cope, the BBC has learned.

Campaign fights 'major bus cuts'

A campaign is launched to save subsidised bus routes after it was found more than two-thirds of councils planned to cut services.
UK scientists 'develop vCJD test'

A blood test to detect vCJD has been developed by British scientists who say it could identify healthy people who are carriers of the disease.
Anti-Semitism stays high in 2010

A Jewish security charity says it recorded 639 anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in 2010, the second highest annual total on record.
Genes 'play key classroom role'
Dewani 'died after staged hijack'
Scotland activates snow response
Straw denies regime change plan
Britons opt for Egypt departure
Scots urged to eat food in season
Call to teach knife crime dangers
Forestry Commission cuts 450 jobs
BBC's Oliver replacing Coulson
Moat messages before 'execution'

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