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		<title>HIV immunity in Europeans &#8216;linked to Middle Age plagues&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nationalistrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biologists at the University of Liverpool in the UK have published new research suggesting that the reason why ten per cent of Europeans are immune to HIV infection is because of the plagues that swept the continent in ancient times. 
Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland (and UK)  set to run out of fuel warns CBI boss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nationalistrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[so much for the war in Iraq was for Oil-ed]
BUSINESSES could be forced to close down and lay off workers this winter because the country&#8217;s energy reserves are so low, the director-general of the CBI warned yesterday. 
&#8220;If we have a cold winter, we are going to throw the switch, businesses will shut down, people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer diagnosis hits Asians hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nationalistrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White patients cope better with the pressure of cancer than their British Asian counterparts, research suggests. 
The University of Leicester looked at coping strategies among 200 white and British Asian patients. 
The British Journal of Cancer study found the most common method of coping among Asian people was simply to deny they were ill. 
White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phone beheading man found guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nationalistrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man has been convicted of showing video footage of a hostage beheading in Iraq to a woman on his mobile phone. 
The District Court in Glasgow heard Subhaan Younis, 23, showed hotel worker Charlotte McClay graphic images of a man having his head sawn off. 
Younis, of Baliol Street in the city, was found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband company cuts 200 jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 200 jobs are to be lost from a broadband company in Plymouth. Telewest Broadband is to close its call centre in Plymouth by March 2005 and 204 staff are facing redundancy. The company said that it was planning to change the way it routed calls and had experienced a &#8220;significant reduction in call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scots insurance job fears as RSA moves 1,100 posts to India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNDREDS more jobs looked set to disappear from Scotland&#8217;s insurance industry yesterday as another major employer announced plans to move posts to India. 
Royal &#038; SunAlliance (RSA), Britain&#8217;s second largest insurer, announced it plans to transfer more than 1,100 jobs to India in an effort to cut costs. 
The firm, which employs 440 people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fears over exodus of junior doctors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE crisis in the health service deepened yesterday after new figures revealed that 40 per cent of doctors who train in Scotland leave to work elsewhere before they qualify. 
According to official statistics, only 62 per cent of medical students studying at Scottish universities in 2002 were still employed by NHS Scotland last year. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors fight to change working time directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of an expected Commission propsal next Wednesday, to adjust the EU working time directive, the Brussels executive has run into criticism.
A leading doctors&#8217; group has attacked the Commision&#8217;s proposal saying it could prevent &#8216;on-call&#8217; doctors from having an adequate rest between shifts.
The British Medical Association (BMA), representing doctors in the UK and one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands Warned Over Mad Cow Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of patients have received letters saying they may be at risk of developing the human form of &#8220;mad cow disease&#8221;. Health Secretary John Reid said the patients may have been exposed through blood plasma products.About 4,000 people may be at a very small risk of developing vCJD. 
The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satellites To Keep An Eye On Criminals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rexappeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first project in Europe to use satellites to track paedophiles and other offenders has been launched by Home Secretary David Blunkett. The new technology can pinpoint a criminal&#8217;s postion to within six feet.In a pilot scheme, up to 120 offenders will be fitted with satellite tags. 
The tags will be used on sex offenders, [...]]]></description>
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