Sickness absence is costing manufacturing firms up to £610 million a year, with continued barriers to rehabilitating workers slowing up improvements, according to a new report.
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National school tests should be scrapped as the pressure to meet Government targets has denied children their right to a rounded education, say MPs.
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Britain "stands ready" to help China deal with the aftermath of a powerful earthquake which has killed more than 8,700 people, Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said.
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Britain "stands ready" to help China deal with the aftermath of a powerful earthquake which has killed more than 8,700 people, Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said.
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A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and a chemical plant in China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth.
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Police investigating decades of child abuse at a former Jersey children's home confirmed they have found bone fragments and five teeth in a secret underground chamber.
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A massive earthquake has toppled buildings across a wide area of central China, killing more than 8,533 people, trapping hundreds of students under the rubble of schools and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant.
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Downing Street has insisted that Gordon Brown is confident of leading Labour into the next general election after the party's chief tax rebel urged him to consider his position.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the Burmese authorities to give "unfettered access" to humanitarian agencies seeking to help survivors of the country's devastating cyclone.
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The father of a British boy treated for a rare blood disorder with stem cells from a so-called "saviour sibling" has defended the controversial test tube procedure.
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