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• Katie Archibald and Emily Nelson win world cycling gold in madison

  03-03-2018 23:33
  • Nelson a late replacement but British pair too good for Dutch
  • Jack Carlin wins silver in men’s sprint behind Matthew GlaetzerKatie Archibald and Emily Nelson won gold in the women’s Madison at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Archibald and Nelson dominated the race, piling up 50 points after winning eight of the 12 sprints, beating the second‑placed Netherlands, competing on home soil in Apeldoorn, by 15 points. Nelson was confirmed to ride in the event
  
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• Katarina Johnson-Thompson believes world indoors gold will banish demons

  03-03-2018 23:30
  • 25-year-old says title at Birmingham shows she has toughened up
  • ‘I’m now capable of being competitive at the highest level’Katarina Johnson-Thompson believes her first world title shows she has mentally toughened up and can put her on the path towards Olympic glory.The 25-year-old has long been the bridesmaid but never the bride in global competition. But her gold medal in the world indoors on Friday has erased many of the mental demons she suffered after falling
  
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• Eddie Jones’s recipe for England revival: embrace the pain and react | Paul Rees

  03-03-2018 23:30
  Coach wants pain of Scotland defeat to drive England to a much-improved performance against France in the Six NationsTrains may be off the Eddie Jones travel agenda for the time being but training in the traditional sense is the route to redemption for his England players after last Saturday’s defeat to Scotland.It is eight years since England lost more than one match in a Six Nations and their conquerors then are the remaining two teams they face in the tournament – France in Paris
  
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• Muir wins 1500m silver at World Indoors

  03-03-2018 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Great Britain's Laura Muir wins her second medal of the World Indoor Athletics Championships as Eilidh Doyle gets a 400m bronze.
  
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• Man charged with four murders after house fire in Fermanagh

  03-03-2018 23:13
  A man has been charged with four counts of murder over a fatal house fire in Fermanagh on Tuesday.The 27-year-old, who has not been named by police, is due to appear at Enniskillen Magistrates' Court on Monday.
  
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• Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer

  03-03-2018 23:01
  Australia’s free HPV vaccine program in schools has led to a dramatic decline in future cervical cancer rates.Australia could become the first country to eradicate cervical cancer, according to an announcement from the International Papillomavirus Society.New research, published on Sunday, reveals that Australia’s free HPV vaccine program in schools has led to a dramatic decline in future cervical cancer rates.
  
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• Troy: Fall of a City recap – series one, episode three: Siege

  03-03-2018 23:00
  Surely, most of us at home were yelling for Hector to do the right thing with Paris – to no avail – while certain scenes offered a tantalising glimpse of a stronger, more complicated show
  It was a bonding special this week. Helen, newly married to Paris – because charges of bigamy pail into insignificance when you’re facing being starved out of house and home – treated us to her best Lady Bountiful impersonation. She handed out grain to the starving, before trying t
  
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• Saracens head to Exeter with more than just revenge on their minds

  03-03-2018 23:00
  Jackson Wray says Premiership match at Sandy Park is perfect opportunity for a rebound after recent defeat to LeicesterFor Jackson Wray and his Saracens team-mates, Sunday’s trip to Exeter could be viewed as an opportunity for payback against the team that knocked them out in May’s play-off semi-finals with a last-minute try. But after last Sunday’s 28-20 defeat by Leicester at Allianz Park, the team’s focus is more in the moment.“We were not on it as we usually are
  
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• Tories’ Brexit unity fades as Heseltine slams May’s speech

  03-03-2018 22:40
  Michael Heseltine at Downing Street in 2017 as he was sacked from his advisory roles for rebelling against the government in a Brexit vote in the House of Lords.Tory hopes of uniting the party behind Theresa May’s latest vision for Brexit faded as former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine dismissed her latest speech as just more “phrases, generalisations and platitudes” which had done nothing to make a deal more likely.While most Conservative MPs and peers gave the prime m
  
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• Alice Hart's pear and parmesan tarte tatin with thyme pastry recipe

  03-03-2018 22:09
  For those who want to eat more vegetables, the British chef’s new vegetarian cookbook has plenty of tasty optionsIt’s a rare recipe than works as a starter, main or cheese course. Served as a starter or main, a rocket (arugula) side salad wouldn’t go amiss. As a dessert or cheese course, the tart will stand alone or can be accompanied by a little crème fraîche. Figs and hard goat’s cheese also work extremely well instead of the pears and parmesan. Related: Al
  
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• Trump escalates trade war rhetoric with threat to tax Europe-made cars

  03-03-2018 22:06
  EU had threatened to target US imports in response to steel tariffCountries ‘laugh at what fools our leaders have been. No more!’‘Call it chaos’: Trump adrift after week of White House anarchyDonald Trump has escalated the threat of a trade war with Europe, warning that the US will slap a tax on cars made on the continent if the European Union (EU) retaliates against tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium. Related: Trump trade tariffs: Europe threatens US bikes, bourbo
  
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• Labour MPs seek hustings for key role of general secretary

  03-03-2018 22:00
  Frontrunners for the post are both from the Corbynite left, raising fears of a purgeLabour MPs have demanded that candidates for the top post of party general secretary spell out their detailed plans for the movement at a hustings in parliament, amid rising fears that the dominant left is preparing a “revenge purge” of moderates.A letter leaked to the Observer from members of the parliamentary committee of Labour MPs, the representative body of elected members, calls for the body tha
  
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• The kingdom’s women can now drive, join the military, visit sports arenas and cinemas – with other changes planned

  03-03-2018 21:59
  The kingdom’s women can now drive, join the military, visit sports arenas and cinemas – with other changes plannedNada Qahtani and the seven women with her gathered expectantly in the atrium of the National Museum. Draped in black abayas, their faces shielded by masks that left only their eyes exposed, the group had not seen the building before and knew little about what was inside.A giant new poster of one of Saudi Arabia’s ancient sites covered most of a wall ahead. And a col
  
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• End To Widespread Freezing Conditions But More Snow Expected In The North

  03-03-2018 21:49
  An end to widespread freezing conditions is in sight as a gradual thaw takes hold of the South, while the fall-out from Storm Emma continues to disrupt parts of the UK.
  
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• Man charged over fatal fire in Fermanagh

  03-03-2018 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The 27-year-old is due to appear in Enniskillen Magistrates Court on Monday morning.
  
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• Prostate test 'breakthrough' in NHS trial

  03-03-2018 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Diagnosis times for the condition could be reduced from six weeks to a matter of days.
  
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• John McDonnell: Spring Statement 'must help ailing councils'

  03-03-2018 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The shadow chancellor wants to see far more support for local authorities in the Spring Statement.
  
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• Minister orders private contractors in aid sector to report sex abuse

  03-03-2018 21:00
  In wake of scandal, DfID widens inquiry to include firms working in disaster zonesMinisters have widened their inquiry into sex abuse by aid workers to include hundreds of private firms and contractors employed by the government in disaster zones and developing countries, amid concern that the scandal may stretch beyond the charity sector.The Department for International Development (DfID) has written to all its contracted private-sector firms, as well as UK and non-UK-based charities, insisting
  
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• After the freeze: empty shops, lost bookings, but also reunited communities

  03-03-2018 21:00
  Hill farmer Bobby Lennox feeds his sheep as temperatures begin to rise.Lennoxtown lies 12 miles north-east of Glasgow but for much of last week it might well have been on a different planet.The people of Lennoxtown suddenly found themselves isolated and dependent on each other as the “beast from the east” blasted Britain with Arctic ferocity and triggered some of the grimmest winter conditions of recent years.
  
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• The least Arsène Wenger deserves is a royal Arsenal send-off | Daniel Taylor

  03-03-2018 20:59
  It is never easy planning a long goodbye but that is what Arsenal must do now and how much might the mood shift at the Emirates if everyone knows for sure this is his last season?Take a walk around the Emirates Stadium and it is difficult to think of another football ground in the world where there are so many statues. Herbert Chapman’s is just across from what is now the Danny Fiszman Bridge. Keep on going past the Clock End and you will find Tony Adams immortalised in bronze, arms outstr
  
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• UK police charge three men over shop blast that killed five in Leicester

  03-03-2018 20:51
  British police investigating a shop blast a week ago which killed five people in the central English city of Leicester, said on Saturday they had charged three men with manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life.The five died when a blast ripped through a Polish convenience store and a home last Sunday, turning the building into rubble.Police said in a statement they had charged three men over the case: Aram Kurd, 33, from Leicester, Hawkar Hassan, 32, from Coventry and Arkan Ali, 37, f
  
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• Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah on target as Liverpool see off Newcastle

  03-03-2018 20:36
  Liverpool were not at their sparking best on a bitterly cold and slightly foggy evening on Merseyside, though partly thanks to Mohamed Salah keeping up his scoring run they were too lively for Newcastle and are now up to second in the table. Their supporters probably do not expect them to stay there for very long but the significance of this result, apart from bringing up 200 Premier League goals under Jürgen Klopp, is that should Chelsea lose to Manchester City on Sunday there will be a se
  
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• This policeman putting his head through an ice window and 6 more stories from the cold

  03-03-2018 20:32
  From the inspiring to the hilarious.
  
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• Freezing weather costs UK economy £1bn a day

  03-03-2018 20:25
  Snowfall was double the previous record of 18cm in 1996 at Glasgow airport.Gridlocked motorways, empty restaurants and idle diggers seen across Britain last week cost the economy at least £1bn a day and could halve GDP growth in the first three months of the year.The extreme weather was likely to have the biggest impact on the construction industry, which experts said could lose up to £2bn over the three worst days, as sub-zero temperatures forced building workers to down tools.
  
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• Vote: Who is Britain's most influential woman?

  03-03-2018 20:15
  Queen Elizabeth II. Jane Austen. Margaret Thatcher. Naomi Campbell. Paula Radcliffe.
  
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• Oscars 2018: British animation firm nominated for fourth time

  03-03-2018 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The producers behind the short film on why Roald Dahl is so relevant today.
  
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• House of Rainbow: the new pink line dividing the world

  03-03-2018 20:00
  Cecil John Rhodes vowed to paint a pink line – the colour of British dominion – across the world. Now a new pink line has been drawn, a human rights frontier around sexuality and gender identity that divides the globe in a new wayTo get to House of Rainbow you turn off the Apata Road from Ibadan at the Moco petrol station and you make your way down a rutted track through a cluttered market. Ibadan is Yoruba heartland, the region’s commercial hub and the home of what was once Af
  
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• Chelsea have not recovered from loss of Diego Costa and Nemanja Matic | Jonathan Wilson

  03-03-2018 20:00
  Antonio Conte’s 3-5-1-1 formation, partly a result of dissatisfaction with the replacements for Matic, has played a big part in the club’s declineIf there was a moment when, symbolically at least, last season’s title race tipped decisively the way of Chelsea, it came 12 minutes after half-time of their game at Manchester City in December. City were leading 1-0 when Kevin De Bruyne, four yards out and with the goal gaping, slammed a Jesús Navas cross against the bar. With
  
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• Leicester explosion: three men charged with manslaughter

  03-03-2018 19:49
  Trio also charged with arson after blast that destroyed shop and killed five people on SundayThree men have been charged in connection with a blast that killed five people in Leicester.Arkan Ali, 37, Hawkar Hassan, 32, and Aram Kurd, 33, have been charged with manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life over the explosion on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Civilisations takes on hurdles undreamt of by Kenneth Clark

  03-03-2018 19:41
  Cultural sensitivities, red tape and signage plagued the making of the BBC Two seriesThe makers of the epic BBC arts series Civilisations faced major hurdles during filming, they have revealed – with tourists, bureaucrats, security staff and cultural sensitivities all standing in their way.Despite the big budget and the modern technical know-how, the central images of great world art used in the series were tricky to secure – more difficult, they believe, than for the landmark 1969 p
  
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• Three men charged over explosion that killed five people in Leicester

  03-03-2018 19:40
  Three men have been charged with arson and manslaughter over an explosion that killed five people in Leicester.Aram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan and Arkan Ali are being held in custody over the weekend and will appear before Leicester Magistrates Court on Monday.The large blast happened on Hinckley Road - destroying a building that contained a supermarket and a two-storey flat.
  
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• Three charged over Leicester shop blast that left five dead

  03-03-2018 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Three members of the same family died when a shop and flat were destroyed last Sunday.
  
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• Leicestershire Explosion Sees Three Men Charged With Manslaughter And Arson

  03-03-2018 19:16
  Three men have been charged with manslaughter and arson over an explosion in Leicester, which left five people dead, Leicestershire Police confirmed on Saturday.Police said the men will remain in custody over the weekend and will appear before Leicester Magistrates on Monday.
  
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• Leicester Explosion Sees Three Men Charged With Manslaughter And Arson

  03-03-2018 19:16
  Three men have been charged with manslaughter and arson over an explosion in Leicester, which left five people dead, police confirmed on Saturday.Police said the men will remain in custody over the weekend and will appear before Leicester Magistrates on Monday.
  
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• You can stick it: protest posters in the age of Trump – in pictures

  03-03-2018 19:00
  The art of the protest poster is thriving in the new political era. A new book, Posters for Change, collects 50 of the best examples for you to pull out and pledge your allegiance to the causePosters for Change – Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters is published by Princeton Architectural Press on 20 March• Read more about how the Posters for Change project came aboutContinue reading...
  
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• Streaming: the short movies vying for Oscar glory

  03-03-2018 19:00
  From a tense two-hander to animated romps, the short films competing for a gold man tonight are among the best aroundOscar night is upon us, and while the smart money favours Martin McDonagh taking at least one golden man home tonight for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, what many forget is that it won’t be his first. Having won in 2006 for his mordant half-hour death study Six Shooter, McDonagh joins Andrea Arnold, Peter Capaldi and Jean-Claude Carrière on the motley list
  
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• Kim Deal: 'Misogyny is the backbone of the music industry'

  03-03-2018 19:00
  The Breeders’ singer and guitarist talks rehab, Pixies and caring for her mother with Alzheimer’sKim Deal, 56, sings and plays rhythm guitar with the Breeders, formed in 1989 as a side project with Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly. The band’s lineup has changed over the years, but now features the same members who made 1993’s platinum-selling album Last Splash: Kim, her twin sister Kelley (guitar), Josephine Wiggs (bass), and Jim Macpherson (drums). Between 1995 and 20
  
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• Cancer patients shed new light on rheumatoid arthritis

  03-03-2018 19:00
  Side-effects in immunotherapy for cancer patients have given scientists an ally in the battle against rheumatoid arthritisThe human immune system is one of the most effective defence mechanisms known to nature. It can ward off myriad microbial invaders: bacteria, viruses and parasites. It is sometimes overwhelmed by disease, of course, but the billions of men and women who now live on Earth are a testament – at least in part – to the effectiveness of their immune defences.However, on
  
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• White House On Lockdown As Secret Service Investigate 'Shots Fired' Reports

  03-03-2018 18:35
  The US Secret Service said on Twitter that its personnel were responding to reports a person had suffered a “self-inflicted gun shot wound”.A report of "shots fired" near North Lawn, per a U.S. Secret Service agent.
  
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• The day that feminists took ‘women’s lib’ to the streets

  03-03-2018 18:30
  The first demo by the newly formed women’s liberation movement took place nearly 50 years ago this week. Some of those who fought for equal pay and rights remember the dayIt snowed and sleeted on the day members of the women’s liberation movement took to the streets to march for equal pay and equal rights for the first time. “It was extremely cold,” Sheila Rowbotham recalls, as the 47th anniversary of the historic London march she helped to organise nears. “But ther
  
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• Forklift smashes hole in Lloyds Bank during cash machine raid

  03-03-2018 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  A cash machine was stolen from the Lloyds Bank branch in Liphook, Hampshire.
  
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• Dozens of fighters killed in Turkish airstrikes in Afrin

  03-03-2018 18:25
  Pro-regime fighters backing Kurdish militia in north-western Syria killed in latest attacks by Turkish aircraftTurkish airstrikes killed at least 36 pro-regime fighters backing Kurdish militia in Syria’s north-west Kurdish enclave of Afrin on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces alliance said the Turkish raids targeted pro-regime positions, but gave no death toll.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes on Kafr Janna were
  
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• Rick Ross fans urged to pray for rapper after he is taken to hospital

  03-03-2018 18:17
  Missy Elliott, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Snoop Dogg call for prayersHip-hop star reportedly found ‘unresponsive’ at Miami homeMissy Elliott, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Snoop Dogg are among stars urging fans to “pray” for the rapper Rick Ross, who has reportedly been hospitalised.According to reports from outlets including TMZ and People magazine, Ross, 42, was found “unresponsive” when emergency services were called to his Miami home on Thursd
  
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• Pandering to baby boomers’ mania for saving is economic madness | Phillip Inman

  03-03-2018 18:00
  With the Bank of England controlling inflation, and the Treasury enslaved to pensioner votes, policies that would share wealth with younger generations don’t stand a chanceThe greatest threat to our economy comes from its ageing population. With the baby-boomer generation making up a large proportion of society, we find ourselves in a situation where public policy is mostly geared towards shoring up the gains made by boomers over the past 40 years, and industrial disputes are driven by an
  
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• Japanese swimmers dive into spring – in pictures

  03-03-2018 18:00
  Inspired by nature and the changing of the seasons, Japanese photographer Osamu Yokonami shoots groups of anonymous people in pastoral, often dream-like, landscapes. For his latest in the series, Mizugi – “bathing suit” in Japanese – he took a swimming team on a day trip from Tokyo to the beach for a collection of photos representing spring. Yokonami chose the swimmers because he “wanted to shoot the texture of skin” and his pictures vividly capture goosebumps
  
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• Farmers: 'We just don't know where to turn'

  03-03-2018 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  How people in rural communities are managing in cold conditions that are threatening their animals.
  
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• Snowed-in farmer throws away 8,000 litres of milk

  03-03-2018 17:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Wareham says he was unable to store the fresh milk after tankers were unable to collect it.
  
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• F1 hires Fast and Furious composer to write new theme tune in revamp

  03-03-2018 17:26
  ‘What an honour to be chosen to compose theme,’ says Brian TylerLiberty Media looking to engage with younger audienceFormula One has hired the composer of several Fast and Furious movies to write a new theme tune for the motor racing organisation. Brian Tyler, an Emmy-nominated American has made music for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World as well as the Fast and Furious franchise, and also wrote theme music for ESPN’s NFL shows.Continue reading...
  
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• Couple Freed from 12ft Snowdrift Surrounding Home In Southern Scotland

  03-03-2018 17:19
  An elderly couple and their two dogs have been dug out of their house in southern Scotland after becoming trapped by 12ft (3.6m) snow drifts around the property.Two police officers and a mountain rescue team managed to dig them out of the secluded farm house near West Linton after they called for help on Friday afternoon.Sergeant Davey Rourke said: “The house is in a dip so was slowly being buried in snow drifts up to 12ft in height.
  
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• Admissions to hospital for drug-related mental health problems soar

  03-03-2018 17:05
  NHS hospitals in England treating twice as many people with drug-related disorders as they did 10 years agoSoaring numbers of children, young people and pensioners in England are being taken to hospital after suffering serious mental disorders as a result of taking drugs, NHS figures reveal.Hospitals are treating more than double the number of people for what the NHS calls “drug-related mental and behavioural disorders” than they did 10 years ago. Continue reading...
  
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