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• Cleaning up Britain: in the frontline of the fight against rubbish

  30-05-2015 23:12
  
  The UK is one of Europe’s most littered nations and councils spend almost £1bn a year to tackle the problem. Now campaigners are calling for national actionVilliers Street in the West End would be London’s foulest road if not for Hasan Akin. He and a team of seven cleaners collect up to 70 large sacks of cigarette butts, crisp packets, chewing gum and fast-food litter every day.The 500-metre street, which runs between the Embankment and Charing Cross station, has 11 fast-food joints, three
  
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• Health workers say ‘non’ as 35-hour week takes blame for France’s problems

  30-05-2015 17:00
  
  Productivity is better than in Germany or Britain, and flexible arrangements are common, but still the working week is seen as the cause of France’s problemsNurse Cécile Ngoue cannot stop and talk, she insists, or she will be late for her shift after attending a demonstration against reforms to working hours in French hospitals.French health service workers like 52-year-old Ngoue have taken to the streets in recent days to protest against changes to the 35-hour working week, viewed outs
  
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• Sepp Blatter vows to steady Fifa ship and criticises US over arrests

  30-05-2015 12:57
  
  President who won his fifth term on Friday says he cannot rebuild Fifa’s reputation alone, and that corruption raids were timed badly Sepp Blatter defiantly reiterated his vow to “steady the ship” of Fifa as he batted off questions in the wake of the corruption crisis engulfing world football’s governing body. The organisation’s president, who had faced pressure to quit after nine officials and five sports media and promotions executives were charged over alleged bribes, said 132 natio
  
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• Sepp Blatter attacks critics as he vows to pull Fifa through corruption crisis

  30-05-2015 12:57
  
  Newly re-elected president also downplays US corruption investigation as he insists he is the right man to reform world football’s governing bodySepp Blatter defiantly reiterated his vow to “steady the ship” of Fifa as he batted off questions in the wake of the corruption crisis engulfing world football’s governing body. The organisation’s president, who had faced pressure to quit after nine officials and five sports media and promotions executives were charged over alleged bribes, sai
  
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• Government 'shocked' by report of Dignitas link to struck-off doctor

  30-05-2015 11:52
  
  Daily Mail reports that unregistered psychiatrist is assessing patients who want to go to Swiss assisted dying clinicThe Department of Health has described claims an unregistered doctor is giving medical assessments to patients who want to go to Dignitas as shocking.The Daily Mail reported that the Swiss assisted dying clinic was referring patients who wanted to end their lives to a British psychiatrist who was struck off nine years ago for serious professional misconduct.Continue reading...
  
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• Dear Jeremy – your work issues solved

  30-05-2015 07:59
  
  Our careers expert and readers advise one worker who feels their ideas are being ripped off, and another who is eyeing a new job despite a recent promotionDespite having a master’s degree from a top art school, industry experience and a portfolio of published (but mostly unpaid) work, my career is going nowhere. I am now in my late 20s and working on a zero-hours contract covering administration roles in a media organisation where I have been pitching ideas and expressing an interest in workin
  
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