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Rocket carrying Galileo navigation satellites gets lost

Launch celebrations for Europe’s Galileo satellites, built to compete with the US GPS system, have been cut short after the rocket carrying them started to head off course while flying over the M1, just north of Leicester’s Forest East services.

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Posted: Oct 24th, 2011
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Challenging day for Dr Christian as his mum appears on Embarrassing Bodies

Diagnosis: Run Away!!!‘He just clammed up and looked very strange as soon as I started explaining about my thick smelly discharge.’

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Posted: Sep 28th, 2011
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NHS reforms pose ‘serious threat to medical dramas’

GPs have again called for NHS reforms to be abandoned as it emerged that they would assume responsibility for writing all TV medical dramas.

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Posted: Apr 8th, 2011
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New help-line ‘NHS Very Direct’ gives it to patients straight

‘Standard advice will include ‘stop making such a fuss’, ‘don’t waste your GP’s time’ and ‘Oooh…that sounds nasty’.’

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Posted: Feb 12th, 2011
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Cameron to discuss NHS reforms with GPs ‘as soon as he can get an appointment’

‘I tried calling as soon as their surgeries opened at 9 o’clock, but was told I was 14th in the queue.’

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Posted: Jan 18th, 2011
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