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Swine flu: cases may be peaking

New cases of swine flu may be plateauing with an estimated 110000 people diagnosed with the disease last week.

Iraq inquiry sessions to be held in secret even where no national security involved

Witnesses will be able to give evidence to the inquiry into the Iraq war in secret even when matters of national security are not involved its chairman has said.

Assisted suicide: what is the law?

Debbie Purdy has won a landmark court battle campaigners fear could lead to more people ending their lives in foreign “suicide clinics”. But what does the law currently say?

Debbie Purdy wins House of Lords victory to have assisted suicide law clarified

MS sufferer wanted to know if her husband would be prosecuted were he to help her commit suicide overseas.

Gary McKinnon extradition: High Court to rule on British hacker

The High Court is to rule today on whether Gary McKinnon the British hacker should be extradited to America to face trial for breaking into US military networks.

Justice for wounded: we failed Armed Forces Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth admits

Labour did not do enough to support the Armed Forces in the first years of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan Bob Ainsworth says.

‘Labour has a lot of work to do before the general election’

Lord Mandelson admitted this week that Labour will be the underdogs in the general election campaign.

Motorists to pay £250 tax for parking at work

Government’s workplace parking levy condemned by the AA as a “tax on jobs” could generate £3bn in taxation.

Gordon Brown is ‘John Major in 1996′ according to new poll

PM’s Government now as unpopular as Major’s the year before Tories suffered landslide defeat new poll says.

Debbie Purdy ‘ecstatic’ as she wins House of Lords appeal over assisted suicide

MS sufferer wins Lords battle campaigners fear could lead to more people ending lives in “suicide clinics”.