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+11 +3750 avoidable deaths a month in NHS hospitals, study finds
About 750 patients a month in NHS hospitals are dying unnecessarily, the largest review of “avoidable deaths” has found. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said one in 28 deaths could be attributed to poor care such as inattentive monitoring of the patient’s condition, doctors making the wrong diagnosis or patients being prescribed the wrong medicine.
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+17 +3London Illustration Fair 2015
Talented graphic designers and artists congregate to display their works. The graphic design and illustration scene in London is going from strength to strength at the moment, and part of the reason might be the British capital’s abundance of fairs where emerging talents can network and showcase their designs.
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+14 +2The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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+17 +313th July 1985 - Live Aid concert
At Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans.
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+11 +3Heroes - David Bowie
Just for one day
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+19 +6Monaco - What do you want from me
Monaco singing their most succesful song.
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+24 +3The xx - Intro
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+15 +2A Look Into the Innovative Mind of One of the World's Most Inventive Architects
A new show at the Cooper Hewitt reveals the process behind designer Thomas Heatherwick's projects.
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+20 +3Lyme Park, England
Where Mr. Darcy arose from the lake in the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
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+16 +2Queen Elizabeth and Her Corgis: A Love Story
Michael Joseph Gross reveals the private history of Her Majesty’s kennels and the essential role the pups have played in her reign. By Michael Joseph Gross.
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+14 +1Monaco - Junk
From their 1997 debut album Music for Pleasure
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+14 +8736 Takeaways From the Wimbledon Men’s Semifinals
What we've learned on our way to the men’s final on Sunday. By Brian Phillips.
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+14 +2Prince Philip does not like waiting to have his photo taken
While the Battle of Britain lasted three months, testing the resolve of millions of Londoners and the RAF, waiting for a photograph to be taken for just a few minutes was enough to test the patience of the Duke of Edinburgh.
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+14 +2Rainshadow - 9a/5.14d
Ben Moon redpointed Rainshadow (9a/5.14d) at northern England's Malham Cove on June 8, 2015, just a few days before his 49th birthday. This was the 4th ascent.
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+19 +2Murray beaten by Federer
Murray 5-7 5-7 4-6 Federer
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+12 +5Johnny Marr - Guitar Great
In 2013, the NME honoured Marr with its "Godlike Genius" award, hailing Marr as "not content with rewriting the history of music with one of the world's greatest ever bands, the Smiths, he's continued to push boundaries and evolve throughout his career, working with some of the best and most exciting artists on the planet."
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+14 +4Important Rodin sculpture recovered 24 years after $1m Beverly Hills art heist
A rare Auguste Rodin sculpture stolen nearly 25 years ago as part of a $1 million Beverly Hills art heist has been recovered after it turned up in London.
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+12 +2Settle to Carlisle railway celebrates 150 years: A line carved out of stone
On the southbound platform at Garsdale station, a lonely calling-point high in the Yorkshire Dales, stands a statue of a border collie.
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+12 +49th July 1877 - Wimbledon tennis tournament begins
The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen’s Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner was to take home a 25-guinea trophy.
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+13 +5Where is the north of England? Don't ask the government
James Wharton, the new minister for the ‘northern powerhouse’, admits the government has yet to decide where the north actually is
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