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BBC Question Time: Recap and Factcheck
Question Time was set in the Staffordshire town of Cannock this week and discussed Brexit, gambling and homelessness. Read
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Reporting on childhood diabetes prevalence should come with a health warning
Recent media reports have said type 2 diabetes among children is ten times higher than previously thought. But that doesn't mean it's gone up by ten times. We explain why... Read
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Research update #2: Countering misinformation, and demographic differences in news consumption
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Europe
The Brexit timeline
We sum up the key issues and events you might want to know about, and how they all fit together. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Real wages aren’t growing at their fastest rate in a decade
Real-terms total pay in Great Britain grew by 0.8% in the year to September 2018. Read
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Crime
Are a majority of youth knife offenders minority ethnic?
Across England and Wales in 2017, 38% of knife possession convictions among under 25s were convictions of non-white youths. Read
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Europe
Brexit withdrawal deal and future trade deal—what’s the difference?
The Brexit withdrawal agreement outlines how we’ll leave the EU. The future trade agreement will outline how we trade with the EU after that. Read
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Health
EU staff in the NHS: what has happened since the referendum?
EU nationals make up a similar percentage of the NHS workforce in England now as they did in 2016. Read
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Health
Do diabetes prescriptions cost £1 billion a year?
The net ingredient cost in 2017/18 of prescription items for diabetes in England was around £1 billion. But that doesn’t factor in things like discounts the NHS might receive or extra costs. Read
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