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The Prime Minister claimed last week that £21 billion is lost to alcohol abuse each year - a figure derived from a Cabinet Office report from 2003 and updated in … Read
Today's Mail and Sun reported that a staggering one in five British people are functionally illiterate, based on findings from the charity the World Literacy Foundation. Do they need to read between the lines? Read
ITV News commissioned Full Fact to audit their analysis of the Operation Motorman records, which was broadcast today. Our brief was to ensure that they had reached accurate but conservative … Read
Assisted suicide was on the agenda in Parliament yesterday as MPs debated a motion welcoming the Director of Public Prosecutions' Policy on Assisted Suicide, published in February 2010. MPs used … Read
Macmillan Cancer Support believe discrimination against elderly patients has led to Britain having one of the worst cancer survival rates in the Western world. But is Britain as bad at dealing with cancer as their report claims? Read
Until 2 o'clock today visitors to the Liberal Democrats' website were greeted by a 'splash' page which claimed that the annual cap on tax reliefs introduced last week will raise five times as much from the super-rich. Why did they remove the claim, and how close was it to the truth? Read
The Sunday Telegraph this weekend reported that changes to family route visa applications could hit 48,900 people, the "majority" of whom are women from the Indian sub-continent. Is this true? Read
This morning Health Minister Paul Burstow told the Today programme that dementia costs us £23bn. Later on his boss David Cameron contradicted this, saying it only costs £19bn. Who was right? Read
Europe
The Daily Express returns to a familiar theme on its front page this morning, accusing "Brussels commissars" of trying to pave the way for ban on plastic bag use. Regular … Read
The Government published their Alcohol Strategy today, emphasising the drain of alcohol abuse on society. Central to the argument was the overall cost of alcohol-related harm - a staggering £21 billion a year to the UK. Is this right? Read
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