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• Prison leaves 17,000 children separated from their mothers
• Ministers plan big rise in use of electronic tags on offenders
• Weekly bin rounds could return in many areas
• Physiotherapists and civil servants hold strike ballots over pensions
• Miliband's working relationship with unions? Avoid conflict
• E coli outbreak leaves 250 ill and one dead
• Council agrees to back pay for 1,100 women
• Charity album set to raise funds for Samaritans
• Eight out of 10 British workers overweight or have long-term illness
• Fake drugs worth £4m seized in global crackdown
• Mother tells of murder arrest after hospital missed infection in son, 3
• Louise Hocking: Now for the good news on adoption
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• BBC: Students' mental health 'at risk'
• Children & Young People Now: Ofsted brands one in four councils inadequate on safeguarding
• Community Care: Serious case reviews adding to paperwork overload study finds
• Independent: Number of UK medical tourists set to soar
• Inside Housing: Lib Dem peers call for increased benefit caps
• Public Finance: Clegg to confront localism detractors
• Telegraph: NHS rationing body rejects prostate cancer drug
• Third Sector: Labour would ask public service users to 'give something back'
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