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Downing Street hits back at archbishop's broadside on cuts and big society
Southern Cross in rent row as 3,000 jobs are cut
Axe sheltered workshops for disabled people, says report
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David Cameron's localism bill is incoherent, say MPs
Clarke drops shorter jail terms for rapists after tussle with Cameron
Leader: prisons and the panic in Downing street
Letter: Soup runs in Westminster
Zoe Williams: the vulgarity of the Titan philanthropists
Severin Carrell: Glasgow: The city where they die young
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• Staff and unions have accused Southern Cross of endangering the wellbeing of elderly residents after announcing 3,000 job cuts, reports the Financial Times (registration). An anonymous care worker in Birmingham told the paper staff were already overstrectched: "the residents are going to suffer."
• Southern Cross was warned last year by the Care Quality Commission about poor management in half of the company's homes, reports the Daily Telegraph. The CQC reported that homes "did not always have a full complement of staff."
• Life in the countryside is better for you – but only for wealthy commuters, says the Telegraph, reporting new ONS figures. But the benefits – higher earnings, longer life expectancy – do not apply to the rural poor who live and work there.
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