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Factchecking the Oscars: 21 million slaves worldwide?
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Has the legal aid budget 'grown and grown and grown'?
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Getting higher: drug use among the middle-aged
The Mail reports a growing number of over-40s are taking illegal drugs. What do the figures say? Read
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New BBC guide to Freedom of Information Requests
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Health
The number of girls at risk of FGM is hard to estimate
One estimate of the number of girls in England and Wales who are at risk of female genital mutilation is 24,000. But there are problems with this number, and a scarcity of other sources on the topic. Read
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The scale of UK sickness absence
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is the Universal Credit roll-out costing £190,000 per claimant?
The government has claimed that its flagship welfare reform policy could save the taxpayer as much as £38 billion over the next decade, but today a Labour Treasury spokesperson said that it was in fact costing £190,000 per claimant Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Regional Growth Fund cash: allocated, but unspent?
The BBC and the Minister appear to disagree on how much progress the Regional Growth Fund is making. Read
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Crime
Stop and search: the racial imbalance
Spotlight on police stop and search, with context, key facts and main sources of information. Including: the laws governing stop and search, and racial imbalance. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How crucial to Scottish public spending are reliable oil and gas receipts?
The future of North Sea oil and gas has been the unknown factor underpinning many disagreements between the Yes and No camps in the Scottish independence debate. So just how vital is it to the amount of money that would be available to a sovereign Scottish government? Read
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