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Over a third of private pupils now get financial help: Bursaries soar as parents struggle to afford rising fees

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Means-tested awards have gone up by around 50 million since 2010 from 255million in 2010 to 303 million, including an increase of 6. 7 per cent since last year....

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Just put it on the bill: Jack the goose enjoys a pint after becoming regular at local pub

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Jack, from Market Drayton, Shropshire, regularly waddles into the Crown Pub and has become a firm favourite with the other drinkers....

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Wimbledon: The champion's prize pot will soar to 1.6million this summer

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At this year’s competition, the All England Club will hand out a total of 22. 6million – an increase of 6. 5million – but the move has provoked an angry backlash from tennis fans....

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Osborne under fire over triple-dip threat as Tories urged to adopt Thatcher legacy with tax cut and Darling attacks austerity plan

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The Chancellor is expected to announce plans expand lending to small businesses - but his predecessor Alistair Darling says the Government's economic policies are 'simply not working'....

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Zoo keepers artificially inseminate the UK's only female giant panda after she fails to hit it off with her partner

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Keepers at Edinburgh Zoo hope they will soon be hearing the pitter patter of panda cub paws, after the UK's only female giant panda was artificially inseminated in the hope of making her pregnant....

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