To celebrate 50 years since 007 first hit our screens, 50 of the films’ most memorable cars, boats and submarines are going on display.

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VIDEO: 50 years of Bond – in 50 vehicles

To celebrate 50 years since 007 first hit our screens, 50 of the films’ most memorable cars, boats and submarines are going on display.

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VIDEO: 50 years of Bond – in 50 vehicles

It is 50 years since the publication of the groundbreaking book Sex and the Single Girl, written by Helen Gurley Brown, without which Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw would not exist.

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Sex and the Single Girl turns 50

Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.

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Cancer survival progress charted

Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.

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Cancer survival progress charted

It’s 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, but the procedure has an international history.

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The strange and curious history of lobotomy

75 years since first broadcast

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In pictures: BBC’s 75th anniversary broadcast

The indictment is the first ever of a Catholic bishop in the 25 years since the scandal over sexual abuse by priests first became public in the United States.

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Kansas City Bishop Charged With Failure to Report Abuse

UK student Meredith Kercher has been “completely forgotten” in the four years since she was murdered during a year abroad in Italy, her sister says.

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Meredith forgotten, sister fears

It was supposed to be the brand that would catapult Marriott International into “lifestyle” hotels — the edgy, modern take on luxury — but Edition, some say, has fallen short of expectations. The brand, now at the center of a lawsuit, has struggled to gain traction, with only two hotels donning the flag in the four years since it was announced. Without a collection of properties under the banner and allegations of mismanagement flying about, some industry experts wonder whether Edition has staying power. Read full article > >

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Marriott struggles with Edition ‘lifestyle’ hotel brand

30 years since women set up a peace camp

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I am my mother’s daughter. I have grown up to her height, with her broad shoulders and long limbs. My hands are her hands, down to the lines around my knuckles. I, too, grin wide and laugh loud. I share her tendency to be late. Last month marked 13 years since she died. In a few years, I will have lived more of my life without her than with her. There is a term for women like me: motherless daughters. It feels like an ill-fitting sweater, at times binding me into a person I rarely reflect consciously on being — my mother’s daughter. Read full article > >

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Remembering Mom this Mother’s Day

Fifty years since Yuri Gagarin blasted into orbit

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First in space

Wales is well prepared should foot and mouth strike again, says the nation’s top vet, 10 years since the disease badly affected rural areas.

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Foot and mouth ‘lessons learned’

A rally is taking place to try to save a coastguard station in Pembrokeshire, exactly 15 years since since the Sea Empress oil tanker disaster happened nearby.

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Rally fights coastguard closure