Singer contracted virus after being bitten by mosquito during holiday in Tanzania, according to reports Cheryl Cole is in hospital after having caught malaria during a holiday in Tanzania three weeks ago, it was reported last night. The singer was initially diagnosed with exhaustion after collapsing during a photoshoot for her forthcoming record release on Saturday. She was admitted to a Surrey hospital after her condition worsened considerably the next day.

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Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build skills as they also compete with last year’s graduates Graduates are facing the most intense scramble in a decade to get a job this summer, as a poll of employers reveals the number of applications for each vacancy has surged to nearly 70 while the number of available positions is predicted to fall by nearly 7%. The class of 2010 have been told to consider flipping burgers or stacking shelves when they leave university as leading firms in investment banking, law and IT are due to cut graduate jobs this year. Competition in the jobs market is fiercer now than for the first “post-crunch” generation of students, last year, when there were 48 applications for each vacancy.

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Serviceman from Royal Dragoon Guards died on vehicle patrol in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province A British soldier was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan today, the Ministry of Defence said.

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Police from several forces drafted in to hunt for released prisoner who allegedly shot ex-girlfriend and murdered her partner Firearms officers from several police forces in the north of England have been sent to Tyneside as the hunt for a newly released prisoner who allegedly shot his former girlfriend, murdered her boyfriend and injured a police officer enters its third day. Raoul Thomas Moat, 37, a former bouncer, is said by police to be dangerous and should not be approached under any circumstances after his 24-hour spree with a “shotgun-type” weapon.

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Plan calls for psychological assessment and GP checks as thousands of ex-soldiers are arrested every month Servicemen and women returning from active combat abroad should have access to “decompression” advice to tackle problems in readjusting to civilian life and to stem the rising numbers of veterans entering the criminal justice system, according to a group of MPs and unions.

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The alleged spy has the same name as me. So suddenly I am very popular on Facebook Since last Wednesday morning I’ve been battling to prove who I am.

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Numberplate recognition cameras routinely survey the movements of millions of motorists The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered that a national police camera network that logs more than 10m movements of motorists every day be placed under statutory regulation. Her decision means that a “Big Brother” police database that currently holds a mammoth 7.6bn records of the movement of motorists using more than 4,000 cameras across the country will have to be operated with proper accountability and safeguards. Each entry on the database includes the numberplate, location, date, time and a photograph of the front of the car, which may include images of the driver and any passengers.

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Afghan court overturns conviction of former British army officer over $25,000 payment for release of company cars A former British army officer jailed for two years for bribery in Afghanistan has been cleared on appeal after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him. Bill Shaw, a manager at G4S, the private security company that guards the British embassy in Kabul, was sentenced to two years in one of Afghanistan’s toughest prisons and fined $25,000 for bribing an Afghan official in April this year. He had argued that the money was not a bribe, but a legitimate payment.

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Award for actions representing ‘founding principles’ of the US to be presented in September Barbara Gunnell Since a Liberty medal sounds like something that might fall out of a cornflake box, I do not begrudge Tony Blair his.

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Shock demand comes as ministers step up emergency cost-cutting across public sector Cabinet ministers have been ordered by the Treasury to plan for unprecedented cuts of 40% in their departmental budgets as the coalition widens the scope of its four-year austerity drive. The eye-watering demand from the chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, was sent this weekend to cabinet colleagues ahead of a week in which ministers will step up emergency cost-cutting across the public sector. The only departments not included in the Treasury trawl will be health and international development, which have been “ringfenced” for the current parliament

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