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Assault on the NHS
by Daphne Liddle
THE NATIONAL Health Service is under a two-pronged attack from the Con-Dem Coalition on the one hand to force market values on it with profits taking priority over patients’ needs, and on the other hand to starve the service of staff and resources so that patients’ experience of NHS care is so awful that those who can pay will prefer to do so.
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Syrian rebels on the run
by our Arab affairs correspondent
The Syrian army has launched a new drive against the Nato-backed rebels sweeping them off the major motorway that runs from Damascus to the coast and rooting them out of their terrorist hide-outs in northern Syria and the Damascus countryside.
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[ Syrian rebels on the run ]