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BBC News - Are you never more than 6ft away from a rat?

BBC News - Ready meals 'healthier' than TV chefs' fare

BBC News - Lowering student numbers 'costs economy billions'

BBC News - Does chocolate make you clever?

BBC News - North Sea cod: Is it true there are only 100 left?

BBC News - How unrealistic is murder on television?

BBC News - Census: Maps show migration trends

BBC News - Malware inserted on PC production lines, says study

BBC - Newsbeat - Eddie Murphy named most 'overpaid' actor by Forbes

BBC News - Smartphone users 'risking health' with overuse of devices

BBC News - Male tea drinkers 'at greater risk of prostate cancer'

BBC News - Census 2011: Second addresses mapped

BBC News - L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter

BBC Sport - Price of Football: Survey of 166 British clubs revealed

BBC News - Do Ceredigion people have the most second homes?

BBC News - Laundry drying 'a risk to health'

BBC News - Denmark to abolish tax on high-fat foods

BBC News - Drew Linzer: The stats man who predicted Obama's win

BBC News - Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?

BBC News - China: The world's cleverest country?

BBC News - Curry's ability to fight cancer put to the test

BBC News - Massive rise in Asian eye damage

BBC News - Biodiversity loss: How accurate are the numbers?

BBC News - Phone data shows romance 'driven by women'

BBC News - Breast cancer rules rewritten in 'landmark' study

BBC News - Scientists say drinking beer will not lead to beer belly

BBC News - Do referees favour big football teams?

BBC Sport - Big clubs receive ref advantage - Man City's Patrick Vieira

BBC News - People's showering habits revealed in survey

BBC News - Defying the odds of medicine

BBC News - Top economists reveal their graphs of 2011

BBC News - Do the dead outnumber the living?

BBC News - Go Figure: When was the real baby boom?

BBC News - Go Figure: Why does every person need 200kg of steel a year?

BBC News - The reality of adapting to uncertain climate forecasts

BBC News - A Point of View: Beware of experts

BBC News - Searching for the most expensive train journey

BBC News - Skyscrapers 'linked with impending financial crashes'

BBC News - Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010

BBC News - Go Figure: Are country roads more dangerous than city roads?

BBC News - Remembrance Day: Where they fell

BBC News - Youth dropout blackspots revealed in a new report

BBC News - Go Figure: The doom and gloom calculator

BBC News - 'Thousands of children' sexually exploited by gangs

BBC News - Trees 'boost African crop yields and food security'

BBC News - Church HIV prayer cure claims 'cause three deaths'

BBC News - A Point of View: Churchill, chance and the 'black dog'

BBC News - Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study

BBC News - England rioters 'poorer, younger, less educated'

BBC News - Police 'confession' crime detection rates revealed

BBC News - School odds stacked against summer babies, says IFS

BBC News - English-style diet 'could save 4,000' in rest of UK

BBC News - London 2012: Will the Olympics bring more prostitutes?

BBC News - Manchester named as UK's biggest piracy city in study

BBC News - UK attitudes on immigration and welfare 'toughening'

BBC News - London, France's sixth biggest city

BBC - Podcasts - More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC News - What are the chances of meeting your boss on holiday?

BBC News - The Streisand Effect: When censorship backfires

BBC News - Inseparable twin friars die hours apart, age 92

BBC News - A Point of View: Does more information mean we know less?

BBC News - Oxford University: PM incorrect on black student intake

BBC News - A fair chance of a place at Oxford?

BBC - Newsbeat - Men 'worried' about heavy internet porn use

BBC News - 9/11 conspiracy theories: How they've evolved

BBC News - Supercomputer predicts revolution

BBC News - Finding truth and beauty in data

BBC News - Facebook connections map the world

BBC News - Research suggests diet drinks can trigger weight gain

BBC News - Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles

BBC News - Newsnight - The faith healers who claim they can cure cancer

BBC News - Newsnight - BBC cameraman attacked by faith healer's husband

BBC News - Analysis: The riots data so far

BBC News - NHS death rates better - but some trusts still too high

BBC News - Index finger length prostate cancer clue

BBC News - Global warming since 1995 'now significant'

BBC News - Why are athletes wearing coloured tape?

BBC News - Breast cancer surgery women 'risk more operations'

BBC News - Census 2011: Five lesser-spotted things in the data

BBC News - Do those who retire early live longer?

BBC News - English language 'originated in Turkey'

BBC News - BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored

BBC News - Infection risk posed by cats revealed

BBC News - Caring for family 'top moral issue for young'

BBC News - Is zero an even number?

BBC News - Sleep: Weird things people do in their sleep

BBC News - Underemployment affects 10.5% of UK workforce

BBC News - Floods in UK: Is this November unusually wet?

BBC News - Myth-busting the Christmas adverts

BBC News - Fergie time: Does it really exist?

BBC News - Do men and women experience flu differently?

BBC News - Royal baby: What are the odds of twins?

BBC News - How tall can a Lego tower get?

BBC News - The truth behind UK migration figures

BBC News - Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century'

BBC News - Childhood asthma 'admissions down' after smoking ban

BBC News - UK suicide rate rises 'significantly' in 2011

BBC News - Cats killing billions of animals in the US

BBC News - Cancer fight 'hampered in UK by stiff upper lip'

BBC News - BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?

BBC - Newsbeat - Warning about harming career prospects on social media

BBC News - Horsemeat scandal: Tesco blames supplier over horsemeat in value burgers

BBC News - Horsemeat scandal: Horsemeat in burgers came from Poland, says FSA

BBC News - Wards dangerously understaffed, say nurses in survey

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BBC News - Sir Alex Ferguson's Man United: Wins and losses

BBC News - North-south divide among silver surfers, says Age UK

BBC News - Mapping children's chances

BBC News - Why do so many Americans live in mobile homes?

BBC News - UK Peace Index highlights rate of fall in violent crime

BBC News - Why do so many Americans live in mobile homes?

BBC News - US rice imports 'contain harmful levels of lead'

BBC News - The man who was close to both the Boston and Texas explosions

BBC News - Broccoli slows arthritis, researchers think

BBC News - Sir Bruce Keogh: 'Leeds submitted bad data'

BBC News - Amanda Knox and bad maths in court

BBC News - Stafford Hospital: Five more hospitals to be investigated

BBC News - Mislabelled fish slip into Europe's menus

BBC News - Does chocolate give you spots?

BBC News - London tops university crime risk rankings

BBC News - Black teens more likely than whites to apply to university

BBC News - Heroin and crack use falling says National Treatment Agency

BBC News - Testicle size 'link to father role'

BBC News - British Social Attitudes Report finds softening attitudes to benefits

BBC News - Almost a quarter of men admit to rape in parts of Asia

BBC News - Testicle size 'link to father role'

BBC News - A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs

BBC News - Womb cancer link to diet, exercise and possibly coffee

BBC News - Violence against women worldwide is 'epidemic'

BBC News - What KPMG ignored when arguing for HS2

BBC News - A&E cash linked to staff flu jabs

BBC News - Five years after Lehman, all tickety-boo?

BBC News - GSK: In or out of China?

BBC News - Is Great Britain really a 'small island'?

BBC News - Italy's Casanovas hit where it hurts

BBC News - Health kick 'reverses cell ageing'

BBC News - Is it too early to put the central heating on?

BBC News - Daniel Pelka murder: Mother and partner given life

BBC News - Daniel Pelka: Serious case review finds 'missed opportunities'

BBC News - The 300-year-old fertility statistics still in use today

BBC News - Germany in figures

BBC News - London 2012 athletes 'had bad teeth'

BBC - Newsbeat - Quarter of young British people 'do not trust Muslims'

BBC News - Why does the human brain create false memories?

BBC News - IPCC climate report: humans 'dominant cause' of warming

BBC News - UN climate report: Key findings

BBC News - Mystery AD1257 eruption traced to Lombok, Indonesia

BBC News - Sophia Parslow's parents bid for window blind cords ban

BBC News - Mid-life stress 'precedes dementia'

BBC News - Why does the human brain create false memories?

BBC News - War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn

BBC News - Breast cancer 'research gap' warning

BBC News - How British is Britain?

BBC News - Exercise 'can be as good as pills'

BBC News - Mystery AD1257 eruption traced to Lombok, Indonesia

BBC News - How many redheads are there in the world?

BBC News - Mid-life stress 'precedes dementia'

BBC News - Breast cancer 'research gap' warning

BBC News - How many redheads are there in the world?

BBC News - Poverty 'linked to breast cancer deaths'

BBC News - Aircraft noise 'link' to stroke and heart disease deaths

BBC News - Do you really need to drink eight cups of water a day?

BBC News - HS2 'losers' revealed after report omitted figures

BBC News - Saturated fat heart disease 'myth'

BBC News - Do you know your 'good' fat from your 'bad' fat?

BBC News - The Waitrose snobbery/property price index

BBC News - What has Movember done for men's health?

BBC News - Big storms compared: 1987 and 2013

BBC News - Recent immigrants to UK 'make net contribution'

BBC News - Prostate cancer aggression test 'may avoid needless ops'

BBC News - The growth of global immunisation

BBC News - Calorie burner: How much better is standing up than sitting?

BBC News - Jobless youth are 'public health time bomb', says WHO

BBC News - Five storms that shaped history

BBC News - Housework 'not strenuous enough' for exercise targets

BBC News - The new middle class revolution: Facts and figures

BBC News - Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?

BBC News - Double treble: What's the chance of having three sets of twins?

BBC News - America's military suicide rate explained