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NHS admits fatal errors that led to baby's death, how Rachel Reeves plans to balance the books, and MP accuses RAF chief of lying to ministers about recruitment 

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1| Mum blamed herself for baby's death for 10 years. Now NHS has admitted fatal errors

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2 | There's one very good reason England can't pick a winning Englishman…

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3 | The £40bn question: How will Rachel Reeves balance the books?

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4 | RAF chief lied to ministers about recruitment, MP claims in PMQs

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5 | One Direction's Liam Payne dies aged 31 after falling from hotel balcony

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What would you like to see announced in Rachel Reeves' budget?

Massive tax simplification. The current tax code is over 20,000 pages long. There is no way it is effective. It's full of distortions and 'nudges', and other weirdness. Neither HMRC nor the treasury can know what's going on. It many ways it's more valuable to get a good accountant than invest.

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STAT OF THE DAY

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The number of injuries schoolgirl Sara Sharif's body was found with,

inflicted days before her death, a court heard.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

If I had known that his death could have been avoided, I wouldn't have spent the past 10 years blaming myself 

Mother Hayley Brunt is told that Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is responsible for the death of her child Kaiden in 2013

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