Unless this trend is curbed, he says, the UK will miss its targets on curbing climate change and sulphur pollution.

BBC: Cheap coal 'threatens UK pollution targets'

As a result, severely wounded soldiers returning to the UK could miss out on essential care, she said.

BBC: Peers embark on further NHS bill scrutiny

Miss Greening said the UK was not changing its policy as she did not believe tied aid - criticised by the World Bank for distorting competition, pushing up costs and reducing quality - "was the way to secure good, sustainable development".

BBC: Farmers work in a field in Jalalabad, in Afghanistan

Miss Brown, 17, the UK's first youth PCC, resigned on 9 April after a furore over offensive messages she had posted on Twitter between the ages of 14 and 16.

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As a surrogate in the UK, it is illegal for Miss Broomhall to receive payment, although some couples have offered her large sums of money to carry their child.

BBC: Swindon woman's sixth surrogate pregnancy to be her last

The film, directed by Mike Newell, is currently being shot in the UK and stars Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch.

BBC: Great Expectations: New end penned for Dickens classic

Having had to miss the last two indoor meets, Sotherton said at the UK Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham she was hopeful of making Turin, but asked the NIA crowd to "cross their fingers she would be fit".

BBC: Tomlinson added to GB injury list

Miss Eweida said her appeals were turned down by BA and she lost in six UK courts.

BBC: British Airways cross case winner Nadia Eweida 'jubilant'

But the provision of certain types of cancer investigations and treatments across the UK is variable and some groups of society, like the very old, can miss out.

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