Employment among young people not in full-time education went up by 55, 000 in those three months, while the number who were technically inactive actually fell slightly.

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For three months a nurse went undercover for Panorama secretly filming the indignities faced by people seriously ill, and sometimes dying, on an acute ward in a failing hospital.

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And that completed a remarkable transformation for a team which finished bottom of Super League 12 months ago with only three wins to their name, nearly went out of business and were still being hastily reassembled by Noble when the Super League season kicked off at the Racecourse back on 29 January.

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