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  • Foreign Office trials text messaging service in a crisis

    Vodafone UK customers who take their mobile phones overseas may now find their phone is more than just a handy way to stay in touch with friends and family.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 2011: An extraordinary year in international affairs

    Foreign Secretary William Hague and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle write about "an extroadinary year" in the Huffington Post UK.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • RAF airman's blog from Afghanistan is big hit

    An RAF airman's blog about his current deployment in Afghanistan has notched up 80,000 hits, and had an article written about it on the BBC news website.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy's Cougar 11 deployment returns

    Lieutenant Commander Al Nekrews, who led an eight-man team during the operation, said the controlled explosion created a 300-foot (91m) plume. He added:

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Improving medicine use and cutting wastage to be tackled

    A new group set up to tackle the £300 million being lost every year in the NHS due to medicine wastage.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Action on medicine wastage and improving medicine use

    A new group set up to tackle the £300 million lost every year in the NHS because of medicine wastage has been announced by Health Minister Lord Howe today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Response to an article in the Independent claiming the draft National Planning Policy Framework will harm the green belt

    Contrary to what Terence Blacker says (5 August), the status of the countryside is unchanged in the draft National Planning Policy Framework…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the strategy for adults with autism in England

    The first autism strategy for England marked a fundamental change in public services helping adults with autism to live independent lives and find work.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Marine James Robert Wright killed in Afghanistan

    With sadness the Ministry of Defence confirms that Marine James Robert Wright, 42 Commando Royal Marines, was killed in Helmand province on Friday 5 August 2011.

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  • New franchising programme

    Timetable for the re-letting of rail franchises released.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • This week on the Foreign Office Global Conversations blog:

    Egypt, Kenya and Climate change were amongst the topics discussed by Foreign Office bloggers.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK businesses set to benefit from streamlined international patent process

    The Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) is an existing scheme that can speed up the process of getting patents granted in participating countries…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK’s largest ever cocaine seizure leads to six arrests

    A record haul of cocaine seized by the UK Border Agency, working with SOCA and the Dutch National Crime Squad, has led to the arrest of six members of an international drugs ring.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Statistical press notice: Mental Health Community Teams Activity data, 2010-11 and 2011-12 Q1

    Quarterly Mental Health Community Teams Activity data for 2010-11 and 2011-12 Quarter 1.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Shortlisted bidders announced for national housing contract

    The National Housing Prime will start in 2013, providing repairs and maintenance to more than 49, 000 UK military homes, grounds maintenance…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Olympic rower opens new rehabilitation unit

    British rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell has opened the new Regional Rehabilitation Unit (RRU) at MOD St Athan, South Wales.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Royal Navy detains fishing vessel with illegal nets

    The owner and master of a Dutch fishing vessel, caught with nets illegally adapted to catch baby fish, have been fined £51,000 after they were caught by a Royal Navy patrol ship.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • How should government become even more open?

    Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, has launched an online consultation on opening up government.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Diagnostic tool for emerging clinical commissioning groups

    A new developmental, self-assessment tool to enable emerging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to understand and reflect upon their values, culture, behaviours and wider organisational health has now been made available.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Freedom of information

    Making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government