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1. 1. Health and safety cash on offer

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 December 2004 GRANTS of up to '200,000 are available to partnership-run small firms in Greater Manchester for improving health and safety.

2. 2. Smoking can damage your mental health

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 December 2004 SMOKING may lower your IQ, according to new research. A Scottish study claims that people's mental faculties were reduced after a lifetime smoking.

3. 3. Connor is picture of health

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 31 December 2004 THIS is the picture friends, family and school mates of Connor Hurst will be delighted to see after life-saving surgery.

4. 4. NHS digital TV station launched

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 16 December 2004 HEALTH Secretary John Reid has launched a multi-million pound interactive digital TV service. NHS Direct Interactive gives easy-to-understand information on a range of subjects including diet, sexual health and common illnesses.

5. 5. Manchester wards told to clean up

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 07 December 2004 STAFF on Manchester's mental health wards have been told to clean up their act after two units were named as amongst the dirtiest in Britain.

6. 6. Caring couple 'let down' by NHS

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 December 2004 PARAMEDIC Peter Wilson and his nurse wife Ruby have worked for the NHS for 63 years - but they say the health service has let them down in their hour of need.

7. 7. Duke swoops on £75m Affinity

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 December 2004 AFFINITY Healthcare, the Cheadle-based provider of mental health services, has been sold to a venture capital group for '75m.

8. 8. Blast over deadly bug

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 December 2004 THE boiler system that caused an outbreak of a potentially deadly disease at a leisure centre has been slated by Britain's leading expert in the bug. Dr Ken Ashley described it as the worst he has ever seen in half a lifetime as a health inspector.

9. 9. Region's on-off ops 'crisis'

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 06 December 2004 GREATER Manchester is on a blacklist of health authorities with the greatest increase in cancelled hospital operations.

10. 10. GPs' watchdog faces radical shake-up

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 December 2004 THE General Medical Council now faces one of the biggest reforms in its history. Chairman Dame Janet Smith has called for widespread changes to the GMC and the health service.

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