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Plans to ban age as a factor in premiums will hit millions of people, warn insurers. By Julian Knight

Families on more modest incomes, particularly if they have children, will do best from the pre-Budget report – at least in terms of direct taxation changes – along with pensioners who will benefit from bigger-than-expected increases in benefits.

The Government pledged to put quality at the heart of patient care today as health minister Lord Darzi set out his vision for the NHS.

He may be 43, but Bernard Hopkins roars defiance after ageist taunts from the Calzaghe camp

More than £180m in compensation has been paid to patients wrongly charged for long-term nursing care in a bureaucratic blunder by the NHS.