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Prescott says 'Sorry' to conference

JOHN Prescott has apologised to the Labour party for having an affair with his secretary - and confirmed he will stand down as deputy prime minister within a year. Mr Prescott, delivering his traditional closing speech at the conference in Manchester, said he wanted to "say sorry". "I know in the last year I let myself down, I let you down," he said. "So conference, I apologise."

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Pensioner's naked protest

WORKERS who lost their pensions when firms went bust stripped off outside the Labour Party conference to highlight their "naked desperation".

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Cherie backs children's hospital

CHERIE Blair met children being cared for at St Mary's Hospital and backed plans to make Manchester's new Children's Hospital the biggest and best in the country.

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Speech transformed Blair's week

A WEEK, Harold Wilson once wryly observed, is a long time in politics. But that was during the white heat of the technological revolution in the 1960s. Now it's the global village, where a week has condensed to less than 24 hours.