Booktrust, the charity set up to encourage reading, has been told it will lose all £13m of its government funding next year for its books for children programmes, Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up.
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The British Heart Foundation has criticised the decision of the television regulator Ofcom to allow product placement on television programmes.
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The Prince of Wales has been forced to cancel a visit to the Cotswold Care Hospice, in Gloucestershire – a trip he has made, as the charity's patron, for the past 20 years – because of the bad weather.
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The Swiss tennis star Roger Federer has beaten Spanish player Rafael Nadal in 'The Match for Africa' – the first of two charity matches the pair will play. Money from the games will go towards the Roger Federer Foundation and the Fundacion Rafael Nadal.
