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North West

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noun

  1. a province in N South Africa, created in 1994 from the NE part of Cape Province and part of Transvaal: agriculture and service industries. Capital: Mafikeng. Pop: 3 807 469 (2004 est). Area: 116 320 sq km (44 911 sq miles)

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He is expected to receive support from former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, who the BBC understands will tell a Labour north west regional conference that the NEC should not block Burnham's application.

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"I spent 90 minutes one day ringing round 21 dentists within an hour of Derry and no one could take me on under the NHS," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

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As first reported in The Times, Rayner is expected to publicly make her announcement at Labour's north west regional conference on Saturday.

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Gary Murray, North West regional manager for the charity, said "someone, somewhere knows what happened that night".

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One nurse in the north west of England said: "It breaks my heart being in work and there being a patient, usually elderly, on the corridor and coming back two days later and them still being there."

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