Does the non-stop flogging of scratch cards, duty-free goods, scorching coffee and rubber paninis initiate premature labour in exasperated mums-to-be?

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In 1972, with his colleague Ross Howie (left above), he carried out a trial in which synthetic cortisol was given to women in premature labour.

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It seems premature to worry about ageing workers retiring from the labour force, when over 400, 000 French men and women under 25 cannot find a way into it.

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It mirrors the Tory charge, again put pungently and vividly by Mr Hague on Friday, that Labour plans an unfair, rigged and premature referendum to 'bounce' this country into the Euro if they win on June 7.

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It will fall to his successor to decide whether the labour force's missing millions need coaxing out of their more premature retirement.

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