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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from June 14, 2005
Action Urged over Chairman as Morrisons Warns on Margins
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Wm Morrison shareholders, stunned yesterday by the group's third profits warning in two months, are being urged to block the re- election of Sir Ken Morrison, the executive chairman, amid fears the supermarket chain's recent boardroom bloodbath has failed...
Allied Domecq Receives Offer from Consortium
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The bidding war for Allied Domecq, the Beefeater gin and Tia Maria drinks company, intensified yesterday when the company said it had received an indicative offer from a consortium led by the US group Constellation Brands. At this stage the offer is...
Athletics: Lewis-Francis Loses Medal for Positive Test
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Mark Lewis-Francis has been stripped of his European indoor 60m silver medal and given a public warning by UK Athletics after testing positive for cannabis. The 22-year-old Olympic relay gold medallist showed traces of the banned substance in a sample...
BA's Pounds 1.4bn Pension Deficit Punctures Dividend Hopes
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British Airways warned yesterday that it was unlikely to be able to pay a dividend for at least the next year because of the increase in its pension fund deficit. Despite reporting a near-doubling in pre-tax profits last year to pounds 415m " its best...
BATTLE FOR THE BOOKS OF HERCULANEUM: Legacy of Ancient Rome ; Buried Deep in the Villa Dei Papiri, Covered by the Molten Lava of Vesuvius, Lies One of the Finest Libraries of the Ancient World. but Excavation May Destroy More Than It Saves
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They look like lumps of coal, and when the Swiss military engineer and his team who first explored the buried town of Herculaneum in the 18th century encountered them, that was how they were treated: as ancient rubbish, to be dumped in the sea. But before...
Benedict XVI Paves Way for John Paul to Be Made a Saint
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Pope Benedict XVI has announced that his predecessor, John Paul II, who died on 2 April, could become a saint in unusually quick time. At the basilica of St John Lateran yesterday he told a gathering of priests based in Rome that the rule of waiting...
Blair's Friendly Peers Make Labour Biggest Party in Lords for First Time Ever ; Campaing for Democracy
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Tony Blair is under rising pressure to push ahead with reform of the House of Lords after creating enough new peers to make Labour the largest party in the upper house for the first time. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats attacked Mr Blair's decision...
Bombardier Boosted by Pounds 180m Investment
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Up to pounds 180m will be invested in an aerospace firm to help create more than 3,000 jobs, the Government said yesterday. The money will help the Bombardier Aerospace plant in Belfast, the site of the former Shorts factory, to be chosen as a supplier...
Boxing: Echoes of Stracey as Khan Faces Fists of Steel
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There is an afternoon in British boxing history that the teenager Amir Khan will try to duplicate this evening when he meets arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Mario Kindelan, at the Reebok Stadium in his home town of Bolton. On...
Boxing: Prodigy Must Turn Professional to Punch Weight
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There was a time when the size of the crowd and how much money they kicked in determined the financial success of a fight. For the second Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney championship match at Soldier's Field, Chicago, in 1927 about 150,000 turned up and paid...
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The bosses at the Bluewater shopping complex in Kent are seeking to outlaw hooded jumpers and baseball hats, supposedly the 'uniform' of the modern teen desperado, who conceals his features from security cameras while purloining his neighbour's wallet,...
CAR CHOICE: Green Couple Seeks Reliable Family Car
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Shelley Castle has two young children and a partner who needs an automatic car following a motorbike accident. She is looking for something cheap to run and maintain that produces low emissions (her family votes Green) and is safe. A four-door hatchback...
CLASSIC CARS: SUNBEAM RAPIER: At the Sharp End ; Andrew Roberts Looks Back at a Sporty Soft-Top That Owed Its Success to Rallying " and Cary Grant
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This year will see motoring journals celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the usual classic car subjects " the MGA, the Rolls- Royce Silver Cloud and the Citron DS to name just three. But there were other interesting debutants in 1955: in Czechoslovakia...
Could You Be Britain's Sudoku Champion?
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Today The Independent launches the first Sudoku Championship of Great Britain. Participation is open to all, and the event will enable enthusiasts to pit their skills against each other " and against the clock " in a prestigious national competition,...
COVER FEATURE: THE MILLE MIGLIA: All Roads Lead to Rome (and Back Again) ; Take 375 Classic Cars, Add the Italian Countryside and Remove All Speed Limits. the Result? the Mille Miglia. John Simister Hits the Road
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Sir Stirling Moss is relaxing after breakfast in the Palazzo Arzaga, near Brescia, on a significant Friday morning. He's in typically expansive form, and still slightly surprised at the reason he's here. It is this: exactly 50 years ago, he drove single-...
Crazy Frog Mania Grows as Ringtone Spawns Two Singles
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It started life as a soundtrack for an animated frog aptly named 'Annoying Thing', before breaking internet records as one of the most downloaded mobile phone ringtones in history. Now like it or loathe it, the distinctive 'ring-a-ding' of the motorbike-...
Cricket: Bicknell Celebrates 1,000th Wicket ; SURREY 444 & 425-4 DEC GLAMORGAN 345
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Martin Bicknell has bowled thousands of better deliveries than that which dismissed Ian Thomas yesterday evening. But the veteran medium pacer did not seem to care as he celebrated with jubilant team-mates. When the Glamorgan opener carelessly drove...
Cricket: England off to Flier in Quest for Ashes
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While a euphoric Rose Bowl toasted England's cricketers after they defeated Australia by 100 runs in the Twenty20 international yesterday, both captains insisted it ought not to affect the summer to come. But Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting admitted...
Cricket: Fletcher Frees Vaughan to Find Form
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England have allowed captain Michael Vaughan and opener Andrew Strauss extra match practice tomorrow in an attempt to rediscover their form prior to the announcement of the squad for the first Test against Bangladesh. Although the chairman of selectors...
Cricket: Harmison's Six-Wicket Burst Rips Heart out of Lancashire ; LANCASHIRE 199 & 173 DURHAM 338 & 35-1
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There was a time when England strike bowlers regarded playing for their counties as an opportunity, metaphorically speaking, to put their feet up. Not Steve Harmison. The pattern of this year's international calendar has allowed the 26-year-old to play...
Cricket: Pietersen's Form Poses Question for England
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Many observers may feel England's entire batting line-up should be replaced following their abject performances in the county championship so far. But it is the names of Ian Bell, Robert Key and Kevin Pietersen that will cause the greatest discussion...
CRICKET : TWENTY20 INTERNATIONAL: Free Hits and Proper Cricket Grip Public's Imagination
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Like everyone else, they were ecstatic at the end but after two overs the uncommitted were bemused and confused. This was not as advertised. Nor did it make sense. Promised, by a partner or a parent, that this was 'fun' cricket, a boundary-laden riot...
CRICKET: TWENTY20 INTERNATIONAL: Gough Leads Charge as Rampant England Teach Aussies a Lesson ; ENGLAND 179-8 AUSTRALIA 79 England Win by 100 Runs
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Before everyone gets too carried away with England's remarkable 100-run victory over Australia, and begins re-mortgaging their houses to have a wager on Michael Vaughan's side regaining the Ashes, this was only a 20-over game of cricket. But the manner...
Death of Fourth Stable Lad Lays Bare Racing's 'Feudal' System
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Eric Clamp warned colleagues he would probably not make it in for work early on Saturday as he was planning a night of drinking. True to his word, he headed for the New Astley Club, a favourite haunt of fellow stable lads in Newmarket. By 1am, the 33-year-old...
Deborah Orr: Flashing the Flesh in Men's Top-Shelf Magazines Does Neither Sex Any Credit
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Some may consider it a sign of escalating misogyny that men's magazines are on the move to the top shelf because of their explicit sexual content. Others could be forgiven for seeing it merely as an indication that what goes around comes around. In the...
Deborah Orr: When It Comes to Child Custody, Family Law Is in a Mess
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All those families looking hopefully towards David Blunkett (right) " the custody-battle dad who now finds himself neatly in charge of the Child Support Agency " can forget it. The mess that is family law looks set to continue, with Families Need Fathers...
Deserter Turned Hero Is Honoured, 90 Years On
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John Simpson Kirkpatrick's inauspicious teenage years did not mark him out as a man who would save the lives of the soldiers who lay dying in the carnage of the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War. Much of a misspent youth was passed working...
Dozens Killed as Army Opens Fire to Crush Protest in Uzbekistan
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The Uzbek military has violently crushed a mass protest in east Uzbekistan, opening fire on crowds after demonstrators stormed a prison to release 23 businessmen accused of Islamic extremism. Some reports said that as many as 50 civilians were shot by...
Equestrianism: Smith Shows Sharpness on Kalusha
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Robert Smith, who suffered a memory lapse when missing out a fence here on Thursday, was razor sharp when riding Kalusha to win the Martin Collins Grade A Jumping on the second day of the Royal Windsor Horse Show. The 13-year-old grey gelding had been...
Errors & Omissions: When a Headline Paints the Wrong Picture
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By the same journalese rule that has every murder brutal and every large wave a freak, every newly discovered work by a well- known artist is a masterpiece. So it was on Thursday, when the finding of some dribbly paintings believed to be by the American...
EU Constitution Can Be Rewritten, Delors Admits
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French Eurosceptics seized gleefully on a statement by the former European Commission president Jacques Delors that a 'no' vote in this month's referendum would force a rewriting of the proposed European constitution. Leaders of the 'yes' campaign have...
Falconer Echoes PM: 'There's No Mood for Electoral Reform' ; Campaign for Democracy
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The Lord Chancellor was facing a backlash last night after he claimed there was no pressure for a change in the voting system. Lord Falconer of Thoroton ignored calls for reform from Labour MPs, Liberal Democrats and pressure groups following the election....
FEATURE: THE BENDYBUS: The Concertina Files ; for a Century the Double-Decker Dominated the Streets of London. Philip Thornton Reports on Its Lengthy Successor
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Ihave seen the future and it curves. Like them or loath them, bendybuses are here to stay. After a century of the two-storey bus and the gradual emergence of single deckers and minibuses, this country has paved the way for the inevitable conclusion "...
FEATURE: THE TYRES OF TOMORROW: Wheels 0f Fortune ; the Tyre of the Future Needs No Air and Will Envelop All Obstacles in Its Path. Tom Stewart Checks out the Spin
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IO saw a communication from an old school pal recently. It turns out he's been employed by the same tyre maker for many years, and his career summary read: 'Still trying to make 'em rounder and blacker for humanity.' While new tread designs, profiles...
Firth Ditches Darcy to Play the Coolly Affable Psychopath
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He gained an army of female fans after he emerged dripping from a lake in the television version of Pride and Prejudice. And they envied Rene Zellweger as Bridget Jones when she was the subject of his gently amorous attentions on the big screen. But...
Football: 4 into 1 Won't Go ; Tomorrow Is the Final Day of a Unique Premiership Season. Four Clubs Could Be Relegated but Each of the Four Can Still Survive. Here, Anguished Fans from the Quartet in Question Try to Pinpoint Where the Campaign Went Right " and Wrong
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NORWICH CITY (17th) Phil Harris, secretary of Norwich City Supporters' Trust How early in the campaign did you realise that this would be a season spent fighting relegation? At Sunderland away last season when our promotion to the Premiership was confirmed....
Football: Day of Destiny ; Premiership's Greatest Ever Relegation Battle Reaches Thrilling Finale
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All a relegation-threatened team can ask for, on the final day of the season, is that they control their own destiny. Well, almost all. Norwich City, the only endangered Premiership team for whom victory tomorrow guarantees survival, would also have...
Football: Ferguson the Old Trafford Legend Must Quit While He Is Ahead
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As Sir Alex Ferguson ponders his future this weekend, wonders, maybe, if he has the stomach to see close up quite how Malcolm Glazer goes about riding profitably on the back of the empire that has been bought with someone else's money, he should avoid...
Football: Glazer Courts Fans by Backing Old Guard ; Turmoil at Old Trafford
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Manchester United's prospective new owner Malcolm Glazer gave Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill a clear sign yesterday that he would be prepared to work with the two men in the short-term rather than make controversial changes within the club when he...
Football: Good News at Double for Everton as Naysmith and Osman Sign Deals
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Everton had double reason to celebrate as both Gary Naysmith and Leon Osman agreed new deals with the Goodison Park club yesterday. The young midfielder Osman agreed a four-year contract that should keep him with the Champions' League hopefuls until...
Football: Hughes a Clever Boy as He Plots Palace Safety
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Michael Hughes knew what he was supposed to say. The Crystal Palace midfielder should have insisted that the despair at conceding an injury- time equaliser against Southampton last Saturday had been forgotten. And come tomorrow, he should have said,...
Football: Manager 'To Stay and Fight' ; Turmoil at Old Trafford
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Sir Alex Ferguson is not worried about the imminent arrival of Malcolm Glazer as Manchester United's new owner, at least according to his assistant, Carlos Queiroz, despite fears among the fans that Ferguson's position as manager would become untenable...
Football: Mikel Refuses to Join United ; Turmoil at Old Trafford
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The dispute between Manchester United and Chelsea over the Nigerian prodigy John Obi Mikel descended into further farce yesterday when the teenager claimed that he had been forced into agreeing to the deal with Old Trafford and no longer wanted to join.Carlos...
Football: Premiership Team News
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Birmingham v Arsenal Tomorrow 3pm. Last season: 0-3. TV: Highlights BBC1 10.15pm Birmingham City Form: DLDWL Leading scorer: Heskey 9. Subs from: Vaesen, Martin Taylor, Blake, Morrison, Anderton, Tebily. Injured: Dunn (hamsting), Izzet (knee), Lazaridis...
Football: The Only Things That Deserve the Drop Are Politically Incorrect Goal Celebrations
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Football fans divide into two main categories at this time of year; there are those who can't wait for this season to end, and those who can't wait for next season to start. Then there are Evertonians, who thought we belonged to the latter category but...
Football: Why the Premiership Destroys Dreams ; INSIDE FOOTBALL
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In the years since the 1992 Premier League breakaway, which have stretched the gap between the top flight and the Football League into a yawning financial chasm, relegated clubs have developed a variety of ways to deal with the plunge. Norwich City,...
Forget What TS Eliot Wrote, and Switch off Your Feelings Occasionally. It'll Do You Good
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I'm interested in something the American architect Peter Eisenmann has been saying. Eisenmann is the architect of Germany's first Holocaust memorial which opened last week in the centre of Berlin. The rights and wrongs of there being such a memorial...
From the Archive: 30 October 1998: The Jenkins Report on the British Voting System
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ROY JENKINS and his commission have tried to balance the irresistible need for fairer representation against this immovable objection by proposing the election of between one-fifth and one- seventh of MPs from groups of constituencies in order to 'top-up'...
Games: CHESS
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The 24th North American Fide Open took place in Stillwater, Oklahoma from 27 to 30 May. As the name implies, this was intended to be a Fide-rateable event and, indeed, there were three grandmasters and three IMs in the field of 61, almost all of whom...
Games: CREATIVITY
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The Queen pops round unannounced for a cuppa. What do you do? Become Hyacinth Bucket, loudly instructing a home help and asking her to start with the washing up, before scrubbing the floors, cleaning the toilets and mucking out the stables. Ask: 'Have...
Hewitt Denies Dismantling the NHS
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Health service unions have attacked the Government's announcement that the NHS is to buy an extra 1.7 million operations from the private sector over the next five years at a cost of pounds 3bn. Patricia Hewitt, in her first major speech as Health Secretary,...
International Film Awards: THE DINDE D'OR AWARD ; ... That's the Golden Turkey Award for the Worst Film Ever Made, Our Answer to the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or. and Here Are the Nominations, as Suggested by Our Panel
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Richard E Grant Actor and director The Wiz, 1978 is absolutely, definitely the worst film ever made. Imagine The Wizard of Oz updated to the Afro-American inner cities of the late 20th century. In this version, Dorothy is a 24-year-old Brooklyn schoolteacher....
JACKSON: NOT GUILTY: Explosion of Joy from the Fans Who Stood by Their Hero
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For more than a year, Michael Jackson's loyal fans had made the trek to the squat Santa Maria county courthouse to express their support in his time of need. And yesterday, as their role model and hero was acquitted on all charges in his child molestation...
JACKSON: NOT GUILTY: How a TV Show Triggered the Case ... and Why a Jury Threw out the Charges
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Perhaps the most foolish thing Michael Jackson ever did was to open up his life to Martin Bashir, the British documentary-maker, and then lull himself into believing that the man behind the camera was his friend. Mr Bashir's film Living With Michael...
JACKSON: NOT GUILTY: The Pop Megastar Whose Music Career Has Been Eclipsed by His Eccentricity
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If Michael Jackson had been content to follow his musical instincts, he would now be remembered with fondness as the extravagantly talented megastar who redefined pop music for the MTV age, with his albums Off The Wall and Thriller and the treasure trove...
JACKSON: NOT GUILTY: 'We Expected Some Better Evidence but It Just Wasn't There'
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The jurors who tried Michael Jackson said the evidence bought against him had been a disappointment after they cleared him of any wrongdoing. Within minutes of clearing Michael Jackson on all 10 counts, the jury of four men and eight women was hastily...
Lamy to Be Appointed WTO's Director General
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Pascal Lamy, the combative Frenchman who lobbied for the EU in the global trade talks, has become the new director general of the World Trade Organisation. Mr Lamy beat off the challenge from Carlos Perez del Castillo to win support from a majority of...
Leading Article: A Real Democracy Needs a System of Proportional Representation ; Campaign for Democracy
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After just one week of this newspaper's 'campaign for democracy', it has become clear that there exists a real desire in this country for substantial electoral reform. Not least because the results of the general election turned out to be a striking...
Leading Article: We Should Welcome Change in Asia
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Hard on the heels of the protests which unseated the president of the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan only last month have come the mass demonstrations against the even more dictatorial regime in neighbouring Uzbekistan. The protests, against the...
Leave the Car at Home, Mum
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I LIVE IN a street of enormous late-Victorian houses. Most have been converted into flats, but quite a number are now private prep schools. The result is traffic mayhem. At 8.30 every term time morning, and at 3.30 every afternoon, our otherwise moderately...
Let Us Rebel against Poisonous Academics and Their Preposterous Claptrap of Exclusion
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That great anthropological sage Michael Gilsenan " whose Lords of the Lebanese Marshes once almost started a small civil war in northern Lebanon " turned up this week to lecture at that equally great bastion of learning, the American University of Beirut,...
Man U Fans Force JP Morgan to Quit Conference
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More than 50 disgruntled Manchester United fans raided a JP Morgan drinks reception in Manchester on Thursday night, throwing wine glasses at guests and hitting at least one person. The fracas, at Manchester Art Gallery, was a protest against the bid...
Market Report: Corus Hurt by Rival's Warning on Steel Costs
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Corus shares ended the week on a negative note yesterday after disappointing results from its rival ThyssenKrupp. Corus featured as one of the worst performers in the FTSE 100 for much of the day, ending down 2p at 40.5p, after the German group posted...
Mebbies Lost in Translation: How Wor Billy Gannun Awa with Morder
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A canny bairn divant wanna box. Eed be in bother with his ard man when he finds his bairn ganin be a dancer and gan ti London. This, as explained in its native Geordie, is the plot to Billy Elliot, the hit film starring Jamie Bell and Julie Walters,...
Monroe, Ali and Dean: Images to Net Pounds 400,000
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A nude Marilyn Monroe reclining on a bed in a photograph which may have been the last ever taken before her death is among 150 iconic images that are to be sold at auction. Leif-Erik Nygards' portrait of the screen siren, taken on 27 June 1962, less...
Motorcycling: Rutter Plan to Hold off Kiyonari
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Michael Rutter, the 32-year-old Midlands rider, plans to humble his team-mate, the precocious young Japanese rider Ryuichi Kiyonari, for the first time this year in the British Superbike Championship at Mondello Park, Co Kildare, tomorrow. Rutter knows...
Motor Racing: Bike Legend Rossi to Driving in Formula One by 2007
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Valentino Rossi, the dominant motorcyclist of his generation and possibly the greatest rider of all time, is expected to be driving in Formula One by 2007. 'We know that Valentino, from 2007, will be in Formula One,' Davide Brivio, the Yamaha team manager,...
My Week: Jon Finn ; Producer of the New Musical 'Billy Elliot', Which Premiered in London's West End This Week
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Monday Travel to London from Leeds. A press call takes up most of the afternoon and, from then on, it's fairly chaotic. The band is called at the wrong time and the hydraulic pumps that move the scenery have broken. Producing the musical has been twice...
OBITUARY: GRAHAM RITCHIE ; Surveyor of Scotland's Ancient Monuments
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The archaeologist Graham Ritchie was one of those rare specialists, equally at home in preparing articles for learned journals and writing books for lay audiences, at undertaking field survey and excavation and interpreting his results in the lecture...
OBITUARY: MICHAEL GOVER ; Headmaster Who Was a Guardian of the Founding Tradition of the Dragon School
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Michael Gover was universally known as 'Guv'. With Keith Ingram ('Inky'), he was co-headmaster of the Dragon School, Oxford for 17 years from 1972 to 1989, and an emblematic figure of one of the most successful and the most original educational institutions...
OBITUARY: ROBERT FARNON ; Composer of Film Scores and Popular Song
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Robert Farnon's enormous catalogue of hit songs and arrangements helped British light music survive the post-war years, while as a musical director he worked with many of the great names of 20th- century popular music as well as writing film scores....
OBITUARY: RONALD INCHLEY ; Founder of Inter-Varsity Press
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The British theological scene in the 1930s was largely high and liberal; evangelicals in university theology departments could be numbered on one hand. In accounting for the huge sea change since, the influence of Ronald Inchley, in building the Inter-Varsity...
Old Mutual in Pounds 3.2bn Takeover Talks with Insurer Skandia
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The South African insurance group Old Mutual confirmed yesterday it is in talks to buy the Swedish insurer Skandia, which has a fast- growing life business in the UK. The company, which is listed in London and Johannesburg, said discussions with Skandia...
Outlook: Eddington Leaves a Better Ship Than He Found at BA but the Headwinds Remain Daunting
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Willie Walsh, the chief executive elect at British Airways, is apparently already aboard, his luggage safely stowed in the overhead locker, but he was nowhere to be seen on the flight deck yesterday as Rod Eddington presented his last set of annual results...
Outlook: Lessons from the US for Britain's PPF
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As a timely reminder of just how fraught this pensions malarkey can get, take a peek across the Atlantic to where the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the US agency on which our own spanking new Pensions Protection Fund is modelled, is fast sinking...
Outlook: Morrisons Still Struggling with Safeway
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Any statement that causes the share price to rise can hardly be called a profits warning, and in any case Wm Morrison Supermarkets had so thoroughly prepared investors for more bad news that when it was actually released yesterday it came as something...
Performance Notes
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The Musical Billy Elliot Victoria Theatre, London SW1 To 22 October OVERVIEW: 'Working Title's hugely successful 2000 film about a boy from a small north-east mining town who dreams of being a ballet star starts its life as a West End musical. Three...
Pounds 126,164 a Day: That's the Interest Manchester United Must Pay after US Mogul Malcolm Glazer Saddles It with Pounds 540m Debt to Finance Takeover
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The spectre of astronomical debts haunted the world's biggest football club last night as details emerged of the deal that handed an American tycoon control of Manchester United. Malcolm Glazer, the 76-year-old businessman who took over the Old Trafford...
Racing: Colori Can Outshine Dangerous Rival Rakti
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Horseboxes and security vans will descend on Newbury this afternoon for a Lockinge Stakes which features two of the most considerable nutcases in European racing. Antonius Pius is the bonkers horses' bonkers horse, a colt who will stop at nothing to...
Racing: Franklins Gardens Blazes a Trail through Yorkshire Cup
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There is a rule on the Knavesmire that should never be forgotten: always get first in line. It works on the way into the course, it works at the champagne bar, and, most of all, it works on the racecourse. Franklins Gardens was the beneficiary of the...
Racing: Going Slows Down Leading Ladies ; POINT-TO-POINT
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The prevailing firm ground is limiting opportunities for the two leading lady riders this weekend. Rilly Goschen, who is two ahead of the reigning champion, Polly Gundry, does not even have a ride in point-to-points this afternoon but has picked up a...
RACING:ROYAL ASCOT AT YORK: Valixir Can Halt Rakti's Royal Succession
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There have been some striking public spectacles down the years on the piece of York common land they call the Knavesmire. In 1739 there was the grisly theatre of Dick Turpin being hanged for his audacity on the unprotected highways between old Eboracum...
Research Shows Immigration Boosts Economy
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Immigration is vital for the health of the economy, helping to tackle jobs shortages, according to new academic research. The study also warns that the scale of immigration is vastly over- estimated by indigenous populations across Europe with the result...
ROAD TEST: VAUXHALL ZAFIRA 1.9 CDTi 150: The Greatest Hit, Remastered ; the Vauxhall Zafira Broke the MPV Mould and Set Sales Records in an Ultra-Competitive Market. Now It's Back, with Bags of New Toys and Masses of Power under the Bonnet. John Simister Tests It Out
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What, another new MPV? Well, the new Vauxhall Zafira deserves to be taken very seriously because its predecessor caused a major schism among compact-MPV designers. When the Zafira arrived, in 1999, it had only one serious rival: Renault's groundbreaking...
Rugby League: Betts Plays Down Wigan Crisis Talk
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Wigan's Denis Betts denies feeling under any extra pressure following another eventful week. His team came under heavy criticism after an unimpressive win over Union Treiziste Catalan in the Challenge Cup last weekend and takeover rumours reached such...
Rugby Union: Farewell Johnno ; Leicester's Captain Ends His Playing Career in Today's Premiership Final against Wasps. the Man Who Led England to World Cup Triumph Shares 16 Years with Chris Hewett
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Martin Osborne Johnson had to have a weakness somewhere, and at the fag end of a career stretching back more than 16 years and 500- plus first-class matches " a career that has rained achievement upon his head in the kind of deluge Noah might have recognised...
Rugby Union: Leicester's Heart and Soul Hold the Aces
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There are more scheduled departures at Twickenham this evening than Clapham Junction could manage in a month of Sundays. Martin Johnson, Neil Back and their esteemed coach, John Wells, will be in valedictory mood when the final whistle signals a belated...
Sainsbury's to Woo New Customers with Focus on Value
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J Sainsbury, once the darling of Home Counties' housewives, has ditched its 'Making Life Taste Better' slogan for fear that it makes the group appear too posh. The supermarket group, which is attempting to reverse a dire few years, is worried that the...
Sate Second Pension Is a 'Major Impediment' to Saving, Says Turner
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Adair Turner, the chairman of the Pensions Commission, called for a radical reform of the state second pension (S2P) yesterday, dismissing the current system as a 'muddle which few people understand'. Speaking at the National Association of Pension Funds...
Scientists Call for Plan to Deal with UK's Nuclear Waste
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No decision about building new nuclear power stations in Britain should be taken until a solution to the problem of nuclear waste has been outlined, a committee of senior scientists has told the Government. Any early move to go ahead with new atomic...
Sleeping with the One-Time Enemy: Banks Joins the Establishment Club
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When Tony Banks enters the House of Lords, he will be among the peers who fought the bitter campaign to ban hunting with hounds. The elevation of the 62-year-old former West Ham MP to the peerage marks the end of his journey from firebrand left-winger...
Stem Cell Breakthrough Raises Prospect of Brain Disease Cures
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Scientists have grown fully mature brain cells in a laboratory for the first time, using a technique that mimics the natural process of brain regeneration. It promises to open the door to new ways of treating and possibly curing debilitating brain diseases...
Tennis: Bollettieri to Show LTA How to Make a British Champion
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The Lawn Tennis Association has accepted an invitation from Nick Bollettieri's academy in Florida to send a delegation of British coaches and young players to America, The Independent can reveal. They will observe how his system works and investigate...
The 5-Minute Briefing: Executions in the US
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How many people have been executed in the US this year? Thus far, 22. Early yesterday Connecticut put to death the serial killer Michael Ross for a string of murders two decades ago, in the state's first execution since 1960. On Thursday, George Miller...
The 5-Minute Interview; Adle Geras: 'I'm at My Most Creative on the Laptop Sitting at the Kitchen Table' ; Children's Author
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Adle Geras, the children's writer, will contribute to the fastest novel in British history " by 20 writers over 24 hours at the Bollington Festival, Cheshire Can you write 1,000 words in a day? Yes. And I'm helped by the fact that I'm the third writer...
The Game That Took over the UK: THE MAN WHO INVENTED SUDOKU ; When Leonhard Euler Came Up with a Numbers Puzzle, He Could Not Have Known It Would One Day Obsess the British Public. but Is He Remembered in His Homeland? Cahal Milmo Reports from Basle
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Andreas Conrad scratched his head as he stared once more at the grid dotted with random figures and then let out a long sigh of exasperation. He said: 'It is some kind of fiendish torture. I don't know how anyone could enjoy such a thing. It looks like...
The Interview: Sam Gilliland: Sabre Rattler Who Dropped a Surprise Lastminute Bomb ; Chairman and Chief Executive, Sabre Holdings
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Sam Gilliland used to work in the arms industry. On Thursday he dropped a different kind of bomb on the stock market by unveiling a pounds 577m all-cash bid for Lastminute.com, the internet travel business that epitomised all the irrational exuberance...
The Killing Fields: Villagers Are Horrified and Baffled by Spate of Sheep Shootings
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Nick Boyles will never forget the sight that greeted him as he went to inspect a field of ewes and newborn lambs on his Oxfordshire farmland earlier this month. 'There was blood everywhere. A maniac had been walking among them shooting with a rifle....
The Liberal Democrats Still Face a Long Journey
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Charles Kennedy completes the third of the party reshuffles this weekend, reformulating his Shadow Cabinet. He is shuffling a Liberal pack which is bigger than at any point since 1923. Only four years ago, at the 2001 election, most pundits expected...
THE SALE OF MANCHESTER UNITED: The Biggest Club in the World
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The club's membership scheme One United has more than 193,000 members from the UK. Estimated number of fans worldwide: 53 million.n The club's official website, manutd.com, receives an average of more than 1 million users every month with more than 12...
