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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 March 31, 2005
1,700 Jobs Go at Regional UK Banks
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THE YORKSHIRE and Clydesdale banks will slash 1,700 jobs as part of a massive restructuring announced by their owner, National Australia Bank (NAB). Australia's biggest bank estimates the cuts - nearly 17 per cent of its staff in Britain - will save...
A French Vote against the Constitution Could Revitalise the European Economy
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WHERE IN the world should investors place their savings? The trouble at the moment is that you can make very good reasons for not investing anywhere or in anything. Look around the world. The case against the US is that the huge imbalances - both external...
AIG Owns Up to Possible $1.7Bn Accounts Error
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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL Group (AIG), the world's largest insurer, delayed publishing its annual results for a second time yesterday and admitted that inaccurate accounting might have falsely inflated its finances by $1.7bn (pounds 904m). AIG will now...
Annan Wins Support after Damaging Oil-for-Food Report
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BRITAIN AND other European governments were preparing to voice unified support for Kofi Annan last night amid concerns that a report on ties between his son and a firm contracted by the UN to work in Iraq may have left him more seriously damaged than...
Arts: A Race against Time ; BBC4's Remake of the Quatermass Experiment, the Iconic Fifties Sci- Fi Drama, Is Going out Live. the Cast Share Their Fears with James Rampton
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The cast members of BBC4's The Quatermass Experiment are sitting round a table in a central London church-hall. Wearing tracksuits, jeans and (for the men at least) stubbly chins, they are a picture of casual relaxation. As they pick at their lunchtime...
ARTS PREVIEW: DANCE: A Camp for All Seasons ; Five Campers Embrace the Great Outdoors to the Strains of Vivaldi
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THE FIRST full-length dance-theatre piece by the up-and-coming choreographer Arthur Pita, Camp takes a surreal and comical look at human behaviour when five people pitch tents together, set to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. "They go on a journey through...
ARTS REVIEWS: COMEDY: Karen Dunbar ; Kings Theatre Glasgow Oooo9
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"THIS IS like being inside Elton John's heid," Karen Dunbar says as she staggers on stage in the guise of a sozzled, shoeless clubber and surveys the wedding-cake decor of the venerable Kings Theatre. And it seems fitting that Dunbar should sell out...
ARTS REVIEWS: DANCE: Royal Ballet Triple Bill ; Royal Opera House London Ooo99
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THERE'S A certain heaviness about the Royal Ballet's latest triple bill. It's a varied, ambitious programme, with major scores, handsome designs and choreography by Ashton and MacMillan. These are important revivals, and dancing standards are high. Even...
ARTS REVIEWS: OPERA: Julie / the Turn of the Screw ; Theatre Royal De la Monnaie Brussels Oooo9
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A HUSHED repeating drum-stroke opens Julie, Philippe Boesmans' latest one-act opera, premiered here. It's like the first flickers of the St John's Eve fires, against whose festal flaming the voluptuous and fatal passions of Strindberg's hothouse tryst...
Arts Reviews: POP: Queen Are Dead; Long Live Queen ; Queen Plus Paul Rodgers Brixton Academy London Oooo9
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UNPREPOSSESSING THOUGH G4's take on "Bohemian Rhapsody" is, its Top 10 success bears testimony to the enduring appeal of Queen's songs. Fourteen years after Freddie Mercury's death from Aids, the band's back- catalogue continues to make millions in royalties,...
A Spot of Bother with the In-Laws
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I am very pleased to announce the start of a new advice column in this space, called Dear Camilla. Yes, that's right. Camilla. That Camilla. You write in with your problems. Camilla gives you her advice. And she should know. She's had problems! Anyway,...
BOXING: Khan Lines Up Kindelan for Amateur Exit
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AMIR KHAN will box for the last time as an amateur at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, on 16 April against Mario Kindelan, the Cuban fighter who deprived him of the gold medal in the Olympic final in Athens last August. At a press conference in London today,...
Briton Who Survived Tsunami Missing on Nias
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A BRITISH woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami was missing yesterday on the earthquake-hit island of Nias. Jo-Anne Wau, 27, who has lived on the island off western Sumatra for four years, has failed to make contact with her family in the UK since...
Cash Machine Charges at Post Office Attacked
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THE POST Office was attacked by MPs yesterday for installing too many fee-charging cash machines in its branches. The Treasury Select Committee, which has been investigating the growing number of charging cash machines in the UK, said the Post Office...
Chess
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NOW 53, the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov isn't quite the force he used to be. However, he is still rated 29th in the world and remains extremely formidable, as he ably demonstrated recently against the Romanian Andrei Istratescu in Bucharest. Karpov...
Christopher Eccleston Calls Time on `Doctor Who'
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WITH HIS cool-headed time-travelling skills and penchant for comely assistants, Doctor Who last week won his way back into the heart of the nation following a 16-year absence. But despite the success of the opening episode, Christopher Eccleston, the...
Combine a Degree with Meaningful Work Experience and Employers Take Notice
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"THERE IS no such thing as a job for life". This often-spoken curb on the job-hunting graduate's enthusiasm may carry more than an element of truth, but there is one group of industries that remains defiant. The industries in question are hospitality,...
Credits Roll on a Match Made in Hollywood as Weinsteins Leave Disney
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THIS IS the divorce all Hollywood has been waiting for. After 12 years of extraordinary productivity as well as near-constant bickering and personality clashes, the Weinstein brothers of Miramax and their corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, have...
Enter the Business of Leisure ; Coffee Shops, Bars, Clubs, Hotels and Gyms Vie for Our Downtime - and the Cream of the Graduate Crop. Kate Hilpern Reports
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Traditionally, one of the biggest turn-offs to pursuing a career in the hospitality and leisure sector has been the unsociable hours. But according to new research by Springboard, the specialist careers and education service for the industry, a staggering...
Eurotunnel Seeks Pounds 6bn Debt Waiver
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EUROTUNNEL, THE embattled operator of the Channel Tunnel, last night took the first formal step towards renegotiating its pounds 6.4bn debt, a move which is likely to all but wipe out its 1 million small shareholders. The board of the loss-making Anglo-French...
Fans More Likely to Be Violent If Their Team Wins, Say Scientists
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LOSING IS rarely a pretty sight - but winning could be even uglier. New research has found that winning an event is a greater trigger for post-match violence than losing. Researchers examined the number of people requiring medical treatment after an...
Fashion and Style: My Conservative Party ; Julie Wilkins' Label Gives a Modern Twist to Retro Ladylike Classics. Cat Callender Meets an Old-Fashioned Eccentric
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" It's difficult without being difficult, if you know what I mean," says the fashion buyer Yeda Yun, struggling to describe Future Classics. "It's not difficult to wear but it looks difficult in a way that makes you stand out." While this former Browns...
Fashion & Style: Costume Drama Queen
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"Chanel wanted to achieve what no one else had dared to do with such candour: women going forth liberated by shortened skirts and loosely fitting garments that de-emphasised the bust and lower curves. Chanel imposed upon fashion a novelty so decisive...
Fashion & Style: Dylan Jones: `I Concluded That Thomas Pink Invited Me to Its Offices Simply Because I Own the Largest Number of Shirts'
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IT'S ALWAYS flattering when someone asks your opinion, especially if those doing the asking actually intend to take what you're saying seriously enough to act upon it. Sometimes it even happens inadvertently: many years ago I suggested that the Pet Shop...
Fashion & Style: My Greatest Mistake; Miki Fukai Fashion Designer
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WHEN I was at fashion college in Tokyo I was kind of a fashion victim. I was 18 and dressed up really crazy - I'm quite ashamed to think of it now. It was the late Eighties, so we all tried to dress up as differently as possible from other people. I...
Fashion&Style: Voyages of Discovery ; from Yves Saint Laurent's Safari Suit to Kenzo's Tribal Tributes, Designers Find Inspiration All over the World. Iain R Webb Meets the Global Magpies
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Fashion designers find inspiration in the strangest of places. In art (Yves Saint Laurent's homages to Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian), commerce (those 1980s Wall Street shoulder pads) and even, bizarrely, the blueprints for a jet aircraft (Hussein Chalayan,...
First Night: First NightManson's Sex Appeal Still Rockin' after All These Years ; Garbage Scala, London
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IT'S BECOME de rigueur for big names to launch a new album with small dates in London. Last night, following club-sized shows by Beck and Moby, it was the turn of Garbage to show they're still alive and kicking in front of a modest but fanatical audience...
Football: Alberto Rant at `Midget Owen Who Should Clean Beckham's Boots'
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THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED goal rush failed to materialise and Michael Owen was left to rue a catalogue of missed chances as he chased his 30th international goal last night. However, the England striker was subjected to a bizarre post-match rant by Azerbaijan...
Football: Boy Wonder in Different League to Abject Partner
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INCREASINGLY IT seems that all of England's roads must be built on the foundations of Wayne Rooney's talent. As he did in last summer's European Championship in Portugal before being cut down by injury, Rooney last night brought a burst of power and...
Football: Charlton Blame TV Overkill for Losses
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CHARLTON ATHLETIC yesterday became the first Premier League club to blame financial losses on too many games being shown on television. The club's chairman, Richard Murray, said that football was reaching saturation point through being "overexposed"...
Football: Chelsea Set to Fight Any Guilty Verdict from Uefa
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CHELSEA EXPECT their manager Jose Mourinho, assistant manager Steve Clarke and security officer Les Miles to be found guilty today of bringing the game into disrepute at a special disciplinary hearing at the headquarters of Uefa, European football's...
Football: Coyne's Late Howler Gifts Austria Winner ; Austria 1 Aufhauser 87 Wales 0 Half-Time: 0-0 Att: 29,500
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DANNY COYNE last night suffered a goalkeeping howler for Wales on a par with anything David James has inflicted on England, gifting Austria a late winning goal and an invaluable three points to keep their World Cup dream alive. Coyne, the No 2 keeper...
Football: England Make Do with Second Helping but Miss out on Feast ; England 2 Gerrard 51 Beckham 62 Azerbaijan 0 Half-Time: 0-0 Att: 49,046
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THE MINIMALIST approach of Sven Goran Eriksson was triumphant in the end. While his team shelled the Azerbaijan penalty area and St James' Park bayed for the utter destruction of their lowly visitors, England stayed true to the frugal instincts of their...
Football: Fifa to Investigate after Violence Mars North Korea Defeat
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FIFA IS TODAY awaiting referee Mohammed Kousa's report before launching an investigation after he and two assistants were forced to seek refuge from angry North Korea fans following the World Cup qualifier against Iran. Iran beat North Korea 2-0 in Pyongyang...
Football: Morrison Reveals Secret of Irish Success
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CLINTON MORRISON has revealed that Brian Kerr's faith and Roy Keane's rollickings are the reasons behind his remarkable run of form for the Republic of Ireland. The Birmingham City striker scored his fourth goal in his last six matches when he claimed...
Football: Rival Clubs Vent Fury at Cardiff's Handout
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CARDIFF CITY'S decision to ask for financial help has fuelled debate over appropriate action for clubs struggling to control debt.The relegation-threatened Championship club are embroiled in controversy after accepting a loan from the Professional Footballers'...
Football: Robson Awaits Newcastle Payoff
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SIR BOBBY ROBSON, the former Newcastle United manager, said yesterday that it was "about time" negotiations were finalised over his severance package with the club. The Magpies are understood to be close to reaching a financial settlement with Robson,...
Football: United Set to Increase Prices to Help Fight off Glazer
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MANCHESTER UNITED are likely to take another step towards staving off the threat of a takeover by Malcolm Glazer by raising ticket prices to increase revenue tomorrow, when next season's prices are due to be confirmed at a scheduled meeting of the Manchester...
Football: Welsh Aims to Develop Alongside Gerrard at Liverpool
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JOHN WELSH, the young Liverpool midfielder, has been tipped to replace Steven Gerrard at Anfield but Welsh would rather play alongside him in the club's first-team. Welsh admits that he models his game on the England international, who is reported to...
Football: Wright-Phillips' Fitness Drive Fuelled by World Cup Dream
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SHAUN WRIGHT-PHILLIPS hopes to be back in action within a month after his recent cartilage operation, giving him plenty of time to force his way back into the England reckoning before the post- season tour to America. The Manchester City winger's performances...
Football: Zurawski Ends Northern Ireland Defiance ; Poland 1 Zurawski 86 Northern Ireland 0 Half-Time: 0-0 Att: 13,500
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MAIK TAYLOR made a string of superb saves last night but could not save Northern Ireland from defeat in this World Cup qualifier. It was all going according to plan until the 86th minute when Maciej Zurawski headed home a cross from Miroslaw Szymkowiak....
Formula One: Bullish Coulthard Rediscovers His Fizz to `Shut a Few People Up' ; Scot's Switch to Formula One New Boys Pays off with Fine Start to the Season, Writes David Tremayne
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The last thing you would accuse David Coulthard of is being vindictive. He has been charged with not being quick enough, being unable to handle a car that oversteers, past his sell-by date or even, on a cruel but humorous website, a new source of drag...
Golf: Little Wonder Golfers Take the Rough with the Smooth
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URBAN SPORTS strategists could deposit their decaying flesh and strained eyeballs in any number of places last weekend. On Saturday, on Sky television and following a glut of international football, there were the second and third rounds of the Players...
Golf: Montgomerie Misses an Invite to the Masters Ball
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OVER THE years, Colin Montgomerie has learnt not to expect too much from the Americans, apart from the odd heckle, of course, concerning his weight, his mood and even his gender. So when it was announced yesterday that the Scot they call "Mrs Doubtfire"...
Harry and Hancock Work Bloomsbury Magic
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DEMAND FOR the latest Harry Potter book, the sixth instalment in the boy wizard series, has been "substantially higher" than Bloomsbury had anticipated, prompting the publishing house to raise its profit target for 2005. Shares in the group set a new...
Incomes Fall for First Time under Blair
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HOUSEHOLD INCOMES have fallen for the first time since the recession of the early 1990s. Average household incomes dropped by 0.2 per cent to pounds 408 a week last year, official figures released yesterday showed - a drop that will prove embarrassing...
ITV Chief Gets Pounds 8.7m Bonanza
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CHARLES ALLEN, the chief executive of ITV, enjoyed a bumper remuneration deal last year worth pounds 8.7m in pay, free shares, options and pension benefits. The bonanza materialised even though ITV had a disastrous year in its audience performance. Its...
Jamie's School Dinner Triumph (but Kelly Says She Deserves the Credit)
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IT TOOK a celebrity TV chef just four weeks to start to undo more than 20 years of damage to the school meals service. The Government from the Prime Minister downwards was yesterday waiting with bated breath to see how Jamie Oliver would react to its...
Last Night's Television: Star-Struck and Tongue-Tied ; the Apprentice BBC2 Secret Map of Hollywood BBC1
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ONE MIGHT easily complain about a lack of sympathy for the characters, if The Apprentice were a fictional drama. Arrogance, ignorance, duplicity and hypocrisy have been just some of the traits displayed by the would-be tycoons who have given up their...
Law Society Official `Dismissed Asians as Reliable Little Workers'
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THE LAW Society is facing a pounds 1m claim for sex and race discrimination that threatens to plunge the solicitors' governing body into a bitter internal war. Simrit Parmar, a policy adviser employed by the Law Society, accuses senior management of...
Leading Article: A Better Way to Select the Head of the World Bank
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PAUL WOLFOWITZ said all the things expected of an incoming president of the World Bank yesterday. In a meeting with EU ministers in Brussels, Mr Wolfowitz did his best to sell himself to all those alarmed by the nomination of such a renowned unilateralist...
Leading Article: Zimbabwe Has Been Wrecked by Mr Mugabe - and This Election Could Make Things Worse
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TODAY, ZIMBABWEANS go to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections. President Robert Mugabe would have us believe these elections will be free and fair, pointing to his government's recognition of the Southern African Development Community's election...
Leading Lights of the Arts World Unite in Call for More Money
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AN UNPRECEDENTED coalition of gallery directors and artists is collaborating on a manifesto to transform the visual arts in Britain. Arts leaders, bitterly disappointed that the Government has failed to follow through on its early investment in culture,...
Letter: Look Closer to Home for the Real Enemies of the Rainforest
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Sir: How quick we are to pick enemies - "loggers and ranchers ... pitched in an often deadly fight against small farmers and environmentalists" with "lists of those they want to kill"; "around 80 per cent of the logging ... illegal" ("Battle for the...
More Choice Will Not Harm Poor, Labour Promises
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TONY BLAIR will try to reassure traditional Labour voters that his plans to extend choice in public services will not favour the better off at the expense of the poor. The Cabinet will meet today to discuss a draft Labour general election manifesto which...
MRSA and False Teeth Make Blair Squirm on Television
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TONY BLAIR was thrown on to the defensive over health and crime yesterday in a two-hour grilling by voters. At a Sky News question-and-answer session at University Hospital, Coventry, Rebecca Russell told Mr Blair that she was infected with MRSA after...
Not a Very Good Endorsement ; as Vic Reeves Loses a Pounds 1m-a-Year Deal with Churchill over Drink Driving, Ed Caesar Remembers Other Stars Who Fell Foul of Their Sponsors
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Helena Bonham Carter and Yardley In the early 1990s, Helena Bonham Carter's classic looks and demure charm made her one of Britain's leading actors. But the iconoclastic actress always hated this description: "Demure? I'm not demure," she told an interviewer....
Not Just a Game: Chess Moves to Be Accepted as a Real Sport
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WHEN THE American Bobby Fischer took on Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972, their chess match was a metaphor for the Cold War. Fischer won and the Soviet Union is no more. During their nail-biting battle, watched by a global audience of millions, the...
Obituary: Ahmed Zaki ; `Black Tiger' of Egyptian Film
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AHMED ZAKI'S portrayal of the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was the pinnacle of an acting career that spanned three decades. The blockbuster Ayam el-Sadat (Days of Sadat, 2001), depicting 40 years of the late leader's life, left audiences mesmerised....
Obituary: Javier Tusell ; Historian of Spain
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BEST KNOWN as a historian of contemporary Spain, about which he published more than 50 books, Javier Tusell was during an early sortie into politics responsible for negotiating the return to Spain of Picasso's anti-war masterpiece, Guernica. Latterly...
Obituary: Jenifer Hart ; Oxford Historian Who Was Accused of Being a Russian Spy
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WITH THE death of Jenifer Hart in Oxford at the age of 91 a line has been drawn under a period when for some at least it felt reasonable and possible to lead an unworldly and serious-minded life based on liberal principles, progressive politics, love...
Obituary: Johnnie Cochran ; `Star' of O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial
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"IF IT does not fit, you must acquit" will surely be Johnnie Cochran's epitaph. The "it" referred to the bloody glove that was supposed to be the clinching piece of evidence against O.J. Simpson, the former gridiron football star, accused of the murder...
Obituary: Major Brett Collier ; Lincolnshire Rambler Who Was Underwater off Nagasaki When the Bomb Fell
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BRETT COLLIER, soldier, walker and writer, was a legendary figure in rural Lincolnshire. He published some eight books promoting walking in the county, including Lincolnshire Rambles (1993, with historical notes), Waterside Walks in Lincolnshire (1999)...
Oldham Tops Premium Bond Winners List
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OLDHAM HAS been named as Britain's luckiest town for Premium Bond winners. The Greater Manchester town had more top winners as a proportion of Premium Bonds held than anywhere else in the country, snatching the top spot from Sunderland. The research,...
Our Countryside Is Polluted by Noise
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Why do so many people equate a trip to the countryside with a chance to make as much noise as possible? Last weekend, in a tiny village in North Yorkshire, the birdsong was punctuated by the throbbing of engines as packs of middle-aged men straddling...
OUTLOOK: Down a Tube Tunnel Darkly, with the PPP
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LONDON UNDERGROUND regrets to inform you that Northern and Jubilee Line services are currently suspended because of signal failure, delays are occurring on District and Circle Line services because of a defective train at Embankment, the Bakerloo and...
OUTLOOK: Drowning Not Waiving
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u SOME OF the men running the hole in the ground called the Channel Tunnel do not know when to stop digging. Even now that Eurotunnel has seen the light and agreed to start talks with its banks on the inevitable debt- for-equity swap, there is is dissent...
Palestinian Women `Have Suffered Most in Intifada'
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PALESTINIAN WOMEN have borne the brunt of the pain inflicted by four-and-a-half years of conflict but their plight has been largely ignored, Amnesty International says. The human rights group calls on both sides of the conflict to take "urgent steps"...
Pandora
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A new boss takes the reins at troubled Royal Academy VThere is another episode in the highbrow soap opera being played out by senior staff at one of our country's most august cultural institutions, the Royal Academy of Arts. On Tuesday, the RA quietly...
Poker
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TEXAS HOLD'EM may be the most popular form of poker, but many experts believe that seven-card stud, played with a split-limit structure, is a more subtle and therefore more skilful game. In seven-stud, players each receive three cards to start with,...
PPP Deal for Tube Has Cost Taxpayers Pounds 1bn, MPs Say
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PART-PRIVATISATION of the London Underground has left the taxpayer almost pounds 1bn out of pocket, a report from MPs revealed last night. The Commons Public Accounts Committee said there would have been cheaper ways of introducing the Public Private...
Race Watchdog Investigates Recruitment at `Blue Peter' Recruitment to Blue Peter `Biased against the English'
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THE COMMISSION for Racial Equality is investigating a complaint over the way in which the BBC recruited its latest Blue Peter presenter. It has been claimed that the corporation targeted people from Scotland and Northern Ireland for the coveted post,...
Racing: Lincoln Trainers Sure to Hunt High and Low
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TRAINERS SEEKING clues ahead of today's do-it-yourself draw for starting places in Saturday's 146th Lincoln Handicap have been given an outside steer by the man on the spot at Doncaster. For the eighth time, connections of the runners for the time-honoured...
Relief Workers Struggle to Reach Survivors of Quake
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TWO DAYS after the earthquake that has killed around 1,000 people on the Indonesian island of Nias, the authorities and relief workers are still struggling to get even the most basic aid to survivors. Reports from Nias say that food and water have become...
Retailers Report Worst Sales in 13 Years
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HOPES OF a revival in fortunes on the high street this month suffered a blow after a survey showed sales volumes fell to a six- month low in March. A poll of 200 retailers by the CBI found 40 per cent said sales were down while 31 per cent reported a...
RUGBY LEAGUE: Rhinos Decide to Leave out Lauitiiti
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LEEDS WILL still be without their New Zealand second-rower, Ali Lauitiiti, for their Powergen Challenge Cup tie against Warrington this Saturday. Lauitiiti missed the defeat by Wakefield on Monday - Leeds' first in any competition since October - because...
RUGBY UNION: White Injury Stings Tigers' European Preparations
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SIR CLIVE WOODWARD may or may not have taken note of Will Greenwood's low-key return to rugby - 80 minutes for Harlequins' second-string at Bath on Tuesday night - as he weighs his options for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, but this...
Rule Tightening Prompts Flurry of Cash Shell Floats
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NINE "CASH shells" listed on the junior AIM market yesterday, as brokers rushed to avoid a crackdown on the flotation of companies with no operating business. The London Stock Exchange is imposing a minimum funding requirement for shells and from this...
Shares and Market Report: Market Movers
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bEnterprise Inns 768p (up 22.5p, 3.0 per cent). Bullish trading update sparks hopes that further dividend rises are on the way. bYell Group 470.75p (up 3.5p, 0.8 per cent). Citigroup retains its "buy" rating on the directories group. bShanks 143.5p (up...
SHARES AND MARKET REPORT: Retail Banks Are Shaken by CSFB's Grim Warning
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AVOID THE retail banks. That was Credit Suisse First Boston's simple message for investors yesterday and it certainly had an impact on share prices across the sector. Northern Rock dropped 9.5p to 782.5p, Alliance & Leicester fell 3p to 879p, Bradford...
Shell Changes Oil Pipe Route to Avoid Endangered Whales
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THE OIL company Shell has abandoned a controversial plan to route a multibillion-pound oil pipeline through a whale's feeding ground following pressure from conservationists. The news that Shell had re-routed the pipeline, which lies along the eastern...
Spain Risks US Anger by Selling Arms to Chavez Defends Pounds 900m Arms Deal with Venezuela Outcry over Spain's Arms Deal with Venezuela Zapatero's Arms Sale to Venezuela Condemned
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SPAIN'S SOCIALIST Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has been forced to defend a decision to sell arms worth EUR1.3bn (pounds 900m) to the left-wing Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, in a deal condemned by the opposition as "a monstrous error"....
Sporting Digest: Cricket
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The England women opener Charlotte Edwards' disappointment at being dismissed for 99 against South Africa, in Pretoria, was tempered by an eight-wicket victory over the home nation, which has strengthened England's grip on a place in the semi-finals...
Staying Afloat: `It Has Been Pointed out to Me That Proper Mums Carry Tissues and Never Run out of Plasters'
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BIT OF a swizz, putting the clocks forward on Easter morning. We breeze into church just in time for the final hymn, which is embarrassing for me, but not too disappointing for the children, who are eager to get on with the real business of the day....
Tales of the City: It's a Long Way to Tiobraid Arann
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In The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis takes a passing swipe at the folly of foisting archaic Celtic languages upon the modern world. One of his characters stands outside a Welsh railway station, gazing with dislike at a taxi rank where the word "Taxi" is...
Talk Your Way out of a Box? ; Communicating with Managers Is the Key to Getting the Most out of a New Job. by Andrea Wren
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Stuffing envelopes wasn't your intended vocation when you left university and took on your seemingly shiny new career. You know you're ready and willing to take up the challenges the position has to offer, but does your manager? Unfortunately, many graduates...
Tennis: Henman Looks to Exploit Federer Record
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TIM HENMAN is hoping he can improve on an already impressive record against Roger Federer when the pair meet in the quarter- finals of the Nasdaq-100 Open here today. Although the Swiss world No 1 has won their last two encounters, Henman still holds...
TENNIS: Henman Looks to Exploit Federer Record
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TIM HENMAN is hoping he can improve on an already impressive record against Roger Federer when the pair meet in the quarter- finals of the Nasdaq-100 Open here today. Although the Swiss world No 1 has won their last two encounters, Henman still holds...
Theatre: An Englishman in New York ; Bill Kenwright's Broadway Debut Is a Superb Production of the Glass Menagerie. So Why Did It Fall Foul of the All-Powerful New York Times Critic? Paul Taylor Reports from Opening Night
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It's 12 noon on a glorious spring day in Manhattan. Later in the evening, the curtain will go up on Bill Kenwright's Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie, starring Jessica Lange and Christian Slater, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Now, though,...
The A-Z of Dr Johnson's Dictionary ; Samuel Johnson Defined Both Language and Life in 18th-Century England. as His Eponymous Lexicon Marks Its 250th Anniversary, Christopher Hirst and Genevieve Roberts Salute a Literary Hero
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A is for Argument. For all his legendary conversational powers, Johnson was ruthless in debate. When he once expressed his satisfaction following a social gathering, Boswell bravely replied: "Yes, you tossed and gored several persons." Johnson's friend...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Pennon Worth Holding for Long Term
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WATER COMPANY shares are meant to be low on excitement, high on dividends. The sector as a whole, and Pennon in particular, proved pretty racy last year, though. Pennon is the company behind South West Water, and its shares gushed 47 per cent higher...
The Price of Victory ; the East German Shot-Put Champion Heidi Krieger Was Doped to Win Medals for the Communist Cause. but the Steroids She Took Changed Her Body Forever. Now Andreas, Following a Sex Change, He Tells Tony Paterson Why He's Determined to Find Justice
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Andreas Krieger was one of Communism's star athletes, but he is not proud of his achievements. He has turned his back on sport, and nowadays ekes out a living selling surplus US Army Ranger clothing from a shop in the run-down East German city of Magdeburg....
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IN THE early 1930s, Harold Nicolson advised his teenage son Ben - the future art historian - not to worry if he turned out homosexual. He should "take the most natural line. As if you liked oysters done in sherry". Of Ben's relationship with "Jeremy"...
The World According To. Dr Eamonn Butler
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Dr Eamonn Butler is the director of the Adam Smith Institute, the free-market think tank. Aged 53, he lives in Cambridge with his wife Christine and sons Cosmo, 16, and Felix, 14 Have you ever had a free lunch? David Smith of The Sunday Times did give...
They May Look Presidential, but in Reality the Power of the Party Leaders Is Limited
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British political leaders seek to be presidential in a system that will not allow them to be so. Over the next few weeks, the media will present the general election largely as a battle between Tony Blair and Michael Howard. Between elections, the contest...
Tories in Turmoil: Civil War Will Break out Unless Local Activists Have the Final Say
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I WAS still a member of the Arundel Young Conservatives when I entered the Scunthorpe Conservative Club on 16 March 1976 (the day Harold Wilson resigned) for my interview to become the prospective parliamentary candidate. I was not on the party's official...
Tories in Turmoil: Party Leaders Fear Grassroots Revolt over Rogue Candidates Will `Distract' from Election Campaign
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A SENIOR shadow cabinet member has admitted that the Tory pre- election recovery has foundered because of the furore over Howard Flight's sacking. As Michael Howard, the Tory leader, desperately tried to draw a line under the affair, David Davis hinted...
Whitehead Mann Looks to Staff to Back Cash-Raising
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WHITEHEAD MANN, the struggling headhunting group, is exiting the US, trading down to the junior stock market and asking senior managers to invest a total of pounds 1m in the company as part of a fundraising plan to shore up its stricken finances. The...
Why a Wounded Kofi Annan Suits the US
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It's only a week since the embattled UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, was introducing a sweeping new reform plan in New York to usher in a new era for his organisation. Now he is doing little but fielding the speculation as to whether he will have to...
Wildlife Faces Wipeout in the Cradle of Evolution ; Experts Warn of `Catastrophic' Fishing Threat to Galapagos Islands
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ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER is looming in the Galapagos Islands, the Pacific archipelago whose unique wildlife inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Already under pressure from a rapidly growing population and mass tourism, the waters around the...
