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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 27, 2009
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KNOWING (15)Alex Proyas (115 mins) *STARRING Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose ByrneParanormal communication, clairvoyance, visitors from another world, and Nicolas Cage as an astrophysics professor. Take your pick as to which is the least plausible....
Although the Tories Are Right, They Look Small
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Sketch Oh, to be a bag carrier in the Prime Ministers entourage. Youd need one of Jacksi Smiths new nuclear security suits. He must have been radioactive over the last few days. There was the Governor of the Bank of England (who ripped up his credit...
A Specially Trained Police Unit Spent Seven Years Trying and Failing to Catch This Serial Sex Attacker. A New Team of Met Officers Solved the Case in Three Days
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Scotland Yard sends written apologies to victims after guilty verdict on chef who assaulted 71 women ONE OF Britains most prolific sex attackers could have been caught years earlier if it was not for a series of errors by police officers who continually...
As the World Sees It
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EU leadershipNEW YORK TIMESThe European Unions crisis of leadership during the economic downturn was thrown into sharp relief on Wednesday, as the current president of the 27-nation bloc labelled President Barack Obamas emergency stimulus package as...
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GREAT WORKS What is truth? And who would ever go to a painting for it? Slips of the eye and the hand and the memory get in the way, and assumptions, and attitudes. Art, with all its own momentum, gets in the way, its conventions, its imagination. You...
At Last, an Escape Route for the Banks. but Will They Take It?
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I AM NOT LOOKING for green shoots. The image that the phrase conjures up isnt appropriate. This isnt springtime in an economy that has undergone a hard winter. My picture is rather that a hurricane has been passing overhead. Immense damage has been done...
Big 'Ead Is Back
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FILM OF THE WEEK THE DAMNED UNITED (15) Tom Hooper (97 mins) *** STARRING Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent This film transported me right back to the Saturday-night television of my childhood. It majestically conjures that Match of the Day...
Bittersweet Tastes of Memory, Love and Loss
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The Settler's Cookbook By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown PORTOBELLO Pounds 20 (439pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) fromthe Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 More than a hundred recipes pepper The Settlers Cookbook, but readers with scant interest in cookery should not...
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Des NewtonDes Newton, who died on 30 January at the age of 67, was one of the worlds leading ship bottlers, as well as making model ships for the Royal Family.Newton (pictured right) kept a ship bottling and model workshop at the Merseyside Maritime...
Brown Has Been Forced to Lower Expectations
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Analysis Gordon Brown has softened his language in recent days as he lowered expectations ahead of what might be achieved at next weeks G20 London summit.Ambitious talk of a Bretton Woods II agreement and grand bargain between the worlds 20 richest nations...
Canary Wharf Begins to Feel Crunch
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Landlord feels pressure as economic crisis claims its biggest financial tenants THE BANKING giants Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapsed as the financial meltdown turned the world on its head last year and now their former landlord is teetering...
Caribbean Secrets on an Island of Lost Souls
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Black Rock By Amanda Smyth SERPENT'S TAIL Pounds 10.99 (250pp) Pounds 9.89 (free p&p) from the Independent bookshop: 0870 079 8897 It is 1950s Tobago, and the protagonist of this coming-of-age novel, Celia, spends her days with her younger cousins, her...
Caught in the Net
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How Janes rocked AustinWhile the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas is supposed to be mainly about new bands, bigger names can muscle in on the action, as Janes Addiction (left) did this year. Their show marked the first time in 17 years that...
Cavendish Has Guts but No Gold
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CYCLING Manxman finishes seventh despite brave effort in scratch race THE ROAD-RACING phenomenon and double world track champion Mark Cavendish yesterday failed to add a third medal to his collection but still left the velodrome with his head held high....
Chess
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The 4NCL met last weekend for the penultimate session of the season: a session during which, according to the French model, the top two divisions split into pools, with the top pools battling for honours the title itself in division 1 and promotion...
City Reheats Premier Foods Bid Rumours
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Market Report Rather than cooking up a tasty culinary delight, the Citys traders are reheating leftovers with more talk of a deal involving Premier Foods. The stock has been the focus of some chit-chat this week, with talk of Kraft hiving off divisions...
Credit Crisis Diary
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Roddy stays mum right to the lastThe latest edition of PR Week makes much of its exclusive interview with Roddy Kennedy, the charming head of media at the oil giant BP, who has apparently never before offered such a chat. Unfortunately for the mag, Kennedy...
Despite Brown's Best Efforts, G20 Can Only Disappoint
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Outlook Hopes of winning agreement at next weeks summit of the G20 for a co-ordinated fiscal stimulus have turned to dust before the meeting could even begin. France and Germany were never in favour of it in the first place, preferring instead to preach...
DNA Blunder Creates Phantom Serial Killer
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Police admit they wasted 15 years hunting for the 'Woman Without a Face' SHE WAS a mysterious serial killer known as the The Woman Without a Face and detectives across Europe spent more than 15 years doing their utmost to bring her to justice for at...
Dvd Reviews
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WALTZ WITH BASHIR (18)Aril Folman (90 mins) ****Waltz with Bashir has been banned in most Arab countries, and its easy to see why. It is an animated documentary film about the Sabra and Shatila massacre during the Lebanon War of 1982, a subject always...
Factional Strife in an Age of Monsters
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THE WEEK IN BOOKS Even in an age of multiplying media and dividing audiences, a big show on the small or large screen can swiftly catapult a writer from twilight to limelight. Readers of The Independent might, via reviews and interviews, have followed...
Financial Crisis 'Caused by White Men with Blue Eyes'
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With Brown at his side, Brazilian leader apportions blame for global recession A British minister warned leaders of the worlds biggest economies yesterday that they must produce more than empty rhetoric at the crucial G20 summit in London next week.Lord...
From 24 to Outer Space
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What could Kiefer Sutherland do after a massive hit series? Something out of this world, he tells Lesley O'Toole Kiefer Sutherland could give Twilights Robert Pattinson a tip or two about being the hunted male star of a hugely successful vampire movie....
From the Gutter to the Stars
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Lowside of the Road By Barney Hoskyns FABER & FABER Pounds 20 (602pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Tom Waits stumbled into public attention in 1974, with his second album, The Heart of Saturday Night. Nothing quite...
Google 'Trying to Smear Street View Critic'
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Privacy campaign head claims technology giant linked him to rival Microsoft WHAT STARTED as tensions between a privacy campaign group and Google over its controversial mapping service Street View has spilled over into claims of conspiracy theories.Simon...
Hail, Caesar
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Rome marks birth of emperor who built the Colosseum His name is immortalised in modern Italian as the word for a public urinal, but tomorrow that humiliation will be forgotten as Rome sets about throwing a massive party for the Emperor Vespasians 2,000th...
Hope for Africa?
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK Wars, Guns and Votes By Paul Collier BODLEY HEAD Pounds 20 (255pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from the Independent bookshop: 0870 079 8897 It's Our Turn to Eat By Michela Wrong FOURTH ESTATE Pounds 12.99 (369pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p)...
Hormones, Heartbreak and a Whiff of the Sea
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All the Nice Girls By Joan Bakewell VIRAGO Pounds 17.99 (341pp) Pounds 16.29 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897Dont sailors have all the luck: not only do all the nice girls in Joan Bakewells debut novel love them, but the nasty...
How the West Lost Its Way in the East
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Kabul was taken in days, but then the 'liberation of Afghanistan' became a slow-motion disaster. Patrick Cockburn, who has reported on the conflict since 2001, charts the fatal mistakes Afghanistan: how the West lost its way in the East After seven long...
I Forgive Her Killer, Says Backpacker's Father
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Life sentence for teenage New Zealander guilty of killing British tourist The father of a British tourist murdered in New Zealand said yesterday that he felt sorry for his daughters teenage killer, after the 15-year-old was given a life sentence.Jahche...
'I'm like Wallace - a Tinkerer'
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Wallace & Gromit are a labour of love for their creator Nick Park. The much-loved Plasticine pair have almost become his children THE BIG INTERVIEW NICK PARK If you wanted to explain a certain kind of Englishness to a Martian, you could do much worse...
Indian Dance to the Music of Time
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The Immortals By Amit Chaudhuri PICADOR Pounds 16.99 (404pp) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897Indian novelists are a dime a dozen these days, but they all seem to write about crime, Bollywood or poverty. Amit Chaudhuri...
Inside the Hidden Heart of PJ Harvey
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The avant-garde singer-songwriter has teamed up with an old friend to shock again. Nick Hasted reports Polly Jean Harvey and John Parish are sitting across from each other in a quiet hotel with the comfort of 20 years acquaintance. Harvey, of course,...
I Raise My Frappuccino to the Brits
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ECONOMIES AROUND the world have, for thousands of years, recreated themselves many times. Often, the outcome has represented progress brought about by perseverance, innovation and optimism.Each time I visit the UK, I am struck by the resilience and fundamental...
I Shall Bear Witness; to the Bitter End by Victor Klemperer
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BOOK OF A LIFETIME This is one of the great masterpieces of the Second World War. Victor Klemperer was a German Jewish professor and, miraculously, one of a handful of Jews who survived the entire war - living, until the last three months, openly in...
Israel Accused of Carrying out Air Strike on Sudanese Soil
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Olmert says his nation can hit every place 'near and far' in order to stop terror ISRAEL CARRIED out air strikes in January on a convoy moving through Sudan which it believed to be carrying weapons destined for Hamas in Gaza, according to a report by...
'It Is Not a Glamorous Life. I Don't Earn Much'
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With even Formula One suffering in the global recession, Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima is inspired not by being a playboy but by his father THE BRIAN VINER INTERVIEW This time a year ago Kazuki Nakajima was preparing for his debut season as a Formula...
'It Is Not a Glamorous Life. I Don't Earn Much'
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With even Formula One suffering in the global recession, Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima is inspired not by being a playboy but by his father THE BRIAN VINER INTERVIEW This time a year ago Kazuki Nakajima was preparing for his debut season as a Formula...
'It Is Not a Glamorous Life. I Don't Earn Much'
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With even Formula One suffering in the global recession, Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima is inspired not by being a playboy but by his father THE BRIAN VINER INTERVIEW This time a year ago Kazuki Nakajima was preparing for his debut season as a Formula...
Jed Mercurio
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ONE MINUTE WITH... WHERE ARE YOU NOW AND WHAT CAN YOU SEE?In my study at the top of my house in Teddington. Im looking out over our garden. Theres a plastic cricket bat my son has left on the lawn and a cat staring longingly into a pond.WHAT ARE YOU...
John Hope Franklin
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Pre-eminent scholar of black American history who played a vital role in the fight for civil rights If Americas agonising but ultimately uplifting racial journey found expression in a single person, it was John Hope Franklin: participant, teacher, role...
Johnson Takes Pride in Progress
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RUGBY UNION Manager satisfied with England's improvement since run of autumn defeats Martin Johnson was not quite in I told you so mood, but when the England manager made an early return to Twickenham yesterday to assess his teams performance in the...
Johnson Takes Pride in Progress
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RUGBY UNION Manager satisfied with England's improvement since run of autumn defeats Martin Johnson was not quite in I told you so mood, but when the England manager made an early return to Twickenham yesterday to assess his teams performance in the...
Kingfisher Profits Fall 75 per Cent as Chinese Woes Takes Their Toll
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Kingfisher, the global DIY group and owner of B&Q, expects to endure another tough year in the UK home- improvement market, despite grabbing bathroom and kitchen sales from the collapse of the defunct furniture retailer MFI.City analysts have pencilled...
Lennon and Foster Step Up for England
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Flying winger to be picked by Capello on right ahead of former captain Beckham Fabio Capello will give Aaron Lennon and Ben Foster their chance to impress tomorrow against Slovakia, with Lennon a major contender to start the match having trained all...
Lennon and Foster Step Up for England
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Flying winger to be picked by Capello on right ahead of former captain Beckham Fabio Capello will give Aaron Lennon and Ben Foster their chance to impress tomorrow against Slovakia, with Lennon a major contender to start the match having trained all...
Lord Kilmarnock
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Writer and politician who also helped care for Kingsley Amis in the novelist's later years Men who have been employed as butlers rarely rate an entry in newspaper obituary pages, even when they have served distinguished literary figures such as the novelist...
Militants Claim Deal to Release UK Hostages in Iraq
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An Iraqi group which kidnapped five Britons says it has agreed a deal with the UK and the US in which it will release one western hostage in return for the handover of 10 militants in allied custody.A spokesman for Leagues of the Righteous said that...
My Ancestor Was a Grave Robber (and Other Skeletons in the Closet)
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The release online of 77 million historical records means that our forebears' lives are just a few clicks away. By Cahal Milmo JAMES COCKMAN was just 16 when he hit on his scheme to add to his meagre income as an apothecarys assistant at a London workhouse...
New Releases
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LEONARD COHEN Live in London Columbia ***** Its wonderful to be gathered here, on just the other side of intimacy, murmurs Leonard Cohen as he takes the stage for one of last years hugely successful UK shows. Its a line which encapsulates the essence...
Next Vows to Shun Mass Discounting as Profits Slip 14 per Cent
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Next, the fashion giant, has vowed to stick to its principles of not following the hefty discounting of rival retailers, despite being pessimistic about trading conditions in the first half of this year and posting a 14 per cent fall in full-year pre-tax...
Obama's Exit Strategy for Afghanistan
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President will end weeks of White House division with plan for more troops and a 'civilian surge Obama: US troops will aim to quit Afghanistan in five years BARACK OBAMA will vow to stop the drift in the war in Afghanistan with a new plan to assert greater...
Objection! Judges Reject New Robes
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High Court judiciary say Betty Jackson designs make them look like characters from 'Star Trek' THE ENGLISH judiciary has long been regarded as a bastion of conservative mores and sartorial continuity. So when, 10 months ago, former designer of the year...
Observations
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Natasha and Daisy create the ultimate in toxic divasBY EMMA LOVE*** Weve all met someone like this: a selfish, demanding diva, a high-maintenance, self-obsessed person who comes into your life and causes all sorts of unnecessary drama. And now, in their...
Pakistan's Aid to Insurgents Threatens Obama's Plan
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Islamabad's intelligence agency is accused of giving Taliban arms and money to fight US troops across border WHAT NEXT FOR AFGHANISTAN A TWO-PART SPECIAL REPORT ON A NATION IN CRISIS PAKISTANS SHADOWY military intelligence agency has been accused of...
Pandora
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No thanks, Mr Blair: Filipinos snub ex-PM* AND SO to the latest twist in Tony Blairs career as a peacemaker. It is, it should be said, a rather delightful one. For while most world leaders are only too pleased to be seen brunching with the former PM,...
Panel Set to Tackle Betting Corruption
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THE SPORTS MINISTER, Gerry Sutcliffe, will this morning begin to assemble an anti-corruption panel of experts from British sports governing bodies, the gambling industry, the police, the legal profession and the Gambling Commission to work on a strategy...
Panel Set to Tackle Betting Corruption
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THE Sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, will this morning begin to assemble an anti-corruption panel of experts from British sports governing bodies, the gambling industry, the police, the legal profession and the Gambling Commission to work on a strategy...
Panel Set to Tackle Betting Corruption
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THE Sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, will this morning begin to assemble an anti-corruption panel of experts from British sports governing bodies, the gambling industry, the police, the legal profession and the Gambling Commission to work on a strategy...
Paperbacks
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One Fifth Avenue By Candace Bushnell ABACUS Pounds 6.99 (450pp) (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 During last years screenings of Sex and the City, audiences broke into applause not when Carrie got to walk down the aisle, but when...
Police Launch Investigation of MI5 over Torture Claims
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Inquiry into agent who was present during Binyam Mohamed's interrogation THE SECURITY service, MI5, is to be investigated by the Metropolitan Police over allegations that its officers were complicit in the torture of a UK resident held by the US government...
Preaching to the Unconverted
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The failed sale of a mammoth tusk changed Eslam Jawaad's life. Now, as Nick Hasted discovers, the rapper has higher aspirations The double-take from a waitress as Eslam Jawaad talks in an east London bar is understandable. This hefty, deep-voiced Syrian-...
Pryce Plays on for Saints despite Facing Jail Sentence
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RUGBY LEAGUE The St Helens and England stand-off Leon Pryce and his former team-mate Stuart Reardon face jail sentences after admitting assault charges in court in Bradford yesterday. The two were released on conditional bail and will be sentenced at...
Pryce Plays on for Saints despite Facing Jail Sentence
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RUGBY LEAGUE The St Helens and England stand-off Leon Pryce and his former team-mate Stuart Reardon face jail sentences after admitting assault charges in court in Bradford yesterday. The two were released on conditional bail and will be sentenced at...
Pursuit Trio Open GB Gold Account
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CYCLING Women's team claw back advantage to defeat New Zealand in thrilling duel After what felt like a painfully long wait, the leading favourites Great Britain finally won their first gold medal of the 2009 World Track Championships here last night...
Put off by Bricks and Hauteur
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LAST NIGHT'S TELEVISION I Own Britain's Best Home FIVE The Mentalist FIVE Property programmes have been in a bit of a fix recently, what with banks refusing to give out mortgages and no one having any money to do up their living room. Five, however,...
Raise Your Glass to Boring United Utilities
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Investment Column Our view: BuyShare price: 496.5p (-14p)Big, bland and a little bit boring. These are all adjectives that can be applied to the North-west water group United Utilities, with the good news being that all three mean that in these markets,...
Relief for Button after Diffuser Gets All-Clear
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MOTOR RACING Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars passed by race stewards for Australian Grand Prix Jenson Button was finally able to sleep easily last night after race stewards for Sundays Australian Grand Prix cleared his Brawn Formula One car and those...
Relief for Button after Diffuser Gets All-Clear
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MOTOR RACING Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars passed by race stewards for Australian Grand Prix Jenson Button was finally able to sleep easily last night after race stewards for Sundays Australian Grand Prix cleared his Brawn Formula One car and those...
Relief for Button after Diffuser Gets All-Clear
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MOTOR RACING Brawn, Toyota and Williams cars passed by race stewards for Australian Grand Prix Jenson Button was finally able to sleep easily last night after race stewards for Sundays Australian Grand Prix cleared his Brawn Formula One car and those...
Retail Sales Grow at Slowest Rate for 14 Years
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Smaller retailers are being hit hardest by the recession, according to the latest official data, which shows that UK retail sales last month grew at the slowest rate since September 1995.The Office of National Statistics said that the volume of retail...
'Retire after 2010? No Way,' Says Beckham
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Midfielder says he would still like to be 'involved with squad ... even when I'm 45' David Beckham reiterated yesterday that he has no intention of retiring after the 2010 World Cup finals, should England qualify, and said that he would always make himself...
Robinho Defends His City Record
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Brazilian insists he is 'playing well' despite lack of goals this calendar year Robinho has done little to pacify those who have come to question his 160,000-a-week wages at Manchester City by declaring that the superior form he has been displaying for...
Robinho Defends His City Record
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Brazilian insists he is 'playing well' despite lack of goals this calendar year Robinho has done little to pacify those who have come to question his 160,000-a-week wages at Manchester City by declaring that the superior form he has been displaying for...
Robinho Defends His City Record
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Brazilian insists he is 'playing well' despite lack of goals this calendar year Robinho has done little to pacify those who have come to question his 160,000-a-week wages at Manchester City by declaring that the superior form he has been displaying for...
Row Grows in Brooklyn over Barclays' Nets Deal
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Angry New Yorkers are urging the crusading state attorney- general, Andrew Cuomo, to block Barclays $300m-plus deal for naming rights to a new basketball stadium in Brooklyn, after the UK bank received taxpayer money through AIG.Barclays was one of the...
Royal Succession Rules May Be Reformed
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Buckingham Palace and PM in talks to give women equal rights to throne ROYAL DAUGHTERS could be given an equal claim to the throne and the ban on heirs marrying Roman Catholics may be scrapped under plans discussed by Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.The...
Some 40 Years on, the Voice and the Dictates Are Pure Brian Clough
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In a Derby County 'Player's Ticket' from 1968 Sam Wallace finds clues to the great man's rise Every Derby County player from nervous schoolboy signings to Dave Mackay, bought from Tottenham Hotspur in 1968, had a copy of it pressed into their hands when...
South by Southwest Heads in the Right Direction
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From a growling singer sporting a pink turban to Sweden's answer to Bob Dylan, the line-up of promising young acts at this year's gathering in Austin, Texas showed that the festival is continuing to set the pace for cutting-edge bands, says Alex Hannaford...
Such Depths of Pessimism Should Make Equity Investors Optimistic
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Economic Life This column should start with a public health warning. It is that what follows may prove completely wrong. I say that because I want to make the case for buying equities at this stage of the cycle, arguing that they are cheap on just about...
Tales of a Magic Mountain
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Sacred Sierra By Jason Webster CHATTO & WINDUS Pounds 12.99 (347pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Like Gerald Brenans immortal South from Granada, Sacred Sierra is a reminder that all good things perish, and most...
The Case for Sex on Television
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LEADING ARTICLE THE PROPOSALS to allow advertisements for pregnancy advisory services to be aired on television and radio, and for condom adverts to be shown before the 9pm watershed, have reactivated a familiar debate about the official approach to...
The Cybermen Who Plot Behind Your Screen
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Cyburbia By James Harkin LITTLE, BROWN Pounds 17.99 (274pp) Pounds 16.29 (free p&p) from the Independent bookshop: 0870 079 8897Doctor Whos Cybermen are half-organism, half-machine and all steely logic and brutality. Their aim is to conquer the universe...
The Diary
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An inside jobWhen Bryn Terfel (right) slipped into Wandsworth Prison to take part in a rehearsal performance of West Side Story alongside the inmates earlier this month, prisoners were left dazzled, according to Pimlico Operas musical director, Toby...
The First among Equines
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Eclipse By Nicholas Clee BANTAM Pounds 25 (344pp) Pounds 22.50 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 When Thomas Babington Macaulay wanted to say that Boswells biography of Johnson was the only one that counted, he lighted on a handy...
The Man with the Golden Franchise
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Cubby Broccoli was the man who made 007 a global superstar - but he should be honoured for so much more, says Geoffrey Macnab This year is the centenary of the birth of Albert R Broccoli. Cubby, as he was nicknamed, was the producer who ushered the James...
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Offers Us a Chance for Recovery
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Podium WITH ALL the turbulence that Lebanon endured, I am hopeful that the worst is behind us. My optimism stems from the resilience of the Lebanese, their ability to withstand very difficult conditions, and their stubborn attachment to their independence.As...
The Teenage Picks
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Inbetweeners is the latest series to show that British TV is challenging America in the teen market. And young viewers love it, says Julian Hall The second series of sixth-form teen comedy The Inbetweeners starts next week on E4, following hot on the...
The Terror Suspect, the Agent, and 15 Months of Hell in a Moroccan Jail
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It was Binyam Mohameds determination to break his heroin addiction which led the British resident to exchange his life in London for one in the Islamic state of Afghanistan. Leaving his job as a Kensington caretaker, he arrived in Kabul around June 2001.His...
The Top Gay Icons (Straight Up!)
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There are some surprisingly heterosexual inclusions in the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition. Arifa Akbar reports What do the Princess of Wales, Nelson Mandela and Maya Angelou have in common? They are todays greatest gay icons, of course. A...
They Don't Begin and End with Kylie Minogue and Judy Garland
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Comment This year is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York a marker for many in the gay community in terms of resistance and overcoming the negative attitudes and discrimination that gay people have experienced for so long. But what...
This Crisis Affords a Glimpse of Global Power in Transition
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LEADING ARTICLE The G20 summit is already exposing tensions between the US and China A London perspective on next weeks G20 summit inevitably places Britain, and the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at the centre. But among those countries briefly orbiting...
This May Seem a Heavenly Underground
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... but psychotherapists are increasingly concerned that Moscow's metro is causing panic attacks and paranoia PROBLEMS AT home, worried about losing your job in the economic crisis, or just feeling down? Russian medical experts have the answer take...
Thoughts for Today
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If you want your eyes opened to the erotic potential of electricity pylons, or the nowhere-ness of airports, Alain de Botton is your man. His new book, audaciously, tries to find the glamour and drama in the world of work. He talks to Katy Guest It is...
Time to Wake Up to Rip Van Winkle
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Twelve to follow for the Flat. Racing Correspondent Chris McGrath selects horses to pay their way in the new season starting tomorrow ARIST0CRAT3yo colt; Form figures: 53-Trainer: Aidan OBrienThe bewildering variety of top-class middle-distance pedigrees...
Time to Wake Up to Rip Van Winkle
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Twelve to follow for the Flat. Racing Correspondent Chris McGrath selects horses to pay their way in the new season starting tomorrow ARIST0CRAT3yo colt; Form figures: 53-Trainer: Aidan OBrienThe bewildering variety of top-class middle-distance pedigrees...
Time to Wake Up to Rip Van Winkle
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Twelve to follow for the Flat. Racing Correspondent Chris McGrath selects horses to pay their way in the new season starting tomorrow ARIST0CRAT3yo colt; Form figures: 53-Trainer: Aidan OBrienThe bewildering variety of top-class middle-distance pedigrees...
To Cut a Long Story Short
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Amazing what beer can do. Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet describes how the rifts were healed and the band got ready to tour again The idea of us getting back together had been put forward several times over the years, for one reason or another. I did...
Trade Offenders Named and Shamed While Nations Fall out over Fiscal Boost
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Countdown to G-20 So far from the international commitment to a coordinated fiscal boost he once dreamed of, the Prime Minister now seems content to accept a mere stock-taking exercise at the G20 summit next week: Nobody is suggesting that people come...
United's AIG Deal in Doubt
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Sir Alex Ferguson expressed some confidence, seven days ago, that the credit crunch would not affect his summer transfer plans, such as they might be. If I wanted a player [in the past], the club would try to find the money. That will still be the case....
