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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 December 24, 2009
A Bow for QE That May Not Be Deserved
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Outlook So it looks as if the Bank of England's great money printing experiment is over. A nine to zero vote against extending quantitative easing at December's meeting of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (following a split verdict in November)...
A Child Is Reborn
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Mohammed was a child soldier in Afghanistan. He saw his father shot dead, witnessed savage atrocities and was seen in a Taliban martyrdom video. Now this teenager has been given the chance of a normal life - and you, our readers, can help other boys...
A Decade of Excellence? the Heroes and Zeros
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For all the gloom of the past two years, the first decade of the 21st-century has produced some phenomenal success stories. James Moore picks the 10 best business leaders of our time Bob DiamondIn 1986 Margaret Thatcher unleashed her "big bang" on the...
'A Fractured Skull Did Sound Scary.'
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THE PEOPLE OF 2009 Continuing our series of exclusive interviews with the stars of the year, Jamie Roberts tells James Corrigan about overcoming injury to be named outstanding player of the Lions tour (and Wales' best-looking man) Jamie Roberts started...
African Exodus Will Hit Small Clubs Hardest
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Chelsea may be shorn of Drogba but it is Portsmouth and Hull who most fear the loss of key players. Mark Fleming reports Ttitle race and relegation battle are bubbling away nicely, when suddenly we are hit by probably the biggest mid-season exodus of...
African Exodus Will Hit Small Clubs Hardest
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Chelsea may soon be without Drogba but Portsmouth and Hull have most to lose from loss of key players. Mark Fleming reports Ttitle race and relegation battle are bubbling away nicely, when suddenly we are hit by probably the biggest mid-season exodus...
African Exodus Will Hit Small Clubs Hardest
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Chelsea may soon be without Drogba but Portsmouth and Hull have most to lose from loss of key players. Mark Fleming reports Ttitle race and relegation battle are bubbling away nicely, when suddenly we are hit by probably the biggest mid-season exodus...
Albert Scanlon
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Busby Babe who survived the Munich disaster but never fulfilled his potential as a footballer Albert Scanlon was the most enigmatic of Manchester United's Busby Babes, the group of young, extravagantly talented athletes who were pushing back the boundaries...
An Optimism That Has Drained Away
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It is, from an economic perspective, a sombre end to a sombre year. There is still no evidence, at least in the official statistics, that the recession has ended. That is in contrast to the recovery that seems to have started elsewhere. As is widely...
Apprenticeships Alone Won't Give Hope to a Lost Generation
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Podium THE SIZE of the lost generation of young people out of education, work or training is now a million souls. In a gruesome employment market, having the right skills to compete is essential. Yet our skills system cares more about meeting qualifications...
As the World Sees It
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Food pricesTHE JAPAN TIMESAsia is leading the world economy out of recession. The region's most populous nations - China, India and Indonesia - appear to doing particularly well, setting the pace for renewed growth in North- east Asia, South Asia and...
A Wasteful Christmas? Far from It Opposite
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WITH SHOPPING hours disappearing faster than goodwill to all Eurostar executives, Christmas Eve panic is nigh. But thanks to Sarah Brown, one present-related problem has been neatly solved. Downing Street's very own Martha Stewart has shown us, the grateful...
Biodome Plan Will Bring Congo to Cheshire
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Sanctuary for endangered animals would make Chester zoo one of top five in world A TROPICAL biodome that recreates the atmosphere of Congo and provides a sanctuary for endangered species is to be built at the UK's most popular zoo.The Heart of Africa...
BNP in Trouble for Filing 'Inadequate' Accounts
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THE BRITISH National Party (BNP) could face prosecution for breaking electoral law over its annual accounts after it filed financial records which its accountants refused to sanction and the far-right group's own leader admitted were "inadequate".The...
Brown Called before Iraq Inquiry - but after the Election
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David Miliband and Douglas Alexander will also testify to ChilcotGORDON BROWN and two senior members of the Cabinet have been spared from giving key evidence to the Iraq inquiry until after next year's general election amid accusations that ministers...
Business Diary
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Proof there is life after LehmanSo congratulations to Masa Serdarevic, a new recruit to the FT Trading Room, a specialist part of the pink paper's website. Serdarevic deserves a break - she is better known as one of the faces of the credit crunch. A...
Chelsea Face Striker Crisis as Anelka Is Ruled Out
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Frenchman's injury and early call-up for Drogba mean Ancelotti must field novice pair in key games 'I don't want new players' THE Christmas period began badly for Chelsea yesterday with the news that Nicolas Anelka has suffered a torn hamstring and...
Chess
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We continue with the second part of the Christmas competition:JULY7 a) The Dortmund tournament was won by a Russian player. The winner of Dortmund eight times before, he was the 14th world champion. Who?b) Biel was won by a young Frenchman (M V-L). Please...
Critic's Choice
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CHRISTMAS DAYThe Gruffalo5.30PM BBC1Julia Donaldson's modern classic about a wily mouse that gets the better of its natural predators is brought faithfully to the screen with some beautiful CGI animation. There's a swanky cast to boot, with James Corden...
Drogba and Anelka Leave Striker Crisis for Chelsea
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Frenchman's injury and Ivorian's early call to international duty thrusts novices into spotlight 'I don't want new players' THE Christmas period began badly for Chelsea yesterday with the news that Nicolas Anelka has suffered a torn hamstring and will...
Drogba and Anelka Leave Striker Crisis for Chelsea
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Frenchman's injury and Ivorian's early call to international duty thrusts novices into spotlight 'I don't want new players' THE Christmas period began badly for Chelsea yesterday with the news that Nicolas Anelka has suffered a torn hamstring and will...
ENRC Rises as the Footsie Climbs Higher
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Market Report THE MINING sector dominated the FTSE 100 last night, with the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation leading the way amid thin volumes ahead of Christmas.The Kazakh miner was almost 4 per cent, or 33p, ahead at 901p as metals prices firmed...
Film Choice
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CHRISTMAS DAYThe Incredibles3.10PM BBC1(Brad Bird, 2004) Pixar's blockbuster animation (right), about a family of superheroes forced to live anonymously in the suburbs after rescuing one too many ungrateful citizens, is slick, action- packed and witty...
Ford Likely to Confirm Volvo China Sale in the New Year
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FORD HAS confirmed plans to sell Volvo to the Chinese next year in a deal expected to be worth about 1.25bn.The US car giant said yesterday that "all substantive terms" had been agreed. The deal will see the Chinese company Zhejiang Geely take control...
Franco Injury Leaves Zola Short of Options
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West Ham left with no fit senior strikers ahead of the crunch match with Pompey WEST HAM UNITED manager Gianfranco Zola was plunged further into crisis yesterday when he lost Guillermo Franco to a freak training ground injury that leaves him with no...
Franco Injury Leaves Zola Short of Options
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West Ham left with no fit senior strikers ahead of the crunch match with Pompey WEST HAM UNITED manager Gianfranco Zola was plunged further into crisis yesterday when he lost Guillermo Franco to a freak training ground injury that leaves him with no...
Galle Notebook
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An epiphany born out of disasterAmid the terrible tales of devastation from southern Sri Lanka there are also stories of hope. By his own admission, Sunil Wickramasinghe was somewhat at sea when the 2004 tsunami struck; he had several female partners,...
Good Enough to Eat
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More edible food is wasted at Christmas than at any other time. What happens to the mountain of festive treats left on shops' shelves? Meg Carter finds out Festive food and drink has filled supermarket shelves for weeks and no wonder - according to research...
Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri
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Ayatollah Khomeini's designated successor who fell out of favour with Iran's revolutionary leader The most important turning point in the life of Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri came in the late 1980s, when the authorities in Iran brusquely ordered...
Help! We're Stuffed
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Today and tomorrow, millions of amateur chefs will muddle through the ritual of cooking a turkey. What if it all goes wrong? Clementine Logan dials for advice... What do you do if your turkey recipe tells you to "stuff the neck end" and you have no idea...
Here Are a Few Predictions to Keep You Going until New Year
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In order to predict the political future we turn to the past. There is no other guide. The future is a shapeless, uncertain place, full of vaguely defined possibilities and dangers. No one knows quite what it will be like until we get there.So the coming...
HMV Looks to Diversify with Pounds 46m Bid for Mama Group
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Live music firm supports bid, but HMV faces battle with rival shareholder Management at Mama Group, the company that runs live music venues including the Hammersmith Apollo, yesterday backed a takeover deal worth 46m tabled by HMV.The DVD, music and...
It Never Snows but It Pours for Eurostar
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Eurostar, reeling from the worst week in its history, faced a new threat yesterday - a cut-price competitor on the railway route beneath the Channel.The French environment company Veolia and the Italian state railways are close to agreeing to launch...
Jail Term for Father Whose Balloon Trick Fooled World
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Couple also told to pay $42,000 to cover costs of emergency services THE AMATEUR storm-chaser from Colorado who launched a flying saucer-shaped helium balloon from his back garden one breezy day in October and told police that his six-year-old son was...
Kale, Pork and Bean One-Pot
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The Life Kitchen INGREDIENTS TO SERVE 6:4 tablespoons groundnut oil500g lean boneless pork, cut into bite-sized pieces2 white onions 2, thinly sliced1 teaspoon cumin seeds, crushedhalf a teaspoon dried oregano1 litre chicken stock, preferably home-made2...
Kauto Star Leads Parade of Riches
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RACING One horse may stand out but there are other races to whet the festive appetite KAUTO STAR bestrides the holiday programme, and rightly so in his historic quest for a fourth King George VI Chase, but he should not wholly overshadow it. There...
Kauto Star Leads Parade of Riches
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RACING One horse may stand out but there are other races to whet the festive appetite KAUTO STAR bestrides the holiday programme, and rightly so in his historic quest for a fourth King George VI Chase, but he should not wholly overshadow it. There...
Marriage Is a Skill to Learn like Any Other
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Marriage "has become like scaling Mount Everest, a sort of great moral endeavour", says David Willetts, shadow minister for the family - and what a marvelously truthful description that is. I shall treasure it.The trouble is, David Willetts, having brilliantly...
MPC Unanimous against Printing More Money
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Bank of England policy committee agrees to keep interest rates at record low The prospect of a fresh bout of quantitative easing receded yesterday, after it emerged that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously against...
New Plot Hatched to Dislodge Brown before Election
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Critics would ask him to stand down as leader but remain as PM Gordon Brown could be asked to stand down as Labour leader in the new year but allowed to stay as Prime Minister until the general election, which Labour would fight under a new leader.The...
Now It's Hell on Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Two die as bus crashes on ungritted road in Cornwall Twelve million expected to take to the roads today A SIXTH DAY of sub-zero temperatures and blizzards brought enduring misery to holidaymakers yesterday as the annual Christmas getaway moved into...
Obama Hoping Senate Will Swallow Diluted Version of Health Reform Bill
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Pre-breakfast vote should allow First Family to escape Washington snow for Hawaiian sun over Christmas THE AMERICAN First Family should be taking off for a holiday break in Hawaii after all this morning, assuming the Democrat majority in the US Senate...
Old Pro Can Win the Title - Even at 40
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COMMENT Three o'clock, Sunday 14 March, 2010. Michael Schumacher's Mercedes lines up fifth at Bahrain's Sakhir Circuit, behind the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, and the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. The seven-time world...
Pandora
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Windfall for Blairs as Sedgefield home sellsWhen Tony and Cherie Blair put their Sedgefield home, "Myrobella", on the market this autumn, property experts predicted a rapid sale despite the steep asking price.After all, the house - bought in 1983 for...
People Were Moving in a Muted but Purposeful Way, as If Answering a Call
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The big moment Key events of the past decade from The Independent archive The death of the Queen Mother at the age of 102 was hardly a shock. What was much less certain was how a nation with such highly divergent views on the Royal Family would respond....
Poker
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Here is a Christmas teaser to get your brain cells fired up again after all those yuletide excesses. It is an Omaha puzzle.In Omaha, players start with four pocket cards and then the action proceeds in the same way as hold 'em with a three-card flop,...
Quiz of the Year
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For nearly 150 years, Whitaker's Almanack has been the most comprehensive compendium of facts, trivia and ephemera in the English language. So who better than its team of expert compilers to test your knowledge of 2009? (The answers are on page 11) ART...
Quiz of the Year Answers
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ART & LITERATURE1) Anthony Gormley2) Damien Hirst3) Diana and Callista4) Barack and Michelle Obama5) Michael Vaughan6) Enid Blyton7) They have all written an authorised sequel to a series of books after the original author's death.8) Poet Laureate9)...
Radio Choice
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CHRISTMAS DAYIn Search of the Real Drogba5PM RADIO 5 LIVEDidier Drogba was in the Ivory Coast team playing Malawi in March when a wall collapsed in the stadium, killing 22 spectators. Shocked by the lack of resources to cope with the disaster, the Chelsea...
Revenge Attack on Family of Soldier Killed in Drugs Raid
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Five die in latest episode in Mexican drugs war that has left 14,000 dead IT WAS meant to be a good spell for the Mexican government and its campaign against the drug cartels. Last week, soldiers cornered and gunned down Arturo Beltran Leyva - the...
Romania's Long March
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LEADING ARTICLE OF ALL the 1989 anniversaries celebrated this year, the one that falls tomorrow will be at once the most bitter and the most sweet. It will be bitter because the demise of communism in Romania was the only revolution of this extraordinary...
Sad End for a Troubled Survivor
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Albert Scanlon, who died this week, lived through the Munich air crash. But part of the Busby Babe never recovered Albert Scanlon survived Munich, at least in a manner of speaking he did. He spoke out of the corner of his mouth, like the heroes in the...
Sad End for a Troubled Survivor
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Albert Scanlon, who died this week, lived through the Munich air crash. But part of the Busby Babe never recovered Albert Scanlon survived Munich, at least in a manner of speaking he did. He spoke out of the corner of his mouth, like the heroes in the...
Sad End for a Troubled Survivor
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Albert Scanlon, who died this week, lived through the Munich air crash. But part of the Busby Babe never recovered Albert Scanlon survived Munich, at least in a manner of speaking he did. He spoke out of the corner of his mouth, like the heroes in the...
Santa Who Held Up a Bank to Pay the Elves
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(and other festive tales of our times) Bad SantaIn Nashville, Tennessee, Bad Santa has struck, holding up a bank at gunpoint. Dressed seasonally in bright red with white gloves, white beard, red and white hat and dark sunglasses, he pulled a gun and...
Schumacher Throws Down the Gauntlet
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MOTOR RACING Seven-time champion challenges new generation after Pounds 6.2m Mercedes return MICHAEL Schumacher was immediately installed as third favourite behind Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to win the Formula One world championship after the...
Smith Taunts England Batsmen
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CRICKET FOR Kevin Pietersen, England were "fantastic" in the first Test. For Graeme Smith they have been left to struggle with the "negative taste" of a collapse from which they only just escaped going one down in the four-match series.When England...
Something to Celebrate
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Last Night's Television THE FAMILY CHANNEL 4 THE RULES OF FILM NOIR BBC2 If you're beginning to get Christmas ground-rush (realising that you haven't pulled the ripcord early enough to prevent a hard landing) just be thankful that you're not having to...
Survival Guide to Christmas
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From reliving England's Ashes triumph to going a few rounds with Tyson, Matt Fearon highlights how to make the most of the sofa time you deserve CHRISTMAS EVECricket ODI: India v Sri Lanka, Sky Sports 1, 9amInstead of getting frostbite scraping ice off...
The Day Roy Keane Transformed from Scrooge into Santa
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Fired Up! The Andy Cole Column Christmas is typically a non-event for a professional footballer and, in my 19 years as a player, eventful festive celebrations were few and far between (more of which later). On the big day, there's training, travelling,...
The Day Roy Keane Transformed from Scrooge into Santa
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Fired Up! The Andy Cole Column Christmas is typically a non-event for a professional footballer and, in my 19 years as a player, eventful festive celebrations were few and far between (more of which later). On the big day, there's training, travelling,...
The Day Roy Keane Transformed from Scrooge into Santa
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The Andy Cole Column Fired Up! Christmas is typically a non-event for a professional footballer and, in my 19 years as a player, eventful festive celebrations were few and far between (more of which later). On the big day, theres training, travelling,...
There's a Good Reason Why Climate Naysayers Are Failing
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COPENHAGEN HAS come and gone, but the climate change naysayers are still very much with us. And they are indisputably right about one thing: the scientific consensus can be wrong.Scientists and their predecessors, the natural philosophers, have been...
The Unfinished Business of Romania's Revolution
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On the anniversary of Ceausescu's death, Daniel McLaughlin examines the questions that continue to trouble the country the dictator tyrannised 1989 Europe's Revolution Tomorrow, it will be 20 years since Dan Voinea helped send Nicolae Ceausescu before...
Too Rapid Expansion Has Done Universities No Favours
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LEADING ARTICLE But Lord Mandelson has sown confusion about what should happen next The world of higher education could be forgiven for feeling perplexed, dismayed, even indignant, following Lord Mandelson's announcement that the expansion of recent...
Tories Would Let Public Schools Keep Charitable Status, Says Gove
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Education spokesman: Cameron government would protect independent sector A TORY government would hold immediate talks with the Charity Commission to persuade it to soften its line on reviewing independent schools' charitable status, the party pledged...
Zola in Striking Crisis after Franco Accident
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West Ham suffer another injury blow ahead of the crunch match with Pompey WEST HAM UNITED manager Gianfranco Zola was plunged further into crisis yesterday when he lost Guillermo Franco to a freak training ground injury that leaves him with no fit senior...
