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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 May 10, 2011
Abramovich Runs the Rule over Porto's Villas-Boas
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Ancelotti's fate looks to be sealed, with 33-year-old Portuguese a leading candidate to replace him Carlo Ancelotti's fate has been sealed by Chelsea's mediocre display at Old Trafford on Sunday. Any forlorn hope that Roman Abramovich might offer him...
Activists Battle Police over Right to Protest
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Anti-cuts campaigners are calling for an end to "political policing" as they launch a new movement backed by MPs, artists and activists to defend the rights of peaceful demonstrators across Britain.Defend the Right to Protest, an organisation founded...
A Legal Crisis in 140 Characters
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Celebrity gagging orders revealed on Twitter. 60,000 followers. Lawyers unable to remove tweets. Is this the end of the #superinjunction? Lawyers predict demise of the super-injunction after mystery Twitter leak In what has been described as the "Spycatcher...
A Little Bird Told Me
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The Tuesday Essay It's a melting pot of fact, fiction and fantasy, where anyone can say what they like without fear of the consequences. So is Twitter making an ass of the law - or of the people who use it? By Rhodri Marsden I find celebrity gossip excruciatingly...
A Man of Infinite Jest
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Not many of us have heard of playwright Perry Pontac. More's the pity, says Alan Bennett - his Shakespeare spoofs, now in print, are perfect parodies The plays of Perry Pontac have been a well-kept secret on BBC radio for far too long. They have been...
Anne Blonstein
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Experimental poet whose work was informed by her scientific background In her measures and encryptions, Anne Blonstein was a poet in and for our digital times. To read her poetry is to be made to reflect on what reading is. In code-breaking, the keyboard...
Australia to Act over 'Frightening' Suicide Rate among Aborigines
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Such is the despair among young Aborigines in the towns that dot the Kimberley region of Western Australia that the indigenous suicide rate is nearly three times that of white people in the area.Since last December, 11 Aboriginal people in the Kimberley...
Belgian Rider Weylandt Dies in High-Speed Crash in Giro
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CYCLING The Giro d'Italia is in mourning today after Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt crashed badly on a dangerous descent yesterday and died later of his injuries. He is the first rider to die in a major Tour since Fabio Casartelli in the 1995 Tour de...
Belgian Rider Weylandt Dies in High-Speed Crash in Giro
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CYCLING The Giro d'Italia is in mourning today after Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt crashed badly on a dangerous descent yesterday and died later of his injuries. He is the first rider to die in a major Tour since Fabio Casartelli in the 1995 Tour de...
Belgian Rider Weylandt Dies in High-Speed Crash in Giro
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CYCLING The Giro d'Italia is in mourning today after Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt crashed badly on a dangerous descent yesterday and died later of his injuries. He is the first rider to die in a major Tour since Fabio Casartelli in the 1995 Tour de...
Blindfolded, Beaten and Tortured: Grim New Testimony Reveals Fate of Bahrain's Persecuted Doctors
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Horrifying evidence sheds light on brutality of state crackdown on medical staff. Jeremy Laurance reports Harrowing testimony of torture, intimidation and humiliation from a doctor arrested in the crackdown on medical staff in Bahrain has revealed the...
Box Office Bites Back as Gibson Bombs Again
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It is a poignant film about a man with depression who finds salvation through a beaver glove puppet he takes everywhere and speaks through. More poignant still may be this: its star needs a little salvation himself and, according to the first weekend...
Bridge
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Defence is recognised as the most difficult part of this game. That's why the modern tendency is to bid game, then try to make it.Today's hand is from Australia's 50th Gold Coast Congress - an event that goes from strength to strength and attracts ever-...
Business Diary
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Dyson is second only to BrunelFor services to vacuum cleaners? When GE surveyed 900 British engineering undergraduates about their views on the greatest engineers in history, it received some surprising answers. Not so much Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a...
Chess
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The quarter-final phase of the Fide Candidates tournament concluded in Kazan yesterday with play-offs in two of the matches: Vladimir Kramnik vs Teimour Radjabov and Levon Aronian vs Alexander GrischukGata Kamsky had won the fine game 2 (below) and survived...
Clegg's Next Dilemma: Does He Reaffirm the Coalition Deal - and Risk His Party's Wrath?
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Andrew Grice on the question threatening to deepen splits within the battered and bruised Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg is being warned by Liberal Democrat ministers not to commit to a new set of "marriage vows" with David Cameron following the bitter...
Digital Digest
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THE BEST OF THE WEB ARTSpeeded-up citiesThis time-lapse video by the Canadian artist Dominic Boudreault have be one of the most pompous soundtracks you're likely to hear but it is, in fact, rather beautiful. Boudreault set up his camera in Montreal,...
Doctors Must Speak Up about This Human Rights Scandal
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Medical life The Independent received some dramatic stories from Bahrain last week of beatings and harassment endured by doctors and nurses at the hands of the security services. The latest accounts of ill treatment appear in today's paper. Victims were...
'Double Dip' Predicted for Housing Market
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House prices look set for a "double dip" this year, even if the economy as a whole manages to avoid it - with a total real-terms deprecation in property values of close to a third since the peak of 2007, say analysts.The news comes despite evidence of...
Ferdinand's Stalker Is Jailed for Harassing Footballer at His Home
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An obsessed female fan who stalked the Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand was described as a "predatory and manipulative fantasist" yesterday as she was jailed for 10 weeks for assaulting a police officer and harassing the star at his home.Susanne...
Gallery Deserves Praise for Visitor-Calming Measures
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Comment Never mind a little knowledge of art history and an open mind, visitors to today's blockbuster exhibitions would do better to arm themselves with a pair of binoculars and a stepladder. Whether it's the terracotta army or Monet, the artworks are...
Giggs the Perfect Specimen of United's Evolution into Serial Winners without Rival
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Honestly, who would have thought that while delving for what so many of Manchester United's rivals seem to consider the unfathomable mystery of their relentless success we might encounter the radiating logic, the cool, dispassionate analysis, of Gary...
Greece Slips Further into Junk Bond Territory
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In a further humiliation and a powerful indicator of fast evaporating international confidence the Standard and Poor's credit ratings agency has pushed Greek government bonds further into "junk" territory with a downgrade from BB- to B.For an advanced...
Hannon Confident Miler Cliffs Will Hit New Highs
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This season's standards for performance, anticipation, excitement and stupefaction were certainly set by Frankel on the Rowley Mile 10 days ago. And although the last is unlikely to be surpassed and the first may not be, it would be a poor campaign if...
Hannon Confident Miler Cliffs Will Hit New Highs
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This season's standards for performance, anticipation, excitement and stupefaction were certainly set by Frankel on the Rowley Mile 10 days ago. And although the last is unlikely to be surpassed and the first may not be, it would be a poor campaign if...
Hannon Confident Miler Cliffs Will Hit New Highs
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This season's standards for performance, anticipation, excitement and stupefaction were certainly set by Frankel on the Rowley Mile 10 days ago. And although the last is unlikely to be surpassed and the first may not be, it would be a poor campaign if...
High Street Ken's Diary
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Donald tries to come up trumps playing race cardWith Newt Gingrich now officially in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the eccentrically-coiffed front-runner of sorts, Donald Trump, is surely smart to be scotching unfavourable rumours...
Holloway Upset after Having to Break Up Feuding Players
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Blackpool manager Ian Holloway had to intervene in a row between DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam following Saturday's draw at Tottenham. The pair had argued over penalty-taking duties during the match and Holloway revealed that their dispute continued after...
Holloway Upset after Having to Break Up Feuding Players
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Blackpool manager Ian Holloway had to intervene in a row between DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam following Saturday's draw at Tottenham. The pair had argued over penalty-taking duties during the match and Holloway revealed that their dispute continued after...
Holloway Upset after Having to Break Up Feuding Players
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Blackpool manager Ian Holloway had to intervene in a row between DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam following Saturday's draw at Tottenham. The pair had argued over penalty-taking duties during the match and Holloway revealed that their dispute continued after...
Households Offered Pounds 10,000 to Improve Energy Efficiency
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Up to 14 million families will be able to apply for up to 10,000 each to pay for energy-efficiency improvements on their properties, ministers will announce today. The money - which will be paid back in energy savings over 20 years - is almost double...
How We Got Lost in the Woods
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Environment After plans to sell off England's forests were dramatically shelved, The Independent launched a prize for the best writing on their future. Here, Michael McCarthy introduces the winning article It provoked a sudden swell of public outrage...
HSBC Profit Falls on PPI Charge and Costs
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HSBC's profit fell in the first quarter of this year as the bank set aside $440m (270m) to pay for payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling and other costs rose sharply.The charge for PPI was lower than expected after Lloyds and Barclays made provisions...
In Apple We Trust - but Not the Greedy Banks
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Social Studies CNN did an interesting thing the other day. They asked two technology lawyers to do something that millions of us have claimed to do but very few actually have. They asked them to read the iTunes Terms and Conditions -- an electronic scroll...
In a Volatile Market, Fix Your Energy Deal without Delay
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Comment British Gas has sent out a clear warning that energy prices are likely to rise again later this year, unless wholesale energy prices start to fall back again and quickly.The wholesale markets are where energy suppliers buy the gas and electricity...
In the Twitter Era, Privacy Is Finished
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Super-injunctions As the late Frankie Howerd didn't quite say: Twitter ye not. Or at least, don't use the Twitter networking website to out sundry sportsmen and showbusiness types who have taken out so-called super- injunctions banning all public mention...
It Could Have Been an Execution. but the Lynch Mob Flunked It
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SKETCH It's not clear that Andrew Lansley won the argument yesterday but he certainly didn't lose it. His accuser must be mortified. In the Opposition day debate on the future of the NHS there was a chance there for a parliamentary execution. Lansley...
It's Time for Your Meditation
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Health More than just an aid to wellbeing, the ancient discipline could soon be used to treat conditions from obesity to multiple sclerosis. By Roger Dobson When Chris Brown used a laser to create repeated pin-pricks of pain in the arms of volunteers,...
John Walker
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Singer with the Walker Brothers, whose fame briefly rivalled the Beatles' In 1964 three unrelated Americans, Scott Engel, John Maus and Gary Leeds became the Walker Brothers, and once settled in London had No 1 hits with "Make It Easy On Yourself" and...
John Whittaker Property Developer
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The business on... Should I know him?Not necessarily - Mr Whittaker is relatively low profile. Still, Peel Group, his company, is definitely not. And it has been exceptionally busy wheeling and dealing this year. In January, it sold the Trafford Centre,...
Lansley Holding out on Role for Hospital Doctors
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The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, is resisting a key Downing Street demand to give hospital doctors a greater say in the care that is commissioned for NHS patients.The Independent understands that Mr Lansley has agreed to demands by No 10 that significant...
Lansley Won't Survive the Surgery Now Facing His Reform
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NHS We are witnessing an unusual contortion. Most of those presiding over what is known comically as the pause in the NHS reforms supported the original proposals, and to some extent still do. They may have the odd reservation and worry about the "way...
Lawyer Launches Challenge to Drone Attacks
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A British-trained Pakistani lawyer announced yesterday that he intends to use courts in Pakistan, the UK and the United States to try and halt drone strikes in his country's tribal areas.Mirza Shahzad Akbar has already filed a case against the CIA in...
Let Any Gagging Originate from a UK Court, Not a Phalanx of Eurojudges
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Comment The great constitutional principle of British law is that justice must be seen to be done. Until the 1998 Human Rights Act, privacy had no real protection, demonstrated by the scandalous behaviour of the media when journalists infiltrated the...
LinkedIn Float Set to Value Founder at $600M
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Reid Hoffman, the entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn eight years ago, will have a paper worth of more than $600m when the professional networking website floats on the New York Stock Exchange later this month.Bankers put a value on Mr Hoffman's 20 per...
March Yes, but That Word You Use Is Helping No One
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Comment Most women know how it feels to be called a slut. Whether it has been spat vituperatively at them or bandied supposedly in jest, the emotion remains the same.And there is nothing remotely empowering about it. The sentiment behind the "Slutwalk"...
Mexico Marches over Deadly Cost of War on Drugs
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Tired of innocent bloodshed, 90,000 people have participated in a "silent march" in Mexico City to protest against the country's strategy in its "war on drugs", which is estimated to have claimed more than 35,000 lives.The march, which began three days...
Middletons Complain over Bikini Photographs
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The Middleton family has complained to the Press Complaints Commission after two newspapers published pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge and her sister Pippa in bikinis on a yacht.The family decided to deliver a shot across the bows to tabloid newspapers,...
Mother: 'Doherty Knows How My Son Died at Party'
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More than four years after her son plummeted to his death from a balcony following a row with singer Pete Doherty and his friends, Sheila Blanco will hear this week whether her long fight for justice has been successful.Mark Blanco, a 30-year-old actor,...
Moved by a Devilishly Good Debut
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OPERA The Damnation of Faust Coliseum, London **** Poor old Berlioz. The moment Terry Gilliam was announced as director of this new ENO staging, it was obvious that the composer would scarcely get a look-in, at least in advance. It's the first venture...
My Life, Interrupted
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Health Ellie Johnson was returning from a university ball when a horrific car accident changed everything. She describes the long road back to a normal life Nobody knows exactly what happened, or how. But, just as we were joining the motorway - a friend...
My Unforgettable Bunker Lesson with Ballesteros
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Even when the great man's career was in decline, he made time to help Brian Viner improve his short game, as well as talking Woods, wedges, putters and personalities No golfer, not even Arnold Palmer, the nearest to him in terms of charisma and impact,...
National Express Board Seals Deal with Activist Shareholder
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TRANSPORT A potential bust-up at National Express's annual meeting today looks to have been avoided after an 11th-hour deal between the board of the bus and train operator and its activist investor, the US hedge fund Elliott.Elliott, which owns 18 per...
Nightmarish Tale Goes like a Dream
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The Tuesday Book A MONSTER CALLS By Patrick Ness, illustrated by Jim Kay WALKER BOOKS, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 When novelist Siobhan Dowd died in 2007, she left four finished books and...
OECD Sees Slower UK Growth for Rest of Year
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The UK faces a "stable, albeit slow" rate of expansion over the next six months, according to the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD), the "club" for the world's leading advanced economies.The outlook will come as a disappointment...
Off-Stage Affairs That Heighten the Drama
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When an actor's role in a play mirrors a troubled private life, there is an added enjoyment for audiences, says Michael Coveney Always in theatre, the vicarious thrill of seeing folly exposed and passion sated comes with the territory and the price of...
Pakistan Rejects Claims It Sheltered Bin Laden
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Pakistan's Prime Minister has denounced as "absurd" accusations of complicity in the sheltering of Osama bin Laden and warned yesterday that a repeat of the unilateral operation conducted by US special forces would resort in serious consequences.In an...
Pop
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David Guetta Brixton Academy, London ***** On an altar-like raised platform, a French DJ is making the walls of Brixton Academy physically move. David Guetta leaps onto the decks, standing with his hands stretched towards the ceiling, so all that is...
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Nitin Sawhney Royal Albert Hall, London **** Nitin Sawhney is not one for the spotlight. Sitting stage right at the Royal Albert Hall, playing wondrous melody lines on his acoustic guitar as a series of singers belt out lead vocals next to him, he looks...
Pressure Grows on Germany to Open Its Files on Eichmann
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The German equivalent of M16 - the BND foreign intelligence service - is still refusing to de-classify thousands of secret documents detailing the hidden past of Adolf Eichmann, the notorious architect of the Holocaust whose trial began in Israel 50...
Profit-Taking Takes the Shine off Derwent's Stock
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Market Report Derwent London was under pressure last night as traders banked profits on the view that it may already be pricing in the positive outlook for the capital's property market.The stock was marked down by 33p to 1,735p, while developer Great...
Promised Land Beckons for City - but the Battle Will Be Staying There
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Mancini fears limited funds this summer will make fighting on two fronts tricky next term So here come Tottenham Hotspur, heading up the Ashton New Road to put a spoke in Manchester City wheels, just as they seem to have done at all the most inopportune...
Promised Land Beckons for City - but the Battle Will Be Staying There
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Mancini fears limited funds this summer will make fighting on two fronts tricky next term So here come Tottenham Hotspur, heading up the Ashton New Road to put a spoke in Manchester City wheels, just as they seem to have done at all the most inopportune...
Rich Soup for the National Soul
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Money It will be a good week - yet another good week - for those who believe that the pride of our nation lies in its ever-enduring respect for wealth and class. The Sunday Times Rich List, a slavering celebration of "billionaire Britain", has just been...
Rodriguez Continues Hot Streak for Rampant Reds
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FULHAM 2 Dembele 57, Sidwell 86 LIVERPOOL 5 Rodriguez 1, 7, 70, Kuyt 16, Suarez 75 Finishing fifth in the Premier League is small fry compared with Liverpool's glorious history, particularly with Manchester United on the verge of breaking their long-standing...
Rodriguez Continues Hot Streak to Crush Fulham
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FULHAM 2 Dembele 57, Sidwell 86 LIVERPOOL 5 Rodriguez 1, 7, 70, Kuyt 16, Suarez 75 Finishing fifth in the Premier League is small fry when considered against Liverpool's glorious history, particularly with Manchester United on the verge of breaking their...
Samoa Skips from Last to First Country to See the Sun
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For visitors, the highlight of a trip to Samoa has always been the opportunity to stand on a rocky promontory at Cape Mulinu'u, the westernmost point of the planet, and - with the International Dateline only 20 miles away - to gaze into tomorrow.Now...
Serco Reassurance Argues against Selling
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Investment Column Our view: holdShare price: 547.5p (+0.5p)That Serco's shares managed to remain strong throughout the session after the outsourcer issued an update yesterday is creditable. Worried by Europe's sovereign debt crisis, the markets were...
Ship 'With 600 People Aboard' Sinks as Refugees Flee from Libya
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A ship carrying up to 600 migrants has sunk off the coast of Libya, witnesses have reported, in what would be one of the worst accidents to have befallen refugees fleeing recent unrest in North Africa, if confirmed.Accounts of the accident, at the end...
Sky Sports to Unleash Neville in Time to Call Wembley Showpiece
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The excitement around Manchester United's potential Champions League and Premier League double is such that Sky Sports are hopeful their new signing Gary Neville can start his job early to be at Wembley as co-commentator on 28 May for the final against...
Soaring Tax Bill Leads Centrica to Cut Back on UK Investment
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Centrica warned yesterday that the Government's surprise extra tax on North Sea oil and gas would hit profit growth this year and cause the company to scale back investment.The British Gas owner also warned that households could again be facing increases...
So, It's All over Then? No One Will Overtake Vettel Now
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...Not so fast, writes Richard Rae. Ferrari and McLaren are still sorting out technical issues and, history says, will fight back It was probably inevitable that Sebastian Vettel's early dominance would lead to the 2011 Formula One season being likened...
'Stout Support' to the Military Shows Where True Power Lies
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Comment If any Pakistanis had hoped their civilian leaders were going to seize this moment to recalibrate their relationship with their overweening military, they were to be sorely disappointed.In the lead up to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's speech...
Strasbourg to Rule on Mosley Bid for Privacy Law Reform
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Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One, will hear this morning whether he has been successful in changing the law to ensure that British newspapers are forced to give prior notification to the subjects of stories they intend to publish.Judges at...
Success of iPad Helps Apple Topple Google as No 1 Brand
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It is something you might have guessed if you saw people queuing outside the Apple Store in the hours before a new shipment of iPads arrives, or if you count up the people tuned into those iconic white earphones in any train carriage, but now it is official:...
'Telegraph' Censured for Secretly Recording Cable
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The Daily Telegraph has been rebuked by the press watchdog after its reporters posed as constituents and secretly recorded Liberal Democrat ministers criticising their Tory coalition partners.The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) ruled that it was not...
The Aphrodisiac of Hard Work
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Do you have a sexy job? If you're a Premiership footballer, a TV presenter or a celebrity chef, you probably think you do. But the fashion of the times may be turning against these professions, at least in terms of their erotic appeal. Cosseted by agents,...
Theatre
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All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare's Globe, London **** Shakespeare's Globe is on a high. It kicked off this season with a star performance (from Joshua McGuire) in a wonderfully clear and accessible touring version of Hamlet (directed by Dominic...
The Big Society Is Too Small for Boden Mothers
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If you ask me... If you ask me, I'm wondering if anyone can have a go at proposing those sections of our "big society" which should be disenfranchised. I mention this in response to a recent Daily Telegraph blog which said those who don't pay taxes -...
The Masters of Disaster
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Last Night's TV Business Nightmares with Evan Davis / BBC2 Strangeways / ITV1 The Night Shift / BBC4 In 1985 I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, studying at Emory University, a seat of learning that owed its splendid campus to the benevolence 70-odd years...
The News in 140 Characters
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We follow them, so you don't have to domjolyI'd better get my super-injunction out of the way before I'm outed. There are indecent photos out there of me and Gillian McKeith... (Dom Joly, comedian)DuncanBannatyneJemima Khan & Jeremy Clarkson? C'mon...
'The Relief Was Unbelievable. the Players Were in Tears'
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QPR manager Neil Warnock gives an exclusive and emotional account of how the FA hearing that threatened their promotion affected the club 'Clubs and media were wading in without the facts - it was a scandal' For QPR fans it will go down, I guess, as...
'The Relief Was Unbelievable. the Players Were in Tears'
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QPR manager Neil Warnock gives an exclusive and emotional account of how the FA hearing that threatened their promotion affected the club 'Clubs and media were wading in without the facts - it was a scandal' For QPR fans it will go down, I guess, as...
'The Relief Was Unbelievable. the Players Were in Tears'
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QPR manager Neil Warnock gives an exclusive and emotional account of how the FA hearing that threatened their promotion affected the club 'Clubs and media were wading in without the facts - it was a scandal' For QPR fans it will go down, I guess, as...
The SNP May Propose, but It Is the Voters Who Will Dispose
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Leading Articles Scotland What is holding Alex Salmond back? The central goal of the Scottish National Party since its formation in 1934 has been independence for Scotland by popular consent. This was out of reach until last week, because the SNP did...
The Soaring Cost of Making Sure the Lights Don't Go Out
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OUTLOOK Centrica's warning yesterday could not have been much clearer. Unless we see a dramatic fall in prices on the wholesale energy markets in the next few weeks - unlikely - households will see a round of bill increases before the end of the year.That's...
The Splendour of Da Vinci, but Only for the Select Few
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The National Gallery has taken the unprecedented step of limiting visitor numbers to its forthcoming exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, which opens in November.The gallery is set to admit just under a quarter fewer visitors...
Three Million Customers Due for Payout over Banks' PPI Policy
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Biggest financial product mis-selling scandal in history finally comes to a conclusion Three million people are in line to receive more than 2,000 each, after high street banks surrendered in the long battle over mis- sold payment protection insurance.Credit...
Time Is Short in the Last Nazi Hunter's Quest for Justice
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With the two most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects finally in court, Efraim Zuroff tells Tony Paterson why his search for the culprits of the Holocaust will continue until the last one is dead For someone who enjoys the awesome reputation as the world's...
Top University Places on Offer for Students with Wealthy Parents
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Wealthy parents could be allowed to "buy" their children places at top universities by paying higher fees under plans being put together by the Coalition.Extra places would be provided at the leading universities and could be filled by undergraduates...
Tragedy Is Ignored Because the Victims Are Not White
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Comment On the north-eastern edge of the port in Lampedusa there is graveyard of battered boats piled on top of each other like toys in a child's room. Faced with a daily flood of desperate African migrants, the authorities can't remove the boats quickly...
Viacom Boss Is Highest Paid CEO in US at $84.3M
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Philippe Dauman, the boss of the media giant Viacom, was the highest-paid chief executive in the US last year, with a compensation package worth $84.3m (51m), according to the definitive survey of companies' regulatory filings.The scale of Mr Dauman's...
Virginia Ironside Dilemmas
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Dear Virginia, I've recently married again to a man I love dearly, but he's told me that he doesn't want me to see my ex any more. My ex and I have a great relationship - we were childhood sweethearts, and have two children so we see a lot of each other....
West Ham Will Need Pounds 40m of Bail-Out Loans If Relegated, Says Sullivan
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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that the club is in "a worse financial position than any other in the country". Speaking yesterday with the club close to relegation from the Premier League, he predicted that he would have to inject loans...
West Ham Will Need Pounds 40m of Bail-Out Loans If Relegated, Says Sullivan
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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that the club is in "a worse financial position than any other in the country". Speaking yesterday with the club close to relegation from the Premier League, he predicted that he would have to inject loans...
West Ham Will Need Pounds 40m of Bail-Out Loans If Relegated, Says Sullivan
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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that the club is in "a worse financial position than any other in the country". Speaking yesterday with the club close to relegation from the Premier League, he predicted that he would have to inject loans...
Wish You Weren't Here?
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British holidaymakers are cutting back, with shorter trips abroad and, yes, staycations. James Thompson reports Bosses at the UK's two biggest tour operators, TUI and Thomas Cook, have always claimed that a summer holiday abroad is sacrosanct for the...
Withdrawal Must Now Be the Priority
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Leading Articles Afghanistan THE FUTURE of US relations with Pakistan is one aspect of the fallout from the killing of Osama bin Laden. Speaking yesterday, the country's Prime Minister insisted that Pakistan was neither complicit nor incompetent, and...
Women Mobilise for First British 'SlutWalk' Rally
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Thousands of provocatively-dressed women are expected to march through London next month when the growing "SlutWalk" phenomenon reaches these shores.Thousands have taken part in such marches in Canada and the US, after a protest movement was sparked...
