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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 October 25, 1997
After Dark: Women Are Turning the Tables
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In most clubs, half the revellers are women, yet up until now there have only been a handful of female DJs. But girl power is finally getting its way, as demonstrated by the success of DJ Heaven and DJ VixenClubland has been predicting an explosion of...
Algeria's Terror: Bloody Scenes That Render Children Speechless with Fear
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Algeria's psychologists are overwhelmed by the number of civilians - especially children - traumatised by the bloodletting, which has itself reached the limits of insanity. Robert Fisk in Algiers finds that patients often refuse to respond to treatment.Khadija...
Arts: A Week in the Arts
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I once asked Baroness Detta O'Cathain, when she was head of the Barbican Centre, what she considered her greatest achievement in arts administration. "I changed the caterers," she replied. At the time I regarded this as outrageous philistinism but,...
Arts: A Widow Robbed of Her Weeds
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Franz Lehr's `Merry Widow' usually comes dressed to kill. So why, asks Edward Seckerson, has the Royal Opera stripped her bare?She's not always been treated with respect, it's true. Over the years, we've tended to take her charms for granted, cheapening...
Arts: Last Readers at the Library of Literary Lions
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One hundred and forty years of tradition end today when The Round Reading Room at the British Museum closes its doors. David Lister, Arts News Editor, visits the room where Dickens and Karl Marx worked and where romance continues to flourish covertly.Karl...
Arts: Theatre Patrick Marber's `Closer'
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Patrick Marber's `Closer' has transferred to the Lyttelton after a sell- out season in the Cottesloe. Paul Taylor wonders what all the fuss is aboutWhen Patrick Marber woke up to the reviews for his second play, Closer, last May, he must have wondered...
Arts: The Week in Review
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The PlayA Delicate BalanceEdward Albee's 1966, elegant, elusive family drama with a wintery, Pintery flavour of nameless threat is directed by Anthony Page. Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith as sisters head a classy cast. Theatre Royal, Haymarket (0171-930...
Arts: The Week on Radio: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, but Only If It's in RP
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Microphones are dangerous objects. You take a risk putting anybody in front of one, even a hardened professional - that just makes it a more calculated risk. Mouths shoot off in all directions, words can take on a life of their own - nouns try to be...
At the Heart of India's Big Bang Theory
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In many cultures sex and death go hand in hand, and nowhere more so than in Varanasi. As the Hindu festival of Diwali approaches this Thursday, Kenneth Wilson remembers another dramatic ceremony at one of India's most sacred cities.Varanasi is the city...
BA Hopes Raised of Brussels Approval for American Tie-Up
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The European Competition Commissioner, Karel Van Miert, looks increasingly likely to scale back the concessions Brussels is demanding from British Airways and American Airlines in return for approving their tie-up. Michael Harrison examines the latest...
Box Clever: They're Not Bitter
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With the recent tabloid overkill on the battle for breakfast listeners, you would be forgiven for thinking that Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley's anonymous stint on the early shift never happenedWith their burblings about "cheridy" and life on their farms,...
Brown to Rule out Joining Emu in First Wave
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Gordon Brown is expected to rule out entering the single European currency in 1999 on Monday when he makes a long-awaited statement to Parliament on the government's position.Speculation was growing last night that the statement might go further and...
Chain Stores Help Green Group against Sainsbury's
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Three large chain stores formed an alliance with an environmental pressure group to prevent Sainsbury's from opening a superstore.In a rare display of camaraderie between big business and the green lobby, Safeway's, Boots and John Lewis, the owners of...
Classicul & Opera: Light Fantastic
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Some people can be snooty about operetta, but Dietfried Bernet, conductor of the Royal Opera's production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, compares the Austrian favourite with the best of Italian operaAlthough possibly the most performed operetta of...
Comedy: A Very Cunning Plan
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The most that most aspiring comedy writers can hope for is a constructive letter from a put-upon commissioning editor. Now, Situations Vacant has given them an alternative opportunity to pilot their scriptsWhenever you're playing that much-loved pub...
Could This Foetus Feel Pain? Doctors' Doubts Reopen Abortion Battle
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Aborted babies may be able to feel pain. The announcement by gynaecologists comes just days before the 30th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act. Glenda Cooper, Social Affairs Correspondent, on the continuing controversy over whether foetuses suffer.A...
Court Verdict Aids Breakaway
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Scotland's leading clubs made a vital breakthrough in their stalemate with the Scottish League by obtaining an interdict against the lower division clubs' representatives on the management committee.Lex Gold, the chairman of Hibernian, took his case...
Despatches: Gun Culture Takes Its Toll on Life in Yemen
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Guns are everywhere in Yemen - as many as three for every one of the 17 million Yemenis, making them the most heavily armed people in the world. Patrick Cockburn in Sana'a says guns may have helped the tribesmen retain their personal freedom, but at...
Diana's Legacy
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There were many good causes which Princess Diana supported during her life: the Red Cross, Aids sufferers, the landmines ban. Yet her death highlighted another - and it could be one of her finest legacies.From what I've seen and experienced, there is...
Environment News: Extinction? Why It May Not Matter
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Mass extinction of species caused by human kind doesn't really matter. That's the heretical bottom line of a paper by the Government's chief scientist and an Oxford ecologist. Nicholas Schoon, Environment Correspondent, explains.Each hour, as the world's...
Environment News: Shops Urged to Recycle Products
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Hundreds of campaigners will protest outside electrical stores today. Glenda Cooper, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, looks at an attempt to force the industry to pay for goods to be reused and for products to be labelled with their expected lifespan.More...
Food: Love Appletisers
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The best tomatoes I have come across recently were very, very organic. They came from a deeply healthy food emporium in Westbourne Grove, west London, called Wild Oats. They are called "Californian" and come in colours green (but ripe), the palest yellowy-white,...
Football: Boom Time for the Game's Boot-Room God Squad
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Chris Evans was surely stretching the point to claim, as he did last week in his new Virgin Radio breakfast show, that football is the new religion - on the basis that most games are now played on Sky, that Southampton are called the Saints, that Newcastle...
Football: Chill Factor Envelops Chelsea's Emotional Anniversary
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After a week of European extremes, attentions are once again focused on the rising temperature in the Premiership title race. Phil Shaw looks at the weekend ahead, while Nick Harris (below) analyses the programme match by match.Never in four decades...
Football: FAN'S EYE VIEW NO 229 Teletext
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Never mind "true supporters" lording it over their couch-potato rivals, what about those of us who would go to watch our favourite team, but have been forced to live on the other side of the country?Mysteriously, my family refuse to enter into negotiations...
Football: Impoverished City's Stock Falls in Futures Market
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"City boos for Blair" screamed one of this week's headlines. Within hours, Franny Lee and Frank Clark were enduring a similar experience, and the resentment which gripped Maine Road after the defeat by Stoke could turn into a revolt if Manchester City...
Football: McGinlay Wanted by Sunderland
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John McGinlay, the Bolton Wanderers striker, is wanted by Sunderland to help fire their promotion bid. Peter Reid, the Roker Park club's manager, was yesterday quoted a pounds 750,000 fee and hopes to agree a compromise over the weekend.Reid has also...
Football: ...Meanwhile the Nation's Youngsters Are Learning to Play the Game the Wrong Way
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Soccer is making great strides in the United States. But Matthew Gatward, who has been coaching in New York, believes that the Americans need to change their methods at youth level before they can make a realistic challenge to the game's world powers.I...
Football: No Place like Home for Newcastle
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Southampton lie bottom of the Premiership table and have the worst away record in the division this season, but at least they can boast one record: Saints are the only team to have won twice at Newcastle sine the formation of the Premiership five seasons...
Football: Rover Returning to Dublin to with an All-Round Education
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Jeff Kenna returned to Ireland yesterday as the Republic began preparing for Wednesday's World Cup play-off first leg against Belgium at Lansdowne Road. The Blackburn Rovers defender freely admits he is not the most `flamboyant' of players but few have...
Games: Backgammon
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Here's another deceptive problem which came up at the Double Fives club the other evening. White has just hit the blot that Black left on his 11-point and Black has compounded his problems by dancing (backgammon- speak for staying on the bar). White...
Games: Bridge
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Games: Chess
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Apart from leading the London Grandmasters event in Hampstead after six rounds, Neil McDonald also has the more dubious distinction of having lost the best game of the event so far.In the old main line of the Najdorf Sicilian, before everyone started...
Games: Games People Play
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Charles Saumarez Smith, 43, director of the National Portrait Gallery, LondonMy mother liked us to enter the mothers-and-sons' race, which was an important fixture at the school sports day. I can't remember if we were tied together or not, but she was...
Hold the Front Page: The End Is Nigh ... or So It Seemed
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When I was younger I used to think that capitalism was the pits. For a start, there were the inequalities. My pocket money, for instance, was - at 11 - half what my richer friend Michael earned for performing exactly the same sort of small boy role....
Horse Racing: Hern's Life and Career Speak of Greatness
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There are only two more weeks to savour the talent of Major Dick Hern before he retires at the end of the Flat season. Today, one of the century's outstanding trainers of the thoroughbred racehorse sends out runners at his local course, Newbury, for...
Horse Racing: HYPERION'S TV TIPS
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NEWBURY1.30: BRISTOL CHANNEL, a half sister to the 1993 Dante Stakes winner, Tenby, created a favourable impression when beating Rambling Rose by half a length in a 1m maiden at Leicester last month. She can successfully step up in class. Mihna and Court...
Horse Racing: Little Indian Lean and Fit for Long Trail
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Today's pounds 75,000 Racing Post Trophy brings an opportunity for a cheaply bought colt to prove his worth. As Sean Woods, his trainer, points out to Richard Edmondson, he is the logical pick on form.There have been some excellent runners from the reservation,...
How to Develop a Great Nose
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Learning about wine is a palatable pleasure, but where do you begin? Anthony Rose, wine correspondent of `The Independent', gives a guide to the courses on offer.The luxurious Ecole du Vin at Chateau Loudenne in Bordeaux was my induction into wine schools,...
Human Rights: Bill Leaves Unanswered Questions
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Publication of the much-awaited Bill to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into British law delighted most observers yesterday. Only the Tories appeared unhappy. But as Michael Streeter explains, the Bill raises some intriguing, and...
Human Rights: Law Set to Bolster Privacy and Freedom of Speech
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Once enacted, how will the Human Rights Act work? Michael Streeter says it will give no new rights - but makes existing ones enforceable by British judges and therefore more `accessible'.The Act will incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights,...
Interiors: Smart as Paint
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The stamp for the print is cut from soft upholstery foam; the print is made with colourwash mixed with a little PVA for added strength and `stick'. The horizontal lines can be cut together with the motif or painted by hand afterwardsJocasta Innes rag-rolled...
Interview: Charisma at the Wheel of Ferrari
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In the same way that great cars are specifically designed for the job, so it sometimes seems great managers are too. Luca di Montezemolo, for instance, is tailor-made for the chairmanship of Ferrari, as Gavin Green reports.He is the most charismatic...
Italians to Blame for Intimidating English Fans, Says FA Report
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The Italian authorities have been blamed for much of the violence during the World Cup qualifying game between England and Italy. The Italians could be fined and forced to change the way they handle future games, writes Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent.English...
I Was Obviously Keen Not to Hear the Score in Advance. and We Needed Some Cat Food
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Life, as any major sportsman will tell you - probably more than once - is all about challenges.(Why does life have to be "all about" in sporting parlance? Why can it never be "partly about", or "sometimes about"? I don't know, but there it is.)All about...
Jazz & Blues
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Few jazz artists still active today have a pedigree to match that of Cedar Walton. Now in his 60s, he occupied the piano stool in one of the classic incarnations of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and wrote some of their more memorable tunes. Before emerging...
Leading Article: The British (at Last) Get a New Weapon against the State
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The incorporation into British law of the European Convention on Human Rights is a progressive step. It is, or ought to be, an instalment in a wider programme of bringing Britain's governing institutions up to date. If Margaret Thatcher's decade saw...
Letter from the Editor
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A great debate on the newsdesk floor on Monday evening when we were discussing using the hurt rabbit picture to accompany our story on animal testing. Some colleagues found themselves physically unable to look at the picture and argued vehemently that...
Literature: Doctor of Letters
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If you haven't got time for Tom Baker and his autobiography, perhaps you should ask yourself whether it wasn't that intergalactic yarn-spinner, Dr Who, who first made you wake up to fictionIt's not the sort of thing you'd want to have on your shelf really,...
Mortgages: When It's Best to Move Lenders
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The offer sounded good at the time. A fixed-rate mortgage, pegged at an attractively low level. Except, it is now coming to an end. What do you do? Should you fix again? Will you be allowed to? Nic Cicutti looks at the options.Cast your mind back just...
Motoring: A Competent Car Right off the Shelf
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It has been said that cars are taking on the mantle of supermarket consumables. John Simister finds out if there is anything more to the Daewoo Leganza, while below James Ruppert asks: are second-hand Daewoos good value?Well, you can now buy a Daewoo...
Motoring: Angry Dealers, but Little Depreciation
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Daewoos started to dip dramatically in value in the summer of `96 when an agreement with a distributor to resell used models foundered. Caledonia Motors was worried about Daewoo' s anti-dealer advertising.The sharks (sorry, dealers) have quickly taken...
Motoring: My Worst Car: Carol McGiffin's Triumph Tr7
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I absolutely love cars, always have done. However, there was one that almost put me off the whole idea of motoring. It was a Triumph TR7, my very first sports car, and almost my last.I can clearly remember seeing the car parked on a dealer's forecourt...
Motor Racing: Villeneuve Confident He Has Power to Take Pole
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There were certainly no clues as to the outcome of Sunday's much-anticipated climax to the Formula One championship in practice at Jerez yesterday.But as David Tremayne reports from Spain, it was the drivers using Bridgestone tyres who set the early...
Name, Address, Number - All on Big Brother's CD
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An innocuous-looking CD-Rom will next week mark an uncomfortable watershed in the information age in Britain. A pounds 170 electronic UK phone directory from an American company will hold 42 million names, addresses and phone numbers - searchable by...
No-Headline
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Coventry v EvertonDublin 5 Leading scorer Cadamarteri 5 Last season: 0-0Coventry striker Noel Whelan will not play until Christmas after a second operation on his injured ankle. The 23-year-old needed surgery to repair a tear in his Achilles tendon and...
Paris: 48 Hours in the Life of ... the Marais
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You need a break - and a short cut to the soul of a city. Each week, `The Independent' provides a prescription for the perfect weekend break. This week, Simon Calder spends 48 hours in Paris - and all of it within the medieval boundaries of the Marais.Why...
Paris: `We're Off. but It's Not So Much a Flying Start as a Gentle Lollop'
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4.55, say good bye: as Simon and I part company at the ticket barrier in Waterloo's Eurostar terminal, I can't help feeling this is not really a contest. The odds are so clearly in my favour. Simon sprints off for a train that will (somehow) take him...
Paris: Who Has the Fastest French Connection?
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If this really were the age of the Euro-train, then Harriet O'Brien should have been able to beat Simon Calder on a London-Paris trip by joining a train at Waterloo and stepping off at the Gare du Nord. But even with everything weighted in Eurostar's...
People: Parish Passion Leaves Cleric's Career in Ruins
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A married clergyman's career was in tatters last night after a special church court found that he had had a six-year affair with a woman parishioner.The Provincial Court of the Church in Wales concluded that the Rev Clifford Williams, 49, had committed...
Pop: Fashionably Maybe
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They're not the housewife's choice, and they're not Trainspotting cool, either. But Justin Currie, singer with Scottish rockers Del Amitri, reckons they've got the formula just rightThe two sides to Scotland's music scene are worlds apart. One is post-...
Pop: Leavin' Nash-Vegas
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Country music has become just another branch of showbiz in the US. But, as Tim Perry reports, Jack Ingram and his Beat-Up Ford Band have rejected the "rhinestone" style. And their authentic, emotional music has become a hit with indie-friendly college...
Postcode from the Edge: The Limehouse Link
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Opium dens, Dickens and the original Chinatown - there's more to London's Limehouse than meets the eye"The Chinaman in Limehouse is a most peaceable, inoffensive, harmless character. He is on good terms with his neighbours, most of whom speak well of...
Property: Gazumping Is No Problem - Unless It Happens to You
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Gazumping is not nearly as much of a problem as everyone thinks, according to Black Horse Agencies. It has monitored the subject for its latest Home Report, out yesterday, and says that it is surprised to find gazumping occurs in only 5 per cent of all...
Snooker: Snooker Back in the Pink after Suffering from Success
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In the Eighties snooker drew audiences that defied gravity. They are nearer to earth now, but is that a symptom of a terminal illness, or a sport finding a more realistic level? Guy Hodgson attempts to find out.To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it was the...
Style and Design: Items and Icons Retro Cars
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In the 1980s, the aerodynamist was God. Car manufacturers were ruled with fists of carbon fibre and the public was force-fed flying saucers on wheels, complete with de rigeur back wedge.Sometime during the past five years, car enthusiasts put down their...
Style: Any Colour - So Long as It's Noir
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"Very noir," says a teenage girl examining a pair of five-inch steel stilettos in a downtown New York shop. Her grandmother was in ankle straps when film noir was in vogue, but she knows, knows that this year in the city of the night, it's hip to be...
Theatre: Curtain Calls
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GUYS AND DOLLSWarning: You have only four more weeks to catch one of the most uplifting and utterly thrilling pieces of theatre you'll ever see. I'm not exaggerating. Even if you despise musicals, book immediately.National Theatre, London SE1 (0171-928...
Theatre: The Crowd That Roared
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Time to get up and give as Stonewall's annual fundraiser hoves into viewThere is nothing like an audience. The thrill of being in a packed house among a group of people in the throes of happiness, applauding some showbiz legend who has just given her...
THE A-Z OF BETTING: F Is for . .
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Face: There are but two groups of people capable of striking fear into the heart of an on-course bookie - income tax inspectors, and faces. Both are more than capable of rummaging in their satchels and taking a thick bundle of notes home, but the faces...
The Independent Film Guide: NEW FILMS
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A LIFE LESS ORDINARY(15) HHHDirector: Danny Boyle Starring: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz It's commendable that after the flashy but insubstantial Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, the team responsible for those films (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew...
The Toughest Chain Reactions
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For a sport that has apparently boomed so big for so long, mountain biking is due to take off soon. Real mountain biking, that is, says Eric Kendall."Getting air", that bad feeling when your tyres lose contact with the ground, is a seminal moment on...
Traditionalists Sleep Easy as Clocks Go Back
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As the clocks go back to give us all an extra hour in bed tonight, traditionalists can sleep easy that this is one ritual which looks set to continue unchanged.Police, safety campaigners and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) backed last year's...
Visual Arts: A Big Hand for Paolozzi
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Eduardo Paolozzi paved the way for Pop Art as long ago as 1952. In the ensuing decades he has become one of Britain's most esteemed artists, a status marked by a new permanent exhibition space at Edinburgh's National Gallery of Modern ArtA few years...
Vital Statistics Go Awry on Fashion's Glossy Night Out
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Vote recounts, resignations and deep embarrassement all round sullied this week's British Fashion Awards after a prize given to one leading designer was allocated to another. Tamsin Blanchard, Fashion Editor, reports.Antonio Berardi yesterday chose to...
Wide Angle: Destination Everywhere
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London Film Festival director Adrian Wooton selects his highlights from the international programme of this year's LFFWhen London Film Festival director Sheila Whittaker was "retired" by the BFI last year, big changes were promised in the capital's annual...
Woman Disfigured after Surgery Wins Pounds 20,000
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A woman left with disfigured breasts after treatment for leaking silicone implants won pounds 20,636 damages yesterday. Christine Williamson, 48 (above, with her daughter, Dawn), was awarded the compensation for a hospital's failure to obtain her consent...
World News: Germans Shamed by Second Video Displaying Army's Neo- Nazi a Ntics
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A neo-Nazi video starring soldiers of the Bundeswehr has shocked Germany. Horrified politicians recall that similarly repulsive footage emerged from the same source only three months ago. Imre Karacs asks if this is another isolated incident, or a trend.Five...
Young Rockers Unleash Drug-Fired Frenzy
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Radio 1's audience figures may show that the station is in decline, but it still manages to have a very surprising sweep of listeners. Every moralist in the country, from Ann Widdecombe to Mary Whitehouse, appears to have been tuning into Steve Lamacq's...
