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The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
The Independent on Sunday is the Sunday edition of The Independent, a daily newspaper in London, England. The Independent Sunday covers local, national, and international news, sports, business, politics, and weather.
Articles from May 15, 2005
A 30-Room Mansion in the Grounds of Windsor Castle? to You, Sir, Pounds 250 a Week ; Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and Their Cousin Marina Mowatt Are the Recipients of What One Outraged Politician Is Calling 'Royal Housing Benefit'. Francis Elliott Reveals the Extraordinary Property Deals of the Royals on the Windsor Estate
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Housing benefits are not confined to people with low incomes, it would appear. Extraordinary details of the property deals of members of the Royal Family on the Windsor estate are revealed today, and have sparked a call by MPs for a full investigation....
Aborigine Murder Case Is Re-Opened
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Bowraville, nestling in lush hills on the New South Wales coast, is a town haunted by grief. The unsolved murders of three Aboriginal children in the early 1990s weigh heavy on the small community, as does racism so entrenched that the homegrown Ku Klux...
Agenda - This Week's Big Issues 15.05.05 - 21.05.05
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BLAIR TRIES AGAIN ON ID CARDS 40 BILLS IN PACKED QUEEN'S SPEECH, BRANDED BY REBELS AS 'A LOYALTY TEST' What's the story? What are they saying? What happens next? Once again, it's that day in the parliamentary calendar when men in funny uniforms march...
America's Drug Plan Collapses in Chaos
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Washington's 'war on drugs' in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (pounds 1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary...
America's Drugs Plan in Tatters as Cocaine and Corruption Flourish
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Washington's 'war on drugs' in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (pounds 1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary...
Analysis: As American as Apple Pie, but Now Wal-Mart Is Eating Humble Pie ; the Retail Giant with Homely Values but a Huge Appetite for Growth Is Having to Take Stock as Sales Stagnate, Its Employment Practices Are Savaged and Local Communities Resist Its Advance. Katherine Griffiths Writes from New York
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At Wal-Mart, America's un- disputed king of low-cost retailing, some surprising things are turning up on the shelves. There are cotton sheets with a 400-thread count, and extra-thick towels in fashionable hot orange. In its fridges, 'key lime pie', a...
Are You Beautiful? Poor You
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Let us spare a moment to ponder the troubles of the beautiful people. There they are, poor dreamboats: drop-dead gorgeous with their gym-honed bodies, salon-perfect hair, nose-jobs, collagen jabs and pec implants, oozing unguents, lip-gloss, CK1 and...
Bagels for Breakfast! Burgers for Lunch! the Eat-All-You-Want Diet ; Is the Latest US Slimming Fad Too Good to Be True? Jonathan Thompson and Karen Hall Report
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It sounds like a dieter's dream: a weight-loss regime that allows you to eat absolutely anything you like, including chocolate, cakes and hamburgers. But as publishers prepare to unleash the latest US dieting fad on this country, medical experts and...
Blair Gambles All to Defy Backbench Opponents over Academy Schools
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Tony Blair this week faces a rebellion that could fatally weaken his authority as Prime Minister after signalling his determination to press ahead with controversial reforms of public services In a high-risk strategy aimed at stamping his power on Parliament,...
Blog of the Week
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Righteous rage Moby, the US musician, is on tour promoting his latest, 'Hotel'. But he also logs on to his own website to let fans know about concerts and TV appearances, to share his own idiosyncratic views (particularly on the environment, religion...
Blood on the High Street, a Discount Junkie on Every Corner
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This retail downturn is here to stay " it is a trend not a blip. The borrow-and-spend " and borrow-some-more " boom of the past five years shuddered to a halt last week after figures showing that retail sales in April were down a precipitous 4.7 per...
Books: Beware the Wild Drovers ; Indiana Jones Got It All Wrong " the Thugs Weren't Bloody Devotees of Kali, as Bill Saunders Discovers
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Thug: the true story of India's murderous cult By Mike Dash GRANTA pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897 The word 'thug', which comes readily to tabloid newspaper editorialists and draconian politicians, has an entirely different meaning in its...
BOOKS: FICTION: Suicides, Murders and Shark Attacks " Still Fancy Life Down Under?
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The Turning By Tim Winton PICADOR pounds 16.99 pounds 15.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897 Tim Winton's latest work is not the easiest to define. Is it a collection of interlinked short stories? Or rather a novel that forsakes an overarching grand narrative...
Books: How to Sell It like Sarah Jessica ; You Might Write like Baudelaire, but You'll Be Sold like Beans. That's Where Book Jackets Come in, Explains Danuta Kean
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If you really want to see the whites of an author's eyes, ask them about their book covers. Few things in publishing can rupture relations between writer and publisher like covers can. Stories abound of retailers turning down titles for lucrative shop...
BOOKS: LINGUISTICS: Why Metaphor Is a Lethal Weapon
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The Unfolding of Language By Guy Deutscher HEINEMANN pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897 You may or may not have heard of Pimp My Ride, a cult MTV makeover show in which ordinary cars are tarted up with all manner of automotive bling. Well,...
Books: Paperbacks
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HHHII The Last Crusade By Barbara Victor CONSTABLE pounds 8.99 Although the title suggests an antipathy towards all Christians, the targets here are American born-again Christians with an unshakeable belief in the authenticity of their faith, the correctness...
Boom Time in Betting Machines
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A betting machine manufacturer is Britain's fastest-growing company, fuelling fears that the industry continues to expand at the expense of problem gamblers. A survey by Real Business magazine and private equity firm LDC found that Global Draw's sales...
Boxing: Amir Gains Revenge and Goes Pro
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Amir Khan finally got his man last night. The kid from Bolton out- fired amateur boxing's hottest shot, the grizzled gunslinger from Cuba, Mario Kindelan, gaining the sweetest revenge for his defeat in the Olympic final. It was also the perfect platform...
Bridge
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Although the trump position was remarkably favourable for declarer, Ming-Hsuan Wu of Taiwan and Alan Sia of Singapore found the only line of defence that would take South's contract down. The hand arose in the Open Teams at the fifth Pacific Asia Bridge...
British Motorists Now Pay Pounds 1bn a Year in Parking Tickets and Fines
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As parking costs soar to new highs " motorists now pay more than pounds 1bn a year in tickets and fines " the enforcement agencies are seeking new ways to operate in the face of increasing public hostility. Figures obtained by The Independent on Sunday...
Bush Faces Legal Dilemma over Veteran Anti-Castro 'Terrorist'
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Is he an international terrorist " or a patriotic freedom fighter? At the age of 77, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles may seem a bit old to be either. But he certainly was one or the other for most of his life, dedicated to getting rid of Cuban leader...
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS: Big Lessons for Growing Companies; 'Will I Be Breaking the Law the Minute I Hire a Worker?' ; A Sole Trader Is Confused about His Legal Position If He Doesn't Take out Employers' Liability Insurance, Says Kate Hilpern
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Since February this year, a change in legislation has meant that it is no longer compulsory for sole traders to take out employers' liability insurance. As a result, Grant Davison, the managing director and only full-time employee of Switch Electrical...
BUSINESS VIEW: United Leaves City and All the Other Clubs Should Follow
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This afternoon Manchester United travel to the St Mary's stadium to play Southampton. The game means nothing to United, who will finish a disappointing third in the Premier League for the second season running, but everything to Southampton, who are...
... but a Trip to Ikea Could Save Your Marriage (No, Really)
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The car-park queues are enough to push many couples to breaking point. But a new book claims that a shopping trip to Ikea is the ideal solution for improving marital harmony. The inside story of Ikea, published later this month, attributes much of the...
Cannes Diary: View of Nirvana through the Rain
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An A-grade line-up of cinematic big hitters at this year's festival has done little to lift the gloom of a Cannes cloaked in grey drizzle on this first weekend. The mood was set by the opening film, Lemming, a bizarre thriller by a little-known French...
Cat People ; Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Big in Russia. Very Big. Yet No Western Musical Has Ever Been Mounted Properly in Moscow " and the Day after Tomorrow 'Cats' Opens in Front of Vladimir Putin. Now, Has Anyone Checked the Wiring? Nick Coleman Has a Role to Play
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I am Andrew Lloyd Webber " Lord Lloyd Webber to you. No, I am, really. I'm standing on the corner of a sidestreet in Moscow in falling snow. I am accompanied by Maarten van Nispen, a senior executive in the Dutch theatrical company Stage Holding, which...
CLASSICAL: By the Time You Read This, They Should Have Got It Right
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London Symphony Orchestra/ Davis Barbican Hall LONDON Orchestre des Champs-Elyses/ Herreweghe Barbican Hall LONDON On Tuesday, Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra bade farewell to Clive Gillinson: managing director of the orchestra for...
Competition: Win a Luxury Two-Night Break for Two at the Manor House Hotel and Golf Club
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What better place to spend a weekend than a stylish and historic country retreat? So we've teamed up with Exclusive Hotels to give you the chance to win a fantastic two-night break at The Manor House Hotel and Golf Club (pictured) in Castle Combe, Wiltshire....
COVER STORY: The Gospel According to Jean-Luc ; He Was the Film-Maker of the Sixties. Then Jean-Luc Godard Bid Adieu to the Mainstream, Trailing Clouds of Marxist Theory and Lamenting the Death of Cinema. Now, He's Making Waves Again " but Has the Old Auteur Anything New to Say? Jonathan Romney Went to His Home Town to Find Out
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Rolle, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva, is a small, quiet Swiss town with a 13th-century castle, a promenade lined with pollarded trees and an imposing background frieze of mountains across the water. Swans and sailboats drift through a light haze,...
Crack Use Soars as Price Plunges
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Crack cocaine is being blamed for an alarming rise in the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction, according to new research. Figures to be published later this month by the Department of Health are expected to show that growing numbers...
Cricket: Cool Cook Causes a Stir among Essex Men
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Alastair Cook may not be as tall as his opening partner at Essex, the 6ft 11in Will Jefferson, but he is certainly making a big impression. The 20-year-old came to the crease on Friday with his side trailing hosts Northamptonshire at Wantage Road by...
Cricket: Kent Deny the Best of Warne ; Hampshire 328 and 461-9 Dec Kent 305 and 447-9 Match Drawn
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Throughout the day, the great man sported a woolly hat pulled down over his ears. When his hands were not wanted he had them firmly in his pockets. Most of his colleagues followed his lead in both regards. The last time this many beanies were seen together...
Cricket: McGrath Enters Folklore ; Leics 278 and 276-9 Dec Yorks 151 and 406-4 Yorkshire Win by Six Wickets
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Yorkshire are a county of tradition, steeped in the past, but yesterday one of their records " that of highest successful run- chase " was broken courtesy of a magnificent undefeated century by Anthony McGrath and some valuable support play by Ian Harvey...
Cricket: One Doubt: Do Thorpe's Eyes Still Have It? ; Npower Test Series - England Luxuriate in Settled Squad but the Fear Is That Their Pivotal Batsman Is on Borrowed Time
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The squad for the first Test match of the season will be announced today. Time was that this was a spine-tingling affair, if only because it was impossible to tell what the damn-fool selectors were about to do next. That urgent sense of anticipation...
Cricket: Rafique's Role as Standard Bearer for Bangladesh
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Bangladesh's cricketers are friendly, excited and maybe a touch overawed by the attention. It is utterly off-limits, however, to ask them if they should be here, or indeed anywhere, playing Test matches. Gentle enquiries on this theme are prohibited,...
Cricket: Rixon Flies through the Clouds over Surrey's Win ; Surrey 444 and 425-4 Dec Glamorgan 345 and 248 Surrey Win by 276 Runs
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Surrey's players looked as though they had hardly a care in the world, scything through Glamorgan's middle and lower batting order to win at a canter. This shows that looks can be misleading. Although Steve Rixon, their coach, denies it, Surrey's players...
Cricket: The New Home of World Cricket ; out of This Desert Will Soon Rise an HQ, an Academy and a 25,000- Seat Arena
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In the searing desert 10 miles out of Dubai City stood a cardboard signpost kept in place by a pile of rocks. Half a mile further on loomed a speck of white on the horizon, to which the signpost was pointing. There was nothing else to point to. It was...
DANCE: An Hour or Two of Electric Boogaloo? Sorry, but It Just Won't Do
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Hip-hop used to be a thing that rabbits did. Then it described the underworld culture of Philadelphia and the Bronx. Now it's a flourishing international dance form. Breaking, locking, popping, boogaloo and krumping are the buzzwords of the moment, and...
'Deep Throat', the Biggest Porn Film Ever, Is Cleared for Release
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Deep Throat, the most infamous and lucrative porn film ever made, is to be shown in UK cinemas for the first time after a landmark decision by film censors. The film, whose star Linda Lovelace claimed she was forced into performing real-life fellatio...
Don't Weep for Man Utd. They Had It Coming ; It's Not Just Because He's an Arsenal Fan That Business Editor Jason Niss Has No Sympathy with His Manchester Rivals. Besides, History Shows That Malcolm Glazer's Coup Might Not Be All Bad News
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Last weekend Shareholders United " a group which says it represents Manchester United fans opposed to Malcolm Glazer's bid " tried to organise a boycott of United's match against West Bromwich Albion. Except that no one turned up. Or rather everyone...
Dramatic Fall in Crack Price Linked to Sharp Rise in Addicts
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Crack cocaine is being blamed for an alarming rise in the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction, according to new research. Figures to be published later this month by the Department of Health are expected to show that growing numbers...
Drinks Firms Accused over 'Low-Carb' Marketing Drive
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Drinks companies are being accused of cashing in on the current low-carb diet craze by targeting weight-conscious young women with special wines and spirits which have a reduced calorie content. Anti-alcohol charities say these new 'low-cal' drinks could...
ELVIS LIVES ; These Exclusive Images by Henry Leutwyler of Elvis Presley's Most Personal Possessions Give Us a New Perspective on an Icon Whose Legend Refuses to Die, Says Simon Goddard
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He was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it.' This, a line from Citizen Kane, could so very easily apply to the life of Elvis Presley. The greatest entertainer of the 20th century, Elvis was a man who indeed had everything: fame, fortune,...
EXPERT VIEW: Let's Play 'Spot the Joker' " the Hedge Fund Version
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'I'm buying drugs ...' Raising an eyebrow, the waiter at the Savoy Grill dawdled a little. I went on: 'With the risks in the market, I feel it's time for a touch of defensiveness in my portfolio.' The hedge fund selector narrowed his eyes, and laid down...
FAMILY OUTINGS: Where Did You Sleep in the War, Mam? ; Stockport Air Raid Shelters
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The venue Nicknamed 'The Chestergate Hotel', this labyrinth, 40 feet below the town centre provided shelter for up to 7,000 people during the Second World War. The mile-long tunnels were boarded up after the war and returned to only 10 years ago. The...
FICTION EXTRACT: This Is the Country
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After I got out of hospital I decided two things. Number one I would get a trade. Number two I would get that tool Baker for breaking my legs. I got rid of the crutches, the three longest months of my life, and went down to the Toyota and asked them...
FILM: ALSO SHOWING.. J-Lo and la Fonda Go to War. Let's Leave Them to It
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We are all-too familiar with the imagery that emerges from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But hidden from most of us are the day- to- day scenes of attrition, in which the put-upon Arab civilian must rub along with the reluctant Israeli soldier. Private...
FILM OF THE WEEK: True Confessions of a Cold Warrior
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The Fog of War Today, 10pm BBC2 For those who don't know " and unless you were an adult in the 1960s or early 1970s or are a keen student of contemporary history why would you? " Robert McNamara was US Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F Kennedy...
FILM STUDIES: Los Angeles: It's a City, It's a Concept, It's a Film
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They are films about Los Angeles " as if that city had at last convinced film-makers that it is a real place. And, as a rule, hardly a week goes by without something happening in the news that gives proof to the soulful longing of the community that,...
Film: What on Earth Am I Doing Here?
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The Jacket John Maybury 102 MINS, 15 It's an interesting case, The Jacket " and pardon me if 'case' seems a bit forensic. John Maybury's film is an awkward, if ambitious failure; yet it's an interesting example of how hard it is for wayward, individual...
Fishing Lines: It's Something the Cat Dragged In
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Monster fish lurked in the Parlour. You could stand on a walkway and gawp at huge barbel, chub and roach below your feet. Occasionally a big trout or salmon showed. Throw in a handful of maggots, and those fish fought over the free food. You could even...
Focus: Can He Really Last the Distance? ; Tony Blair Wants to Beat Margaret Thatcher's Record as the Longest- Serving Prime Minister of Modern Times. Andy McSmith Reports on Backbench Rebellion and the Many Other Hurdles He Will Have to Jump to Make It
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The Oscar-winning actress turned MP looked the Prime Minister in the eye and said: 'In the election campaign I wasn't fighting the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats. I was fighting you. I literally had hundreds of my constituents, who were Labour...
Focus: 'Cheap, but Nasty. My Cast-Iron Stomach Turns and Runs Screaming out of the Door' ; ...While Our Newly-Garlanded Restaurant Critic Asks: What Did I Do to Deserve This?
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Winning the most prestigious award in the world of restaurant reviews guarantees two things. One, a hangover of single malt proportions, and two, a call from the editor offering a dream assignment. So when the phone rings, I'm packing my bags. Will it...
Focus: Hoodie Nation ; Hooded Tops Have Been Banned by a Shopping Centre and Branded Yobwear by Tony Blair. So Does Wearing Them Make All These People Hoodlums? Don't Be Daft, They Tell Katy Guest
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There were no menacing youths roaming the Bluewater shopping centre on Thursday afternoon. Those who wore hooded tops wore them down, as ordered by the management. Until I arrived. There were hoodies for sale in the Bluewater shops, and baseball caps,...
Focus: Wimpy: The Sign That Says We're Greasy, We're British and We're Lovin' It ; and It's the Sign That Hung above the Country's First Burger Chain, 50 Years Ago This Week and a Generation before Big Mac Invaded. Here Katy Guest Spends a Day in a Wimpy Bar, Where Customers Can Smoke and Nobody Orders Them to Have a Nice Day
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Remember a time before burger chains? Probably not. It's hard to imagine Britain before supersizing, before onion rings and happy meals and going large. But fifty years ago, Ronald McDonald was only a glint in his daddy's eye. The fast food industry...
Football: Championship Play-Off - Meet Ned, Preston's Shoot-Out Weapon
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When it comes to the play-offs, with the possibility of a vital shoot-out or two, it probably helps to have a Ned Kelly in your camp. In fact, the assistant manager of Preston North End " David Kelly to the world at large, but 'Ned' to everyone who has...
Football: Cole's Defence: Infringement of Human Rights ; Battle of Old Trafford Shareholders United Claim a Sweeping Increase in Membership and Share Pledges as Resistance to Glazer Goes to the Barricades
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Ashley Cole will tell the independent inquiry into the Chelsea 'tapping-up' affair that the Premier League rules preventing a player speaking to another club while under contract amount to an infringement of his human rights. The Arsenal player's defence...
Football: FA Cup Final - United Can Save Season " If Not Club ; Glazer Crisis an Unwelcome Backdrop as Ferguson Seeks Sweet Consolation in a Showpiece to Savour
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Memo to Joel and Avi Glazer: 'Avid fans or not, best not turn up at the Millennium Stad-ium in Cardiff on Saturday for Manchester United's match of the season. Apart from any considerations of personal safety, the ensuing riot would in all probability...
Football: Fans Fight to the Last ; Battle of Old Trafford Shareholders United Claim a Sweeping Increase in Membership and Share Pledges as Resistance to Glazer Goes to the Barricades
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Malcolm Glazer was yesterday labelled a parasite as the campaign to block the American billionaire from taking complete control of Manchester United gathered pace and support. Nick Towle, the chairman of Shareholders United, who reported a one-day growth...
Football: Genial Heritage in Hands of a Man of Passion ; City Mover and Shaker - Pearce Picks Up Hard Reins Ready for the Challenge despite the Restraints
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The juxtaposition of events could not have been more apposite: that on the very afternoon when Manchester City honour the career of one of their finest they should confirm the genesis of another in whose potential they have invested so much faith. When...
Football: Gilberto Provides the Silva Lining to Arsenal's Winter of Frustration
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Many a truth emerges from an observation expressed in jest. What could Arsne Wenger have been alluding to when, apropos of nothing really, he opined that Gilberto Silva 'could be the next manager of Brazil... just after England beat them in the World...
Football: Hearts Show a Cruel Side
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Five days after Celtic lost to Hearts at Parkhead in 2000, John Barnes lost his job as manager. When Martin O'Neill suffered the same fate last month, he must have wondered if this was the end: it was for John Robertson. Just six weeks after guiding...
Football: Igor the Incredible Bears Big Burden of Expectation ; Uefa Cup Final
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It would be easy to dismiss CSKA Moscow as an army of mercenaries. They have used the proceeds of their pounds 10m-a- season sponsorship deal to bring in such exotic talent as the Brazilians Daniel Carvalho and Vagner Love, the Croatian Ivica Olic and...
Football: Kuqi Gives Royle a Chance to Cure the Old Heartache ; Championship Play-Offs - Hammers' Defensive Frailties Cost Them Dear Again; West Ham United 2 Harewood 7, Zamora 13 Ipswich Town 2 Walker Og 45, Kuqi 74 Half-Time: 2-1 Attendance: 33,723
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West Ham United and Ipswich Town have often been a credit to the higher echelons of the English game with their standards and quality of football, and, for all their current reduced circumstances, both would be welcome back again. After a lively 90 minutes...
Football: McAuley's Header Gives Lincoln the Advantage ; League Two Play-Offs: Lincoln City 1 McAuley 11 Macclesfield Town 0 Half-Time: 1-0 Attendance: 7,032
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The play-offs have not been kind to Lincoln, for whom the post- season scramble ended in a 5-2 defeat by Bournemouth in Cardiff two years ago and elimination at the semi-final stage in 2004. They have a chance to make amends this time after taking a...
Football: Murphy Ends Carlisle Exile ; Conference Play-offs:Stevenage Borough 0 Carlisle United 1 Murphy 23 Half-Time: 0-1 Attendance: 13,422
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After an exile of just one season, Carlisle United reclaimed their place in the Football League with a hard-fought victory over Stevenage Borough, the midfielder Peter Murphy's goal after 23 minutes enough to give Paul Simpson's team victory in the Conference...
Football: Paranoia a Four-Way Street on Last-Chance Afternoon ; Survival Sunday Is a Day for Charms and Prayers. Ronald Atkin Reports from the Rival Camps
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To borrow from Delia, let's be 'avin' you. Step forward the one team, out of Norwich, Southampton, Crystal Palace and West Bromwich, who will survive this afternoon's tightest relegation struggle in the top flight of English football for 35 years. Deliverance...
Football: Scottish Premier League - Arveladze Signs off in Style to Keep Title Dream Alive ; Rangers 4 Buffel 12, 57, Arveladze 17, 54 Motherwell 1 Andrews Og 89 Half-Time: 2-0 Attendance: 49,495
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Shota Arveladze said farewell to Ibrox yesterday, marking the occasion with two goals that keep Rangers' title ambitions intact going into the final day of the Scottish Premier League season. The Georgian, who is returning to Europe as a free agent,...
Football: Scott Puts Pools Promotion Ahead of His Own Prospects ; League Two Play-Offs
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Martin Scott insists that talk of the vacant managerial position at Victoria Park should be put on the back-burner until the end of Hartlepool United's play-off campaign. Although the shock of Neale Cooper's controversial departure earlier this month...
Football: So That Was the Season That Was: Texts, Spittle and Jose's Amazing Dreamcoat
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Best Soap Opera: ToonEnders Kieron Dyer refuses to play wide on the right for Sir Bobby Robson, who then drops Alan Shearer and gets sacked; Craig Bellamy abuses Graeme Souness and eventually takes the high road to Celtic; Lee Bowyer and Dyer in the...
Football: The Premiership: The Final Curtain
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Birmingham v Arsenal A balancing act for the Gunners as Freddie Ljungberg, Sol Campbell and Thierry Henry seek to prove they're fully match-fit to start in the FA Cup final next Saturday, while the rest will be keen to avoid injury for the same reason....
Football: US Stage for Carrick and the New Cole ; England on Tour - Eriksson Hoping to Have Beckham and Owen Available for Both Games on Mission of Political Merit
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Sven Goran Eriksson hopes to give England's much-criticised trip to the United States a fillip by asking Real Madrid to release David Beckham and Michael Owen for the opening game if the Spanish League title has been decided. Madrid are guaranteed second...
Football: Wanted: Another Pearl from Dean ; Which Striker Will Strike Hottest? - Norwich Can Win by a Whisker Thanks to the Signing Worth His Weight in Goals
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In his black training shirt with 'D A' initials and No 36 writ large, Dean Ashton cut an impressively bulky figure at Norwich City's training ground on Friday. Menacing, too, if you took into account the sort of stubble usually cultivated by boxers in...
Football: Why Fergie Is Wise to Suspend the Next Move ; FA Cup Final US Tycoon's Arrival Heightens Fears That Manager's Departure May Be Hastened " but Don't Bank on It
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Even before the Tampa Boys placed their elbows firmly in the door and launched their final and, most probably, decisive assault on Manchester United, with the connivance of the obliging Irish horseracing duo of John Magnier and J P McManus, one had begun...
From as Little As
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pounds 99... Boutique hotel 42 The Calls in Leeds (0113-244 0099) is offering a special overnight rate until the end of September. The price includes breakfast and a free float session at the Leeds Floatation centre. pounds 189... Six people can spend...
From Britney to Brit Pop to Beijing
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Stuart Watson, the music industry veteran who helped to launch Britney Spears, has been hired by the Government to promote British pop music in China. The former managing director of the Zomba record label will head a newly created office in Beijing,...
Furious United Fans Target Sponsors
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Manchester United fans attempting to block the complete takeover of the club by the American businessman Malcolm Glazer are to boycott the club's merchandise and major sponsors. Shareholders United (SU), a professional organisation which buys club shares...
GCap Told to Ditch Either Chairman or Chief Executive
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Shareholders are to tell GCap Media, the radio group formed by the merger of Capital Radio and GWR, that it wants either chairman Ralph Bernard or chief executive Dave Mansfield to stand down. The newly formed group has been told by a number of top shareholders...
Golf: Campbell and Woods " Streaks Apart ; as Tiger's Amazing 143-Tournament Run Comes to a Halt, New Zealander Tries to End His 24-Month Drought
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As the world of golf was still coming to terms with the news that Tiger Woods had missed his first cut in 143 tournaments and seven years, here in the rattling woods of the West Midlands, Michael Campbell was trying to put to bed a streak that stretches...
GOOD GEAR: DIVING EQUIPMENT - Underwater Overview ; Keep Safe and Warm Exploring the Deep. Robin Barton Kits You out from Head to Toe
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Divers have made much progress since Aristotle first des-cribed Alexander the Great's use of a diving bell in the fourth century BC. Indeed, PADI (the Professional Association of Dive Instructors) record that since 1967 about 10 million people worldwide...
Government Report Gives New Wind to Green Energy
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Wind power is better than nuclear power stations for tackling global warming, the Government's official environmental advisers will tell Tony Blair this week. Their conclusion " after the most comprehensive study of wind energy in Britain " contradicts...
Guys and Goals ; Down under, Aussie Rules Football Was Where the Honest Battler Could Make His Mark. but When It Turned Professional, Things Changed. Fame, Fortune " and Drink, Drugs and Sexual Shenanigans Aplenty. So, Asks Claire Halliday, Has Footy Lost Its Soul? and Why Are So Many Fans Female?
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A sk Grant Thomas, coach of the lite Australian Rules football side St Kilda, exactly why Australians embrace the game so passionately and the answer comes as quickly as it takes one of his forward to sniff out the goalposts. 'It's a great game, it's...
Hamish McRae: Spend Some Euros to Save la Dolce Vita
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Italy is in recession again. That of itself might seem unremarkable, for so too is the Netherlands. And while the German economy has perked up remarkably in the first three months of the year, it too is expected to fall back this summer. But the problems...
Hamish McRae: The Days of Heady Growth Are over but How Gently Will Britain Come Back Down to Earth?
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It is extraordinary the speed at which sentiment has shifted. By coincidence " mostly " the timing of the election has matched the shift in mood from a booming economy to one of tougher times ahead. That shift was brought into sharp focus last week by...
He's Not Uriah Heep. He's Uriah the Hittite
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The Prime Minister's phase of being ever so humble, to which I referred last week, survived polling day by about 12 hours. It was certainly much shorter than the last period of political contrition, in which he was only peripherally involved, because...
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By a school, near a city square lay bodies; piled up by the dozen. Next to a memorial to a poet, were yet more, swathed in spattered shrouds. The streets of Andijan were stained with blood yesterday, and littered with spent bullet cartridges. Yet amid...
Historic Sleepovers: Beyond Repair? There's No Such Thing ; for 40 Years the Landmark Trust Has Taken Crumbling Follies and Turned Them into Amazing Place to Stay. Marcus Field Reports
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'Hooray for the Pineapple, prickly and proud. Farewell, old fruit.' Not, as you might expect, a line from P G Wodehouse, but a paean written by a departing guest in the logbook of one of the Landmark Trust's most popular properties " an 18th-century...
Historic Sleepovers: Dinner Is Served: Living It Up in Aristocratic Style ; Five Gardeners, Seven Housekeepers, Two Chefs, Six Kitchen Staff, Five Banqueting Staff and 52 Close Friends. Katy Guest Discovers Exclusive- Hire Holidays
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As lifestyles go, the upstairs-downstairs, lord-of-the-manor existence is not an option for most people. It was all right for Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry to ponce around a stately home for a long weekend in Peter's Friends. But we mortals have never...
Historic Sleepovers: Lost Corner of Europe Where Water Still Comes from the Well ; Head into Deepest Transylvania and You Can Still Find a Land of Wildflower Meadows and Perfectly Preserved Medieval Villages. Mark Rowe Reports
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You will search in vain for landladies who proffer a crucifix to ward off expected evils. Men in capes with exceptionally large canine teeth are notable by their absence. There are, though, Gothic castles to raise the hairs on the back of your neck,...
Historic Sleepovers: My Life as an Undercover B&b Inspector ; When Kate Simon Helped to Judge the AA Landlady of the Year Award, It Wasn't the House That Counted but the Welcome
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As I picked up my case to leave home for the airport, the phone rang. It was the landlady of the Scottish b&b where I was due to stay that night. 'I'm terribly sorry, my husband has had an accident,' she said. 'He's in hospital a couple of hours' drive...
Historic Sleepovers: Palacio De Santa Paula ; SLEEPOVER: A Bed for the Night in Granada
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The location In the centre of the city, the Santa Paula is a few minutes' walk from the cathedral and the bustling side streets of the main shopping district. For around 60p, a bus from outside the hotel will take you uphill to the Alhambra, the world-famous...
Historic Sleepovers: Take the Gang Away on Holiday
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Trevor Hall, Llangollen North Wales 01638 674756 www.statelyholidayhomes.co.uk Owned by a music agent, this Grade I listed, red-brick building, set in 85 acres, is filled with intriguing pop memorabilia, including the Dalek used in The Prodigy video...
Historic Sleepovers: To the Manoir Born: 10 Top Chteaux ; in France, Accommodation with an Aristocratic Touch Is Provided at Some of Its Great Country Houses. Kieran Falconer Offers a Guide
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1 Chteau La Cour, Normandy Chteau La Cour lies in tranquil Suisse Normande on a minor road south of Caen. Owners David and Lesley Craven left their respective jobs in marketing and advertising and began work in 1997 renovating this large chateau whose...
HOW WE MET ROBERT RIGBY & ANDY MCNAB: 'There Is Something Mythical about Him'
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Robert Rigby, 53, lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children. He began work as a journalist, became a songwriter and musician, and is now a playwright and award-winning scriptwriter on the BBC children's TV drama series 'Byker Grove'. Andy McNab...
Icing on the Cake: Couples Head to Alaska to Marry
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Suzanne Redford needn't have bothered with the natty white shoes she chose to match her wedding dress, because in the end she donned a pair of boots with a good grip on the soles. They were inelegant but sensible, not least because the ceremony was held...
If Nuclear Power Is the Answer, They're Asking the Wrong Question
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Suddenly, after two decades out in the cold, nuclear energy is hot again. Tony Blair has told aides that he will crusade for atomic power as the answer to global warming " and yesterday his new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry duly promised...
Imperial Investors in Landmark Advice Win ; Insurer and Adviser Ordered to Pay Pounds 500,000 to Couple in Ruling That Could Open the Floodgates after Collapse of Finance Firm
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Zurich Financial Services and an independent financial adviser (IFA) are to pay substantial damages after a farming couple from Wiltshire won a landmark decision in the High Court on Friday. The couple had lost their savings in one of the most notorious...
In It for the Long Run: Inspiring Times on the Road Less Travelled ; Kenya's Social Conventions Mean Their Women Athletes Have Always Played Second Fiddle to Men. Now One Runner Says Enough's Enough. and It Helps That She's a Legend. Ben Winston Reports
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In the dining room of the High Altitude Training Camp (HATC) near Iten, western Kenya, stands a cabinet of trophies marking the success of Lornah Kiplagat, one of the more outstanding long- distance runners Kenya has produced. It's not that she is the...
INSIDE BRITAIN'S SCHOOLS: 'A Bully Broke My Daughter's Nose. the Injury Nearly Killed Her " Yet the School Did Nothing to Stop the Attacks' ; the Teenager Went to Hospital Twice after Assaults by a Classmate. in the Latest of Our Special Reports, Nicholas Pyke Finds out What Angry Parents like Sue Groves Can Do When Schools Fail to Act
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It started with name-calling and ended with a vicious physical assault, two trips to hospital, a court case and a month off lessons. In between was a four-year campaign of classroom bullying against a girl whose only crime was to be well brought up....
INSIDE BRITAIN'S SCHOOLS: Comment: We Must Instil Respect for Teachers " and for Parents and Pupils, Too
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The phrase I hate perhaps more than any other in teaching is 'kids like these', used so often to damn or dismiss young people. I dislike the language and deplore the attitude it conveys. The Prime Minister has been promising 'respect' for authority,...
