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Brown details tighter immigration rules

The Prime Minister announced a review of student visas to clamp down on people applying to study in the UK with the intention of working here illegally.

Ronnie Wood with his wife Jo. The couple had been married for 24 year

The Rolling Stone who gathered no money

Jonathan Brown: Ronnie Wood divorced – but where's the fortune?

Plan at last to tackle 'liquid cosh' dementia drugs new

Jeremy Laurance: Review estimates three-quarters of patients are inappropriately receiving powerful cocktail of sedative drugs

Heathrow, January 2008: All passengers and crew survived when this British Airways 777 crash-landed. It is reported that this was one of the inspirations for the Channel 4 programme.

Channel 4 to crash 300-seat jet into desert new

Two pilots will parachute clear before it crash-lands as part of a scientific experiment.

More troops 'are needed in Afghanistan' new

Nato is disputing the views of the US Ambassador, who advised President Obama against a military surge.

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Churchill said: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills: we shall never surrender.' The computer marked him down for repetition

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Alan Johnson made the concessions in talks with drugs advisers yesterday

Home Secretary agrees protocol with advisers

The Home Secretary will write formally to his drugs advisers in future to explain any decision on classification that goes against their advice, it emerged yesterday.

'Dutch coaches have a lot of baggage,' says Steve McClaren. 'Because they are Dutch everyone knows their life story. With me they know a bit'

Steve McClaren: I survived ultimate failure. Now I fear nothing

Two years since he left England under a raincloud, the former national manager is enjoying his day in the sun, topping the Dutch league with FC Twente. In an exclusive interview, he tells Sam Wallace how he rebuilt his life, and why he won't rush back to the Premier League.

Gavin Hodge, on the day of his wedding to Jan Burdette at Chelsea Registry Office in 1975

Gavin Hodge: Celebrity hairdresser who scandalised Sixties society

Gavin Hodge was a hugely fashionable hairdresser who, beginning in the London of the swinging Sixties, packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex.


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