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Testing and assessment: We will fail him on the beaches

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Obama's Asian odyssey

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Sara Payne's campaign for a national sex offenders' register divided Britain. Now the Government's 'victims' champion' is making waves again – and shaking up Whitehall. Joanna Moorhead meets her.

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Pressure grows on Brown after claim that US was close to troop decision is rejected

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The Kreutzer Sonata, Gate Theatre, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

The motion of a train loosens the tongue, confides Pozdnyshev, our companion in a railway carriage for the 85 minutes of this extraordinarily compelling stage adaptation of Tolstoy's great, warped novella The Kreutzer Sonata. In Natalie Abrahami's pitch-perfect production at the tiny Gate Theatre, this figure is a kind of bourgeois Russian Ancient Mariner, compelled to re-tell the story of how he murdered his arguably adulterous wife. She may have been playing more than piano with a newly arrived violinist, who had been a childhood friend of Pozdnyshev. Emphasising the subjective nature of the protagonist's testimony, this couple are seen here fitfully illuminated behind a scrim either making music or love in candle-lit flashes that are like the lingering neuralgic throb of an obsession that has survived Pozdnyshev's acquittal for homicide.

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Bank predicts tough 2010 before improvement in 2011

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Home Secretary agrees protocol with advisers

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Luella Bartley, described her clothes, popular with young celebrities such as Alexa Chung, as 'the kind you can get drunk and fall over in'

Luella Bartley is latest fashion victim of recession

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Sky provokes backlash after iPhone viewing offer

BSkyB said last night it was not worried that its new Sky Mobile TV service for iPhones, where all Sky's sport content is now available for an all-time low price of £6 per month, will cannabilise sales of its core product – pay-TV sport – and damage its business model.

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.