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Wednesday, 29 August 2012
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News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedObituaries
- Freddie Fletcher: Persuasive administrator who revitalised Newcastle United football club
- Jerry Nelson: 'Sesame Street' puppeteer
- Jane Bell: Hotelier who established Druidstone as a force in Welsh arts
- Stanley Dent: Senior figure in the postwar film industry
- Patrick Ricard: Entrepreneur who made the family firm a world leader
- Martine Franck: Photographer with Magnum hailed for her documentary and portrait work
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedEditorials
- Leading article: Politics to be sure, but a wealth tax merits a look
- Leading article: First, stop Syria's war spreading
- Leading article: These Games are about ability and inspiration
- Leading article: Less lobbying, more debate
- Leading article: Strauss deserves to be remembered at his best
- Leading article: A conference. In Florida. In August. What could go wrong?
Commentators
- Lisa Markwell: Forget Clegg's tax idea – let's get the rich into philanthropy
- Archie Bland: We have to stop patronising Paralympics athletes
- Simon Kelner: The 'Irish' cows in Kent that fooled the Germans
- Grace Dent: So cannabis affects your IQ. Or is it the hours spent eating Peperami and watching Cheech and Chong?
- Simon Kelner: Lost for words? It's probably an age thing
- Viv Groskop: Don't honour Olympians just for doing their job. Except one
- James Moore: The banker, the go-between, the sheikh and an £11.5bn deal
- Laurie Penny: It's not rhetoric to draw parallels with Nazism
- Caroline Lucas: The Green case against airport expansion
- Rachael Latham: This is our turn to shine – in the sporting arenas and in the TV studios, too
- Stefan Stern: If Poundland's expanding, we must be in trouble
- Adam Bouyamourn: Grayling promises school leavers three months of unpaid work in exchange for benefits. I for one would rather play computer games
- Deborah Ross: Never confuse a lifestyle coach with a National Express coach...
- Alex Duval Smith: Events show the police are both inept and brutal
- Natalie Haynes: The Essex lion is ludicrous, but that doesn't stop us wanting it to be true
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
- James Lawton: Andrew Strauss delivered a masterclass in values but will Kevin Pietersen even care to listen?
- England captain Andrew Strauss retires from professional cricket
- Angus Fraser: Andrew Strauss never ducked an issue and bows out at the right time
- Dignified Andrew Strauss retires – and blames it on his batting
- Amla masterclass puts South Africa top of ODI world
- Test of character awaits Alastair Cook the run-machine
- Change of England captain may not save Kevin Pietersen
- England bowler Graeme Swann to miss rest of one-day series against South Africa
- Tributes pour in for Andrew Stauss after England captain announces retirement
- County Championship round-up: Pietersen delivers timely reminder of supreme talent
- County Championship round-up: Mitchell leads from front on fruitful day for Pears
Tennis
- Andy Murray rushes into third round of US Open with straight sets victory over Ivan Dodig
- Bold Laura Robson sends Kim Clijsters heading towards retirement
- Murray still coasting on golden high
- Play best-of-three in Grand Slams to keep top seeds fit, says Billie Jean King
- Novak Djokovic drops just two games in ominous display at US Open
- Serena Williams breezes through first round of the US Open
- Ivan Dodig relishing chance to take on Andy Murray at US Open
- Radwanska hits out to put troubles behind her
- Konta takes giant stride with unexpected victory
- Azarenka gets back in the groove again
- 1 Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
- 2 Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
- 3 You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
- 4 'Swivel-gate': David Cameron goes to war with the press over 'swivel-eyed loons' slur
- 5 It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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