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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
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- Sir Bill Cotton: Television executive who brought some of the BBC's most popular programmes to the screen
- Isaac Hayes: Seventies soul superstar who won an Oscar for 'Theme from Shaft'
- Peter Coke: Voice of radio sleuth Paul Temple
- Erik Darling: Key figure in the US folk revival
- Roger Landes: SOE agent in occupied France
- Penny Wade: Worker for the homeless
Voices
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- Alistair Horne: We mistake the mood in Russia at our peril
- Anne Penketh: Moscow flexed military muscle, and left West humiliated
- Georgette Gagnon: Before any resolution, Zimbabwe first needs justice
- Susie Rushton: Urban Notebook
- Murithi Mutiga: End the sham of African democracy
- David Owen: Lessons in removing politicians from public office
- Simon Calder: The world has learnt to expect British louts
- Matt Siegel: 'I came here to defend my people from genocide’
- Kim Sengupta: 'I don’t know when they will stop the attacks'
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedCricket
- Pietersen's class can't hide lasting flaws that limit England
- South Africa 194 & 318 England 316 & 198-4 (Eng. win by 6 wkts): Debut triumph stirs confident Pietersen to target the Ashes
- Durham take issue with ECB decision to rest Harmison
- Captain determined to entice Harmison back to one-day fold
- Smiles all round as new era begins with loving flourish
Olympics
- Pooley earns silver lining for blowing away clouds of doubt
- Record-breaker Phelps takes gold haul to 11
- James Lawton: Phelps powers towards first place in Olympic pantheon
- Olympic dreams drive Radcliffe to marathon start line
- Cook wins second eventing medal
- Bronze for Brit eventing team
- Florence masters raging waters to claim canoeing silver medal
- Swimmers fail to keep up gold standard
- James Lawton: Daley's failure the legacy of perennial lack of perspective
- Mixed fortunes for GB sailors
- Cook's long wait for glory ends with bronze double
- British prospects on the water are riding high
- Shooting: Misfiring Faulds unable to reproduce his glorious golden shots
- Weighlifting: Anything but a Breeze as Michaela battles the pain
- Aussies plans to clean up over 'soap-dodging' Brits
- China in new Olympic faking scandal
- All conquering Phelps marches on
- I wish I had more time, says Radcliffe
- Out of sync and out of sorts: Daley fails to perform on Olympic stage
- Dynamite Brit stops super-heavyweight favourite
- Federer avenges Athens defeat
- Whitaker's Olympics over
- Nadal through to quarter-finals
- Togo's hero has only been there once... as a toddler
- Badminton: 'Scary' Emms and Robertson smash way into quarter-finals
- On the Beijing Beat: Tank mounts guard on press army
- Daley and Aldridge can get relationship back in sync, says diving chief
- Murray left confounded by judges’ counting
- It's all going swimmingly for the USA
- Sport chief expects diving pair to make up
- Badminton: Robertson and Emms upset odds
- Flood alerts issued for parts of UK
- Three killed in renewed violence in China
- Britain on course in medals chase
- Chinese facing home pressure
- David Ashdown's sports picture diary: Beijing Olympics - Kayaking
- Old man Lezak's brilliant finish helps Phelps to pass French test
- On the Beijing Beat: Only one winner in name game
- King's majesty puts Britain in medal hunt
- Britain's rowers fire into finals
- Great leap forward ends at the medal dais
- Pooley in cycling silver
- Hockey: Clewlow keeps Britain in game with crucial equaliser
- Water Cube atmosphere failing to match drama in pool
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 3 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 4 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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