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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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News RSS Feed - click to grab the feedObituaries
- Sir Roy Shaw: Arts Council leader who fought right-wingattacks on public arts subsidies
- Digby Wolfe: Writer and actor best known for 'Laugh-In'
- Frank Parr: Lancashire cricketer and trombonist with George Melly
- Professor Sandy Fenton: Scholar of Scottish antiquities
- Carroll Shelby: Racing driver who won at Le Mans for Aston Martin
- Donald 'Duck' Dunn: Bassist with Booker T and the MGs and one of Stax Records' 'Big 6'
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feedEditorials
- Leading article: France and Germany don't have all the cards
- Leading article: François Hollande is less radical than he seems
- Leading article: Not a good career move, Boris Johnson
- Leading article: Sensible reforms that must be fair
- Leading article: Private eyes can't be a law unto themselves
- Leading article: Of Facebook shares and tulip bulbs
Commentators
- The Debate: Should Amazon be selling Nazi flags?
- James Cusick: Britain's most televised barrister dons the disguise of Captain Slow
- Simon Kelner: Virgin Atlantic's idea is verging on the unbearable
- Nina Lakhani: So what went so very wrong in the Sam Hallam case?
- Grace Dent: Twitter might have turned into a party with 10 million guests, but I'm still loving every minute of it
- Lisa Markwell: It's her needs that make my daughter special
- Ben Chu: Argentina managed to survive a huge default – so could Greece do the same?
- Georgina Pugh: We need to start talking about death
- Henry Makiwa: A humanitarian crisis in West Africa
- Simon Kelner: Football and religon entwined in faith-shaking finish
- Amol Rajan: History in the making – and we can all be part of it
- Major General Tim Cross: Not even Philip Hammond knows if the problem's been fixed
- Joanne Harris: Criticism is fine, but do you have to spoil the plot?
- Stefan Stern: The office giants we pretend to be
- Rhodri Marsden: Here's one newspaper column to read before you die
- Natalie Haynes: You don't have to be mad to expect quiet on a British train – but it helps
- Deborah Ross: What men really need to know – as written by women
- Eurozone Sketch: A kiss, a wrong turn and 'Merkollande' take the stage
Sport
Sport RSS Feed - click to grab the feedOlympics
- From 6am to 1am, daily: BBC1 runs into Olympic overload
- Mary Peters: 'Bombs were often going off as I trained in Belfast'
- David Beckham to appear at Olympic Flame handover
- Keri-anne Payne prepared for anything in pursuit of open water gold at Olympics
- Manchester United's Ryan Giggs excited by Olympics opportunity
- 100,000 eye Olympics security jobs with G4S
- Fears that Olympic stadium could become white elephant
- Olympic round-up: news you may have missed...
Travel
Travel RSS Feed - click to grab the feedNews & Advice
- Immigration Minister Damian Green blames wrong type of wind for chaos at Heathrow
- 'Hello, I'm on a plane...' Phones are cleared for take-off
- The 10 Best business travel kits
- The best currency to carry in Israel, plus transport links from Bratislava Airport to Vienna
- Greece, Med cruise, Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
- Deals of the week: Jamaica, Paris, Seville
- 1 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 2 Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
- 3 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
- 4 Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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