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Binman faces £10,000 jigsaw puzzle
It is a jigsaw that would drive even the most patient of puzzle fans to distraction.
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Condoleezza plays piano for the Queen
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a piano recital for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
WI fights back over 'fat ankle' jibe
Sunday, 30 November 2008
"Antiques Roadshow" does not usually generate protest. But that changed in September, when the BBC show's art critic, Rupert Maas, quipped that a lady in a portrait had a "Shropshire ankle". Now he is being forced to face the women whose lower legs he dismissed.
The world's last bastion of free speech? Enter the Cheeky Girls ...
Saturday, 29 November 2008
It hosted Nixon's first speech post-Watergate, so do the Oxford Debating Union's latest guests reveal a dumbing down?
Minor British Institutions: Last of the Summer Wine
Saturday, 29 November 2008
The world's longest- running sit-com has been going so long we've almost forgotten about it. Peter Sallis – perhaps better known nowadays as the voice of Wallace, as in Wallace and Gromit – is the only survivor of the first trio of crazed pensioners that turned up in a "Comedy Playhouse" pilot in 1973. Sallis was then a mere 52 years of age. His character of Norman Clegg joined Bill Owen as scruffy old Compo Simmonite and the magnificent Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire.
Vibrant Yorkshire Dales town has best high street in Britain
Friday, 28 November 2008
It is not the kind of place you will rub shoulders with the designer-clad wives of Russian oligarchs or battle over Bulgari with brand-obsessed "trustafarians" – but anyone looking to indulge in retail therapy should forget London and head for the tranquillity of the Yorskhire Dales.
Flip-flops to help drunk women stagger home
Friday, 28 November 2008
Flip-flops are to be given to drunk women in Devon to prevent them injuring themselves when wearing high heels.
Chain store massacre: Tim Walker bids a bittersweet farewell to Woolworths
Thursday, 27 November 2008
No more pick'n'mix. No more £2.99Al Green CDs. No more Woolworths. As it passes from high street to memory lane, Tim Walker pays his respects
Ethiopia demands stolen crown back
Sunday, 23 November 2008
President writes to British museums to call for return of more than 400 treasures looted in 1868
Conservationists plan to reintroduce sea eagles to England
Saturday, 22 November 2008
The long-vanished sea eagle could soon be soaring in the skies above England again under plans drawn up by conservationists.
Minor British Institutions: The allotment
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Just as common land was being "enclosed" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the allotment sprung up as a link to a happier, more bucolic past. The Small Holdings and Allotment Act of 1908 required local authorities to provide land for cultivation, and the restrictions on development were stricter than now.
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