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Wogan addresses BBC's Savile crisis on 'Children in Need' as appeal beats 2011 total
Saturday 17 November 2012
The BBC's Children in Need appeal raised more than £26 million during this year's live television show, beating the 2011 total.
Stars queue up for festive Strictly Come Dancing
Friday 02 November 2012
The boss of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing says stars are desperate to appear in the Christmas special after seeing the success of the latest series.
New Culture Secretary Maria Miller faces wrath of Conservative right flank with resounding endorsement of gay marriage agenda
Wednesday 10 October 2012
The new Culture Secretary today risked incurring the wrath of the Conservative Party’s right flank with a resounding endorsement of the Government’s gay marriage agenda.
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Monday 08 October 2012
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Welcome to the Nasty Party conference
Monday 08 October 2012
David Cameron's efforts to improve his party's image undermined by tonight's meeting of 900 Tory activists opposed to same-sex union
DJ Taylor: All woes lead to the hapless Mr Lansley
Sunday 08 January 2012
Whether on binge drinking or cosmetic surgery, the Conservative instinct not to interfere is becoming difficult to defend
Alex Hall: 'Only Jeremy Clarkson and I know the truth. Now we can both put our side across'
Sunday 06 November 2011
Recently freed from an injunction imposed by her ex-husband Jeremy Clarkson, she wants to make known how her name has been blackened. Matthew Bell meets Alex Hall.
Sexy, druggy Tory story upsets 'old school'
Sunday 14 May 2006
Andrew Davies's TV adaptation of Booker Prize-winning novel about the Thatcher years ruffles feathers
Ann Coulter: The blonde assassin
Monday 16 August 2004
Does Ann Coulter really believe the outrageous things she says? To the pin-up pundit of the American right, liberals are fascists - and all terrorists are Muslims. Sholto Byrnes runs for cover
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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