Cable & Wireless has clinched a $207m (pounds 127m) deal to install 250,000 telephone lines in Hanoi, British embassy sources said, adding that an official announcement will be made later by the company's head office.

Sean Lennon

The Government has promised that pounds 140m of the money raised by abolishing grants and bringing in tuition fees for undergraduates will be reinvested in higher education. What this proves is that tuition fees are not "fees" at all, since if I pay "fees" to go to a university, I expect ALL - not some - of that money to be reinvested in university education.

America's forgotten punk visionary sits suspiciously in the corner of his local pub, waiting to tell his story again. David Thomas has been living in Hove for a year now. His huge frame is in a crumpled grey jacket, his pet whippet sliding around him. The controlled rage of his band Pere Ubu's 1975 debut "Heart of Darkness" seems far away. Then he mentions the Test match - at that stage the result was looking iffy.

Trevor Phillips on the days of summer

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Carl Wilson, one of the founding members of the The Beach Boys, has died aged 51. Clare Garner reports on the man who dedicated his life to fun, fun, fun, right up until the very end.

Embrace The Garage, Glasgow

Daft Punk

POP: Matthew Sweet; LA2, London

Government inspectors are to visit a school in the Western Isles which has been at the centre of serious bullying allegations. The scottish education minister, Brian Wilson, yesterday announced that a special inspection would be carried out at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.

Open defiance on single currency

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The Conservative campaign team threw away its script yesterday, in a move which made the party's media strategy appear increasingly panicky.