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Police treatment of the mentally ill case study: Sean Rigg died after being restrained with 'unsuitable force'
Friday 10 May 2013
Sean Rigg, a musician who died shortly after being arrested by police, had a 20-year history of mental illness.
iStyle: Greatest knits
Monday 22 April 2013
Gabicci first found favour with the ‘casual’ scene of the 1970s. Now it’s celebrating being back in fashion, says Paul McKenzie
Enter The Wu-Tang Clan: Group announce dates for 20th anniversary UK shows
Friday 12 April 2013
The Wu-Tang Clan are to reunite on stage in the UK this summer to mark the 20th anniversary of their 1993 debut album Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers).
Disunited in mourning: police fear Thatcher funeral may turn into security nightmare
Wednesday 10 April 2013
Fears of civil disorder in capital as plans are revealed for partially state-funded ceremonial funeral, as MPs gather to pay tribute to Baroness Thatcher
Thatcher death parties are not just mindless morbidity, they can be a community coming together
Tuesday 09 April 2013
Everyone I spoke to in Brixton had a clear and political reason for being there
Hundreds gather in Glasgow, Liverpool and Brixton to 'celebrate' death of Margaret Thatcher
Monday 08 April 2013
Hundreds of cheering people held parties to “celebrate” the death of Baroness Thatcher.
Officers held over Sean Rigg death in custody
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Two serving and one retired Metropolitan Police officer were arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Labour set to cut red tape strangling small business
Monday 11 March 2013
The Labour Party will up its attempts to win over British business with a report this week that recommends vastly improved broadband access, establishing export hubs and cutting red tape.
Basketball: Luol Deng writes to Prime Minister over funding
Monday 28 January 2013
Britain's NBA star pleads with David Cameron to restore funding to basketball
David Bowie: a man who has always rung the ch-ch-ch-changes
Tuesday 08 January 2013
Today's announcement that reclusive rocker David Bowie is back in business years after the world assumed he had retired will not come as a shock to anyone who has followed his career.
Cineworld snaps up Picturehouse
Thursday 06 December 2012
The movie giant Cineworld has swallowed up the arthouse group Picturehouse, making its co-founder Lyn Goleby a multimillionaire.
Underwire: short film festival celebrates the talents of women
Tuesday 20 November 2012
The Underwire festival opens this week in Brixton
12-year-old girl hit by Tube train in Brixton
Tuesday 02 October 2012
A 12-year-old girl has been taken to hospital after being struck by a Tube train.
Teenagers on murder charge
Tuesday 02 October 2012
A girl aged 14 and a boy aged 16 have appeared in court charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy.
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Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
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Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, banking standards commission tells George Osborne
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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