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The Answer to Everything: When a house is not a home
Friday 19 April 2013
The Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne have relayed live operas to cinemas. But for the first time next week, an opera will premiere at a London cinema.
Filofax close to being sold
Friday 19 April 2013
Filofax, the maker of the leather personal organisers associated with Yuppies in the 1980s, is close to being sold to an unnamed party.
Welfare reform ‘will hit private renters hardest’
Monday 15 April 2013
Vast sums are being added to the cost of the health service and welfare state because of illnesses that people contract from living in sub-standard housing, an environmental health body has warned.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson questions the need for international friendlies
Friday 12 April 2013
Remarks come after England manager Roy Hodgson claimed his efforts were being undermined by clubs
Decline in home-grown players featuring in Premier League must be addressed says Sir Bobby Charlton
Thursday 11 April 2013
England have no chance of winning World Cup until it is says Manchester United legend
Anger on the Left: anxious Labour mainstream moves to distance itself from hardliners' celebrations after Margaret Thatcher's death
Tuesday 09 April 2013
It was the ancient Greek sage Chilon of Sparta who is recorded as first coining the phrase “do not speak evil of the dead”, 2,600 years ago.
Smell of rosemary 'may improve memory'
Tuesday 09 April 2013
The smell of rosemary could boost your memory, researchers said.
Margaret Thatcher: In her own words
Monday 08 April 2013
A selection of The Iron Lady's memorable quotes
Thousands of Revenue and Customs workers set to strike
Sunday 07 April 2013
Thousands of Revenue and Customs workers will go on strike tomorrow in the latest phase of months of industrial action by civil servants in a row over jobs, pensions and terms and conditions.
Rahul Gandhi's India – a beehive of buzzing thoughts
Thursday 04 April 2013
Gandhi’s problem is that he is starting from a very low base in his current bid to win public acceptability
Dean of Durham calls on Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio to 'renounce fascism'
Wednesday 03 April 2013
New Black Cats boss has made inflammatory remarks in the past
National Union of Teachers gives unanimous vote of no confidence in Education Secretary Michael Gove
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Motion is first time in NUT's 143-year history union has taken such a step over Education Secretary
The meaning of March madness
Monday 01 April 2013
Why do Americans go nuts for this annual basketball competition?
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Notes from a small island: Is Sealand an independent 'micronation' or an illegal fortress?
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You thought Ryanair's attendants had it bad? Wait 'til you hear about their pilots
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It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more
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