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Revealed: Warning signs that could have stopped the Omagh bombing
Sunday 04 August 2013
Emails from FBI agent said to show that services had detailed picture of Real IRA before attack
Grandmother charged with murder after allegedly rubbing methadone on child's gums
Sunday 04 August 2013
Baltimore police say she administered the powerful drug to both of her grandchildren
Driving you mad? Unofficial and irreverent takes on car stickers
Sunday 04 August 2013
Car stickers that represent your household are a huge hit in Australia, and are on sale here. But a slew of spoofs reveal that not everyone’s a family guy, says Gillian Orr
Government to launch consultation on vouchers for working parents
Sunday 04 August 2013
Prime Minister calls plan a 'boost direct to the pockets of hard-working families'
Nirbhaya, Main Hall, Assembly Hall, Mound Place, Edinburgh
Sunday 04 August 2013
The latest play by Yael Farber, the South African director and playwright whose show, Mies Julie was a massive hit at Edinburgh last year, is based around the bus gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey, which occurred in Delhi on 16 December 2012.
Editorial: The Germany scheme of Familienpflegezeit (family caring time) is something from which we could learn much
Sunday 04 August 2013
Women's earnings play a huge role in the survival of the nation's families
The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation
Sunday 04 August 2013
Briefings are off the record leading to transfer speculation which is merely a means to an end
Watchdog to act over firms who bombard new mothers with marketing material on NHS maternity wards
Sunday 04 August 2013
Minister says hospitals must 'get a grip' over invasion of privacy just hours after women give birth
Radio review: Radio 1 Stories, Girls on Film - The adult industry's OK, but not in front of the parents
Saturday 03 August 2013
Personally, I'd say that the biggest obstacle to my working in the adult entertainment industry would be telling my mum, "I'm, er, giving up journalism, to go into ...." No, I just couldn't do it.
Album: Guy Clark, My Favourite Picture of You (Dualtone)
Saturday 03 August 2013
The voice is scrunched a little tighter now, and frayed, and the tunes seem worn to the bone, but… Well, you can't keep a good man down.
Paperback review: Part of the Spell, By Rachel Heath
Saturday 03 August 2013
Rachel Heath begins in similar territory to Maggie O'Farrell's Instructions for a Heatwave, with an elderly parent who goes missing one day for no apparent reason, but she lacks O'Farrell's edge and psychological complexity.
Paperback review: Train Dreams, By Denis Johnson
Saturday 03 August 2013
This superb novella, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, feels like a doorstopper, so huge is it in its concerns.
Review: Almost English, By Charlotte Mendelson
Saturday 03 August 2013
An insightful outsider's view of English public school? Well, almost
Review: A Marker To Measure Drift, By Alexander Maksik
Saturday 03 August 2013
Adrift bearing memories of a faraway war
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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