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Aha! It's The Alan Partridge Guide to the Good Life
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Today the premiere of the Alan Patridge Film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa will take place in glamorous Norwich (where else?). To celebrate, we've collated some of the most enlightening pronouncements from everyone's favourite radio DJ.
The Last Word: Is the wasting of Andrei Arshavin’s talent at Arsenal his fault – or Arsène Wenger’s?
Saturday 08 June 2013
It is impossible to believe no other manager could have played him better
London flood defence project has engineers gearing up to bid
Sunday 02 June 2013
The country's biggest firms are keen to pitch for Thames Estuary 2100, a plan to protect the capital until the end of the century
Thousands flee as volatile South American volcano threatens to erupt
Tuesday 28 May 2013
Chile and Argentina have evacuated a region near the Copahue volcano in the Andes on the border between the two countries, after fears intensified that it would erupt.
Floods could overwhelm London as sea levels rise - unless Thames Barrier is upgraded
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Study concludes there is 1 in 20 chance that existing defences would be unable to cope with extreme storm surge
Rock on at Paria Canyon
Saturday 23 March 2013
Witness extraordinary geological formations while canyoneering in Utah
Photography review: Landmark, the Fields of Photography - Planet Earth in all its glory and the macabre beauty of desecration
Saturday 16 March 2013
In a show of exuberant generosity and breadth, images of natural beauty and brutal destruction jostle with Flickr fun
Open Jaw
Saturday 02 March 2013
Ultimate European rail journeys
I agree about the Glacier Express journey – beautiful. In spring, you go past houses covered in snow; in summer, Alpine meadows and flowers; while autumn brings the different tree colours. If you can afford it, travel first class. A totally different experience!
Jeanne
Video: Glacier collapses in Argentina
Wednesday 13 February 2013
A tourist has captured dramatic footage of the moment an ice bridge on a glacier collapsed.
Bolivia: Andes glaciers are melting fast
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Glaciers in the Andes have shrunk by up to 50 per cent since the 1970s, and some could disappear altogether, a study warns.
Fear of 'catastrophic' sea-level rise as ice sheets melt faster than predicted
Monday 07 January 2013
Most experts believe they have underestimated the effects of climate change, survey suggests
The ski tour from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn
Friday 14 December 2012
The Lonely Planet Adventure: The Haute Route
Scrooge, London Palladium
Thursday 08 November 2012
Tommy Steele is not the first performer that you'd associate with Dickens's misanthropic old tight-wad - a man described in A Christmas Carol as "hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster".
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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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