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Album review: Keller Quartett, Ligeti String Quartets, Barber Adagio (ECM New Series)
Friday 28 June 2013
The Keller Quartett are a Hungarian group, here showcasing two of their countryman György Ligeti's astringent string quartets of the Fifties and Sixties, separated by the calm lacuna of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, from the Thirties.
New images of Canning Town sex attacker released
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Police have released new CCTV stills of a man suspected of carrying out a string of sex attacks.
TV review: Something for Nothing, Channel 4
Wednesday 19 June 2013
The Route Masters: Running London Roads, BBC2
'Is your partner gay?' Shock jock sacked over Gillard interview
Friday 14 June 2013
Radio host widely condemned for live questioning of Prime Minister
'Please come home, my gorgeous girl': Police say missing Doncaster girl Lorna Vickerage may be with older man
Thursday 13 June 2013
The 14-year-old was last seen on Monday
Man jailed for sprinkling pubic hair on curry to avoid payment
Wednesday 05 June 2013
A man who sprinkled his own pubic hair over a half-eaten curry in an attempt to avoid paying for it has been jailed.
Tory MP Nadine Dorries speaks of hair loss on Daybreak
Monday 03 June 2013
Former I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! star says it makes her 'cry every morning'
A cut above: How barbers are making a high street comeback
Sunday 02 June 2013
The triumphant return of the short back and sides as the hairstyle of choice for Britain’s top male celebrities has helped boost the number of barber shops across the country.
Woolwich: The EDL were camped outside my house
Thursday 23 May 2013
In all the time I've lived in the area it's never felt so alien
Mick McManus: Wrestler who revelled in his status as the man the British public loved to hate
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Mick McManus was one of the greatest British wrestlers. An enormously popular figure who delighted in the nicknames of "The Man You Love to Hate" and "The Dulwich Destroyer", he was renowned for pushing the rules of the sport to their limits and for deliberately turning the crowds against him for theatrical effect.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire again as official residence expenses near £1m
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Further embarrassment for PM as household spending increases by 80 per cent in just three years
Girl, 12, raped in Milton Keynes play park
Monday 06 May 2013
Thames Valley Police said the schoolgirl was walking alone when the man pulled her into a woodland area
The Blagger's Guide to... the Desmond Elliott prize
Saturday 04 May 2013
All you need to know about the hottest literary topic of the week
- 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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