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Letter: Drivers plead not guilty

Sir: How many more surveys, studies and "wide-ranging reviews" do we need to tell us the obvious: people like the cocooned environment of their cars and the freedom to go where and when they like.

Surf's up - and it's hotter than Barbados

As Britain headed for the hottest August since records began, the country's leading marriage counselling service yesterday predicted an upsurge in domestic strife, and the Royal Automobile Club pleaded with irate motorists not to get too hot under the collar.

Warning: sweltering may be bad for your health

The Great British Public loves nothing more than to talk about the weather and discuss its aches and pains, and this year the two favourite topics of conversation have come together in perfect harmony as medical experts warned yesterday that the hot weather is bad for the nation's health.

Vanslow is dressed for success

Sartorially, there will be nobody able to touch him at Troon.

Hemp hands help to Hants

Warwickshire 631-7 dec Hampshire 549-6

Tennis: Cool hand Pete

Pete Sampras is the king of cool at this year's French Open.

Letter: Morals of weather

Sir: Janet Hind Duff (Letters, 19 February) is weary of hearing television presenters making our future weather sound like a wartime bombing raid. I am similarly weary of the facile adjectives of moral approval or disapproval reminiscent of wartime.

Cricket: W Indies put to the sword by Hayden

West Indies 130 Australia 434-5

Why the freeze in Europe could be good news for the economy

Cold enough for you? The cold weather clouds do have a silver lining as far as the economy is concerned: cold weather such as Europe has been experiencing, is in the longer term (though not in the short) good for economic activity. Result? While Europe will experience a shortfall in growth over the winter, there should be a sharp bounce back in the spring and summer. That bounce will mean that overall activity through the year will turn out to be pretty much the same as it otherwise would have been. If we get a cold summer too, then growth will be higher.

Fresh doubts over alcopops effect on cider

Fresh evidence has emerged to support the widely held view that the problems affecting cider maker Matthew Clark this summer have been only partly due to the dramatic rise in popularity of alcopops. Recently commissioned research suggests that, contrary to Clark's claims, the cider market is growing fast but lack of investment in brands has quickly eroded the company's share of the sector.

Riot greets the Lions

Great Britain's tourists arrived here, where they play Papua New Guinea in a Test on Saturday, to find they had narrowly missed a riot which unconfirmed reports suggest had left two people dead.

Staying in trim for the birth: Healthy Pregnancy

Lee Rodwell reports on the importance of fitness before and during pregnancy

Laugh? We nearly dropped your drawers

Did you hear the one about the removals outfit that sent its workforce on a training course so they could learn to laugh? Everyone was tickled pink. By Andrew G Marshall

Letter: Rampant plants in the heat

Sir: I read with great interest Anna Pavord's article in today's Independent (23 August) entitled "Bring on the Olives and Bananas?"
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'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system': Microsoft finally unveils its Xbox ONE console

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Plenty of sleaze

Dating website pulls intimate 'hook-up' section to curb harassment
Inferno author Dan Brown 'honoured' to be invited to join the Freemasons

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Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

Nick Buckles survived the Olympics débâcle and a £5bn bid fiasco but a profit warning finally triggered his downfall
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In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

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James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

British driver was fascinating man whose epic duel with Niki Lauda in 1976 was typical of an era of glamour and glory – but also the ever-present threat of death