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Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan's defence fuelled by big-name departures
Saturday 27 April 2013
Steve Davis says it will take someone special to stop O’Sullivan retaining his world title
Caroline Aherne to voice BBC children's series Strange Hill High
Thursday 25 April 2013
Comedy star Caroline Aherne is to be among the cast of voices for a new animated children's series for the BBC.
Sir Jimmy Savile defended paedophile pop star Gary Glitter saying 'he did nothing wrong' and calling child porn just 'dodgy films'
Monday 01 October 2012
In a 2009 interview Savile appears to suggest Glitter was the real victim in the child porn scandal as he had only used the images for his own ‘gratification’ and had not tried to sell them on.
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Tuesday 24 July 2012
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Sunday 10 June 2012
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Snooker: Last eight in sight as Rocket fires on all cylinders
Monday 30 April 2012
Ronnie O'Sullivan, the triple world champion, powered to within a whisker of securing his quarter-final place here at the Betfred.com World Championship yesterday.
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Monday 12 March 2012
The Fast Show predicted the current state of BBC popular science nearly 20 years ago with a sketch that featured an excitable young man with a Northern accent striding through a landscape while enthusing ceaselessly about everything he could see around him.
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Tuesday 06 March 2012
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DVD: The Ides of March
Sunday 04 March 2012
Man-of-the-moment Ryan Gosling stars as an ambitious press officer who works for George Clooney's Obama-like governor during a Democratic primary.
Christina Ricci: The goth who found glamour
Sunday 04 March 2012
The actress tells Kaleem Aftab about her tricky transition from troubled teen roles to romantic lead
Robert Fisk: The heroic myth and the uncomfortable truth of war reporting
Saturday 03 March 2012
Like other correspondents, Robert Fisk has risked his life to 'witness history'. But after almost four decades, he feels ambivalent towards his profession
Another excellent adventure for Keanu
Friday 02 March 2012
Bill & Ted star Keanu Reeves goes behind the camera for a new documentary, Side by Side. He tells James Mottram about what's clearly a passion project
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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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