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‘This is our area - we have a right to live here’: Southall Black Sisters unite against ‘racial profiling’ with spontaneous protest
Friday 02 August 2013
In Southall, women take on border agency officers in a show of defiance
'Girls' on page: Lena Dunham’s hit HBO TV show gets a chick-lit homage
Monday 08 July 2013
Such is the popularity of Girls, Lena Dunham’s show about four young women living in Brooklyn, that it has already led to a copycat reality television show (in production) and a bus tour.
Climate change fanned the flames of the Arizona wildfire
Sunday 07 July 2013
Out of America: As summers get hotter we will see more blazes like the one that killed 19 firefighters last week
Shipley stabbings: Man held over murder and stabbing
Tuesday 02 July 2013
Police are linking the murder of an 84-year-old woman to the stabbing of a nine-year-old boy and another incident in which an eight-year-old girl was chased into her home.
Book review: Citadel, By Kate Mosse
Friday 28 June 2013
History, hokum, heartache, and strong women at the helm
Paddington where? Author Michael Bond’s daughter reveals truth of bear’s famous address - 32 Windsor Gardens
Sunday 23 June 2013
Karen Jankel claims character’s street – now a tourist spot – was purely fictitious
Second steppers in Scotland more reliant on Bank of Mum and Dad than first-time buyers
Monday 10 June 2013
More than two thirds of second steppers are struggling to find a suitable or affordable property
India police arrest three men over American woman's gang rape in Himalaya foothills
Thursday 06 June 2013
Police in the north of India have arrested three men following the rape of an American female tourist - the latest in a series of sexual assaults on foreign women.
Michael J Fox returns to TV in new comedy about living with Parkinson's
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Michael J Fox has come out of a decade of retirement to star in a new comedy about a news anchor living with Parkinson's.
Judge exposes Texas strip clubs’ lack of cover by ordering larger underwear
Wednesday 01 May 2013
In a cheeky ruling, which positively bulges with double entendres and dirty literary jokes, a Texas judge has ordered strip club dancers in San Antonio to don larger underwear.
Everton in confident mood ahead of Merseyside derby against Liverpool
Wednesday 01 May 2013
Win on Sunday will ensure Moyes's side could not be overtaken by rivals
Heineken Cup: Toulon's Jonny Wilkinson back at Twickenham after kicking Leicester out
Monday 08 April 2013
Toulon 21 Leicester 15
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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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