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The Fashion Audit: Back to the Future, Chocoholics, Brief encounters
Sunday 17 February 2013
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Match Report: Charles N’Zogbia casts off shackles of doubt against West Ham to lift Aston Villa gloom
Monday 11 February 2013
Aston Villa 2 West Ham United 1
The Last Word: Savour Steyn, the virile throwback to a hostile age
Friday 08 February 2013
Seldom has such speed been hitched to such accuracy – or such ferocity
Paul Gascoigne, who used to be the toast of a nation, needs a counsellor more than a dentist
Monday 04 February 2013
Oh how we chuckled indulgently at this great footballer's high jinks years ago. Now he desperately needs expert help if his story isn't to have a terrible ending
£100,000 for whale vomit? That’s sick
Thursday 31 January 2013
Why is ambergris worth so much money? Simon Usborne holds his nose and finds out
What you can learn at X Factor school
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Mickey Mouse degree? Nah, I'm taking the X Factor
Grace Dent on TV: Mrs Brown's Boys, BBC1
Saturday 29 December 2012
Irritating relatives, terrible jokes, mindless banter: the perfect accompaniment to a family Christmas
Djibril Cisse slams decision making of Chris Foy
Thursday 27 December 2012
Controversial decisions were made in QPR's defeat to West Brom
Scientific breakthroughs: From bone fragments to Higgs boson, the tiny finds with huge consequences
Friday 21 December 2012
Winners of this year’s best breakthroughs revealed
He wore blue velvet
Thursday 20 December 2012
The most tactile of fabrics comes into its own for the party season – just be sure to avoid cheap imitations, says Lee Holmes
Portrait of a Lady: the life and passions of Lady Barber, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Wednesday 19 December 2012
This is one of those good/bad exhibitions – good in so far as it tells us an interesting story about the foundation of an important institute of fine arts in Birmingham eighty years ago within the precincts of the university; bad in so far as a fair number of the works on display here – notably the paintings of Lady Barber herself - are of an indifferent quality. Not the lace and the tapestries though.
Bupa in £244m dental deal in Australia
Monday 17 December 2012
The private healthcare group Bupa has agreed to take over Australia and New Zealand's largest dentistry chain for £244m.
Oscar Niemeyer
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Further to the obituary of Oscar Niemeyer by Jay Merrick (7 December), I saw a number of his earlier buildings in 1953, when I was in Brazil with an oil company. I was overwhelmed by his "shock of the new", in Merrick's words. His break from convention was breathtaking. The Department of Education building in Rio was built in the 1930s, before air conditoning. With Rio's high temperatures and high humidity, the conventional approach was a veranda on the ground floor, with mini roofs over the windows on the floors above. This cools the air, but darkens the inside, so that electric light sometimes had to be employed during the hours of daylight.
The 10 Best Christmas crackers
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Make sure your crackers don’t put a dampener on your festive feast by picking up one of these sparkling sets
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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