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The Man Who Fell by Polly Samson
A man falls for an enigmatic falconer in this specially commissioned short story They used to call it the train of shame, this last train out of town. Tonight it has already shed most of its drunks and Julian rests his arms across his knees, a college library book on... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2011 at Fgrruihiw's blog
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Leveson inquiry: 28 names in Mulcaire notebooks not confirmed as NoW staff
Met QC says Scotland Yard has not established if names found were former News of the World employees The barrister acting for the Metropolitan police has told the Leveson inquiry that it is wrong to assume that the 28 names found in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks are current or former News... Continue reading
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The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
By putting a price on unhappiness we can understand the need for a gentler response to the economic crisis If you were looking for economic hard-noses among our European national leaders, you wouldn't have to look much further than Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron. Sarkozy telling an abject Greece there... Continue reading
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Flu vaccines for all children under consideration by NHS advisers
Nose drops could be used if joint committee on vaccination and immunisation plan is adopted by health secretary All children under 17 could be immunised against flu in a new effort by the NHS to limit the number of people affected by the illness. The government's advisers on vaccination are... Continue reading
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The EU crisis demonstrates that free trade has gone far enough | Peter Wilby
It's not just the European Union that needs a rethink ? it's the whole world trade regime and its unelected overseers The unravelling of the euro is not just an economic and financial crisis, it is also a crisis of democracy. The peoples of Europe are losing the capacity to... Continue reading
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Milly Dowler phone hacking 'despicable'
NoW's illegal deleting of murdered teenager's voicemails gave false hope to her parents she was alive, says lawyer Milly Dowler's mother reacted with "euphoria" when she found that messages on her daughter's phone had been deleted, the Leveson inquiry into press standards heard. Sally Dowler and her husband Bob, who... Continue reading
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Frozen Planet has a duty to inspire debate as well as wonder | Susanna Rustin
The decision not to screen the climate change episode in the US is an injustice to the startling beauty on show during the series It was for his joyous curiosity about the natural world that British television viewers took David Attenborough to their hearts in the 1970s and kept him... Continue reading
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The Iron Lady dismantled by Tebbit
Margaret Thatcher wasn't 'half-hysterical' leader film portrays, says former Tory MP ? but reviewers rave regardless It has drawn ecstatic notices from early screenings, but Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady has been dismissed by one of the former prime minister's most loyal supporters, Norman Tebbit.... Continue reading
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Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
Show focuses on his and Ben Nicholson's London works from 1930s, when they often liked to go to see Disney films together It sounds like the set-up line for a particularly highbrow joke: so Piet Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and Barbara Hepworth all walked into a cinema ? The... Continue reading
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Free schools taking lower numbers of deprived pupils, data shows
Findings at odds with the government's claim that free schools are empowering working-class families The coalition's flagship free schools are taking only half the proportion of deprived pupils compared with other state schools in England, data revealed under the Freedom of Information Act shows. Rachel Gooch, a primary school governor... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2011 at Fgrruihiw's blog
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Hugh Muir's diary
Bring me a lucky general, said Napoleon. He wouldn't want James Murdoch ? So the cupboard door is open and the skeletons are marching out at the Leveson inquiry. Less a case of one bad apple at the News of the World; more a rotting orchard: Glenn Mulcaire, the phone... Continue reading
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Weatherwatch: Puzzling phenomena of sky battles
Perhaps the most puzzling of meteorological phenomena were the battles in the sky which were reported right up until the 19th century in many European countries, including England. In September 1654, for example, soldiers in Hull witnessed a great battle between two armies of cavalry and infantry in the air.... Continue reading
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Vivendi upbeat as Universal Music and Activision thrive
French media giant upgrades forecast as overall profits rise 5.3% in third quarter, with music division's earnings up 31.8% Vivendi has upgraded its profit forecast after strong performances by Universal Music and games division Activision Blizzard in the third quarter. The French media giant sold a $427m stake in Activision... Continue reading
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Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose benefits
People taking up work experience places ? providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour ? face losing benefits if they quit Britain's jobless young people are being sent to work for supermarkets and budget stores for up to two months for no pay and no guarantee of... Continue reading
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Letters: Pragmatic approaches to nuclear proliferation
I feel it necessary to respond to the naive letter from Tony Benn et al (Letters, 10 November). Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat to human survival ever invented. Benn is old enough, as am I, to remember that some 150,000 human beings were evaporated in August 1945. What is... Continue reading
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Unions set to back public sector strikes
Teaching assistants, refuse collectors and nurses at GMB vote to strike over pension reform with Unite expected to follow Britain's three largest trade unions are set to back strike action by public sector workers on 30 November after teaching assistants, refuse collectors and nurses at the GMB voted for walkouts... Continue reading
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Centaur Media boosted by digital surge
Publisher of trade magazines including Marketing Week and the Lawyer reports strong quarter after restructure Centaur Media, the publisher of trade magazines including Marketing Week and the Lawyer, has reported a strong four months to 31 October with 9% year-on-year growth in total revenues and a double-digit surge in digital... Continue reading
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Painting by mythical artist Nat Tate sells for very real £7,250 at Sotheby's
Author and screenwriter William Boyd brought tormented, gifted artist to life in 1998, fooling many ? including David Bowie The anonymous bidder who paid more than £7,000 ? far above the top estimate ? for a painting by an utterly obscure dead American artist was certainly pleased: it was a... Continue reading
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The care sector needs cash not lawsuits
Reform of statute alone won't address the root problem of cash-strapped councils making cuts to adult social care, says David Brindle Legal rulings against councils' cheese-paring of adult social care are starting to flow thick and fast. One day it's a censure over the tightening of eligibility criteria; the next... Continue reading
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Steve Bell on Silvio Berlusconi's decision to resign
Media tycoon's reign as Italy's longest-serving PM nears end after he loses majority in lower house of parliament Steve Bell Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2011/nov/08/silvio-berlusconi-italy bbc news news newsweek newsday news and observer news 12 news channel 5 newseum newsmax news4jax Continue reading
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Untangling the web: the way we work
Technology has freed us from the office. But can it ever replace the informal, coffee-machine contact that can be so productive? There was a hit primetime sitcom in the US in the 1980s called Growing Pains, a modern tale of the japes that orbited around two middle-class professionals and their... Continue reading
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Leeds lands vital grant to save its golden hoard
The National Heritage Memorial Fund gives £95,000 to keep Anglo Saxon jewellery in the city where it was found. Good news for Leeds' campaign to raise money for the outstanding Anglo-Saxon jewellery found by a metal detectorist, as the Northerner reported last week. The city museum heard today, Tuesday 15... Continue reading
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Italy 0-1 Uruguay | International friendly match report
? Italy 0-1 Uruguay An early goal from Sebastián Fernández gave the Copa América champions Uruguay a 1-0 win over the Euro 2012 finalists Italy in a friendly in Rome on Tuesday. The Malaga forward steered home his second international goal in the third minute to inflict a third defeat... Continue reading
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Meryl Streep's Iron Lady dismantled by Norman Tebbit
Margaret Thatcher wasn't 'half-hysterical' leader film portrays, says former Tory MP ? but reviewers rave regardless It has drawn ecstatic notices from early screenings, but Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady has been dismissed by one of the former prime minister's most loyal supporters, Norman Tebbit.... Continue reading
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All today's Technology stories
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/all news paper newswear pouch 85mm newsletters newspapers obituaries newspaper obituaries newspaper print shirt newsprint newsboy caps newspaper obituary newspaper malayalam Continue reading
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