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- Vicar guilty of 360 sham weddings - 29/07/2010
A vicar was found guilty today of conducting hundreds of sham marriages to
help illegal immigrants gain residency in Britain.
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- Sham marriages on 'unprecedented scale' - 29/07/2010
The scale of the sham marriages was on an unprecedented scale involving "classic
exploitation" of foreign nationals desperate to stay in the UK,
investigators said.
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- Jack Riley: Top of the posts: America week - 29/07/2010
It's top of the posts time, again. America has featured heavily in this week's most popular offerings, from Hollywood to the right wing, with a few football-based entries scoring good positions also. ... |
- My life in ten questions...The Stranglers? Jean-Jacques Burnel - 29/07/2010
Anglo-French bassist and co-founder of rock band The Stranglers,
Jean-Jacques ?JJ? Burnel, spoke to The Independent Online
about the perils of growing up as ?a Frog? in the 1960s, his passion for
motorbikes and why Plato?s The Republic changed his life.
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- Aamer makes breakthrough for Pakistan - 29/07/2010
Andrew Strauss fell disappointingly just before lunch as England reached 103
for two on day one of the first npower Test against Pakistan at Trent
Bridge.
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- Catherine: Nothing Tastes As Good As Thin Feels? - 29/07/2010
Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself. This is one of those times. You've all heard the saying, as muttered famously by a certain Miss.Moss - but upon pondering over some of the 'recipes' I cam ... |
- Alice-Azania Jarvis: Sad news from Charlotte Street - 29/07/2010
Sad news courtesy of this month's Oldie. Elena Salvoni OBE, the 90-year-old maitre d' of Elena's Etoile in Charlotte Street is to retire, seemingly against her will. The Grande Dame of dining tells th ... |
- Learn Spanish with The Independent - 29/07/2010
Cactus? Language Minis is a Spanish podcast series, developed to offer easy
learning on the go. It consists of seven levels, each with 10 downloadable
podcast lessons and PDF workbooks, which take you from beginner through to
advanced level. The Language Minis series is designed to help you increase
your understanding of the Spanish language and equip you with language
skills for use in everyday situations.
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- Simon Usborne: Tour de France: Photos sans pareil - 29/07/2010
If you're not already aware of Big Picture, Boston Globe's online photo blog, I urge you to trawl its occasional yet always illuminating topical galleries. The guy who edits the site has access to mos ... |
- Amazon offers £109 wireless Kindle for mass appeal - 29/07/2010
Amazon.com launched a cheaper, wireless-only Kindle on Wednesday, betting that
the lower price will turn its latest electronic reader into a mass-appeal
device as Apple Inc's iPad gains ground.
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- Researchers use Twitter tweets to measure moods - 29/07/2010
Twitter is for more than just tweeting. Using millions of Twitter messages, or
tweets, from the popular social networking site, researchers at Northeastern
University in Boston have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods of
the USA.
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- Maradona lashes out at Argentina betrayal - 29/07/2010
Diego Maradona has accused Argentinian Football Association president Julio
Grondona and director of national teams Carlos Bilardo of forcing him out of
his job as coach.
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- Ferguson back Hernandez to make impact - 29/07/2010
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Javier Hernandez's pace
could be a crucial weapon after the Mexico striker scored in his opening
game for the club.
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- Celtic can beat Braga says Ledley - 29/07/2010
Celtic new boy Joe Ledley insists his Champions League dream is not yet over
despite the Hoops losing 3-0 away to Braga in their third qualifying round
first leg.
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- Hughes on verge of Fulham appointment - 29/07/2010
Mark Hughes looks set for a return to the Barclays Premier League after Fulham
confirmed they are on the brink of appointing their new manager.
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- Rain hampers plane crash recovery efforts - 29/07/2010
Emergency teams battled heavy rain and mud today to recover bodies strewn over
hills overlooking the Pakistani capital after the country's worst plane
crash.
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- End to default retirement age is welcomed - 29/07/2010
Business and pressure groups today welcomed a Government announcement to phase
out the so-called default retirement age (DRA) of 65 by October 2011 in a
move to encourage people to work for longer.
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- Royal Dutch Shell boosts profits by a third - 29/07/2010
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell put beleaguered rival BP in the shade
today with a 34% hike in second-quarter profits to 4.2 billion US dollars
(£2.7 billion).
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- Bomber kills four at Iraqi army base - 29/07/2010
A suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden minibus into the entrance of an Iraqi
army base near Saddam Hussein's home town today, setting off an explosion
that killed four soldiers and wounded 10 others, police said.
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- Missing chef investigation scaled down - 29/07/2010
Police investigating the disappearance of chef Claudia Lawrence confirmed
today they are scaling back the number of officers dedicated to the inquiry.
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- New model army: Why fashion has fallen out of love with its A-list clotheshorses - 29/07/2010
The September issues of the big fashion glossies, which are out next week, are traditionally the fattest and most lucrative of the year. If you do manage to find any actual, genuine editorial coverage lurking amid the all-new, high- budget, high-profile, autumn/winter advertising campaigns then you're a better woman ? or even man ? than many. And what campaigns they are! |
- The whiz kid billionaire who says he can't go home - 29/07/2010
London, it seems, has not been kind to Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Once the enfant terrible of the Russian super-rich, the portly figure who trudges into the lobby of a posh Kensington hotel is a far cry from the legend. Until 18 months ago, he was one of the most successful businessmen in Russia ? famous for his luxuriant mullet, his outrageous dress sense and his peppering of speeches at drab economic forums with excitable gestures and swearing. |
- There's an art to persuading your child to become potty-friendly - 29/07/2010
Every new family has its trials and tribulations. We were luckier than most: breastfeeding was a breeze, weaning a doddle, even the sleep deprivation was bearable. But toilet training? This was our Everest. Our two-year old proved highly resistant to the potty, but was equally adamant she would no longer wear nappies. It was a challenging time, but eventually we got there: our daughter is now a confident three-year-old who happily nips to the loo when nature calls, something that at some dark points last year seemed almost unthinkable. |
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson: British tenor who excelled in the works of Britten, Mozart and Monteverdi - 29/07/2010
The British tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson was one of the finest exponents in his generation of the roles originally sung by Peter Pears in the operas of Benjamin Britten. However, his interpretations were in no way copies of the senior tenor's idiosyncratic versions; rather, they were recreations of the music that perfectly suited his own voice and style. His other favourite opera composers were Monteverdi and Mozart, while he sang the great Bach Passions and Handel oratorios throughout his career. As a recitalist he was a founder member of the Songmakers' Almanac and specialised in Schubert lieder and Britten's canticles. He also became an excellent conductor, especially of operas in which he had himself sung, such as Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. |
- Ecclestone fears for teams' future - 29/07/2010
Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One rights holder, has cast serious doubt on the chance of all 12 F1 teams surviving through to the end of the season in November and believes some of the smaller ones are "out of their depth". |
- De Villiers backed despite defeats - 29/07/2010
Peter de Villiers has been given a vote of confidence by his employers at the South African Rugby Union and assured that his job is safe. |
- Hughes allows Cliffs to carve own glorious path - 29/07/2010
He made it sound like some undeserved sinecure, a perk of marrying into the right family. "I'm the luckiest man in the weighing room, to ride for Richard Hannon," he grinned. "It's as simple as that. Jockeys are ten a penny." |
- Age Of Aquarius ready to dawn at Goodwood - 29/07/2010
Races over seven or eight furlongs round here tend to hinge upon so many hazards that the search for a winner tends to become a rather neurotic, complex process. Over two miles, however, punters have no need to fret about the draw, or potential traffic problems round all those twists and turns. They can simply back the best horse in the race. And on that basis there is no need to wait for Jupiter to align with Mars, or the moon to be in the Seventh House, to find the winner of the Artemis Goodwood Cup. |
- Wavves, Cargo, London - 29/07/2010
Wavves are teetering on a lofty precipice. Headed by angsty 23-year-old singer/songwriter Nathan Williams from San Diego, on record, Wavves boast one of the most exciting sounds around. As Williams and his band take to the tiny stage under the bricked arches of Shoreditch club Cargo, they look, and sound like bratty couldn't-care-less teenagers. |
- Last Night's TV: The Men Who Jump Off Buildings/Channel 4
The Great Outdoors, BBC4 - 29/07/2010
Everyone dies, don't they ? but not everyone lives," said Dan, the subject of Alastair Cook's film The Men Who Jump Off Buildings. If you had to devise a bumper sticker to promote suicidal recklessness that would do the trick, wouldn't it? It sounds plausible enough, relegating all those of us too sensible to launch ourselves off the Trellick Tower at four in the morning to mere zombiedom. It's the sort of slogan that you need to see flashing past you in the fast lane, though, because any kind of tailback would give you too much time to question its essential premise. You might, for one thing, want to ask exactly what kind of definition of "living" was proposed here. Dan ? compulsively addicted to base jumping ? seemed to acknowledge at one point that it was a slightly desperate, compensatory one. "Base jumping gives me enough excitement to carry on with this," he explained, smearing tar on to a roof while doing the job that pays for his parachute. Is that really a life though ? in hock to boredom for the occasional 45 seconds of terrifying adrenalin? |
- Solomon Burke, Jazz Café, London - 29/07/2010
Quite how Solomon Burke's 12-piece band fits onto the Jazz Café's tiny stage is a miracle, rather like one of those 3D wooden jigsaw puzzles, with the guitarist way out right beside a post, the drummer lurking behind the three-man horn section, and the bassist hidden behind the backing singers. Things aren't made any easier by the massive gilt and red velvet throne centre stage, from which the King of Rock and Soul proclaims his gospel of love. |
- Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita, Trafalgar Studios, London - 29/07/2010
Willy Russell's scabrous Scousers, Shirley Valentine (Saint Joan of the fitted kitchen units, with all her nosy-neighbour voices) and hairdresser Rita of the Open University, are still going strong after a quarter of a century. They are now as engraved in the national consciousness as Maggie May, resilient streetwalker of the Liverpool docks, or the battling socialist MP Bessie Braddock. This Menier Chocolate Factory transfer, for a summer season at the Trafalgar Studios, presents Russell's two plays in all their wit and vivacity. |
- Bendtner adds to Wenger's woes - 29/07/2010
Arsenal face being without three key players when they start their Premier League campaign with the difficult trip to Liverpool in just over two weeks' time. Striker Nicklas Bendtner is definitely out with a groin injury, while both Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie do not return to training until next Thursday after featuring in the World Cup final for Spain and the Netherlands respectively. |
- Experience on Strauss' side for series with history of tears and tiffs - 29/07/2010
The last time England played Pakistan at Test cricket it ended in tears, recriminations and the first forfeit in the history of the game. While nobody should advocate the sort of kerfuffle that ensued at The Oval four years ago after the tourists were accused of ball tampering, the series which begins here today will not be entirely straightforward for long. |
- All Butt's bases covered by Pakistan's potent pacemen - 29/07/2010
Overnight, as if the previous two years had been airbrushed from history, Pakistan have prospects in the series against England starting today. It has been provided, more or less entirely, by the quality of their fast-bowling attack which has abruptly found itself as the talk of the summer. |
- Rose decides to give Gleneagles a miss and risk wrath of Monty - 29/07/2010
When he tees it up in the first round of The Irish Open here today, Justin Rose will be playing in Europe for only the third time this year. And he has no plans to make his fourth appearance the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles next month, even if he has not earned a Ryder Cup place by then. |
- 'The lack of recognition for Catriona is a disgrace,' says Davies - 29/07/2010
Mum was very much the word at last year's Ricoh Women's British Open as Catriona Matthew completed a stunning 11-week journey from the maternity ward to the winners' enclosure. Alas, as far as the sponsors were concerned, mum carried on being the word for the Scottish champion. The phone never rang, the millions did not arrive. |
- Bolt to take on Powell and Gay - 29/07/2010
Usain Bolt is set to compete against Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay for the first time this season in the 100m at the DN Galan Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on 6 August. |
- Report claims refs are anti-French - 29/07/2010
An academic study has borne out what the French have always claimed ? that they get a rough deal from English referees. Analysis of 70 Super League games involving the Catalan Dragons between 2006 and 2009 reveals what the researchers say is a persistent bias against the French on the part of British officials. |
- Cycling: Contador quits Astana over equipment failings - 29/07/2010
Less than three days after he celebrated a third Tour de France win Alberto Contador has declared that he will be parting company with his Kazakh team, Astana. Whilst disagreements over future salary contributed to Contador's abrupt announcement that he was leaving, a series of equipment disasters have been a contributory factor. |
- King condemns banks' treatment of customers - 29/07/2010
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has described as "heart breaking" the way some banks are treating business clients who had been customers for many decades. |
- University challenge: Does a two-year degree make more economic sense? - 29/07/2010
For students at Buckingham, the private university opened by Mrs Thatcher, the two-year degree is a winning option. They positively relish the rigours of a 40-week year, and prefer four terms to three, together with holidays of only two weeks; that way they keep up the momentum and get their degrees over more quickly. |
- Anthony Seldon: How Brown and Clegg let it slip - 29/07/2010
Much has been written about the dramatic negotiations that took place between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and Labour in the immediate aftermath of the indecisive election of May. Yet Gordon Brown's role in these momentous days is in danger of being badly misrepresented. His role needs to be reappraised if the history of this period is to be accurately recorded. |
- Jonathan Heawood: Libel law's victims are stacking up - 29/07/2010
In The Bookseller of Kabul, the Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad charted the choppy life of an Afghan family during the spring of 2002, as foreign powers and internal armies fought over the future of their country. The book was based on the time she spent living with a bookseller and his two wives, a privileged witness to their domestic quarrels and desires as well as their more public existence. She focused on the subjugated place of the women of the family, and wrote about her own experiments inside a burka and how "in time I started to hate it". The book was an international bestseller, lauded for its "unique insight into another world" (Daily Mirror), for Seierstad's "curiosity and perceptive eye" (Independent), for testifying to "the power of literature to withstand even the most repressive regime" (Daily Mail). |
- Adrian Hamilton: Back to the past with foreign policy - 29/07/2010
First, credit where credit is due. David Cameron may be overdoing things a bit in his drive for trade opportunities in India ? it could be called hypocritical to demand that India opens its doors to free trade whilst we close our doors to free immigration ? but in terms of recalibrating British foreign policy, the Prime Minister has picked up the ball and is playing it with quite astonishing panache. |
- Steve Richards: A debate that turns politics upside down - 29/07/2010
In this summer of unlikely partnerships, yet another alliance is formed. Labour's shadow Cabinet joins forces with Tory rebels to oppose the coalition's package of constitutional reforms, including a referendum on the Alternative Vote. Once more we close our eyes and wonder whether we are dreaming. Cameron and Clegg say "Yes" to a referendum! David Davis for the Conservatives and the Miliband brothers hold placards saying "No!", or "Almost No!" For such a supposedly dry topic, the prospect of a referendum on electoral reform produces painful contortions that seem to make no sense at all. |
- Leading article: A fattist issue - 29/07/2010
What's in a name? The NHS should use the term fat instead of obese, a thinnish government health minister said yesterday. Some people, naturally, have been deeply offended, as would have been the minister, Anne Milton, if we had called her scrawny instead of thinnish. The overweight prefer more congenial terms: plump, chubby, tubby or big-boned. Or more politically correct notions; one local authority has been trying to introduce the idea of being "unhealthily weighted". |
- Leading article: Social workers need support - 29/07/2010
The shocking death of Khyra Ishaq, who starved after months of abuse at the hands of her mother and stepfather, has drawn attention once again to the failings of child protection services. Publication this week of the full serious case review into Khyra's death has revealed for the first time the extent of the communications failures and missed opportunities that contributed to the death of seven-year-old Khyra. |
- Leading article: The revelation has been in the detail - 29/07/2010
Tomorrow, the Chilcot inquiry into Britain's decision to go to war on Iraq will have sat for a whole year. It has been a suprisingly worthwhile exercise, bringing to full public view a depressing picture of the way the country was led to war against the advice and warnings of most of the experts and officials at the time. But the steady drip-drip of its evidence has served largely to confirm what many people suspected, rather than revealing anything startlingly new. |
- Strauss calls on England to make a flying start - 29/07/2010
Andrew Strauss admits England still have room for improvement as they bid for the series victory against Pakistan they will need if they are to set off for Australia with confidence intact. Strauss sees a potentially difficult four-match series against Salman Butt's tourists as an opportunity to continue a progression which began with last summer's wins over West Indies and in the Ashes. |
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- Rain hampers plane crash recovery efforts - 29/07/2010
Emergency teams battled heavy rain and mud today to recover bodies strewn over
hills overlooking the Pakistani capital after the country's worst plane
crash.
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- Bomber kills four at Iraqi army base - 29/07/2010
A suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden minibus into the entrance of an Iraqi
army base near Saddam Hussein's home town today, setting off an explosion
that killed four soldiers and wounded 10 others, police said.
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- Arizona judge puts crackdown on illegal immigration on hold - 29/07/2010
A crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona was thrown into a state of limbo yesterday, as a judge at the State Capitol in Phoenix put almost every one of its most controversial measures on hold, just 14 hours before they had been due to take effect. |
- Couple held after corpses of eight babies found buried in their garden - 29/07/2010
A couple was taken in to custody yesterday after police found the corpses of eight newborn babies buried in their garden in a village in northern France, a judicial official said. The official added that the couple, in their mid-40s, were the parents of the dead babies, and that the corpses were found on two different parts of the property in Villers-au-Tertre, not far from the city of Lille. |
- South African 'humiliation video' makers plead guilty - 29/07/2010
Four white South African men have pleaded guilty to making a video which showed elderly black cleaners being humiliated, as well as being duped into drinking what was apparently urine-tainted soup. The video, shot by the four former students at the University of the Free State, showed the four women and one man forced to run a race barefoot while wearing their cleaning uniforms and being taken to a bar where they drank alcohol and danced to Afrikaans music in what was portrayed as an initiation rite. |
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Find out what it means to Condi - 29/07/2010
She never found harmony with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nor did she make much music between Israel and the Palestinians, but pair Condoleezza Rice, the former American Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, with the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin and you will be surprised by the melodies they muster. |
- As reclusive as he was rich: Aldi co-founder dies - 29/07/2010
Theo Albrecht, the recluse who founded the Aldi discount network with his older brother Karl, died, aged 88, at the weekend. True to the brothers' reputation for secrecy, his death was not announced until yesterday. |
- Pakistanis irate over PM's 'exporting terror' remark - 29/07/2010
David Cameron sparked a diplomatic row yesterday by warning that Pakistan should not be allowed to "promote the export of terror" to the rest of the world. Speaking during a two-day visit to India, the Prime Minister increased the pressure on Pakistan following this week's leak of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, which suggested that Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency could be supporting the Taliban insurgency. |
- Gulf of Mexico spill has dissipated - 29/07/2010
The oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which threatened beaches and wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, has largely vanished just two weeks after the crippled BP oil well was finally capped. |
- US judge blocks parts of immigration law - 29/07/2010
A judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect today, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown. |
- The whiz kid billionaire who says he can't go home - 29/07/2010
London, it seems, has not been kind to Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Once the enfant terrible of the Russian super-rich, the portly figure who trudges into the lobby of a posh Kensington hotel is a far cry from the legend. Until 18 months ago, he was one of the most successful businessmen in Russia ? famous for his luxuriant mullet, his outrageous dress sense and his peppering of speeches at drab economic forums with excitable gestures and swearing. |
- More migrants quitting Ireland than any EU state - 29/07/2010
The number of people leaving Ireland has swelled far beyond those of every other country in the EU, according to research. An estimated 40,000 people emigrated last year, according to the EU's statistics office, Eurostat. The rate of departure is almost twice as high as that of Lithuania, the next most-affected country. The expectation is that the flow may worsen as Ireland faces years of severe financial difficulties. A research institute has warned that 200,000 people, in a country of 4.5 million, may emigrate by 2015 if employment prospects do not improve. |
- Castro to chronicle the birth of his revolution - 29/07/2010
He may no longer be president of the country he ruled so uncompromisingly for almost half a century, but Fidel Castro once again seems to be everywhere in Cuba. His latest foray into the limelight, announced yesterday, is a first volume of memoirs to be published next month, chronicling the birth of Cuba's communist revolution when his few hundred guerrilla fighters defeated the far larger regular army of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. |
- Passenger plane crashes near Islamabad - 28/07/2010
A passenger jet crashed into the hills overlooking Pakistan's capital amid
poor weather today, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of
devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage.
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- Catalonia bans bullfighting - 28/07/2010
Spain's Catalonia region outlawed bullfighting today, becoming the country's
first mainland region to do so after a heated debate that put animal rights
against the idea of preserving a pillar of traditional culture.
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- Civilians killed in Baghdad bank bombing - 28/07/2010
A bomb explosion has killed six people including five civilians in a Shiite
slum in eastern Baghdad, Iraqi police and health officials said today.
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- Roadside bomb kills twenty-five on Afghan bus - 28/07/2010
At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and over a dozen wounded when their
bus was hit by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan today, the provincial
governor said.
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- General Electric to pay $23.4m over 'oil-for-food' corruption charges - 28/07/2010
The reckoning for rampant corruption under the United Nation's "oil-for-food" programme in Iraq under Saddam Hussein reached the icon of American capitalism, General Electric, which agreed to pay $23.4m to settle charges ? without admitting or denying them ? under US bribery laws. |
- Bought at a garage sale for $45, the photographs worth more than $200m - 28/07/2010
Rick Norsigian, a Californian antique buff, knew exactly what he was looking for when he went rooting through a Fresno garage in 2000. He was looking for a vintage barber's chair, to add to his eclectic collection of old telephone switchboards, petrol pumps and aeroplane propellers. But when the chair turned out to be a dud, he chanced upon something that changed his life: two boxes of antique glass negatives which, a Beverly Hills art appraiser declared yesterday, were the work of Ansel Adams, the father of American photography. |
- Leaks dampen enthusiasm for war on Capitol Hill and beyond - 28/07/2010
Concern grew inside the White House yesterday that the release by Wikileaks of
tens of thousands of documents painting a dark and disturbing picture of the
conflict in Afghanistan risked further undermining support for Barack
Obama's war strategy on Capitol Hill, across the country and even among
America's Nato allies.
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- European police to get access to UK records - 28/07/2010
European police will be able to insist that Britons are put under surveillance and gain access to their DNA after the UK opted into controversial plans to strengthen co-operation. |
- India welcomes Burmese general with open arms - 28/07/2010
India welcomed the head of Burma's isolated military government yesterday, despite international criticism and extended aid to the regime for railroad and agriculture projects, as New Delhi competes to assert its influence in the region. |
- Greek guerrilla group shot radio journalist - 28/07/2010
The leftist Greek guerrilla group Rebel Sect yesterday claimed responsibility for last week's shooting of a reporter, the first such incident in Greece for over 20 years. Rebel Sect sent a seven-page statement to local newspaper Ta Nea, saying it had shot dead Sokratis Giolias, 37, outside his home on July 19. Giolias, a father of one, was news chief at local radio station Thema 98.9. He was shot 16 times at close range. A journalist at Ta Nea said the letter mentioned other journalists and would be published by the paper on Wednesday. |
- Mandela driver in murder charge - 28/07/2010
The driver of the car in which Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed is to be charged with murder, attempted murder and driving under the influence of alcohol. |
- The US town that outsourced everything - 28/07/2010
When two uniformed police officers approached Hector Hernandez as he arrived at the City of Maywood's official Fourth of July celebrations, he feared the worst. The stocky 22-year-old ? whose neck tattoo of a Playboy bunny indicates membership of one of the area's notorious Latino street gangs ? hasn't exactly relished his previous interactions with the local forces of law and order. Imagine Hector's surprise, then, when the uniformed men held out an outstretched hand, smiled and asked how he was doing. "They said they were new to the neighbourhood, so wanted to say hello and welcome me to the event. I think they even told me to have a nice day," he recalls. "I was like: 'You guys don't normally speak to me unless you're kneeling on my back'. I thought it was some kind of a sting." |
- Russia rails at Georgian minister's 'stripper' photos - 28/07/2010
The Russian media has seized upon a raunchy photograph ? of the Georgian Economy Minister posing in a nightclub ? to release a fresh torrent of criticism at President Mikheil Saakashvili for appointing "strippers" to his cabinet. |
- Gabon tour operator pulls plug on Africa's Eden after aviation row - 28/07/2010
As an untouched West African paradise where hippos play in the Atlantic surf and buffaloes and elephants parade on the beach, little-visited Gabon had been marked out as a rising eco-tourism star. But foreign visitors may have to leave Africa's last Eden after the country's largest tour operator said it was abandoning its business there following a simmering row with authorities in the oil-rich nation. |
- Lufthansa plane in accident in Saudi Arabia - 27/07/2010
Lufthansa said one of its cargo planes was involved in an accident today in
the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh and Saudi witnesses and an airport official
said it caught fire and crashed on landing.
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- Google unveils government software - 27/07/2010
Google Inc released a special version of its Web-based productivity software
designed to meet stringent US government security requirements, as the
Internet search giant seeks to outmanoeuvre rivals in the race to provide
federal and state agencies with new technology.
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- Slangy Italian teenagers become YouTube hit - 27/07/2010
Two teenagers from the suburbs of Rome have become Italy's newest media
heroines after their slang-filled account of a day at the beach shot from a
minor item on the local news to become a YouTube sensation.
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- Cameron calls for more trade with Turkey - 27/07/2010
David Cameron called for a step-change in trade links between Britain and
Turkey today, setting out an ambition of doubling their value over the next
five years.
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- Indian summer: the twilight of British influence in India - 27/07/2010
David Cameron is eager to show that he can break with the past and chart new avenues ? what with the coalition with the Liberal Democrats and talk of the "big society" reversing decades of centralised government power. But as he heads to India accompanied by a cricket squad of ministers and businessmen, he would do well to read up on a bit of history ? and in particular, on the letter that Queen Elizabeth I gave to John Newbery, one of the first Englishmen to visit India. |
- The 8,000-mile green voyage (by the seasick billionaire) - 27/07/2010
Money will get you a lot of things, including a 60-ft catamaran built almost entirely out of recycled plastic bottles, held together with organic glue made from cashew nuts and sugar cane. But the joy of stepping on to dry land after navigating such a vessel on a gruelling 128-day journey across the Pacific is one of those things that money simply can't buy. |
- Released Nato files 'only scratch the surface' of war in Afghanistan - 27/07/2010
While allied governments strove yesterday to downplay the import of the online
posting of more than 75,000 classified documents about Nato's war in
Afghanistan, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, said they "only
scratched the surface" and 15,000 more papers were still being reviewed.
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- 16,000 deaths, 19 years in jail ? fury greets sentence for Pol Pot's executioner - 27/07/2010
It was 9.53am when the curtain in front of the glass-enclosed court chamber finally swept back. When it did, it revealed Kaing Guek Eav, once head of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious jail, sitting at a bench, his face expressionless, and dressed in a crisp blue shirt with grey trousers pulled up unnaturally high over a rounded stomach. |
- Moscow struggles to cope as mercury soars - 27/07/2010
Moscow sweltered through its hottest day since records began 130 years ago yesterday, as temperatures hit 37.4C to spark peat fires that blanketed the city in smog. |
- Why even prison can't stop Mexico's brutal drug lords - 27/07/2010
It was a messy business, clearing-up after the carload of masked gunmen who burst into the function room at a suburban hotel in the city of Torreon in northern Mexico last Saturday night and began randomly spraying bullets into a crowded dancefloor full of young men and women. |
- Police question L'Oréal heiress - 27/07/2010
Police questioned France's richest woman about suspected tax evasion and money laundering in a scandal that has shaken the government. |
- Somali pirates jailed for 10 years - 27/07/2010
The island nation of Seychelles says it has prosecuted and convicted Somali
pirates for the first time. The office of the President said yesterday that
a Seychelles court sentenced 11 Somali pirates to 10 years each in prison
for their attempt to hijack the Seychelles coastguard patrol boat Topaz last
December.
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- Amazon tribes block hydroelectric plant - 27/07/2010
About 300 Amazon Indians have prevented workers from entering or leaving the construction site of a hydroelectric plant that protesters say is on an ancient burial ground, according to reports from Brazil's official news agency. |
- Iran ready for fresh talks on nuclear fuel - 27/07/2010
Iran said unexpectedly yesterday that it was prepared to return to talks on a nuclear fuel swap, shortly after the European Union agreed tougher sanctions including action to block oil and gas investment. |
- Hawaii exports its homeless problem to mainland US - 27/07/2010
When tourists arrive in Hawaii, they're greeted with flowery necklaces and cries of "Aloha!". But when those people turn out to be down-and-outs, the warm island welcome swiftly disappears. |
- Israel is impeding Palestinian forces' training, says US - 27/07/2010
Israeli-caused delays to the transfer of weapons, radios, vehicles, helmets and other equipment are hampering American efforts to train Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, according to an official report by Washington's Government Accountability Office (GAO). |
- Briton leaps to Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series win - 26/07/2010
La Rochelle, Yucatán and now Kragerø ? the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series
has reached its midway point and Briton Gary Hunt is the man of the 2010
season so far, after gaining the most points for diving off a 26.8 metre
platform at Skagerrak strait in Norway on Saturday.
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- China: Google search share slips as Baidu gains - 26/07/2010
Google's dominant position on the global online search market slipped slightly
in the second quarter, as it retreated from the Chinese market, research
firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said on Friday.
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- Four killed by bomb at Baghdad TV office - 26/07/2010
Four people were killed today when a car bomb exploded in front of the Baghdad
office of Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al-Arabiya, Iraq police said.
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- White House says Wikileaks is endangering lives - 26/07/2010
The White House accused online whistleblower WikiLeaks of endangering the
lives of American, British and other coalition troops after it posted around
90,000 leaked US military records today.
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- Wikileaks documents show Pakistan and Taliban link - 26/07/2010
Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while
accepting US aid, new US military reports showed, a disclosure likely to
increase the pressure on Washington's embattled ally.
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- Khmer Rouge chief jailer sentenced to 19 years - 26/07/2010
A former Khmer Rouge chief jailer was sentenced to 19 years behind bars today
after a United Nations-backed tribunal found him guilty of war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
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- Love Parade tragedy: 'I'll never forget the sight of all those twisted bodies' - 26/07/2010
The organisers of Duisburg's Love Parade were yesterday accused of rejecting safety warnings on cost grounds before a stampede that left 19 revellers dead and injured more than 340 others. Prosecutors opened an official inquiry yesterday into the worst tragedy in the celebrated techno-music event's 21-year history. Among those killed were festival-goers from China, Australia, Italy and Holland. |
- Tory leader follows Burmese general on the Delhi trail - 26/07/2010
Burma's top military general began a five-day visit to India yesterday for talks aimed at deepening ties between the two South Asian neighbours. Pro-democracy advocates protested his arrival and promised to step up their demonstrations. |
- Cameron hoping to forge new special relationship with visit to India - 26/07/2010
When David Cameron stands on the grounds of India's best-known IT company this week and makes his pitch for building a "new special relationship" between Britain and India, he will no doubt have in mind the thoughts of a previous visitor to the Infosys campus. |
- Elections marred by deadly bomb - 26/07/2010
A bomb at a Bangkok bus stop killed one person and wounded at least 10 after polls closed in yesterday's parliamentary by-election. |
- Immigration a key issue in election debate contested by immigrants - 26/07/2010
In one corner, the Welsh-born Australian Prime Minister. In the other, her challenger: the London-born leader of the opposition. The touchstone topic in the country's only televised leadership debate: immigration. And they were both in favour of cutting it. |
- Whistleblower's leaked US files reveal state of Afghan war - 26/07/2010
The US military was last night confronted with the largest and potentially most explosive breach of its security in wartime, as the whistleblower website WikiLeaks published thousands of secret reports from the campaign in Afghanistan. |
- Agents expelled from the US join Putin for a patriotic singalong - 26/07/2010
Vladimir Putin has met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, and sung patriotic songs with them. The Russian Prime Minister said that the spy ring had been betrayed by "traitors", who would probably end up "in the gutter". |
- US drone attacks kill 28 in Pakistan border area - 26/07/2010
Unmanned US aircraft fired missiles at houses in two different parts of
north-western Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 12 militants in attacks
that occurred hours apart, intelligence officials said.
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- Royal Dutch Shell boosts profits by a third - 29/07/2010
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell put beleaguered rival BP in the shade
today with a 34% hike in second-quarter profits to 4.2 billion US dollars
(£2.7 billion).
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- King condemns banks' treatment of customers - 29/07/2010
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has described as "heart breaking" the way some banks are treating business clients who had been customers for many decades. |
- Apollo ups bid for Brit Insurance to £851m - 29/07/2010
Brit Insurance's resistance against the US private equity firm Apollo showed the first sign of cracking yesterday after the company said it would grant the prospective bidder access to its books. |
- David Prosser: The mixed messages Cameron is sending to India - 29/07/2010
Outlook Does David Cameron get the contradiction undermining his trade mission to India? It's quite understandable that the Prime Minister wants to cosy up to such a growing economic power, but having spent much of the past few months talking tough on immigration policy, his pleas for help from India may fall on deaf ears. |
- David Prosser: Time for Nick Clegg to speak up - 29/07/2010
Outlook Labour MPs have been hinting at skulduggery over the way Nick Clegg changed his mind about the need for immediate fiscal retrenchment following a chat with Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, shortly after forming a coalition with the Tories. |
- Vedanta Resources: the world's most hated company? - 29/07/2010
Vedanta Resources' highly successful financial year, and its annual meeting, were overshadowed yesterday when more than 100 protesters, some dressed as characters from James Cameron's Avatar film, came to object to what they say is the company's shocking human rights and environmental record. |
- Andrew Tyrie: 'There is an accountability vacuum in so many areas' - 29/07/2010
He's a clever man, is Andrew Tyrie. Slight, slim to the point of concern, but intellectually heavyweight. You have to be if you're going to be the chair of the Treasury Select Committee. When you have to take on Mervyn "Merve the Swerve" King, Governor of the Bank of England, in hand-to-hand combat, you need to have your wits about you. When you have to pin down the likes of George Osborne (no fool, despite what some say), you need think on your feet. To get your mind round everything from macro prudential regulation to, say, the causes of our jobless recovery requires a certain cerebral self-assurance. |
- Warning over useless products - 29/07/2010
Shoppers should look out for far-fetched claims about certain household products, the consumer magazine Which? says today. The magazine released a list of 10 "money-wasting products you don't need" after tests found they failed to live up to the claims on the packaging. |
- John West sold for £568m - 29/07/2010
John West, the UK's leading canned fish brand, is set to fall into Thai hands following a £568m deal. Trilantic Capital Partners, the former Lehman Brothers private equity fund, has agreed to sell the brand's owner, MW Brands, to Thailand's biggest producer and exporter of canned fish, Thai Union Frozen Products. |
- Virgin Media has record quarter - 29/07/2010
Virgin Media posted the strongest revenue growth in a quarter since it was formed, and launched a share buyback. |
- Green light for electric car grants - 29/07/2010
A promised grant of up to £5,000 towards the cost of an electric or ultra-low carbon car has survived Government cutbacks. The Transport Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday said the funding, first announced by the Labour government, will go ahead from January 2011. |
- Telefonica seals deal to buy Vivo - 29/07/2010
Spain's telefonica will acquire control of Brazil's largest mobile phone operator, Vivo, in a newly sweetened ?7.5bn (£6.2bn) deal with Portugal Telecom. |
- Google games pit search giant against Facebook - 29/07/2010
Google is spoiling for a fight with Facebook over the fast-growing market for online games, part of the search engine giant's latest attempt to build a social networking business. |
- David Prosser: When to hold Centrica to account - 29/07/2010
Outlook Let's be honest: British Gas is a deliciously easy target. Who are your sympathies with on hearing about a company making record profits during a period when many of the most vulnerable people in society have struggled to afford to keep themselves warm? Particularly if you take a look at the |
- Business Diary: Bad blood fuels Tomkins row - 29/07/2010
The row at Tomkins rages on, with shareholder Standard Life furious that the company's chairman David Newlands is recommending a takeover offer from Canadian private equity concerns at a price it regards as too low. The fact that Mr Newlands is a former Standard Life executive gives the argument extra spice. And now we hear that during his time at the insurer, there wasn't much love lost between him and Gerry Grimstone, Standard Life's chairman. This one looks set to run and run. |
- John West in £568m Thai sale - 28/07/2010
The UK's leading canned fish brand, John West, was set to fall into Thai hands
today following a 680 million euros (£568 million) deal.
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- Look who's checking out at InterContinental - 28/07/2010
The billionaire Barclay brothers have sold their entire 10 per cent shareholding in InterContinental Hotels Group for £335m, ending any fading speculation about their strategic intentions for the hotel group. |
- Former Rock director hit with £320,000 fine and banned - 28/07/2010
The City watchdog yesterday continued its pursuit of former Northern Rock executives, fining the bank's former finance director David Jones £320,000 and banning him from the City. The fine was levied because of his role in hiding the true level of the bank's mortgage arrears before the Rock's spiral into crisis that led to its nationalisation. |
- Business Diary: Dudley follows Hayward's lead - 28/07/2010
So farewell Tony Hayward and hello Bob Dudley. The outgoing and incoming BP chief executives have one thing in common already: just as the bookies took large bets on Hayward being forced to quit, so too are punters backing Dudley not to last. Ladbrokes has just cut its odds on Dudley not surviving in his new role for more than two years from 8/11 to 4/9. "To say the role is a poisoned chalice is an understatement," says the bookmaker's spokesman Nick Weinberg. |
- Europe's banks bounce back after stress tests - 28/07/2010
Two of europe's most important banks yesterday underlined the return to health of the Continent's bigger players by posting strong results just days after stress tests suggested that Europe's banking system is in better health than many experts believe. |
- David Prosser: India welcomes British delegation with a threat to the global recovery - 28/07/2010
Outlook The assorted British politicians, business leaders and cultural icons accompanying David Cameron and George Osborne on the great trade mission to India might want to ask the Prime Minister and his Chancellor what they think about the surprise decision by the country's central bank to raise interest rates by half a point yesterday. |
- David Prosser: The end of the £5bn PPI racket - 28/07/2010
Outlook It was once a £5bn-a-year market but payment protection insurance (PPI) looks set to join the list of lucrative products and services ? others include unauthorised overdraft fees and self-certificated mortgages ? to which the banks are having to say goodbye. Lloyds Banking Group said yesterday that it would no longer sell PPI ? which pays out in the event a mortgage or personal loan borrower is unable to stay on top of repayments due to ill-health or redundancy ? and other banks look set to follow suit. |
- Is the online news-stand finally set to make money? - 28/07/2010
The public's desire for the online coverage of stories from David Beckham's wardrobe to Catherine Zeta-Jones's dress disasters has seen advertisers flock to its site. The growth in online revenues is a welcome development for news services looking to make the internet pay, but some are questioning whether free sites can yet be self-sufficient. |
- New products help soap maker clean up - 28/07/2010
The owner of the soap brands Imperial Leather and Carex has reported a 13 per cent rise in European profits after new products boosted trading. PZ Cussons said "excellent brand innovation" helped it to offset high levels of promotional activity and an uncertain consumer outlook. |
- Morrisons acquires Simply Fresh Foods - 28/07/2010
The new chief executive of Morrisons has made his first acquisition by purchasing Simply Fresh Foods, a supplier of packaged vegetables, to enhance its distribution services as it expands in the UK. |
- General Electric to pay $23.4m over 'oil-for-food' corruption charges - 28/07/2010
The reckoning for rampant corruption under the United Nation's "oil-for-food" programme in Iraq under Saddam Hussein reached the icon of American capitalism, General Electric, which agreed to pay $23.4m to settle charges ? without admitting or denying them ? under US bribery laws. |
- Tomkins' board backs £2.9bn takeover offer - 28/07/2010
The board of Tomkins yesterday backed a £2.9bn takeover bid from a consortium of Canadian investors, putting management on collision course with at least one of its biggest shareholders. |
- David Prosser: Apple not facing an apps crunch yet - 28/07/2010
Outlook At first sight, it looks like a famous victory. Campaigners in the US have succeeded in persuading the Government to change the rules to give greater freedom to owners of an Apple iPhone. Previously, customers were breaking the law by unlocking their iPhones: changing the software on the handsets in order to bypass Apple's ban on downloads of apps from anywhere other than its own iTunes store. Now the company will have no legal recourse against customers who choose to do this. |
- Retailers enjoy World Cup and July's warmer weather - 28/07/2010
Retailers expect their purple patch of sales to continue next month after enjoying their best performance in more than three years in July, driven by the balmy weather, the World Cup and summer discounting. |
- New BP chief executive in recovery pledge - 27/07/2010
BP's new chief executive today pledged to put the oil giant "on the road
to recovery" as it reeled under a 32.2 billion US dollar (£20.8
billion) blow from the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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- Doing business in China - 27/07/2010
To most people, when British companies do business with China it usually
involves outsourcing manufacturing to the rapidly emerging economic power?s
low-cost factories. However, it does not have to be like that.
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- Business Extra: News in Brief - 27/07/2010
Finance still tight
Businesses are still having difficulty accessing finance from their banks
despite a fall in decline rates, according to figures released by the
Institute of Directors earlier this month. The survey of 899 company
directors carried out in June also shows that one in three firms applying
for finance in the first six months of the year were declined by their
banks. In addition, there is evidence that banks? lending criteria are being
tightened. Miles Templeman, director-general of the organisation, said:
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- Soap box: Creativity is the future of business success - 27/07/2010
The economic malaise afflicting business in Britain, and many other parts of
the developed world, has catalysed a change in the way that business leaders
need to think. Yet it?s one for which few of them are well prepared.
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- Having a clear cut vision for your business - 27/07/2010
Three years after opening the first branch of his Byron hamburger restaurant
business, Tom Byng has just opened his tenth. By the standards of many of
the more aggressive chains in this business, that is modest progress. But it
is enough of a challenge if ? like Byng ? you are trying to keep a close tab
on operations and keep to the original ethos, to simply make ?hamburgers the
way they should be?.
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- Economic Quangos: English regions will suffer - 27/07/2010
Like the layers of rock laid down during the Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous
and other periods, the Department for Business has a similar accretion of
quangos gathered under successive ages of Edwardian paternalism, Wilsonian
intervention, Heathite corporatism, Thatcherite "enterprise", plus
some Blairite and Brownite topsoil. Vince Cable is busily drilling through
it all.
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- Business Diary: Philippines' gain proves illusory - 27/07/2010
Stock market investors in the Philippines thought they had earned a buck or two yesterday, as their benchmark index soared by 14 per cent during the first three hours of trading. Sadly for them, the Philippine Stock Exchange then decided to suspend trading as it published a statement conceding that he gains were erroneously produced by a brand new computer system launched yesterday morning. In fact, share prices had fallen by 0.1 per cent over the three hours in question. Let's hope no one spent their winnings. |
- Equitable Life report is unsafe, says Ombudsman - 27/07/2010
The Parliamentary Ombudsman weighed into the row about compensation for victims of the Equitable Life scandal yesterday, saying she could not support the findings of a Government-backed inquiry published last week. |
- Sales of new American homes exceed hopes - 27/07/2010
Sales of new single family homes in the US rebounded sharply in June, but the bounce was from a historically low base, according to official figures released yesterday. |
- Broadband speed gap widening, says Ofcom - 27/07/2010
The gap between the broadband speeds advertised by internet service providers and the actual speeds customers receive has widened in the past year, the communications watchdog revealed yesterday. |
- UK Coal separates mining and property businesses - 27/07/2010
Britain's biggest mining company, UK Coal, announced plans yesterday to split its resources and property businesses, adding that its chief executive, Jon Lloyd, and chairman, David Jones, would be leaving. |
- Government to lose as bookies flee UK - 27/07/2010
To look at their results from the World Cup you'd think all was rosy in the bookmakers' garden. That would be a mistaken impression. Yesterday, William Hill announced the migration of its telephone betting business to Gibraltar. The move means that just about the only remaining UK-based betting businesses are the Tote, Betfair and about 8,500 betting shops ? whose number is beginning to decline. |
- Connaught admits it will breach debt covenants - 27/07/2010
The social housing maintenance group Connaught is "in serious trouble", analysts warned yesterday, after the company admitted that its net debt would be significantly higher than its previous forecasts. |
- David Prosser: Don't forget the real victims of BP's 'Deepwater' disaster - 27/07/2010
In the end, he had to go. Forget the gaffes (unhelpful) or the question of whether his chairman should have been more visible in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon accident (absolutely). Tony Hayward has no choice but to step down from the chief executive's office at BP because he was the man in charge when that accident cost the lives of 11 people. |
- Market Report: Age of austerity sparks concern about Babcock - 27/07/2010
Babcock International was under pressure amid worries about the impact of public spending cuts last night. The defence services group fell by 11p to 597p after Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned that, with the bulk of its revenues related to the public sector, Babcock's margins may be squeezed in an age of fiscal austerity. |
- Ben Chu: Be sceptical of the stress tests - 26/07/2010
Further to my point about Barclays, be sceptical about the stress tests
themselves, which only estimate the losses resulting from a eurozone
sovereign bond default on the banks? trading books and not their bank books.
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- Ben Chu: The case for breaking up Barclays - 26/07/2010
Regular readers of this blog will be unsurprised to hear that I disagree with
the argument of my colleague, James Moore, that breaking up Barclays Bank
would be a bad idea.
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- Ford facing legal action over pensions - 26/07/2010
Motor giant Ford was warned today it faced legal action over the pension
rights of thousands of workers who transferred to a car parts firm which
then went into administration.
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- Cable tells banks to increase lending - 26/07/2010
Banks will face renewed pressure from the Government today to increase lending
to hard-pressed firms after Business Secretary Vince Cable warned they were "not
acting in the national interest".
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- Cable tells banks to start lending - 26/07/2010
Banks will be warned today that they face greater government regulation unless
they ?get their house in order? and boost their lending to cash-starved
businesses.
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- Cattles had hoped to offer Utopia to public - 26/07/2010
Cattles, the doorstep lender that has written no new business since its shares were suspended 18 months ago, was planning to rename itself Money Utopia Bank in an effort to attract retail depositors, it has emerged. |
- Offshore wind needs £10bn to avoid missing green targets - 26/07/2010
Britain's offshore wind ambitions will face a £10bn funding gap within five years, energy experts will warn today, and the Government's legally-binding 2020 green targets will not be met unless the deficit can be closed. |
- Stephen King: Austerity can be postponed by a fiscal stimulus ? but it can't be avoided altogether - 26/07/2010
Some of you may have been following the "austerity versus stimulus" debate in the Financial Times. Certainly, Paul Krugman has. The Nobel Laureate has been firing off all sorts of comments on his New York Times blogsite, "The Conscience of a Liberal", in response to those views he finds particularly abhorrent. Ken Rogoff, the joint author of the excellent This Time Is Different, has been one victim. Another has been Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, whose preference for fiscal belt-tightening has been met with the full force of Mr Krugman's Keynesian ridicule. In response to Mr Trichet's claim that "consolidation is a must", Mr Krugman offered the following broadside: |
- Business Diary: Where to snare a banker's hand - 26/07/2010
In the market for a husband or wife of substance? The guide to dating that is now running on the financial-sector jobs website Hereisthecity.com could be just the thing if you hope to catch a banker. It offers a rundown on the merits (or otherwise) of staff from a dozen of the Square Mile's top names. Highlights include this gem: "A glint in the eye, a warm French smile. Oodles of charm and fantastic sex. But your SocGen dream man will prob-bly turn out to be happily married too." |
- Confidence in housing market falls with prices - 26/07/2010
Anxiety about the health of Britain's housing market will be rocked further today, with two new reports warning that both prices and consumer confidence are falling. Hometrack, the property analyst, said that house prices fell by 0.1 per cent in July, the first time it has registered a reduction for 15 months, while Rightmove, the online estate agency, saw a sharp fall in the number of people now expecting the property market to be higher in 12 months' time than today. |
- Small Talk: WorldSpreads bets on popularity with online gamblers - 26/07/2010
It's 2am. You've been out and had rather too much to drink and you want to carry on into the small hours. There are of course a number of online options available, some of them you might not want to share, but increasingly, people that find themselves firing up the laptop and turning to international currency markets, and financial spreadbetting. |
- Graphite backs Teaching buyout - 26/07/2010
Graphite Capital, the UK mid-market private equity specialist, has emerged as
the backer for the £45m management buyout of Teaching Personnel.
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- Businesses back austerity Budget - 26/07/2010
A majority of British businesses back the emergency Budget, according to figures released by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), with 64 per cent supporting the balance between spending cuts and tax rises. |
- BAE joins wave energy project - 26/07/2010
BAE systems has teamed up with the wave energy developer Aquamarine Power in an almost £1m project to produce more reliable alternative energy sources for the UK. BAE and Aquamarine put up £450,000, to match a grant from the Technology Strategy Board. The funding is to support the development of the commercial production of Aquamarine's Oyster wave energy converter. |
- BP board to decide on Hayward - 25/07/2010
The future of Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, hangs in the balance this
weekend as the BP board meets tomorrow to decide whether the beleaguered
boss should quit over his role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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- For sale: Lord Sugar's hot properties - 25/07/2010
The Apprentice's Lord Sugar has signalled a return to the boom years with the proposed sale of three of his prized Mayfair properties, at pre-credit crunch prices. |
- Anadarko looks at onshore oil - 25/07/2010
Anadarko Petroleum, the Texan partner in BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well which exploded in April, is eyeing a 75 per cent stake in the onshore Jolly Ranch scheme in Colorado. |
- Pinnacle and HSBC near to £600m deal - 25/07/2010
A US and Middle-Eastern consortium which plans to build one of London's tallest skyscrapers, the Pinnacle, is close to agreeing terms with HSBC to lead the £600m financing of the ambitious project. |
The Independent : Sport
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- Vicar guilty of 360 sham weddings - 29/07/2010
A vicar was found guilty today of conducting hundreds of sham marriages to
help illegal immigrants gain residency in Britain.
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- Sham marriages on 'unprecedented scale' - 29/07/2010
The scale of the sham marriages was on an unprecedented scale involving "classic
exploitation" of foreign nationals desperate to stay in the UK,
investigators said.
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- Jack Riley: Top of the posts: America week - 29/07/2010
It's top of the posts time, again. America has featured heavily in this week's most popular offerings, from Hollywood to the right wing, with a few football-based entries scoring good positions also. ... |
- My life in ten questions...The Stranglers? Jean-Jacques Burnel - 29/07/2010
Anglo-French bassist and co-founder of rock band The Stranglers,
Jean-Jacques ?JJ? Burnel, spoke to The Independent Online
about the perils of growing up as ?a Frog? in the 1960s, his passion for
motorbikes and why Plato?s The Republic changed his life.
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- Aamer makes breakthrough for Pakistan - 29/07/2010
Andrew Strauss fell disappointingly just before lunch as England reached 103
for two on day one of the first npower Test against Pakistan at Trent
Bridge.
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- Catherine: Nothing Tastes As Good As Thin Feels? - 29/07/2010
Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself. This is one of those times. You've all heard the saying, as muttered famously by a certain Miss.Moss - but upon pondering over some of the 'recipes' I cam ... |
- Alice-Azania Jarvis: Sad news from Charlotte Street - 29/07/2010
Sad news courtesy of this month's Oldie. Elena Salvoni OBE, the 90-year-old maitre d' of Elena's Etoile in Charlotte Street is to retire, seemingly against her will. The Grande Dame of dining tells th ... |
- Learn Spanish with The Independent - 29/07/2010
Cactus? Language Minis is a Spanish podcast series, developed to offer easy
learning on the go. It consists of seven levels, each with 10 downloadable
podcast lessons and PDF workbooks, which take you from beginner through to
advanced level. The Language Minis series is designed to help you increase
your understanding of the Spanish language and equip you with language
skills for use in everyday situations.
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- Simon Usborne: Tour de France: Photos sans pareil - 29/07/2010
If you're not already aware of Big Picture, Boston Globe's online photo blog, I urge you to trawl its occasional yet always illuminating topical galleries. The guy who edits the site has access to mos ... |
- Amazon offers £109 wireless Kindle for mass appeal - 29/07/2010
Amazon.com launched a cheaper, wireless-only Kindle on Wednesday, betting that
the lower price will turn its latest electronic reader into a mass-appeal
device as Apple Inc's iPad gains ground.
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- Researchers use Twitter tweets to measure moods - 29/07/2010
Twitter is for more than just tweeting. Using millions of Twitter messages, or
tweets, from the popular social networking site, researchers at Northeastern
University in Boston have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods of
the USA.
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- Maradona lashes out at Argentina betrayal - 29/07/2010
Diego Maradona has accused Argentinian Football Association president Julio
Grondona and director of national teams Carlos Bilardo of forcing him out of
his job as coach.
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- Ferguson back Hernandez to make impact - 29/07/2010
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Javier Hernandez's pace
could be a crucial weapon after the Mexico striker scored in his opening
game for the club.
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- Celtic can beat Braga says Ledley - 29/07/2010
Celtic new boy Joe Ledley insists his Champions League dream is not yet over
despite the Hoops losing 3-0 away to Braga in their third qualifying round
first leg.
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- Hughes on verge of Fulham appointment - 29/07/2010
Mark Hughes looks set for a return to the Barclays Premier League after Fulham
confirmed they are on the brink of appointing their new manager.
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- Rain hampers plane crash recovery efforts - 29/07/2010
Emergency teams battled heavy rain and mud today to recover bodies strewn over
hills overlooking the Pakistani capital after the country's worst plane
crash.
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- End to default retirement age is welcomed - 29/07/2010
Business and pressure groups today welcomed a Government announcement to phase
out the so-called default retirement age (DRA) of 65 by October 2011 in a
move to encourage people to work for longer.
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- Royal Dutch Shell boosts profits by a third - 29/07/2010
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell put beleaguered rival BP in the shade
today with a 34% hike in second-quarter profits to 4.2 billion US dollars
(£2.7 billion).
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- Bomber kills four at Iraqi army base - 29/07/2010
A suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden minibus into the entrance of an Iraqi
army base near Saddam Hussein's home town today, setting off an explosion
that killed four soldiers and wounded 10 others, police said.
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- Missing chef investigation scaled down - 29/07/2010
Police investigating the disappearance of chef Claudia Lawrence confirmed
today they are scaling back the number of officers dedicated to the inquiry.
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- New model army: Why fashion has fallen out of love with its A-list clotheshorses - 29/07/2010
The September issues of the big fashion glossies, which are out next week, are traditionally the fattest and most lucrative of the year. If you do manage to find any actual, genuine editorial coverage lurking amid the all-new, high- budget, high-profile, autumn/winter advertising campaigns then you're a better woman ? or even man ? than many. And what campaigns they are! |
- The whiz kid billionaire who says he can't go home - 29/07/2010
London, it seems, has not been kind to Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Once the enfant terrible of the Russian super-rich, the portly figure who trudges into the lobby of a posh Kensington hotel is a far cry from the legend. Until 18 months ago, he was one of the most successful businessmen in Russia ? famous for his luxuriant mullet, his outrageous dress sense and his peppering of speeches at drab economic forums with excitable gestures and swearing. |
- There's an art to persuading your child to become potty-friendly - 29/07/2010
Every new family has its trials and tribulations. We were luckier than most: breastfeeding was a breeze, weaning a doddle, even the sleep deprivation was bearable. But toilet training? This was our Everest. Our two-year old proved highly resistant to the potty, but was equally adamant she would no longer wear nappies. It was a challenging time, but eventually we got there: our daughter is now a confident three-year-old who happily nips to the loo when nature calls, something that at some dark points last year seemed almost unthinkable. |
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson: British tenor who excelled in the works of Britten, Mozart and Monteverdi - 29/07/2010
The British tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson was one of the finest exponents in his generation of the roles originally sung by Peter Pears in the operas of Benjamin Britten. However, his interpretations were in no way copies of the senior tenor's idiosyncratic versions; rather, they were recreations of the music that perfectly suited his own voice and style. His other favourite opera composers were Monteverdi and Mozart, while he sang the great Bach Passions and Handel oratorios throughout his career. As a recitalist he was a founder member of the Songmakers' Almanac and specialised in Schubert lieder and Britten's canticles. He also became an excellent conductor, especially of operas in which he had himself sung, such as Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. |
- Ecclestone fears for teams' future - 29/07/2010
Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One rights holder, has cast serious doubt on the chance of all 12 F1 teams surviving through to the end of the season in November and believes some of the smaller ones are "out of their depth". |
- De Villiers backed despite defeats - 29/07/2010
Peter de Villiers has been given a vote of confidence by his employers at the South African Rugby Union and assured that his job is safe. |
- Hughes allows Cliffs to carve own glorious path - 29/07/2010
He made it sound like some undeserved sinecure, a perk of marrying into the right family. "I'm the luckiest man in the weighing room, to ride for Richard Hannon," he grinned. "It's as simple as that. Jockeys are ten a penny." |
- Age Of Aquarius ready to dawn at Goodwood - 29/07/2010
Races over seven or eight furlongs round here tend to hinge upon so many hazards that the search for a winner tends to become a rather neurotic, complex process. Over two miles, however, punters have no need to fret about the draw, or potential traffic problems round all those twists and turns. They can simply back the best horse in the race. And on that basis there is no need to wait for Jupiter to align with Mars, or the moon to be in the Seventh House, to find the winner of the Artemis Goodwood Cup. |
- Wavves, Cargo, London - 29/07/2010
Wavves are teetering on a lofty precipice. Headed by angsty 23-year-old singer/songwriter Nathan Williams from San Diego, on record, Wavves boast one of the most exciting sounds around. As Williams and his band take to the tiny stage under the bricked arches of Shoreditch club Cargo, they look, and sound like bratty couldn't-care-less teenagers. |
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The Great Outdoors, BBC4 - 29/07/2010
Everyone dies, don't they ? but not everyone lives," said Dan, the subject of Alastair Cook's film The Men Who Jump Off Buildings. If you had to devise a bumper sticker to promote suicidal recklessness that would do the trick, wouldn't it? It sounds plausible enough, relegating all those of us too sensible to launch ourselves off the Trellick Tower at four in the morning to mere zombiedom. It's the sort of slogan that you need to see flashing past you in the fast lane, though, because any kind of tailback would give you too much time to question its essential premise. You might, for one thing, want to ask exactly what kind of definition of "living" was proposed here. Dan ? compulsively addicted to base jumping ? seemed to acknowledge at one point that it was a slightly desperate, compensatory one. "Base jumping gives me enough excitement to carry on with this," he explained, smearing tar on to a roof while doing the job that pays for his parachute. Is that really a life though ? in hock to boredom for the occasional 45 seconds of terrifying adrenalin? |
- Solomon Burke, Jazz Café, London - 29/07/2010
Quite how Solomon Burke's 12-piece band fits onto the Jazz Café's tiny stage is a miracle, rather like one of those 3D wooden jigsaw puzzles, with the guitarist way out right beside a post, the drummer lurking behind the three-man horn section, and the bassist hidden behind the backing singers. Things aren't made any easier by the massive gilt and red velvet throne centre stage, from which the King of Rock and Soul proclaims his gospel of love. |
- Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita, Trafalgar Studios, London - 29/07/2010
Willy Russell's scabrous Scousers, Shirley Valentine (Saint Joan of the fitted kitchen units, with all her nosy-neighbour voices) and hairdresser Rita of the Open University, are still going strong after a quarter of a century. They are now as engraved in the national consciousness as Maggie May, resilient streetwalker of the Liverpool docks, or the battling socialist MP Bessie Braddock. This Menier Chocolate Factory transfer, for a summer season at the Trafalgar Studios, presents Russell's two plays in all their wit and vivacity. |
- Bendtner adds to Wenger's woes - 29/07/2010
Arsenal face being without three key players when they start their Premier League campaign with the difficult trip to Liverpool in just over two weeks' time. Striker Nicklas Bendtner is definitely out with a groin injury, while both Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie do not return to training until next Thursday after featuring in the World Cup final for Spain and the Netherlands respectively. |
- Experience on Strauss' side for series with history of tears and tiffs - 29/07/2010
The last time England played Pakistan at Test cricket it ended in tears, recriminations and the first forfeit in the history of the game. While nobody should advocate the sort of kerfuffle that ensued at The Oval four years ago after the tourists were accused of ball tampering, the series which begins here today will not be entirely straightforward for long. |
- All Butt's bases covered by Pakistan's potent pacemen - 29/07/2010
Overnight, as if the previous two years had been airbrushed from history, Pakistan have prospects in the series against England starting today. It has been provided, more or less entirely, by the quality of their fast-bowling attack which has abruptly found itself as the talk of the summer. |
- Rose decides to give Gleneagles a miss and risk wrath of Monty - 29/07/2010
When he tees it up in the first round of The Irish Open here today, Justin Rose will be playing in Europe for only the third time this year. And he has no plans to make his fourth appearance the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles next month, even if he has not earned a Ryder Cup place by then. |
- 'The lack of recognition for Catriona is a disgrace,' says Davies - 29/07/2010
Mum was very much the word at last year's Ricoh Women's British Open as Catriona Matthew completed a stunning 11-week journey from the maternity ward to the winners' enclosure. Alas, as far as the sponsors were concerned, mum carried on being the word for the Scottish champion. The phone never rang, the millions did not arrive. |
- Bolt to take on Powell and Gay - 29/07/2010
Usain Bolt is set to compete against Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay for the first time this season in the 100m at the DN Galan Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on 6 August. |
- Report claims refs are anti-French - 29/07/2010
An academic study has borne out what the French have always claimed ? that they get a rough deal from English referees. Analysis of 70 Super League games involving the Catalan Dragons between 2006 and 2009 reveals what the researchers say is a persistent bias against the French on the part of British officials. |
- Cycling: Contador quits Astana over equipment failings - 29/07/2010
Less than three days after he celebrated a third Tour de France win Alberto Contador has declared that he will be parting company with his Kazakh team, Astana. Whilst disagreements over future salary contributed to Contador's abrupt announcement that he was leaving, a series of equipment disasters have been a contributory factor. |
- King condemns banks' treatment of customers - 29/07/2010
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has described as "heart breaking" the way some banks are treating business clients who had been customers for many decades. |
- University challenge: Does a two-year degree make more economic sense? - 29/07/2010
For students at Buckingham, the private university opened by Mrs Thatcher, the two-year degree is a winning option. They positively relish the rigours of a 40-week year, and prefer four terms to three, together with holidays of only two weeks; that way they keep up the momentum and get their degrees over more quickly. |
- Anthony Seldon: How Brown and Clegg let it slip - 29/07/2010
Much has been written about the dramatic negotiations that took place between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and Labour in the immediate aftermath of the indecisive election of May. Yet Gordon Brown's role in these momentous days is in danger of being badly misrepresented. His role needs to be reappraised if the history of this period is to be accurately recorded. |
- Jonathan Heawood: Libel law's victims are stacking up - 29/07/2010
In The Bookseller of Kabul, the Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad charted the choppy life of an Afghan family during the spring of 2002, as foreign powers and internal armies fought over the future of their country. The book was based on the time she spent living with a bookseller and his two wives, a privileged witness to their domestic quarrels and desires as well as their more public existence. She focused on the subjugated place of the women of the family, and wrote about her own experiments inside a burka and how "in time I started to hate it". The book was an international bestseller, lauded for its "unique insight into another world" (Daily Mirror), for Seierstad's "curiosity and perceptive eye" (Independent), for testifying to "the power of literature to withstand even the most repressive regime" (Daily Mail). |
- Adrian Hamilton: Back to the past with foreign policy - 29/07/2010
First, credit where credit is due. David Cameron may be overdoing things a bit in his drive for trade opportunities in India ? it could be called hypocritical to demand that India opens its doors to free trade whilst we close our doors to free immigration ? but in terms of recalibrating British foreign policy, the Prime Minister has picked up the ball and is playing it with quite astonishing panache. |
- Steve Richards: A debate that turns politics upside down - 29/07/2010
In this summer of unlikely partnerships, yet another alliance is formed. Labour's shadow Cabinet joins forces with Tory rebels to oppose the coalition's package of constitutional reforms, including a referendum on the Alternative Vote. Once more we close our eyes and wonder whether we are dreaming. Cameron and Clegg say "Yes" to a referendum! David Davis for the Conservatives and the Miliband brothers hold placards saying "No!", or "Almost No!" For such a supposedly dry topic, the prospect of a referendum on electoral reform produces painful contortions that seem to make no sense at all. |
- Leading article: A fattist issue - 29/07/2010
What's in a name? The NHS should use the term fat instead of obese, a thinnish government health minister said yesterday. Some people, naturally, have been deeply offended, as would have been the minister, Anne Milton, if we had called her scrawny instead of thinnish. The overweight prefer more congenial terms: plump, chubby, tubby or big-boned. Or more politically correct notions; one local authority has been trying to introduce the idea of being "unhealthily weighted". |
- Leading article: Social workers need support - 29/07/2010
The shocking death of Khyra Ishaq, who starved after months of abuse at the hands of her mother and stepfather, has drawn attention once again to the failings of child protection services. Publication this week of the full serious case review into Khyra's death has revealed for the first time the extent of the communications failures and missed opportunities that contributed to the death of seven-year-old Khyra. |
- Leading article: The revelation has been in the detail - 29/07/2010
Tomorrow, the Chilcot inquiry into Britain's decision to go to war on Iraq will have sat for a whole year. It has been a suprisingly worthwhile exercise, bringing to full public view a depressing picture of the way the country was led to war against the advice and warnings of most of the experts and officials at the time. But the steady drip-drip of its evidence has served largely to confirm what many people suspected, rather than revealing anything startlingly new. |
- Strauss calls on England to make a flying start - 29/07/2010
Andrew Strauss admits England still have room for improvement as they bid for the series victory against Pakistan they will need if they are to set off for Australia with confidence intact. Strauss sees a potentially difficult four-match series against Salman Butt's tourists as an opportunity to continue a progression which began with last summer's wins over West Indies and in the Ashes. |
- Idowu hopes to lead Tamgho a merry dance in triple jump final - 29/07/2010
He is not exactly the last Tamgho in Paris. All of Teddy Tamgho's family live in the French capital where they will be watching on TV as the 21-year-old attempts to be not just the first Tamgho in Barcelona but first in tonight's triple jump final. |
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