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• "Win ... Glastonbury 2011 tickets," said a prominent trail in Saturday's paper (28 May, page 1). But some readers complained that no further information could be found. For the avoidance of...
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Fans who missed out will be offered first-come, first-served second chance to get seats at less popular eventsHundreds of thousands of sports fans learned at midnight they had failed to get any tickets...
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Satellite watchers call it the ISS marathon, and it is just beginning. For a few weeks each summer, the height of the Earth's shadow overhead at night at the latitude of London drops below the orbital...
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An Oxfam report published yesterday forecasts that a billion people will go undernourished this yearCharities and development economists necessarily focus so much attention on hungry people that you...
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View ArticleCountry diary: Wenlock Edge
Beneath the green overhanging hedge below the grey overhanging sky, a wood spirit appeared. Apart from the breeze which pestered in treetops, all else was still. It too was still. There, on the narrow...
View ArticleHugh Muir's diary
Time to sharpen up, says Ed. That's enough Twitter twaddle, says Dennis• Like being savaged by a dead sheep, was how Denis Healey described an assault by his contemporary Lord Howe. And much of the...
View ArticleAbuse at leading care home leads to police inspections of private hospitals
Staff suspended from a Castlebeck care unit after footage shows patients being kicked, slapped and drenched with cold waterInspectors have been called in to private hospitals that care for people with...
View ArticleCybercrime complacency no laughing matter, police chief warns
Scotland Yard launches 'cyber flying squad' as British public warned to be more alert to online criminalityThe British public needs to snap out of its complacency about cybercrime or risk becoming...
View ArticleMissing Pakistan journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead near Islamabad
Shahzad's body was discovered less than two days after he was allegedly abducted by ISI, Pakistan's intelligence serviceA prominent Pakistani journalist who investigated links between the military and...
View ArticleFA chairman leads calls for Sepp Blatter to halt election and start Fifa reform
David Bernstein seeks a 'genuinely independent' review of the scandal-hit governing bodyEngland and Scotland led the way in a brave but unlikely attempt to force reform at Fifa after the Football...
View ArticleRatko Mladic arrival in Holland draws crowds to sleepy seaside town
Croatians, Serbs and Dutch people among hundreds who descended on resort of Scheveningen to witness historyAt 9.20pm the calm of a spectacular sunset over the North Sea in the well-to-do Dutch resort...
View ArticleBlackpool earthquake tremors may have been caused by gas drilling
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View ArticleRoyal colleges create charter for terminally ill patients
Aim to help patients leave a clear record of how they'd like to be treated in the days before their deathThe Royal College of GPs and Royal College of Nursing have produced a charter for terminally ill...
View ArticleClean technology sector suffering crisis of confidence
Ernst & Young finds only 14% of those working in renewables and energy efficiency upbeat about jobs and growthThe UK clean technology sector has suffered a crash in confidence over the past six...
View ArticleResponse: Consumers need protection against high-cost moneylenders online
Wonga and similar web operations are nothing more than legal loan sharksErrol Damelin, chief executive of Wonga, is keen to portray his online, high-cost lending operation as a dynamic internet startup...
View ArticleEndeavour space shuttle lands after its final flight
Youngest shuttle returns from textbook mission to International Space Station – Atlantis will make fleet's last ever trip in JulySpace shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts have returned to Earth,...
View ArticlePhilippines clan patriarch denies masterminding massacre
Andal Ampatuan Sr pleads not guilty to ordering killing of 57 political opponents and journalists in Maguindanao in 2009The patriarch of a powerful clan has pleaded not guilty to charges of...
View ArticleWest Cumbria commemorates Derrick Bird shooting rampage
Service remembering 12 victims to be held close to where taxi driver worked in WhitehavenWest Cumbria is holding a muted commemoration of the tragic killings a year ago when imagined slights and...
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