Jerusalem bomb victim was British bible translator studying Hebrew
Mary Gardner who has taught in a Togo village for 20 years was on a six-month course before returning to AfricaMary Gardner, the British woman killed in the Jerusalem bus bombing, was an evangelical...
View ArticleLibyan plane and tanks destroyed by allied jets
Trainer plane hit by French rocket while landing as Tripoli claims almost 100 civilians killedFrench fighter jets have destroyed a Libyan plane in the coastal city of Misrata in the first enforcement...
View ArticleBudget 2011: coalition criticised as NHS spending power cut by £1bn
New inflation forecasts show the NHS in England will suffer a cut of almost £1bn in its spending power by 2015The coalition is embroiled in a row over its health pledges after it emerged that the...
View ArticlePhone hacking: key questions answered
Scotland Yard have launched their third inquiry, the prospect of criminal trials remains and three select committees are examining the affair. But what are the issues at stake?The phone-hacking scandal...
View ArticleFierce – review
Venues across BirminghamAt Birmingham's Moor Street station, the wonders of karaoke currently allow you to sing a duet with a soldier serving in the British army. I enter a small wooden booth, select a...
View ArticlePhilharmonia/Schiff – review
Royal Festival Hall, LondonConcerts often improve after the interval, but the second half of this Philharmonia event involving András Schiff was something else entirely. In the first half, Schiff...
View ArticleEnglish National Ballet – review
Coliseum, LondonGeorge Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. "Ballet is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. But this week in London, it's the male dancers who have...
View ArticleBiffy Clyro – review
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThere's something irresistible about a band who anticipate generating so much sweat on stage that they come on shirtless. None of the three members of Ayrshire's Biffy Clyro is...
View ArticleArianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong: king and queen of content
The founder of the Huffington Post and her new boss plan to reinvent AOL through quality journalismThe original plan had been just to interview Tim Armstrong – the all-American, broad-shouldered, chief...
View ArticlePhone-hacking evidence? It's in the bags | Simon Hoggart's sketch
Yates of the Yard is asked questions on phone hacking, and answers with pauses, disputes over chronology, and vaguenessYates of the Yard returned to parliament yesterday to give more evidence about the...
View ArticleMPs expenses rise by £4m to make them more family friendly
Watchdog makes sweeping changes ahead of David Cameron's 1 April deadline to 'change or be changed'MPs' expenses are to be increased by up to £4m this year under sweeping changes announced before the 1...
View ArticleIn praise of … amateur sleuths | Editorial
Blay trawled chat logs to unearth the trail of a character who turned out to have morbid fascinationsWhether it is shrewd spinsters (Miss Marple), curious clergy (Father Brown) or high-schoolers with...
View ArticleLetters: A budget to boost growth – and debt
Slower growth means extra borrowing of £45bn between now and 2015 (Osborne's message to Britain: forget the cuts, fill up your tank, 24 March). But slower growth is the result of the savage cuts in...
View ArticleLetters: Drip-feed budget at the pumps
The government's council tax freeze (£650m subsidy allows council tax to be frozen, 24 March) has been achieved by top-slicing the grant that would otherwise have gone to maintain council services. A...
View ArticleLetters: Poster art racquet
Last weekend I stood outside my local RSB branch asking people to sign a petition protesting about the bonuses paid out by that bank (Report, 21 March). Over 150 people signed. There are 2,400 branches...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• The European court of human rights was incorrectly described as a European Union institution in a headline (It's not a crime to insult the king, EU court tells Spain, 16 March, page 21). The European...
View ArticleLetters: Planning gain for the developers
The government does not appear to know its left hand from its right. The localism bill currently in the Commons allows local communities to make neighbourhood development plans, setting out what will...
View ArticleLetters: More energetic approach needed on green investment bank
If the chancellor wanted to boost growth in the budget he should have given the new green investment bank full borrowing powers now – not in 2015 (Green initiatives, 24 March). Hundreds of billions of...
View ArticleCountry diary: Rannoch Moor
The last time I drove over Rannoch Moor it was late autumn and the slender curve of the moon was rising in a night filled with stars. For several miles the headlights picked up groups of red deer...
View ArticleSkiwatch: Spring skiing conditions are widespread in Europe
Spring skiing conditions are widespread in Europe with the best skiing on the upper, north-facing slopes. French and Swiss lower slopes have slush and bare patches. It has been cooler in Italy which...
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