Census officers may fine householders refusing to fill in form
100-strong 'non-compliance' unit authorised to visit homes and conduct interviews in bid for more complete surveyA 100-strong unit of "non compliance" officers is authorised to visit any home where the...
View ArticleSyria unleashes force on protesters demanding freedom as unrest spreads
Reports of many killed as marchers take to streets, plus confrontations in Jordan, Yemen and BahrainDemonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces...
View ArticleSudoku 1,831 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
View ArticleSudoku 233 Killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
View ArticleFearne Cotton and Edith Bowman join BBC's royal wedding team
Radio 1 DJs among presenters to join Huw Edwards for coverage of wedding of Prince William and Kate MiddletonRadio 1 DJs Fearne Cotton and Edith Bowman will be among the BBC presenters joining Huw...
View ArticleWhitehall: very special advisers | Editorial
The official civil service code is intact, but a powerful whiff of hypocrisy lingers on the Whitehall airWhen power was just a glimmer on the horizon, Conservative MPs used to delight in attacking...
View ArticleUnthinkable? Filling in the census properly | Editorial
Protest about Lockheed Martin's involvement by all means: but not by ignoring the form. Silence is only a denial of identityDefying the census began as a contrarian stunt. In 2001 390,000 people listed...
View ArticleSian O'Callaghan police take 'step into the unknown' in search for second body
Forces looks at possible links to unsolved crimes after suspect leads officers to Gloucestershire fieldPolice investigating the murder of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan admitted they were "stepping into...
View ArticleSixth police spy in protest movement unmasked
Mark Kennedy, the first infiltrator to be exposed, says he may sue Scotland Yard for causing post-traumatic stress disorderA sixth police officer has been unmasked as an undercover spy in the protest...
View ArticleGood to meet you: Kate Cook
From Peckham to Chester, the Guardian has been with this week's reader through all the stages of her lifeI love the Guardian and I have done for a long time. My father was an Irish immigrant, a good...
View ArticleLetters: Marching for an alternative
Today will see the largest march in London since the 2003 protests over Iraq. People will march to Hyde Park in support of an alternative to the coalition government's savage cuts. These cuts are not...
View ArticleThis week: George Osborne, Carole Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor
Lucy Mangan on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysBad to worse George OsborneDon't know if you've heard – there was a budget. Motorists can look forward to changes that will knock...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• An advertisement feature promoting a video examining the nature of land ownership in Ethiopia wrongly stated that 13 million people needed food aid in the country. In fact there are 2.8 million...
View ArticleLetters: More challenges to budget plans
As the budget has shown, the planning system is an easy target (Osborne's message to Britain: forget the cuts, fill up your tank, 24 March). There is, however, little evidence to support the claim that...
View ArticleLetters: Libya and Europe's divisions over foreign policy
Timothy Garton Ash is right to highlight how domestic political pressures have led to serious differences between EU leaders on Libya (Comment, 24 March), but it would be too simplistic to argue that...
View ArticleLetters: Birds of a feather
I enjoyed Frank Keating's thoughts on the boat race (Sport, 23 March), but have to take issue with his attribution of exclusivity to Hammersmith Terrace. Perhaps now you have to be a multimillionaire...
View ArticleLetters: Cox faces the music on volume controls
Thank you for giving Brian Cox the opportunity to clarify his views on the reduction in volume of the soundtrack with Wonders of the Universe (G2, 24 March). I am hearing-impaired and wear two hearing...
View ArticleSimon Hoggart's week: We won't be taken for a ride, cabbies
Businesses which are reluctant to reduce prices will learn the hard way✒ There may be a recession, but some people evidently haven't heard. London taxis are probably the most expensive in Europe, but...
View ArticleCountry diary: Bedfordshire
My eyes are drawn up the tramlines of spring-sown wheat. Up the slope to the wood at the top of the rise, along a bit, then down again. For more than an hour I have walked and scanned these huge open...
View ArticleSpending cuts: From protest to persuasion | Editorial
The marchers at the rally in London, and Ed Miliband, face three formidable obstacles in the way of a wider campaignThe fuzziness of the rallying cry – March for the Alternative – is easily mocked, but...
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