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In praise of… Swaledale
Rough weather, difficult stock and skeletal profits are part of farming life in the beautiful hillsIt is good that Adrian Edmondson's engaging stomp round the Yorkshire Dales on ITV makes plain that a...
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Coalition prepares to bow to insurmountable opposition by putting its NHS reform bill on hold for up to three monthsMartin Rowson
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Corrections and clarifications
• Belize is not a island, as we described it in a Diary item (1 April, page 35). It is on the mainland of Central America, bordered by Mexico and Guatemala.• A photograph of Christopher Hitchens that...
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Weatherwatch: Sir George Carnock's inventions
Sir George Carnock was a man who was ahead of his time. Not only did he invent a system for draining mines using a horizontal wheel driven by horses, he built an artificial island in the Firth of...
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Letters: Wuthering remarks
Whatever the artistic merits or demerits of adding swearwords to a radio treatment of Wuthering Heights (Radio review, 27 March), it is only making concrete what is alluded to very clearly in the book...
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Letters: Condemnation of Balochistan killings
Your feature (Pakistan's dirty secret, G2, 30 March) is to be welcomed. I knew nothing about the atrocities in Balochistan until I defended Hyrbyair Marri, a tribal leader, who was unjustly charged...
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Letters: Measured intervention and Libyan refugees
Jonathan Freedland is right (We've avoided a Libyan Srebrenica, so when is the bombing going to stop?, 30 March). Western powers were right to take seriously Gaddafi's threat of door-to-door massacre...
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Letters: Electoral reform and good governance
Glyn Evans (Letters, 1 April) scores half a point for saying that there would probably still be some safe seats under AV. But he is wide of the mark in supposing that voters' AV first preferences will...
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Letters: High society
Measuring indicators of life chances is an excellent idea (Could do better? Report card to test social mobility, 31 March). But since it is not just life in the womb but the first 1,000 days of life...
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British nuclear sub forced back to base
HMS Vengeance had temporary 'defect in propulsion', a mechanical failure possibly due to ingesting sea debrisA nuclear-powered submarine of the Royal Navy has returned to its home port after a...
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Air France 447 search yields fresh hope with discovery of debris on seabed
Robot submarines locate wreckage from still unexplained disaster but flight recorders remain missingPieces of wreckage from an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 with 228 people on...
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Yemen police injure more than 400 people on protest march in Hudaida
Police open fire and use teargas against demonstrators attempting to march to presidential palaceMore than 400 people have been injured after police fired live rounds and used teargas on protesters...
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IMF urged to use surplus gold for debt relief
Campaigners say IMF's $2.6bn windfall is perfect opportunity to cancel poor countries' debtsDevelopment groups have called on western governments to use $2.6bn (£1.6bn) from the sale of International...
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Is Osborne fit to run the economy – or to ruin it?
George Osborne is expecting 'expansionary austerity' to save the UK economy – which means things are going to get a whole lot worse for ordinary householdsBy all accounts, Clement Attlee had a brusque...
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Lech Walesa: the man who 'never made a mistake' sees errors all around
Former president says Poland has wasted its opportunities since Solidarity sowed the seeds of communism's fallBy his own account, Lech Walesa was invited to Egypt at the height of its recent uprising....
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Cosmetics company chief Dr Irena Eris revels in vanity project
Woman who started face cream firm from makeshift lab eyes Nobel recognitionWhen Dr Irena Eris first started concocting face creams in a makeshift lab near Warsaw in 1983, she was taking a huge risk....
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Andrzej Wajda film will shine new light on Lech Walesa
Oscar-winning Polish film-maker says he will tell the story of how an uneducated worker triggered the collapse of communismPoland has had a complicated relationship with Lech Walesa. The love-hate of...
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Debunking stereotypes: Poles are homophobic
Hatred of homosexuality has been rife in Poland, but may be on the wanePoland certainly has a dubious reputation regarding homophobia, although there are some signs that attitudes are slowly...
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Poland: a country getting to grips with being normal at last
It still feels apart from 'the west' and is struggling with poverty, but it offers an optimistic example for Egypt and others"Rutinoscorbin is like the sixth member of our family!" an implausibly...
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Poland at a glance
The Guardian's New Europe series continues with a week-long look at life in PolandPopulationThere are 38.4 million people in Poland and its population is falling – the birth rate has plunged...
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