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OperaShots – review
Linbury Studio, LondonROH2's annual series seeks to create new short works by commissioning composers from outside the world of opera. While there are dozens of candidates, there must be an equal...
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Nitrogen footprint warning from European agency
New study says nitrogen pollution costs every person in Europe £650 a year in damage to water, climate, health and wildlifeNitrogen pollution is costing every person in Europe up to £650 a year in...
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Keren Ann – review
Jazz Cafe, LondonKeren Ann Zeidel is a well-kept pop secret who may be set to go public. This 37-year-old half-Israeli, half-Dutch singer-songwriter has enjoyed cult status for nigh on a decade, but...
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Gordon Brown phone-hacking inquiry halted by civil service
Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, blocked attempt by former PM to hold judicial inquiry into phone-hacking allegationsSir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, blocked an attempt by Gordon...
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BBCSSO/Donald Runnicles – review
City Halls, GlasgowThere's something remarkable about the way the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Brahms, especially when chief conductor Donald Runnicles is in town. Perhaps it's the particular...
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Steven Osborne – review
Wigmore Hall, LondonIt's little over a month since Maurizio Pollini played the last three Schubert piano sonatas in a single evening at the Festival Hall. Steven Osborne devoted his Wigmore Hall...
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Submarine shooting: Ryan Donovan charged
Ryan Donovan faces murder and attempted murder charges after fatal shooting on Royal Navy nuclear subA Royal Navy serviceman has been charged with the murder of a colleague on board a nuclear submarine...
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NHS cuts: the first casualties
Coalition cuts to the national health service have started to bite hard, and these key areas are the first to sufferSpeech therapy In January Islington PCT reduced the number of speech therapists...
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Libya: Rebels in retreat | Editorial
The only country where the Arab revolution became a military struggle may be one of the places where the regime stays putThe renewed clashes this weekend between Gaddafi's army and the opposition...
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Mau Mau abuse case: Time to say sorry | Editorial
There are some who would like empire to be on trial, but what matters now is that the British government accepts responsibilityThree frail, elderly men and one woman will this morning continue their...
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In praise of … maize | Editorial
One of the world's most successful food crops, maize could also prevent greenhouse emissions from flatulent cowsIt has a ring to it, but that is the only sound the world will hope to hear from the...
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Yuri Gagarin's private passions: Pushkin and The Little Prince
A new, deeply personal picture of the first man in space has emerged from a rare interview with his daughter Elena• Read a transcript of the whole interviewTo the rest of the planet, he was a pioneer,...
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NHS chiefs ration healthcare to meet cuts target
Royal College of Nursing study reveals that most job losses involve frontline staff as patient services are withdrawn Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as loss...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A report on African migrants trying to reach Italy referred, owing to an error in the editing, to a transfer to Italian mainland camps of "the 3,000 Tunisians to have reached Lampedusa since the...
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Letters: The key to a 'who knows who' world
Simon Jenkins is right that raising VAT to 20% was a mistake (Social immobility is built into the way we live and learn, 6 April), but for the wrong reason.He claims that the VAT increase will stunt...
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Starwatch: Leo
As Orion sinks in the W and the Plough wheels overhead at nightfall today, the signature constellation of our spring sky stands high on the meridian. Leo, the celestial lion since antiquity, squats and...
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Letters: Quids in
Hilary Hammond (Letters, 9 April) is sadly mistaken if she believes libraries are protected by the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. This is one of a large number of acts which our philistine...
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Weatherwatch: phenology in the UK
Each year thousands of people in the UK contribute towards the science of phenology, reporting the first frogspawn, swallow, butterfly, and so on, so that comprehensive maps can be compiled of the...
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Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts
Carol Ann Duffy's excellent, funny but coruscating poem (A Cut Back, Review, 9 April) went a long way towards expressing widely held views on the cuts to arts funding and the implications for both...
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