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The fall and rise of BBC 6 Music
The digital radio station was only saved from the axe by a listeners' campaign but reaches its 10th birthday in top formBBC 6 Music which faced the axe two years ago celebrates its 10th anniversary on...
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Demands to speed up the adoption process could be short-sighted | Deborah Orr
Adoptions can and do fail – cautiousness in the vetting process is taken in the hope of preventing further trauma to the childLike Tony Blair before him (as is so often the case), David Cameron is...
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A cleaner conscience: the politics of domestic labour
Domestic work is a grubby business. There is a huge, unseen workforce who do our mopping, cleaning and childcare. But this delegation of labour is not consequence-free'If you want to do well", Virginia...
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Did Osama's wife really sell him out to the CIA? I'm not convinced | Deborah Orr
Tittle-tattle about the possibility that Khairiah Saber informed on her husband is hard to take all that seriouslyI'm not sure that all the world really is a stage any longer. It appears to have become...
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Labour warns jobless over work programme
Party takes hardline position on welfare, with proposal to stop benefits for six months if job offer is refusedLabour has said it would withdraw benefit from the unemployed for six months if they...
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Room 101 – review
Why can't the guests understand the rules of Room 101, asks Sam WollastonThe first category for things to condemn to Room 101 (Channel 4) is film and television, and actor Rebecca Front wants to put in...
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UN envoy arrives in Syria amid signs of more cracks in Assad regime
Kofi Annan to meet Bashar al-Assad over latest initiative to halt bloodshed as more defectors follow lead of deputy oil ministerKofi Annan has arrived in Damascus to launch the latest initiative to...
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US soldier kills up to 16 Afghan civilians in shooting spree
Nine children and three women dead in incident that president Hamid Karzai condemns as 'intentional murders'A US soldier has killed more than a dozen Afghan civilians, many of them women and children,...
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Met police hires extra training staff before election and busy summer
Critics claim trainers have been brought in at cost of more than £500,000 partly to ensure one of mayor's key pledges is metThe Metropolitan police has had to bring in external trainers at a cost of...
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Solar power firms in Mojave desert feel glare of tribes and environmentalists
Presence of horned toads and desert tortoises are holding up production at multimillion-dollar sites in CaliforniaOf the many projects commissioned by the Obama administration to showcase its...
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Teenagers born with HIV tell of life under society's radar
HIV-positive youngsters who were infected before or at birth reveal their secret livesClive was nine years old when he discovered he was HIV positive. The devastating news that his mother, doctors and...
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Bill of rights commissioner resigns over bypass of Commons
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky claims commission set up by Ken Clarke and Nick Clegg has sidelined parliament and the PMA government commission set up to examine the establishment of a British bill of rights...
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Egyptian army doctor cleared over 'virginity tests' on women activists
Campaigners call ruling by military court a sham after Ahmed Adel is found not guilty of enforcing tests on arrested womenAn army doctor has been acquitted of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on...
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Nick Clegg and Vince Cable split on tycoon tax
Liberal Democrat infighting reflects tension over how proposal for tycoon tax based on minimum rate was sprung on the partyNick Clegg has appeared to row back from a proposal for a tycoon tax built...
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GKN leads chase for Volvo Aero as rival interest falters
British engineering group is clear frontrunner to buy Volvo's aero engine business but sources say deal is not imminentBritain's manufacturing industry could receive a shot in the arm if the British...
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Swiss voters reject plans to increase holiday entitlement
Firms warned that plan to boost minimum annual leave from four to six weeks could harm competitiveness and job securitySwiss voters have rejected a proposal to increase employees' annual minimum paid...
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Gaza air strikes kill 18 Palestinians
Boy, 12, among dead as Israeli PM says forces have 'extracted a very high price' and rockets are fired into Israel from GazaA 12-year-old boy was killed in Gaza on Sunday amid a spiralling round of...
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Corrections and clarifications
Camden council and the People's Supermarket | Theatre of Blood | Google privacy policy• Speaking of money owed to the London Borough of Camden by a business called the People's Supermarket, a sentence...
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Going Dark – review
Young Vic, LondonSound and Fury are a rare company in that they combine an experimental process with rich content. In their last show, Kursk, they took us inside the bowels of a nuclear submarine. Now...
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