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Are salons really at cutting edge of tax avoidance? | Zoe Williams

The hairdressers' VAT dodge went out with the perm (and now budget 2012), says Zoe WilliamsIt's a rare budget that hits pensioners, but a rarer budget still that hits hairdressers. George Osborne...

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Good to meet you ... Tim Gossling

A Guardian reader since his national service in the 50s, he loves the Berliner format and the paper's sense of humour, but thinks George Monbiot has gone off his rocker about nuclear powerI started...

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The news at vin - here's to Reggie, the newsreader | Simon Hoggart

Theresa May's minimum price for alcohol wouldn't have slowed Reginald Bosanquet one jot✒ Great to hear Anna Ford on Desert Island Discs, talking about Reggie Bosanquet, her fellow newsreader. I...

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The conversation: Have TV talent shows had it?

As the BBC launches The Voice, host Reggie Yates insists it's different to other TV singing contests, while veteran DJ Paul Gambaccini argues that the format is deadTonight the BBC's new singing...

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Letters: A budget full of half-baked ideas

The pressure applied by Labour on the government to reveal cabinet ministers' tax details (Cabinet tax bills, 23 March) after millionaire chancellor George Osborne insisted he would not benefit from...

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Letters: Liberian sex laws

Your article (Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia, 20 March) failed to portray the position of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on purported legislation on...

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Letters: Britain will continue to support Libya

David Davis and Ibrahim El Mayet were right to say Britain can and should help in Libya (Comment, 21 March). We are doing just that. The Libyan government is clear about the scale of the challenge to...

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Letters: Muamba shows need for more defibrillators

Take time to search the full collection of recent newspapers and blogs and you'll soon find the stories of children dying suddenly at school. Kyle Rees, 16, died after he was hit on the head by a...

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Anti-abortion campaign aims to remove women's choice by the back door

Campaigners who think woman's reproductive organs are their business are finding inventive ways of pushing their agendaTake a second to track the anti-abortion moves that have been made, in and outside...

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Revealed: what children are being told about abortion

The Guardian obtains details of anti-abortion campaign talk claiming abortions are linked to a raised risk of breast cancerAnti-abortion campaigners in Britain are making controversial claims that...

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Anti-abortionists grow bold after making friends in high places

'This is a witch-hunt,' say abortion providers, who claim spot checks on clinics have political motivesA leading abortion provider and pro-choice campaigners have said they feel "under siege" and at...

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The Falklands war couldn't happen today – we don't have enough ship builders...

The Britain that built the fleet of ships that sailed to the Falklands seems remote to us nowThe beer of choice in the Falklands is Budweiser, or so I read this week in the Guardian, in Andy Beckett's...

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The Lib Dems are a bit wiser than they were in the early days. But not much |...

If only they could master the art of being constructively critical coalition partnersIt was "the budget", in the 1970s, that first alerted me to the importance of politics. I was fascinated by the...

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London mayor takes no credit for helping cut the 50p tax rate

Boris Johnson distances himself from the budget but hopes to get closer to education policy in the capitalBoris Johnson won the 2008 mayoral election with a fair wind behind him, courtesy of a Labour...

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Unthinkable? Compromises on safety | Editorial

2,000 years after Romans introduced first building regulations, stadiums still occasionally fall down, with terrible consequencesFrom the deaths of 20,000 spectators at a gladiatorial contest in 27AD...

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Boris Johnson says poor schools helped cause riots

In Guardian interview, London mayor makes bid for oversight of education during hoped-for second termBoris Johnson wants to take on strategic oversight of schools if re-elected as London mayor,...

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The tyranny of your dog's turds | Robert Hanks

However often you pick up your beloved pet's faeces, the hideousness of the task does not diminishThe Marine Conservation Society has reported a large increase in the volume of dog excrement found on...

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Plantwatch: Ode to the magnificent symphony of spring blossom

The blossom this spring is truly breathtaking. Heaps of dazzling white blackthorn flowers look like piles of snow dropped on to hedgerows, and stunning white or pink cherry blossoms have turned parks...

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TV review: Safari Vet School

Sam Wollaston has some needling concerns about the vets on the veldtWe've come to the end of Safari Vet School (ITV1) and it's time for our British students to reflect on their time in South Africa....

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Sudoku 2,143 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...

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