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City properties now more affordable, but north-south divide persists
Average price for a city home in the UK of £173,202 is 5.5 times gross annual earnings for full time employees, the lowest ratio since 2003Anyone about to buy an urban property has picked the right...
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Do we need parenting classes?
Parenting is all the rage, with poor discipline blamed for last year's riots. But as the government rolls out free courses, is there any evidence to back up the idea you can teach people how to be...
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Orwell prize: four Guardian journalists nominated
Amelia Gentleman, Paul Lewis, Zoe Williams and Polly Curtis nominated for political writing awardFour Guardian journalists have been nominated for the Orwell prize for political writing. Amelia...
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Angela Carter's teenage poetry unearthed at old school
Author of The Company of Wolves explored myth and legend in work published in south London school magazine in 1950sThere is a minotaur crying with a dreary voice, a ship with death-black sails,...
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Simon Hoggart's week: David Cameron and the gang that can't shoot straight
Once the media decide that this government is comically inept, the perception will be almost impossible to shift✒I thought David Davis coped manfully on The World at One this week when he talked about...
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Titanic with Len Goodman; Twenty Twelve – review
Strictly's Len Goodman has an unlikely link to the Titanic, writes Sam WollastonThere's an awful lot of Titanic around in the next couple of weeks. Well, it was a big ship, a bigger disaster, and this...
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George Galloway's Respect could help Britain to break the political impasse |...
UK politics has been governed by Thatcherism for decades. Galloway's triumph should force people to rethink their passivityGeorge Galloway's stunning electoral triumph in the Bradford by-election has...
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Burma goes to the polls in landmark byelection
Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to win her first public office since she launched her struggle against military rule decades agoBurma has begun a landmark election that is expected to send Aung San Suu...
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Man charged with murder of woman and child in Porthmadog
Police say they have charged a man after Suzanne Jones and her son William were found dead on Friday night in north WalesA 42-year-old man has been charged with the murders of a 34-year-old woman and a...
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US feared Falklands war would be 'close-run thing', documents reveal
Declassified cables show US felt Thatcher had not considered diplomatic options, and feared Soviet Union could be drawn inThe US feared the Thatcher government "had not thought much about diplomatic...
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Huffington Post bloggers lose legal battle for share of AOL money
Judge rejects claim that bloggers should get one-third of $315m paid for Huffington Post because they contributed to site's valueA US judge has dismissed a case brought by unpaid bloggers who...
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Rescue operation for injured yacht crew delayed by bad weather
British and Australian sailors competing in round-the-world race stranded off Californian coast after being injured in stormAn operation to help four sailors who were injured when a large wave crashed...
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Former canon of St Paul's appointed parish priest at inner-city church
Giles Fraser, who quit cathedral post over Occupy row, gets new job at St Mary's Newington in south LondonThe Rev Dr Giles Fraser, who resigned as canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral last year over...
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UK now better prepared for fuel strike, says Hague
Foreign secretary defends government's handling of fuel tanker drivers' disputeBritain is better prepared to withstand a strike by fuel tanker drivers because of the actions taken by the government...
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Assad running out of time, warn leaders at Syria crisis summit
'We cannot sit back and wait any longer,' says Hillary Clinton as others warn regime may try to manipulate latest peace planBritain, the US and Turkey have warned Bashar al-Assad that he is running out...
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Bradford West result was symptom of UK's brutal north-south divide
Britain is not alone in having depressed regions, but nowhere else is the problem so big and the desire to fix it so smallYouth unemployment in Bradford is double the UK average. The city is the third...
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Aung San Suu Kyi supporters claim victory in Burma byelection
Burmese Nobel laureate and pro-democracy linchpin said to have won 65% of preferences counted so far after landmark voteNobel laureate and pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has won a...
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Stricken cruise ship reaches safety in Malaysia
Azamara Quest is escorted to port by US and Philippines navies after suffering engine failure in waters patrolled by piratesA stricken luxury cruise ship stranded at sea for 24 hours because of a fire...
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Labour failed to connect with Muslim women in Bradford, says Yvette Cooper
Shadow home secretary says local factors in Bradford West were key to George Galloway's surprise byelection victoryA senior Labour figure has blamed the party's failure to connect with young Asian...
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