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Babysitter murder: teenager charged by Hertfordshire police
Catherine Wynter's body was found by her mother on Tuesday at Borehamwood houseAn 18-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death while babysitting her young...
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David Cameron and George Osborne prepare for the new yearGary Barker
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Watching old films in the post-Christmas lull is bliss from an earlier epoch...
As a teenager I'd scoff at the unreality of the Hollywood musical, but now their numbers seem utterly delightfulWe are now nearing the end of a run of days that, by my reckoning, are always the most...
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How comedy audiences learned to laugh with science, rather than at it |...
Science has its silly in-jokes, just like any other profession, but more and more it informs 'proper' comedy now, tooIs there something funny about science? Audiences at Robin Ince's seasonal slice of...
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Weatherwatch: The air was dead still with a sparkle in it
In January 1893 the temperature in Vermont went above freezing for half an hour, around midday, yet it was "dancing, clear, dry, buoyant weather. Last night the glass marked 15 below Zero and 22° in...
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Patients 'should be asked about their habits every time they see NHS staff'
NHS report advises talking routinely about diet, smoking and drinking even if the patient is suffering from an unrelated illnessPatients should be asked about their diet, smoking and drinking habits...
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Sudoku 2,071 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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Government faces claims from prisoners suffering delays to release
Probation union says release of 6,000 inmates delayed as ministry staff shortages appear to add to pressure on prisonsThe Ministry of Justice faces compensation claims running into millions of pounds...
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New Year honours' dishonourable past | Michael White
Now, street sweepers and celebrities get these gongs, but the honours list has a colourful historyIf the New Year honours list is dull and mostly decent again (it is), we only have ourselves to blame....
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New Year honours list: knighthoods for academics and Nobel laureates
KBEs awarded to Nobel-winning physicists, an Oxford church historian and the designer of Apple's iPod, iPhone and iPadA knighthood for the Oxford church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of...
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New Year honours recognise successes in poetry, prose – and reality TV
Those honoured in arts include 'the finest living English poet', novelists, actors and the man behind the Big Brother formatThe arts awards in the honours list have a distinctly literary feel, with the...
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New Year honours: Recognition for unsung heroes in the public sector
Awards for Britons who helped during emergency rescue efforts, youth outreach workers, school principals and police officersAfter a year beset by international crises from the earthquake and tsunami in...
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New Year honours include an award for tycoon jailed over stock market scandal
Business gongs include CBE for Gerald Ronson, one of the 'Guinness four', for charity work since serving jail term in 1990Gerald Ronson, the veteran tycoon jailed for his part in one of Britain's...
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New Year honours for leading figures in sport, the Olympics and Paralympics
List includes world taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson, who was controversially not on sports personality of the year shortlistAfter the controversy over her omission from the BBC sports personality of...
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New Year honours: the full list
The knights, dames, commanders and members of the British Empire this yearKnights BachelorGerald Acher, CBE, LVO, for charitable serv. Rodney Malcolm Aldridge, OBE, chair, the Aldridge Foundation, for...
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Sudoku 273 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
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The Saturday interview: Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler
The Vagina Monologues shot writer Eve Ensler to stardom. Now she is a global campaigner who plans to call a billion women out on strike against rapeWho could have predicted what an effect a group of...
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Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon?
The explorer's death sparked a frenzy of mourning, but he was later viewed as a buffoon. A century on, author Carol Birch asks: is he a hero or not?George V led the mourners at the memorial service for...
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Good to meet you … Rebecca Spriggs
A newly converted reader tots up her favourite parts of the paperFor years I have put up with an untidy kitchen table as my fiance insists on keeping all the week's papers to reread at the weekend, but...
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Fake vodka health warning in UK
Tests on counterfeit bottles seized by council trading standards officers across the UK have revealed high levels of methanolConsumers tempted by cheap alcoholic drinks to see in the new year are being...
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