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The new ethnic cleansing: This disturbing dispatch from Eastern Europe...
Gipsies across eastern Europe have been fire-bombed, raped and murdered. As SUE REID writes, is it any surprise they want to escape to the West? Reported by MailOnline 21 hours ago.
View ArticleCitroen C4 Cactus - exclusive studio photos
Citroen re-invents the classically French car. Simple, unpretentious and focused on making journeys easy, rather than pure driving dynamics. Odd as it might first seem, the roots of the Citroen Cactus...
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Food to bring you good fortune in the new year
This is Bath -- Every New Year people around the world tuck into foods which they believe will bring good fortune in the year ahead. While the dishes may be different they all have connotations of...
View ArticleIn their own words: literary giants who died this year
Chinua Achebe, Iain Banks, Seamus Heaney, Elmore Leonard and Doris Lessing in quotes **Chinua Achebe, 82 * * *On history:* "There is that great proverb … that until the lions have their own historians,...
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Bath writer Sarah Hilary
This is Somerset -- Bath can be a wonderful place for whiling away time in one of its many cafés. And if you have ever seen a woman feverishly tapping away on her laptop for several hours on end, it...
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Switzerland by bike
This is Somerset -- I dropped down a gear approaching the 180° hairpin bend. The exhaust burble echoed back from the mountainside. Only two more bends to go until I reached the Swiss border. The bike...
View ArticleTory peer tells Cameron he must make case for UK's place in Europe
David Cameron must go out and make the case for Britain's continued membership of the European Union, one of the grandees of the Conservative Party has warned. Reported by Belfast Telegraph 12 hours ago.
View ArticleReaders' books of the year 2013: part 2
From Lionel Shriver's Big Brother to Jim Crace's Harvest, and from Ruth Rendell's No Man's Nightingale to Iain Banks' The Quarry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2013 **Richard Gilyead,...
View ArticleManchester United's transition airs a new unpredictable Premier League | Paul...
With Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City battling, the Premier League is livelier and more competitive than ever This weekend's games mark the halfway point of the Premier League, the first...
View ArticleCameroon in Europe talent hunt
Cameroon officials seek to convince players of Cameroonian origin to make themselves available for the Indomitable Lions. Reported by BBC News 11 hours ago.
View ArticleEurope court 'risks UK sovereignty'
Suggestions the European Court of Human Rights can set law on social issues is a threat to the sovereignty of Parliament, says a former lord chief justice. Reported by BBC News 11 hours ago.
View ArticleBritons ready to welcome migrants from Bulgaria and Romania, poll finds
Ipsos Mori survey shows 72% of people aged 35-44 support rights of east European workers to live and work in UK Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the UK on New Year's Day will be welcomed by more than...
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Spins and back flips are all in a day's work for champion Katie
This is Devon -- East Devon is harbouring an unlikely talent. This year Katie Blundell from Woodbury won medals in the British Snowboard Championships, again. Fran McElhone meets her. Snowboarder...
View ArticleUK opposition to new EU green energy targets could risk 'half a million jobs'
Britain's demand to keep nuclear option open to reduce emissions will mean potential job losses, leaked report shows Over half a million new jobs over the next two decades could be at risk from the...
View ArticleFiat shares jump as it takes full control of Chrysler in $4.35bn deal
Chief executive Sergio Marchionne makes deal to buy remaining 41.5% of Chrysler, but Fiat's debt burden still causes concern Fiat shares jumped on Thursday after it struck a $4.35bn deal to gain full...
View ArticleGazprom Hits Record Gas Exports to Europe
Russian state-run gas giant Gazprom is exporting record volumes of gas to Europe and Turkey, with lower prices and colder weather boosting demand.After slumping in 2012, Gazprom Export volumes reached...
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We must support this mass fight for freedom
This is Somerset -- Academic Bert Bruins says Ukrainian protesters who want to join the EU deserve our support While scepticism of the European Union, (EU)and even talk of leaving it, are prevalent in...
View ArticleThe new car market winners and losers of 2013
2013 was a good year for the UK's new car sales. Jay Nagley looks at why and finds out who has made the most of a buoyant market When the final numbers for the 2013 UK car market come in, they are...
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Tata Steel looking to cut Scunthorpe workers' overtime
This is Scunthorpe -- ACTION has been taken by senior managers on the Tata Steel works in Scunthorpe after an employee survey called for more face-to-face communication. The survey was conducted...
View ArticleBarracuda by Christos Tsiolkas – review
Christos Tsiolkas's followup to his much-acclaimed hit The Slap is another startling, profound novel about modern Australia In his first novel since The Slap – which became an international bestseller,...
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