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Date:
11-06-2010
Author:
Naomi Carle
This week, the first of the dozen funerals which must take place to bury Derrick Bird's victims provided a focus for a grieving Cumbrian community, still raw from the shock of last week's tragic events...
Date:
08-01-2010
Author:
Naomi Carle
We love to crown kings. This week alone, cricketer Graeme Swann was hailed as England's 'spin-king saviour', a posthumous 75th birthday bash was thrown for Elvis Presley - the king of rock 'n' roll - on the lawns of Graceland, and, as his latest film Avatar amassed record box office receipts, speculation mounted that Titanic Director James Cameron ...
Date:
27-11-2009
Author:
Ben Care
Bernard Cribbins, familiar to generations of children as the voice of Jackanory and the Wombles, receives a special award at the Children's Baftas this weekend. Interviewed recently, he was asked the secret to good storytelling...
Date:
13-11-2009
Author:
Nigel Hopper
I would imagine that for those personally affected by the horrors and suffering of war, every day brings remembrance of lives lost in, or lacerated by, conflict. No reminder is necessary. For the rest of us, though, the institution and observance of a special day of remembrance is a right and necessary declaration of our determination to remember.....
Date:
25-09-2009
Author:
Ben Care
With a backlash on his healthcare policies; accusations of aloofness, weakness and ineffectual leadership; protest marches in the street; and comments about dorky jeans, America's disillusionment with Barack Obama is starting to gain momentum. But wasn't it inevitable?
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