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Emma Tennant: Tying the knot after 33 years

Emma Tennant explains why she and her partner have decided to marry after more than three decades together

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Strike threatens UK oil supplies

Planned industrial action by refinery workers in Grangemouth could lead to fuel shortages

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Catherine Bennett: Clever women must be mad to seek power in this country

Catherine Bennett: With the excessive focus on the looks of female politicians, no wonder Westminster is run by men

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Our diaspora may sing the songs but they don't yearn for home

Ruaridh Nicoll: It shouldn't come as a surprise that so few expatriates share Scotland's prevalent political outlook

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Ramblers ruin right-to-roam's landmark site

The Peak District's bleak beauty is under threat of erosion - partly caused by its popularity. Caroline Davies reports

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Thousands join the queue to be on X Factor

An estimated 10,000 people queued for the latest series of ITV's talent show The X Factor

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Cranford dames vie for glory in Baftas battle

Costume drama Cranford and star Judi Dench expected to dominate TV Baftas

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Chinese in Manchester protest over BBC 'bias' on Tibet and Olympics

Demonstrators read an open letter to the broadcaster, accusing it of 'tarnishing and demonising China'

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How Gordon got Emma to the altar...33 years late

Spurred on by new inheritance tax laws, feminist author ties the knot with her long-term partner

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'Mortgage holidays' for hard-up homeowners

Those facing the threat of repossession could be offered breathing space from their payments

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TUC leader slams Brown over 10p rate

Tax changes show that the Prime Minister has been 'lured by siren voices of the rich'

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Frankly, audiences don't give a damn

Costly musical stage version of Gone With The Wind, due to premiere in London this week, is beset by teething troubles

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Is chimp with a message just apeing Banksy?

New images purportedly supporting Ken Livingstone's mayoral campaign have sparked a whodunnit mystery

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Something new has just arrived at Knock airport. It's called security

The Gardai force has been made full-time, plugging one of the final gaps in the defence against drugs mules and terrorists

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Adolescents Have Better Mental Health When They Express Ethnic Identity In Clothing

"When young people dress according to the customs of their own ethnic group, they may be less likely to have mental health problems later in life, according to research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, a BMJ Specialist journal."

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The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It - Triviagasm - io9.com

The London Science Museum (UK) finally completed work on the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage, currently traveling to the Computer History Museum in San Francisco.

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Preview: Wireless 2008

For a brief moment earlier in the week, as it looked like summer was slowly creeping up on us, our minds wandered to the summer festival season, especially this Londonista’s favourite inner-city festival, the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. The headliners for this year have been…

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Point/Counterpoint - Vox

too drunk to notice :)

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Life in London captured digitally | BBC News

"a snapshot of London is taken every five seconds from the banks of the River Thames" by a bank of digital cameras<sep/>

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