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"I'm not going to do ANYTHING for you"
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Dish of the Day: Could new brews win over craft beer drinkers?
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Nadine Dorries's new business: an engineering consultancy that has become a media consultancy
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Health Diary: It’s a team effort
Jo wasn’t fazed at the thought of mopping up a stranger’s urine, congealed blood, or the idea of cleaning a toilet where someone had spent the night vomiting down it.
By Chris Geiger | Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 3:46 pm
Cricket is the new football. Well, it is to me…
After more than 40 years of following football to the exclusion of every other sport, I’m turning my attention to cricket.
‘New No Age, listen now!’
Listen to the first single from the noisy LA duo’s new album ‘Everything in Between’.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 3:26 pm
Hitchens, Wyclef, Jackass 3D and more
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By Gillian Orr | Digital Digest, Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 2:10 pm
Germany vs England: The misappliance of science
Remember when we were beaten by Germany at the World Cup? Yeah, you do, we got spanked like naughty children. There was something about it in the papers the day after, I think.
Anyway, apparently, ze Germans are claiming that they didn’t beat us just by being better than us – they won with science. According [...]
By Tom Mendelsohn | Sport | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 1:35 pm
Rugby League: Last weekend, we got the Cup Final we wanted and the Semi-final we needed
With all due respect to the fans of St Helens and the Catalan Dragons, Leeds v Warrington is pretty much a perfect Wembley and a nailed-on full house. Astonishingly, the two clubs haven’t met each other in a major final since 1936, so there is little chance of ennui setting in.
The Leeds v Saints semi [...]
By Dave Hadfield | Sport | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 11:22 am
Real history: Memory of a dog fight over Dartmoor
In response to The Independent Online’s The Battle of Britain: an appeal for real history campaign – a bid to obtain a glimpse of real history from readers (or their relatives) who were there – Rosemary Rhodes submitted a memory of a dog fight over Dartmoor.
I was born in Nov 1938, so I was pretty [...]
By Matilda Battersby | Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 10:25 am
Real history: A Battle of Britain medals injustice?
In response to The Independent Online’s The Battle of Britain: an appeal for real history campaign – a bid to obtain a glimpse of real history from readers (or their relatives) who were there – author of ‘Convoy Peewit’ Andy Saunders wrote in with an examination of possible injustices in the awarding of the coveted [...]
By Matilda Battersby | Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 10:10 am
Catch-Up Service
While I was away. Alastair Campbell’s sister and some unusual red-coloured diamonds. Last week the Daily Mail led its front page every day on the problem of eating the same cow twice. And it is less likely that it will be Charles Kennedy who leads the Continuing Lib Dems out of the coalition.
More catching up [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 9:49 am
3D or not 3D for Nintendo’s latest handheld?
Nintendo’s latest handheld delivers the clarity and depth you have come to expect from 3D cinema experiences but – thanks to some technical wizardry – without the need for 3D goggles; amazing yet true.
By Michael Plant | Games, Notebook | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 9:44 am
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