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Ageing: et tu, Carla Bruni?
Posted on March 16, 2010
Pity poor Carla Bruni. When she swept Nicolas Sarkozy off his dainty little feet, she probably had no idea quite how far into the public consciousness their romance would pitch her.
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Andrée Peel
Posted on March 10, 2010
Andrée Peel, who died on March 5 aged 105, was a much-decorated heroine of the French Resistance; known as Agent Rose, she helped dozens of British and American pilots escape from occupied Europe and only escaped death at the hands of the Nazis by the skin of her teeth.
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Sir Ben Kingsley: 'I was blessed by being a very popular child
Posted on March 7, 2010
Here's a pub-quiz question: which one-time TV actor in Coronation Street and Crown Court released a record on which he sang selections from The King and I with Julie Andrews, before being told by two of the Beatles that he should really take up a musical career?
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Former Labour leader Michael Foot dies
Posted on March 3, 2010
Labour party leader between 1980 and 1983 dies aged 96
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    David Morrissey's love letter to Liverpool
    Posted on March 3, 2010
    From Crosby beach to a big match at Anfield, actor David Morrissey takes Amy Raphael on a tour of his hometown – and explains why it has inspired him to direct a new film
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    Michael Winner: Big mouth strikes again
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    He usually arrives at restaurants in a private jet. What will Michael Winner make of the Golden Arches? Deborah Ross treats him
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    Richard Hamilton: Altered images
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    Richard Hamilton's manipulations of news photographs show just how tricky taking a moral stance in art can be, says Tom Lubbock
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    Ysolda Teague: Self-taught Scot has designs on world domination as she knits her way to fame
    Posted on February 27, 2010
    At the age of only 24, a self-taught Scot has become something of a rock star in the colourful world of knitting.Working from her flat in Edinburgh, amid beautifully composed arrangements of wool and buttons, Ysolda Teague cannot produce designs quickly enough for her fans to knit.
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    The British PoW who broke into Auschwitz — and survived
    Posted on February 26, 2010
    Denis Avey, even at the age of 91, cuts a formidable figure. More than 6ft tall, with a severe short back and sides and a piercing glare, he combines the pan-ache of Errol Flynn with the dignity of age. This is the former Desert Rat, who, in 1944, broke into — yes, into — Auschwitz, and he looks exactly as I expected. He removes his monocle for the camera, and one of his pupils slips sideways before realigning. It is a glass eye. I ask him about it. He tells me that in 1944, he cursed an SS officer who was beating a Jew in the camp. He received a blow with a pistol butt and his eye was knocked in.
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    • Alfred Gregory obituary
    Posted on February 11, 2010
    A former major in the Black Watch, the photographer with the team that made the first ascent of Everest in May 1953, and one of the stalwarts of that expedition, friendly with and respected by most of the climbing heroes of my youth, he was, in his diffident and self-effacing way, one of the crucial elders of the mountaineering tribe
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    Peter Calvocoressi obituary
    Posted on February 9, 2010
    Peter Calvocoressi, who has died aged 97, was best known as an Ultra intelligence analyst at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre in Buckinghamshire during the second world war, but this episode represented only four years in a long career with many different aspects. ­International affairs was an abiding interest.
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    OBITUARIES
    Posted on February 8, 2010
    Sir John Dankworth
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    J.D. Salinger, reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, dies aged 91
    Posted on January 29, 2010
    J. D. Salinger, the reclusive literary giant whose novel The Catcher in the Rye gave voice to the angst and despair of generations of adolescents, died at his US home yesterday. He was 91.
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    • Batten down the hatches. Augmented reality is on its way
    Posted on January 18, 2010
    Charlie Brooker: Who wants to see poor people? Soon, technology will allow us to airbrush them out
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    A Homemade Homeless Shelter
    Posted on January 15, 2010
    Video: Dan de Vaul has taken in dozens of homeless people by building ramshackle, illegal housing on his ranch in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Some see him as a good Samaritan, but others consider the ranch to be a dangerous eyesore.
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