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Police watched the plot unfold, then pounced

France Telecom's Orange and T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom confirmed they were in

Orange and T-Mobile want to hook up new

The tie-up would cover 1 in 3 of the UK's mobile phones.

Combined phone firms would lead UK market

Seventy years on, we are still appeasing dictators

Dominic Lawson: In dealing with Libya the Foreign Office has been guilty of institutional cringe

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The trio guilty of plotting Britain's 9/11

Three British Muslims convicted of plan to blow up transatlantic airliners that could have been deadlier than the twin tower attacks

Lubna Hussein leaves court in Khartoum yesterday wearing the same trousers that got her arrested

Sudanese woman guilty of daring to wear trousers

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Jeremy Helan, 17, signed for Manchester City from Rennes in February this year

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Doctors urge total ban on alcohol adverts new

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Chimp infants know when to turn off tears

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'Nothing is useless to the columnist... an elephantine memory helps': Waterhouse at home in London in 1988

Keith Waterhouse: Celebrated columnist and writer best known for 'Billy Liar' and 'Jeffrey Barnard Is Unwell'

The last of the 2000-plus articles that Keith Waterhouse wrote for the Daily Mail was published just a month ago. Appropriately enough, it celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Billy Liar, his hilarious and engaging novel that became a hit play, a film, a musical and a television series. Although his principal profession and passion was journalism – and nobody did it better – it is for Billy Liar that he is likely to be longest remembered.