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Government to break up the banks

Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock will be broken up and parts of their businesses sold off to create three new banks, it emerged last night.

Man on a mission: 'When parents keep feeding kids inappropriate food, that's child abuse,' says Oliver

Jamie Oliver takes on America's fast-food culture

But can the most unhealthy town in the US stomach his anti-obesity drive?

When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

Alaa Al-Aswany: Somalia is in the grip of famine and chaos but officials there are inspecting bras.

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Hit & Run: Find a branch near you

The Met Office has declared that this autumn is officially an Indian summer, predicting balmy temperatures of 21C in the South-east and Midlands tomorrow. What better way to celebrate the arrival of "summer" – and save some money during half-term – than with some leaf peeping?

Written by playwright Alan Bleasdale as a sequel to the television play "The Black Stuff", the series Boys from the Blackstuff followed five unemployed tarmac layers in Liverpool, with each of its five episodes focusing on one of the group. Hailed as television's best dramatic response to the Thatcher era, it was seen as a nostalgic farewell to a particular male working-class British culture

Can TV be radical again?

As a BFI season examines the golden era of political television, Gerard Gilbert meets some of the talents who made it, and asks where the cutting edge is today

Ministers told diploma adverts are 'misleading'

Ministers have been ordered to withdraw adverts for their flagship diploma qualifications after advertising watchdogs ruled they were misleading.

Facebook 'to keep profiles of the dead'

Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes.

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Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities

Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom.

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Found: the giant sea monster that was armed to the teeth

A prehistoric sea monster with gigantic jaws that could swallow a man whole and snap a car in half has been unearthed by an amateur fossil hunter at the foot of a cliff on the Jurassic Coast of southern England.

'He worked towards the awakening and liberation of man': Alexandrian pictured in 2000

Sarane Alexandrian: French art historian, poet and right-hand man to Andr� Breton

Sarane Alexandrian was a French art historian and poet, author of more than 50 books, the majority of which focused on the Surrealist movement.


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