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Cameron: we need to get a grip

Andrew Grice: David Cameron has warned his top team over the Conservatives' dip in the opinion polls which threatens to deprive the party of an overall majority at the general election.

Home and dry: An Airside Operations employee marshals a plane into its landing slot

On runway patrol: How safe is take-off?

Tim Walker meets Heathrow's runway patrol - the people who have some of the toughest jobs in aviation.

'Tidal wave' of business failure feared

The Government faces "ticking bomb" of company closures and job losses when a tax scheme is wound up.

Sledgers pass the Capitol yesterday after a huge blizzard dumped 20 inches of snow onWashington

Washington frolics in 'snowmageddon'

The US capital gets a fairyland snowfall - and a monster snowball fight blocks from the White House.

'It's tricky to find men when you're living under a fatwa'

Right-wing circles are transfixed by the relationship between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and historian Niall Ferguson.

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Ian Carmichael: Actor who played likeable toffs in golden age of British comedy

A career which began with a performance as a robot in the experimental RUR at the People's Palace, Mile End, followed by Julius Caesar on what was then the London "fringe" at the Embassy Theatre (both 1939) looked as if it was heading in distinctly unorthodox directions.


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