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Outward Bound: Oh, the joys of cold water and exercise
The Outward Bound Trust will celebrate its 70th anniversary by asking former students to share their experiences.
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Minor British Institutions: The pit bull cross
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Strictly speaking, the American pit bull terrier isn't a proper breed, and strictly speaking the pit bull terrier is also illegal under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Hence the development of the semi-illegal pit bull cross.
Digital dumping on the rise
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Breaking up online is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking web sites to break up with their partners.
Bringing up a child tops £200,000, if you're lucky...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Richard Garner: Cost soars by 43 per cent in seven years, and is now highest during the university years.
Pests set to survive cold but their predators suffer
Monday, 22 February 2010
Garden pests are expected to be among the big winners of winter as their predators are killed off by the freezing conditions.
Hair up, heels on, frock zipped... Go!
Sunday, 21 February 2010
A Slice of Britain: Frenetic, kinetic, absurd. The world behind the scenes of designer Kinder Aggugini's show.
A root-and-branch inquiry: Inside the deep-digging, money-spinning, web-crawling world of family trees
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Thanks to the internet, we have become a nation of amateur genealogists: last year, 20 million of us went online to learn more about our family trees. And it's an addictive habit. Just ask David Randall, who began researching his clan a few months ago — now he thinks he may be close to solving the mystery of his great-uncle Sidney...
Minor British Institutions: The Trollope Society
Saturday, 20 February 2010
It is a fair bet that the vast majority of the British population has never picked up a Trollope – one of the 19th-century novelist's works that is, not a tart. Even for those who made the excursion into Barsetshire and got to know the Pallisers, Anthony Trollope will for ever be under the shadow of his contemporary Charles Dickens.
Britain set for a bumper bloom – when the bad weather ends
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Botanists blame arctic conditions for delayed start to spring
When the locals bought their local
Monday, 15 February 2010
Jerome Taylor: The Star Inn in Salford was to close - so its customers decided to step in.
What John Terry's reunion with his wife says about Britain
Sunday, 14 February 2010
A Slice of Britain: Another week, another round of footballers and their pathetic excesses dominating the headlines. But it is a keenly contested game where PR gurus can be the key players.
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1 Oh, the joys of cold water and exercise
2 MI5 can't be trusted to tell truth, senior judge suggested
3 Ed Miliband becomes target of hackers bent on embarrassing politicians
4 Ashcroft's election war-chest targets marginals
6 Iceland secretly pressured US to defend it against British 'bullying'
7 Visiting time: Charles Bronson invites us into his cell
8 Why the real Alan Sugar hates to fire his employees
11 'Ashcroft money' casts long shadow over rivals
12 Horatio Nelson's lost love letters are unearthed
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