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<description><![CDATA[It's the 8th of the 8th of the 8th. So what does 8 mean?]]></description>
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<title>Maternal money</title>
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<title>Can aliens watch Doctor Who?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A TV company and a social networking site are broadcasting into space. But can aliens already see our TV?]]></description>
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<title>Tear jerker</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Johnny Cash, Bambi's mum - 80 more things that make men cry]]></description>
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<title>The 1908 Olympics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When bicycle polo and tug of war was quite the thing]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[A farmer whose business was at the centre of a bird flu outbreak is charged with breaching carcass disposal regulations.]]></description>
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<title>Fraud probe power staff suspended</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scottish Power says it has suspended three staff and one has resigned over alleged account irregularities.]]></description>
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<title>Health experts target young Scots</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Canadian expert brought in to help tackle Scotland's poor health record says he will focus on youngsters.]]></description>
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<title>One year to digital TV switchover</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TV viewers in Swansea will be the first in Wales to lose the traditional analogue signal in 12 months' time, it is announced.]]></description>
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<title>Cancer man dies after wedding day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 22-year-old student diagnosed with leukaemia has died two days after marrying his girlfriend.]]></description>
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<title>Energy dilemma: Cheap or green? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[When poverty and greenery collideTHE Camp for Climate Action--an annual gathering of anarchists and environmentalists--is fast becoming a summer fixture. Having protested outside Drax (a big coal-fired power plant) in 2006 and Heathrow airport in 2007, this year they are pitching tents in Kingsnorth, an industrial bit of Kent that is the proposed site of what would be the first new coal power station to be built in Britain for two decades. The protesters point out that coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel and argue that, given official pledges to cut carbon emissions, building new plants using it would be "stupid". Their ambition is to shut down the existing Kingsnorth station, which is also coal-fired, for a day. There have already been several arrests and clashes with the police (whom protesters accuse of harassment); more seem likely on August 9th, their officially designated "day of mass action". ...]]></description>
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<title>Catholics and Anglicans: Anyone for Schadenfreude? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[What Roman Catholics fear from an Anglican splitTHE Archbishop of Canterbury was not the only church leader to be thankful that the Lambeth conference ended with the Anglican Communion still in one piece. An almost audible sigh of relief could be heard from the Vatican."The last thing the pope would wish to do is support any kind of division," said Keith Pecklers, a Jesuit professor of Liturgy at the Gregorian University in Rome. That may seem odd. If the Church of England splits, Catholicism stands to gain new adherents. Traditionally minded Anglican priests and bishops--and, in some cases, most of their flocks--can be expected to defect to Rome.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Northern Rock: Of banks and men </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mortgage lender's cash call is an ominous sign for all British banksSTUDENTS of politics (and more than a few politicians) know only too well the old dictum about lies that are repeated often enough becoming truth. Those foolish enough to believe it should take a look at the sorry tale of Northern Rock, a troubled mortgage lender that failed last September when it ran out of cash. For almost a year afterwards Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, repeated, mantra-like, that this was a sound bank brought low by events from afar, and that taxpayers would get back every one of the billions of pounds they lent it. On August 5th Mr Darling was mugged by reality when Northern Rock came to him, cap in hand, again. This time the bank wanted help in shoring up its balance-sheet, which is crumbling thanks to a mortgage book that looks worse by the day. The government, which is still owed some GBP21 billion ($41 billion) by the hapless bank, has agreed to convert as much as GBP3 billion of the debt (as well as some GBP400m in preference shares) into ordinary shares. This urgent need for capital should make those who still think taxpayers will get all their money back think twice. So should those who dare to hope that Britain's banks have seen the worst of the credit crisis. ...]]></description>
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<title>Crossing the Thames: Flying cars </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trouble over bridging watersYOU would not expect Boris Johnson, London's newly elected Conservative mayor, to be popular in Newham, a poor east London borough and Labour stronghold that has become a byword for deprivation and poverty. Yet the shock-haired Mr Johnson will have won at least a few grudging admirers with his opposition to the Thames Gateway Bridge, a GBP455m ($890m), six-lane road bridge across the Thames that was championed by Ken Livingstone, his predecessor.East London has traditionally been poorly served by transport infrastructure. The prospect of hosting the Olympic games in 2012 (see article), and a wider plan to build tens of thousands of new homes on semi-derelict land around them, has finally focused minds on the problem. The bridge nearest the site--Tower Bridge--is several hundred metres upstream and unsuited to the new traffic that redevelopment will bring. Yet Mr Livingstone's big new bridge was unpopular with some residents, who complained that it would send more traffic thundering through their borough. Green groups, too, fretted that extra traffic would mean extra greenhouse gases.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Pensions accounting: Choose a number </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Silly accounting may be obscuring a black hole in pension fundsUNITED UTILITIES and Scottish and Southern Energy are similar in many respects. Both are energy utilities that supply electricity and gas. Both employ thousands and run huge pension funds. Yet when calculating the cost of those pensions, the similarities end. The two companies have chosen to use very different assumptions--and these choices have a big impact on the pension surplus or deficit on their balance-sheets. When discounting their eventual obligations (figuring out the cost today of paying pensions years in the future), United Utilities has used a rate of 6%, Scottish and Southern one of 6.9%. The difference may not seem much, but Lane Clark & Peacock, a firm of actuaries, reckons that Scottish and Southern's pension liabilities come out about GBP350m lower than if it had used United's rate--a material difference for a fund that in 2007 was GBP92m in the red. ...]]></description>
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<title>The Anglican Communion: The high price of togetherness </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The bishops got on fine for a while--but was it only a holiday romance? BY ITS own unusual lights, the Lambeth conference of Anglican bishops was a great success. Its self-imposed task was to avoid any nasty rows between 650 purple-clad gentlemen (and a few purple-clad ladies) who hold widely diverging views on issues which they see as matters of principle, not detail. And a "surprising level of sheer willingness to stay together" was finally reported, on August 3rd, by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury--after nearly three weeks of well-choreographed confraternity in which participants took no votes and made no firm decisions. (Such a luxury would hardly be possible for a body like, say, the International Telecommunication Union, where success is judged by earthly yardsticks.) Still, the Anglican leader's own standing as a mediator, doing his best to hold together the almost irreconcilable, rose as a result of the gathering. And in a very Anglican way, the thorny issues facing the church were artfully concealed by euphemism and arcane procedures that will unfold over several years. Minds were distracted from trickier subjects by a hyper-inclusive march against poverty.  ...]]></description>
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<title>The other Olympics: Passing the baton </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the Beijing games get under way, London prepares to play host in 2012. The economic downturn will make the next lap hard goingSKELETONS, unexploded bombs and a noxious smell greet visitors to the site in east London that will host the Olympic games four years from now. The site, which takes up about one square mile, once housed chemical factories, gasworks and other mucky industries; centuries-worth of reeking goo are now being removed from the soil by gigantic washing machines. Archaeologists have discovered Iron Age skeletons deeper down (under the Olympic swimming pools) and suspect the Knights Templar ran a water mill somewhere near the proposed velodrome.The awkwardness of the site, which 52 pylons, now buried, once criss-crossed, and the poverty of its surroundings were central to the appeal of getting the games for London. As well as generating national pride, the government was anxious to jazz up a poverty-stricken bit of the capital. "It was partly an emotional decision. When you take the Tube out there, life expectancy drops at every stop as you go further east," says a former aide to Tony Blair, the prime minister who approved the deal. ...]]></description>
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<title>BAE and the Saudi arms deal: Timid justice </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A ruling by the law lords ratifies one law for bullies and another for the restWITH the best of intentions justice is not always as blind as it should be. But seldom is it as downright astigmatic as it was on July 30th, when the law lords ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was entitled to submit to blackmail and drop its investigation, in December 2006, into alleged bribery in a Saudi Arabian arms deal. The SFO called off its gumshoes soon after they started circling the Swiss bank accounts of senior Saudi figures, and said figures squealed. At issue was whether bribes had been paid in relation to Britain's biggest-ever arms deal--a GBP43 billion contract between the governments of Britain and Saudi Arabia and BAE Systems, Britain's largest defence firm, to provide the desert kingdom with fighter jets and training. The SFO said it halted the investigation after receiving warnings from several sources that it could prompt Saudi Arabia to stop sharing anti-terrorist intelligence with Britain.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Political vacations: On the beach </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The leader at bay and at play"BUT where are their policies?", the prime minister yelped, as a graphic of the Conservatives' midsummer poll lead flashed across the television. His jowls creased with sorrow as one of his rivals appeared, professing his loyalty. An arm flexed to hurl the remote control at the screen--then "relax," he told himself, "relax". He flicked through the channels, searching for Scottish football or talent-show reruns. After breakfast he started work on his speech for the Labour Party conference in September. It would be the speech of his life, a speech that would unite his party, silence his rivals, make floating voters swoon and grown Tories weep. It would acknowledge the economic plight of hard-working families while reminding people that the real culprits were nefarious financiers, greedy oil moguls and hungry Asians. It would draw a perfect arc from his childhood in Kirkcaldy to the after-hours opening of doctors' surgeries.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Regulating booze: Roll out the barrel </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pubs are in trouble for cheap drinks. But ever more is being sunk at homeDRINK is curiously regulated in Britain. Licensing authorities can make very specific demands about the way booze is sold and served: some licensees are allowed to provide alcohol only with food, or admit only those aged over 25, for example. Rowdy bars are often ordered to install more tables and chairs, because people drink more slowly when they are seated. But when it comes to price, the most obvious determinant of consumption, the authorities usually give barmen fairly free rein. On slow nights, it is easy to find drinks on sale for less than GBP1; in some clubs, women can drink for free.Many Britons are now taking time off from worrying about the high cost of food and fuel to complain about the low cost of drink, which is blamed for teenage violence and adult ill-health. Publicans have played into their hands: on July 28th the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), a trade body, admitted that it had withdrawn its guidelines to members on "responsible promotions", citing legal advice that such guidance might breach competition rules. The Home Office had just published a report showing that in any case many establishments were flouting the code, which included a ban on things such as organised drinking games or "all you can drink" deals. The government is now contemplating a formal clampdown on such practices. ...]]></description>
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<title>Terrorism in Northern Ireland: Down but not out </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Republican dissidents still make life a miseryTELLING terrorist groups you think them dangerous is not a gambit security services favour--especially when the groups are small and unpopular. But as the anniversary approaches of the car bomb which killed 29 people in Omagh on August 15th 1998, police in Northern Ireland admit that they expect more attacks from republican paramilitaries who hate Belfast's power-sharing settlement. Sir Hugh Orde, the chief constable, says that the "dissidents" are now more dangerous than before because "it is their end-game".These republican splinter groups may attract little popular support but they are said to have about 80 people on tap to shoot or bomb--more than enough to cause misery. That estimate comes from a new MI5 base in Holywood, near Belfast, that has been responsible for gathering intelligence on the dissidents since the end of last year. In the ten years since Omagh, dissidents have caused a further ten deaths, several of them the result of internal republican feuding. Dozens of planned bombings have been foiled by their own bungles or by police intervention after tip-offs. But some dissidents, it seems, are now trying to import weaponry: two Irish nationals were arrested in Lithuania in January for allegedly attempting to buy guns and explosives. ...]]></description>
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<title>Housing market : When the tap turns off </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lending has slowed to a trickle. What can be done to change that?WOOLWICH is a down-at-heel working-class port in East London that teeters between gentrification and decay. To the right of the railway station are the money-wiring agencies, mobile-phone shops and African restaurants that identify this as an immigrant neighbourhood. To the left the high street leads to the river, and rows of smart new apartment blocks designed for bankers working in nearby Canary Wharf. The house-price bubble inflated here as fast as just about anywhere in the country. Get-rich-quick investors helped by crafting dubious schemes to get mortgages without paying a deposit and banks seemed happy to oblige them. Instead of making a quick pound, though, many buyers are now losing their shirts. Flats that they bought three years ago for GBP330,000 ($580,000 at the time) are back on the market for less than GBP200,000. One was sold at auction recently for just GBP115,000. In March (the most recent month for which data are available) the average outstanding mortgage in this neighbourhood was 91% of the value of the property it was secured on--the highest loan-to-value ratio in London and the third-highest in the country, reckons Experian, a credit-scoring outfit. With banks virtually on strike and loans approved only for those able to put up huge deposits, Woolwich is enduring a particularly hard landing. New flats in Thamesmead, downriver from Woolwich, are standing half-empty, the overgrown gardens filled with litter. ...]]></description>
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<title>Bagehot: ArmaGordon </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Are the stakes high enough to justify regicide?THE word "fascist" was whispered by some discomforted observers at last year's Labour Party conference: so triumphalist was the mood, so impregnable seemed the new prime minister, so confident his followers of smashing the Conservatives, snuffing out David Cameron and securing near-eternal power. That was then. The Labour conference this September will be a festival of existential angst--and thus, perhaps, of regicide.The political costs of deposing Gordon Brown so soon after Labour ditched Tony Blair would be huge. Almost all Labour MPs endorsed Mr Brown's accession; ousting him would make them look preposterous. His remaining allies point out, menacingly but fairly, that yet another prime minister with no personal mandate would probably feel obliged to hold a general election quickly. Thus a move against Mr Brown this autumn might necessitate a vote early next year--in the middle of an economic slump, with the party almost broke and Mr Cameron's Tories, in all likelihood, still 20-odd points up in the polls. That prospect makes sparing Mr Brown, at least until next summer, seem prudent. ...]]></description>
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<title>Housing market: Rent now, buy later </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prices may be tumbling, but rents are still risingBRITAIN is a nation divided by its citizens' attitudes to the housing market. Among investors, estate agents and homeowners with eye-watering mortgages the mood is gloomy: every piece of news about the rapidly deflating housing bubble (prices have fallen by 9% since last October) is pored over and lamented. Among the young and houseless, price falls are a cause for celebration, even if the logjam in the money markets means that at present only those with the fattest piggy-banks can take advantage of cheaper homes. But capital values are only one part of the housing story. Britain's private rental sector has grown enormously over the past five years, fuelled by a vogue for "buy-to-let" schemes that has promoted rental property as a safe, indeed highly profitable, investment. Half a million private landlords now control 2.5m homes, roughly an eighth of the total housing supply. The Association of Residential Letting Agents reckons that the value of rented homes, estimated at around GBP500 billion, exceeds the total value of all the commercial premises in Britain. And although falling capital values will hurt landlords, their gloom is brightened somewhat by the fact that there is plenty of business, and rents are still rising.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Teaching economics: A vanishing breed </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The dwindling number of those training to teach economics in secondary schools is less worrying than it seemsIN EARLY July Edinburgh belatedly erected a statue, complete with semi-invisible hand, to Adam Smith, thus granting one of the fathers of economics, and Scotland's most meritorious son, long-overdue recognition. Yet there is a good chance that the statue will garner as many glances of blank indifference as of knowing admiration--at least from Britain's younger citizens.According to a report this week from the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, only three of the 16,440 graduates who began training as secondary-school teachers in England last year enrolled to teach economics. In 2006, by comparison, 84 graduates signed up to do so. Not unrelatedly, perhaps, the number of students studying A-level economics has fallen by 29% over the past decade, even though total A-level entries have risen by 9%. ...]]></description>
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<title>The race to succeed Gordon Brown: Under starter?s orders </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The job of prime minister is not yet vacant, but hopefuls are alertTHE poetry of Alfred Tennyson is the kind of thing Gordon Brown, perhaps Britain's most literate prime minister since Winston Churchill, takes with him on the reading marathons he calls holidays. Yet even Mr Brown, now on his summer break in East Anglia (see article), will struggle to enjoy the Victorian poet laureate's observation that "authority forgets a dying king". For it hits too close to home.Mr Brown, who replaced Tony Blair as prime minister only 13 months ago, may soon be toppled by colleagues who have lost confidence in his ill-starred premiership. On July 24th his party suffered a by-election defeat in Glasgow East, hitherto one of Labour's safest seats. It was the latest of many proofs of Mr Brown's unpopularity, following by-election routs elsewhere, an abysmal showing at May's local elections, the loss of London's mayoralty to a Conservative and months of opinion polls that put the Tories up to 20 percentage points ahead of Labour.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Welfare reform: Evolution, not revolution </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Promising changes to out-of-work benefits, though not radical onesFEW causes animate Gordon Brown more than getting more Britons into jobs. A notorious workaholic, he often extols the dignity of labour. His efforts in government go back to the portentously titled New Deal, a workfare scheme for young people he started as chancellor in 1998. But the launch of a new round of welfare reform on July 21st by James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, is a tacit admission that Labour has achieved too little in its decade of power. True, the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance (JSA), the main unemployment benefit, has roughly halved since 1997. But the decline was steeper towards the end of the last Conservative government and the number of those claiming incapacity benefit (IB), the benefit for those unable to work, has remained broadly steady at 2.5m. ...]]></description>
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<title>Monetary policy: A warning vote </title>
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<description><![CDATA[If interest rates move, the direction will be up rather than downAS THE economy stumbles and inflation surges, the Bank of England's rate-setters face a predicament. Should they cut interest rates to help ward off a severe downturn? Or should they raise rates in an effort to tame inflation? The obvious response to such a dilemma is to stay put and that is exactly what the central bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) did when it met on July 10th. For the third consecutive month, the MPC kept the base rate at 5.0%.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Gordon Brown in Israel: A revealing visit </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The prime minister balances heart with head in his foreign policyGORDON BROWN is not a naturally emotive politician. That habitual reserve made this week's visit to Israel striking and intriguing. It featured an address to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on July 21st--the first by a prime minister of the old mandate-era power.Mr Brown said that his father, a minister in the Church of Scotland, had a deep affection for Israel, which he visited frequently as chairman of the church's Israel committee. Brown senior would show his son films he had taken on those trips. "I will never forget those early images of your home in my home", said Mr Brown, adding that "for the whole of my life, I have counted myself a friend of Israel". With a liberal admixture of biblical allusions, he talked about an "ancient promise redeemed" in Israel's foundation, and its "unbreakable partnership" with Britain. ...]]></description>
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