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Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silenceSeveral times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in (Read More)
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It was two days after the heaviest rainfall in British history and with more rain starting to fall some residents of Cockermouth were only just being rescued from their homes. Many were glad simply to have survived. Others we (Read More)
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A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to RomeThe rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish (Read More)
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Changing rainfall patterns are redrawing the weather mapA farmer pulled me up on the lane approaching my village last week. We always stop to talk about the weather. I've written a book about it and he has a long memory. "Fea (Read More)
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How did fur, once taboo, become so acceptable – desirable even – again? Elizabeth Day investigates an ethical dilemma that goes to the heart of the fashion industry – and meets the animal rights campaigner who refuses to be d (Read More)
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Emile Heskey headed his first goal since April to produce the first drawn game here this season as Aston Villa fought back after a dire first-half performance, in atrocious weather conditions, to cancel out Steven Caldwell's (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg w (Read More)
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While Vestas, Siemens, Suzlon and other leading brands in wind energy develop ever larger turbines, UK manufacturers have spotted a niche in small mills supplying just a few houses. (Read More)
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Have your say on all of the day's big stories, be sure to post your favourite links and also follow us on Twitter8.40am: Good morning and welcome to our daily sports news blog. You're probably familiar with the concept by now (Read More)
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• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group• Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasingBritain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon econ (Read More)
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With rain forecast for much of the country this weekend, we recommend 10 indoor attractions across the UK1. City of Caves, NottinghamDeep under Nottingham city runs a fascinating network of Anglo-Saxon sandstone caves. Visit (Read More)
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Whether playing, training, warming up, warming down or simply travelling, the English sportsman is an accident waiting to happenAre the English the world's most injury‑prone people? Certainly the recent plague of afflictions (Read More)
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• England's Kiwi-born hooker ready to make No2 shirt his own• 'All Blacks see me as an Englishman. I'm happy with that'You can take the boy out of Rotorua but there are limits. As Dylan Hartley contemplates a reunion with his (Read More)
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Martin Johnson's team were never going to overwhelm Argentina so any win against New Zealand would do very nicelySorry, but I'm mystified at the fuss. What did people expect? England, minus a hatful of first-choice players, l (Read More)
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From as far back as discovery of fire, science has made us anxious. We must harness fear's power, not be consumed by itNo sooner was it announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear R (Read More)
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Forecasters warn of further rainfall as schools and roads closed due to floodingMore than one and a half inches of rain fell on a Cumbrian village in 12 hours as rainstorms and gale force winds battered the north overnight.He (Read More)
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Anonymous £2.5m donation paves the way for a major new children's attraction, due to open in 2014From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's (Read More)
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Response from 88-year-old war veteran shoots down attempt to discredit letter published in Newsweek in support of Al GoreFor those of you who have not yet stumbled across his oeuvre before, James Delingpole does a nice turn (Read More)