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UK News from Times Online
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UK News from Times Online
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Comment: Lucian Freud's early works show familiar taste for the ugly
Though his official biographer tends to deny it, there is a very noticeable
gap between Lucian Freud's present style and the way he painted at the
outset of his phenomenal career.
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Tariq Ghaffur goes public with racism claims, laying bare civil war at Met Police
After months of backbiting and backstabbing, the civil war at the top of
Scotland Yard became a very public affair today.
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Devout Muslim guilty of making boys beat themselves during Shia ceremony
A Muslim was found guilty of child cruelty yesterday for forcing two boys to
beat themselves with a bladed whip during a religious ceremony.
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Grant Wilkinson guilty of running one of UK's biggest ever gun factories
A gunsmith who set up a factory in his garden shed to make murder weapons for
gangland Britain will be sentenced to a long term in prison today.
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Investigators prepare to search mansion for missing millionaire and his family
Investigators are preparing to trawl through rubble and blackened timbers to
search for the bodies of a millionaire and his family as the final embers
from the blaze at their home are damped down.
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World health inequalities: ten of the worst
1. In Australia, Aboriginal men live an average of 59.4 years - over 15 years
less than the average Australian male at 76.6 years. Aboriginal women live
64.8 years on average, while the overall female life expectancy is 82 years
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Grant Wilkinson sentenced to life for running UK's biggest gun factory
A gunsmith who set up a factory in his garden shed to make murder weapons for
gangland Britain was jailed for life today and will serve a minimum of 11
years in prison.
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Mick Channon injured in car crash
Mick Channon, the former England footballer turned racehorse trainer, is
recovering in hospital following a car crash on the M1 yesterday.
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Report exposes postcode lottery of life and death in UK
People living in deprived areas of the UK are likely to die decades earlier
than their counterparts in more affluent areas, according to a new report
which reveals a postcode lottery in life expectancy.
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Four months to save £300m masterpieces by Renaissance master Titian
In
Depth: Nervous curators fear for art | Comment:
Jewels that rank among greatest treasures | Comment:
Nation much seize bargain
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Nation must grab this bargain by a sensual master
To the wider public Titian himself is not as widely known nor does he seem
quite as accessible as some of the other painters who have fetched high
prices in the saleroom in recent years. He is not a Matisse or a Van Gogh.
And his mythological subject matter, no matter how sensual its treatment may
seem, can look somewhat remote from us.
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Farmers count the cost as rain ruins wheat harvest
Thousands of farmers across Britain fear that they could experience the worst
harvest in years after this month's relentless rainfall.
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Nervous curators fear for art as duke calls in his loan
The moment that every museum chief most dreads came to John Leighton late last
year.
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Jewels that rank among the greatest treasures
An imminent sale of important pictures rarely makes me gasp. I suppose I am
immune to it. However, the news that the Sutherland Trustees are selling
both their great Titians is certainly alarming. They have been on loan to
the National Gallery of Scotland since 1945 and have been in Britain since
1798. As far as big fish are concerned these two pictures must constitute
the biggest left in private hands, positive leviathans in a dwindling stock
pool.
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French call for help in taming British speed fiends
British motorists have become a safety menace on France's roads, regularly
flouting the speed limits after crossing the Channel, French police say.
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British claim to Ascension seabed raises the stakes over quest for Falklands oil
Britain laid territorial claim to a swath of seabed around Ascension Island in
the remote South Atlantic yesterday, in a move that threatens a replay of
the Falklands conflict with Argentina.
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Plastic surgery for bullied girls
A plastic surgeon reshaped the nose of a 14-year-old girl who was being
bullied and gave breast implants to other girls who had been teased about
their appearance, it emerged yesterday.
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Deafness breakthrough as doctor grows critical cell type
The search for new therapies for deafness has taken a significant step forward
after scientists successfully grew a critical type of ear cell in mammals
for the first time.
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Businessman Christopher Foster and family missing after ‘arson attack’
Christopher Foster, a wealthy businessman, appeared to enjoy an idyllic
lifestyle with his wife and teenage daughter at their Georgian mansion deep
in the Shropshire commuter belt. But investigators were preparing last night
to trawl through rubble and blackened timbers in a search for their bodies,
after their £1.2 million home was gutted in a suspected arson attack.
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Case study: ‘All because of greed’
The parents of Michael Dosunmu, 15, who was killed with one of Grant
Wilkinson’s weapons in a case of mistaken identity, said that the gunmaker
had their son’s blood on his conscience.
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