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Australian-born British artist Ron Mueck makes creepy-looking and realistic human figures. ------------------------------------------------ Ron Mueck: bigger than Monet? (Filed: 15/08/2006) The startlingly realistic figures in Ron Mueck's first Scottish exhibition are drawing huge crowds...

The Times August 15, 2006 Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent People who behave suspiciously or have a certain ethinic or religious background - usually it'll be Muslims - will be profiled at airports. THE Government is...

Chirac's baguette diplomacy By Jackson Murphy web posted August 14, 2006 Paris, France - - Britain's real James Bonds at MI5 foiled the biggest terrorist threat since 9/11 last Thursday, causing a day of airline chaos, tough new air travel restrictions, and took the focus of the world's...

Girl's Windfall For Lump Of Whale Sick Saturday August 12 A 10-year-old girl is to pick up a big reward after finding a lump of whale sick on a beach. Melissa Cathcart was beachcombing on holiday in north Wales when she came across the massive lump of yellow vomit. And she is set to pocket...

14 August 2006 KAY GAG IS TV'S BEST EVER ONE-LINER By Nicola Methven, Tv Editor Bolton funnyman Peter Kay PETER Kay's "Garlic bread.. it's the future, I've tasted it" has been voted best one-liner in TV comedy history. The phrase, uttered by wheelchair-bound nightclub owner Brian Potter...

'Fascistic' is the right word for Islamic fundamentalism By Janet Daley The Telegraph The anti-war-on-terror lobby has had a bad week. Not that it hasn't kept its end up. Oh no. Faced with a threat so devastating that it seemed more like a world-domination plot from a Superman comic than a...

Terror police target 70 'plots' By John Steele, Toby Helm and David Derbyshire More than 70 anti-terrorist investigations involving over 100 suspected Islamic extremists are under way in Britain in an operation unmatched even at the height of the IRA's mainland campaign. Wish we...

The Times August 14, 2006 You havin' a laugh? The hunt for British humour By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent "I have a cunning plan" : British humour and comedy is the best in the world ARE Cockneys really funnier than Scousers, and can the Welsh make jokes as well as being the...

Lance Corporal Sean Tansey killed in Afghanistan 12 Aug 06 It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Lance Corporal Sean Tansey from The Life Guards in an accident in Afghanistan on the afternoon of Saturday 12 August 2006. Lance Corporal Sean Tansey of...

The Falklands are becoming a holiday hotspot for travellers from Britain Cold, windy... and taking bookings now By Jasper Copping (Filed: 13/08/2006) It is bitingly cold, horribly windy, and the sheep outnumber the people by 240 to one. But the Falkland Islands are bidding to become a...

British troops 'in worst fighting since Korea' By Kim Sengupta Published: 11 August 2006 British soldiers in Afghanistan are engaged in the most intense conflict faced by the UK since the Korean War, according to the Nato commander in the country. The comments by Lieutenant General...

The Sunday Times August 13, 2006 Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized David Leppard SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week’s anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda’s leader in this country. Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of...

Britain appears ready to lurch nearer toward withdrawing from the European Union. Future leaders of both majority parties are Euroskeptics. The EU wouldn’t fare better with the minority parties: In a recent election for the seat in Bromley, Labor didn’t just lose the election, it placed...

How Americans can learn from the British when it comes to capturing terror plotters- They thought the British were a soft target....they were wrong. 'Mass Murder' Foiled A terror plot is exposed by the policies many American liberals oppose. Friday, August 11, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT This...

The BBC and Home-Grown Terrorists By James Lewis The British Empire - the greatest civilizing agent in the world for centuries, and something billions of people today should be thankful for. More than twenty people have been arrested in Britain in a plot to kill thousands of innocent air...

Elmbridge - dubbed the Beverly Hills of Surrey - offers the highest quality of life in Britain, according to a survey. Nearly all of the highest ranked places are in the South of England, and places in Scotland and Wales all rank low. The highest ranked Scottish place is the Shetlands...

About awoni County Durham's A Woman of No Importance Marc Oliver: Voice of the group and guitar/glock player. Matthew Weaver: Co-voice and guitar/wineglasses/melody harp/button melodian player. Rye Smith: Bassist and clapping percussion. Andrew Weaver: Drums and percussion. Clare...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER BURNT BODY IN ROMAN OVEN AT SEDGEFORD By Caroline Lewis 11/08/2006 The skeleton in situ. © Naomi Payne Archaeologists have found some unusual burnt remains in a Roman corn-drying oven at Sedgeford in Norfolk: human remains. The mysterious burnt body was...

'Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban' becomes honorary druid By CHRIS BROOKE 11th August 2006 "Mad Mullah" Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom becomes an honorary druid. Brunstrom, of North Wales police (officially the worst police force in England and Wales) earned his nickname for his...

It's those damn Scots again.... MP blames 'in-breeding' for rising diabetes in constituency By ANDREW LEVY 10th August 2006 Dr Ian Gibson MP has blamed "in-breeding" for the rising rate of diabetes in his constituency (another Scotsman running an ENGLISH constitutency) A leading...