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Presidential candidate John McCain and staff use mobiles on a plane
'I'm on the plane... the PLANE'
When passengers can yap into their mobiles in the air, plane travel will be even worse, says Clive James.


Felix Dennis The need to share a dark secret
Felix Dennis has retracted his "confession" but why do people suddenly own up to murder years later?

Louis and lion In for the kill
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