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Sunday, 14 December 2008
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News
UK
- Bride thrown from horse-drawn carriage
- Ryanair chief outlines bid details
- Flood victims hope dry spell holds
- Call to 'Lift cancer patients out of fuel poverty'
- Veteran to take MoD protest to Parliament
- Fire rips through food firm
- 'Rabies' patient in hospital
- Bearskin caps are no laughing matter, says Gervais
- Home Office to deport Zimbabwean family who fled Mugabe's regime
- Why jurors were told to reject 'unlawful' verdict
- De Menezes family wants commanding officer sacked
- Blair 'was secret Catholic while at No 10'
- Labour cuts Tories' poll lead to a single point
- Daughter keeps alive memory of mother murdered for 'honour'
- The 50 Most Ludicrous Britons - Cast your vote
- The 50 most ludicrous Britons 2008
- Driver dies as rain and wind bring parts of Britain to a standstill
World
- Barclays take their ball away
- Greek concessions fail to stop the riots
- Women want to storm the Cresta run
- White House U-turn over car firm bailout
- Rich investors 'wiped out' by Wall Street fraud
- Maliki takes revenge over new mandate
- 'Forced marriage' doctor freed by courts
- Brown calls for anti-terror pact with Pakistan
- UK Police want to 'quiz Mumbai terror suspect'
- Newlywed among soldiers killed by suicide bomber in Afghanistan
- The IoS Christmas Appeal: The brutal reality of family life in Zimbabwe
- Eat a camel and save the planet, Australians are told
White House
Business
- Zilli is serious: luxury clothes defy the downturn
- Chamonix courts buyers as it puts Mettis Aerospace on sale for £70m
- Goldman faces $2bn loss – its first since 1929
- Beer peer calls for Bank to get its powers back to restore trust
- Funds target struggling firms
- Sale of Jarvis was 'only 10 days away' when bidder withdrew its offer
- Imperial advisers hit the phones to get £1.2bn bid approved
- Japanese firms to dig deep for Teck's $14bn miner
- Blue sky thinking BA looks for flexible working to save jobs
- Head of Invista in running for British Land top job
- Corus: 'We will quit EU to avoid carbon regime'
- So the pound is just falling to 'fair value'. What if it can't stop?
- Gossip – the only commodity worth digging up
- Lonely log on to find love in a cold climate
- Is 'QE' the cure for our financial crisis?
People
- Parties: Ballet for beginners
- The new parenting: Now who's the daddy?
- Maia Norman: Move over, darling
- Edward Stourton: Bolt from the blue
- Credo: Carolina Herrera
- How We Met: Kate Nash & Laura Dockrill
Media
- The X Factor: Meet the real winner
- Alexandra has the X Factor
- The Feral Beast: Future job prospects
- Telegraph axe will not silence the many voices of Craig Brown
Education
Opinion
Leading Articles
Commentators
- DJ Taylor: All in good faith
- Charles Clarke – Voice of Britain! (14 December 2008)
- Edward Turner: A real choice at the end of life for people who are desperate
- Cole Moreton: Can't take a joke? It's just a bit of fun, m'lud
- Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary
- Crispin Black: Let us hope the Met can do better than Cressida Dick
- Rupert Cornwell: What am I bid for a Senate seat? Half a million should do it
- John Rentoul: How long can Gordon make the crisis last?
- Sarah Sands: The true message of Dave's Christmas card
- Joan Smith: Victim of a class-war crime
- Editor-At-Large: Bankrupt Blighty – no dosh, and even less style
- Alan Watkins: This is not the time for sharing
Columnists
Letters
Environment
Green Living
Sport
More Sports
Cricket
- England begin victory push
- On the Front Foot: New referral system is giving Dravid and Co the collywobbles
- Super Strauss puts England in charge
- Runs in the bank with added interest for the accumulator
Football
- Realist Zola loses entertainer tag
- Kinnear sales talk adds to fog on Tyne
- Valencia inspires rout to leave Ince on the brink
- Jones paints a pretty picture of life after Keane
- Hangeland repels Stoke's basic instinct
- Agbonlahor reaps benefit from Young touch of genius
- Gomes comes good against United front
- Cahill's killer instinct priceless among City riches
- Gerrard rescues Liverpool from hounds of Hull
- Gunners show Dunkirk spirit to match the dogged Digard
- Ince pleads for one more chance
- Outside the Box: Leading the Bundesliga but nobody recalls Ralf in Sussex
- Last-gasp Parkin gives McLeish blues
- Championship round-up: Foley is the foil as Wolves stay ahead of pack
- McManus saves 'awful' Celtic from Boruc's ongoing frailty
Golf
Olympics
Racing
More Sports
- Hoy caps amazing year with award
- Sid Waddell: The Lynemouth Lip who always hits the target
- Inside Lines: More writs than right-handers as Olympians threaten to sue
- The Last Word: Human engine must eclipse petrolhead vote
- Sport on TV: Rooney's urchins look to leave their mark on road to riches
- Outside Edge
Life & Style
Fashion
Food & Drink
- Bites: Kochhar joins the convoy out west
- Food firms 'mislead parents over salt and fat'
- The world-famous Indian restaurant Trishna has come to London. But has it lost some of its spice along the way?
- The beet goes on: a slice of adventure
Health & Wellbeing
- Ask Martha: I'm thinking of starting a blog in the New Year
- Dr Feelgood: Can grain make you gorgeous?
House & Home
Motoring
Arts & Entertainment
Art
Music
- 'I was the political Beatle,' says McCartney
- One Click Wonder: The Music Drags
- Coming Soon: It's jazz panto time – oh, yes it is!
- The Pogues, Academy, Leeds
Bon Iver, Apollo Victoria Theatre, London - Album: Mozart, Works for Oboe and Orchestra – Leleux, (Sony)
- Album: The Quarter After, Changes Near, (The Committee to...)
- Album: Sonantes, Sonantes, (Six Degrees)
- Album: Dave Stapleton, Catching Sunlight, (Edition)
- Album: Tchaikovsky, Hamlet/Romeo and Juliet – Jurowski etc, (Pentatone)
- Album: Ike & Tina Turner, Archive Series Vols 1 & 2: Hits and Classics, (SPV)
- Album: Fall Out Boy, Folie à Deux, (Mercury)
- Album: Kate Rusby, Sweet Bells, (Pure)
- Album: Pavement, Brighten the Corners, (Domino)
- Album: Lila Downs, Shake Away, (Manhattan)
- Album: Kellock/Arguelles, The Nine Mile Burn Sessions, (Thick)
- Album: Dr Dre, Detoxification, (Aftermath)
Classical
Films
- Mickey Rooney: The Mickey show
- The Man from London, Bela Tarr, 135 mins, 12A
- The Day the Earth Stood Still, Scott Derrickson, 105 mins, 12A
Inkheart, Iain Softley, 106 mins, PG
Dean Spanley, Toa Fraser, 105 mins, U - DVD: Star Wars: the Clone Wars, Rental & Retail, (Warner)
TV & Radio
- Why I love: Big grunting men
- The Golden Oriole, Radio 4
- Right to Die?, Sky Real Lives
Little Dorrit, BBC 1
Outnumbered, BBC1
Theatre & Dance
- Plot thickens as actor stabs himself with real knife
- One Click Wonder: The Music Drags
- Edward Scissorhands, Sadler's Wells, London
- Twelfth Night, Donmar, London
Simply Cinderella, Curve, Leicester
Amazonia, Young Vic, London
Cinderella, Lyric Hammersmith, London
Books
- Culture: Even Miller can't eclipse Monroe
- Close-up: Mick Bunnage & Jon Link
- Hunter S Thompson: Trust him, he's a doctor
- Forgotten Authors, No. 10: Edmund Crispin
- Children's Picture Books: We wish you a hairy Christmas
- Children's Fiction: Boys' own adventures
- Teenage Girl Fiction: Model behaviour
- Music memoirs: Beat of the heart
- Football books: 1966 and all that
- Alasdair Gray: A secretary's biography, by Rodge Glass
- Conjugal Rites, By Paul Magrs
- The Crafty Cockney, by Eric Bristow
- The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease, ed Sarah Eyre and Ra Page
- Where Shall We Go For Dinner?: A food romance, By Tamasin Day-Lewis
- The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles, By Roy Jacobsen, trs Don Bartlett & Don Shaw
- The Choice of Hercules, by A C Grayling
- At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist, by Anne Fadiman
Travel
Holidays
Hotels
News & Advice
Africa
- Fès is the next stop on the Marrakech express
- Tangier: The old lush is having a facelift. About time too
Asia
Europe
Money
Invest & Save
- Consumer rights: Silence isn't golden: a faulty TV and the search for a refund
- Cause and effect: how to choose presents that make a difference
- Keep your head above water as sterling dives
Loans & Credit
Mortgages
- Tracker deals go out the window after the Bank of England slashes rates
- One door opens, another slams in their faces: rent arrears haunt landlords
Insurance
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Columnist Comments
• Hamish McRae: It's now back to Victorian values
The 19th century constructed not just a regulatory financial code but a moral one
• Mark Steel: To George Bush, his critics are just lone difficult schoolboys
It's impossible for the President to acknowledge his failure in Iraq
• The Sketch: Davies the demonic, red-faced alien
Imagine being shown round the Great Hall of Quentin Court, or wherever it is that the Procurement Minister lives
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