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Friday the 13th storms hit the south and west

Friday the 13th proved unlucky for commuters, train schedulers and anyone with loose slates on their roof as torrential rain and gale force winds hit Britain. Severe weather warnings are in place across the south and west, and flood warnings are ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Met Office

Brian May wows audience with set of Victorian photos

The ferry: One of the 'stereographs' in A Village Lost and Found by Brian May and Elena Vida Rocking the Victorian aesthetic ... Brian May with one of his collection of 'stereographs' It's not common to arrive at the British Library ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Brian May,  Patrick Moore,  Thomas Hardy

Forbes power list puts Mexican drug lord ahead of presidents

Any attempt to rank the world's most powerful people is likely to be a somewhat dry affair, with serried ranks of politicians, businessmen and media magnates. So it came as a surprise when Forbes magazine launched its first list of the most important ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Forbes Magazine,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Felipe Calderon,  Oprah Winfrey

Marking computer says no to lazy Dickens and dull Austen

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ernest Hemingway,  William Golding,  Winston Churchill,  Anthony Burgess,  John Donne

Jilted astronaut Lisa Nowak gets year's probation

Lisa Nowak in court, with Colleen Shipman in the background. Photograph: Red Huber/AP The astronaut who drove 1,000 miles across the US – armed with pepper spray and allegedly wearing a nappy – to confront a love rival has been given a year's probation ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lisa Nowak,  Colleen Shipman,  Bill Oefelein

Britain's listed war memorials

This war memorial is to residents of Tweedmouth, Northumberland, who lost their lives in conflicts since 1845 Your IP address will be logged Seventeen war memorials across England have been listed by the government to coincide with Armistice ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

War memorials get Heritage protection

A wreath is laid during the service of remembrance at the Cenotaph at Whitehall, London. The memorial was built by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Photograph: Dan Chung War memorials including bronze statues, church gates and gardens, are being listed by English ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Edwin Lutyens

News quiz: hot topic – graphology

Gordon Brown's scrawl has sparked debate about handwriting and leadership. Pens at the ready, here come the questions ... 1. According to one graphologist, the way Gordon Brown’s lines rise from left to right indicates what? 2. Tony Blair’s ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Winston Churchill,  Abraham Lincoln

Missing Canadian teenager survives three days on ice floe

Canadian teenager Jupi Nakoolak is spotted after three days adrift on an ice floe in Hudson Bay. Photograph: Canadian Press/AP A Canadian teenager has been rescued, and apparently unharmed apart from minor frostbite, after drifting for almost three ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009

Uncovered: lost British accents from prison camps of first world war

British troops march towards trenches near Ypres at the Western Front during the first world war. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Crackling and quavering over the distance of almost a century, the voice of George Campbell from Aberdeen ...

From MAEV KENNEDY, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

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