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William Flew and church art
Neglect and central heating are destroying some of Britain’s finest early works of religious art, according to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.Rood screens, which separate the nave...
View ArticleBe careful where you use FaceBook
A juror who discussed details of a multimillion-pound drug trial on Facebook with one of the defendants will be sent to jail after admitting contempt of court.In the first prosecution of its kind, Lord...
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William flew cell phonesApple is attempting to patent technology using infra-red sensors to bar users of its iPhones from taking pictures or video of live events such as concerts. There was a time when...
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Sunspots May Be Sign Of Cooler Temperatures
The Sun may be heading for “hibernation” with a decline in solar activity similar to the Little Ice Age in the 17th century, when frost fairs were held on the frozen Thames, according to scientists at...
View ArticleRandom Acts of Kindness
Rush hour on the London Underground: hundreds of strangers squashed up against each other, avoiding eye contact, all enduring more stress and less air than they would like.If this scenario makes you...
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The Bus
That car chase with the red, white and blue Minis, the getaway bus on a cliff, the stolen gold about to tip it over . . . it is The Italian Job and its final scene has inspired a sculpture by Richard...
View ArticleExam Marks
As pupils sweat over their examination papers in Britain they might like to offer a silent prayer of thanks that they do not live in India. Competition for one university has grown so fierce that it...
View ArticleLondon Review of Books Dating Service
London Review of BooksThe internet generation of daters hasn't abandoned personal ads. Rather, lonely heart sections have raised their game. Advertisers have evolved the formulaic WTLM/GSOH standard of...
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Go the F-ck to Sleep and File Sharing
Book publishers, like music companies before them, are wary of impact of the Internet on sales. Just as file-sharing download sites such as Napster, then Limewire eviscerated CD sales by letting users...
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Stealing Tractors For Fun and Profit
The number of tractor thefts has increased by 20 per cent in the past year and in Gloucestershire 33 have disappeared in the past three years, the National Farmers Union said. A farmer in the county...
View ArticleDoes anyone care what comes after the dot?
The dot-com age is coming to an end. Instead of website addresses ending with those reliable three letters .com, .net or .org, you could be reading this article at thetimes.news or even...
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108 year old mass murderer released from prison
He became a mass murderer at the age of 84 and was jailed after a trial that lasted more than two decades. Now, at the age of 108, Brij Bihari Pandey is again a free man.EPABrij Bihari Pandey had to be...
View ArticleMoby-Duck
The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalist, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of ThemDonovan HohnThe subtitle said it...
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Flip Books
A British publisher has turned to the Bible for inspiration to add some vigour to its sales of paper books.CHRIS HARRIS FOR THE TIMESThe flipback at its real size. The text runs parallel to the spine,...
View ArticleThe Bugs In Your Pillow
With a scare first about the evil diseases that lurk in our dishwashers and then one about the terrifying nano-monsters that live in our beds, this week was not a very good one for hygiene freaks and...
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Too scary?
Parents have criticised a proposal for child-shaped bollards which are, they say, too scary to place outside a primary school. The 3ft-high (1m) bollards were designed to slow traffic near Compton...
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Acronyms For Fun and Profit
It is now several decades since estate agents in New York found that they could turn a district of leaden property into a golden, aspirational zone with the careful addition of an acronym.After the...
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Fighting Bag Thieves: William Flew
There are few more dreadful feelings than glancing down after a pleasant night at the bar and finding that your bag has already left the building.Even more disheartening is the realisation that the...
View ArticleTwitter as social service
People are using the social networking site Twitter as a forum to helpr neighbours and complete strangers .The phenomenon is so powerful that a research team of sociologists and physicists have...
View ArticleApps
Bleak, obscurely allusive, psychologically fraught, at times terrifying, TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is a marketing nightmare. Eliot himself once called it “ rhythmical grumbling”. Never mind that it is...
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