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  • Why should women have to look like this?

    WHAT are we doing to our daughters? The pressures on teenage girls are immense and growing all the time, especially, ironically, among the brightest and the best. Once upon a time, young girls aspired to be pretty or clever and it didn't matter which.

  • 02/07/03

    PRINCE CHARLES: HOW do you make royalty pleasing and acceptable to a cash-strapped British public dogged by growing unemployment? That is the task facing a besieged establishment, but it appears to have adopted a devious policy. To quote the recent St

  • Beamish, Bobby's job and born-again buyers

    FIRST time in ten years, we went to Beamish Museum on Saturday. It was almost entirely enjoyable. The £12 admission may seem a bit steep, but the meanest mind can enjoy a full day's diversion there and much is new - in a historical sort of a way - since

  • Good cop, bad cop, all in one

    The Shield (five) FORGET the bobbies at Sun Hill in The Bill - the cops on the beat in The Shield are really tough. There are no happy endings or neat morals here. Instead you get to watch a gritty drama with crooked detectives and gun shoot-outs. The