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Who decides this moral dilemma?
9:37am Thursday 27th March 2008
WHEN Robin Cook's conscience would not allow him to vote for the invasion of Iraq, he was forced to resign from the Cabinet and end his political career on the backbenches.

Hallelujah!
9:45am Thursday 27th March 2008
The column attends a big occasion in the Big Chapel at Hetton-le-Hole, the 138th consecutive Good Friday on which an oratorio has been sung there

Hot Gossip
9:51am Thursday 27th March 2008
Gossip Girl (ITV2, 10pm); Cane (ITV3, 10pm); Sleeping With My Sister (C4, 9pm) DESPITE the blogger narrator, Gossip Girl resembles most other US teen soaps with bitchy girls, impossibly chiselled boys and parents too busy to notice, let alone show disapproval of, their offspring's social life.

The good news is, it’s not a write-off
9:50am Thursday 27th March 2008
HOW could I have been so stupid?

They're back
10:52am Thursday 27th March 2008
SALES of earplugs are soaring in Walford now that news of an impending return is all round the Square. The soft, dulcet tones - not - of Bianca will be ringing out with a glass-shattering shriek of "Rickaaaayyy!".

A land of hope
11:42am Wednesday 26th March 2008
Optimism is the national characteristic of Burkina Faso, but are the country's aims achievable? In her final report, Lauren Pyrah examines the future of the African state

Sausage links
11:52am Wednesday 26th March 2008
A taste of Cumberland sausage at Ipswich station is the springboard for all sorts of connections

Why pick on the Saga louts?
11:53am Wednesday 26th March 2008
There's really no way the Baby Boomer generation was going to grow old quietly...

Clear case for a free vote
11:46am Wednesday 26th March 2008
GORDON Brown is right to allow Labour MPs a free vote on the most controversial parts of the new embryology Bill - not that he had much choice in view of the brewing rebellion he was facing.

An urban hellAn urban hell
9:40am Tue 25 Mar 08
Rapid expansion in Burkina Faso’s cities has resulted in thousands living in squatter settlements without water or sanitation.

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