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Mark Seddon

North Korea - isolated, unstable and unknown

News of the demise of Kim Jong-il, leader of "the world's last Stalinist state", North Korea, shouldn't have come as a surprise: he had been ill for some time. But his death comes at a highly inconvenient and potentially dangerous time, with his son and heir, the 28-year-old Kim Jong-un, an unknown quantity.

19 December 2011 11:36 AM

London elms make a comeback

Elm trees will soon grace London's streets and parks again, thanks to a £50,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Every street in the capital with "elm" in its name will be included in the Conservation Foundation's project to plant 1,000 saplings.

14 October 2010 09:21 AM

This is no time to go on your travels, Mr Blair

If it was Cardiff at the weekend, this week it must be Accra or Lagos. Tony Blair will shortly embark on a whistle-stop tour of Africa, including Ghana and that most populous and anarchic of countries, Nigeria. In Cardiff Tony Blair railed against those who would seek to "wreck" his plans for public service reform. In Africa, pestilence, starvation and war may weigh more heavily on his mind than the creaking condition of Britain's National Health Service.

04 February 2002 12:00 AM