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Arrest me, says GP who paid for patient’s suicide

28.07.09
Doctor who helped pay for a London businessman to commit suicide called on police to arrest him... more

Pointless pleasures from Corot to Monet

16.07.09
Never mind the gaps in the National Gallery’s survey of landscape, the joy is in the wonderfully impetuous sketches.... more

Boris Johnson's anger at aide's City Hall credit card spree

17.06.09
Boris Johnson was furious after it was revealed that one of his deputies used a City Hall credit card to upgrade flights and pay for meals and groceries... more

Woman killed friend and cut out her baby

09.06.09
A woman is accused of killing a heavily pregnant woman and cutting open her abdomen to take her baby... more

CDs of the week

29.05.09
Elvis Costello returns to Nashville, Paolo Nutini, unites the whole with his ragged old man croak and Patrick Wolf gives us his fourth album.... more

Love across the border in The Burning Plain

12.03.09
The Burning Plain is a dramatic and sometimes melodramatic story, full of a raw kind of truth about families and tragedy.... more

Wendy and Lucy is a small gem

05.03.09
Kelly Reichardt's touching tale of a young girl and her lost dog, Wendy and Lucy, deserves plaudits for making something of almost nothing. ... more

Up to 6000 jobs axed at Intel as sales drop

22.01.09
Technology: Bellwether technology company Intel is slashing up to 6000 jobs — more than 6% of its workforce — after a fall in fourth-quarter sales... more

Democrats could miss their 'super-majority'

05.11.08
The Democrats made a series of gains in the Senate elections but seemed certain to fall short of the "super-majority" they were hoping for... more

Pictured: Heath Ledger's ex fiancée Michelle Williams with new love Spike Jonze

31.07.08
Michelle Williams has found love again with director Spike Jonze seven months after the tragic death of her former fiancé Heath Ledger.... more

Prom Night: A night to forget in a hurry

06.06.08
Packed with talentless nonentities who are killed in no particular order, and it's another formulaic chiller about a madman preying on high-school students. ... more

CDs of the week

25.05.07
Some Pumpkins-lite grunge, a solo release from one of James Brown's backing singers and catchy tunes in Arabic and Spanish are among the week's standouts.... more

Marr's Modest moment

25.05.07
Sir Elton John and Hillary Clinton, Johnny Marr's reinvigoration, and a new pop release from Moloko's Roisin Murphy are on David Smyth's agenda.... more

Off the record: David Smyth

16.03.07
David Smyth ponders over Starbucks' move into the music business, the coffee company's imminent signing of Paul McCartney, and Steven Seagal's upcoming Shepherds Bush Empire gig.... more

Find a little soul in The Motel Life

14.02.07
Giving their best, Richmond Fontaine got the best out of their Dingwalls audience as they boldly played songs from their new album, says Phil Sutcliffe.... more

A welcome touch of sophistication

13.11.06
This Sunday-section of the London Jazz Festival was reserved for sophisticates who like their jazz long on intelligence, sensuality and melody.... more

Downloads of the week

10.11.06
The new Bond theme is released, fans can get their hands on a free The Hours track and the NPR website offers some great gig recordings.... more

Far from magnificent seven

17.08.06
Apart from a small technical glitch, this West End production of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers went like clockwork, but there's nothing like watching a clock to make the hours go slow.... more

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