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The Independent 19.10. 01:47
For David Cameron's new-look Tories, it was the political equivalent of a kick in the cobblers. Last week, Conservatives in Somerton and Frome selected the Honourable Annunziata Rees-Mogg to fight their plum marginal seat at the next general election... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 18.10. 01:51
Charles Saumarez Smith Director, National Gallery I had a sleepless night fretting about the fact that I had a very public disagreement on the Radio 4 programme Start the Week with the historian Simon Schama. The disagreement concerned the best ... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 17.10. 01:51
Ministers should act now to curb demand for low-cost flights to stop Britons becoming addicted to highly polluting cheap air travel, researchers warn today. A report by a team from Oxford University called on the Government to consider raising ta... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 15.10. 02:35
The wine world was in revolt last night, threatening to thwart government proposals to put health warnings on vintage bottles. The Government is looking at ways of making the drinks industry label bottles and cans with details of the dangers of a... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 13.10. 01:38
The families of as many as 116 servicemen and women killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other military operations are still awaiting inquests, some after more than eight years. The full extent of the problem was revealed yesterday as Harriet Harman, ... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 12.10. 01:45
Government officials have been sent into the offices of the Oxford coroner to sort out a backlog which has meant families of servicemen killed in Iraq waiting more than three years for inquests. As The Independent highlighted last week, almost tw... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 07.10. 02:03
The life stories of notable domestic servants whose years of faithful attention to famous employers have been largely ignored by historians, have been told in depth for the first time. The latest online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Nationa... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 07.10. 01:59
The Government has been accused of treating the families of dead servicemen with contempt and prolonging their agony by delaying inquests into their killings in Iraq. For many grieving relatives, the coroner's court is their first chance to ask t... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 05.10. 13:14
On the towpath of the Oxford Canal, where the narrow boats moor near the centre of town, I came across a large, irritable, white swan. It was so out of place - being wild, and unregulated - that I couldn't believe it was legal. It was hissing and str... [Artikel komplett lesen]

The Independent 04.10. 01:31
The British military was suspected of not being fully candid about the death in Iraq of the ITN journalist Terry Lloyd, an inquest heard yesterday. Stewart Purvis, former chief executive of the news organisation, told the court that only "limited... [Artikel komplett lesen]