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1960s: Cold War cabinet seeks headquarters to withstand nuclear war
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:59 GMTDocuments detailing Government plans to rule from an underground bunker have been revealed.What's in a baby's name? Everything
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:58 GMTNaming a child is, like most things in Britain, as much about class as it is about fashion. Unless you happen to be committed to one of those quaint but unpronounceable family names - St John, Princess Tiaamii - then baptising your progeny offers an unmissable (and sometimes unwitting) opportunity to display your social ambitions.Transports of delight: Girl born on the Tube
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:42 GMTA woman who went into labour on a London Underground train gave birth to a girl, the first baby recorded to have been born on the Tube for 84 years.Credit crunch blues? Think red
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:40 GMTEconomic gloom has changed our view of the place that we call home. It is no longer an investment but a comfort zone, where you can have cheap, credit-crunch-type fun on the sofa, watching a new supersized flatscreen television, wrapped up in a £195 John Lewis cashmere throw (in lacquer red).Microsoft's Zune MP3 players hit by leap year bug
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:34 GMTThousands of Zune players, Microsoft's rival to the Apple iPod, shut down over the new year, leaving many owners waking up on January 1 unable to listen to their cherished music.Elite cosmetic surgery clinic hit by the credit crunch
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:33 GMTA renowned cosmetic surgery clinic faces closure because people cannot afford vanity treatments during the credit crunch.Sorry, Gordon Brown. Royalty still rules when it comes to baby's names
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:32 GMTAlas, poor Gordon. He may have saved the world from impending financial doom, but Times readers shunned the Prime Minister when naming their newborn last year.Case studies: funding scarce and rates high
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:25 GMTCASE STUDY: The businessmanThe party's over: it's back to work in new year of economic reality
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:24 GMTSnow followed by a sweeping band of rain is forecast for Monday. But those trudging back to work for the first time this year under louring skies may feel an additional chill should they pass a branch of Woolworths.Takings soar at John Lewis stores as shoppers enjoy one last spree
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:09 GMTA surge in Christmas spending has given one of Britain’s biggest stores a respite from the impact of the financial crisis, although experts warned yesterday that the high street faced a gloomy January.Chancellor Alistair Darling on brink of second bailout for banks
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:08 GMTAlistair Darling has been forced to consider a second bailout for banks as the lending drought worsens.Woman, 83, found dead and bound with duct tape in her London home
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:03 GMTAn 83-year-old woman found dead in her bedroom with her legs bound by duct tape had told a neighbour recently that someone was trying to take her money.Missing beaver proves his worth as good, cheap labour
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTYou do not need the skills of a Native American tracker to spot the telltale signs that a beaver is on the loose in Devon. Even a shortsighted hack in a woolly hat could find them.Britain’s Galápagos offers insight into evolutionary ideas
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTThe living laboratory where Charles Darwin developed much of his evolutionary thinking, described by scientists as “Britain’s Galápagos”, is to reopen to the public next month to mark the bicentenary of the great biologist’s birth.Pilot and passenger feared dead as plane hits power lines, causing rail chaos
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTThree people are feared to have died yesterday after a light aircraft struck overhead power cables and crashed on the West Coast Main Line between Rugeley and Stafford, causing severe disruption on the railways.Don’t use the S-word. This is a place of learning, not a school
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTWhen is a school not a school? When it is “a place for learning”.It's time to appoint Britain’s first woman bishop, says Canon Jane Hedges
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTSenior politicians are in favour of breaking up the all-male enclave of the 26 bishops in the House of Lords, the cleric tipped to become Britain’s first female Anglican bishop believes.Smokers pay twice as much for leaving cigarette butts
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTLiverpool Smokers have paid £98, 625 in fines in eight months for dropping cigarette butts on the city’s streets, almost twice as much as last year.Pair of L. S. Lowry oil paintings may make £500, 000
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTTetbury Two oil paintings by L. S. Lowry have been put up for sale for a combined price of almost £500, 000. A busy street scene, signed and dated 1953, is being sold for £325, 000, and a view of an industrial landscape in Salford, Manchester, is priced at £150, 000.Drunken chaos on packed holiday charter flights
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTGatwick Dozens of drunken people ran amok in separate incidents on packed charter flights over the holiday period.
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