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David Cameron gets a rail dressing down, from his father in law
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Lords inflict triple welfare bill defeat on government
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Syria attacks: 'If the regime wanted to prove Homs was safe, it failed ...'
Front page
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Welfare payments cap poses 'real risks to children's rights'
Top stories p2
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Iranian nuclear chemist killed by motorbike assassins
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Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran bomb explosion
Top stories p4
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Iran nuclear scientist attacks: a covert war that carries serious risks
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Iran nuclear scientist's death followed Israeli warning of 'unnatural' events
Top stories p5
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Mild winter turns natural world on its head
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Breast implant scandal: comestic surgery companies face court action
UK news p6
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Gove proposes 'wiki curriculum'
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Digital literacy case study: 'We have to nurture our talent'
UK news p9
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Alex Salmond: a canny political operator, but not infallible
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Alistair Darling and Charles Kennedy lined up for Scottish pro-union drive
Top stories p10
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Warning over Wonga's 'predatory' student loans offer
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Timeline: Mail on Sunday and private investigator Steve Whittamore
UK news p12
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Birmingham couple killed in 'horrendous' murder
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Big cat may prowl Gloucestershire wood, says National Trust
UK news p13
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Civil service union to call for more walkouts over pensions
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Unhappy childhoods afflict one in 10 youngsters, finds Children's Society
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100 companies pledge to open up work-experience opportunities
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BSkyB axes Al Gore's Current TV from its pay-TV lineup
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Teenager arrested over Lancashire fire that killed four
UK news p16
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The fear and Lothian question: time tae think again?
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IVF clinics should be allowed to transfer two embryos, says study
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Velvet Underground moves to protect Banana Album design
UK news p17
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Secret forest sell-off 'shopping lists' drawn up by conservation groups
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BBC can show interview with terror suspect held without trial, court rules
Case of Babar Ahmed found to be so exceptional that ban on interview should be quashed
UK news p18
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Haiti earthquake: two years on, and just half of promised aid has been delivered
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For Haiti's earthquake survivors, life has been a slow recovery
International p19
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US marines accused of war crimes
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Eisenhower family object to national memorial design
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Russia's era of managed democracy is over, claims presidential candidate
International p22
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Nigerian Islamist group's leader claims to be at war with Christians
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Hungry African leaders 'had to buy own food' at ANC centenary celebrations
Uganda president sent out to Nando's for grilled chicken after finding no food or bedding at accommodation, report claims -
Egypt to resume talks with IMF over emergency $3bn credit facility
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Pakistan army steps up confrontation with government
International p23
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Defendant shoots and kills prosecutor during Munich trial
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US diving crew finds wreck of British submarine used in second world war
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Rome's Colosseum restoration sparks inquiries into contract
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Deaths in custody spark protests and violence on French estates
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UK 'should tell Vladimir Putin he is not welcome at Olympics'
International p25
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China's collapse 'will bring economic crisis to climax in 2012'
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Britain may have to pay billions more into IMF, says George Osborne
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China's skyscraper craze 'may herald economic crash'
Financial p26
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RBS restructuring puts thousands of jobs on the line
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UK's trade deficit widens unexpectedly
Financial p27
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Little Chef to cut 600 jobs in 'aggressive' rebuilding strategy
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EDF's price cuts turn up heat on other gas suppliers
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Mario Monti fights back against eurozone austerity club
Financial p28
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Superdry, Sainsbury's and Greggs triumph in Christmas retail battle
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Tui Travel UK's former finance director receives pay package of £2.4m
Financial p29
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Frank Cook obituary
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Erica Wilson obituary
Obituaries p31
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Hands off British film, Mr Cameron
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Migration caps aren't about protecting British workers
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Russia needs to change – but by evolution not revolution
Comment & debate p32
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Diary
Hugh Muir: They dance, they prance. Occasionally they kill someone. UK gangs as described by lawman Bill -
Alex Salmond does not make Scottish independence inexorable
Comment & debate p33
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In praise of … Matilda
Editorial: Roald Dahl's Matilda, a rare leading female in his books, has proved how brains and heart can win the day -
Pakistan: a coup by other means
Editorial: tensions between the army and Pakistan's civilian government have boiled over into open conflict -
Britain's film industry: closing credits
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A Twitter addict, I had to detox from modern technology
Editorials & reply p34
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Country diary: Newhall Point
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Ghostly weather
Letters: I note from the new weather forecast chart that our skies now appear to be dominated by Casper the Ghost -
Corrections and clarifications
Wrong text | Leveson inquiry | Cargo ship off New Zealand | Ken Russell -
Trains, trees and Bechstein's bat
Letters: HS2 is to be buried in deep cuttings and tunnels or screened by tens of thousands of trees – just something to be hidden away, rather than a celebration of engineering achievement -
Franchises on track
Letters: On many routes, ticket prices are kept down because train companies compete with each other and other forms of transport -
We don't slink away from south London
Letters: The InSpire project at St Peter's is one example of our churches being deeply involved in community projects -
Mixed signals on the go-ahead for high-speed rail
Letters: The pro-HS2 rail lobby has managed to convince most politicians and business leaders that HS2 is the only game in town when it comes to modernising the UK's creaking rail infrastructure
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Gilfoyle review
Letters: It would at least give him a few more months of life as an unconvicted man. And I, for one, think he is owed that
Editorials & reply p35
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Richter/Prégardien/Drake – review
The 21-year-old Anna Lucia Richter developed before the audience's eyes. Understandably nervous at first, her delicate soprano gained in confidence and colour, says George Hall -
One Direction – review
The quintet rely on wholesomeness and floppy-haired charm – they gambol like puppies as they sing, and give every indication they're having the time of their lives, says Caroline Sullivan -
Ani DiFranco – review
DiFranco has always been fiercely radicalised, and the insurrectionary fervour on her new record could be unpalatable were it not for her easy charm, says Ian Gittins -
Mary Stuart – review
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Frankland & Sons – review
Secrets are unlocked and the skeletons in the cupboard turn out to be walking talking ones in a performance that sends you home contemplating the truths and lies in your own family, says Lyn Gardner