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Sporting hopes of Olympic glory

Gold and bronze for our girls

8:40am Wednesday 13th August 2008

OLYMPIC fever has gripped the Buhagiar household. I have taken to going to bed at gone 1am before getting up at 5.30am to see what I have missed.

Brits didn't charm in Sharm

Sharm El Sheikh

7:30am Wednesday 6th August 2008

THE problem with holidays is the returning home. One day back and your latest trip abroad is a distant memory. Once you have downloaded the photographs and watched your handy cam clips it is back into the old routine with Christmas being the next event to look forward to – just 142 days to go.

MPs pay price for expenses row

MPs pay price for expenses row

11:02am Monday 4th August 2008

JOHN LEWIS or Ikea? That seems to be the question on MPs’ lips.

Teach them before its too late

Teach them before its too late

11:30am Wednesday 16th July 2008

So here we are again – another teenager stabbed to death and another devastated family. As Boris Johnson put it, we are the culture of stabbing.

The sharp end of knife crime

Ben was murdered last week.

7:38am Wednesday 9th July 2008

ANOTHER week, another young life lost in our capital city.

Not the end of the Tesco row

The planned Tesco store

9:38am Wednesday 2nd July 2008

WHAT a difference a week makes. Last Monday night the Alban Arena hosted our Retailer of the Year awards night.

Britain's Gone Barmy

Maria Hough looks at piles of rubbish outside her home

8:27am Wednesday 11th June 2008

OUR girls Escala certainly proved that Britain has got talent having made it through to the final of the television talent show. They narrowly missed out on winning with the public voting for a busking dancer.

Glitzy goodbye to University

Sarah Harvey

1:47pm Thursday 29th May 2008

WHAT a night and what a hangover. After spending the last few months with heads buried in books and weekends spent revising for exams, one of the most important dates in our diaries arrived - our annual summer ball.

On the road to disaster

Last week's Review article

8:28am Wednesday 28th May 2008

THERE are not many things in life more frustrating than having thousands of pounds worth of damage caused to your car via a third party.

Plain truth about Gobbledygook

7:36am Wednesday 14th May 2008

PRESS officer drivel has long been part and parcel of a journalist's life.


News

Miliband holds Georgia crisis talks

David Miliband

Updated 8:16am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Foreign Secretary David Miliband visited Georgia as Nato stepped up pressure on Russia to withdraw its forces from the former Soviet state.


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