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play0:00 / 3:29Author Lynne Truss gives her take on the absence, so far, of huge British success at the Olympic Games.
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play0:00 / 1:59The writer Maeve Binchy who has died, aged 72, is described as a darling by fellow novelist Jilly Cooper.
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play0:00 / 5:55The government's strategy for improving broadband in the UK has been criticised as "misguided" in a parliamentary report. Ed Vaizey, Mini...Jane_Dunlop likes this.
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johnpopham Your headline on this piece is misleading. Ed Vaisey didn't say the UK is leading in broadband, he said the rest of Europe looks to us for our competitive market. That is a very different issue
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cyberdoyle Dear Ed Vaizey. It isn't fibre broadband unless its fibre to the home. If you spend our money on stupid cabinets then history will remember it well. It is shortsighted to patch up the old phone network. We need fibre. Moral and optic. Support the altnets, get fibre to the rurals and get some competition going. If you want futureproof you won't get it through copper. Rurals can't afford BT FTTP because of hundreds of thousands of excess charges. They can however afford a couple of thousand via an altnet, as that increases the value of their property and is an investment in their future. Stop believing that just because our fantastic phone network delivered 1st generation broadband it can deliver the future. It can't, and we will be left behind, throttled, capped and tied to an obsolete infrastructure.
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play0:00 / 3:42For the past ten years, the Royal Navy has sent a nuclear powered submarine to patrol the waters east of Suez, near Somalia, Yemen and Ir...
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play0:00 / 5:05Ian Pannell reports from Aleppo where shelling and gunfire have shaken the Syrian city
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play0:00 / 3:00Pretty much all the papers this morning have a review of last night's Olympic opening ceremony and by and large they're very positive.We'...ClaireDean likes this.
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MEDT Lynne Truss's comments about Brazil and the Olympics were as disagreeable as Mitt Romney's comments about the UK Olympics. Has the woman not seen pictures of Rio? Has she not heard about the Carnival? Does she have a clue about Brazilian music/ architecture/ art/ film? I guess she cares even less about insulting people in distant Latin America than Romney cares about insulting the UK. Shame.
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play0:00 / 5:13It is 10 years since Botox was approved for cosmetic use in the United States. Author Natasha Walter, and consultant cosmetic surgeon Adr...
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play0:00 / 6:02The United Nations has been trying to reach a deal to regulate the global arms trade which is worth £50bn every year. Anna MacDonald, hea...
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play0:00 / 13:06The latest GDP figures released yesterday were more grim than most people were expecting. Economics editor Stephanie Flanders gives her a...
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play0:00 / 3:59LOCOG have had to apologise to the North Korean football team after the South Korean flag was displayed ahead of the match with Colombia...ClaireDean likes this.
