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• Waste is a potential resource, not a problem | Nick Herbert

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  A Conservative government would hand out incentives - not punishment - to encourage recycling and reduce waste The UK sends more waste to landfill than any other nation in Europe. We dump nearly 20m tonnes of rubbish in the ground. Germany, by comparison, sends less than 500,000 tonnes to landfill. We recycle ...
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• The sorry state of Iraqi politics | Ranj Alaaldin

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  As political squabbling looks set to delay Januarys poll again, Iraqis will start to ask if more sinister plots lie behind this fiasco Iraqs long-debated new election law that was for months deliberated upon, delayed and then finally passed two weeks ago was hailed at the time as a monumental moment. Its approval ...
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• Wake-up call

  
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  The day Efren Peñaflorida was named 2009 CNN Hero of the Year was a great day for the Philippines as it sent a message to the world that this country of 7,107 islands is home not only to heroes of freedom and democracy like Jose Rizal and Ninoy Aquino but of education and social work [...]
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• The lost kingdom

  
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  Nine years ago, when the now graduating city mayor took over as chief executive of the local government, Iloilo City has still a City Hall building. It may be old but still useful to the displaced city employees now holding office at the big mall.In desire to have a presentable edifice as seat of local [...]
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• Netanyahus Syrian distraction | Chris Phillips

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  France-brokered talks between Syria and Israel are unlikely to provide an avenue for peace – neither is offering anything new A glimmer of hope in the moribund Middle East peace process surfaced in Paris recently when Nicolas Sarkozy separately hosted both the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the ...
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• Veronica Wadleys credentials for arts council job cant be enhanced by Boris Johnsons stubborness

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Im waiting excitedly for news of Mayor Johnsons proposed, defiant re-run of the process for appointing the new National Member for London, Arts Council England (to give the position its formal title). There is talk of legal advice being obtained. Perhaps this is in part because of what it says in the Mayors own ...
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• How 20th-century art shed its inhibitions

  
  Art and design: Jonathan Jones on art | guardian.co.uk — Authority:
  Matisse, Picasso and the perfume of hedonism surrounding Montmartre finally opened up sex in art from the furtive, neurotic business of the previous century Something happened to artists at the dawn of the 20th century. They started to have sex. If you look at a nude by Matisse, and the painting in my head is his ...
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• Champions League: Debrecen v Liverpool – live! | Barry Glendenning

  
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  Email barry.glendenning@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts, plus follow Arsenal v Standard Liège, Barcelona v Internazionale and all tonights live scores . Or follow this game on the sly with our pop-up Rafael Benítez is not used to this. Its squeaky bum time in Europe for Liverpool but it has come earlier ...
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• BBC Worldwide may plan a staged sell-off of some assets

  
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  Three-year action plan could include disposal of magazines and holdings in TV production companies BBC Worldwide has been asked to come up with a three-year action plan that could involve the staged sell-off of some magazines and its holdings in independent TV production companies, as well as a review of online ...
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• Germanys far-right flops | Jaroslaw Adamowski

  
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  Support for the National Democratic Party of Germany is sliding, and its resorting to premium-rate phone lines to stay afloat When the Berlin wall fell apart, back in November 1989, fears that Germanys forthcoming reunification would lead to the revival of violent nationalism and bitter revisionism were looming all ...
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• Widow of bomb expert Olaf Schmid pays tribute to warrior at funeral

  
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  Colleagues tell of bravery at Truro Cathedral service for staff sergeant killed in Afghanistan The widow of army bomb disposal expert Olaf "Oz" Schmid today paid tribute to her "warrior" husband as his funeral took place with full military honours in his home city of Truro. Christina Schmid said her husband was a ...
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• Leading lawyer to represent Simon Hall in wrongful conviction appeal

  
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  Michael Mansfield takes on case of man found guilty of murdering elderly woman in Suffolk A man who claims he was wrongly convicted of murdering an elderly woman eight years ago is to be represented by one of the countrys leading defence barristers at the court of appeal. Lawyer Michael Mansfield, who has ...
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• A London fringe festival? I dont think so

  
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  Plans for a London fringe festival to coincide with Edinburgh next year are impractical and ill-mannered, but a one-off event around the 2012 Olympics might work well A number of London venues are in talks to organise a fringe festival for the city to take place next year at the same time as the Edinburgh festival. ...
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• Champions League: Barcelona v Internazionale – live! | Paul Doyle

  
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  Email paul.doyle@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts, plus follow Debrecen v Liverpool, Arsenal v Standard Liège and all tonights live scores . Or follow this game on the sly with our pop-up Paul will be here from 7.30pm with team news, pre-match musings and more. In the meantime, sit back and laugh at this weeks ...
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• Flooded Cockermouth will get new health centre

  
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  Floods knocked out two of the towns three GPs surgeries, but a new health centre will be based at the cottage hospital – 150ft above river level When Cockermouths filthy floodwater is a thing of the past, the battered town can expect one lasting benefit. Thanks to fast work by the local GPs, and a huge ...
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• London assembly members criticise conduct of Boris Johnson aide

  
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  Dan Ritterband, the London mayors director of marketing, was asked to leave City Hall chamber over alleged failure to afford respect to budget committee chairman A senior aide to Boris Johnson was asked to leave the City Hall chamber today following concerns over his conduct. Dan Ritterband, the mayor of Londons ...
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• Q&A: Iraq war inquiry

  
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  The role of the long-awaited inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot into why and how Britain went to war against Iraq Why are we having another inquiry? This is the fifth inquiry on the Iraq war, and will be the most wide-ranging. The Commons foreign affairs committee and the joint parliamentary intelligence and ...
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• Should serial novels be continued?

  
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  Out of sync with print-based reading habits, this form is nonetheless perfectly in tune with the web Ever since a suburban adolescence that was organised around a daily race home from school to devour a self-rationed chapter or two of Armistead Maupins Tales Of The City, I have been intrigued by the serial novel. So ...
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• Cheryl Coles Night In? Just the titles enough to put you off

  
  Television & radio: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority:
  Simon Cowell already rules the charts. Now ITV seems to be choosing its chatshow hosts from his judges For proof of Simon Cowells stranglehold on music, you only need to look at the top 10 – it currently includes the 2009 X Factor finalists, two former X Factor contestants, an X Factor judge, two acts who have ...
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• Feeble excuses for Egypts football riots | Joseph Mayton

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Dont point the finger at deeper ills. The violence in Cairo was just thuggery cynically fomented by President Mubarak It really is about football. Local and international media can argue about the underlying reasons for the violence in Cairo that saw the Algerian embassy attacked, hundreds of riot police on the ...
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