Content-Type: text/html Bookies lose shirts as record tumbles
For once the media's favourite weather cliche was justified: it really was, "Phew! What a scorcher".
| Police racism need not lead to dismissal
Complaints authority's new guidelines lays out alternatives to Lawrence inquiry recommendation when the officer acts 'unwittingly'.
| 'Time drags since he went missing'
The family of missing hospital consultant Richard Stevens is numbed by the agony of not knowing why or how he vanished.
| Nitrate pollution raises water bills
Underground sources which provide a third of Britain's drinking water are becoming seriously polluted, threatening wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.
| Free opera? We prefer Fringe
You can't give tickets away for young people to watch opera, not even Wagner's rarely performed Ring. That appears to be the conclusion of an embarrassing experiment at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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