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by JOHN HIGGINSON - Wednesday, November 5, 2008

.The Queen yesterday questioned why nobody saw the credit crunch coming

Prince Phillip shows his interest in the discussion at the London School of Economics

She asked why no one noticed the 'awful' situation sooner, while opening a £71million building at the London School of Economics.
'At every stage, someone was relying on somebody else,' she was told by LSE's management research director, Prof Luis Garicano.
Meanwhile, David Cameron took his opportunity at prime minister's questions to call for an inquiry into a regulatory failure in the markets

'Our system has failed so badly the Treasury minister said he wanted to see a public inquiry,' the Conservative leader told Gordon Brown.
'Can you tell us when we're going to have that inquiry?' Mr Cameron said that, by refusing to hold an inquiry, the prime minister was demonstrating he could not provide 'the change people want'.
Mr Brown said the only change the Conservatives represented was that 'they change their minds every week'.
Mr Cameron retorted: 'You killed change when you bottled that election. You buried change when you appointed Peter Mandelson.'
Meanwhile, former Tory cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell said it would be 'absurd' if Mr Brown chose not to express his views on whether the Bank of England had moved too slowly to cut interest rates, given he had seen fit to criticise Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross

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by JOHN STAPLES - Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A shaggy dog on a windswept seafront, the Sun setting over a poppy field and the sea battering the Yorkshire coastline are some of the stunning photographs that capture the beauty of the British landscape at a new exhibition

Gary Eastwood was named Landscape Photographer of the Year for this picture of his dog

. The images are all winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition
Among them is the overall winner, Gary Eastwood's picture of his dog Barney on Hove seafront, and an image of the Sun setting over poppy fields in Dorset by Gabrielle Barnes, 14, who won the youth section

The competition, now in its second year, has a prize fund of more than £20,000 and covers four categories - including images people have taken with their mobile phones.

Keith Foster’s big waves at Sandsend, North Yorkshire

. A free exhibition opens at the National Theatre in central London on November 17
Readers can get AA Publishing's book of the exhibition at the discounted price of £22 by calling 01903 828 535 and quoting reference LPOTY2

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

A desperate dog owner has posted a profile of his terrier on the internet in a bid to find his lovesick pet partner


John Roberts decided to take action to try to stop Perkins making indecent advances towards female dogs

'He is six years old, charged up and ready to go. It can get quite embarrassing when we go out. As soon as he sees a female, he is up on two legs and jumping all over them,' the 59-year-old said

A lonely hearts advert for the Jack Russell-cross was also placed in the local paper in Shrewsbury but there have been no takers.
'I have set him up his own e-mail address in case anyone wanted to apply. He's very distressed because he's had no messages or phone calls,' said Mr Roberts.
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by JOEL TAYLOR - Thursday, November 6, 2008

. Food labels would have to be bigger than the cans they go on under new European rules, critics say


(The old Coke label (top) and what the new one would look like (bottom

The proposals say the print size on packs must be at least 3mm high and extra nutritional guidelines must also be added.
On a small tin of Nestlé cream, the current 45mm-tall label fits comfortably - but under the new laws the label would have to be 90mm high - twice the size of the tin.
The same applies to a new label on Coca-Cola light bottle - there is bigger wording but it is more squashed together

'What the commission is proposing is disproportionate - in more ways than one,' said Susanne Doring, spokeswoman for the confederation of food and drink industries of the EU.
Ironically the problem threatens the smallest portions of products which do most to discourage obesity.
In the next few weeks, food makers will be urging Euro-MPs to reject a one-size-fits-all labelling policy. The proposals have also been criticised by Conservative Euro-MP Chris Heaton-Harris.
'Better food labelling is important but the current proposals seem to have been dreamt up on the back of a napkin,' he said

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Thursday, November 6, 2008


Digital Jeremy goes splat in the online game

Following his controversial comments about lorry drivers, Jeremy Clarkson has been immortalised in an online video game

His remarks about truckers murdering prostitutes have caused anger, with thousands of people complaining to the BBC

As he completed a lorry-driving task on Top Gear, he said: "This is a hard job and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers.
"It's a hard job: Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." In the online game, Run Clarkson Run, you get to navigate the TV host past speeding lorries. The object is to try to pick up as much cash as possible before being splatted by a truck.
The game was built and released on internet by Glasgow games development company T-Enterprise.
T-Enterprise's managing director Sadia Chishti said: "Jeremy Clarkson is a loveable rogue, but we think he's overstepped the mark this time.
"So we figured we'd give truckers the chance for revenge. And not just truckers; the whole family can spend hours playing the game, running over and killing Jeremy Clarkson just for fun

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by MILES ERWIN - Thursday, November 6, 2008

You wouldn't have thought origami was a particularly expensive hobby - or one which involves a detailed knowledge of spacecraft

But for artist Won Park, it's a bit of both. The paper-art master twists and folds his creations entirely from one- dollar notes and has fashioned models of some of Hollywood's most famous spaceships.
Among his designs are fantastically intricate replicas of the Millennium Falcon, Tie Fighters and X-Wing jets from the Star Wars films and Captain Kirk's USS Enterprise from Star Trek

The talented - and extremely patient - artist has also created wonderfully detailed models of koi carp, scorpions and a spider.

.The 38-year-old, from Hawaii, took up origami when he was just five and was taught to fold simple models by his mother
'As I got more advanced in my folding skills I started to fold my own creations. Then, in junior high school, I started to fold dollar bills and was hooked on that ever since,' he said

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This is basketball player Kobe Bryant. He is not 73 years old

Ken Mink made both of his foul shots Monday night in a U.S. college basketball game

Nothing unusual there - except that Mink is 73 years old
Mink, a full-time student at Roane State Community College, entered the game with about 16 minutes left and missed one shot in about three minutes
Seven minutes later, he went back in the game, was fouled and made two free throws as his team beat King College's junior varsity - or "B" team - 93-42

I found myself on the free-throw line 52 years after my last college game," Mink said. "I said, 'Just relax and shoot it like you know how to all day long.' I just floated the shots in there. I'm in the books now. I can relax a little bit."
Mink last played college basketball 52 years ago at Lees College in Jackson, Kentucky.
Last year, after shooting baskets at a neighbor's house, he wrote to several area colleges, and Roane State coach Randy Nesbit agreed to give him a chance.
Mink has practiced regularly with the team since school began in August

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Life as we know it is built on a series of seemingly insignificant elements - things that we often take for granted, if we think about them at all.

In a brand new series, called The World Without... Fred Dove examines the consequences of removing just one of those insignificant elements, and discovers some surprising possibilities.
What would this mean for daily life around the world? What might we be using instead today?
The first programme in the series, The World Without...Cows, considers the value to global society of all things bovine.
What would our world be like if early man had not domesticated the fearsome aurochs - the likely anscendant of all modern domesticated breeds of cattle?
Fred discovers just how important cows have been to religion, to medicine and indeed to civilisation all around the world, and examines the bovine link with global warming.
What is the future of our cattle? Could we face a future without cows?
First broadcast on 07 November 2008

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15) Running time: 129min

by ANNA SMITH

Some critics have declared Oliver Stone's biopic of George W Bush sympathetic. True, it doesn't particularly accuse him of, say, conspiracy or corruption but it paints a portrait of a man who faced world-changing decisions about war and torture – and arguably took them lightly

W flits back and forth from Bush's days as a hard-drinking young jock to his presidency. Josh Brolin puts in a terrific performance in both roles, particularly entertaining as the clueless, womanising slacker who can't hold down a job, no matter how many daddy (James Cromwell) manages to get him.
It's an absurd image: the future president as a work-shy boozer sneering at his father's political profession. For all his idiocy, we like this W better than the born-again bore he turns into

Following a religious experience, Bush quits the booze and starts getting serious about a career in politics – not for ideological reasons but for personal ones. Every opportunity he grasps is due to ambition, or even just convenience.
The tone of W flits from humorous to sinister as this amiable self-server begins to run the most powerful country in the world. In both the flashbacks and recent past, much is made of Bush's infamous malapropisms: amusing but an easy target worked too hard. A more crucial problem is the supporting cast.
All of Bush's real-life allies are played by recognisable actors, including Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, and frankly it's distracting. Especially odd is the mannered turn from a prosthetically altered Thandie Newton as a largely mute Condoleezza Rice.
W isn't a flawless classic but it certainly provokes thought about the rule of a president few will be sorry to see the back of

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Silver medallist Tareq Al Farsani of Bahrain and gold medallist Ali Trabizi Nouri of Iran pose after receiving their medals in the 90kg category

Don't try this at the gym. Competitors flex their muscles in the men's World Bodybuilding Championships in Bahrain

Ahmed Hamouda of Egypt poses with his trophy after winning first place in the over 100kg category