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Awesome Orson

28.07.08 EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Orson Taylor won his third gold medal today ­ and with it an entry in the record books 		 
Heatwave paralyses capital

16.08.08 LONDON taxis were used as makeshift ambulances when the capital was overwhelmed by a heatwave

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Lunar tunes

10.08.08 THE JAPANESE lunar probe Muses-F, partly funded by Disney, has returned to Earth with 8.6kg of helium-3


Net results are United's goal

12.02.08 MANCHESTER United have signed Osama Kashiyama in a bid to improve their disappointing performance in the Japanese market 		 
Scare in the community

13.03.08 OVERZEALOUS magistrates were making indiscriminate use of parenting orders and risked ruining the new partnership between the children's home network and a business consortium, said Dr Ernest Lavery

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  • After four terms in the wilderness, the Republicans have squeaked back into power on a platform indistinguishable from that of the Democrats. Many American observers attribute the result to the winning way the victorious candidate, George Bush Jr, uttered its two main slogans, 'You can make it' and 'We can run it better'. Neither party made much mention of the poverty and crime that are turning most American inner cities into war zones. More worrying was that only 15% of registered voters bothered to go to the polls. MF

  • Government funding to three local authorities ­ London, Bristol and Manchester ­ is to be capped following their failure to tackle high crime levels. In each case, the government states that joint strategies between the local authority and the police had been poorly managed, and failed to reach set targets. PF

  • The artist Cornelia Parker is in discussion with Nasa over her plans to return a meteorite into space. The space agency has said it would rather take the rock up and bring it down again, as it does not want to be accused of creating space junk.

    'But it came from there in the first place!' says a disappointed Parker. 'It's a very pure gesture, putting back a falling star, but Nasa claims I'd just be adding to space debris.' SC