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An excellent piece in today’s Guardian by Philip Pullman, author of the wonderful His Dark Materials trilogy, debunks censorship during the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (it’s important to point out that they celebrate the books, rather than the censorship).

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Here’s something that’s just too good not to share. Mourners at a Shrewsbury graveyard have got a little impatient at being told what they can and cannot put on the graves of loved ones. So they fought back. Do not click on the following link with a mouthful of liquid

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There’s a fairly obvious answer to that question when you realise that many of the track ones were set in the 1980s when drugs testing was a lot less rigorous than it is now. And that most of them were set by athletes that came under suspicion of drug misuse. But apparently things aren’t as straightforward as that.

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When identifying a likely place for unidentified flying objects to appear, there are certain characteristics that seem to powerfully boost the chances of an encounter. Proximity to an airbase, a flat, rural landscape and acres of pine trees laid out in extremely straight rows all seem to provide an irresistible attraction to whatever is behind these mysterious visitors from the skies.

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The other day, driving about in the neighbourhood of Cardington in Bedfordshire, we came across two huge hangars in a field. My fellow-traveller, knowledgeable in such matters, was aware of its history as an airship base.

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Allow me to introduce you, via the wonders of the modern Internet, to this talented woman, yoga teacher Esther Ekhart from Bantry in Ireland.

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Huge news from the BBC this morning – I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue is set to return to the schedules. As a long-time fan, I feel ambivalent about this. It’s fantastic to know the show could have a future – but no Humph?

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Particle physicists advise: live the next two days as if they were your last, just in case they are. CERN, the giant research laboratory in Switzerland that invented the internet and provided much food for thought for novelist Dan Brown, is about to switch on a new piece of kit that causes black holes.

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