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Blair intervened over F1 tobacco ban exemption, documents showBlair interevened over F1 tobacco...

The former prime minister Tony Blair. Photograph: Adrian Wyld/AP Tony Blair personally intervened to secure an exemption for formula one from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting the sport's boss, Bernie...

Bingedrinking crackdown to ban 'free drinks for women' promotions

Bars could be banned from offering free drinks to women while cigarette-style health warnings could be put on alcoholic drinks under new rules to curb Britain's binge-drinking culture. By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent...

Q&A: 42-day detention

What is happening this week? Peers are to vote on Monday on whether to extend the time a suspect could be held without charge from 28 days to 42 days - six weeks. The amount of time that a terrorism suspect can be held without...

Two-in-Five Britons Say Tories Ready to Govern

Many people in Britain—though not a majority—think that the opposition Conservative party is ready to assume the country’s leadership, according to a poll by YouGov published in the Daily Telegraph. 43 per cent of respondents...

Next president may have to sell 2016 Olympic bid

The next American president likely will be asked to get involved in politics of a different sort: selling Olympic officials on bringing the 2016 Games to Chicago.On the surface, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Chicago 2016...

Andrew Rawnsley: Why the crisis puts a spring in the Prime Minister's step

A re-energised Gordon Brown has been given a second chance to persuade the voters to respect him and listen to him Someone who sees a lot of the Prime Minister remarked to me the other day that he had not seen Gordon Brown so...

John Stewart: A one-man eco-industry

Where would you expect to meet a man described by an awe-struck fellow campaigner as "one of the great eco-warriors of our age"? Swinging through the rainforest, maybe? Riding the bows of a boat into battle against whalers? Not...

Newsnight's Gavin Esler splits from wife and moves in with raunchy violinist lover

Raunchy act: Anna Phoebe is known as the 'vixen of violin' Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler has split from his wife and set up home with an attractive young musician known as the ‘vixen of the violin’. The BBC journalist, one of...

Big and bold - but will it cure the banking system?

What can one say after a week like that? Dramatic market moves can be cathartic or a signal of grim times ahead. Dramatic policy moves can either be desperation or a well-judged response to prevent gloom turning to disaster. G7...

Blairs Ditch Their Luxury Apartment

2:36pm UK, Saturday October 11, 2008 Former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie are selling a flat they bought with the help of a convicted fraudster. The Blairs are selling off their controversial Bristol flat The...

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