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/ 27 February 2007
The hairdressers at Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, were locking their doors for the night last Friday when a cavalcade of cars drew up outside. Britney Spears jumped out of one of the vehicles and, accompanied by her bodyguards, marched into the salon. When owner Esther Tognozzi refused to shave off the pop star’s hair, Spears took hold of the clippers and removed her locks herself.
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/ 5 December 2006
Popular fascination with Ned Kelly, Australia’s iconic horse thief and bank robber, has soared since Peter Carey’s <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i> won the Booker Prize last week. But not everyone is happy about the growth of Kellymania, writes Patrick Barkham.
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/ 20 November 2006
He helped to create the animal rights movement — now Peter Singer wants to change the way we eat. He tells Patrick Barkham why McDonald’s, GM crops and food miles are not all bad.
They are the gurus of globetrotting, the men who built publishing empires from their adventures and wrote guidebooks encouraging millions to venture further afield than ever before. Now the founders of the Rough Guides and Lonely Planet books, are uniting to urge tourists to fly less.
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/ 16 September 2005
A potentially crippling campaign of fuel protests failed to materialise across the United Kingdom this week as tiny groups of beleaguered demonstrators failed to stop tankers filling up with petrol and diesel at oil refineries and depots across the country. With few demonstrators in sight, it was also business as usual at two refineries in west Wales that, five years ago, witnessed dramatic blockades.
Catholics around the world celebrated Vocation Sunday last weekend by focusing on those who commit their working lives to the church. But many prayers were more fervent than usual after renewed predictions that the number of Catholic priests in Britain is set to halve in the next decade.
The Kenyan government was this week poised to reinvestigate the murder of British woman Julie Ward. In a dramatic intervention during an inquest held in Britain 16 years after Ward’s death, the Kenyan government admitted there had been ”deliberate obstruction” of her father’s attempts to discover how she died on the Masai Mara game reserve.