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No party has come clean on scale of cuts – thinktank
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Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre faces the music
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Nick Clegg wows the public in his role of Spanner in the Works
David Hare: From the minute he upstaged Brown and Cameron, Clegg has been performing to packed houses
Front page
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Idris Elba defends Thor film role
Top stories p3
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Arrests prompt questions about oversight of Prince's charities
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Five-minute bowel cancer test could save thousands of lives, say scientists
Screening and treatment with Flexi-Scope cut deaths by 43%, according to trial published in Lancet
UK news p6
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Roman sculptures withdrawn from auction amid fears they are stolen
Bonhams auction house acts after claims that second century AD artefacts were taken during illegal excavations
UK news p7
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Female Birmingham council workers win £200m equal pay case
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Jockeys killed in revenge arson attack, court hears
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Royal Mail and postal workers reach agreement over pay and conditions
UK news p8
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Soldiers viewed all Iraqis as 'scum', Baha Mousa inquiry hears
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Millionaire to build island eco-home off Dorset coast
UK news p10
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Families of Helmand victims criticise UK and US authorities
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Girl, 14, in court over Stockwell killing
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Consumer body Which? wants cars to have electronic stability controls as standard
Driver overturns popular Citroën Nemo multi-purpose vehicle in emergency obstacle manoeuvre
UK news p11
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NIC 'tax on jobs' claims by bosses undermined by company figures
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Nick Clegg accused of hypocrisy over home profit
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Old faultlines persist among parties on how to help poor through tax changes
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Liberal Democrats fail to attract party funding despite electoral surge
Top stories p12
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Digested election: Peppa Pig refuses to save Labour's bacon
Popular children's character cancels her campaign appearance and the Tories dump Michael Caine as head of the militia -
Election 2010: Rising VAT is the campaign's gorilla in the room
Top stories p13
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Police community support officers criticise Tories for refusing to guarantee their future
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Ed Balls: the man Tories want decapitated
Top stories p14
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Gordon Brown blasts Tories and Liberal Democrats over child tax credit cuts
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Baseball nerd who predicted Obama's win foresees Labour meltdown
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It's like The Truman Show – but starring Lembit Opik
Top stories p15
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David Cameron heckled by parent over special education
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Cameron's big society makes little impact on voters
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Mike Smithson's bet of the day: Good odds on seats
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Conservatives suspend Scottish candidate over homophobic remarks
Philip Lardner, candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, said homosexuality was 'not normal behaviour'
Top stories p16
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Ferocious fight for fat toff who has heard it all before
Tory candidate Nicholas Soames shrugs off the fat toff epithet but says battle with Lib Dem candidate has become 'toxic'
Top stories p17
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General election stylewatch: David Cameron's bags
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Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts
Top stories p18
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Volcanic ash cloud cost European business up to €2.5bn, says EU
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Boy attacked by teacher Peter Harvey was troublemaker, court told
• Pupil described as leading light in classroom trouble
• Teacher yelled 'die, die, die' as he beat pupil, witness says
UK news p20
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Manuel Noriega, former ruler of Panama, sent to jail by French judge
Panama's former dictator to face trial on money laundering charges and remanded in Paris jail where inmates include Carlos the Jackal -
Kidnap, rape, murder: the dangers faced in Mexico by migrants to US
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Mexico's Felipe Calderon says Arizona laws breed intolerance and hate
International p24
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Burmese PM and cabinet resign from army to stand as civilians in election
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Ukraine parliamentary vote on Black Sea fleet erupts into fistfight
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Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun 2 becomes Russia's most expensive flop
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Indian diplomat charged with passing state secrets to Pakistan
Indian high commission official Madhuri Gupta accused of espionage ahead of this week's regional peace talks in Bhutan
International p25
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Boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao enters Philippine political ring
International p27
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South Korean first woman to climb 14 highest mountains
International p29
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Goldman Sachs: Fabrice Tourre defends his 'Frankenstein products'
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US banks pouring millions into bid to kill Barack Obama's finance reform bill
Financial p30
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Goldman Sachs hearing: the jargon
The Senate hearing on Goldman Sachs heard about Frankenstein, cats and dogs, lemonade and 'one shitty deal'
Financial p31
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Whistleblower accuses BP over rig documents
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Lloyds Banking Group returns to profit
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Aviva spurns chance to break up rival Prudential
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Financial Services Authority fines Commerzbank £595,000
Financial p32
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High street banks face 'tough action' over poor customer complaint handing
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Standard & Poor's downgrade Greek credit rating to junk status
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Alison Cooper, Imperial Tobacco chief, rails against positive discrimination
Financial p33
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Diary
Stephen Bates: Labour isn't working? Clearly at least one Saatchi employee hasn't got the message -
The left-leaning voter's paradox: for a radical change, go the same old way
Comment & debate p35
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Don't forget the local elections
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Women have gone missing, and new sexists are dusting off old theories
Comment & debate p36
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Quilts: stitches in the fabric of time
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Let Nick Clegg enjoy his moment. Next week the horror begins
Comment & debate p37
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Corrections and clarifications
Dave Prentis | Liberal Democrat ethnic-minority candidates | South Park and Muhammad -
In praise of … political activists
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Death of Blair Peach: The truth at last
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Fixing public finances: Call off the phoney war
Editorials & reply p38
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Daffodil planting is putting our native wildflowers under threat
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Justice denied for Blair Peach
Letters: The loved ones of those who died in police custody should take heart from what those closest to Blair Peach have achieved -
We will continue to support Congo
Letters: The Labour government is the biggest humanitarian donor in cash terms in Congo and we work closely with partners -
Putting the question of electoral reform in proportion
Letters: The future electoral system has seized the political agenda and will remain centre stage in the event of a hung parliament -
Tories need to rethink police cuts
Letters: Cutting police community support officers will put the public at risk and could increase crime and fear of crime -
Black politics
Letters: After the election I hope the new intake will form a collective voice able to articulate the concerns and aspirations of black communities -
Marathon man
Letters: Alan Sillitoe died as 20,000-odd people in London were seriously contemplating the loneliness of the long-distance runner
Editorials & reply p39
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Guy Kewney obituary
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HJ Whitfield Lewis obituary
Obituaries p40
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Joan Austoker obituary
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George Webb obituary
Father of British trad jazz, he inspired Humphrey Lyttelton