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The murder of James Bulger hangs over the whole country like a dark cloud. All of them poured scorn on it: 'I'd be amazed if any reputable company would do such a thing,' said one. Commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals, he was posted to Singapore and spent virtually his whole service as a

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Alexei Mikhailichenko failed to cut out Robertson's cross, allowing John Millar to nip ahead of McPherson and glance the ball beyond Goram.Rangers: A Goram; S Nisbet, D Robertson, S McCall, D McPherson, J Brown (A Mikhailichenko, 75 min), D Gordon, I Ferguson (N Murray, 17 min), A McCoist, M Hateley, P Huistra. Part of the

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The Labours of Hercules look like a shopping trip compared with the physical ordeal faced by the eight international competitors vying for the title of the World's Strongest Man 1993. Among his other collections, not for sale, are early Scottish weapons, chickens, breeds of cattle and roses. In the 1950s the Met were perhaps not

Such accusations may seem ludicrous, but they evidently strike a chord with a section of the Romanian public, who have turned Corut overnight into one of the country's best-selling authors.. Now the obsession is for post-war architecture, and the more obscure and uncompromising it is, the better.Gavin Stamp, pioneering campaigner for Victorian architecture, unofficial historian

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Galina Stepanenko whizzed through pirouettes, skipped across the stage with crisp releves and was everything a Black Swan should be Tellingly, she lacked that all-important hint of White. When the Stock Exchange changed its dealing system at the time of Big Bang, it bought in the Nasdaq screen system from New York and adapted it