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Police are investigating why an online message appeared mentioning the death of a professional wrestler’s wife 14 hours before her body was discovered.

J M W Turner was not just known as a prodigious water-colourist and landscape painter in his lifetime. He was also famed among his nearest and dearest as a bit of a miser.

A fruit-picker from South African condemned Tesco’s labour practices in person at the company’s AGM yesterday, claiming that workers such as herelf were receiving “breadline” wages.

Tiger Tiger, a bar and club on Haymarket which is frequented mainly by twenty-something partygoers, has a reputation as “the place to pull in town”.

A massive manhunt was under way last night for a terrorist cell after an attempt to explode a car bomb outside a packed London nightclub was thwarted by chance. Counter-terrorism detectives were scouring hundreds of hours of CCTV footage to track the driver of a 10-year-old Mercedes abandoned in the West End early yesterday, which contained a device capable of killing and maiming hundreds.

The imminent smoking ban could persuade a million smokers to give up and
save 500,000 lives according to experts.

Watching the performance of Fei Yang as the Monkey King in Damon Albarn’s opera Journey to the West the other night, it was hard not to be struck by the similarities between that character and Albarn’s own. There’s an assertive chippiness about both the fictional monkey and the fanciful musician, a stubborn refusal to be gainsaid, that allows both of them to take on seemingly impossible tasks, and a cheery cheekiness that enables them to surmount obstacles with a good heart, as if the notion of failure or inability simply hadn’t crossed their minds.