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My grandmother's reign of

13/03 00:31, Guardian.co.uk

As a boy growing up in Indonesia, Erick Setiawan's dreams were haunted by his grandmother, an all-powerful matriarch who plotted and manipulated to keep her family at loggerheads and made his mother's life a...

Why Alzheimer's isn't the end of the ...

13/03 00:31, Guardian.co.uk

Alzheimer's is one of the diseases we most dread. But American expert John Zeisel, says there's a better more positive way to view...

Beat the yobs at their own game - get...

12/03 19:28, Telegraph.co.uk

It's too late now to rescue David Askew, but Cassandra Jardine says that even the friendliest of mongrels can act as a useful...

Classical Music 12/3/10

12/03 15:11, Belfast Telegraph

Stainers crucifixion in belfast, St Marks Church, Dundela, Thursday, March 18, 8pm Church choirs used to regularly present a performance of John Stainers The Crucifixion as part of the lead-up to...

The mind reading machine: 'Psychic' c...

11/03 20:57, Daily Mail

A computer programme that can read your mind has been developed by British scientists. In tests, it was able to access and interpret memories by scanning the brain patterns of...

Ex-Cazenove banker sentenced to 21 mo...

11/03 19:20, The Independent

Malcolm Calvert, the former Cazenove banker convicted of insider dealing earlier this week, was today sentenced to 21 months in prison. Calvert, known as Streaky because of his habit of racing around the trading floor as a junior trader, also faces a fine to recover the money he made after passing on price..

Brain scans 'can distinguish memories...

11/03 18:05, BBC News Educational Edition

Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain...

Portsmouth addicts attack on widow, ...

11/03 17:16, Times Online

A drug addict was caught on camera as she terrorised a 90-year-old great-grandmother with a knife while she robbed her. Margaret Killeen, who had only a towel covering her, was tied up and threatened when she answered the door of her flat in Gosport,...

Ex-Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert g...

11/03 16:57, Telegraph.co.uk

Malcolm Calvert, a former Cazenove partner, has been sentenced to nearly two years in jail after being found guilty of trading on inside information alleged to have been given him by a source at his former...