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Wimbledon to mark 40 years since Billie Jean King sexism victory

Women’s Tennis Association announces plans to host event commemorating key staging post in the battle for equalityEqual opportunity laws in the US were still two years away when Billie Jean King barricaded 63 of her colleagues in a room at the Gloucest…

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RSPB urges British public to create 1m ‘homes for nature’

The wildlife charity hopes to help slow the decline of UK species by encouraging people to create wildlife habitats in their gardensThe RSPB is urging the public to create 1m new “homes for nature” in its most ambitious campaign to date, prompted by an…

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Owen Paterson: UK must become global leader on GM crops

• Environment minister says UK is falling behind trade partners• ‘GM could be as important as the agricultural revolution’Environment minister Owen Paterson will on Thursday urge the UK to lead a European farming revolution using genetically modifi…

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Frank Langella to take on role of King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre

Festival theatre’s Angus Jackson to direct Langella in role often called the Ever~est of acting at Minerva theatre in NovemberFrank Langella, the triple-Tony award winning actor who memorably portrayed Richard Nixon on stage and screen, is to take on K…

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Kings Of Leon, Vampire Weekend And More Added To 2013 iTunes Festival Lineup

Kings Of Leon, Vampire Weekend And More Added To 2013 iTunes Festival Lineup

Kings of Leon and Vampire Weekend, along with several other performing acts, have been confirmed to headline this year’s iTunes Festival in London.

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How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio

Spokesperson for Thomas Heatherwick says he knew nothing of ideas shown to London Games organisers in 2007As the polished copper petals of Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic cauldron rose up to form a striking flaming dandelion last July, gasps of awe and wo…

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‘The Last Five Years’ begins filming in NYC

View Larger Map This week Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan (Smash) began filming The Last Five Years in New York City. The movie is an adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical of the same name about the beginning and end of the rel…

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James Gandolfini dies aged 51

Star of HBO’s hit series The Sopranos may have suffered heart attack in Italy, according to cable network spokeswoman• James Gandolfini’s life and career – in picturesThe Emmy-award winning American actor James Gandolfini, best known for playing N…

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AppAdvice Daily: Comparing iOS 6 And iOS 7 Native Apps

AppAdvice Daily: Comparing iOS 6 And iOS 7 Native Apps

Check out how the native apps in iOS 6 look next to the redesigned ones in iOS 7 on today’s AppAdvice Daily.

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