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Gotcha! Judge rules that there's no copyright in headlines

2010/09/08 by Roy Greenslade

Australia's federal court has ruled that there is no copyright in newspaper headlines.

The decision has far-reaching implications for publishers who are seeking to seal off their editorial content from people who do not pay for access to their online material.

The court dismissed a copyright claim by one of the country's leading newspaper groups, Fairfax Media, over headlines in its title, the Australian Financial Review (AFR)…

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Care for the elderly will be hit hard by local council cuts

2010/09/08 by Anna Bawden

Pam Edmonds, 88, has been attending a day care centre near Exeter twice a week for seven years. It has been a lifeline ever since spinal problems left her unable to walk. A resident of Broadclyst, a small village a few miles outside Exeter, Edmonds, who lives alone, was isolated until she was referred to the day centre…

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Oxburgh: UEA vice-chancellor was wrong to tell MPs he would investigate climate research

2010/09/08 by James Randerson

The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia gave "inaccurate" information to MPs when he told them that the university was setting up an inquiry into the reliability of key scientific climate change papers produced by his researchers, according to the man who led the inquiry.

Lord Oxburgh told MPs on the science and technology select committee today that Edward Acton had been wrong to tell the same committee in March that his inquiry would look into the science itself.

"I think that was inaccurate," he told the MPs…

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Radio review: Listen Against

2010/09/08 by Elisabeth Mahoney

Listen Against (Radio 4) returned last night, and did so in splendid form. I'm not so keen on the bits where real presenters appear, in on the joke for a sketch, but otherwise this is a gem of a satirical swoop at radio and television.

Part of its strength is Alice Arnold reading the "stories" that gleefully tease broadcasting excesses and conventions…

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Is the HomeBuy scheme in danger of being axed?

2010/09/08 by Virginia Wallis

Q We are looking to buy our first house. When we went to the housing development in which we are interested we were advised that, at this moment in time, the HomeBuy Direct scheme is only running on properties where completion will take place before the end of September. The house we are looking at may not be due for completion prior to that cut off date…

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Extradition agreement under review as Theresa May launches inquiry

2010/09/08 by Allegra Stratton, political correspondent

The government today opened up Britain's extradition arrangements for review, launching a year-long inquiry into whether it is easier to extradite suspects from the UK to the US than vice versa.

Home secretary Theresa May told the Commons the inquiry would investigate whether the treaty, agreed between the US and UK immediately after 9/11, was "unbalanced" and whether the home secretary should have greater discretion to intervene.

At present the US does not need to present evidence to a British court to request extradition, but the UK needs to present evidence to an American court…

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Plan to break up banks is likely to meet government resistance, admit Lib Dems

2010/09/08 by Patrick Wintour

Nick Clegg and Vince Cable both acknowledged todaythat their hopes of breaking up British banks were likely to meet resistance from within the government, as the shadow chancellor, Alistair Darling, claimed it was obvious that Cable is starting to execute a U-turn.

"You can hear the squealing of the brakes," Darling said.

Clegg, speaking at prime minister's questions, admitted there was "a lively debate" within the coalition over the future of banking…

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BP oil spill report – as it happened

2010/09/08 by Richard Adams and Adam Gabbatt

11.50am:

BP's report into the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is published at noon today. The company is expected to admit it is partly to blame for the disaster, but will also claim that other companies must accept some responsibility…

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What to say about … Clybourne Park

2010/09/08 by Leo Benedictus

"Heard the one about the white man and the black man who shared a prison cell? Do you know what tampons and white girls have in common?" asks the Observer's Susannah Clapp, in a shamelessly attention-grabbing opening to her article on Clybourne Park. But, wait, there is a point behind this wanton provocation. Bruce Norris's new play (much like his old one) is about exposing the prejudice that continues to lurk within outwardly liberal people…

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Hammer attack school condemned by victim's mother

2010/09/08 by Steven Morris

The mother of a white 15-year-old boy who was left with brain damage after a hammer attack by a gang of British Asian pupils blamed his school today after a report found it failed to recognise a series of racist incidents prior to the assault.

Henry Webster was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with the sharp end of a claw hammer in an assault by the gang on the tennis courts at Ridgeway school in Wroughton, near Swindon, Wiltshire, in January 2007.

His mother, Liz, said the serious case review (SCR) showed the school was responsible…

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