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Phil Brown, manager of struggling Hull City, is considering using suicide strikers in the club’s forthcoming fixture at home to Arsenal. ‘We beat them last season,’ said Brown, ‘but to be honest we were lucky. They say they’re tired from too many matches, but they could field their reserve side and still beat us.’

‘We’ve got lads who would die for Hull City,’ said Brown. ‘So I propose to take advantage of that loyalty. The first time we get a free kick within striking range, we put one of the lads in their defensive wall, and ‘kaboom!’

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Posted: Mar 13th, 2010
More from Sport

Famed for daring opera productions that relocate historical action to other periods for dramatic effect, Dr. Jonathan Miller has wowed audiences and critics by setting his new production of Leonard Bernstein’s classic, West Side Story, in 14th century Verona.

Dr Miller told a gathering of critics at a preview: ‘I wanted to confound people’s expectations of this Bernstein masterpiece by taking it as far as possible away from its 1950s New York context. And it works! In my earlier productions, I found it easy to give Rigoletto a Mafia-based interpretation or to set The Elixir of Love in America’s diner culture, but I felt I was getting lazy and needed a new challenge.’

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Posted: Feb 26th, 2010
More from Arts/Entertainment

‘I may wear a hat in my next leading role as Rick Blaine in the remake of Casablanca’, TV’s Mr D’Arcy tells Mark Kermode in an interview about the long journey that began with an unforgettable adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, ‘and probably a raincoat too.’

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Posted: Feb 21st, 2010
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The Audit Commission today adds to its findings in support of the government’s aim of keeping old people in their own homes for longer.

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Posted: Feb 20th, 2010
More from News In Brief

A travel company has bucked the trend of lower bookings by introducing ‘proxy holidays’ which remove the need to go away at all.

Grant Sanders, head of Stevenage-based ProxyHolidays, said he had the idea on a recent trip to Paris. ‘I was queuing to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, and I couldn’t help noticing how bored everyone looked. When they finally reached the front, they held up their mobiles to get a picture and then moved on to photograph something else without even having a proper look.’

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Posted: Feb 19th, 2010
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