As promised yesterday, a few thoughts on the new Sindytab. Just like the previous, broadsheet, edition, this is a lithe little paper, especially when compared with the hulking behemoth of the Sunset Times, or even the over-large Observer.

Four stories on the front page, plus three plugs for things further in the paper, show that this is a bit of a slow news day. The splash headline - that the IRA had been helping freedom fighters in Iraq - isn't stood up by the rest of the piece.

There are some very good bits - a three-page discussion on how the world might be collapsing (but then again might not) was pull-out-n-keep good and coherent work on the Tory leadership battle. Less impressed with the week in review section, it lacked a sense of purpose. Perhaps if the Indytab were to take another leaf from the Correspondent's book, and give over two pages to providing a brief summary of the week's main events, this section would have a firm foundation.

The sport section is thirty-or-so pages, and is comprehensive without giving coverage to any non-mainstream sports. Possibly because there weren't any non-mainstream events on Saturday. Minus several thousand for getting the promotion and relegation lines wrong; it's just about forgivable to have three (not two) going down from the Conference, as this is a one-season-only special. There have always been four (and not, as the paper states, three) going down from Division III, with three-and-a-play-off going up from Division IV. (Or "League Two", as the sponsors seem to be calling it this week.)

The Sunday Review hasn't changed at all during the shuffle, and remains a bizarre cross between a glossy magazine and an artsy section.

The properly artsy section, ABC, has had one of its regular re-vamps. As an arts section, I think it's amongst the best on the market, comparable with the sections in Friday's Indytab and Saturday's Grauniad.

However, ABC also includes television listings, and has made the bold move of not giving full listings for any channel beyond the big 5, but selected highlights. None of the highlights is for BBC-4. This is a gross oversight on the part of the editors, and (for my money) renders the listings almost worthless. Is it, I wonder, worth the Sindytab giving up the idea of giving full listings, and instead give half-a-dozen highlights for each day's programming, as happened in the days before listings deregulation.

Radio gets two pages for the whole week, and still lists the same programmes at the same time for Radios 1, 2, and 5. Much better use of space is possible - give a standard daily schedule, with Tuesday's listings "As Monday except..."

The "Compact Traveller" section comes with high promises, and I don't think it particularly delivers. An article on how to get first-class travel on the cheap is interesting, but there's very little else to tempt my palate in there. Too much for rich yuppies.

Business - obviously pre-printed - is folded into the Traveller. I'm really not sure why they bothered, as this is amongst the most vapid and anodyne sections I've ever had the misfortune to glance through. I don't think that there's much mileage in swapping business back to the main paper and putting the review as a pre-print, the problem comes from the poor quality of journalism.

In summary: news good, sport (modulo errors in league tables) good, arts coverage great, nothing else of quality, television listings very poor.

Yes, I've copied this article to the Sindytab's people, hoping that they'll at least be able to fix the most glaring oversights in time for next week.

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posted 17 Oct 2005, 19.22 +0100

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We have a result!

David CAMERON 56
Ken CLARKE    38
David DAVIS   62
Liam FOX      42

Ken Clarke finishes last, and will not go forward to Thursday's second ballot.

That much is fact: the rest is insta-spin. David Davis was expected to get 66 or more votes, and the commentators appear not to have noticed that 66-4 = Ken Clarke + 4 = Liam Fox. David Cameron's done very well, perhaps better than even his supporters might have hoped. Dr Fox's camp spent the half-hour after the result in a desperate attempt to claim their man had momentum, and was on the up, but he's not going to inherit too many of Ken Clarke's votes.

A prediction for Thursday? Cameron to get most of the Clarke vote, but not quite all. Something around 85-90 would seem to be correct. Any more than 90 would surely make his canditature unstoppable; anything less would breathe new life into the second-place. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Davis will claw back the half-dozen tactical votes from the Fox camp, but these will be outweighed by defections to Fox. I still expect Davis to prevail for second by a clear margin, which would make the approximate figures Cameron 88, Davis 59, Fox 51.

The key targets, in Bob's Full House style: Fox needs to come second, obviously. Davis needs to increase his vote, otherwise he'll be going into the public vote on a clear downward trend. Cameron needs to capture most of Clarke's vote, otherwise he'll never be able to convincingly sell his message of unity.

And now, the real battle begins...

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posted 18 Oct 2005, 18.18 +0100

Politics

An interesting thesis at Chris Lightfoot's wwwitter. Dan Hardie marshalls the evidence suggesting that Seymour the Safety Elephant is trying every means he can to sabotage this plan, short of actually saying in public 'ID cards are bollocks and I resign'. Interesting call. I still reckon there's room for a root-and-branch reform of the Interior Ministry's civil service.

He quotes Seymour the Safety Elephant (8 July) as saying that identity cards would have done nothing to prevent the previous day's bombings. Yet to-day, the PM's official spokey said, "Put to the PMOS that terrorism was not on the list, the PMOS replied that it was, as identity cards would help disrupt the use of false and multiple identities by organised criminals and those involved in terrorist activities." These claims do not add up.

PMOS also said, in the same exchange, "Asked if the Government was therefore asking people to vote on technology that did not exist, the PMOS replied that the technology was in development, and that was the important thing to remember. What people should not do was base decisions on past technology, because technology developed very quickly." That'll be a yes, then.

Meanwhile, the Register crunches the numbers, and finds the £30 claim (almost) misleads the Commons. Still, what do we expect from this lot. The truth? Oh.

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posted 18 Oct 2005, 18.47 +0100

Politics

So, there's going to be a bit of a shake-up of the Midlands' railways. As we've known for some little while, the current, sprawling, Central Trains franchise will be chopped up.

Local services in the East Midlands (Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and points east) will fall under the same umbrella as the St Pancras line trains.

Local services in the West Midlands will have a distinct operator, and will include the local services between London and Northampton, currently run by North London Trains. North London's local services between Euston and Watford Junction would fall under the aegis of Transport for London, but the Bedford to Bletchley, and Watford to St Albans lines would come under the West Mids operator.

Central's long-distance lines - Nottingham to Cardiff, and Birmingham to Stanstead - will fall into the Cross-Country franchise. In turn, XC will be re-advertised five years early, in 2007.

It's not yet been decided what will happen to the Liverpool to Nottingham service - if they're not deemed to be XC trains, the logical move would be to the newish Trans-Pennine franchise. The Dotties also reckon that Chiltern might take over the local services on the Dorridge, Stratford, and Kidderminster lines.

The least-change situation would be for Virgin to retain the cross-country franchise, for National Express to merge its North London operations with the West mids arm of Central, and hive off the East mids to the existing Midland Main Line operator. Who'll give me money that this is what happens?

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posted 18 Oct 2005, 19.10 +0100

News

We have absolutely no sympathy with Google, and scarcely more sympathy with people who entrust their life's email to a server in a far-off land.

So it's with a generous dollop of schadenfraude that we read of the information behemoth's latest run-in with the law. Sadly, it's got nothing to do with their egregious lack-of-privacy policies, or their close relationship with the military junta that claims to run all of the southern provinces in North America.

No, this one's far more simple. It's a trademark cockup. Back in 2002, Independent International Investment Research (who they?) registered "Gmail" as a trade-mark. This was almost two years before the upstart Californish launched their service, and rather confusingly gave it the same name.

IIIR reckons the name is worth oodles of money, and is more than happy to take Google to court to extract its pound of flesh. Or £30 million of dough, give-or-take.

Google, balking at the present exchange rate, doesn't want to pay that sort of money. Instead, they've taken the only option remaining, and backed down. "Google is changing the name of its web-based email service, Gmail, to Google Mail in the UK," said a report in het Grauniad this morning.

Assuming that people give their location accurately (and this is not a given, even for the world's biggest private information behemoth), new signups from the UK will get addresses in the "Googlemail.com" domain. Google may - or may not - have to migrate existing accounts to that domain.

This series of events shows Google for the grotesquely arrogant company they are. The press statement continues, "Another company has claimed the rights to Gmail ... they have not provided sufficient evidence to establish common law rights ... the tenuous nature of their claims ... very focused on a monetary settlement... the sums of money this company is demanding are exorbitant." English courts tend not to like this sort of thing. It could come back to haunt them.

IIIR has an open-and-shut case. They registered Gmail™ in 2002, they've been using it for a web-based email service since that date, and they have the right and the duty to protect it against interlopers. Even when the interlopers are 400-kg gorillas from the depths of California's swamps.

Furthermore, Google is completely wrong to restrict this decision to the UK. If the case goes to court, and if IIIR's trademark holds sway, then this decision will have to be respected by all of the western world. Including, the last time we checked, the renegade nation on the other side of the Atlantic. Gmail.com, and all other infringing domains, would be transferred - by force, if necessary - to IIIR.

Having them stop using the domain in the UK will mean they must stop using it everywhere.

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posted 19 Oct 2005, 18.57 +0100

Entertainment

A listing of selected television and radio broadcasts, with a deliberate emphasis on culture and intellectual programmes.

This week-end, the BBC should be showing Congratulations!, the celebration of 50 years of the Eurovision Song Contest. Britain's national broadcaster has failed in its duty to cover this major international event properly. For that reason alone, this listing cannot recommend any BBC programmes on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday

6.30 Gold2 UKTV Sport

The start of a trial service, which might result in a proper sport channel. Maybe. Every night at this time.

9pm UK Drama This is Personal - The Hunt For The Yorkshire Ripper

Feature-length dramatisation based on the police manhunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, exploring how the investigation dominated and ultimately destroyed the life of the man who led it - Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield.

Sunday

7pm UK Gold Doctor Who

The 2005 series gets its first airing on commercial television. Three episodes to-night, two more each night this week.

Monday

7.30 am BBC-2 Raven

The Third Tournament. When the BBC does fantasy game shows, it does them with vigour and imagination. This is going to be Knightmare for a new generation.

9:45am Radio 4 Book of the Week

Margrave of the Marshes, the memoirs of John Peel, read by Michael Angelis. (Repeated 12.45am the next morning.)

8.30 BBC-2 University Challenge

In which my alma mater, Birmingham, takes on Strathclyde. Birmingham has never won a first-round match in the Paxman era.

8.30 BBC-4 Face to Face

Herbert Morrison, deputy PM from 1945-51, lost the contest for leadership of the party to Hugh Gaitskell in 1955. Thankfully, no mention of his grand-son Peter.

9pm BBC-4 Spivs

The rise and fall of the dodgy dealer. To some, spivs were clever and resourceful entrepreneurs; others regarded them as exploitative criminals.

9.30 Radio Scotland Franz Kafka Big Band

An uncomfortable, chaotic and sinister comedy series performed by the Big Band team.

Tuesday

7pm BBC-4 Reading the Decades

Reading The 50s. There's every good reason to recommend the entire output of The Fourth Programme to-night. We begin with the biggest reads of the 1950s, a decade of postwar austerity and teenage rebellion...

7.15 C5 Michael Rosen's Treasure of Children's Literature

The excuse here: the newly opened Centre For Children's Books in Gateshead. With Quentin Blake, and featuring JK Rowling's own pictures of Harry Potter. Caution: may contain Jacqueline Wilson.

8pm C5 MacIntyre's Big Sting

Car Theft.

8pm Radio 4 File on 4

Richard Watson investigates the background to the London bombings and asks whether the authorities could have done more to counter the terrorist threat rooted in Britain.

8.30 BBC-4 Thoroughly Modern Antiques

Fashion After the news comes Veronika Hyks' review of Christian Dior's New Look...

9pm BBC-4 Soho Boho

...Then Anthony Howell narrates a documentary recalling the bohemian years of postwar London. Francis Bacon, Dylan Thomas, and Quentin Crisp can't join us, but George Melly, Bernard Kops and Oliver Bernard can and do...

10pm BBC-4 Time Shift

The Lost Picture Of Eugene Smith ... Next, what happened to Eugene Smith's photos of the 1950 election for Life magazine. Dai Smith goes in search of these lost pictures and discovers how the magazine's opposition to Attlee's radical Labour government caused them to suppress Smith's work...

10.40 BBC-4 The Third Programme: High Culture For All

... And finally, Francine Stock narrates a documentary chronicling the story of The Third Programme. Introduced in 1946, the radio station was unlike anything else on the airwaves. Broadcasting only the very best of high culture, the Third Programme captured a new ideal - that elite culture was good for the whole nation. A vision shared by both left and right in those halcyon days, and (by our reckoning) continued on BBC-4 to-day.

Wednesday

6.30 Radio 4 The Problem with Adam Bloom

Adam has difficulties with reading aloud, which is obviously a challenge for someone making a half-hour radio show. In fact, until a year ago, Adam had never read a book.

7.02 RTÉ Radio 1 Documentary on One

The Sky Ran Away. A documentary about the experiences of Tommy McKearney and John Nixon who were on the 1980 Hunger Strike and went without food for 53 days.

8.15 Radio 3 Twenty Minutes

Joanna Kavenna goes in search of the lost land of Thule, journeying through Greenland, Iceland, the Baltic States and Scandinavia. The Greek explorer Pytheas claimed to have sighted this mystery land in the oceans north of Britain, but its exact location has remained unknown.

9pm BBC-4 John Peel Tribute

These days, of course, "high culture" is almost anything outside the commercial mainstream, so that'll be how to-night's celebration of the life of the late DJ fits in. It's a year since Mr Ravenscroft's death, and one channel is able to mark it on the night, rather than two weeks early. We begin with two productions in which musicians, friends and fellow broadcasters recall what John meant to them - Dear John, and Turn that Racket Down.

9.30 BBC-4 The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith

Does this count as high culture? Of course.

9.30 Radio 3 Night Waves

Undercurrents: Margaret Atwood and Karen Armstrong join Philip Dodd to discuss the history of myth-making.

10pm National Geographic Storm Stories

Boscastle Flood On 16 August 2004, the picturesque village of Boscastle was buzzing with tourists - until the rain came. A torrent of water swept away everything in its path.

10.30 BBC-4 John Peel: In Session Tonight

Some of the acts that John championed on his Radio 1 show through the decades. Basically, an excuse to show clips of people like Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Roxy Music, the Specials, Joy Division, the Smiths, Billy Bragg, Orbital, Roni Size and the White Stripes.

Thursday

12 midnight BBC-4 BBC Four Sessions

P J Harvey Peel night continues with a repeat of this concert from LSO St Luke's in London.

1 am BBC-4 Teenage Kicks - the Undertones

The final part of Peel Night tells of his relationship with the Undertones, including an exclusive interview with Feargal Sharkey.

6.30 Radio 4 Genius

Dave Gorman and celebrity guest Paul Daniels chew over ridiculous and unworkable inventions and ideas which nonetheless display an element of genius in their creator.

7pm BBC-2 The Culture Show

Including an interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

7.02 RTÉ Radio 1 The Tuesday Play

No Hate Going To Loss by John McManus, the winner in this year's P.J. O'Connor Awards.

8pm Radio 4 Club Class

Simon Cox investigates Opus Dei, one of the most controversial and mysterious organisations in the world.

8pm Channel 4 The F Word

A weekly food magazine with Gordon Ramsay and Giles Coren.

9pm Channel 4 Blitz: London's Firestorm

The massive Luftwaffe attacks of 29-30 December 1940.

Friday

4.30 ITV Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard

Kids get all the best programmes these days...

9pm UK History The Brighton Bomb

A reconstruction of the night 20 years ago when the IRA blew up the Grand Hotel, Brighton. Featuring interviews with Margaret Tebbit and Richard Whiteley.

10pm BBC-4 Jarvis Cocker Talks to Kirsty Wark

What do you expect?

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posted 20 Oct 2005, 19.19 +0100

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David CAMERON 90 (+32) 
David DAVIS   57 (- 5) 
Liam FOX      51 (+ 9)

Mr Cameron and Mr Davis will progress to the next phase; Dr Fox returns to the Magic breakfast show, and takes that (rather worn) joke with him.

I said on Tuesday that Mr Cameron needed to push his score into the high 80s. He's done that, and more. 90 is a psychologically important figure, it sounds a lot more than 89. It doesn't quite make his candidature unstoppable, but it's very nearly a done deal.

Mr Davis has committed the cardinal sin of losing ground at every stage this week. He came into Tuesday's first ballot with 66 declared supporters, but has managed to lose 15% of them over the course. His momentum is only going one way.

Dr Fox didn't come second, but took a net gain of four votes from Ken Clarke. It's a good staging post for the next leadership contest, if there's going to be a next leadership contest in his political lifetime.

The ballot of party activists won't be a formality, but it is Mr Cameron's to lose. He, and not Mr Davis, is the front-runner.

The final result is scheduled to be announced on 6 or 7 December.

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posted 20 Oct 2005, 19.50 +0100

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The High Court yesterday ruled that Zulfiqar Khan was innocent of wrongdoing in the Great Birmingham Vote-Rigging Scandal of 2004. The judges ruled that Mr Khan had not been given an adequate opportunity to respond to allegations against him, and that the charges should therefore be struck out. Unusually, Mr Khan's costs will not be met from public funds.

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posted 21 Oct 2005, 19.05 +0100

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John "Drittsek" Gummer, "We are changing fundamentally the attitude towards passports. The passport is not a privilege offered by the Government to citizens. It is a right of citizens to get the support of their Government when travelling abroad. If the Government insist that we cannot have that right without compulsorily entering into something else, it is the first example of a change in the relationship between Government and subject."

Neil Gerrard (Walthamstow), "It is strange that an EU citizen exercising freedom of movement will be able to come in and out of the UK without having their data recorded on the national register, unless they want to remain here for more than three months. As a British citizen, however, I might find myself in the position of not being able to leave the country without having my biometrics recorded in that way."

Edward Garnier (Harborough), "at no stage were the Government able to tell us precisely what they meant by the category of designated documents that they were going to include. What we discovered, which was instructive, is that the list is open-ended, undefined and designed to allow the Government, through clause 5, slowly but surely to allow a greater category of documents to become designated."

"At no stage—I am sure that the Minister will confirm this—was he able to produce a list of those documents that he hoped would become designated. Through the Bill, the Government are therefore asking us to give them a blank cheque simply to increase the creeping designation of documents."

"Across the country, approximately 45 million to 48 million people over the age of 16 will be required to add to the convenience of this Government by providing an entry on the register and giving in addition the information found in the schedule. Seventeen per cent. of between 45 million to 48 million people is a very big number, and yet this is the system that the Government are compelling us and our constituents to adhere to."

"On 12 July, in Committee—as can be seen in column 405 of the record— the Under-Secretary of State attempted to explain his weary way out of clauses 5, 6 and 7, but was cut off in mid-sentence because the knife imposed by his own Government came down and chopped off his tongue. How can we take seriously legislation that not even the Government gave themselves time to explain? Even they did not give themselves time to respond to the arguments advanced by the Opposition parties. The whole thing would be utterly absurd if it were not so Kafkaesque."

Adam Afriyie, "For the many elderly and disabled people on means-tested benefits, registering for the ID card will be almost compulsory. Does the hon. Gentleman feel comfortable with the idea of living in a society in which we wheel out the elderly, infirm and disabled to Government processing centres to have their retinas scanned and their fingerprints taken?"

Robert Marshall-Andrews, "I voted against what I considered to be the most illiberal piece of legislation that the House has been asked to pass for half a century and quite possibly—pace the Bill on terrorism—into the foreseeable future."

John Denham, "We are locking commercial confidentiality into the procurement process far too early, when many of the major technical design issues have not been solved. The likelihood, therefore, is that we shall end up paying more than we need to for the final product because we have not had appropriate scrutiny of what is being purchased."

Alex Salmond, "The House is being asked to vote for a pig in a poke and accept something that cannot possibly be quantified."

I'm still Proud of Britain.

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posted 22 Oct 2005, 17.44 +0100

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The best argument for allowing comments on a blog. Ever. Though it would have been even better as a post of its own...

Opposition spokesmoron Candidate X is the target of litigation in a Vancouver court. The puppet for more intelligent people is charged with bringing death and destruction to the civilian people of Iraq, a charge that trumps any claim of diplomatic immunity. Nancy Burden expresses her doubt that justice will be done.

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posted 22 Oct 2005, 17.51 +0100

Intellectual

The big album release this week is Alex Parks' second record. Het Grauniad falls into the trap of expecting an identikit dullard from the Slimon Cowell production line. For a paper of the left, it's amazing how easily their critics are seduced by the corporate monoliths that would like to control and monetarise entertainment.

Far more important is the following review from the Record Of The Day website: "The appearance of Alex Parks on the bill produced a couple of groans in the audience. For those with short memories she was the winner of Fame Academy 2003 and is easy to knock purely on the grounds she's come from a TV talent show. We now understand why the option was picked up - she's got genuine talent which becomes far more obvious when she performs original material. Yes it's delicate, yes it's targeted at a female audience, but what's wrong with that? If critics and programmers will afford her the pleasure of letting the Fame Academy slip into the past, there's every reason she should sell records and win new fans."

Simon Amstell, do take note. The Dogsby-and-Kielty show is in the past. It would be nice if you could join us in the present.

No, the critics have somehow reached the conclusion that a comedy performer from Stoke-on-Trent is more interesting than a honest talent. Only two explanations for this lack of intelligence spring to mind - it's a joke, or brown envelopes stuffed with money have been doing the rounds. Witness the half-hour commercials that are doing the rounds on little-viewed channel BBC-3, or the tosh in the Celebrity Mondial. If they can't do the ten seconds of research to get the year of Louise correct (1984, ackheoili), how can we trust Het Grauniad's review of Bert Bills' crap new album? The Indytab gives him two stars, which is a little generous, but does show their independence.

It's all change in Germany this week, with that Bert Bills billock topping the lists, ahead of Depeche Mode.

North Europe's Top Twenty

 20 17 Shakira - La tortura
 19 11 Pinocchio - T'es pas cap Pinocchio
 18 10 Sean Paul - We be burning
*17 NE Star Academy V - Je ne suis pas un heros
 16 16 Coldplay - Fix you
 15  9 Crazy Frog - Axel f
*14 re Bob Sinclar - Love generation
*13 13 DBT - Listen to your heart
*12 15 Alex Parks - Looking for water
*11 NE U2 - All because of you
*10 NE Kelly Clarkson - Behind these hazel eyes
  9  7 Franz Ferdinand - Do you want to?
* 8  8 K T Tunstall - Suddenly I see
  7  6 Daniel Powter - Bad day
* 6 18 Tatu - All about us
  5  4 Pussycat Dolls - Don't you
  4  3 Sugababes - Push the button
* 3  5 Robert Williams - Tripping
* 2  2 Depeche Mode - Precious
* 1  1 James Blunt - You're beautiful

Three new entries. The annual lead-off single from TF1's Star Academy show is just mushrooming in popularity, and may yet climb further. The man who wants to be world leader has a band, and their latest slice of stadium rock (the fourth single from the album? Ah, who cares. Just stick to writing sometimes-decent songs, sir.) And Kelly Clarkson's third hit in as many months is reliably popular. Also note a new peak for top Uckfield lesbians Tatu, and though Bert Bills has the thirteenth-highest score for a single week this year, he's still only position 3 this week.

All change in the UK, where rising guitar band the Arctic Monkeys somehow have the best-seller this week. No, I've no idea why, and I'm not that impressed with the single - top ten, yes; top of the pops, probably not. The Sugababes and McFly round out a thoroughly decent top three. The Prodigy's greatest hits is the biggest selling album; Simply Red's re-make album lands behind the Sugababes in third place, and Depeche Mode have a number 6 album. Down at number 23 is the greatest hits of Michael Bolton, it's amazing how many people will pay good money for a blank CD.

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Cloud this week, with a good lump of rain.

17 Mo cloud               11/16,  0.8
18 Tu cloud                8/12,  0.0
19 We heavy showers        9/13,  4.7
20 Th sun                  8/14,  0.6
21 Fr rain                 9/13,  8.4
22 Sa cloud                9/13,  0.0
23 Su sun and showers      7/14,  1.3

The showery airflow continues for the coming week; Monday will be wet, Thursday looks pretty bad, too.

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posted 23 Oct 2005, 17.56 +0100

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