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Willetts warns graduates: if you can't get a job start a business
Universities minister says students leaving higher education should rethink what they consider to be a graduate career
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Austerity drive will hand billions to private sector
Outsourcing firms are preparing for bonanza of contracts to provide everything from binmen to back office bureaucrats
Front page
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BP Gulf oil leak puts pressure on UK to ban North Sea drilling
European energy commissioner says he would like to impose moratorium on new wells until lessons are learned
Top stories p2
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Milton Keynes shopping centre becomes Grade II listed
Owners of centre featuring three miles of shop fronts furious as they say listed status will inhibit 'future evolution and growth'
Top stories p3
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Community struggles to rise from ashes of Buncefield fire
Residents are still dealing with damage to their lives and livelihoods 4½ years after the fire
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Buncefield companies fined £5.35m for oil depot blaze
Tory MP attacks 'insulting' level of fines for five firms including Total, BP and Shell
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Yorkshire Ripper will not be given parole, high court rules
Peter Sutcliffe, who received 20 life sentences in 1981 for murdering 13 women, will spend rest of his life in custody
UK news p4
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Jonathan Ross bids farewell to the BBC
David Beckham is among the guests as controversial chatshow host bows out with final show
UK news p5
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Edinburgh considers privatisation of bin collection
Liberal Democrat leader, Jenny Dawe, has launched a process that could see the city's core services effectively privatised
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Civil servants find lucrative roles in private sector
Predicted explosion in public services market will see stream of managers being offered lucrative packages
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UnitedHealth: Big profits but some questions
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Private health firms scent big opportunity in NHS outsourcing plans
Union warns reforms could jeopardise specialist services and encourage fraud
Top stories p6
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Schools outsourcing: companies see chance to help teachers prepare lessons
Private sector hopes councils will pull out of many services to schools, leaving profitable opportunities
Top stories p7
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Historian Orlando Figes agrees to pay damages for fake reviews
Orlando Figes posted reviews on Amazon praising his own work and rubbishing that of his rivals
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Queen's executioner beetle wins species naming competition
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Apple iPhone 4 fix: a free 'bumper'
UK news p9
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Big booksellers bank on stronger cast of celebrities to lift Christmas sales
New offerings from top literary names likely to add lustre to autumn market
UK news p11
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Zac Goldsmith clashes with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News
Angry exchange as Conservative MP demands apology but journalist demand answers on election spending
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British army's alleged torture of Iraqis goes to judicial review
High court victory for 102 men claiming systemic abuse while in detention may lead to public inquiry
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Release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi a mistake, government says
Announcement comes as Hillary Clinton says she will investigate claims BP lobbied UK government to release Lockerbie bomber
UK news p12
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Senior civil servants to help community groups
A phalanx of Sir Humphreys is to help communities break down social action project barriers
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Nick Herbert hopes gay pride visit will stop homophobia of Euro allies
Tory MP trying to encourage the Law and Justice Party to moderate its views on sexuality
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David Cameron: UK is junior partner in special relationship with US
British prime minister's comments published in Time magazine on eve of his trip to meet Barack Obama
UK news p13
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Simon Hoggart's week: Creepy and silly, but Mandelson is never boring
Book shows how politically impotent Tony Blair was
UK news p15
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Cheers as Gulf oil spill is capped at last
Celebration in the control room but BP warns that effort to seal off well for good is 'far from the finish line'
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Full damage from BP oil spill is not yet known – but US may have been lucky
John Vidal: Crude poured into the Gulf is roughly what Americans burn in five hours and happened in the right kind of sea
International p16
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Nervous BP faces an uncertain future
Terry Macalister:
International p17
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Italian women pay the ultimate price for jilting their lovers
Eight women in Italy who have broken off relationships have been killed in the past eight weeks
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George Clooney faces hordes before testifying at Milan fraud trial
Actor arrives with lawyer at trial against three people charged with misusing his name in clothing line
International p18
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Last month was the hottest June recorded worldwide, figures show
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Temperatures soar as heatwave hits Germany
Meteorologists attribute the heatwave to a zone of low pressure north of the UK and high pressure around the Mediterranean
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Spain to ban sex adverts from national newspapers
President says ban is part of a strategy to fight people trafficking and sexual exploitation rife in Spain
International p19
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Iran accuses US and UK of supporting group behind mosque attacks
CIA denies claims it has been backing Jundullah, the Sunni separatist group which has claimed responsibility for the bombs
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Interpol arrests 5,000 in Asian gambling den crackdown
$10m seized in month-long swoop on illegal gaming houses in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
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Maastricht ban on tourists in marijuana cafes upheld by EU court
Dutch border town's decision to limit coffee-shop admission to residents to curb drug tourism backed by advocate general
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Iraq hotel fire kills dozens
Fire in Sulaimaniya forces victims to jump from windows
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Australian PM expected to call election
Reports suggest prime minister Julia Gillard is likely to announce 28 August poll date
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Fidel Castro makes fourth public appearance in week
Cuban revolutionary leader continues high-profile visits as he warns against climate change and the threat of nuclear war
International p22
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My husband the al-Qaida kingpin
Two widows of Iraqi al-Qaida leaders tell of life on the run – and how they face death sentences despite being kept in the dark
International p23
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Angus Moat: 'I'm furious with Raoul. But I love him, he's my brother'
When Raoul Moat shot himself on a Northumberland hillside his brother hadn't seen him for years. Now Angus is filled with regret – and rage at the circumstances of a hard life and terrible death
Saturday p24
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Sugar coats this hunger for the past
Saturday p25
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Is coming out a career killer?
Former BP chief Lord Browne said this week that despite a shift in attitudes, homophobia is rife — and people in public life are afraid to come out
Saturday p26
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North Korea's giant leap backwards
Last year's disastrous currency reform wiped out savings and caused healthcare to collapse. Now many fear another famine
Saturday p27
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A tip for New Labour in glass houses – easy on those stones
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Belfast's bitter orange
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Ditch the bossy-boot bishops
Comment & debate p28
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Big Lunch: a legend in its time
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This is no careful plan: the NHS is being wired for demolition at breakneck speed
Comment & debate p29
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Country diary: Bedfordshire
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Corrections and clarifications
Gulam Mustafa | Brno | Nicolas Sarkozy -
Wall Street: The banks are still boss
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Unthinkable? Henry VIII still in power
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Public services: Local turbulence
Editorials & reply p30
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Religion, rules and the role of women
Letters: Did we go through the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment and political striving for equality just to roll over and be forced by law to "respect" those who still adhere to dark-age ideas? -
Forward to the past
Letters: It seems remarkably prescient of the BBC to be showing a programme about a Victorian pharmacy so soon after Andrew Lansley's white paper on proposed reforms for the NHS -
There are peace memorials too
Letters: Unlike the ever-growing number of war memorials, there are not many memorials to peace -
A house is a home for many more
Letters: Roofs that do not leak, gutters that do not drip, windows that are insulated and make the house secure, solid doors, front and back, to keep the residents safe ... -
A revolution in Jewish life
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Anti-smoking laws are still a burning issue
Letters: In countries where tobacco displays have been banned, youth smoking has not fallen
Editorials & reply p31
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Sudoku 1,616 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9
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Sudoku 198 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines
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One million low-paid workers excluded from government's pledge to protect them from wage freeze
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RBS could sue Goldman over $800m loss on Abacus deal
State-owned bank could take legal action against US firm fined $550m by regulators for its role in sale of mortgage-backed security
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Whole Foods Market's British stores serve up more losses
Declining appetite for organic produce hits US chain's bid to challenge Waitrose and M&S
Saturday p32
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Brian Myerson braced to lose battle for control of D1 Oils
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Burberry buys Chinese trading partner
Restructuring plan will enable fashion brand to keep tighter rein on global image
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Staff at nuclear decommissioning quango paid £5m in bonuses
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Newsquest owner Gannett reports 35% net profit rise and Yahoo ad deal
Financial p33
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Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou
'It has been crisis management, day in, day out' Papandreou tells Helena Smith
Financial p35
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Prom 1 BBCSO/Belohlavek
Albert Hall, London
Colossal, celebratory and a real event, Mahler's Eighth Symphony is the work the First Night of the Proms was made for, writes Erica Jeal -
Aspects of Love
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The Miners' Hymn
Reviews p36
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Leslie Turner obituary
Other lives: He was a Labour party stalwart for 76 years, having joined the Labour League of Youth when he was 15
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Mary Evans obituary
Co-founder of a picture library recognised worldwide for its historical images
Obituaries p37
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Good to meet you ... Candy Richards
A reader on how the Guardian provides her with a perfect escape from a busy life as a single-mother in full-time work
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This week: The pope, Roman Polanski and Mel Gibson
Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days