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• Mark Steel: Never mind the baby, get back to work

It's like if Ricky Hatton did an interview at the start of a fight, saying "I'm going to show the world tonight just how tough I am", then walked into the audience and smashed an old woman in the mouth.

• Linday McDowell: Political leaks are so vital to our democracy

The revelation that counter-terrorism squads were sent in to deal with a leaking politician (alleged) in London must surely have raised a few concerned eyebrows back here.

• Eamonn McCann: Did nationalists really believe arms firm wouldn’t have war role?

The credit crunch hasn’t affected the fortunes of the arms company the SDLP did most to bring to Derry. In Dallas on Monday, Raytheon announced that the Airborne Stand-off Radar system (Astor) has gone into service.

• My man’s a Scrooge but I’ll give him festive fun

It was bound to happen. Sooner or later, it was inevitable.

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• Hamish McRae: It will take time, but we'll recover

Why do the financial markets remain so catastrophically gloomy when the world's governments and central banks are striving so hard to rescue the world economy?

• Gail Wlaker: What Gordon’s wife should do over ‘mistress’

As more seedy claims about Gordon Ramsay’s cheating are made by his alleged mistress, I wonder if his wife Tana is now beginning to rue all those hand in hand photocalls with her grinning husband?

• Eric Waugh: Has heavy-handed arrest of Green made a fool of the Home Secretary?

The last time I had any dealings with the police was some months ago.

• Pol O Muiri: Why we must fly the flag for shopping in the north

Ah, partition. Don't you just love the confusion it causes?

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• Deer delivers severe beating to hunter
• Man divorced over Second Life affair
• Japanese man wants to marry cartoon character
• 'Hundreds' of animals and jewellery found in raid
• Hero dog saves kittens from house blaze
• Swedish ice hockey game delayed by sex toys
• Naked man wedged in chimney
• Zoo animals found in suspected drug den
• Girl changes her name to 'Cutout Dissection.com'
• Monkey works as waiter
• Ban for viewing sci-fi film while driving truck
• Man punches shark to save pet dog
• Politician and pilot spot UFO in Meath
• Dog rescues owner by calling police
• Police use Taser on nude man walking his dog
• Burglar attacks with sausage and spices
• Man with 86 wives vows to marry more
• Outback mayor urges 'ugly' women to move
• Spanish monarch replaced by Homer Simpson
• Pooh blocks drains in Ballymoney
• Britain's smallest burglar: It's a tall man's world
• Couple fined over 'sex games' at war memorial
• Nevada brothel entices visitors with free petrol