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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business

Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Jeremy Hunt and James Murdoch: same salon, fellas?
Jeremy Hunt and James Murdoch: same salon, fellas? Photograph: Steve Back/Peter Macdiarmid

Cutting it fine

The short crop, the hint of unruly spikiness about the fringe, even the colour: do James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and Frederic Michel also share a hairdresser?

"Knuckleheads"

Barack Obama's word for the secret service agents who were implicated in the Colombian prostitution scandal. Not an insult you hear very often. Time to revive it?

Treble dip

We're in a double-dip recession. If the UK comes out of recession but continues to bob along the bottom, will there be fears of a treble dip? A quadruple? What is the maximum number of dips you can fear?

Gary Neville

Taken to people's hearts for the big old noise he made when Fernando Torres's goal sealed Chelsea's place in the Champions League final. Remember when everyone thought he was boring, despite his brilliant crosses during Euro 96? Good to see the turnaround.

Tent bags

Made by Esther Porter from old tents discarded at festivals, they look great and, at a guess, they're waterproof.

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