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Cup action from the designated cup week, plus trouble in Spain.

A small earth tremor was felt in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, in the early hours of Wednesday. One man was injured in the mining town of Doncaster, and there was a small amount of structural damage. Our correspondent slept through the event, but was reminded of an infamous headline in The Times, back in the days when it was a paper of record.

(More: Small amount of research done: writer reads the rest of the paper)

(More: We think Kay Burley should be sacked. Here's why.)

(A survey has ranked fifty greats of children's literature. We list them all, and comment where we've read them.)

Tables from Division I and the 1. Bundesliga, and the week-end's upsets.

(More: Bombs in London, the ground invasion begins, Kenny Dalgleish, Julee Cruise, River City People, Deep Purple, The The, Chesney Hawkes, the Almighty, Living Colour, Madonna)

• Pop music, Duffy and the Feeling are this week's number 1, the BPI awards get all the stick they deserve, and we're more interested in what's missing from the top 40.
• TV and radio, Skins really hits the wrong note, werewolves and vampires run amock, and Brigstocke reads from The Twat in Iraq. Sandi Toksvig is never this good.
• News of the week, Surprises in Cyprus and Pakistan's elections, Fidel Castro resigns, and oh look! John Straw lied out of his front teeth over Extra-Ordinary Rendition.
• Weather this week mostly dry, warming up mid-week.

A comment we've not been able to make for a week, covering ITV's Duel and the possibilities for the new FA Cup television contract.

Results from the European Cup Achtelfinalrund, the UEFA Cup First Round Proper, and a preview of the week-end's fixtures.

Yes, further thoughts on the present and future state of DAB in the UK: Heat Radio, BFBS1, religious output, commercials, and Bern Leckie.

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Why we're ignoring the Olympics, the pros and cons of ethnic integration, the nonsense of creationism, an ideological napkin, the train to Spain, duckwatch, Israel, oral tests

Big problems in the Scottish borders, small ones in Spain, plus tables for Ligue 1 and Division A.

(More: The end of the war as we knew it, Deee-lite and the chart's strange tie-break rules, the Railway Children, MC Hammer, Thunder, Chris Isaak, Nomad, and songs by Morrissey and Chris Rea. Look, it's 1991, what are you expecting?)

• Pop music, Duffy (who? Exactly!) and Jack Johnson head the lists, and we hear from the biggest thing to come out of Harrogate since the year dot.
• TV and radio, Skins is back, another chance to see The Rock 'n' Roll Years, and Brigstocke wonders which will split first: the church of England, or Peter Andre and Jordan.
• News of the week, Shooting in Timor Leste, the Crass Spectacle comes under attack, Sr. Berlusconi's been stealing people's policies, Kosov@ declares herself independent, and Northern Rock is nationalised to briefly rest in public ownership. Plus what Rachel from North London thinks of the twat they've got instead of the US president.
• Weather this week dry, cold by night, warm some days.

(Putting the D1 space to good use, and wondering what DAB's selling point is.)

Results from the First Round Proper are bad for Spain, good for Germany and England.

The latest book review in our occasional series is The Encyclopaedia of Classic Saturday Night Telly.

Names popular for one year only, by train to Alicante, this week's rubbishness from Murdoch International, rugby league, mosquitos, and the government's plans to inculcate culture into children.

The quality of justice in the new Russia: ill man denied treatment because he won't give evidence in political trial. Welcome back to the gulag, and remember, because of its close ties to the Kremlin, Livejournal supports the jailing of people with AIDS.

The quality of democracy in Russia is just as poor: the forthcoming presidential election is to be boycotted - by international observers. OSCE election monitors have suffered from abuse from the Kremlin, which has introduced such severe limitations as to make it impossible for the monitors to do their job. Only 70 visas would have been issued, and they wouldn't arrive until a week and a half before polling. The OSCE has thrown in the towel, and deemed the Russian elections to be unfair. Remember, people, Livejournal supports unfair elections.

(Treating this sham "democracy" in the colonies with the seriousness it deserves: none at all.)

An unimpressive night out, job musings, and cover songs.

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Division I thinks about moving overseas, a top-of-the-table clash in Germany, and Division II tables.

After Fru Hazlitt announces her company is out, we've four plans for DAB, and other thoughts on GCAP's job-saving scheme

(More: snow, mortar bombs, Tigertailz, Frazier Chorus, Claudia Brucken, the Las, That Petrol Emotion, Milltown Brothers, 808 State, Kim Appleby, Oleta Adams, the Simpsons, and half a dissertation on My Bloody Valentine) Songs from Frazier Chorus and My Bloody Valentine.

• Pop music, Basshunter and Jack Johnson head the lists, the return of Wet Wet Wet, Mozza, and Goldfrapp, and why is a French hit doing the biz in the UK?
• TV and radio, Suits you.
• News of the week, Religious leader supports religious law, gets criticised by religious people who don't understand his cunning plan. Plus reports on the elections in Serbia, Spain, and Italy.
• Weather this week getting milder.

The press, G****e being boring and useless, education tests are also useless, governments missing their targets.

danah boyd has written about the social graph, and asks the question: what problems are caused by making these connections? Like the question we posed last week - what's in it for us - the answers tell us more about prejudices of the people who created the model than the real world.

A roller durby match, a minor revelation at dance class, a meal out, and a question regarding Magdalen Oxford.

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The Torygraph tries to get to grips with Skins, confuses Z and D. Plus Grange Hill, Robert Fisk, Rupert Dirtbag's war against rational thought, cartoons, BBC credits, email etiquette, NFL, Willow and Kennedy, the BRIT school, UK Old's Made Up Opinon Poll, and Pellmet names.

Round 5 in the Coupe de France springs surprises, the fall and fall of Werder Bremen, analysing the Off White Cup result through the eyes of NCAA-ball fans, and new owners for Liverpool's Stadiennes. Plus the first XXII calculated by two means.

Reviewing the ratings figures for the various million-pound wins on television.

The supreme court makes an unsettling ruling; Mister Blair and the Gaza Strip; impending tax rises; shoddy journalism and Jeremy Beadle; Mr the Soup Dragon and Rupert Dirtbag; Newspeak; the Lisbon treaty; secularism.

(More: The end of apartheid, week 3 of the KLF War, TVAM, England collapses, and profiles of the Throwing Muses, Tanita Tikaram, Donny Osmond, Caron Wheeler, and the New Kids on the Block) With songs from Mark Summers and Praise.

• Pop music, Basshunter and Adele still head the lists, Hot Chip, One Night Only, David Jordan, Nickelback, plus the return of Sarah Cracknell, and Atomic Kitten: to hell and not coming back
• TV and radio, Summits and insurance frauds.
• News of the week, McQualifications, Con Way, Miles Kington and Jeremy Beadle.
• Weather this week bit of a cold snap.

The Cup, the return of the NHL and NFL, an interesting result, some modern history, and Fives on complaints, portable music, and food.

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Just when we thought the social graph was dead in the water, it turns up again.