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    BBC winner Radcliffe hits marathon jackpot

    2002-12-09T09:42:40Z

    Paula Radcliffe became the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year last night ...

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    A good run for Paula

    2002-12-09T09:43:02Z

    Runner Paula Radcliffe last night became the first woman to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for mo...

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    Athelete's feet

    2002-12-09T09:43:31Z

    Marathon winner scoops BBC sports award ...

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    The queen with the light touch

    2002-12-09T09:43:49Z

    ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has commissioned some of the most popular shows in the channel'...

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    Anger at TV fire warning

    2002-12-09T09:44:07Z

    A government advertising campaign to raise the awareness of fire safety before last month's strike has been censure...

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    Radcliffe's grace and favour is richly rewarded as BBC hits right note

    2002-12-09T09:45:09Z

    I do believe they have finally cracked it. Forty-eight years of hurt - until last night. The Sports Personality of ...

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    BBC award crowns a magnificent year for Radcliffe

    2002-12-09T09:45:43Z

    Paul Radcliffe last night crowned her year of glory by being voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. ...

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    Paula runs away with title

    2002-12-09T09:46:11Z

    Paula Radcliffe capped a year of personal triumph last night when she was vote the 2002 BBC Sports Personality of t...

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    NTL's Knapp wants regional focus

    2002-12-09T09:47:34Z

    Debt-laden cable firm NTL is set to step up its marketing activity in the new year, but will restrict its campaigns to the regions after chief executive Barclay Knapp admitted the company had wasted money selling the service to people who could not get it, ...

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    Anyone want the Muppets for Xmas?

    2002-12-09T09:47:38Z

    They are for sale ...

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    Why we must wed

    2002-12-09T09:48:01Z

    Objections to the big ITV merger have to be lodged this week ...

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    Filmy evidence

    2002-12-09T09:48:33Z

    Two TV journalists making a Channel 4 documentary are in jail in Bangladesh ...

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    Jowell orders BBC to reform News 24.

    2002-12-09T09:49:44Z

    The department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has set the BBC a deadline of April

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    Lipsey admits Dyke slur was 'over the top'.

    2002-12-09T09:49:53Z

    Labour peer Lord Lipsey has apologised to Greg Dyke after admitting the personal attack he made on him in a magazine article - in which he described the BBC director general as lacking in 'emotional intelligence' - was 'over the top', writes Leigh Holmwoo

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    Sky's charges for electronic guide to soar.

    2002-12-09T09:49:58Z

    BSKYB is set to almost triple the amount it charges some free-to-air channels to appear on its onscreen electronic programme guide (EPG), in a move that could put a number of smaller channels in jeopardy, writes Paul Revoir and David Wood

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    Trigger Happy indie axes staff.

    2002-12-09T09:49:58Z

    Absolutely Productions, producer of Trigger Happy TV, is undergoing a dramatic restructure, cutting its overheads and moving out of scripted comedy, writes Penny Hughes

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    Performance gets Sky Digital lifeline.

    2002-12-09T09:49:58Z

    The Daily Mail's struggling arts channel Performance is to be given a new lease of life, appearing on satellite for the first time, writes David Wood

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    Lords take viewers' side.

    2002-12-09T09:49:59Z

    A number of prominent peers this week warned that the House of Lords was prepared to

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    NTL resets Chapter 11 deadline.

    2002-12-09T09:49:59Z

    NTL has set a new target of the end of the month for emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it missed its November deadline, writes Paul Revoir

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    Wall to Wall film to look at crisis in transport.

    2002-12-09T09:49:59Z

    The BBC is set to air another of its hypothetical reality docu-dramas, with a film covering what might happen if Britain's transport infrastructure was paralysed, writes Jon Rogers