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Triplets sent to three hospitals

Due to shortage of incubation units and specialist staff Martha, Evie and Harry are at hospitals on a 400-miles round trip

Labour plans pact for Sir Menzies as Speaker

The Lib Dems have been urged to unite behind Sir Menzies Campbell for the post by a senior Labour backbencher close to PM

Nissan axes 1,200 jobs in Sunderland

Carmaker cuts nearly 25 per cent of staff at the North East plant in one of the worst culls to hit the UK car industry

Business news 

Dell blow to Ireland with plant closure

US giant axes 1,900 jobs and shuts business that accounts for 5% of Ireland's GDP, after Waterford Wedgwood goes bust

Clifford Chance to axe up to 80 London lawyers

The world's biggest law firm has begun a redundancy consultation that will affect associates across all practice areas

• Hard times hit partners in leading law firms

• Boardman: law firms right to cut partners

Madoff prepared $173m cheques for associates

Prosecutors found signed cheques ready to send to friends, family and co-workers in alleged fraudster’s office

Sport News 

West Ham face further inquiry over Tevez

Premier League and the Football Association are to launch a fresh investigation into conduct of the London club

• Carlos Tevez affair timeline

• West Ham vow to fight on in Tevez saga

Murray to meet Federer again

World No4 beats Sergiy Stakhovsky and will meet Swiss in Qatar Open semi-finals, just a week after beating him in Abu Dhabi

Donington gets go-ahead for £100m work

Planners have tonight approved major redevelopment to the circuit needed for it to host next year's British Grand Prix

Comment 

Wanted: a superhero to save America

Barack Obama will need help from the rest of the world for his economic rescue to work

• Gerard Baker

Paralysed while the Hamas hydra lives

For Islamists in Gaza they are part of a global struggle not a battle to create a state

• Amir Taheri

Blind faith in experts fails justice

Professionals giving evidence in court are supposed to be independent not hired guns

• Camilla Cavendish

Life and Style 

Marriage? It's not worth the divorce

When her cheating husband walked out on one writer and her baby son, she grieved, raged... and wrote a book about it

Great writers on great food

The smell of garlic, the horror of raw egg, a perfect Bolognese... four leading American writers on unforgettable dishes

Jay Leno reviews the Ford Flex Limited

At first the Ford Flex made the comedian laugh. It looks like the designers built a Mini Clubman - except twice as big

Arts & Entertainment 

Vinyl's back! Life begins at 45rpm

Pete Paphides discovers why, although it isn't cheap, the pop, crackle — and soul — of vinyl are making a comeback

Getting personal with comic operetta Skin Deep

Once an opera-hater, Armando Iannucci tells why he has now written one about our obsession with the way we look

The award-winning - but quiet - wizard of Oz

John Lusk meets 38-year-old Gurrumul, the first Aboriginal superstar, who has sold more than 100,000 copies of his album