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Comment: Lucian Freud's early works show familiar taste for the ugly Though his official biographer tends to deny it, there is a very noticeable gap between Lucian Freud's present style and the way he painted at the outset of his phenomenal career. Devout Muslim guilty of making boys beat themselves during Shia ceremony A Muslim was found guilty of child cruelty yesterday for forcing two boys to beat themselves with a bladed whip during a religious ceremony. Grant Wilkinson guilty of running one of UK's biggest ever gun factories A gunsmith who set up a factory in his garden shed to make murder weapons for gangland Britain will be sentenced to a long term in prison today. Nation must grab this bargain by a sensual master To the wider public Titian himself is not as widely known nor does he seem quite as accessible as some of the other painters who have fetched high prices in the saleroom in recent years. He is not a Matisse or a Van Gogh. And his mythological subject matter, no matter how sensual its treatment may seem, can look somewhat remote from us. Farmers count the cost as rain ruins wheat harvest Thousands of farmers across Britain fear that they could experience the worst harvest in years after this month's relentless rainfall. Nervous curators fear for art as duke calls in his loan The moment that every museum chief most dreads came to John Leighton late last year. Jewels that rank among the greatest treasures An imminent sale of important pictures rarely makes me gasp. I suppose I am immune to it. However, the news that the Sutherland Trustees are selling both their great Titians is certainly alarming. They have been on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland since 1945 and have been in Britain since 1798. As far as big fish are concerned these two pictures must constitute the biggest left in private hands, positive leviathans in a dwindling stock pool. French call for help in taming British speed fiends British motorists have become a safety menace on France's roads, regularly flouting the speed limits after crossing the Channel, French police say. British claim to Ascension seabed raises the stakes over quest for Falklands oil Britain laid territorial claim to a swath of seabed around Ascension Island in the remote South Atlantic yesterday, in a move that threatens a replay of the Falklands conflict with Argentina. Plastic surgery for bullied girls A plastic surgeon reshaped the nose of a 14-year-old girl who was being bullied and gave breast implants to other girls who had been teased about their appearance, it emerged yesterday.

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