Trial by cobbles could further unsettle Tour de France contenders who are already battered and bruised So, after two quiet, uneventful days of the 2010 Tour de France, the riders head for the cobbles. With almost all the major contenders nursing bumps and scrapes, some more serious than others, the last thing any of them wants to do today is ride across nine miles of bone-jarring pavé .

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Riders prepare for bump and grind

There are growing voices for Latin to be taken more seriously in our schools The grassroots interest in all things Latin is in no doubt. Hollywood follows the money, and has no fewer than eight classically themed movies in production

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Why we’re all better off with Latin

First English translation of novel about Gestapo hunt for German couple who defied Hitler enjoys record sales A little-known thriller about the German resistance against the Nazis has become the sleeper hit of the summer – more than 60 years after it was written. Now it has finally been translated into English, Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin is taking bestseller lists by storm on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK alone, Penguin Classics has sold more than 100,000 copies in just three months and is expecting to exceed 250,000 sales within the year – astonishing figures considering that most English novels barely sell a few thousand copies.

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Anti-Nazi classic now UK bestseller