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9/17/2017: FRONT PAGE: Police search Surrey house as teenager held over tube bomb An 18-year- old man was being questioned by counterterrorism officers last night after being arrested in Dover in the wake of the Parsons Green bomb attack in west London. Police described the arrest as “significant” after seizing the man in the port... 9/17/2017: FRONT PAGE: LONDON ON ALERT An armed police officer and soldier on duty in Whitehall as security intensified in the capital after the Parsons Green tube attack on Friday. 9/17/2017: FRONT PAGE: May is too weak to fire Johnson, say angry Tories Senior Conservatives have denounced Theresa May as “too weak” to unite her cabinet and run an effective government after she refused to sack her foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for breaking ranks over Brexit. Johnson infuriated Tory MPs on both... 9/17/2017: NEWS: In prosecco country, winemakers fend off critics who say drink has lost its sparkle It’s aperitivo time in Treviso, a city in the heart of the Italian prosecco-making region of Veneto, and some of those gathered in the bars are still smarting over recent criticism of their esteemed sparkling wine. “It’s not true that it’s bad for...

PROFILE: The Observer is a British broadsheet Sunday newspaper. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. Founded in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Profile extracted from Wikipedia and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Circulation: 302,975 (April 2010)   Political Outlook: Centre-Left, Liberal   See our UK Newspaper Guide.