Music TheHighDefinite.com Mash-ups used to feature just two bands; this latest effort from Brighton-based mash-up artist The Kleptones features no less than six bands music spliced together: The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Boston, Cypress Hill, Rare Earth and Daft Punk.

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Digital Digest: 26/07/2010

Tomorrow marks the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed in Normandy.

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D-Day veterans: "I will never forget the noise of the planes" (Times Online)

The parents of a seven-year-old boy diagnosed with a brain tumour which cannot be operated on in this country are trying to raise £100,000 to take him to the US for a new treatment.

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£100,000 appeal to save boy with rare illness (Evening Standard)

A village fête is a delicate indicator of the worth of any new gardening book. If after two hours on the bring-and-buy stall, a review copy at knockdown price still has not shifted, you can safely suppose the book is a bummer. Sometimes the titles are a giveaway.

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This year's crop: The best gardening books of 2008 (Independent)

A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman is facing jail after admitting stealing rare pages and plates from books in the British Library. Harvard-educated Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, used a Stanley knife to cut out pages, plates and maps from up to 150 historic books.

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Scholar thief faces jail for £1m damage to rare books in libraries (Evening Standard)