Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.

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The Russian raced out to a 4-1 lead in the breaker, but the world number 21 was not to be denied as she saved a set-point before closing out the match in just under an hour and a half.

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Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.

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If is hurts it, it's a deal breaker, but of course there is a whole world in between.

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The world number 16 from Dunblane suddenly found his top form, winning the breaker easily, only to see Tursunov manufacture three break-points in game six of the final set.

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