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• What's your experience of teaching in America? Teachers, share your stories

  30-08-2018 23:51
  The Guardian’s teacher series will put a spotlight on the wave of teacher activism sweeping the country and the crisis in America’s classrooms.What’s the biggest challenge you face as a public school teacher in America?Are your school facilities and textbooks adequate?
  
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• Eddie Jones addresses England breakdown with head of referees

  30-08-2018 23:35
  • England head coach met Tony Spreadbury
  • Jones: ‘We won’t get better at it until the next World Cup’Eddie Jones has held talks with the Rugby Football Union’s head of referees in an effort to solve England’s breakdown woes after a run of five defeats in six Test matches. Jones met Tony Spreadbury earlier this month to request the way the breakdown is refereed in the Premiership is brought closer into line with the international game.England’s break
  
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• 'I watch TV to unwind': Theresa May not a fan of BBC's Bodyguard

  30-08-2018 23:30
  Prime minister suggests show about female home secretary is not relaxing television for herTheresa May has said she did not enjoy watching the BBC drama Bodyguard, which focused on the relationship between a rightwing home secretary and her personal protection officer.The prime minister switched off after 20 minutes of the first episode and told reporters while visiting Africa that she preferred watching programmes that were not so close to home. Continue reading...
  
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• 'I watch TV to unwind': Theresa May not a fan of BBC's Bodyguard

  30-08-2018 23:30
  Theresa May, a former home secretary, and Keeley Hawes as Julia Montague, a fictitious home secretary.Composite: Reuters/BBC
  
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• Champions League group-by-group guide: English quartet well placed

  30-08-2018 23:25
  Manchester United, Liverpool and Spurs should squeeze through tricky groups while Manchester City’s task looks relatively straightforwardAtlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco, Club Brugge Continue reading...
  
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• Warrington’s Bryson Goodwin racks up five tries in Hull thrashing

  30-08-2018 23:16
  • Warrington Wolves 80-10 Hull FC
  • Wolves achieve highest victory over HullWarrington responded to last Saturday’s Challenge Cup defeat by Catalans in convincing fashion, inflicting the heaviest defeat on Hull FC in their history to maintain their own push for a place in the Super League play-offs.The widest margin of defeat Hull have ever endured was their infamous 71-0 play-off defeat by Bradford in 2005 – but they had never conceded 80 points in a game, as their season
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline halted after Canadian court overturns approval

  30-08-2018 23:06
  In a unanimous decision, the federal court of appeal said the government failed to consider the concerns of some First NationsA Canadian court has overturned Ottawa’s approval of a hotly-contested pipeline project – throwing plans to nearly triple the flow of Alberta’s landlocked bitumen to the west coast into limbo – in a ruling hailed by environmentalists and Indigenous groups.In a unanimous decision released on Thursday, the federal court of appeal said the Liberal gov
  
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• Far-right Dutch MP cancels Muhammad cartoon competition

  30-08-2018 23:05
  Geert Wilders drops plans for controversial contest in November following death threats Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has cancelled a planned contest inviting people to submit a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad following death threats and large-scale protests in Pakistan.“To avoid the risk of victims of Islamic violence, I have decided not to let the cartoon contest go ahead,” the far-right opposition politician said in a written statement on Thursday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Our Everest Challenge review – Ben Fogle, Victoria Pendleton and some vertiginous cliches

  30-08-2018 23:02
  Only one of these two makes it past halfway in this gruelling spin on the celebrity challenge show. Plus, the Coco Chanel story is better than fictionBen Fogle has achieved something noble and profound: he has made those series where semi-famous people sweat over contrived ordeals, such as pretending to be an Edwardian serf or going on quite a long walk, look even more trivial. In Our Everest Challenge With Ben Fogle & Victoria Pendleton (ITV), the adventurer and his Olympian pal literally t
  
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• Colin Kaepernick grievance set for trial after NFL dismissal request is denied

  30-08-2018 22:57
  Former quarterback says he has been blackballed by teamsKaepernick started wave of anthem protests over social injusticeColin Kaepernick’s grievance against the NFL is set to go to trial after an arbitrator turned down what was effectively a request by the league for the case to be dismissed. Kaepernick filed the grievance in October last year, claiming owners have colluded to keep him out of the league after he knelt during the national anthem to highlight racial injustice in the United S
  
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• Plastic Bag Charge Set To Double Under Government Plans To Protect Oceans

  30-08-2018 22:12
  Theresa May is set to double the plastic bag charge, she has confirmed.
  
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• The Favourite review – Olivia Colman is priceless in punk Restoration romp

  30-08-2018 22:00
  Yorgos Lanthimos brings scabrous energy to this dark comedy of 18th-century court intrigue and Colman excels herselfJust when we thought Olivia Colman couldn’t get any better, she steps up to movie-star lead status with an uproarious performance as Britain’s needy and emotionally wounded Queen Anne in this bizarre black comedy of the 18th-century court, a souped up and sweary quasi-Restoration romp full of intrigue and plotting – with wigs, clavichords and long corridors to sto
  
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• Amanda review – a calm, healing film about life after Islamist terror

  30-08-2018 21:47
  A well-meaning but sometimes obtuse French drama about a seven-year-old whose mother is killed in a mass shootingThe devastation and loss caused by terrorist attacks in Paris, Nice and elsewhere form the starting point for this determinedly gentle French film from director and co-writer Mikhaël Hers, about a fictionalised violent incident. It’s a calm, healing movie with a sweetly emollient musical score, and it consciously – counterintuitively – refuses to engage with the
  
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• Keaton Jennings shipwrecked amid a storm of failure by England’s top order | Andy Bull

  30-08-2018 21:41
  The manner of the opener’s dismissal in the first innings of the fourth Test against India highlighted a player whose ability to make decisions is hampered by the mental pressure he is underBack when Keaton Jennings was a coming man, he was one of a group of English players picked to take part in a military training camp. One of the tasks, Jennings said then, was that the players had to fix a broken boat during a storm.Turns out that while this may have been good metaphorical preparation f
  
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• Payday lender Wonga collapses into administration amid deluge of customer compensation claims

  30-08-2018 20:37
  Britain's biggest payday loan company Wonga has collapsed and begun the process of appointing administrators.The firm's folding confirmed Sky News' report on Sunday that the company was on the brink of collapse following a deluge of customer compensation claims.Wonga's descent into administration also comes weeks after Sky News reported that the loans company had received an emergency £10m cash injection from a consortium of high-profile technology investors.
  
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• India on top before Sam Curran and Moeen Ali save England from collapse

  30-08-2018 20:36
  • Fourth Test, day one: England 246; India 19-0
  • Curran helps England recover from 86 for sixThe men untainted by the defeat at Trent Bridge kept England in the game at Southampton. Sam Curran irrepressibly led the way as if he did not understand the enormity of England’s plight or the confidence crisis afflicting the top order and finished with his highest Test score of 78. Meanwhile Moeen Ali’s contribution of 40, calm and considered compared with those above him, was al
  
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• Paul Taylor, celebrated dancer and choreographer, dies aged 88

  30-08-2018 20:28
  Taylor, a dancer who later became one of the world’s greatest choreographers, was seen as the last of the 20th century’s titans of modern danceThe renowned dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor has died at the age of 88 due to renal failure, according to Lisa Labrado, a spokeswoman for the Paul Taylor Dance Company.A 1992 honoree at Kennedy Center Honors and, a year later, a recipient of the National Medal of Arts by former president Bill Clinton, Taylor was a giant of American dance,
  
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• NHS bosses urge hospitals to send patients to private firms

  30-08-2018 20:01
  Warning that announcement from NHS England will waste scarce funding and prompt private providers to increase pricesNHS bosses have urged hospitals to send patients to be treated by private healthcare firms in a bid to reduce the increasing number of patients waiting for planned operations.The move has sparked claims that it will waste scarce NHS funding and that profit-driven operators will use the service’s desperation to cut waiting lists to charge higher prices. Continue reading...
  
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• Council finance manager admits taking £60k meant for Grenfell disaster survivors

  30-08-2018 20:01
  Jenny McDonagh, a finance manager at Kensington and Chelsea Council, used pre-paid credit cards intended for the survivors to go out for dinner, gamble online, and pay for trips to Dubai and Los Angeles.Prosecutor Robert Simpson called her a "serial fraudster" who "lives beyond her means and gambles".Mr Simpson said she used the money for "trips to Dubai, Los Angeles, meals in expensive restaurants, hair appointments and personal luxuries for herself".
  
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• Doctors hail breakthrough in muscular dystrophy treatment

  30-08-2018 20:00
  Researchers use experimental gene-editing procedure to correct dystrophin gene mutations in dogsDoctors in the US have raised hopes of a treatment for muscular dystrophy, the most common fatal genetic condition in children, after mending mutations that cause the disease in dogs.The landmark study is the first to claim success at treating the muscle wasting disorder in large mammals, though scientists on the team caution that more work lies ahead to ensure the procedure is safe and effective for
  
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• Crop losses to pests will soar as climate warms, study warns

  30-08-2018 20:00
  Rising temperatures make insects eat and breed more, leading to food losses growing world population cannot afford, say scientistsRising global temperatures mean pests will devour far more of the world’s crops, according to the first global analysis of the subject, even if climate change is restricted to the international target of 2C.Increasing heat boosts both the number and appetite of insects, and researchers project they will destroy almost 50% more wheat than they do today with a 2C
  
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• SNP politicians praise Sturgeon's 'dignity' in Salmond case

  30-08-2018 19:47
  Party’s Westminster leader downplays rift over handling of sexual harassment claims
  Senior Scottish National party politicians have defended Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the harassment allegations against Alex Salmond and downplayed a bitter rift inside the party.Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, offered Sturgeon his unequivocal support as it emerged that some of his MPs had made donations to a legal fund set up by Salmond after he quit the party on Wednesday. Conti
  
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• Senior Labour MP Frank Field resigns whip over anti-Semitism row

  30-08-2018 19:45
  Frank Field has resigned the Labour whip, accusing the party leadership of becoming "a force for anti-Semitism in British politics".The prominent backbencher said he was quitting to stand as an "independent Labour" MP because of a "series of attempts" by leader Jeremy Corbyn to deny previous statements were anti-Semitic.Mr Field said soldiers fought in the Second World War to "banish these views" but that the Labour leadership was "doing nothing substantive" to address the "erosion of our core v
  
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• The Guardian view on Alex Salmond: putting himself above his cause | Editorial

  30-08-2018 19:44
  By his confrontational response to harassment allegations, Scotland’s former leader is on a collision course with his successor Nicola SturgeonAlex Salmond is not a member of any parliament. He no longer holds public office. Yet he remains one of the biggest political figures – perhaps still even the biggest of them all – in Scotland. As the former leader of the Scottish National party for a total of 20 years, a two-term first minister and the man who led the yes campaign in th
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s Palestinian policy: setting fire to the ground | Editorial

  30-08-2018 19:43
  The Trump administration is the first in history to uncritically back the government of Israel while waging diplomatic war on the Palestinians. This is a recipe for chaosSince Israel was created in 1948 the United States has been the region’s crucial actor. US presidents have brokered peace deals, provided Israel with security guarantees and the Palestinians with reassurance that they have not been abandoned. Washington stood ready to douse a fire if the dry tinder of rage and discontent i
  
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• WPP to appoint company insider Mark Read as chief executive

  30-08-2018 19:39
  Mark Read is a WPP veteran who has served on the company’s board for 10 years.WPP will name company insider Mark Read as its new chief executive next week after the world’s largest advertising group decided against an external hire to replace its founder, Sir Martin Sorrell.Read is a WPP veteran whose time at the group includes 10 years on the board, and had been tipped as the favourite internal candidate for the job.
  
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• Wonga: Will my debt be written off and other questions answered

  30-08-2018 19:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Payday lender Wonga has collapsed, but what does this mean for borrowers and compensation claimants?
  
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• Woody Allen's new film shelved by Amazon

  30-08-2018 19:36
  A Rainy Day in New York may never be screened, after distributor says no release date has been setWoody Allen’s latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, has been left in limbo after Amazon Studios appeared to shelve it indefinitely.The production company, which was contractually obliged to distribute the film, said on Thursday: “No release date has ever been set.” Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on Wonga going into administration – cartoon

  30-08-2018 19:35
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• Significant quantity of cocaine seized from yacht off Cornwall

  30-08-2018 19:21
  Catamaran searched at Newlyn after being intercepted at sea by Border Force vesselA significant amount of cocaine has been seized from a catamaran intercepted by the UK Border Force off the Cornish coast.The yacht was escorted into the fishing port of Newlyn, near Penzance, by the force’s cutter HMC Vigilant. Five men were arrested and a detailed search of the vessel was being carried out. Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May busts out dance moves one more time on Africa trip

  30-08-2018 19:18
  To be obliged as prime minister to show off your excruciatingly awkward dance moves once during a foreign trip could be seen as unfortunate.Two days after Theresa May showed off her stiff shuffle at a secondary school in South Africa, she has been compelled into rhythmic action again, this time in Kenya, during the final leg of her Africa visit.A visit to the UN campus in Nairobi to help Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, launch a new “plastic challenge” badge for guides and s
  
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• Nafta: what is it and why is Trump trying to renegotiate?

  30-08-2018 19:10
  Free trade deal between US, Mexico and Canada has proved contentious since its launchThe North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada has bound the economies of the two countries together for more than 20 years, enabling the free flow of goods.Continue reading...
  
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• French investigation opens after Gérard Depardieu accused of rape

  30-08-2018 19:01
  Preliminary investigation launched after police receive complaint against actorThe French public prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against the actor Gérard Depardieu, according to reports.A 22-year-old female actor made a complaint to police on Monday in Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France, over an assault alleged to have occurred at Depardieu’s home in Paris’s Left Bank between 7 and 13 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Met police sergeant cleared over strip search of academic

  30-08-2018 18:58
  A Metropolitan police officer who ordered the strip search of an academic, in part because she would not disclose her name while in detention, has been cleared by a disciplinary panel.Sgt Kurtis Howard had faced a possible finding of gross misconduct over claims that his order to search Konstancja Duff, 29, was a breach of the police standards of professional behaviour.On Thursday, however, halfway through a hearing that had been expected to last three days, the panel decided Howard had no case
  
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• Four in five civil service specialists dissatisfied with handling of Brexit

  30-08-2018 18:58
  Just one in 20 specialist civil servants is satisfied with the government’s approach to Brexit, a significant drop in approval from nearly one in five last year, according to a union survey.Four out of five of Whitehall’s scientists, engineers, analysts and mathematicians told the Prospect union they were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the government’s ability to negotiate with the EU.As well as a lack of progress in negotiations with the EU, union executives blamed the
  
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• Civil service specialists dissatisfied with UK handling of Brexit

  30-08-2018 18:58
  Fewer than one in 20 civil servants are satisfied with the government’s approach to Brexit, a significant drop in approval from nearly one in five last year, according to a survey conducted by a civil service union.Four out of five of Whitehall’s scientists, engineers, analysts and mathematicians told the Prospect union they are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the government’s ability to negotiate with the EU.As well as a lack of progress in negotiations with the EU, uni
  
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• Frank Field MP resigns Labour whip over anti-Semitism row

  30-08-2018 18:54
  Frank Field has resigned the Labour whip, accusing the party leadership of becoming "a force for anti-Semitism in British politics".The prominent backbencher said he was quitting to stand as an "independent Labour" MP because of a "series of attempts" by leader Jeremy Corbyn to deny previous statements were anti-Semitic.Mr Field said soldiers fought in the Second World War to "banish these views" but that the Labour leadership was "doing nothing substantive" to address the "erosion of our core v
  
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• Egypt investigates hotel after death of British couple - minister

  30-08-2018 18:46
  Egypt's tourism minister said on Thursday authorities would test food and hygiene at a hotel where a British couple stayed before dying last week, and that a forensic team would complete their postmortem in the coming days.The couple, John and Susan Cooper, died within hours of each other in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Aug. 21.John Cooper, 69, died at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel and Susan Cooper, 63, died at a nearby hospital, prompting an evacuation of Thomas Cook [TGC.L]
  
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• Saturday-night fever: the substitutes’ bench can’t save Strictly, I’m A Celebrity and X Factor

  30-08-2018 18:35
  Are the wheels flying off your TV franchise? It’s surely time to scrap it if you’re roping in Holly Willoughby, Mr and Mrs Robbie Williams and Lee from BlueThe X Factor begins going through the motions again on Saturday, marking Lost in Showbiz’s duvet-and-Deliveroo descent into autumn competition television that doesn’t end until Tess Daly lets out that final “keep dancing” from behind her 1,000-mile stare, nothing left to give, clasping Claudia’s
  
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• Bodies of British couple who died at Egypt hotel to be repatriated next week

  30-08-2018 18:30
  The bodies of the British couple who died at a hotel in Egypt will be repatriated next week, the country's tourism minister has said.Rania Al-Mashat said the bodies of John and Susan Cooper, who died at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada, would be flown back to the UK next week following "detailed autopsies".It came as lawyers revealed a family successfully sued tour operator Thomas Cook last month after they fell ill while staying at the same hotel in 2016.
  
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• Commuters Spooked After Coffin Is Mysteriously Abandoned At Bus Stop

  30-08-2018 18:23
  Commuters in Greater Manchester were left spooked on Thursday after the
  
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• Bake Off’s Liam Charles: Why I love my nan’s famous goat curry

  30-08-2018 18:20
  Childhood trips to the market with his nan taught Liam Charles more than he ever realised – and not least the benefits of a heavily seasoned slow, slow marinateFrom what I can remember, I was 10 when I first experienced this dish of my nan’s (and yes, I talk about my nan, Cynthia, a lot!). I always spent every school holiday in the early years of my life at hers. With my overprotective mum at work, it became my home away from home.It was almost like a ritual: I’d get to Nan&rsq
  
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• Cookbook star Ren Behan on the childhood dishes she loves to this day

  30-08-2018 18:19
  Cooking had to be done economically when Polish chef Ren Behan was growing up in Manchester, but as long as Mama had cinnamon in summer and marjoram in winter, a taste of home was never far away My mother has a walk-in pantry cupboard at home, or rather, a larder as she calls it. Whenever I’m back, I take the opportunity to step inside. It’s almost like the wardrobe scene in The Chronicles of Narnia for me, because it takes me back instantly to being a child and to barely being tall
  
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• Peruvian chef Martin Morales: kids love my auntie’s chicken pasta

  30-08-2018 18:18
  The day Martin Morales learned to make his auntie Carmela’s chicken pasta as a child has never left his memory – and this is how to make it My great aunties, Carmela and Otilia, lived in a rough part of town called Lince, right in the heart of Lima, Peru. It was hot where we were in the city, but in Lince it was hotter. It was downtown, you see, miles from the ocean, so there was no sea breeze, with lots of high buildings, all built in the 1950s, all decaying, all grey and covered in
  
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• Veteran Labour MP brands party leadership a 'force for anti-Semitism'

  30-08-2018 18:17
  One of the longest-serving lawmakers in Britain's opposition Labour Party has attacked its leadership for becoming "a force for anti-Semitism" and said he will no longer vote with the party in parliament.Labour has been battling accusations of anti-Semitism for months, and leader Jeremy Corbyn has previously apologised for what he has described as "pockets" of anti-Semitism in his party.Frank Field, 76, who has represented Birkenhead in northwest England since 1979, said on Thursday he would now
  
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• Turmeric recipe: butternut squash with turmeric dressing

  30-08-2018 18:17
  This hearty taste-cousin of mustard will magically enhance a dressing to accompany an autumnal combination of butternut squash, kale, quinoa and celeryLike ginger, turmeric grows in clusters of rhizomes deep in the soil. These rhizomes are boiled then sun-dried and ground into a luminous deep yellow powder. Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines have praised the benefits of turmeric for thousands of years.Like a delicate flower, turmeric does not do well in excessive heat. It should be added to a mediu
  
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• Black peppercorns recipe: Vietnamese black peppercorn salmon

  30-08-2018 18:16
  Enjoy your peppercorns the Vietnamese way, combined with ginger, garlic, fish sauce and lime in a sweet intensely flavoured caramel glaze for fishThe most common spice in our kitchen is the exotic fruit of the piper nigrum plant. Originally from Kerala, in south-west India, peppercorns are now widely cultivated throughout hot tropical climates. They grow as a cluster of green berries, are handpicked when ripe then dried in the sun until shrivelled and dark. These magic dried berries bring life t
  
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• Macron galls French with 'change-resistant Gauls' comment

  30-08-2018 18:15
  French president uses trip to Denmark to condemn people at home who are set in their waysEmmanuel Macron has been attacked by political opponents for using a trip to Denmark to describe French people as “Gauls who are resistant to change”.In Copenhagen, the pro-business French president repeated his habit of using trips abroad to deliberately make headline-grabbing comments about how in his opinion French people tend to be stuck in their ways. Continue reading...
  
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• Want to prep like a pro chef? It’s time to give your spice drawer a makeover

  30-08-2018 18:14
  Having a well-stocked larder is essential for any aspiring home cook, but what key herbs and spices should you always have to hand – and what combinations work best?Open the menu at a fashionable restaurant and you will probably find a sprinkle of sumac or a touch of turmeric. While the adventurous 1970s cook would have doused a piece of cod in a parsley sauce, today’s might opt for a za’atar rub.Continue reading...
  
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• Why food gets spicier when reheated: unusual facts about herbs and spices

  30-08-2018 18:13
  Did you know ants hate bay leaves? How about the reason that saffron is the rarest spice in the world? No? Then you’ve come to the right place to find out Continue reading...
  
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