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• "La La Land" takes 5 prizes at British academy awards

  12-02-2017 23:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Glamour was shot through with grit at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.Frothy musical "La La Land" took five prizes including best picture, but major awards also went to tough welfare-state drama "I, Daniel Blake" and fractured-family stories "Lion" and "Manchester by the
  
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• Gemfields Joins Forces with Top Jewelers for Spectacular Ruby Designs

  12-02-2017 23:00
  
  Gemfields Collaboration with Fred LeightonDesigners create incredible one-of-a-kind ruby pieces from Gemfields’ collection… Victoria Gomelsky
  
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• The Latest: 'La La Land' wins best picture at British awards

  12-02-2017 22:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The Latest on the British Academy Film Awards (all times local):9:16 p.m."La La Land" has been named best picture at the British Academy Film Awards.The top award during Sunday's ceremony was the fifth for the effervescent musical about love and ambition in Los Angeles.Emma Stone...
  
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• UK film awards show love for 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Lion'

  12-02-2017 21:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Ken Loach's gritty drama "I, Daniel Blake" was named best British picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, while fractured-family saga "Lion" took screenplay and supporting actor prizes.Frothy musical "La La Land" had been favoured to dance away with multiple trophies, but
  
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• Baftas 2017: the best of the red carpet fashion – in pictures

  12-02-2017 21:10
  
  Stars braved a cold red carpet outside the Royal Albert Hall for the Baftas 2017 ceremony Continue reading...
  
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• Victoria Beckham: backstage at her autumn/winter 2017 show – in pictures

  12-02-2017 21:08
  
  Vanity case bags, British heritage fabrics and masculine tailoring – Victoria Beckham conveys a confident, powerful woman Continue reading...
  
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• 'I, Daniel Blake' named best British film at UK awards

  12-02-2017 20:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Ken Loach's gritty drama "I, Daniel Blake" was named best U.K. picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, where frothy musical "La La Land" is favoured to dance away with multiple trophies.The 80-year-old director used his acceptance speech at Britain's equivalent of the
  
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• The Latest: 'I, Daniel Blake' awarded best British picture

  12-02-2017 20:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The Latest on the British Academy Film Awards (all times local):7:21 p.m."I, Daniel Blake," director Ken Loach's hard-hitting drama about a man caught in the U.K.'s labyrinthine welfare system, has been named best British picture at the British Academy Film Awards.The 80-year-old...
  
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• Social media mocks Education Dept for misspelled tweets

  12-02-2017 19:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - The Education Department is getting social media criticism after misspelling the name of a prominent African-American sociologist — and then mistyping again when apologizing for the error.In a tweet Sunday morning from its official account, the department attributed a quotation to
  
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• Protests mark cathedral's return to Russian Orthodox control

  12-02-2017 18:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city held competing demonstrations Sunday for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.The cathedral, one of St. Petersburg's top tourist destinations, was seized by the
  
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• Social media mocks Education Department for misspelled tweet

  12-02-2017 18:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - The Education Department is getting social media criticism after misspelling the name of a prominent African-American sociologist.In a tweet Sunday from its official account, the department attributes a quotation to W.E.B. DeBois (doo-BOYZ'), incorrectly spelling the last name with...
  
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• Five Sparklers to Tingle the Palate and Heart on Valentine’s Day

  12-02-2017 18:00
  
  These Champagnes are sure to make the heart grow fonder...
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• Shoppers weigh boycott calls as buying gets more political

  12-02-2017 17:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Stormy Patterson makes a distinction between opinion and action as she surveys each new call to boycott Company A or support Brand B.It's "silly" to penalize Under Armour over its CEO's praise of President Donald Trump, she says. Far more important is how a company behaves
  
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• Protests held for, against church controlling St. Isaac's

  12-02-2017 16:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city have held competing demonstrations for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.The cathedral, one of the city's top tourist destinations, was seized by the state...
  
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• Stars and royalty hit the red carpet for UK Academy Awards

  12-02-2017 14:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Hollywood stars will mingle with British royalty on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, where "La La Land" is favoured to dance away with multiple trophies.Prince William and his wife Kate are expected on the red carpet at London's Royal Albert Hall, along with nominees...
  
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• The best street tea in India: Kolkata’s chai

  12-02-2017 13:00
  
  Kolkata is the tea capital of India and the stalls on Elgin Road sell the finest brews in the city: sugary, spicy chai in sustainable clay cups Roadside tea makers are an institution in every corner of India. Their ramshackle assemblages of pots and pans bearing tea, sugar, spices and buffalo milk are the oil that greases the cogs of daily life. Chai dhabas in different states follow local recipes, about which customers are fiercely partisan. Of India’s great cities, Kolkata is the undispu
  
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• Nigel Slater’s Brussels sprout, apple and clementine salad recipe

  12-02-2017 13:00
  
  Greens at this time of year tend to be worthy. But add some zest and you’ll have a dish filled with brightnessI refuse to buy into the idea that February and March are flat months, the “hungry gap” where there is nothing of interest in the shops with which to cook. I rather enjoy seeing piles of citrus fruits against quiet, grey skies and boxes of purple sprouting, the asparagus of the brassica family, stacked at the greengrocers. The Brussels are still sweet, there are Jerusal
  
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• From Petchup to Muttstard

  12-02-2017 12:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Having a beer with your dog is one thing but now you can provide your doggy with pet friendly ketchup, mustard an mutt-n-aise! Make your dog happy with petchup to Muttstard. Even your dog would never ask or even know that these sauces exist. But just the thought as a dog owner to add some dog friendly sauces… would make your every meal.
  From Petchup to Muttstard
  Now, how do you store it the best way without mixing it up with human friendly sauces? You don’t want to add Musstard to y
  
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• Royalty and stars due on red carpet for U.K. Academy Awards

  12-02-2017 11:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Hollywood stars will mingle with British royalty at the British Academy Film Awards, where "La La Land" is favoured to dance away with multiple trophies.Prince William and his wife Kate are expected on the red carpet at London's Royal Albert Hall, along with nominees including Meryl...
  
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• Women warriors: story of Khatoon Khider and her Daughters of the Sun

  12-02-2017 08:05
  
  Khatoon Khider used to be a popular Yazidi singer. Now she’s the head of an all-women battle unit with Isis in its sightsLong before Khatoon Khider took up a gun, she became famous for singing about another woman who went to war, a tragic heroine who followed her lover into battle in disguise. And she wondered even then, years before the Islamic State had been created and nearly a decade before its fighters’ murderous rampage across her homeland, if she might one day have to go to wa
  
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• E.ON Heat no help after we moved into a new apartment without heating or hot water

  12-02-2017 07:59
  
  Myself and my neighbours in the other four flats in Elephant Park are on our eighth day … and it’s freezingI purchased an apartment from London & Quadrant as part of the Elephant Park development in London and moved in in mid-December. But, as an early buyer in the scheme, I’ve experienced terrible problems with the heating and hot water supply. To make the new development more sustainable, the site benefits from a central hot water and heat supply provided by E.ON Heat. M
  
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• We so rarely hear from women in the grip of addiction

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  Cat Marnell’s self-lacerating drug memoir is a terrifying account of a trainwrecked woman – this time narrated from the driver’s seatThe trailer for a new Britney Spears biopic features the inevitable buzz of an electric razor. It ploughs through the actor’s hair as if underlining something we might otherwise have missed. Hers was a story that became a fable, and the more times it is told, the further away she seems. The world loves to hear the tale of a woman wrecked. We
  
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• The Salt Room, Brighton: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  Restaurants tacked on to hotel chains can be a mixed blessing, but this fishy Brighton diner is a great catchThe Salt Room, 106 King’s Road, Brighton BN1 2FU (01273 929 488). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80-£130The train pulls into Brighton at dusk, to a sky the colour of charcoal and a cruel wind rushing up the hill from the sea. The warm glow of cheap noodle shops down Queen’s Road and into West Street gives way to the darkness of the front, where the tr
  
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• The eco guide to a happier, greener workplace

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  Natural lighting or at least LEDs will improve your mood, and there are other positive steps to take to make the office a more world-friendly environmentIf you’re dreading the start of the working week tomorrow can I just check it’s not the lighting? A 1990s study showed plentiful natural light to be a top determinant of job satisfaction.If you can’t get near a window at least press for LEDs (they have a life of up to 60,000 hours in comparison to 6,000 hours for a fluorescent
  
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• Rich and soothing hand creams

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  At this time of year, your hands really are exposed to the elements, so keep one of these luxurious potions in your bag or on your deskEven if you have tiny hands, like a Lego toy or a dangerous politician, they need attention and love, especially in chilling times of great unrest. Keep Frédéric Malle’s incredibly decadent new Iris hand cream by your side to make you feel a little better – about chapped knuckles, tight palms, brittle nails and the sense that nothing is
  
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• My teen daughter is refusing a family trip with my partner

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  A woman is struggling to get her daughter to be more positive about her partner. Mariella Frostrup advises her not to foist a new family on the teenagerThe dilemma My partner came from Europe to live with us in Australia. Until then it was just my daughter, now 14, and me (her dad left when she was a few days old). Unfortunately, she is still hot and cold with him after two years. He doesn’t parent her – just tries to be there and offer support – but she still refuses to acknow
  
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• How our brains perceive the truth | Daniel Glaser

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  The parliamentary inquiry into ‘fake news’ could be missing the point because there’s always a disconnect between ‘truth’ and how we see itThe rise of “untruths”, fabrications and propaganda has led to a parliamentary inquiry into the “growing phenomenon of fake news”. Related: A neuroscientist explains: how we perceive the truth - podcastContinue reading...
  
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• Four friends on a mission to teach the young to cook | Matt Munday

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  A growing number of people have no idea how to make a meal. But that could soon change, finds Matt MundayThough we live in a world of street food pop-ups, rock-star chefs and Instagrammed baps, home-cooking is on the wane, declining by 54% in the past 30 years. The same survey (of 4,000 Brits) also found that young people don’t have the skills to cook a week’s worth of meals; and one in four has no interest in cooking at all.In an east London attic studio, four millennials are leadin
  
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• Authentic? Try being polite instead | Ruth Whippman

  12-02-2017 07:00
  
  Our inauthentic self stops us from being rude and selfish. And that’s essential for a civilised societyIf Instagram is to be believed, our authentic self should be in an Alpine snowscape somewhere in chunky knitwear, laughing photogenically over an artisanal brunch. Search the site for the hugely popular hashtag #authenticity and you will be reassured that apparently nobody’s authentic self is fat, or spotty, or poor or has run out of milk and can’t be bothered to go to Tesco.M
  
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• Rock ’n’ Roll History’s Most Famous Luxury Hotels

  12-02-2017 02:10
  
  From Elvis to Bono, rock ’n’ roll’s biggest stars stayed in these luxury hotels…
  
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• Five ways to wear... paper-bag waist trousers – in pictures

  12-02-2017 00:55
  
  The scrunched paper-bag-look waist is the trouser of the season – and this oversized khaki pair by Mango oozes utilitarian chic. Style with a ruffle-sleeved T-shirt for elegance, with denim for a casual look or with high heels for the evening Continue reading...
  
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• Taboo Timekeeping: 6 Sexy Erotic Watches to Entice and Excite This Valentine’s Day

  12-02-2017 00:00
  
  These racy watches offer a slightly different way to say “I Love You” to your special Valentine…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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