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• How the Bomber Became Your Go-To Jacket

  06-05-2017 23:00
  
  From a military staple to a fashion favorite, here’s everything you need to know about the bomber…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Caution: These Desert Properties Are Hot

  06-05-2017 22:00
  
  From Arizona to New Mexico to California, these are some of the ultimate desert homes…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Cartier and Net-a-Porter Launch New Panthère Watch Exclusively Online

  06-05-2017 21:00
  
  In an unprecedented move, Panthère will be offered online in May before reaching boutiques and retailers…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• World's oldest standing army has 40 new Swiss Guards

  06-05-2017 19:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VATICAN CITY - The world's oldest standing army has 40 new members after a Vatican Swiss Guard swearing-in ceremony.Each man took a loyalty oath Saturday evening in a ritual-rich ceremony ......
  
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• The Triple Crown of Cocktails

  06-05-2017 17:00
  
  Toast the Kentucky Derby winner with this thoroughbred cocktail…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Lorraine Kelly: ‘I cringe when I’m called a national treasure’

  06-05-2017 15:00
  
  The TV presenter, 57, on Bruce Willis (worst guest ever), not sounding Scottish, being comfortable with her body and not giving a monkey’sMy grandmother wanted my parents to have me adopted. But when Mum got pregnant, Dad stood up to Granny Mac and told her they were getting married. They were only 18 but so in love, and are still happily together.I don’t know the secret of my longevity. I’m just well-suited to breakfast TV. I can be myself and the audience likes familiarity. I
  
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• Modern Toss – cartoon

  06-05-2017 13:00
  
  National Doughnut Week starts today Continue reading...
  
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• Armchair Travel Puzzle Slider

  06-05-2017 12:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Don’t waste your hard earned money for airplane tickets and hotels. You can now travel the world from the comfort of your home. Puzzle your way around the world. Our new puzzle app features thousands of travel photos from our travel project For 91 Days. Every time you solve a puzzle you’ll receive a paragraph of information about the photo with a Read More button for more info, videos and pictures.
  Of course we also want to inspire you to see the world with your own eyes and make you
  
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• From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’

  06-05-2017 12:00
  
  Academic Melissa Febos used to have a very different job. What would her students think when she told all about her past?Before my first book was published, no one I work with knew that I’d spent my early 20s as a professional dominatrix, or a heroin addict. Why would they? It is not customary to indicate on your CV that, prior to your position teaching creative writing to 19-year-old students, you were employed by a dungeon. Most people, even those sober for many years, do not broadcast t
  
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• Ask Alys: should I replace my old pear tree?

  06-05-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerIn our garden is a pear tree that’s at least 30 years old. It is a prolific fruiter but it has rust, and the pears are often damaged or scabby. They drop early, leaving a squishy, wasp-infested nightmare on the ground, or are unappetising when fully ripe. On the other hand, the tree has a gnarly character. I’m not sure whether to keep it.
  Stand back and consider how much you love this tree. It’s old and will be supporting wildlife, and its gna
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for New Orleans gumbo and banana and cardamom tart

  06-05-2017 10:00
  
  New Orleans has never played by the rules, so it’s no surprise the city has as many gumbo recipes as peopleNowhere is the complex, almost cryptic nature of the food of New Orleans more apparent than in gumbo, the dish most associated with the city and most loved by its people. For one thing, there are only three gumbo ingredients that more or less everyone agrees on, and those are the holy trinity of local cooking: onion, celery and green pepper.All New Orleanians know exactly what they me
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the care home visitor

  06-05-2017 10:00
  
  I feel like an inconvenience, a stranger interrupting my relative’s routinesI come whenever I can, a round trip of several hours. And although the care staff are always welcoming, I see the disappointment in their eyes when I leave. With a couple of short breaks, I can usually last three hours. It’s all I can take of the mumbled sentences that make no sense, watching television while he sleeps and swapping pleasantries with the staff, who always seem surprised by my presence.The
  
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• Nicola Adams: ‘I jumped in front of my mother and tried to protect her’

  06-05-2017 10:00
  
  She was the golden girl of London 2012 and Rio, before going pro. But the boxer has never talked about the most difficult time in her life – until nowNobody knows how to work on a dream like Nicola Adams. As a young girl, she told her mother she was going to win a gold medal boxing at the Olympics. It wasn’t so much an ambition as a crazy fantasy: women’s boxing wasn’t even an Olympic sport at the time. But sure enough, Adams went on to become the first woman to win gold,
  
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• ‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use

  06-05-2017 09:30
  
  Prescriptions have doubled in a decade, but very little is known about the effect of taking SSRIs for years and years. Is it a lifesaver or a happiness trap?Tell us about your experiencesSarah never planned to take antidepressants for 14 years. Three years after she began taking them, when she was 21, she went to her GP and asked to stop: 20mg of Seroxat a day had helped her live with anxiety and panic attacks, but she began to feel uncomfortable about being on medication all the time. Her docto
  
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• Modern tribes: the tactical voter

  06-05-2017 09:00
  
  I just think OK, anything that stops the Tories wrecking the NHS, it’s got to be Progressive Alliance, so that’s Labour for me, but then you’re back to Corbyn...Well, I’m voting tactically, that’s if I don’t swap my vote. What I can’t decide is which tactic, it depends on polling nearer the election... mind you, look how wrong they got it last time. Not sure if I’m feeling more Progressive Alliance or Remain, and if I’m Remain, do I go for Gi
  
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• Beauty: sunscreens for oily skin

  06-05-2017 09:00
  
  ‘I never recommend a sunscreen that feels greasy, looks chalky or peels under foundation, however robust the protection’I recently had a spirited disagreement about sunscreen with an American skincare guru. We both felt it essential and wished it was used more diligently, but she, perhaps justifiably, took exception to my dismissal of many sunscreens on the grounds of their inelegance as moisturisers and makeup bases. I never recommend sunscreen that feels greasy, looks chalky or pee
  
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• 'Your job is affecting your health and relationships' – our work expert responds

  06-05-2017 08:00
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a corporate worker who wants a wildlife role and a teacher who disagrees with his wife over quittingI am at a crossroads with my career and need to figure out the next step. I have held mainly corporate roles (more than a decade’s experience in event management, communications and public relations), but have experience with celebrity authors assisting with media interviews. Continue reading...
  
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• Where can I find a good desk chair without spending a fortune?

  06-05-2017 08:00
  
  I work from home and need suggestions for a comfortable chair that doesn’t look like it came from a call centreEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• What links tennis, cricket, baseball, American football and Australian rules football? The Weekend quiz

  06-05-2017 08:00
  
  From a painting to a poet, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which painting depicts a journey from Sheerness to Rotherhithe?
  2 Whose One Dance was the first track to hit a billion plays on Spotify?
  3 Where, fittingly, is the National Museum of Computing?
  4 Queen Alexandra’s birdwing is the largest type of what creature?
  5 Which poet was Not Waving but Drowning?
  6 What is the geographical distinction of Church Flatts farm, Derbyshire?
  7 Which fruity substance has the formula C6H8O7
  
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• My workout: ‘I thought I’d never run again’

  06-05-2017 08:00
  
  Debbie Squance, 51, on her determination to return to the sport she loves after losing her legI took up running in my late 30s, to get fit. I soon joined a club and loved getting out and running with other people. In my 40th year, I took on the Plymouth half-marathon and really enjoyed seeing how far I could push myself.The following year, I was halfway through training to run it again when I developed a chest infection, which progressed into necrotising fasciitis – a flesh-eating bug that
  
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• Giro d’Italia: 10 great restaurants en route, and places to watch the race

  06-05-2017 08:00
  
  The 100th Giro, which started this week, races from Sardinia to the Dolomites. For cycling correspondent Colin O’Brien, the journey is also a gastronomic pilgrimage
  Following a grand cycling tour as part of the press pack can be a gruelling task. You spend lots of time in cars, and most of your nights in cheap and not so cheerful hotels. But to make up for that, there’s always dinner. Lunch is usually a rushed affair, but once the action is finished and the day’s chores have be
  
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• The day my dad let a purple Raleigh Chopper teach me a lesson

  06-05-2017 07:45
  
  When he was nine, Matt Coyne wanted nothing more than a top-of-the-line BMX bike to complete his childhood. So why did Christmas 1985 bring the uncoolest bike of all? It wasn’t until 20 years later that his dad revealed allMy dad didn’t say a lot. He never did. In fact, he barely talked at all. He hated small talk and hated big talk even more. The idea that we could have had a long father and son conversation about feelings, and all that, is such a weird idea that it makes me sh
  
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• Family life: Visiting Folkestone with my mum; It’s Now or Never by Elvis; and Grandma’s princess breakfast

  06-05-2017 07:45
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis picture always makes me smile. My mother and I are off to the beach and we have our priorities sorted. I’m carrying a bucket, spade and a sailing boat, and my mother, like the good mum she is, is hung about with “just in case” things – two more spades, a coat to sit on and a large bag stuffed with newspapers and magazines, and snacks to keep us going while we sunbathe, swim and dig sandcastles at the wa
  
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• A letter to … my parents, who raised three children and 80 foster children

  06-05-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI was six when Adam was carried through our kitchen kicking and screaming and saying words I had only ever heard grownups say. This was our introduction to fostering, a child being taken from his family and asked to live with a family he had never met.Adam soon settled into our home and quickly became another brother to me (along with my own two brothers). I felt sad when he described incidents of abuse and neglect that he had endured with his own family, but
  
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• Advice from a wine snot

  06-05-2017 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Prepare to be extremely jealous, because on Thursday night I was invited to attend the big gala dinner at the 16th annual Winnipeg Wine Festival.It was billed as the “ultimate ......
  
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• Prepare your property for the emerald ash borer

  06-05-2017 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As many readers know from reports in newspapers and on television, unfortunately, the emerald ash borer beetle is currently heading for Manitoba. It has been devastating millions of ash trees ...
  
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• ‘She was radiant, way out of my league’: a story of love and mental illness

  06-05-2017 07:30
  
  Mark and Giulia fell in love at 18 and mapped out a golden future together. Then one day, he came home to discover Giulia on the floor, obsessing over a key – and everything changedIn 2009, Mark Lukach came home from his teaching job in San Francisco to find his wife, Giulia, sitting on the carpet, their dog sprawled next to her. He could instantly sense that something was wrong. Then Giulia looked up at him and said: “I can’t figure out what I’m going to do with the Vesp
  
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• Who killed the weekend?

  06-05-2017 07:15
  
  Katrina Onstad has a crazy idea: why not take off a couple of days every week and relax? Don’t cram them with frantic shopping, desperate playdates or crafty work emails – and certainly don’t make them exactly the same as the other fiveI was a weird kid, and so my childhood weekends were often a bit weird, because our weekends reveal us as we really are. I liked to read in strange places: the stairs of the local church, or by the bins in the lane. I once spent a Satur
  
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• Why I love… Amber Riley

  06-05-2017 07:00
  
  Sure, she has screen presence, but it’s her voice that is truly arrestingContrary to the bombastic voiceover at the start of reality TV music competitions, we know that finding that one-in-a-million star is… rare. Most talent show alumni get a couple of money-making years if they’re lucky, or eke out a C-list existence. Then a tiny act surprises us by rising to incredible heights. Enter American singer and actor Amber Riley. She performs as if she was born on stage.I
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘I didn’t notice any problems on stage,’ says a friend. ‘I did,’ says my wife

  06-05-2017 07:00
  
  I’m on tour with the band I’m in, and my wife’s presence is unnervingThe band I’m in is back on the road for the final leg of our spring tour: Milton Keynes, Settle, Liverpool, Cambridge, Bristol and more. At this point the tour is beginning to interfere with work and my life, but I’m still pleased to be taking a break from the cat’s attentions. I was apologetically nice to the cat after I stepped on it, and it’s now under the impression that we are best
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for poached pear and hazelnut galette | King of puddings

  06-05-2017 07:00
  
  Syrupy poached pears make for elegant eating alone, but shine all the brighter with roasted hazelnuts atop pastry, alongside jersey cream.Don’t get me wrong: I love spring and its brilliant burgeoning of young green shoots, leaves and other delights. They brighten the menu and gladden the soul. However, when it comes to puddings, the dearth of beautiful fresh fruit is clearly obvious. There is still quite a wait for the great summer harvests.There is one late-harvested fruit crop, though,
  
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• Blind date: ‘I stupidly mentioned the existence of an ex-husband’

  06-05-2017 07:00
  
  Joe, 33, assistant sales manager, meets Jamie, 31, screenwriter
  What were you hoping for?
  That he wouldn’t turn up, so I could keep the wine to myself. Continue reading...
  
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• My father, the ‘respectable’ paedophile

  06-05-2017 06:59
  
  My father viewed thousands of child abuse images over many years, but rather than accept his guilt, he blames my wife and me for ‘refusing to move on’ because we no longer let him see our young daughtersI learned of the arrest one summer morning a few years ago, when my father rang with the news: “This is very difficult for me to say. I’ve been using the internet to look at pictures of children, and I’ve been arrested. Now, because of your girls, social services are
  
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• The New BMW R nineT Racer and Pure Motorcycles are Simply Sublime

  06-05-2017 03:00
  
  They may share the same base platform, but both bikes have a personality all their own…Jeff Buchanan
  
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• 8 Premium Mezcals Usher in a New Era for Agave

  06-05-2017 02:30
  
  Mezcal enters the realm of rarefied spirits with some interesting newcomers in time for Cinco de Mayo… Dan Dunn
  
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• Marilyn Slept Here: 10 Luxury Hotels Where Marilyn Monroe Checked In

  06-05-2017 02:00
  
  Inside the 10 luxury hotels where Marilyn Monroe lived, loved, filmed, and even fought…Robin Cherry
  
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• Luke Mangan's macadamia and zucchini fritters with smoked salmon and corn salsa

  06-05-2017 01:37
  
  In his latest recipe collection, leading Australian chef Luke Mangan, of Salt restaurant fame, comes up with easy recipes for sharing breakfast with friendsAt the end of a long working week, there’s something quite ceremonious about sharing a weekend breakfast or brunch with family and friends, whether it’s at home or at a favourite café. In this busy day and age, many of us, most working days, just grab a quick breakfast on the run, or even skip it altogether in our rush to d
  
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• Michelle Obama accidentally tweets former staffer's number

  06-05-2017 01:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Having former first lady Michelle Obama tweet your telephone number is one way to get a lot of attention.The telephone number of a former White House staffer was ......
  
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• Vintage Finds: A Pair of Vintage Watches That Inspired Contemporary Reissues

  06-05-2017 01:00
  
  Vintage Finds: A Pair of Vintage Watches That Inspired Contemporary ReissuesJustin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,663

  06-05-2017 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,190

  06-05-2017 01:00
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: Lost Spirits Abomination

  06-05-2017 00:00
  
  New technology reveals the taste of the future with this pair of American single malts…Tony Sachs
  
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