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• Prosecutor plans appeal after model's conviction overturned

  11-06-2017 18:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio - An Ohio county prosecutor says she'll file an appeal with the state Supreme Court after appellate judges overturned the conviction and sentence of a former model accused ......
  
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• River pilgrimage takes paddlers on 400-mile spiritual quest

  11-06-2017 15:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Charles Montgomery welcomed the challenge of hiking the steep terrain of the Connecticut River headwaters in remote northern New Hampshire, admiring the birds, the plants, the woods. He also loved ......
  
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• Fear of losing blueberry growers as prices drop, crop soars

  11-06-2017 14:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine - Members of Maine's blueberry industry fear losing growers due to a depression in prices that has made growing the beloved crop lately a less reliable way to ...
  
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• Running in circles: a trip around the Isle of Wight

  11-06-2017 08:00
  
  Chalky cliffs, curry and camping … Martin Love finds there’s much to discover on a run along the island’s 66-mile coastal pathIf you said you were going round the Isle of Wight, most people would presume you were doing it in a boat. And I’ve done that – bobbing along in a day cruiser. I spent most of the time vomiting over the stern while everyone else swilled gin and tonics and marvelled at the island’s crumbling cliffs.Last month, however, I took a very dif
  
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• Why turning on the TV in the bedroom is a big turn off | Eva Wiseman

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  Watching the television in bed is a guilty secret for many of us, but all it does is lead to less sex and more biscuitsA new study has been published that suggests kids who have televisions in their bedrooms are more likely to become obese than those without. “While our screens have become flatter, our children have become fatter,” say the researchers from University College London, their science overshadowed only slightly by the roaring pride with which they rhyme.Few will be surpri
  
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• Westerns Laundry, London: restaurant review

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  The food is excellent at this new Islington seafood house. But the silly fad for ‘natural’ wines will spoil your dinnerWesterns Laundry, 34 Drayton Park, London N5 1PB (020 7700 3700). Meal for two without wine: £85; with wine £120Recently, in support of a new US TV series, Gordon Ramsay gave an interview in which he listed his golden rules for eating in restaurants: avoid the specials, because they probably aren’t, and so on. More interesting was his suggestion tha
  
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• The eco guide to prison labour

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  The world’s biggest companies, from Starbucks to Victoria’s Secret, use prisoners to work on their products. Is it helpful work experience or sheer exploitation?We are all, at heart, ethical consumers. I’ve never met anyone actively looking for a dose of slave labour with their teabags, window frames or underwear.71% of companies surveyed in 2015 believed their supply chains might contain some form of slavery Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s chicken salad recipes

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  Early summer, late morning, time to make lunch. Mix a dressing, select cold cuts and greens, get the big bowl outThere is a moment in early summer, late on a Monday morning, that I have grown to love. The kitchen is quiet, calm and mercifully cool. I take the remains of yesterday’s roast chicken from its plate and tear away the flesh in fat, ragged, generous chunks. The plump “oysters” of flesh hiding under the carcass come too, as do the juiciest bits of brown meat – the
  
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• Marvellous muscat | David Williams

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  In praise of muscat, the grape that tastes of grapes. Here are three bottles to get you startedRoyal Tokaji Yellow Muscat, Tokaj, Hungary 2015 (£12.49, Laithwaite’s) Initiation into wine doesn’t have to come from a magical sip of a really special bottle. I credit the beginning of my own obsession to my first childhood encounter with a truly ripe bunch of muscat grapes, the pop of sweet perfumed juice opening my palate to the wonders of this fruit of the vine. Since the wines ma
  
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• Learning English, making dumplings

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  At Manchester’s Heart and Parcel supper club, migrant women present food prepared in their cookery/language lessonsDode bursts into the busy restaurant kitchen, beaming. “They like my food,” she proclaims. “I’m so happy.” This is the Heart and Parcel supper club in Manchester, where migrant women, who have attended courses that teach English through cookery, present their food to the public.You can learn so much English through cooking: how does the food smell
  
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• I love my partner but he says he doesn’t love me back | Mariella Frostrup

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  Mariella Frostrup says that if a 26-year-old woman’s 61-year-old boyfriend isn’t returning her feelings she should move onThe dilemma My partner is 61 and I’m 26. We have a wonderful relationship and our sex life is great. We both call one another our best friend and talk every day for hours. I love him deeply but he’s told me he doesn’t love me back. I know he’s been hurt in the past. His ex would demand that he said, “I love you too” even if he d
  
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• How the Romans can help us to study | Daniel Glaser

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  The ‘method of loci’ is still the best way of remembering large quantities of informationStudytracks, a new app, is a tempting solution for students in the middle of exams. Downloaded 100,000 times, its creator, music producer George Hammond-Hagan, sang facts from his son’s GCSE physics revision over a hip-hop track - he’s made another 600 tracks since then.Since Cicero in Roman times, it’s been clear that the secret of remembering things is to mash them up. The &ls
  
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• Canyon Endurace WMN AL 7.0: bike review | Martin Love

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  A women’s bike that offers excellent comfort and enduranceTomorrow, the bicycle celebrates quite a big birthday. It’s exactly 200 years since Karl Drais set out on his so-called ‘running machine’ in Mannheim, Germany. His invention formed the basis of the bike as we now know it. Clearly much has changed, but it’s hard to think of another machine that has stayed so true to its roots. One of Germany’s most successful modern frame builders is Canyon. Its bikes al
  
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• Are women really stronger than men? | Angela Saini

  11-06-2017 07:00
  
  When it comes to longevity, surviving illness and coping with trauma, one gender comes out on top. Angela Saini meets the scientists working out whyFour years ago, completely spent, blood transfused into me in a frantic effort to allow me to walk, I lay on a hospital bed having given birth the day before. To the joy of my family, I had brought them a son. Blue balloons foretold a man in the making. Not just the apple of my eye, but the one who would one day open jam jars for me. The hero who wou
  
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