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• Marchers brave high heat for Lisbon's LGBT Pride Parade

  17-06-2017 21:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LISBON, Portugal - Braving high temperatures, about 1,000 people have marched in a LGBT Pride Parade in Portugal's capital of Lisbon in support of transsexual rights.The festive march slowly moved ......
  
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• Shawn Mendes takes a turn on the Emporio Armani runway

  17-06-2017 19:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - Designers are resizing Milan Fashion Week for menswear, condensing previews for next spring and summer into just over three days.While New York and London's commitment to menswear has ......
  
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• For advocates of gay adoption, progress but also obstacles

  17-06-2017 18:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  With tens of thousands of children lingering in foster care across the United States, awaiting adoption, Illinois schoolteachers Kevin Neubert and Jim Gorey did their bit. What began with their ...
  
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• Can Amazon persuade enough people to buy fresh food online?

  17-06-2017 18:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Can Amazon, the company that persuaded people to buy ever more items online, win enough of them over to having their fresh groceries arrive in an Amazon ...
  
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• ‘We didn’t recognise that he was dangerous’: our father killed our mother and sister

  17-06-2017 12:00
  
  Last summer, Lance Hart shot dead his wife, daughter and himself, four days after the family had left him. His sons talk frankly about life before and afterOn a warm summer day last July, Claire Hart and her 19-year-old daughter Charlotte went for an early morning swim at their local leisure centre in Spalding, Lincolnshire. It was a trip they made often, just a short drive from their home in the village of Moulton. Claire’s son Ryan had recently bought his mother a swimming pass as a pres
  
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• How to grow all kinds of alliums | Alys Fowler

  17-06-2017 12:00
  
  There are a huge variety of tasty, garden-worthy plants in the genus best known for the humble brown-skinned onion My garden is awash with onions this year. Not the brown- or red-skinned cooking onions that are the beginning of any good recipe (or are you a garlic‑first sort?), but every other type: ornamental onions, wild onions, strange onions, onions that think they are garlic.Allium is a large genus: there are 500 species, mostly found in the northern hemisphere, and we have been eatin
  
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• Ask Alys: which fragrant plants best suit a narrow garden?

  17-06-2017 12:00
  
  Looking for scent in the city? Our gardening expert offers some solutions What could we plant in the clay soil of our narrow London garden that will grow fairly quickly, provide year-round privacy and colour and scent in season?Japanese loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is perfect for warm London gardens. It’s evergreen, with large, handsome, corrugated leaves. White flowers in spring, which have a little sweet scent, are followed by round, yellow edible fruit. Once established, loquats are eas
  
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• Spicy apricots in syrup with lemon thin dippers by Jeremy Lee | King of puddings

  17-06-2017 11:00
  
  Early, orange-blushing apricots are a little bitter in their purest form, but a joy poached in a richly spiced syrup with lemony biscuits to dip in.It is quite a thought that the rascally serpent might have tempted Eve with an apricot – it always seemed unjust to me that the apple took the rap for that caper.Pivotal events aside, there is always great joy in the land when the first apricots arrive – rarely ripe, not quite perfumed ... their flesh might still be that bit too firm, but
  
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• Edwina Currie: ‘The love of my life? Most people who know me would say it’s me’

  17-06-2017 10:30
  
  The former Tory MP and junior health minister on her most unappealing habit and why she never has to buy her own drinks when in BrightonBorn in Liverpool, Edwina Currie, 70, won a scholarship to Oxford University where she read philosophy, politics and economics. She became an MP in 1983 and served in Margaret Thatcher’s government. Since losing her seat in 1997 she has written novels and non-fiction, including her diaries, which revealed her affair with John Major. She appears in The Baby
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s chilli butter recipes

  17-06-2017 10:00
  
  A slick of melted butter flavoured with chilli can make even the humblest of platefuls feel specialIn cooking, as in life outside the kitchen, it’s the small touches that can make a big difference: that final drizzle of olive oil, for example, some finely grated lemon zest, a sprinkle of toasted seeds – those are the little gestures that go a long way to make a dish feel special.In a similar vein, the addition of a few chilli flakes to melted, slightly browned butter for drizzling ov
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the successful dieter

  17-06-2017 10:00
  
  I’m not proud. How can I be proud to have been more than 11 stone overweight?You tell me I look amazing, you tell me I should be proud. You ask what my secret is, and say I put you to shame. You say I must feel better, and ask how much have I lost.What I can’t say is I don’t feel better; I never felt bad in the first place. I ache, I’m sore, I’m pushing my body to shift the weight. I’m tired from working out most days on a calorie-controlled diet. Continue rea
  
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• 'I loved being part of that scene': 80s style tribes, then and now

  17-06-2017 10:00
  
  Anita Corbin tracks down the punk, mod and skinhead girls she first photographed in the 1980s. Are they still rebelling? Carrie Kirkpatrick and Gill Soper, skinheads (above)Carrie I got into punk at the age of 12, and went quite wild with it. It was a means of escape from difficult situations at home. I found it empowering; going to gigs and drinking and taking drugs was exciting. I felt free; but I was getting into trouble with the police. Continue reading...
  
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• Modern tribes: the political interviewer | Catherine Bennett

  17-06-2017 09:00
  
  With respect, if I could just speak, my point is this, you’re asking us to trust you as a politician I’m right, aren’t I, in saying you’re asking people to trust you as a politician? Wait, I haven’t finished my question, if you could just answer it, yes or no, no, wait, my question is, a lot of people will be very worried about this, if you wouldn’t mind just giving me a clear answer, for the record, you’re actually asking people to accept that you&rsquo
  
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• Beauty: my festival essentials | Sali Hughes

  17-06-2017 08:59
  
  I welcome the social acceptability of looking rough at festivals, without wanting to go native, so I’ve been editing my Glastonbury washbag since MarchBy the time you read this, I’ll be packing for Glastonbury. If that sounds like a goodbye note, it’s because it may be. I haven’t been since my teens, when I was happy sleeping wherever I stood, and my festival beauty regime consisted of layering more black eyeliner over yesterday’s, under the delusion I&rsq
  
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• What’s the best pet for a six-year-old?

  17-06-2017 08:00
  
  We’re after an easy but fun furry friendEvery 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 gladiator statue, orrery, air pump and kitten? The Weekend quiz

  17-06-2017 08:00
  
  From birds to Brighton, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who claimed to have studied at the Sheboygan Conservatory of Music?
  2 Bekaa Valley is which country’s main wine region?
  3 Which birds can fly for 10 months without landing?
  4 The Panacea Society were followers of which prophetess?
  5 The Nice model is a theory for the evolution of what?
  6 Which sport has an annual Magic Weekend?
  7 What was sited according to the Residence Act of 1790?
  8 What is celebrated, mathematically, on
  
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• You’re unsuited to your company, not your job’ – our work expert responds

  17-06-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help someone who feels trapped in their career and a Thai man who is struggling to break into accountancyI’m 41 and feel completely unsuited to my job, temperamentally. I believe I am good at what I do – in that I get results – but my employer prefers those in my role to be less assertive and refrain from input in group situations, and constantly checks that work conforms with colleagues’ and managers’ wishes. C
  
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• Family life: My daughters’ ‘happy birthday’ toilet; Midnight Blue by ELO; My brother Peter’s Welsh rarebit

  17-06-2017 07:45
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis is a photo of my two daughters, Rachel and Kirsten, when they were aged five and seven. They are now 23 and 25. It was taken on their dad’s 34th birthday. We were living in a rented flat in Edinburgh, to which we had moved not long before. We had come back from Penzance in Cornwall, where the girls were both born, to Edinburgh where their dad and I are from. They were excited about their dad’s birthday and wanted t
  
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• A letter to ... my dad, who grows on me more each year

  17-06-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeIt is a longstanding family joke that I (then a three-year-old git) suggested you (sufferer of pet-hair allergy) move out so we could get a cat. I didn’t even like cats all that much. Funny, yes, but there was a nip of truth in there; of course I loved you, but I didn’t really like you.Our happiest times seemed to be away from home. I was convinced you were less serious without your glasses. That is why you came to life in the holiday-park pool, o
  
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• Goldeyes looking to fetch a world record

  17-06-2017 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  If you and your dog are looking to unleash some fun tonight, I have a genius suggestion.Just hook your best friend up and take him down to Shaw Park for ......
  
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• There's a snapshot in time in every bottle of wine

  17-06-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Don’t think of wine as just a beverage. It’s a portkey, if you’re a Harry Potter fan, or a flux capacitor if you prefer Marty McFly. In other words, wine ...
  
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• From Russia with caviar: a meal fit for a maths student

  17-06-2017 07:30
  
  When my mum whisked the family to Moscow for a maths gathering, we ended up with far too many roubles. So we spent them on caviarA thing you should know about pure mathematicians is that they are like blue whales – there aren’t a lot of them around, so they have to travel vast distances to spawn ideas. Every four years there is a global gathering, to which they all converge for the spawning. One year, they converged on an atomic weapons research station outside Moscow. This being the
  
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• Blind date: ‘I would have liked to laugh’

  17-06-2017 07:00
  
  Katherine, 58, property developer, meets Ella, 55, neurological physiotherapistWhat were you hoping for?
  A relaxed evening. And that she might be “the one”. Continue reading...
  
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• Why I love… Robin Wright

  17-06-2017 06:59
  
  Resolve, strength, practicality, vulnerability. It’s all there in her eyes, her jaw, her smile. It’s what makes her so compellingMy love of movies and television is matched only by my love of books, so nothing makes me happier than when screen and page collide. The other week, I found myself rereading one of my favourite books-turned-movies, William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. I adore the film, which I watched as a child, as much as I adore the novel, which I discovered as a
  
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• Six tips for taking great photos of food

  17-06-2017 03:26
  
  Master proportions and take a deep breath – follow this Instagrammer’s guide and say goodbye to disappointing food photos foreverSix years ago I opened an Instagram account, @theskinnybib, to tell of my obsession with food, travel and culture. After 5,211 posts and 783,403 likes, I have developed another obsession: food photography. I now know how to shoot the most intimate angle for an heirloom carrot, how to make a starchy porridge glisten in the sun, and how to capture a market ve
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,226

  17-06-2017 02:00
  
  We are unable to display Paul’s Cryptic puzzle online in the normal interactive format. Please click here use the PDF version to complete the crossword.Solve the clues and fit them in the grid jigsaw-wise, wherever they will go.The first five correct entries drawn each week win Can You Solve My Problems?
  Entries to:The Guardian Crossword No 27,226, P.O. Box 6603, Birmingham, B26 3PR, or Fax to 0121-742 1313 by first post on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Sudoku killer 558

  17-06-2017 01:01
  
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.
  For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stan
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,699

  17-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Andrew McConnell's lobster roll recipe

  17-06-2017 00:35
  
  The chef shares one of the dishes that have made Melbourne’s Supernormal restaurant so popularAndrew McConnell’s sauteed mushrooms with crisp rice cakes recipe
  A staple on the Supernormal menu, this is a little bit of luxe in a bun. It is the subtle balance of ingredients that make it a real treat. The bun to filling ratio is important; about one small lobster or crayfish should makes six rolls. The crucial aspect of the serving of these is the timing. When you plan on serving the ro
  
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