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• UK official says government has no role in Charlie Gard case

  09-07-2017 17:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Britain's justice secretary says the government won't play a role in deciding the medical treatment of a terminally ill baby whose parents want to take him to the ...
  
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• Why have so many people stopped eating ice-cream?

  09-07-2017 17:15
  
  Research shows global ice-cream sales dropped by more than 16% in 2016. But it’s not that we’re losing our taste for the frozen treatName: Ice-cream.Ingredients: Ice, cream. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia's Bolshoi calls off premiere of Nureyev ballet

  09-07-2017 16:06
  
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Bolshoi Theatre has postponed the world premiere of Nureyev, a ballet about famous Russian dancer, weeks after its director Kirill Serebrennikov was questioned as a witness in...
  
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• Adoptees' bid for access to birth certificates stirs debate

  09-07-2017 16:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Back in 2000, Oregon and Alabama acted to ensure that people who'd been adopted could get access to their original birth certificates. Advocates of that goal, calling it an overdue ......
  
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• Cambodian temple site gets UNESCO world heritage status

  09-07-2017 13:27
  
  PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The U.N. cultural organization added an ancient temple site in Cambodia to its world heritage list, the government said on Sunday, bringing the number of heritage sites in the...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s strawberry recipes

  09-07-2017 13:00
  
  It’s easy to smother the delicate flavour of strawberries, but add a little something to a trifle or pair them with a vanilla cream and they’ll soon be singingYears after removing the strawberry bed, the occasional, persistent plant appears through a crack in the path, as if to tease me about my decision. I admire their resilience and leave them be, wolfing the cheeky little intruders if I can get to them before the blackbirds.
  All too often strawberries deceive us by smelling better
  
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• Moreish crunch, smoky tang: red peppers of Italy’s far south

  09-07-2017 13:00
  
  Beautiful, remote Basilicata has a culinary lineage reaching back into antiquity based on unique, local fare. Among its delights are cruschi – sun-dried red peppersSprinkled over pasta, sauteed potatoes or fried eggs, or just as a nibble with drinks, cruschi (pronouned croosky) are a quintessential taste of Basilicata, southern Italy, and hard to find anywhere else. Thin-skinned, long, pointy red peppers from the area around the hill town of Senise have a low moisture content and are perfe
  
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• Glamping in central France: a rural retreat that's packed with creature comforts

  09-07-2017 11:00
  
  Unwind on a rustic farm trip that’s light on the rough and tumble of camping but heavy on cool accommodation – and fabulous views
  When I pulled up at the farmhouse in Le Monteil, the owners were mending a gap in the fence through which Gaspard the donkey had escaped. There was a freshly planted vegetable garden, varnish drying on a newly finished open-air kitchen, and a gleaming white dome, like a mushroom growing on a wooden platform. An overexcited puppy cannoned about the yard, sc
  
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• Who’s afraid of Gloria Allred? | Alex Clark

  09-07-2017 10:00
  
  Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, Eddie Murphy, Tiger Woods, Michael Jackson… The list of men Gloria Allred has taken to court reads like a Who’s Who of the great and the not so good. Alex Clark meets the lawyer in LA to hear what makes her angryGloria Allred and President Trump have history, perhaps unsurprisingly. She is a self-described “feminist lawyer” with more than 40 years of fighting – and usually winning – battles on behalf of those discriminate
  
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• The end of parklife as we know it? The battle for Britain’s green spaces

  09-07-2017 09:00
  
  Britain’s parks are in crisis. With councils such as Bristol cutting spending to zero, and land being lost to developers, what’s happening to our public gardens?We can expect, now that cracks are appearing in the government’s commitment to austerity, calls for many deserving causes to be released from their starvation diets. Of these, Britain’s parks and green spaces have been among the most viciously cut. They cost little in relation to their benefits. They are also asse
  
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• Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie?

  09-07-2017 08:59
  
  It’s the latest ‘superfood’, endorsed by wellness bloggers and celebrities, yet contains more saturated fat than lard. Is coconut oil really all it’s cracked up to be?It wasn’t that long ago that the closest most Britons got to a coconut was at the fairground or on the inside of a Bounty bar. Yet in the past three years, this hard, hairy drupe (that’s the official term) of the coconut palm tree has emerged as the latest “superfood” extolled by cele
  
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• The Goldcar golden rule … always take a photo when you return a hire car

  09-07-2017 08:00
  
  The firm took money for damage I could prove I hadn’t causedWe hired a small car for nine days from Goldcar at Malaga airport in April last year for €41.69. We paid a deposit of €1,205 by credit card. The car was great and we had no problems. When we returned it, the returns officer told us it would be “at least a 40-minute wait” before anyone could look at it, so recommended we leave the keys. With a plane to catch we took his advice. I took photos of the exterior in
  
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• The pastry chef who matches his shoes and his choux

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  Instagram star Tal Spiegel’s uploaded images of his cakes and colour co-ordinated footwear are a major hitIn pictures: Sole food – shoes and patisserieContrary to what some think, Instagram isn’t just about people taking snapshots of their food. In the case of Tal Spiegel (below), a 34-year-old pastry chef living in Paris, it’s about taking pictures of his food as well as his shoes.On his page, Desserted in Paris, he posts pictures of himself holding pieces of pâtis
  
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• The evening I discussed dish-washing with George Harrison

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  It’s the early 90s, a small activity centre in the Brecon Beacons, and the man who wrote Here Comes the Sun wants to know how his young son’s getting onIt was the early 90s and I was at a loose end. I phoned a former employer and crossed my fingers.Three days later I was the new kitchen assistant at a small activity centre in the Brecon Beacons. Mostly I just did the washing-up. I didn’t mind. The view from the window was amazing and the walls of the kitchen bounced to the soun
  
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• Roth Bar & Grill, Bruton: restaurant review

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset gallery looks amazing. The bonus is that the cooking is more than a match for the artThere are some restaurants which, given all the other things they have going for them, offer food that’s better than it needs to be. The view from Duck and Waffle on the 40th floor of London’s Heron Tower is so vast, and the sense of floating in a glass box above the quartz and steel city so engrossing, that the wit of Dan Doherty’s cooking merely feels like
  
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• Period dramas: menstruation really can be a bloody nightmare

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  Zawe Ashton spoke for women everywhere when she talked about her fear of getting her period on stage. This is something men simply do not understandOn Woman’s Hour, Zawe Ashton talked about a recurring fear, when performing on stage, that she will get her period. She was in Genet’s The Maids in London’s West End, and confessed this to her female co-stars, who confessed the same right back – that they too worry they will look up to find the audience sniggering at the blood
  
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• My 13-year-old son sent a sexually explicit email to his teacher

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  A father is concerned his son doesn’t realise how serious his actions were. Mariella Frostrup says it’s up to parents to confront teenagers who think this attitude to women and girls is OKThe dilemma My 13-year-old son, who lives with his mother, has been caught sending a sexually explicit email to a teacher at school. He did it from a schoolmate’s phone that had been left unattended. He denied it until he realised he was totally busted. He has always had parental locks on his
  
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• Gorgeous wines from Georgia | David Williams

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  With a wine tradition that stretches back 8,000 years and more than 500 indigenous grapes to choose from, David Williams has managed to select just three great Georgian wines for you to tryTbilvino Qvevris, Kakheti, Georgia 2015 (£10, Marks & Spencer) There are some wines I’ve only started to love after visiting the place they’re made. One is sherry, which made so much more sense once I’d had a glass of chilled manzanilla with a plate of jámon in a bar in Sanl&
  
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• Fight or flight? How our brain decides our response to danger | Daniel Glaser

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  The neuroscience behind whether we run or stand our ground when faced with threatLondoners will always use humour as the ultimate response to terror attacks. Nowhere was this more apparent than with the Millwall supporter, knifed eight times after tackling the London Bridge terrorists, pictured recovering in hospital with a copy of Learn to Run. A gift from friends, the joke being he would have been safer sprinting away.Neuroscientists would say the choice to run or stay put isn’t that sim
  
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• Diamondback Ranger eMTB bike preview | Martin Love

  09-07-2017 07:00
  
  Power up hills and race back down with Diamondback’s new electric RangerThe usual response to a mountain bike fitted with an electric engine is: ‘What’s the point of that?’ But once you get over the puritan notion that the joy of cycling downhill should only come after you’ve suffered on the uphill, you’ll be clamouring for a go. The Ranger is the latest full-suspension eMTB from the American brand Diamondback, which first started out in BMX. It’s one of
  
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• Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz's red wine braised octopus recipe

  09-07-2017 03:17
  
  Porteño chefs share the recipe for one of their patrons’ favourite dishes, complete with celeriac puree and radicchio saladKnown for their Argentinian cooking and rockabilly charm, Porteño’s co-chefs Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz have been shaking up the Sydney food scene since they opened their first restaurant in 2010. The restaurant has moved a few times but their braised octopus has appeared on every menu. It has an interesting origin story: Milgate dated an It
  
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• Sole food: shoes and patisserie

  09-07-2017 00:07
  
  Tal Spiegel, a pastry chef in Paris, matches his shoes to his desserts and has become an Instagram star Continue reading...
  
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• Reasons to wear... a printed swimsuit

  09-07-2017 00:02
  
  Glamorous retro-inspired swimwear is back. The one-piece works on all body shapes and can create a curvaceous silhouette. This summer go for one with a striking print Continue reading...
  
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• Guide to summer shirts for men – in pictures

  09-07-2017 00:01
  
  This season’s shirts are brash and beautiful. From stars, scribbles and lobsters to the current hero-piece, the Hawaiian shirt – there’s something for every budget Continue reading...
  
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