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• British princes regret rushed final conversation with mother Diana

  23-07-2017 22:43
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and Harry have spoken of their regret over the last conversation they had with their mother Princess Diana before she died, saying the telephone call was ...
  
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• Sons remember Princess Diana in film 20 years after her death

  23-07-2017 22:13
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his brother Harry recall memories from their childhood 20 years after the sudden death of their mother, Princess Diana, in a new television documentary...
  
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• Baby Charlie protesters rally as hospital reports threats

  23-07-2017 17:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental medical treatment rallied Sunday, while hospital officials say emotions are running so high in the ......
  
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• What I learned from home DNA testing

  23-07-2017 11:00
  They promise to reveal everything from our ancestry to our chances of serious illness. But are DNA tests accurate and do they tell us anything worthwhile?There may come a time in everyone’s life when they find themselves sitting at the kitchen table on an otherwise unexceptional weekday morning, drooling saliva into a test tube in the spirit of scientific inquiry.The spit is for one of the home genetic-testing kits I’m sampling. A growing number of these kits (brands such as 23andMe,
  
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• 'There is inevitably an arms race': parents on opportunity hoarding

  23-07-2017 11:00
  We asked readers to share their thoughts about how far they’d go to give their children the best chance in life.We recently published a piece by Richard Reeves, who was former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s director of strategy, in which he challenged parents in the US to acknowledge their role in “hoarding” opportunity for their own children at the expense of those from poorer families. We asked readers to share their thoughts about opportunity hoarding and how far t
  
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• Charlie Gard protesters to rally as hospital reports threats

  23-07-2017 09:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - Protesters who want critically ill British baby Charlie Gard to receive an experimental treatment are planning a rally and prayer vigil and hospital officials say they have received ......
  
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• The high life: a weekend at Goodwood

  23-07-2017 08:00
  A country break at the West Sussex estate offers everything from flying lessons to gin tasting‘Good morning! This is your captain speaking. We are cruising at 115mph and at an altitude of… er, I think it says 1,000ft. Sorry, I’ve forgotten my reading glasses.’ I’m at the controls of a tiny Cessna 172, having my first flying lesson. The actual pilot, Rob Wildeboer, is sitting next to me, looking remarkably calm. There is room for two passengers in the back but, perh
  
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• The night I drove George Melly home from the Cricklewood Tavern

  23-07-2017 07:00
  It’s the early 1970s, and a young jazz fan is called upon to rescue ‘Good Time George’ after a typically flamboyant pub performanceIn the early 1970s when I was in my 20s, I was sharing a flat in Hampstead, northwest London, with a like-minded group of jazz enthusiasts. I had just had my first and only novel published and was also pursuing a fledgling career in advertising photography.George immediately lit a huge cigar, which rendered visibility inside my old Volvo to almost z
  
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• Plaquemine Lock, London: ‘celebration of Louisiana’ restaurant review

  23-07-2017 07:00
  Jacob Kenedy has written a love letter to Cajun and Creole cookery from a pub in IslingtonPlaquemine Lock, 139 Graham Street, London N1 8LB (020 7688 1488). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £40 to £90Plaquemine Lock is that dangerous love affair you warn your best friend to avoid. Leave it, mate. They’re not worth it. It will only end in heartbreak and, this being a lousy metaphor for restaurant failure, debt. But Jacob Kenedy will not be told. The chef renowned for
  
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• Off the wall: at home with a giant ice-cream and 20 fish | Kate Edgley

  23-07-2017 07:00
  Ceramics, the seaside and sex all provide eye-catching displays in this artist’s home, says Kate EdgleyWhen artist and interior designer Ellie Howitt bought her flat in Forest Hill, southeast London, five years ago, she saw it as a blank canvas. “It’s ex-council, built in the 70s, and what strikes me about that era of social housing is the proportions of the spaces. They are very respectful. Once you get into the 80s, they get tiny and impractical again. There’s also a si
  
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• Nobody puts Dirty Dancing lovers in the corner

  23-07-2017 07:00
  A near-fatal Dirty Dancing-themed wedding dance warm-up has much to tell us about how we see ourselves and our partnersA beer garden in Weston-super-Mare and two people are standing 30ft apart, in love. Sharon Price and Andy Price, same name, coincidence, were having a drink and debating the first dance for their wedding. They didn’t want a slow dance, because everyone does a slow dance, don’t they? Two bodies slumped gratefully over each other, grinning and red as they mouth the wor
  
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• Nigel Slater’s grilled beef and pork recipes

  23-07-2017 07:00
  A great slab of cast iron is Nigel’s most used kitchen implement. It’s versatile – and stirs smoke-induced memories…If you poke around in my kitchen, it won’t take long to ascertain the most loved and regularly used pieces of kit. My favourite sauté pan and dented brass spatula aside, the most used pieces are the cast iron griddles.Mackerel sends the scent of a summer by the sea in Cornwall out into the garden Continue reading...
  
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• I’m unsure about the fiancee my parents found me | Mariella Frostrup

  23-07-2017 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup tells a Muslim man that if they are both willing to make it work they stand as much chance of success as those who marry for loveThe dilemma I am a 27-year-old man and a practising Muslim. I currently live in Germany. I am very liberal, and I respect the freedom and rights of women.I am engaged to a 24-year-old Pakistani-British girl, arranged by our families. I think you know how things are done in Pakistani families. We have been talking/texting for the last six months. Conti
  
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• How to stand the test of time as an artist | Ryan Holiday

  23-07-2017 07:00
  The most enduring works are made with heartfelt intent, says Ryan Holiday, not to mention a lot of hard workIn 1937, literary critic Cyril Connolly sat down to write a book around an unusual question: how does an author create something that lasts for 10 years? Connolly’s view was that the mark of literary greatness lay in standing the test of time. With the spectre of world war looming on the horizon, the idea of anything surviving in an uncertain future had a kind of poignancy and meanin
  
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• Don’t water plants on sunny days? Three horticultural myths exposed

  23-07-2017 07:00
  Some sage old sayings are based on facts – others are not worth the botherWhile many age-old gardening practices are now supported by scientific evidence, some of the most common ones have consistently been shown to be either unnecessary or downright counterproductive when put to the test. So simply not bothering with the following three conventional pieces of gardening “wisdom” could save you time and effort, and will almost certainly give you the same or even better results.
  
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• Do secrets make you ill? - Personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

  23-07-2017 07:00
  Some secrets are more likely to cause mind wandering and it’s that, not the secret itself, that interferes with contentment, says Ben AmbridgePsst! Keeping secrets may not actually be such a great idea. So how many do you currently have? And are you keeping any that include the following? List A
  Sexual orientation, habits or addictions, ambitions, finances, insecurities regarding your physical appearance. Continue reading...
  
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• A taste for viognier | David Williams

  23-07-2017 06:59
  Voignier is summer in a glass – when it hits the mark. Here are three very different wines for you to tryYves Cuilleron Viognier Vin de Pays des Collines Rhodaniennes, France 2016 (from £17.99, Corks of Bristol; Martinez; Hedonism; Philglas & Swiggot) Few white wines disappoint me more often than those made from viognier. It’s not that it makes more bad wines than other grape varieties, although it can be very bad – either blandly inoffensive or gauchely flabby and OT
  
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• Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz's grilled rib-eye with roasted artichokes

  23-07-2017 00:30
  The Porteño chefs share the recipe to one of their hallmark steak dishes as well one for their chimichurri sauce Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz’s baked kingfish with braised lentilsOne of Sydney restaurant Porteño’s hallmark dishes is chuleta, a thinly sliced rib-eye steak served with zesty green Argentinian chimichurri sauce and, depending on the season, with roasted Jerusalem artichokes.“In Argentina, they are not fans of eating big fat cuts of steak, [it&rs
  
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