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• Summer lovin'? Not in angry Europe's tourist hotspots

  05-08-2017 18:32
  BARCELONA/ROME/SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Chronic overcrowding in some of Europe's beloved tourism hotspots is fuelling an angry backlash, from polite protest to "Go Home" graffiti and even physical...
  
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• ‘This house has been entirely furnished with things I’ve found or been given’ | A cook’s kitchen

  05-08-2017 13:00
  Flea-market finds and gifted cookware find a new lease of life with Zoe AdjonyohI’ve lived in this warehouse in east London since 2010, the year of my first peanut-butter stew experiment, which was the beginning of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. It’s a great big space, set back from the road, super quiet and peaceful and flooded with sunlight. When we moved in, it was essentially an empty white box – we built the kitchen and two bedrooms ourselves. It’s cosy, but cluttered. I
  
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• The new vegan: Meera Sodha’s recipe for samphire, potato and chickpea chaat

  05-08-2017 10:30
  The UK tends to overlook the vegetables that come from our seas and coastline, which is a bit of an oversight, considering we’re an island nation‘Viking, North Utsire, 3 or 4, moderate, South Utsire, rain later, good”: the shipping forecast is a wonderfully British institution, and the gentlest reminder that we live on an island and shouldn’t forget it. Unfortunately, I often do forget, especially when thinking about food.Yes, we are famous for our love of fish and chips
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s shellfish recipes

  05-08-2017 10:00
  British shellfish is up there with the best in the world, so make the most of our indigenous mussels, crab, clams and prawns, and get using them in the kitchenEarlier this year, I went on a beach holiday with my family near Aldeburgh, in Suffolk. Well, I say “beach holiday”, but this was back in February, when it bitterly cold and often overcast outside, and food was our only remedy against the chill. Even so, we ended up having a ball, thanks in no small part to several trips to the
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the Airbnb host

  05-08-2017 10:00
  What could possibly go wrong? The locked-in dogs, the crying husband, the discarded underwear...Ninety-five per cent of my guests are a delight. They appreciate my rural Cotswolds apartment, enjoy the breakfasts, chocolates, flowers and wine I provide, and treat the place as their home.Since my sons left home, I have had guests from all over the world. Families, babies, retired couples, therapy dogs, Olympic athletes, Hollywood actors, writers, young couples from London. Many return and have bec
  
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• Beauty: nude lipsticks

  05-08-2017 09:00
  Believe me, nude lipstick can be just as sexy as redI’ve written a huge amount on red lipstick in my time, so people often assume I’ll be scornful of a more restrained look. The truth is, I adore nudes and wear them a good deal more often. I’m fussy about the terminology, however: a nude should be any colour skin or lips could conceivably be, not the generic beige of a Caucasian support stocking. A muted beigey-rose is my own default daytime lipstick shade, because it goes with
  
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• Which castle stands on the Isle of Purbeck? The Weekend quiz

  05-08-2017 08:00
  From boxing kings to finches, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which agency originated in efforts to suppress rebel Highland clans?
  2 Launched in 1957, what type of vessel was the Lenin?
  3 Which castle stands on the Isle of Purbeck?
  4 Which entertainer’s name regained its hyphen this year?
  5 In an opening line, who was “handsome, clever, and rich”?
  6 Which Berlin museum is named after an ancient Greek altar?
  7 Who were the “four kings” of 19
  
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• Am I a stepfather, her mum’s boyfriend or a glorified roadie?

  05-08-2017 07:45
  Andrew Mayers has helped to nurture the career of the pop star Jasmine Thompson. For him, as her star rises, the emotional rollercoaster never stopsTheo Walcott is not my child. But I’m telling you, Mr and Mrs Walcott – you are there in my heart when I go to watch Arsenal. You see, my very own precociously talented teenager has been thrown into the cruelly exposing spotlight – and I recognise why the agonies I go through when the Gunners winger has the ball at his feet feel so
  
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• A letter to … My brother, who was dead for 13 years without me realising

  05-08-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou are my only sibling. I know I didn’t always fully understand you, but I always looked up to you and I thought you were clever and amazing. Well, at least I did up until that time you refused to come and see our very elderly dad when he was dying in the care home. I just couldn’t see why that had been so difficult for you. He was pleading to see you during his final hours, but you wouldn’t visit him. I really hated you for that because he
  
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• Ikea: Swedish for complicating relationships

  05-08-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It’s just an Ikea bed frame, a cheap faux- mahogany structure.But I see conflict.My girlfriend is slick. She suggests ideas and activities that I agree to when I’m half-asleep... only ......
  
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• Tim Dowling: a tale of two doorbells

  05-08-2017 07:00
  I barely know where I live any more. And what’s that ringing in my ears?For two nights running, I am woken by an auditory hallucination: the sound of our old doorbell. Both times, I sit bolt upright and think: it can’t be someone at the door – we don’t live there any more.On the third night, I am woken by a shrill ring that turns out to be our new doorbell. The dog runs downstairs barking, and I follow. On the other side of the front door I find the oldest
  
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• ‘There are ways to get through it’: Jason Watkins on the death of his daughter Maude

  05-08-2017 07:00
  Even when you lose a child, there are still bills to pay and other relationships to nurture. The actor and his wife, Clara Francis, talk to Julia Hall about life after Maude, who died suddenly, aged two and a halfThe actor Jason Watkins has a prominent tattoo on his left forearm; people he meets, he says, are often surprised about it. “When I’m getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: ‘Oh, you don’t seem the type for a tattoo.’&rdqu
  
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• Kasey Edwards: I love being married, but am I the exception?

  05-08-2017 07:00
  The author asks ‘happy couples’ the secret of their success – and is shocked by what she finds outI was never going to get married. After bearing witness to my parents’ three decades of misery, I was not stupid enough to do it myself. When my father left my mother for a younger woman, I conducted my own little investigation into married life. I asked all my parents’ friends to give me an honest account of their marriages and explain why they were still together. I s
  
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• Blind date: ‘He’s an “I” and “me” conversationalist’

  05-08-2017 07:00
  Eugenia, 27, project manager, meets Thomas, 34, freelance journalistWhat were you hoping for?
  That he’s not so beautiful that I clam up and can’t talk. Continue reading...
  
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• Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany as insecticide scandal widens

  05-08-2017 05:08
  Supermarket chain makes move ‘purely as a precaution’ but acknowledges it could lead to ‘market shortages’ for eggs Discount supermarket Aldi said on Friday it was pulling all Dutch eggs from its shelves in Germany over an insecticide scandal that has spread to food stores across Europe.Aldi said it was making the move “purely as a precaution” but acknowledged it could lead to “market shortages” for eggs in Europe’s top economy. Continue read
  
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• Invisible virtuoso

  05-08-2017 01:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  During the past several summers, Alan Turner’s next-door neighbour has grown accustomed to puttering around in her backyard, listening to the strains of a grand piano wafting out of Turner’s ......
  
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• Sudoku killer 565

  05-08-2017 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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• Sudoku 3819 hard

  05-08-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. 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 standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,741

  05-08-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,268

  05-08-2017 01:00
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