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• Belinda Carlisle: ‘After my cocaine use, I can’t believe I’m not dead’

  12-08-2017 15:00
  The Go-Go’s singer, 58, on wanting to be the bad girl, discovering Buddhism and how her marriage survived her addictionsBeing famous for fame’s sake wasn’t the goal when I co-founded the Go-Go’s. I just wanted to sing and have a laugh. But social media and reality shows like American Idol have created a malignant narcissism. I thought it was the end of music when they started.After three decades of cocaine addiction I can’t believe I’m not dead. I should actua
  
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• After 6 months on job, education chief still highly divisive

  12-08-2017 14:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Among the paintings and photographs that decorate Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' sunlit, spacious office is the framed roll call from her Senate confirmation. It's a stark reminder of ...
  
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• Is 'A ragman (anag) (7)' fair as a Quick clue?

  12-08-2017 14:39
  Advance notice: Maskarade’s bank holiday special will be published on Saturday 26 August._____ Continue reading...
  
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• Parents test school liability in bullying and child suicide

  12-08-2017 13:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CINCINNATI - The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who hanged himself from his bunk bed with a necktie are testing the issue of school liability in suicides blamed on ......
  
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• The new vegan: Meera Sodha’s recipe for chargrilled summer vegetables with a cumin and coriander dressing

  12-08-2017 10:30
  Indians don’t really ‘do’ salads. Or at least they haven’t until very recentlyIn A Historical Dictionary Of Indian Food (Oxford University Press), by KT Achaya, there is no entry under salad. For such a rich and varied food culture, this feels like a mistake, but there’s a truth behind it: the quality of produce and water in India has always been variable, so it’s not possible just to wash a few leaves before eating them.This has resulted in a cuisine tha
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s artichoke recipes

  12-08-2017 10:00
  Artichokes are a lot more versatile than they seem, whether you’re cooking globes from scratch, or using jarred, tinned or frozen heartsThere are three ways to get to the heart of a globe artichoke. One is to do all the work yourself; to roll up your sleeves and get on with the task of chopping and trimming the outer leaves until you reach the heart and remove the choke. The second is to make a meal out of reaching the heart, picking away at those leaves and using them to scoop up all sort
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the woman with breast cancer

  12-08-2017 10:00
  I grieve for the family celebrations I may miss, growing older with my husband, having grandchildrenThere are days when I’m full of anger and sadness, and other moments when I appreciate the miracle of life. Every gesture, song or conversation now carries a deeper meaning. The intensity of hugging my husband and daughters is often unbearable, and I grieve every day for the life that cancer took away from me.Stage four cancer sucks optimism, hope and eventually even breath. It’s like
  
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• 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?'

  12-08-2017 10:00
  I was seriously unfit when I started training for an endurance triathlon – would I make it to the finish?People talk about hitting the wall: the point where you exercise so hard, your body can do no more. I really wanted to hit the wall – in fact, I wanted to knock it down with a sledgehammer. Because I had been staring at this particular wall, in my kitchen, for two hours through a stream of my own eye-stinging sweat.It was 7am and I was sitting on a race bike attached to a device c
  
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• My ankle snapped. The sky darkened. My sister rang for help | Tanya Gold

  12-08-2017 10:00
  I’m learning about Cornwall, but I didn’t know you shouldn’t walk on the cliffs in flip-flops after a stormLast week I wrote about moving to Cornwall and being an emmet – an incomer, or “ant”. I know now that this is not a slur but rather a state of mind, which is ignorance. I know this because, since writing that last column, I broke my ankle walking on a cliff.On Wednesday evening I walked from the top of Sennen Cove towards Land’s End. The weather was
  
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• 'Don't talk about the goat wars': how a feral herd divided a Devon village

  12-08-2017 09:00
  A herd of feral goats living in a beauty spot outside Lynton have sparked hate mail, death threats, even a murder inquiry. William Atkins reportsIn the Crown Hotel in Lynton, they tell a gruesome tale about the Valley of Rocks. One June night in 1995, a chef, raging drunk, snatched up a meat cleaver and, announcing he was going to kill someone, vanished into the night. Early next morning, on the clifftop path that leads from the north Devon village to the valley, a dog-walker came upon a 300-yar
  
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• Beauty: a brilliant tinted moisturiser

  12-08-2017 09:00
  Truly, I can’t wear it without someone telling me how well I lookI worry about Origins. One would imagine the almost 30-year-old plant-based range might be enjoying a purple patch currently, seeing as all the coolest skincare brands boast of their own natural credentials, but the trailblazing Origins counters seem to get smaller and their products overlooked. This one deserves attention and heaps of praise, though. It’s Ginzing SPF40 Energy Boosting Tinted Moisturiser (£30), an
  
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• What links Postman Pat, Buffy Anne Summers, the Dingles and the Sugdens? The Weekend quiz

  12-08-2017 08:00
  From Dickens to David Beckham, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who was the first king after the Norman conquest of England with an English name?
  2 Where is a planet’s aphelion?
  3 Which language used to be printed in Fraktur?
  4 What is housed in the Petrie Museum at University College London?
  5 Which Dickens title character travels to America?
  6 “They had no choice” is inscribed on which war memorial?
  7 What is Canada’s newest, and largest, territory?
  8 Who shar
  
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• Is physiotherapy really worth it, or are there cheaper solutions?

  12-08-2017 08:00
  I’m getting quite bad pains from constant keyboard work, but I don’t earn much so physio will be a massive cost for me Every 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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• Fit in my 40s: ‘I'm not an elegant climber, but sometimes I feel like Spider-Man’

  12-08-2017 08:00
  You have to plan your climb before you start. All the moss and gunk, the to-do lists, the anxieties, it all vanishesBriefly, the principle of bouldering is, there is a wall about five metres high. And you are a person, without ropes or harnesses, your only specialist equipment the shoes (which you can hire). The wall has knobbly bits poking out, colour-coded by difficulty. It is wildly exhilarating to reach the top, then – always – there’s a flash of panic when you realise, lik
  
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• ‘When a man is tired of Milton Keynes, he is tired of life’ says my dad

  12-08-2017 07:45
  Richard Macer grew up in the much-maligned new town. As they both turn 50, he returns home with camera in hand …My family moved into our house on an estate in Milton Keynes in 1978. I remember being somewhat embarrassed by my home in those early days because it was one of the first estates that had houses that actually looked like houses. My friends would come round to play Subbuteo and admire my traditional pitched roof and red brick walls enclosed with wood cladding. Some of them lived
  
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• My son vents his anger about the housing crisis to a distant relation

  12-08-2017 07:45
  At a wedding, ‘Bill’ accused Jake’s generation of being spoilt and having everything done for them. I wanted to warn him, but it was too late …At a recent family wedding, my 24-year-old son and I became part of a small group chatting amiably over drinks and mini bruschetta. A distant relation (I’ll call him Bill) turned to my son Jake and asked him what he was doing. Jake told him about his MSc.“And where are you living?” Bill asked. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’m leaving the nest before I’m ready but that’s what life has thrown up’

  12-08-2017 07:45
  I’ve stepped into a parallel universe where my father is no longer with me and the relationship with my mum is strainedMoving out of the family home to go it alone is usually a necessary rite of passage for most millennials. But if you have to do it before you’re ready – if you get nudged out of the nest rather than getting the option to fly – well, it kind of dulls the excitement a little bit.If someone had predicted 10 years ago that by 24 I’d be renting in a hous
  
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• A letter to … the kind stranger who shared her grief with me

  12-08-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeThe afternoon I visited your shop, I had been walking around aimlessly for hours and I’m not sure what made me go in. My confidence had deserted me and the furthest thing from my mind was shopping for new clothes. Less than a week before, I had been 11 weeks pregnant, full of joy and hope and new life. Now all that was gone, and with it my whole sense of who I was; it was my second miscarriage and I felt bereft.Your shop was empty and I think you were p
  
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• ‘He said I love you. The next time I saw him, he was dead’ – the wonderful legacy of my son Depzman

  12-08-2017 07:30
  Alison Cope’s 18-year-old son Joshua Ribera – AKA the rapper Depzman – was stabbed to death four years ago. Now, she uses his celebrity to talk to children about the dangers of knives‘Do you know who I am?’’ Alison Cope asks young offenders whenever she speaks to them in prisons. “I’m Depzman’s mum.” She waits to register their surprise and delight at the name of one of Britain’s brightest young rap artists, also known as MC
  
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• ‘It’s only hair!’ I hear you cry – my baby son’s hair-cutting ceremony

  12-08-2017 07:15
  Faced with the prospect of shaving my son’s head for a traditional ceremony, I’m finding it hard to imagine him without hairThere’s a strong chance that if your baby is of Indian heritage, he or she will be blessed with an admirable head of hair. The type of crown that makes fellow parents coo over its thickness and sheer quantity and to wonder what on earth you are doing to make it grow so fast (almond oil massage works a treat for anyone who is wondering).My 10-month-old son
  
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• ‘Watching TV is the only wholesome family time we have most days’

  12-08-2017 07:00
  Watching a show with my teenage sons is a happy retreat from reality, away from arguments, exams and the friction of daily lifeA friend recently asked me whether her young children watched too much television. After briefly outlining the screen-time agreement hammered out with my own teenage sons – a document as complex and painfully negotiated as the Peace of Westphalia, its inception littered with deadlocks and walkouts – I explained that TV was exempt. “Watching TV is the on
  
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• Blind date: ‘I slammed a taxi door on her foot’

  12-08-2017 07:00
  Did corporate banker Oliver, 35, bowl over business support manager Katie, 36, too?First impressions?
  I’d seen her earlier walking down the road and hoped she was my date – she looked ace. Continue reading...
  
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• Berger & Wyse on job interviews – cartoon

  12-08-2017 07:00
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• Tim Dowling: Will I be fluent in Italian by the time my plane lands?

  12-08-2017 06:59
  ‘You don’t appear to have made much progress,’ my wife says It is 7.30 in the morning and my wife and I are walking to the train station, her suitcase rolling along between us, trying to figure out the best way to get to Gatwick.“Every time I look it up the route changes,” I say. “I’ll keep checking.” Continue reading...
  
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• After 30 years, museum gets stolen piece by modern master

  12-08-2017 02:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PHOENIX - More than three decades after thieves made off with a valuable painting from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, officials say they have recovered the long sought ......
  
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• Treasured connection

  12-08-2017 02:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Elizabeth Kovach is holding court in her Garden City kitchen — which, at this moment, is warmed by the scent of chicken paprikash and cabbage rolls. Her two grown children, ...
  
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• Sudoku Killer 566

  12-08-2017 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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• Quick crossword No 14,747

  12-08-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,274

  12-08-2017 01:00
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