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• A bar's best friend: Britain's pub dogs – in pictures

  14-10-2017 18:00
  Seven years ago, a chance encounter with a staffordshire bull terrier wearing a scarlet neckerchief in a pub gave London-based film-maker Abbie Lucas and journalist Paul Fleckney an idea. For their new book, Great British Pub Dogs (published 19 October by Little, Brown), the pair travelled the country to document the canine residents of around 70 UK pubs. “It’s really useful knowing where they all are,” says Fleckney, who, like Lucas, doesn’t own a dog but would love to.
  
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• After 883 years, Cistercian monastery to close in Germany

  14-10-2017 15:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BERLIN - A Cistercian monastery that's existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks.The Himmerod Abbey, ......
  
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• Martin Morales’s recipe for pumpkin casserole | A cook’s kitchen

  14-10-2017 13:00
  Endless aprons, vintage cookbooks and Maras salt are Martin Morales’s trusted tools for making this Andean-style pumpkin casserole and sticky Oxapampa tart from his new cookbookSix years ago, we sold our house to start Ceviche in Soho, and moved to this rental. We love it more than any other house we’ve ever lived in. It’s 100m from our kids’ schools, and the kitchen is exactly the style we like: the high ceilings, the picture rails, the old wooden floors ... and that sto
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for lemon tart | King of puddings

  14-10-2017 11:00
  The glow of fresh lemons is a seduction like no other, whispering promises and sweet nothings of the pleasures to follow. Here, their juice and zest electrify a delicate tart – all that remains is to add a dollop of whipped creamA beautiful lemon – preferably with leaves attached and picked somewhere near Naples – has an almighty ability to cheer even the most frazzled of cooks. Depicted in every form imaginable, they are a fruit that inspires artists and, in more modern times,
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan mushroom bao

  14-10-2017 10:30
  Bao seem to be everywhere right now, thanks both to the street food revolution and social media, so here’s a vegan take on this very tasty filled bunThere is genuine pleasure to be had in things that feel just right: the weight of a pound coin, a bath at the perfect temperature, the feel of a well-worn wooden spoon. To this list, I’d add bao: it’s as if this little bun was ergonomically designed for eating – it fits snugly into the nook of a hand; the pillowy dough gives
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for autumn bakes

  14-10-2017 10:00
  There’s something about a bake, be it sweet or savoury, that brings comfort to a cold day – and saves on the washing-up, tooIt’s a good time of the year for a bake, a great user-upper of all that super-ripe, tail-end-of-the-season produce. A bake, for me, is also a delightful catch-all, because it lets me make something that pays tribute to, but doesn’t quite follow, the tradition of another dish.Today’s sweet bake, for example, is part friand and part clafoutis. An
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the adult acne sufferer

  14-10-2017 10:00
  I cannot remember the last time I ventured outdoors in public without any makeup onI’m sitting across the table from you, eating dinner. The food is good, the company is good, but all that’s on my mind is my skin. Do you notice it? Do you think it looks awful? Can you see past it? Maybe it’s true what they say: nobody notices as much as I do. I am my own worst critic.When we go home we get ready for bed. You go into the bathroom first and get into bed first, I insist. I need to
  
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• Money and marriage: ‘Last year my wife earned 100 times more than me’

  14-10-2017 10:00
  I’m in the vanguard of gender-evolutionary change, and backing her all the way – so why do I feel like a failure?My wife and I are on conference call with our accountant, Ronnie. Ronnie works from a home office on 57th Street, looks a little like Larry David and has the kind of brusque New Yorker manners that border on the brutal.“Kate,” he says, his voice tinny on speakerphone, “it looks like you’ve had another great year. And those pensions are really starti
  
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• I feel like a tourist who has forgotten to go home

  14-10-2017 10:00
  I hop on crutches like a pirate, but miss the record attempt for most pirates in one placeThere is no weather in hospital. When I lie in Treliske hospital, Truro, after breaking my ankle walking on a cliff, I can only remember the Longships lighthouse, the storm clouds and the sea. I came to West Penwith to find freedom in my body again – the reach and the joy that children have. I have said I feel unsteady here, like a tourist who has forgotten to go home, so has no home at all. But the h
  
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• Beauty: high-street moisturisers that take on the luxury brands – and win | Sali Hughes

  14-10-2017 09:00
  Whatever Superdrug is doing to integrate its SPF into its face creams, luxury brands need in on it, because I can’t remember a more instantly pleasing, no-fuss productWith the sheer weight of new products coming to market, some inevitably get overlooked – it can be months before I chance across them. This happened recently, when a missed late train detoured me to a friend’s flat, where I had to make do with what he had in the bathroom. Within seconds of massaging Supe
  
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• What should I buy as a christening gift?

  14-10-2017 08:00
  I would like to give my friends’ granddaughter a meaningful, long-lasting presentEvery 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 raven, chough, jay, rook and jackdaw? The Weekend quiz

  14-10-2017 08:00
  From MJQ to medjool, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What female form of address was first proposed in 1901?
  2 Which 1950s cult novel was written on a 120-foot roll of paper?
  3 Which insurgency was led by Subcomandante Marcos?
  4 What is the SI unit of energy?
  5 Young Boys v Old Boys was a 2017 cup tie in which country?
  6 Wagyu is a term for what animals?
  7 Where did Santos succeed Bartlet?
  8 What musical group was known as the MJQ?
  What links:
  9 Crucial; Kurupt; West; Norwich and Nort
  
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• The men’s fashion jury on Harry Styles, Skepta, Justin Trudeau and more

  14-10-2017 08:00
  Can Harry put a foot wrong? Is Trudeau Mr Average? And does Skepta look like an undertaker? Our celebrity judges give their verdictsReverend Richard Coles, musician turned vicar, broadcaster and Strictly contestant He’s a handsome fellow, but he looks like he’s wearing the sartorial version of dad dancing. Continue reading...
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘My DNA test results are in. How did I do?

  14-10-2017 07:58
  I congratulate myself – but then spot the mistake in my analysis Remember my DNA test a few weeks ago? I got my results back from FitnessGenes, and spent a couple of hours awed by my own capacities, before I realised how to interpret the information. Starting from the top: ACE is the endurance gene. You either have two copies of the long version, II; two copies of the short, DD; or one of each, ID. The long version is associated with endurance athletes, the short with being a power/strengt
  
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• Why I’m finally shelving my father’s 1,000-volume library

  14-10-2017 07:45
  Twenty years ago, Jonathan Sale inherited his father’s collection of books. As a house move forces him to part with them, he recalls Arthur’s literary lifeThere’s a curse on your father’s books,” warned my daughter. They certainly began by causing trouble, right from the moment in the 1930s when the carpenter started installing the bookshelves. Hearing cries for help, my parents dashed into the front room to discover the poor man had somehow trapped himself bet
  
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• A letter to ... my teacher, with whom I had an affair

  14-10-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeI always looked forward to your lessons. I liked how you levelled with us. We felt respected. And your passion for all those novels and plays could be highly infectious. It was because of one of those plays that you took our relationship into a forbidden realm and our lives began to mirror the characters in which we had become so absorbed.At an after-show party, when everyone else had dispersed to find a room to sleep, we were suddenly left alone. Your touch
  
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• Don't envy this newspaper columnist

  14-10-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I suspect most of you are extremely jealous of me, because I lead the thrill-a-minute lifestyle of a big-shot newspaper columnist.It’s hard not to envy a man whose job allows ......
  
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• Good riddance to bad blood: how I learned to love my chaotic family

  14-10-2017 07:30
  Jason Tougaw spent his youth in 60s California steeped in the chaos that plagued generations of his family. He found himself asking, is it possible to break the chain of ancestral turmoil?Great-grandpa Neves – no one can remember his first name – is directing traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, naked. By 1930, he has been in California, from his native Portugal, long enough – more than 15 years – to perform the hand signals on instinct: palm out front for “stop&rdquo
  
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• My mum, the superwoman: the hours, the sacrifice, the commute, the dog-tiredness

  14-10-2017 07:15
  Marisa Bate is thankful and proud that her mother sacrificed so much to raise her and her brother alone, while holding down a demanding job. Now she’s so glad that her mother’s retired and finally has precious time to herselfHave you ever fallen asleep standing up? I didn’t even know you could until I watched my mum do it on a packed commuter train during the school holidays. She would be taking us to a daycare scheme subsided by the civil service – her employer
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘Our new mattress is missing, and neither of us can sleep’

  14-10-2017 07:00
  ‘Where is my posh bed?’ I ask one morning, staring up at the ceiling. My neck is stiff and the fingers on my left hand are tingling Back in July, my wife and I spent an afternoon lying on a series of mattresses in a department store, before finally agreeing on one. It was more than we’d intended to spend, but she convinced me a good mattress was an investment. “By the time we need a new one, we’ll be dead,” she said.A new bed base was delivered a few days late
  
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• From peas in a pod to a kidney transplant: how my little brother saved my life

  14-10-2017 07:00
  I spent my childhood needling Paul, but he was my constant companion. And when I needed a kidney transplant this year, he was the first to volunteerLate in the morning of 23 August, my brother and I were wheeled into adjoining operating theatres at the Royal Free hospital in London for a surgical procedure to splice a living part of his body – a healthy, shining kidney – with mine, making literal something I’ve always felt. He is part of me, as I am part of him. Our lives are e
  
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• The Latest: Harassment scandal scraps starry Amazon series

  14-10-2017 04:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The Latest on sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein (all times local):10:30 p.m.An Amazon series from Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore and director David O. Russell is ......
  
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• Sudoku 3879 hard

  14-10-2017 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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• Killer Sudoku 575

  14-10-2017 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 14,801

  14-10-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,328

  14-10-2017 01:00
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• The Latest: Oprah Winfrey calls Weinstein behaviour "hideous"

  14-10-2017 00:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The Latest on sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein (all times local):6:12 p.m.Oprah Winfrey says Harvey Weinstein's behaviour is "hideous" and she agrees with others who also ......
  
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