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• ‘The thrill of racing is driving on the edge’: Nico Rosberg

  30-12-2017 15:00
  The F1 world champion on meditation, British etiquette and retiring at 31My first memory is of seeing Ayrton Senna in his yellow helmet as he raced his McLaren through the Monaco tunnel. I was three years old. We were staying on a friend’s boat near the chicane and at 8am I heard the roar of the car’s V10 engine fly past during warm-up, so I ran outside. The sound was unbelievable.My dad was also a racing driver, but my personality is closer to my mum’s. My racing style express
  
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• ‘There is a thrill to seeing your stomach getting flatter’: why I run

  30-12-2017 13:00
  Since I started trudging up hills and around parks four years ago, I have become healthier, slimmer and sunnier – and sometimes I even enjoy itIt is a damp, grey morning in south London and I am outdoors, still half asleep. The wind cuts like a knife and all I am wearing is shorts, tights and a polyester jersey. My muscles have clenched from the cold and no amount of stretching or rubbing will loosen them. But I tighten my laces and start to run. Uphill, as if things weren’t bad enou
  
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• Morito’s recipes for three breakfasts with a Spanish-Middle Eastern spin | Breakfast

  30-12-2017 13:00
  Wake up your tastebuds and zap your hangover with Morito’s new breakfast recipes, giving the scrambled egg and cereal stalwarts a Spanish Middle-Eastern spinYour salt cod fillet should be rinsed well, then soaked in cold water in the fridge overnight or longer with one change of water. Continue reading...
  
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• The flat Ernö Goldfinger built: ‘We fell in love’

  30-12-2017 12:00
  How a high-rise apartment in south London, built by the legendary Hungarian architect, has been stripped back to its rootsAt a busy roundabout in Elephant and Castle, south London is a small cluster of 1960s high-rises, built as offices by the legendary Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger. When Nic Roome and his partner Francesco Petillo moved to London from Rome and bought their two-bedroom flat on the 10th floor of one of these 16-storey blocks, they weren’t thinking so much of the
  
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• Buckle up: how the trenchcoat went from classic to cool

  30-12-2017 11:01
  The trench has always been a staple but, in 2017, it gained fashionability. That’s thanks to off-kilter styling at Céline and Vetements, and celebrity wearers Worn by Kate Middleton, Audrey Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, the trench coat has long been a perennial clothing item filed with jeans and the LBD as must-have items for every woman to own. In 2017, however, the trench’s style status has shifted. It has gone from classic to cool.Continue reading...
  
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• Neil Rankin’s kitchen: ‘I raid east Asian supermarkets for everything I can find’ | A cook’s kitchen

  30-12-2017 11:00
  Japanese knives and precision scales take pride of place in the kitchen of Neil RankinI live in a loft apartment in a converted matchstick warehouse in Bow, east London. The kitchen is tiny, so I’ve a limited amount of stuff in there, which spills out into wardrobes dotted around the rest of the flat. Since I rarely cook for more people than myself, it’s ample. It’s open plan, to the extent that if I cook anything like a steak, the fire alarm goes off. It looks very neat here,
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for shiitake pho with crispy leeks

  30-12-2017 10:30
  Shiitake mushrooms bring both texture and a rich, savoury flavour to the classic Vietnamese noodle soupThere’s a whole world of mushrooms out there and, much like wine, we can all probably name a handful of them. Unlike wine, however, there are no dedicated menus rhapsodising about their various flavours. This might be because of the dangers associated with fungi: pick and eat the wrong mushroom, and you’re dead, we’re taught as children. Sadly, this has done nothing to he
  
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• Griff Rhys Jones: ‘My best kiss? I kissed all the Spice Girls once’

  30-12-2017 10:30
  The actor and comedian on being lazy, losing his cool and public shamingBorn in Cardiff, Griff Rhys Jones, 64, began his career on the BBC’s Not The Nine O’Clock News, which ran from 1979-82. He went on to develop a comedy partnership with Mel Smith that lasted 20 years. He is also an Olivier award-winning stage actor. His UK tour, Where Was I?, starts on 18 January. He is married with two children and lives in Suffolk.When were you happiest?
  I’ll be at my happiest today, and p
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for fried party snacks for new year and beyond

  30-12-2017 10:00
  Everyone loves a fried snack, so let’s end the year as we mean to go onRoom for one more party, yes? Just one more slice of cake and one more glass of wine? New Year’s Eve marks the line between one year and the next, of course, but for many of us it also marks the cut-off point between indulgence and abstinence. What better way to tread this fine line, then, than to have friends over and serve them some snack food rather than one big feast. This sort of food often makes for my favou
  
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• From Samantha Bee to Jo Brand, funny women have got me through 2017

  30-12-2017 10:00
  ‘We’ve already got a woman,’ female comedian friends of mine are told, still, when auditioning for a show that features five contestantsMen are afraid that women will laugh at them, as the evergreen Margaret Atwood quote goes, whereas women are afraid that men will kill them. Women can’t do much about the latter but, over the years, men have tried to do plenty about the former. A favourite tactic has been to diminish funny women, because that’s apparently easier tha
  
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• From Meghan Markle’s dating diary to Priti Patel’s flight: satirists take on the news

  30-12-2017 10:00
  Coco Khan, Stuart Heritage and Morwenna Ferrier dive into 2017 as part of our comedy look at the year• Read more from the satire specialDear DiaryContinue reading...
  
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• WannaCry, Petya, NotPetya: how ransomware hit the big time in 2017

  30-12-2017 09:00
  Most first encountered ransomware after an outbreak shut down hospital computers and diverted ambulances this year. Is it here to stay?For thousands of people, the first time they heard of “ransomware” was as they were turned away from hospitals in May 2017.The WannaCry outbreak had shut down computers in more than 80 NHS organisations in England alone, resulting in almost 20,000 cancelled appointments, 600 GP surgeries having to return to pen and paper, and five hospitals simply div
  
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• From the time Trump's tweets disappeared to David Davis's Brexit diary: satirists take on the news

  30-12-2017 09:00
  Joe Lycett, Ayesha Hazarika, Gráinne Maguire and Nish Kumar take a fresh look at the year as part of our comedy special• Read more from the satire specialOn 3 November 2017, President Donald J Trump’s Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes. For those moments, the world had no idea what he was thinking or feeling or watching on Fox.Continue reading...
  
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• Beauty: how to bring the best of the States back home

  30-12-2017 09:00
  Thanks to cult beauty websites, QVC and pop-ups, few brands are unavailable in the UK these days‘Do you want anything from Sephora?” used to be the most exciting question you could ask a British beauty enthusiast. I never flew to America without a long shopping list of exotic hair, skin and makeup products that my friends were hooked on or had seen in magazines. Nowadays, thanks to cult beauty websites, QVC and pop-ups, few brands are unavailable in the UK (though there are some comm
  
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• What links Gliński’s hexagonal, Displacement, Transcendental and Fischer random? The Weekend quiz

  30-12-2017 08:00
  From a dictator to Dennis the Menace, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who were targeted by the 1913 Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act?
  2 What reached its greatest extent in AD117?
  3 On TV, where did José Feliciano become Demis Roussos?
  4 What contains around a million nephrons?
  5 Which dictator was born in Siberia in 1941?
  6 What bird’s name comes from the Welsh for “white head”?
  7 What are the three basic Boolean operators?
  8 A Haligonian cou
  
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• 'Lost without her system operators': a year in the life of the Maybot

  30-12-2017 08:00
  John Crace charts an extraordinary 12 months for Theresa May as part of our satirical look back at 2017• Read more from the satire special “The Enemies of the People”, aka the supreme court, rule that parliament should have a vote on triggering article 50. Theresa May is outraged. She hadn’t taken back control only to give back control to the British parliament. The Conservatives then draw up a bill to go through the Commons that Jeremy Corbyn says his party will back. The
  
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• I'm a leadership contender, get me out of here! A Tory TV takeover

  30-12-2017 08:00
  The Tories have takeover plans for the reality TV schedule, as imagined by Liam Williams as part of our satirical look back at the year• Read more from the satire specialEmail from Elisabeth St Auburn (head of youth comms, Conservative party) to Elizabeth Moatley-Graves (special adviser to the PM) Hi Elizabeth, Continue reading...
  
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• 2017 in satire: inside Jeremy Corbyn's trophy cabinet

  30-12-2017 08:00
  Phil Wang takes a peek at the Labour leader’s trophies for moderate achievements as part of our comic look back at the year• Read more from the satire special“Afternoon, Trina!”Trina jumped. Usually she caught the black flat cap shark-finning over the top of the allotment fence in time to prepare herself. But today he’d caught her off guard. She sighed. Continue reading...
  
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• Letter to … my dad, whose heavy drinking is out of control

  30-12-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeI can’t remember a time before you drank. As children, we quickly learned to spot the signs. You would become progressively louder and more argumentative before taking offence at some perceived slight and losing your temper. I have no idea if you remember all the terrible things you have said and done while drunk. If you do, you have never apologised. The hurt and the sadness is for the rest of us to bear, while you carry on as if everything is fine.It
  
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• A letter to … my dad, whose heavy drinking is out of control

  30-12-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeI can’t remember a time before you drank. As children, we quickly learned to spot the signs. You would become progressively louder and more argumentative before taking offence at some perceived slight and losing your temper. I have no idea if you remember all the terrible things you have said and done while drunk. If you do, you have never apologised. The hurt and the sadness is for the rest of us to bear, while you carry on as if everything is fine.It
  
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• Why I’m falling in love with my ancestors

  30-12-2017 07:30
  Wars traumatised my parents’ and grandparents’ generations.I now feel closer to my happier, more liberal great-grandparentsRecently I have been thinking about my great-grandparents. I never met them, but as I grow older I can see their lives more clearly and, to my surprise, find myself identifying strongly with them.As a child, I was frightened by my family. I recall uncles who were angry, curt and intimidating. Some male relatives were downright scary. They barked questions and cou
  
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• Byron Katie: ‘Just ask yourself, is that thought really true?’

  30-12-2017 07:15
  Byron Katie was deeply depressed when a radical change left her joyful. She now uses her secret to help others – whether brutalised by war or merely stressedFor a long time, Byron Katie’s children thought she was having them on. Her character seemed to change overnight, and they didn’t trust her one bit.For 10 years – until that day – she had spiralled into rage, paranoia and despair, becoming so depressed she seldom left her house. She’d stayed in bed for wee
  
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• Tim Dowling: my year in numbers does not add up to happy reading

  30-12-2017 07:00
  0: number of minor children in my care as of May 2017. 3: male adults currently living with me anywayBy all accounts, 2017 has been a tumultuous year, not least for me. Faced with so many changes in such a short period of time, it’s all too easy to lose one’s bearings. That’s why, when it comes to taking stock in the dark days before the new year dawns, I find it helpful to restrict myself to cold, hard numbers. Below is my personal statistical index for 2017, using t
  
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• ‘There will be an afterwards’: how a mother prepared her sons for her death

  30-12-2017 07:00
  When Kate Gross was dying, aged 36, she told her sons there would be life after her death. But how would they actually cope with losing her?When my grandson Isaac was very small, his mother, Kate, would say, “I’ll miss you” when she travelled away for work. Later, when he was three, I remember him running after her in the park when he couldn’t quite keep up with her, crying: “Don’t miss me, Mummy.” To him, “to miss” meant “to leave&rdqu
  
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• Ignore the fashion police: there is no such thing as day-to-night party wear

  30-12-2017 07:00
  Our pop culture expert ponders the perils of turning up to work at 9am in a floor-length silver gownThis time of year is curiously referred to as “party season”, but I’d wager that most of us actually go to more parties in the period when the sun rises at 4.30am rather than when it sets at 4.30pm. Of course, Christmas and new year is when family members fly in from all corners of the Earth, and as a result there is usually an abundance of food just, well, hanging arou
  
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• Blind date: ‘I was early, but to the wrong restaurant, on the wrong side of town’

  30-12-2017 07:00
  Did it work out in the end for Joe, 27, marketing manager, and Jess, 25, postgraduate law student?What were you hoping for?
  To meet someone I could talk to without having to force any conversation. Continue reading...
  
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• Secret Sauce? Kim Jong Un applies science to kimchi-making

  30-12-2017 02:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of - Kim Jong Un wants to turn the art of kimchi-making into a science. And the North Korean leader is putting his money where ......
  
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• Sudoku 3944 hard

  30-12-2017 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 586

  30-12-2017 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 14,866

  30-12-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,393

  30-12-2017 01:00
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• California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales

  30-12-2017 00:43
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California adults not content to ring in the New Year with the traditional fizz of champagne can look forward to celebrating with the buzz of marijuana, purchased for the...
  
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