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• 'Life on the edge of civilisation': hiking in Croatia's mountains

  14-04-2018 11:00
  Its Adriatic coast is so dazzling that few venture into Croatia’s mountains but a short way inland are walks amid gorges and peaks that are just as spectacular – and characters with stories to tellMotoring down the Croatian coast towards the city of Zadar, the road sweeps majestically south. To the right are necklaces of islands in a dazzling turquoise sea and sudden sweet coves with antique shuttered houses, their front porches shaded by vines, a fishing boat at the front door. This
  
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• 'Dad gets a wave and a nod': how we greet now

  14-04-2018 11:00
  Do you hug your colleagues, kiss your friends, squeeze your in-laws or just shake everyone’s hand? We decode the new rules for saying hello
  Two or three times a week, I leave my young son with a childminder before taking my daughter to nursery. It used to be that, when first meeting the minder or the teacher who was about to take charge of them for the day, I’d grip their upper arm in greeting – a gesture by which I think I meant “Hello” and “Thank you”,
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan chocolate, date and coffee cake

  14-04-2018 10:30
  A cake deep in colour and flavour – and ideal for any time of the dayThe joy of cake-baking is that it is simultaneously selfish and generous. Selfish in that a cake can be finely tuned to your exact preferences to create your perfect flavour, texture and appearance; and generous in that, by their very nature, all cakes are best when shared (unless your name is Bruce Bogtrotter). Today’s recipe happens to be my perfect slice. It’s packed full of my favourite sweet ingredients:
  
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• 'I couldn't hold my newborn son': the families split by visa laws

  14-04-2018 10:30
  You meet a foreign partner and dream of a life together. But unless you have enough money, UK visa rules make it almost impossibleLaura Clarke is 29. She lives in Rugby, with her parents, and her 16-month-old son, Elijah. Every day she shows Elijah a picture of his father, her partner Biniyam Tesfaye. It’s the best she can do: he lives over 3,700 miles away in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “He’s missing out on his son, and his son’s missing out on him,” she says. “We
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s weekend breakfast recipes

  14-04-2018 09:59
  Add some spice to your morning and put yourself in good stead for the weekendGood morning. Making breakfast together as a family on the weekend isn’t for everyone – there’s definitely more washing-up and clearing-up than when one adult is in sole charge – but it is a fun way to get everyone involved in a “project”. Whichever way you choose to do it, these three weekend breakfast dishes will tingle your tastebuds and wake you up. Continue reading...
  
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• Holly Willoughby: ‘We're so used to sexism that we're desensitised to it'

  14-04-2018 09:00
  The daytime TV star talks about being paid the same as her male co-host, dodging the paparazzi, and her friend Ant McPartlinHolly Willoughby thinks most people see This Morning as a total mess. “The clips that are shared online tend to be us making mistakes,” she says. “So I think everybody assumes that it’s a complete shambles, that just descends into giggles every five minutes.” On the day we meet, a few hours after she’s clocked off from presenting duties,
  
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• David Weir: ‘Gym training can be like torture’

  14-04-2018 09:00
  The 38-year-old wheelchair athlete on the London Marathon, looking after his children and chilling outSleep I love sleep and if I haven’t got a reason to get up, I’ll stay in bed. If I’ve got a big race like the London Marathon, I’ll sleep for only about six hours and never right through. The night before an event I used to get no sleep at all, but as you get older you sort those things out. I always sleep well after a big race as my body is in bits.Eat I never eat breakf
  
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• Can I cook like Arsene Wenger? | Stephen Bush

  14-04-2018 09:00
  How to make a daily diet of steamed everything into an art form‘The target of anything in life,” Arsène Wenger once declared, “should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.” Having now eaten in the manner of the long-serving Arsenal coach, one thing I can confirm: he has suffered in order to create.Wenger eats the same diet he expects of his players, largely based on an approach to food he picked up during his stint as manager of the Japanese football club Nag
  
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• Wonga 2.0? Meet the new breed of payday lenders

  14-04-2018 08:00
  A new wave of credit firms is offering ‘medium-term’ loans at hefty APRs of up to 1,421% The worst of the payday lenders, famed for offering short-term loans at sky-high interest rates, may have faded away, but vulnerable consumers are still being targeted with offers of loans with four-figure APRs. Related: The rebel bank, printing its own notes and buying back people's debtsContinue reading...
  
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• Tougher MOT tests from May will put diesel drivers in the line of fire

  14-04-2018 08:00
  A raft of strict checks will lead to more cars failing, with tougher emission measures likely to catch out diesel vehiclesA tough new MOT testing system for 30m cars on Britain’s roads starts on 20 May – threatening expensive bills for many diesel drivers and chaos at MOT centres as fears grow that new emissions testing equipment will not be ready on time.The old-style “pass or fail” test is being replaced with a new MOT system that will classify faults as minor, maj
  
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• On your bikes … testing the new breed of dockless cycle hire schemes

  14-04-2018 08:00
  With Ofo and Mobike expanding rapidly across the UK, how do they compare with the more established Santander Cycles?City dwellers will soon be unable to ignore the flood of dockless hire bikes hitting Britain’s streets, courtesy of two Chinese companies, Ofo and Mobike. Leeds is next in line, with Ofo placing 1,000 bikes in the city next month, Mobike is expanding around Manchester, while in London more and more boroughs are greeting the arrival of the yellow and red cycles.The concept is
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘You pedal as long as you’re able, then kick the motor in’

  14-04-2018 08:00
  The threshold for ‘but I have to’ gets lower until I’m scarcely prepared to use my legsI reviewed an electric bike once in the 90s, before anyone discovered intuitive software. Working out how to turn it on and off was way beyond anything I’d picked up from a basic humanities education and it was like a high-intensity, unwanted brain workout accompanied by a real fear of death. Everything has changed. The Raleigh Mustang Comp controls are very obvious, the weight is great
  
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• 20 great lake and mountain holidays in Europe

  14-04-2018 08:00
  Summer holidays don’t have to mean sea and sand. We pick breaks amid mountains and by tranquil lakes to suit lovers of long hikes, high-energy activity – or just dreamy upland vistasStay Mountain huts
  Suits Hardened runners
  It sounds easy: “Cruising over rocky passes and through lush meadows.” But runners on this holiday in the Dolomites will have to concentrate hard on their footwork: the scenery of this limestone wonderland is so beautiful it would be easy to take a tum
  
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• What links Joan Collins, Ginger Rogers and the Wife of Bath? The Weekend quiz

  14-04-2018 07:59
  From a coup to three consonants, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which dancer commissioned Ravel’s Boléro?
  2 The Sacred Band of Thebes was composed of 150 what?
  3 Who came to power via the coup of 18 Brumaire?
  4 Whose slogan was “We are the 99%”?
  5 What book/film is about a disastrous climb of Siula Grande in Peru?
  6 Discovered in 1964 by radio astronomers, what is CMB?
  7 Which queen and friend corresponded as Mrs Morley and Mrs Freeman?
  8 Which two US states&
  
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• A letter to... the man who was my dad in all but name

  14-04-2018 07:45
  ‘When I needed a constant father figure, that’s what you provided’: the letter you always wanted to writeIt’s been almost four years since you died, and there are so many things I wish I’d said to you, and so many things I wish we’d done together. I wish I’d asked you for more advice on the everyday things (parenting, gardening, DIY, work). I wish I could go down the pub for a pint with you. I wish we could go to a rugby match together. If you were my da
  
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• The substance beneath Clooney's style

  14-04-2018 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Amal Clooney is photographed on the cover of May’s Vogue magazine looking as she always does, which is extraordinarily stylish, extremely pretty and vaguely amused that you are staring at ......
  
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• Some men display the strength of their special purpose

  14-04-2018 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Every once in a while I write an educational and entertaining column that I later wish I hadn’t.Today is one of those days.This is because today I feel compelled to ...
  
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• Nothing personal

  14-04-2018 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  FOREST CITY, N.C. — It was slow at the thrift shop, and manager Stephanie Henderson, 38, was looking at her laptop, trying to discover all that Facebook had collected on ...
  
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• Denim doldrums

  14-04-2018 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  From Ralph Lauren to Calvin Klein, America’s biggest fashion labels are pinning their hopes on a blue jean revival.Across the industry, fashion brands are renewing their focus on denim, betting ...
  
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• Blind date: ‘There’s more to him than meets the eye’

  14-04-2018 07:00
  Alice, 31, account manager, meets Angus, 25, PR consultantWhat were you hoping for?A fun and entertaining evening with a stranger… and that’s what I got! Continue reading...
  
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• A friend told me that my husband was having an affair. I didn’t want to know

  14-04-2018 06:59
  Is it worth throwing 15 years away for a momentary lapse in concentration? I have a dilemma. A friend is having an affair. Her (wonderful) husband is blissfully unaware. I asked her once, my friend with the roving eye, in the way we ask girlfriends these questions after too much wine, “If your husband were having an affair, would you want to know?” Yes, she said. An emphatic yes. She would want to know. Continue reading...
  
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• Killer sudoku 601

  14-04-2018 01:02
  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.Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,956

  14-04-2018 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,483

  14-04-2018 01:00
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• Multistate E. coli outbreak traced to lettuce from Arizona

  14-04-2018 00:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  YUMA, Ariz. - The Centers for Disease Control says a multistate E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people is linked to lettuce grown in Arizona.The CDC said ......
  
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• A sombre close to the bridal fashion career of Amsale Aberra

  14-04-2018 00:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - It was a sombre end Friday to the last bridal collection created by the late Amsale Aberra, closing silently with the first gown she ever designed for ...
  
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