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• The greatest show on turf, Luxembourg team win 12-hour UK lawn mower race

  05-08-2018 17:11
  A team from Luxembourg fought off 42 others to claim victory in Britain's lawn mower race on Sunday, a 12-hour competition that pits modified grass cutters against each other in a competition that...
  
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• More change ahead for New York's shrinking garment district

  05-08-2018 15:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of garment workers once toiled in the sweaty, elbow-to-elbow workshops of midtown Manhattan before the whirring of sewing machines was mostly silenced by foreign ......
  
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• Running England's coast-to-coast trail

  05-08-2018 11:00
  Wainwright’s famous footpath is one of the UK’s classic long-distance walks – though these three masochists choose to run it‘I’ve found mine,” said Alan with delight. In the palm of his hand was a small grey pebble. It doesn’t take a genius to find a stone on St Bees’ rocky shoreline, but this one was special. It was the one he’d chosen to carry in his pocket to the other side of the country. He held it in the air like a tiny trophy, while To
  
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• Are you paying too much for your broadband?

  05-08-2018 09:00
  An estimated 10m customers are overpaying by not changing providers at the end of their dealSlow speeds, rising prices and router failures have long been common gripes of broadband users in the UK. Added to that, it seems likely that millions are being charged too much for their service.A new push for customers to avoid unnecessary price increases was launched by the communications regulator last week when Ofcom proposed providers be compelled to tell people when they were at the end of their mi
  
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• King of Denmark: how to create hygge in a cabin by the sea

  05-08-2018 08:00
  The first stop on Kevin Rushby’s summer tour of Scandinavia is Denmark, where he revels in open skies, serenity, comfort food – and eccentricityWhere the Danes go on holiday in Denmark
  Tucked into the dunes on the northern tip of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula is a tiny house of wind-worn clapboard. There’s a coffee table constructed of old beer crates, oil lamps hanging in the windows, a yard of books on the shelf and a well-trodden footpath to a vast sandy beach. Everythin
  
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• Nigel Slater’s cod cheeks and hot summer pudding recipes

  05-08-2018 07:00
  A zesty fish supper and a pudding good enough to eat for breakfastLittle pasta is cooked in this house in the summer months. Most of my favourites are sleeping quietly in their storage jars in the cupboard: the varieties that hold sauce in their nooks and crannies; the wide, beefy ribbons of pappardelle that tangle their way through a ragu sauce, and the sheets of dried lasagne, which have been in their box all summer.When the weather is warm I prefer the tiny beads of fregola, like little pills
  
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• I have an abusive ex. How can I get him out of my friendship circle?

  05-08-2018 06:59
  Maybe it’s time to truly erase him from your life, says Mariella Frostrup. Or at least don’t allow him to impinge on you when he happens to be aroundThe dilemma I dated my sister’s husband’s best friend 12 years ago. At the end of our relationship, he became physically, verbally and emotionally abusive. He has refused to speak to my sister and her husband for years at a time because they are friends with me, but on the two occasions I moved to a different city, he found a
  
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• Hetty McKinnon's sushi salad recipe

  05-08-2018 03:18
  The Sydney-turned-New-York cook shares the vegetarian main meals she serves to her own friends and family Brown rice bowls have become a midweek staple in our home. Extremely adaptable, they allow me to use up whatever vegetables are in my fridge and are a great way to enjoy leftover roasted vegetables.Related: Margaret Fulton's sour cream cheesecake recipeContinue reading...
  
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