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• London goes fur-free as its fashion week shows kick off

  15-09-2018 22:07
  London Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, declaring itself fur-free for the first time as an increasing number of designers seek to burnish their ethical credentials.
  
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• Rick Astley: ‘There’s a beer inspired by me, Astley’s Northern Hop’

  15-09-2018 19:00
  From brewing tea for Kylie to brewing hipster beer in Copenhagen, the singer tells us about his unexpected life in food and drink My parents had another son before me, called David, who passed away, and I don’t think they ever got over it. My mum moved to my gran’s house a mile away and I saw her often – she’d sometimes come to the school gate at lunchtime. I lived in my father’s house with their other children and we had a housekeeper, Mrs Hill, who’d come an
  
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• Barack Obama’s not keen on pudding. This means we can never be friends

  15-09-2018 19:00
  The best way to tell if you’re compatible with someone? See how much butter they spread on their bread and how often they order dessertSome people think the worst words in the language are “rail replacement bus service”. But not me. I think the worst words in the language are, “I’m not having a starter.” When my friend A asked for more butter in the restaurant where we had supper together the other night – the butter we’d already been given to spre
  
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• Food and Brexit: will our cupboards be bare?

  15-09-2018 16:10
  From farmers and poultry producers to professors of food policy, those on the frontline have been sounding the alarm. So how will the UK cope after 29 March 2019?It is a warm day and the European Commission building, on leafy Smith Square a few streets away from the Houses of Parliament, has laid on a buffet. There will be sandwiches. There will be roasted chicken legs. Whether anybody will have an appetite for it after the event it is to follow is another matter entirely; perhaps they’ll
  
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• Do robots dream of Prada? How artificial intelligence is reprogramming fashion

  15-09-2018 15:00
  From 3D avatars to wardrobe advisers, artificial intelligence is shaping the way we get dressed. But can there really be an algorithm for style?Read more from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementWho do you turn to when you can’t decide what to wear? Your best friend, maybe. Instagram, probably. People like me and magazines like this one (hopefully). But soon, perhaps, it will be none of the above. Instead, you will try on an outfit, turn to a wall-
  
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• How to Get the Best Price When Buying a New Build

  15-09-2018 14:00
  Buying an existing home is all about the art of the deal. A new home, on the other hand, is set in stone, right? Not exactly. While the materials might have a set cost when a builder is estimating your home, you can still negotiate a better price when buying a new build. Even if your drywall and lumber costs are fixed, you might be able to snag upgrades on the cheap. Before you sign a contract with your builder, make sure you’re getting the best price when buying a new build by using these
  
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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for pear eclairs

  15-09-2018 13:00
  Make the most of the first autumn pears with a super-light choux pastry treatI used to be mad about eclairs as a child. I must have got through my own body weight in them, but it wasn’t until many years later that I realised they came in versions other than the standard chocolate and whipped cream.Choux pastry can be daunting if you’ve never made it before, but follow the steps below and you should be fine. There will be enough here for a few extra shells, just in case a few go wrong
  
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• No fault: UK proposes major easing of divorce procedures

  15-09-2018 12:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LONDON - The British government is proposing to introduce "no-fault" divorces and make other changes to make it much easier for married couples to divorce.Justice Secretary David Gauke Saturday began ......
  
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• Argentina's Impenetrable forest opens up

  15-09-2018 12:00
  This huge yet little-known South American wilderness is under threat. But plans to turn it into a sustainable tourism hub will help protect its people and wildlifeIn the far north of Argentina lies a vast and extremely hot lowland known as the Gran Chaco. Were you to find yourself in it, as I did, you might kayak across a lily-filled lagoon and stumble into a solitary mansion peeking out above an endless sea of green.It was here, at Estancia La Fidelidad, that eccentric rancher Manuel Roseo live
  
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• 'Accepting charity is an ugly business': my return to the refugee camps, 30 years on

  15-09-2018 12:00
  Dina Nayeri was eight when she and her family fled Iran. Are today’s refugees treated with more dignity?
  There have been days, months, when I’ve eaten meals provided by charities, governments, good people. When I was 10, I lived in a refugee camp outside Rome, a temporary safe space for transients seeking asylum outside Italy. The Italian government had leased the building from a hotel owner; though our clothes and sheets were those of refugees, we lived on a hilltop, in the husk of
  
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• A rare interview with Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo

  15-09-2018 11:00
  High-concept, high-fashion and radical, designer Kawakubo is considered the queen of fashion. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer at her headquarters in ParisRead more from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplementI am not here to ask Rei Kawakubo about clothes, because she no longer makes them, though this hasn’t stopped her continuing to be probably the most important fashion designer in the world. Five years ago, her Not Making Clothes catwalk sho
  
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• The secret to... sex in a long-term relationship

  15-09-2018 10:30
  Don’t panic during a drought, but make an effort, show tenderness and forget ‘goal’ sexRemember why you fell in love. What attracted you to each other probably hasn’t gone, but lots of other things are competing for your attention. Life is full of routine, and sex will fall into a rut. Accept it will ebb and flow, and don’t panic during a drought. It doesn’t mean your relationship is in danger.Bear in mind that what you both like, sexually, may change over tim
  
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• Classic French recipes | Yotam Ottolenghi

  15-09-2018 10:29
  A Gallic feast, starting with gram flour pancakes from the Riviera, then a classic duck provençal, and capped with a crunchy Parisian apple puddingThe little formal chef training I got was in a very French environment, where I was taught a set of techniques and recipes formalised decades earlier. For my ability to make a decent stock or chop vegetables uniformly – both important skills, yet ones I exercise less and less – I will always be grateful to my French mentors, but for
  
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• Give Serena Williams a break – us working mothers know what she’s up against

  15-09-2018 10:00
  ‘No one gives you a medal for being a parent,’ one of my friends warned me before the boys were born. But most mornings I now think, usually around 9.15am, give me my goddamn medalAs a Jewish vegetarian, I’ve never had the desire to see how any sausage is made. But indulge me while I show you how this one is done. I arrived at work today at 9am, looking – I think – mostly normal, in a sweatshirt and trousers. Except this outfit is one I’ve now worn for three d
  
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• What links King Robbo, Bambi and Shepard Fairey? The Weekend quiz

  15-09-2018 08:00
  From Tuscan stigmata to the biggest album in American history, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What happened on 23 October 4004 BC?
  2 What is the UK’s biggest river, as measured by discharge of water?
  3 Martin-Baker Ltd claims to have saved 7,580 lives with what device?
  4 Which band’s Greatest Hits is the bestselling album ever in the US?
  5 What is divided into s, d, f and p blocks?
  6 Cavafy’s poem Ithaka was read at whose funeral in 1994?
  7 What terrorised the sea a
  
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• 'I spend £200 a month on games such as Warhammer'

  15-09-2018 08:00
  Beckie Blake, 38, on her hobbies – and how the cafe she manages helps homeless peopleIn my 38 years I have experienced wealth, poverty and the squeezed middle, where I am at the moment. Growing up, my family ran a pub in our Devon village and I had tennis lessons and everything I wanted. Then when I was 12 my father became ill and we had to squeeze into my grandmother’s council house in Yorkshire.Only after four years did my mother manage to scrape together enough money to rent a sma
  
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• Four classic French recipes, from beef bourguignon to cassoulet

  15-09-2018 08:00
  Hearty, traditional dishes that owe more to the farmhouse kitchen than to haute cuisine, including poule au pot and duck à l’orangeThe story goes that France’s King Henry IV declared that every family in France should have the means to eat chicken every Sunday, and from this, the poule-au-pot was born. Continue reading...
  
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• Driving Scotland’s new South West Coastal 300 route

  15-09-2018 08:00
  Where the North Coast 500 route is all rugged drama, this new road trip circuit celebrates Scotland’s less-visited south-west – all green rolling hills and gentle coastlinesSandy McKnight is a pagan, a bibliophile, a metal detectorist and – at 71 – claims to be Scotland’s most-tattooed man. Flames, skulls, demons, dragons: his entire body is covered, with the exception of his face and a rather delicate area lower down. For that, however, Sandy has plans: his scrotum
  
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• A loan at less than 3%? It’s just fake news, says industry insider | Patrick Collinson

  15-09-2018 08:00
  Banks and price comparison sites shouldn’t be allowed to mislead when advertising interest ratesWhen broadband ads promise superfast connections but Bodyguard still buffers constantly on the iPlayer, then it’s right that the supplier is pulled up. Just this week Vodafone adverts were banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading customers over speeds. So why is every bank and price comparison site allowed to mislead customers when advertising interest rates on personal
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘Who needs chicken breasts when you’ve got protein shakes?’ | Zoe Williams

  15-09-2018 07:59
  It’s a spaceman level of functionality, for people who fancy themselves as busy and self-caring as an astronautThere are so many things that annoy me about protein shakes, it is amazing I’ve ever got one as far as my mouth. The packaging is heavily gendered, and the women’s ones all seem to talk about hormones, as if men’s hormones didn’t exist, and there always seems to be some subtle weight loss agenda to anything packaged in pink. They have names like The Slender
  
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• Engine of change

  15-09-2018 07:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK — On a recent weekday afternoon, a corporate executive met with United Nations staffers at the organization’s landmark building high above the East River.The executive wasn’t an energy ...
  
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• Creepy bugs, spiders can fetch hefty sums

  15-09-2018 07:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Most people try to stay far away from hissing cockroaches, desert hairy scorpions and venomous, six-eyed sand spiders. Not the team of thieves that hit the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly ...
  
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• These shoes should've stayed in the '80s

  15-09-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK — There was no good reason for Escada to send high-top, pastel-coloured sneakers down its spring 2019 runway Sunday afternoon. Those sneakers were not cool and they were ...
  
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• Roadside angel saves the day

  15-09-2018 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  On Aug. 26, we celebrated 75 years of service at Stuartburn Gospel Chapel, where I spent my teen years. I was with an elderly couple; we’d just left St. Pierre ...
  
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• Aging gracefully

  15-09-2018 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Something weird is happening at the drugstore and at church. Women I don’t know are telling me I’m brave.“You look beautiful, but I don’t have the courage,” a lady said ...
  
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• I'm writing 33 birthday cards for the sons I won't see grow up

  15-09-2018 07:00
  A father with motor neurone disease describes the sadness of facing a terminal diagnosis – and his plan to ‘write and doodle’ his way into his boys’ futureI need to write 33 future birthday cards to my two sons but can’t decide what stationery to use. Or is it the thought of writing the first one? Or having them finished, one on top of the other, in a neat pile in front of me? Thirty three rectangular reminders of every single birthday I will miss when I am gone.My
  
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• How to turn cheese rinds into a tasty French treat – recipe

  15-09-2018 07:00
  Don’t bin those old cheese rinds – they’re the main ingredient in fromage fort, a punchy, booze-soaked spreadCheese is one of life’s pleasures, as addictive as narcotics, but thankfully much better for us. Professor Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth, has a theory that the French are slimmer because they eat funky cheeses full of good bacteria that are vital for a healthy digestive system.The aftercare of cheese is as important as the making, and my local cheesemonger&r
  
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• Blind date: ‘We should’ve legged it out of there like criminals!’

  15-09-2018 07:00
  Amber, 34, civil servant, meets Ellie, 28, scenic artistWhat were you hoping for?
  My future life partner and co-parent to our children. Failing that, a relaxed evening in good company. Continue reading...
  
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• Escapism or realism? Top Emmy races pose a choice

  15-09-2018 02:21
  Fantasy or realism? That's the question at the Emmy Awards this year as voters choose whether to reward television dramas and comedies that provide comfort and escapism, or bleaker fare that echoes...
  
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• Netflix reaches for Emmys milestone, but can it outpace HBO?

  15-09-2018 01:41
  The next battle in the streaming TV wars will unfold on Monday's Emmys stage, where Netflix Inc aims to end HBO's 16-year streak as the night's biggest winner and earn bragging rights for its...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,088

  15-09-2018 01:00
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  15-09-2018 01:00
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