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• Clare Waight Keller's Givenchy show in Paris shimmers sharply in a tuxedo

  30-09-2018 23:46
  The British designer’s latest muse is Annemarie Schwarzenbach – who was a ‘spectacular looking woman’The British designer Clare Waight Keller scored the biggest fashion triumph of 2018 five months ago when the Duchess of Sussex walked down the aisle of St George’s Chapel in a boat-necked Givenchy wedding dress. No Paris catwalk show, even one that brings city traffic to a standstill on a Sunday evening and scores the starriest front row of the week, could hope to co
  
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• Pleats and sparkles at Meghan Markle favorite Givenchy in Paris

  30-09-2018 22:52
  Sophisticated tailoring, softly pleated dresses and glittering eveningwear were on show at Givenchy during Paris Fashion Week on Sunday, as designer Clare Waight Keller unveiled her latest collection...
  
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• Lawyer, 99, will retire 'when they carry me out of here'

  30-09-2018 18:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. - Attorney Morton Katz, 99, recalls just one client assigned to him as a special public defender who made an issue of his age.That man, charged with stealing ......
  
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• Employers jump into providing care as health costs rise

  30-09-2018 17:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  KOKOMO, Ind. - Autoworkers in this blue-collar, central Indiana city have an eager helper waiting to pick up the bill at their next doctor visit.Fiat Chrysler is offering free health ...
  
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• Balenciaga breaks fashion taboos in Paris on way to bigger picture

  30-09-2018 17:19
  Demna Gvasalia show offers hovering cocktail dresses, square shoulders and comfortBalenciaga stands for the weirdly elegant and the beautifully odd. Its founder, Cristóbal, gave fashion the puffball skirt and the sack-back coat. On Sunday morning at Paris fashion week its current designer, Demna Gvasalia, offered cocktail dresses suspended on boned straps so that they hovered in space around the body, and broke the design world’s last remaining taboo by cutting-and-pasting the stori
  
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• 'I know I will be so tired': a teenager on living with insomnia

  30-09-2018 17:09
  Anita Salimi, 18, says sleep has been a problem for her since she was a young child
  • Children’s lack of sleep is ‘hidden health crisis’, experts sayAnita Salimi describes insomnia as one of the worst feelings in the world, likening being awake when she hasn’t slept to walking around in a dream-like state. “It’s awful,” she says.“When I cannot sleep I lie there thinking about what has happened during the day and what could happen tomorrow. I g
  
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• Ironman parents: O'Donnell, Carfrae adapt to life with Izzy

  30-09-2018 16:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LAWRENCE, Kan. - Two of the world's most accomplished endurance athletes, three-time Ironman world champion Mirinda Carfrae and her husband, Tim O'Donnell, are relaxing on a plush white couch in ...
  
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• Lipstick and loss: the beauty fans fighting for their favourite discontinued products

  30-09-2018 16:00
  It can be surprisingly disappointing when cosmetics companies stop selling much-loved lipsticks or foundations. So customers are finding clever ways to stockpile them – or get them back on the shelvesFor some of us, losing a favourite lipstick can be a little like losing a lover. Both are something we come to rely on, often on a daily basis, to lift our spirits and comfort and reassure us. “When you find that holy grail product, and discover one year later that it’s vanished fr
  
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• Baaah! TV gardener Titchmarsh leads London Bridge sheep drive

  30-09-2018 15:09
  British television gardener Alan Titchmarsh and men dressed in medieval costumes drove a flock of sheep across London Bridge on Sunday as part of a centuries-old tradition.
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for ribollita

  30-09-2018 13:19
  This Tuscan bean soup with tomatoes and ciabatta is an unsung hero dish for the autumnAnd, just like that, autumn is here. Gone are the picnics, jumpers for goalposts and barbecues. Now is a time to settle in for one-pot cooking, to allow more time to watch Bake Off, BBC dramas and squirrels pottering about. If I had to pick a dish to represent autumn, it would be ribollita. An unsung hero of a dish, made up of equal parts of cupboard and seasonal ingredients that come together to create not jus
  
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• A foodie tour of Osaka, Japan

  30-09-2018 12:00
  In Japan’s second city, a night out means ‘scoffing until you drop’ – so our writer asks a couple of local experts for help exploring the stalls, cafes and barsThe woman on the early morning train from Osaka station made swift work of a large noodle-stuffed omelette, and just as I was thinking that was a substantial breakfast for a far from substantial person, it was out with the chopsticks again as she set about a generous bento box, its nine compartments filled with ric
  
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• Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform'

  30-09-2018 11:00
  Esther Perel’s breathtakingly frank therapy podcasts – Where should we begin – not only make for juicy listening, they’ve revitalised the stale private lives of millions. Miranda Sawyer listens to the psychotherapist‘Passion has always existed,” says Esther Perel. “People have known love forever, but it never existed in the context of the same relationship where you have to have a family and obligations. And reconciling security and adventure, or love an
  
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• Sparkles and colour: these are a few of my favourite things | Gemma Cairney

  30-09-2018 07:00
  Instead of buying something new, find the best beauty items you already haveI keep smelling a sort of panic in the air, a fear of not achieving enough, not having enough money, not being deemed successful or beautiful enough. We seem to be always looking forward, working out ways of getting more. Trying to be more, to rope-climb to dizzying heights, but gracefully and gorgeously… We need to be better at looking at the right now and appreciating the things we already have.So today, I urge
  
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• Rovi, London: ‘Dainty piles of ferments and pickles in children’s picture book colours’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  30-09-2018 07:00
  The brilliant chef’s new Fitzrovia venue is a radical swerve – in a thrilling direction59 Wells Street, London W1A 3AE (020 3963 8270). Small plates £6-£14.50, big plates £12.50-£20.50, desserts £6-£9, wines from £30I remember the betrayal as if it were yesterday when, in truth, it was a Thursday evening in July 1981: Top of the Pops night. I had taken up position in front of the television, the loyal sentry, ready for the most important even
  
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• Nigel Slater’s sandwich recipes

  30-09-2018 07:00
  A little forward planning lifts a sandwich to another levelIt is rare for me to plan a sandwich, the most satisfying – on every level – inevitably coming from late-night desperado fridge-raids. That said, the blueberry sauce I made to dress a soft beef roll the other day is worth 10 minutes of anyone’s time. Essentially blueberries with an underlying piquancy from red wine vinegar, juniper and rosemary, this would have worked just as splendidly with cold roast pork. I spooned t
  
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• Go for gold: autumn colours for your make-up | Eva Wiseman

  30-09-2018 07:00
  The change of season calls for a change in palette – move away from the bronze of summer to the gold of autumnWithout going full Bond girl, this season you can afford to splash around a bit of gold. Fenty girls wore it on the catwalk in slashes across their cheekbones, the ultimate sunset glow; at Chanel it was a more gentle sheen. Whether you go for a bronzer to mimic the last of the summer tans, dab it on in drops, puff on powder or smudge it from a glistening stick, make sure you blend
  
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• Fine light wines from fortified wine regions | David Williams

  30-09-2018 07:00
  A white from Marsala, and two reds from port producersMarco De Bartoli Vignaverde, Sicily Italy 2016 (£18.95, Vino Vero; Les Caves de Pyrene) What can a winemaker do when the style of their region has fallen out of fashion? This has been a particularly pressing question for the world’s fortified wine producers, who have found customers much harder to come by as the years go by. From Jerez to Madeira, the answer in many cases has been to get out of the winemaking game entirely. Others
  
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• Better by bike: a guide to the top cycle rides in Britain

  30-09-2018 07:00
  From the Scottish coast to the Channel Islands, gear up for our pick of the best ways to explore the British isles on two wheelsJust as I was about to launch myself from the comfort of a minibus on to a bike and into some of the most remote country in the UK, I was reminded to “hold on to the door, or the wind will rip it off”. Continue reading...
  
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• A London flat’s smoke and mirrors trickery: ‘I like to seek out the unusual’

  30-09-2018 07:00
  A giant glass cube gives a sci-fi twist to this London flat, partly reflecting its former resident Tom Baker, AKA the DoctorIt takes a moment for your eyes to adjust to the black that wraps around the walls and ceilings of Linda Allen and Darin Brown’s flat, which occupies the ground floor of a Victorian redbrick in London’s Belsize Park. Then there’s the slightly disorientating effect of a wall of mirror glass between the living room and their bedroom. Except, this shiny expan
  
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• A five-minute fix for growing tastier, healthier veg

  30-09-2018 07:00
  Sprinkle Epsom salts on to your soil to enhance the health and flavour of your winter cropsI may never learn to love the dark days of winter, but the wonderful thing about horticulture is that there is always a silver lining, particularly if you are a veg grower. Even as many plants around us slide into dormancy, there is a range of winter veg that can be planted now and which will look after itself for months at a time. Not only are these arguably the easiest of all seasonal crops to grow, but
  
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• The local community website that is right up my street | Eva Wiseman

  30-09-2018 06:59
  From lost dogs to wild garlic and the desperate need for a top tiler, nextdoor.co.uk lets you peak behind the curtains of your neighboursA dog is roaming our street, barking away.” Every evening after brushing my teeth, I get into bed and explore my new neighbourhood. “Some people are now scared of coming out as they may be attacked. The dog is beige in colour.” To walk through nextdoor.co.uk at night is to map not just my local streets but its minds, minds that appear to flip
  
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• I want to get married, but my partner won’t go through it again… | Dear Mariella

  30-09-2018 06:59
  Your partner’s intransigence is unfair – but start by examining your own motives, Mariella Frostrup tells a woman who says she’s ‘always wanted to be a wife’The dilemma My partner and I have been together for three years, have a child together and are trying for a second. He was married before he met me and his divorce was nasty and dragged on for years. It wasn’t finalised until just after the birth of our child. I desperately want to be married, but he does
  
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• Fall guy: key autumn wardrobe pieces for men - in pictures

  30-09-2018 00:45
  Dig out your favourite cable-knit jumper or suede bomber jacket to be on trend this seasonContinue reading...
  
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