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• Prince Harry and Meghan welcomed to New Zealand for final leg of Pacific tour

  28-10-2018 17:02
  Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan were treated to a ceremonial welcome in New Zealand on Sunday where they arrived for the final leg of their Pacific tour, their first international royal tour...
  
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• Grab your Converse and text your friends – 00s nostalgia is here!

  28-10-2018 17:00
  Now that Drake has themed his birthday party around the decade, it’s official: the noughties are cool againName: The 00s. AKA the noughties.Age: Come on, work it out. Continue reading...
  
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• Mental issues from Fort McMurray fire linger but human contact helps: study

  28-10-2018 16:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  EDMONTON - The immense wildfire that scorched Fort McMurray in 2016 may have blackened more than homes.Newly published research suggests the fire cast a lasting shadow over the lives of ......
  
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• Faster speeds and holograms: what to expect from the new 5G network

  28-10-2018 16:00
  The new technology, being tested in Salford, is the network of the future. But what practical uses will it offer?Last week, Vodafone launched a test of the UK’s first full 5G service, available for use by businesses in Salford. It is part of its plan to trial the technology in seven UK cities. But what can we expect from the next generation of mobile technology?One thing we will see in the run-up to launch is lots of stunts with the new tech. Earlier this year, operators paid almost £
  
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• Micro Apartments are the Next Big Thing

  28-10-2018 12:00
  For fans of tiny houses, there’s a new way to live small and affordably – even in the biggest, most expensive cities. Micro apartments are hot in many cities with developers busy building entire buildings of them in places like New York City and San Francisco. Read on to learn more about micro apartments and where they’re located.The difference between a studio apartment and a micro apartmentStudios and micro apartments have many things in common. They’re often a sin
  
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• How to toast the health of your narcissus | James Wong

  28-10-2018 12:00
  When you’re pouring a drink this Christmas, make sure you give one to your paperwhites, tooIn the darkest days of midwinter, one plant never fails to lift my spirits: the delicate paperwhite narcissus, with its pure white trumpets and a scent as uplifting as its flowers are elegant. Watching something grow and burst into flower indoors, when everything outdoors is winding down, is to me a real horticultural happy pill. The best news? There is perhaps no winter plant that is as easy and aff
  
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• Meet the marathon cheats

  28-10-2018 11:00
  As runners get ready for next Sunday’s New York Marathon, we look at what makes a person claim a medal when they haven’t gone the full distanceJust over halfway through the 2011 Kielder Marathon in Northumberland, Steve Cairns was in third place and out on his own. As he passed the 14-mile mark, he could see the two leading runners, Ricky Lightfoot and Marcus Scotney, a few minutes ahead on the trail. Behind him, just passing the 13-mile point, were the chasing pack. Cairns knew he h
  
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• The joy of socks

  28-10-2018 08:00
  For Séamas O’Reilly a life lived in good socks is a life of comfort, beauty – and strange internet searchesSeamus Heaney was a schoolboy when he first encountered TS Eliot’s The Hollow Men, a poem he described as moving him like nothing he’d ever before experienced. “What happened as I read,” he wrote in the Boston Review of 3 October 1989, “was the equivalent of what happens in an otherwise warm and well-wrapped body once a cold wind gets at the
  
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• Land of plenty: harvest time in Piedmont, Italy

  28-10-2018 08:00
  A trip to Piedmont, famous for its truffles, cheese and fine wine, is a robust test of anyone’s appetite – especially a vegan like our writerIf you venture out on to the cobbled streets of Acqui Terme between the hours of one and three in the afternoon, you’d be forgiven for thinking the town had been evacuated due to some dreadful contagious disease. The Roman spa town is unnervingly still, the only sound coming from the sulphur spring that gushes out of a fountain in the piaz
  
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• Jonny Johansson: the designer who started millennial pink?

  28-10-2018 08:00
  Scandi style now influences our culture from bags to box sets. But it all comes down to one man: Acne Studios’ founder Jonny JohanssonIt’s hard to determine exactly when everybody started dressing like Scandinavians, but we all do – even if we don’t realise it. Don’t believe me? Open your wardrobe. Thick, fisherman-style jumpers better suited for a trawler? White minimal trainers? No-nonsense outerwear and lots of black? That’s your Scandinavian uniform right
  
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• My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup

  28-10-2018 07:00
  It’s important to offer your mother a sympathetic haven from your father’s apocalyptic ideas, counsels Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma My father believes the world is going to end. He’s bought a house in the most isolated part of Ireland he could find, without consulting my mother. He now intends to live there and await the apocalypse, which he thinks will soon engulf the rest of the world. He’s trying to force her to go with him. I’ve seen how he uses conspiracy theor
  
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• Warm front - all the best coats this winter

  28-10-2018 00:45
  Beat the chill with a new coat. From oversized to tailored, pillar-box red to traditional tweed, we’ve got the season’s top layers checkedContinue reading...
  
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• The edit - statement jumpers

  28-10-2018 00:45
  Chunky knits, bright colours, teddy bears… When it comes to sweaters this winter, go big and bold – or go home Continue reading...
  
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• The edit - men's boots

  28-10-2018 00:45
  Urban hiker style or cool camo? Stay one step ahead this winter Continue reading...
  
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