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• Banksy gifts Welsh steel town a white Christmas attraction

  22-12-2018 19:31
  Banksy fans are flocking to the Welsh town of Port Talbot to see a new mural by the elusive British street artist depicting a child covered in snow that is in fact ash from a burning bin.
  
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• Connected cars accelerate down data-collection highway

  22-12-2018 18:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN FRANCISCO - That holiday trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house could turn into nice little gift for automakers as they increasingly collect oodles and ......
  
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• Thousands descend on Britain's ancient Stonehenge for winter solstice

  22-12-2018 17:37
  Wrapped in warm and brightly colored clothes, thousands of revelers gathered at Britain's Stonehenge to watch the first sunrise after winter solstice on Saturday.
  
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• Check it out: why the smart set are now renting their clothes

  22-12-2018 16:00
  Subscribing to fashion libraries saves money and cuts out wasteWith the sales in full swing and festive soirees dominating social calendars, fast fashion is showing few signs of slowing down. But for those consumers with more parties than pounds, fashion libraries – where clothes can be rented rather than bought – are becoming increasingly popular.“I don’t have the financial income to invest in high quality but I do want to change my style regularly,” said Zoe Partr
  
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• Here’s Your Scorecard Of Every 2019 Color Of The Year From Around The World

  22-12-2018 13:00
  If one of your New Year’s design resolutions is freshening up your space with color, we’re here to break down all the latest color trends for you in one place. Here’s a scorecard of every 2019 Color of the Year from the USA and other countries like Spain, the UK and India. The best part is, these colors are bound to be modern and exciting longer than 2019 itself, giving you a great design return on investment. In case you missed any of our coverage about the various brand&rsquo
  
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• Tamal Ray’s chilled Nutella chocolate pot recipe | The Sweet Spot

  22-12-2018 12:00
  An easy, quick Chrismassy dessert, deliciously indulgent and with a crackly top – and made with store-cupboard ingredientsIf you’re wondering how you’ll have time to make dessert for Christmas Day when you already have a million other things to do, this chocolate pudding might be the answer to your problems: easy to assemble, deliciously indulgent and with ingredients you may well already have lying around. Continue reading...
  
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• Thomasina Miers' recipe for roast hake with braised white beans and chorizo

  22-12-2018 11:30
  A quick-baked fish recipe that’s easily made on Chrismas Eve while the presents are being wrappedThe run up to Christmas is always manic – presents to be wrapped and last-minute jobs to ensure the next day runs smoothly (once the fizzy stuff starts flowing, it is always chaos in our house!). For Christmas Eve, I like recipes that can either be made the day before or put together at the last minute. Our tradition at home is usually to have fish. This quick recipe can easily be turned
  
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• Meera Sodha's recipe for vegan leftover roast vegetable chaat

  22-12-2018 11:00
  A crunchy, chilli-spiked noodle dish using leftover roast vegChaat, for the uninitiated, translates as ‘to lick’, but means that sort of lip-smacking street food for which you would travel across a city, over a masjid and under an elephant . In today’s recipe, the base is made up of leftover roast vegetables, which is practically incidental, because every Indian knows that the best chaat is all about the chutneys. I’ve topped mine with a quick tamarind chutney, a sprightl
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s last-minute Christmas recipes

  22-12-2018 10:30
  Here are three store-cupboard recipes for sausage stuffing, leftover bread pudding and a posh pear and custard dessertYou can count the hours to Christmas, and if you still haven’t a clue what you’re going to cook, you’re either terrifically free-spirited or fantastically short-sighted. If you’re starting to feel the heat, however, here are a few holiday hacks that will fill bellies without breaking the bank. I’m assuming that, at this late stage, you won’t wa
  
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• A brief history of the gingerbread house

  22-12-2018 10:00
  The witch’s house in the two-centuries-old tale of Hansel and Gretel is today inspiring ever more extravagant gingerbread creations and constructions across Europe and the US
  The tradition of decorated gingerbread houses began in Germany in the early 1800s, supposedly popularised after the not-so-Christmassy fairytale of Hansel and Gretel was published in 1812. The Grimms’ original fairy tale includes the line: “When they came nearer they saw that the house was built of bread,
  
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• I'm an asylum seeker. I've not been allowed to work for three years'

  22-12-2018 09:30
  Rose was trafficked from Nigeria to work as a prostitute. She escaped and started a new lifeName: Rose
  Age: 43
  Occupation: Asylum seeker
  Income: £5,200 a yearI was 21 when I was trafficked from Nigeria to London. I was helping out washing dishes in a cafe in Lagos when a woman promised to find me a job overseas. I kind of regarded her as a mother figure as my own mum had recently died from a terminal illness. Continue reading...
  
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• The best nutty fragrances | Sali Hughes

  22-12-2018 09:00
  From first sniff to firm favourite: nut-filled scents that are perfect for the party seasonFor decades, I was turned off by nutty fragrances. Nuttiness is such a trademark of the gourmand fragrance family – all vanilla, chocolate and nut-brittle that make you whiff of Ferrero Rocher – that those of us resolutely outside of it can feel robbed of its wider potential. It wasn’t until I first sniffed Frédéric Malle’s exquisite almond-milky L’Eau d’Hi
  
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• Why is it so difficult to return unwanted Christmas gifts?

  22-12-2018 08:00
  Retailers accused of playing fast and loose with consumer rights, some giving wrong informationToday has been dubbed Super Saturday, with shoppers set to splash out an estimated £1.65bn on last-minute Christmas purchases. More than 10 million people are expected to hit the shops, while 4.8 million Brits will go online to snap up gifts and other festive essentials, according to predictions by VoucherCodes.co.uk and the Centre for Retail Research.But not all those purchases will hit the spot
  
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• What links alien hand, Alice in Wonderland, Stendhal and Stockholm? The Weekend quiz

  22-12-2018 08:00
  From bossy to Bothnia, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who scripted the first royal Christmas broadcast in 1932?
  2 What landmark stands on Mount Lee in Griffith Park?
  3 What bird has two species, common and ocellated?
  4 What were targeted in the Baedeker Blitz?
  5 In horse racing, what result comes between a dead heat and short head?
  6 What Washington’s army crossed on 25 December 1776?
  7 Who was tied to the underworld for eating pomegranate seeds?
  8 Whose Christmas Rappin’
  
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• The best travel discoveries of 2018: chosen by Guardian writers

  22-12-2018 08:00
  Castles and museums, beaches and cities, train lines and walking trails – plus gorgeous places to eat and stay. We share our favourite finds of the past 12 monthsOn the road out of Dakar, heading down the coast, we passed through a baobab forest. The guide was fairly blase about it but I insisted on stopping and exploring. It was the first intimation that Senegal is an amazing place and, secondly, that it doesn’t quite realise it. The country continued to surprise and delight me thro
  
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• Sprout recipes that will win over the haters | Gill Meller

  22-12-2018 08:00
  The days of boring boiled sprouts are gone: savour sprouts roasted with lemon, in a leek and bacon crumble and in a crunchy slaw Prep 15 min
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• Fit in my 40s: how to find time to exercise over Christmas

  22-12-2018 08:00
  Gym shut? Family and friends only want to eat and drink? Help is at handFitness tips: try this 25-minute home workout It is traditional to start worrying about your fitness in the new year. Like most traditions, there is a fundamental lie at the heart of it. You did not wake up on 1 January feeling huff-and-puffy. You’ve been worrying about it since November, or before. Indeed, you may have been trying to get fit since then – and if so, yule becomes not a respite but a pain, since yo
  
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• Turn leftover Christmas pudding into boozy truffles | Waste Not

  22-12-2018 07:00
  Christmas pudding and cake lasts for ever, but there’s usually lots left over. Use it up in these chocolate-covered boozy trufflesChristmas pudding and cake have such long shelf lives that you could probably enjoy your 2018 batch this time next year. And it’s true that the longer you make it before the big day, the better it will be: all that booze, sugar and fat preserves it, and the cake benefits from a long maturation, a bit like a fine cheese, as the spices, alcohol and fruit mel
  
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• Blind date: ‘She didn’t lick her fingers or burp in my face’

  22-12-2018 07:00
  Will it be a romantic Christmas for journalist Nick, 31, and producer Sascha, 29?What were you hoping for?
  Someone with a big smile who didn’t take themselves, or the night, too seriously. Continue reading...
  
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• Designer Raf Simons leaves Calvin Klein over creative vision

  22-12-2018 03:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Designer Raf Simons is parting ways with Calvin Klein after two years with the fashion company.Calvin Klein announced in a statement Friday the Belgian designer's departure as ......
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,172

  22-12-2018 01:00
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  22-12-2018 01:00
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• Breaking up (with Facebook) is hard to do: Here's how

  22-12-2018 00:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Every relationship has a breaking point. Even yours with Facebook.There's a way out, though the social network will try to win you back with promises to do ......
  
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