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• Canine extravaganza: Crufts 2019 – in pictures

  10-03-2019 14:40
  Photographer Christopher Bethell snaps his first ever Crufts show. With his engaging diptychs he gives us a fascinating view of the largest dog show in the worldIt is my first time at Crufts and I am sitting in the dimly lit Resorts World Arena at Birmingham NEC waiting for the opening ceremony to begin. According to the announcer, Crufts has been declared the biggest dog show in the world by officials from Guinness World Records. Roughly 160,000 people walk through its doors each year to see 28
  
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• Turning back time with the Amish of Ohio

  10-03-2019 13:00
  At home with the family-loving American Anabaptists who seek a rural life free from the tyranny of modern technologyWhen he cuts open the peach, juice flows to the ground. He sits on a wooden crate surrounded by his six sons, who are also slicing fruit, huge piles of them, before placing them in jars. The youngest, who’s only five, joins in, as they all sit together inside a rust-red barn in the early evening light. They’re dressed identically, in blue shirts and dungarees with batte
  
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• Three neglected herbs to enrich your kitchen garden

  10-03-2019 11:59
  Plant lovage, hyssop and summer savory for both your patch and your table’s sakeAs a botanist obsessed with food, I have always found one particular statistic perplexing. Of the estimated 300,000 plant species on Earth, about one in six are edible. Yet our species subsists almost exclusively on the harvests of only a mere 100 plant species. That’s astonishingly just 0.2% of what we could be eating, meaning we are missing out on 99.8% of the options that are available. Talk about a cu
  
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• Lip service: what Kylie Jenner really sells us is a brush with fame

  10-03-2019 10:00
  Move over Zuckerberg. The success of the new youngest self-made billionaire is all about lifestyle aspiration in the Instagram ageIn the spring of 2015, girls started sucking shot glasses. They would put their lips into the glass, and then they’d suck, creating a vacuum which drew blood to the surface of their lips to create a swollen, puckered pout, and then they’d post a selfie on Instagram, hashtagged #KylieJennerChallenge. Kylie Jenner had been 10 when she first appeared on Keepi
  
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• Online hoaxes show that parents need to grow up

  10-03-2019 09:59
  The internet is changing children’s lives, with or without silly scare storiesApologies, all. I write while paddling in the tides of the Momo hoax, a story I am extremely sorry for continuing just when you thought it was safe to open your laptop and one I’m loathe to repeat because, well, then I’m just another voice screaming into the waves, but… oh dear too late, here I am, soaked. Britain’s media, schools and police forces were told last week to stop promoting an
  
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• Philippa Perry: ‘Listen carefully, parents – and don’t despair’

  10-03-2019 08:00
  The psychotherapist, who has spent years putting people ‘back on track’, is sharing her ideas on how to be a better parentPhilippa Perry takes one look at me and gives me a bear-hug. “You must be exhausted,” she says, and she’s not wrong. As a working mother of two small boys who never seem to sleep or slow down, I have gone past exhausted, straight into “desiccated”. Perry smiles reassuringly, banging me on the arm.“Come on, let’s get you an
  
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• 10 of the best beaches in the UK

  10-03-2019 08:00
  In a hot summer, there’s no better place than a UK beach – but even in more typical weather these shores offer walks and wildlife, picnics and rockpoolsA network of paths and boardwalks crisscrosses this 6,000-year-old dune system leading on to expansive sand flats and the shingle beach. The unusually high dunes are nearly four miles long and lie across the head of Dundrum Bay, with views of the Mourne mountains in the near distance. There is plenty of room here to hunker down among
  
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• Hipsters not nearly as anti-conformist as they believe: study

  10-03-2019 07:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Let’s say you come across a photograph in a magazine of a bearded man walking down a sidewalk in a flannel shirt and a beanie.You’re looking really closely at this ......
  
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• Passyunk Avenue: ‘A cheese whiz-smeared act of devotion’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  10-03-2019 07:00
  Missing the food of Philadelphia? This retro diner in London makes you feel right at homePassyunk Avenue, 80 Cleveland Street, London W1T 6NE (020 3960 2251). Starters and sides £4-£9.50; mains, including cheesesteak £11-£12; desserts £6; and wines from £19When I visit Passyunk Avenue, a retro diner on a scuffed backstreet in London’s Fitzrovia, the voice I hear in my head belongs to Josh Ozersky. Josh was a bull-necked, raging mensch of a man, who found
  
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• Look pretty in pink, but add some depth

  10-03-2019 07:00
  Vary the texture and richness of the pinks you use on eyes, cheeks and lips – and add a pop of blue mascara to give your look some edgePaul Costelloe proved pink eye doesn’t always mean tired eyes. Also, the catwalk was awash with it – and it was a hit. The trick is to vary the depth and texture. For lips, a berry pink is universally wearable. Blush should be a whisper, not a rage. On eyes, add a subtle bronze shimmer to the top and a dark liner on the bottom. Like a sandwich w
  
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• Look 785 Huez RS review: ‘A mountain-climbing machine that defies gravity’ | Martin Love

  10-03-2019 07:00
  The steepest roads hold no fear on the new lightweight bike from French brand Look. Your only worry is that it’s making the sport too easy…Look 785 Huez RS
  Price £8,700, lookcycle.com
  Frame carbon
  Groupset Sram Red eTap
  Brakes Shimano Ultegra hydraulic disc
  Wheels CorimaAt this time of year the Alpe d’Huez is usually a frosty -20C and blanketed in snow. With its views across the Alps it is a magnet for skiers, boarders and – if you’re anything like my wife &n
  
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• My friend had sex with someone underage – but I want to stand by him | Dear Mariella

  10-03-2019 06:59
  Walking away would be understandable but in our morally hysterical times, yours is a courageous stance, says Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma One of my best friends from my teenage years was recently incarcerated for having sexual relations with someone under the legal age. I am angry and upset with my friend, as he has not taken responsibility for his actions, denied wrongdoing and made excuses ever since, such as he thought the person in question was older and he was lied to. That he was aware has
  
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• Joe Trivelli’s crunchy Italian recipes

  10-03-2019 06:59
  Got some old bread in the larder? Then you’re halfway to making some delicious classic dishesThere’s been a lot of old bread knocking about our place since my New Year’s resolution to bake a loaf of rye bread a week. Luckily, I find it hard not to put breadcrumbs – briciole in Italian – on everything anyhow. I love that crunch. Pasta – even pizza – with briciole... Salad, roast vegetables, whatever. It’s the very easiest, laziest way to add a new t
  
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• Why teeny-weeny handbags could be huge this year

  10-03-2019 00:12
  Farewell totes – a truly tiny bag is the ultimate status signifierTiny handbags from the French label Jacquemus became big news when they appeared on the catwalk during Paris fashion week last month.The Mini Le Chiquito is a small-scale version of Jacquemus’s Le Chiquito bag, a runaway hit for autumn/winter 18. The minuscule bags were initially sent out as invitations to the brand’s show and weren’t for sale, but they did point towards a developing – or shrinking &n
  
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