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Style shrinks Our experts analyse Lily Allens caped entrance to the Ivor Novello awards
Rebecca Gonsalves: Time to get ready for a swanky awards bash must be tight for such a busy mum, hence the messy up-do and minimal make-up.Hugh Montgomery: Not a lunatic fringe. It has definitely never voted ...
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The Help Desk A reluctant prospective father
Louisa Saunders is associate features editor of The Independent and writes a weekly advice column, The Help Desk, for the Independent on Sunday's New Review ...
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Fish-finger sandwiches with roasted tomato and black-olive relish
2 tbsp plain flour 6 tbsp polenta tsp cayenne pepper 600g/1lb firm white skinless fish, cut into 5cm lengths 5 tbsp light-flavoured oilFor the relish300g/10oz baby plum tomatoes, halved 1 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1 red chilli, chopped 50g/2oz pitted Kalamata olives, tornTo serve6 crusty buns 100g/3oz rocket Good-quality mayonnaiseHeat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas6. Put the ...
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Agenda Pet Shop Boys Adam Driver The Shard festival fashion rising house prices
Unless you are one of those unfortunate souls we pityingly call "first-time buyers", chances are you are sitting on a gold mine. (Or perhaps you're perfectly happy renting, in which case you are sitting on someone else's gold mine.) Anyway, the point is that despite austerity, double-dips and general hardship, house prices in most parts of the UK have continued to boom while ...
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Damien Echols how I survived death row
Damien Echols spent 18 years facing execution after being wrongly convicted of a triple child killing. Then Lorri Davis, a woman he'd never met, began a campaign that would set him free. Emma John talks to him and introduces chilling extracts from his prison ...
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Serrano ham and melon salad
This is my 21st-century version of that 1970s classic: the perfect combination of salty ham and sweet, juicy fruit, given a make-over with a shallot ...
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Cap on number of GP visits being considered by Tories
A Tory consultation document on local health provision asks activists whether they agree or disagree with the idea of an annual limit on GP appointments. The paper also asks whether evening and weekend appointments with GPs and consultants are a "luxury the country cannot afford".The proposals, which the document admits are "controversial", were yesterday condemned for ...
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At what cost Life-saving drug withheld
A woman awaiting a transplant for a rare condition that has destroyed her kidneys had her operation cancelled at the 11th hour because the Government refused to pay for the drug she needs to prevent the organ being ...
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Sport on TV Not-so-fast Eddie sets a blistering pace in the Cape
Eddie Izzard may be a brilliant stand-up comedian but he would have required extra powers of fortitude to stay on his feet after his latest endurance test. Three years ago he ran 43 marathons in 43 days around the UK in aid of Sport Relief, despite having no pedigree at long-distance running. It was an astonishing undertaking, but no undertaker was ...
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Facebook phone launch put on hold
The HTC First handset was supposed to be in the shops this summer but the social network has no fresh date for its European unveiling. It works around the Facebook Home software, launched by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in the US in mid-April. He claimed it would "change the relationship" that people have with their mobiles.The Facebook Home app swaps a traditional homescreen menu ...
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If theres any justice prisoners must get the vote | Kevin McKenna
The franchise for the independence referendum has not been extended to prisoners in Scottish jails including Barlinnie, above. Photograph: Murdo ...
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The NHS dont pick on GPs Mr Hunt. Develop a vision | Observer editorial
NHS .What Bevan would have found difficult to understand, however, is why modern-day ministers seem unable to pick the right fights. Bevan's bribe was surely a price worth paying: without the support of GPs, the NHS would never been more than a proposal on paper. Fifty years later, the Labour government again went to war with GPs over performance-based contracts. At least there was a point ...
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Payday lenders break pledges on reform
Payday lenders have broken a series of promises to reform their industry, including pledges to check that their loans are affordable and to freeze charges when people struggle to repay, according to new research that raises fresh concerns about how they operate.A survey conducted by Citizens Advice also found that most lenders are failing to remind clients that their loans, which can carry ...
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Revelers brave cold to fight AIDS at Vienna ball
VIENNA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, singer Elton John and actor Hilary Swank joined thousands of costumed revelers on Saturday at Europe's biggest AIDS charity event, Vienna's Life ...
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Arrested Development Bluth boys
to set up a movie with a cluster of episodes that chronicled the exploits of each family member over the last half-dozen years or so. BATEMAN: When he explained that the attempt to educate the uninitiated about the characters and the events that have gone on in the Bluth family would take up so much of the [movie's] time, and that a more efficient and interesting way to do that would be ...
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Northern Educate sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John ...
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Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir…
Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Suat Kilic visited the Founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Mausoleum-Anitkabir on the occasion of May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk,Youth and Sports Day.Kilic laid a wreath on Ataturk's Mausoleum, and observed a minute of silence in his ...
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Seattle Times sports readers sound off
With the national sports media having a feeding frenzy on the number of drug-related suspensions given to Seahawks players, it's time for players to hear this message: We hold you and the coaches in high regard and appreciate your achievements to make the Seahawks a force to be reckoned with. You have made the winds and rain bearable in the long winter months, but with that comes a ...
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Fast Furious 6 Sung Kang says...
franchise doesn’t engage in too much narrative trickery. The plots are straightforward — and by straightforward, I mean there are cars and people who drive those cars and those people use their cars to fight other people in cars. Carfight! But there’s a surprisingly complicated aspect of the films’ chronology, and that aspect is the character Han, played by actor Sung ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Cannes
Cannes 2013: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a seriously sexy three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age love story. Plus, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix in 'The ...
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Food miles Work up an appetite for the food festival season
Traditionally, food and drink festivals have celebrated a single ingredient at its seasonal best - and there are still numerous examples of the type around the ...
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Employers rank personality over degree when hiring Report
Your personality and not that proverbial piece of paper, a degree, just might land you that job you're gunning for, a surprising report says. According to a BMO Bank of Montreal survey, personality traits outrank both credentials and education for many employers who are looking to hire new graduates. The report revealed that skill set lies second on the list, work experience ranks third, ...
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Sideline Champs Sport legend hit at sons high school rugby game
Softball great Eddie Kohlhase was punched on the sideline of an Auckland schools rugby match last weekend, the latest in a line of shameful incidents officials are trying to stamp out. But neither principal of the two schools involved - Kelston Boys High School and St Peter's College - has been willing to talk about the scrap, despite it involving the first man to win world softball ...
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Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record
FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...
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150 years after Gettysburg drummer to recreate reunion march
Jim Smith (L), 70, of Hempfield, leads members of the Grand Army of the Republic Post 88, Pittsburgh, and the Armbrust Veterans and Civil War Re-enactors, including Luke Prohaska (C) in a Civil War uniform, for a ceremony at the graveside of Peter Guibert, a Union Civil War drummer boy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 24, ...
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Tajikistan making sacrifices for the future
A massive hydroelectric dam in southern Tajikistan may be the key to the future energy independence of the country and its development, but it comes at a staggering cost and with doubts over its viability.
Tajikistan is an ancient land and one of the oldest states in human history, having been founded by the Samani dynasty in the 9th century, long before territories such as Great Britain or other European nations became unified states. Yet for all this, Tajikistan has remained impoverished and sidelined throughout much of its existence. Read more
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