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Forum for NHS staff to get together and talk to be expanded
A scheme which encourages NHS staff to get together once a month to discuss the stresses of their jobs is to be rolled out across the health service, officials ...
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Theatre shows autistic children can enjoy
family outings, along with his father, Dustin, and sister, Amber, two, can be anxiety-inducing. The slightest change to the usual setup - a slide moved, say, or the menu changed - upsets him. Trips to the local park in Oxford are full of everyday social rules that he finds hard to understand, such as queueing and waiting. "When he gets angry, it's like a classic two-year-old's ...
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My dad was a homeless alcoholic – but he got a second chance at life
After sitting his GCSEs, Duncan Gall went to Tenerife with his friends from school. He remembers the bittersweet feeling of arriving home, missing the beach and sun, but glad to be back. He and his father, John, lived in a flat in Peterborough. His mother, Maureen, had died four years before. Duncan had started to rummage for his keys when he spotted the notice. "It said we'd been ...
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Canned foods create culinary magic with quinoa pilaf
Rushed for dinner? Tired of the same old lunch? To ward off culinary boredom, take a good look at your kitchen cupboard, and make sure it's stocked up on essentials - and such standbys as canned foods, including tuna, soups, tomatoes, mushrooms, sweet corn and even milk (as in evaporated skim milk, sweetened condensed milk). By adding and subtracting, and including fresh protein and ...
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Raw asparagus makes a refreshing salad
Asparagus season is in full swing. I’ve been grilling it, steaming it and putting it into as many dishes as I possibly can while the local variety is available. One thing I’ve started doing more this season is using asparagus raw. An interesting way to prepare asparagus without cooking it is to thinly slice it into ribbons, using a vegetable peeler. These long, thin pieces are ...
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Victoria plans action after girls racial slur
(Reuters) - A teenage girl's abusive slur aimed at Australian Rules Football player Adam Goodes has jolted the state of Victoria into establishing programs that will educate children on racism, according to local media on ...
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Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence paper
TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of ...
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Lifestyle Woman 21 married to five brothers
The mother-of-one, who sleeps each night with a different brother, does not know which of her five related husbands is the father of her 18-month-old ...
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R is four months sober
alcohol , and I know he would too, but he's been almost four months sober and it's painful counting at times. I hand the presents to the children so they can give them to their father. "Thanks, darling," he says to me as he unwraps a book."Oh, don't thank me. These are from the children."This is something I later see as underhand cruelty. It's like saying, ...
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Sports Briefing | Golf Rory McIlroy Misses Cut in BMW PGA Championship
Rory McIlroy and the two-time defending champion Luke Donald missed the cut in the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England. Francesco Molinari leads by a stroke. ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling 19th Stage of Giro dItalia Canceled Because of Snow
The 19th stage of the Giro ...
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Juan Monaco and Jarkko Nieminen Reach Power Horse Cup Final
Juan Monaco will face Jarkko Nieminen in the final of the Power Horse Cup ATP tournament in Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
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Historic dining under the stars
Twinkling fairylights, a cicada symphony and a long table set for dinner under a starlit sky set the scene for a memorable outback dinner at the historic Durack homestead.Celebrity chef Anna Gare, WA food ambassador Don Hancey and indigenous chefs joined culinary forces for the Durack Homestead Dinner -- one of the social highlights on the Ord Valley Muster events calendar.Gare, who hasn't ...
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Teens dream prom Tux corsage and a Sports Illustrated model on your arm
Cover goddess Kate Upton said no, so Sports Illustrated model Nina Agdal stepped in to escort L.A. high school senior Jake Davidson to his prom on ...
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Allegheny County pursues $3M grant for sports complex at Montour Junction site
Allegheny County homicide Lt. Andrew Schurman talks with detectives and others on scene at HiView Gardens after a fatal shooting on Friday ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 25
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Family fitness night attracts many in Moorpark
CARLOS CHAVEZ/Special to the Star Runners take part in the family fitness night events Tuesday at Mesa Verde Middle School in Moorpark. The event was part of a campaign to combat childhood ...
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Oxnard-area middle school hosts fitness nights for families
ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Michaela Ann Field, a sixth-grader at Rio del Valle Middle School, juggles scarves Tuesday during a family fitness event. For the last time in the school year, parents and students joined together in exercise Tuesday at the Rio Del Valle Middle School gymnasium as part of a grant-funded program that encourages physical ...
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Experts offer safety tips at start of boating season
File photo: Henry Goldman (right) shows Melanie Yanez how to put on a personal flotation device during the Channel Islands Harbor Safe Boating Expo on ...
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A cracking good dish Mark Hix cooks with crab
Crabs are also good value compared to lobster, especially if you know how to use the shells. So when you buy crab, think two meals: one with the meat, and then another with the shells simmered up into a broth or a delicious smooth, creamy bisque - though that was definitely way out of my grandmother's repertoire. If you don't want to cook your own crab, most good fishmongers will sell ...
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Crab and sea vegetable fritters
Delicate, slightly salty seashore vegetables like sea spinach, sea purslane, sea aster and samphire make great little fritters. Combined with crab they work as a lovely dinner-party starter or a snack at a drinks ...
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School of chop Learning the art of butchery at the Ginger Pig
On a chill March night, we were in the gleaming premises of the Ginger Pig butcher's shop in well-heeled Marylebone, which provides courses in beef, pork, and sausage as well as lamb. A glass-walled cold store with an array of dangling beef worth thousands provided a backdrop that was more Francis Bacon than Rembrandt. Eventually a volunteer came forward and was guided round the ovine ...
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Kaspars Seafood Bar Grill The Savoy London
A manager stands, tapping at a plinth-mounted iPad, like a synth-pop artist on a late-Seventies edition of Top of the Pops. He looks up briefly, then returns to his screen with renewed focus. What can he be doing? Sending an email? Updating Facebook? Bashing out the instrumental break to "Vienna"? Finally, reluctantly, he tears his eyes from the screen to deal with the couple, who no ...
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Tomatoes and crab on toast
A slice of hot buttered toast with juicy, ripe tomatoes is a pleasurable and simple snack - transform it into a thing of luxury by topping it with freshly-picked crab ...
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Grilled courgettes with crab and chilli
British-grown courgettes are starting to hit the market now and I always find you get the most flavour out of them if they are sliced and grilled. It works especially well when you combine them with the delicate flavour of crab and a little kick of ...
Tajikistan Focus
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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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