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Wimbledon 2017

British and Irish Lions

The ultimate gym bag beauty essentials

Whether you’re gearing up for a spot of sweaty yoga or a calorie-blasting cardio class, high intensity exercise does a great job at making you feel amazing. But, your hair and skin can often look less than gorgeous post-workout, leaving you in need of some serious freshening up. 

Inside the world of the ‘death knock’

Social media, film and TV have helped cement the image of the heatless hack who’ll stop at nothing to get the human angle from the families of the bereaved – yet, particularly at local level, this is still an indispensable part of news-gathering

Brands and the clamour for a utilitarian world wrapped in beige

Britain recently joined the trend to sell cigarettes in plain packets. More countries are talking about going plain. Will alcohol and sugary foods be next and if so where will it end? The brands industry is fighting back. Apart from the economic repercussions of this utilitarian activity, Oliver Bennett asks do we really want to live in a beige world?

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