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Where have property prices been reduced most in the UK?
Plus how much you need to earn to rent in London, and new homes figures
Is Rushcliffe the best place for families to live?
Plus where The Apprentices live, house price growth outside London, and househunter numbers
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Stoke City investigate 'religious abuse' after 'pig's head is found in Kenwyne Jones' locker'
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Gove’s lesson: spare the comma, spoil the child
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Heading for America? Prepare for the longest US immigration queues ever
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Grace Dent on TV: Extreme Couponing, My Strange Addiction, and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, TLC
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Join Ryanair! See the world! But we'll only pay you for nine months a year
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
BMF is the UK’s biggest and best loved outdoor fitness classes
Visit York
Find out what The Independent's resident travel expert has to say about one of the most beautiful small cities in the world
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Business videos from commercial thought leaders
Watch the best in the business world give their insights into the world of business.
The price of pacifism
From the Second World War refusenik to the 19-year-old Israeli, Holly Williams talks to five people who risked shame and suffering to take a stand as conscientious objector.
Jason Isaacs: Groupies, theatre bores and James Bond
To millions, Jason Isaacs is one of Harry Potter's arch enemies – but his wife prefers him as a Scottish TV detective.
Sealand: 'Micronation' or illegal fortress?
Thomas Hodgkinson spent a week at the tiny platform off the Suffolk coast to find out.
Mark Hix cooks with cutlets and ribs
If you ignore cutlets and ribs, you'll risk missing out on some delicious and easy meals, says our chef.
Sir James Dyson’s latest project: Cleaning up hospitals
Doctors are hailing the revamp of a Bath neonatal unit, where babies sleep more and feed better, as the model for patient care
One man returns to Argentina's town that drowned
Epecuen was submerged under 10 metres of water in 1985. Now the floods have gone – and 83-year-old Pablo Novak has moved back in
The real thing?
Historian publishes Coca Cola's 'secret formula'
Gordon Ramsay's worst nightmare: A restaurant he cannot save
The pugnacious chef finally met a shambolic restaurant he couldn't save. John Walsh on when TV makover refuseniks fight back
Join Ryanair! See the world! But we're only paying you for nine months a year
Glamorous myth of the flight attendant lifestyle undermined by angry employee's claims of 'exploitation'
Braising saddles: How to cook horse meat
Did the recent furore scupper sales of horse meat? Neigh, far from it! Will Coldwell hoofs it to the kitchen.
Why bitters are back on the bar
A few little drops pack a big punch in cocktails. No wonder we're learning to love them again...
The 10 Best barbecues
Whether you're cooking on gas or are a convert to charcoal we've got the perfect way to cook when the sun is out.
Style icon calls time on his long retirement
David Beckham never disgraced himself but former England captain ceased to be a major player years ago. Remember him at his United peak
Steve Harper: My darkest times
As the popular Newcastle goalkeeper bows out after 20 years at the club, he tells Martin Hardy about the private battle with depression that threatened his career
The flat-pack truck with big ambitions
After making a fortune from Polly Pocket and a doll's house shaped like a teapot, the entrepreneur has turned his creativity to a transporter truck for the developing world. Simon Usborne meets him.
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