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Your chance to live in Winnie the Pooh’s home
Plus London's buy-to-let hotspots and a new property portal
How can the mortgage market recovery be helped?
Guest post by Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv chartered surveyors
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Facial hair: Cat beards and the purrrsuit of excellence
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Price of Xbox One may be less than 360 say insiders
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Microsoft's Xbox One: Have the price (£399) and release date (30 November) been leaked by online retailer Zavvi?
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Xbox One vs PlayStation 4: Why Microsoft's console name game just doesn't add up
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The 10 Best salt and pepper sets
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
Get your summer started with British Military Fitness
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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
Making reading fun for kids
Nook is donating eReaders to volunteers at high-need schools and participating in exclusive events throughout the campaign.
Introducing the 'Get Reading' campaign
Get the latest on The Evening Standard's campaign to get London's children reading.
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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 man who's eaten everywhere
Few people know more about restaurants than James Pembroke, who only spent five mealtimes at home during his entire childhood.
A Berliner in 1963 – but did John F Kennedy once admire Adolf Hitler?
The young JFK praised 'superior' Nordic races during visits to Germany
Banned Iranian director to attend Cannes Film Festival
Mohammad Rasoulof to make his first public appearance since being imprisoned three years ago
Seeing the larger picture: Inspiring images of space
An exhibition explores images how photography has shaped astronomy
Eat Spam and carry on
Wartime pamphlets could teach us a thing or two about healthy, thrifty eating
Facial hair
Cat beards and the purrrsuit of excellence
The 10 Best salt and pepper sets
Whether they're for everyday use or to make your dining table look just right, it's worth getting a stylish shaker...
Ferran Soriano: Predicting success if Manchester City 'vision' is followed
Chief executive says trophies will come if a 'core' of suitable players is in place
Thomas Müller: We couldn't handle losing a Champions League Final again
The Bayern Munich forward tells Tim Rich his side have to shed chokers' tag after two recent final defeats
The Stelvio Pass - cycling's killer climb
As the Giro d'Italia tackles the brutal climb, Simon Usborne takes on the snow and switchbacks – and soon realises what the fuss is about
Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Newly unearthed papers reveal a shocking extra dimension to the constitutional crisis over monarch’s abdication
Sent down at the Old Bailey
A tour of the world's most famous court
Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness
The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis’s date for his movie premieres isn’t arm candy – it’s his 87-year-old friend who he saved from homelessness
British football scores an own goal
Many managers barely survive a year in post. Martin Baker talks to experts who make a case for clubs using forensic business skills to find the best staff
James Lawton
Sergio Garcia cracks as major fault line opens up again
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