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The 10 Best Body Scrubs
Sunday 09 June 2013
Whether you’re prepping for fake tan or are aiming for super-smooth skin, there’s a scrub to suit you
Theatre review: Billy, Union Theatre, London
Monday 03 June 2013
Forget Billy Elliot the musical and remember Billy Liar, the novel by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, template for all northern working-class, aspirational escape stories in the 1960s, the Tom Courtenay movie and, in 1974, this marvellous, resonating and utterly authentic show written by “Bond movie” composer, the late, great John Barry, television comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Fresnais (The Likely Lads, Porridge, etc) and Tin Pan Alley and Lloyd Webber lyricist Don Black.
James Moore: CBI right to be jittery
over European exit
Tuesday 21 May 2013
There’s a risk in the CBI entering the European debate. Britain is in a sullen and surly mood right now.
TV review: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC) is certainly educational television
Wednesday 15 May 2013
It's just an excuse to laugh at poor people and farting
Cleveland kidnapping latest: Police find chains in house where three women including Amanda Berry were held captive for a decade
Tuesday 07 May 2013
The suspects in the Cleveland kidnapping are expected to be charged today as the investigation into their imprisonment for a decade continues.
Animal magic
Monday 06 May 2013
This season the fashion world is a-buzz with inspiration from birds, bees and creatures altogether more beastly, says Stephanie Hirschmiller
iStyle: Animal magnetism
Monday 06 May 2013
This season the fashion world is abuzz with inspiration from birds, bees and creatures altogether more beastly, says Stephanie Hirschmiller
Room Service: A manor reborn, a star to follow?
Saturday 20 April 2013
Brockencote Hall, Worcestershire
I'm sexy and I dough it: The male TV bakers raising temperatures
Friday 12 April 2013
If music be the food of love, eat on. There is a new breed male TV chef putting the biceps into baking and giving Nigella a run for her money where the association between food and sex is concerned.
Professor Alan Reilly: 'If I'd got horse meat tests wrong, I would be selling The Big Issue by now'
Tuesday 19 February 2013
David McKittrick speaks to the Irish scientist whose team first discovered the scale of the horse meat problem
Wines of the Week: Villiera Barrel Fermented Chenin Blanc 2011; Gran Valle de Niebla Riesling 2011; Arc Du Rhône Côtes du Rhône Villages
Sunday 17 February 2013
Terry Kirby selects the best bottles to buy
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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