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Twelvetrees helps Tigers cut the Irish down to size

London Irish 14 Leicester Tigers 23: Champions' pack smashes a path for stand-in at stand-off to keep it simple in search of away win

Mutton and potato pies

Serves 10

E.coli butcher 'sold rotten meat for years'

A butcher at the centre of a fatal E.coli outbreak which claimed the life of a five-year-old boy sold rotten meat for years before the tragedy, an inquest heard today.

Shoulder of lamb with sweet paprika and chickpeas

Serves 4–6

Our chef in Paris – a life entertaining the ambassadors

The British embassy cook is being awarded the Légion d'honneur. He tells John Lichfield about 40 years of catering for high society

Some like it hot: The best Guy Fawkes Night treats

Chef Tristan Welch on how to play the flame game

Joseph try puts Exiles back on main street

London Irish 39 Sale 26

Moroccan lamb neck and date broth

Serves 4-6

Slowly does it: Mark Hix uses less well-known cuts of meat to create warming autumn broths

I was having a bit of a freezer clear-out the other day and I stumbled across some useful little bits and bobs that were perfect for making into great autumnal soups – just what's needed as the weather becomes colder and the days get shorter.

Lamb cutlets 'Reform'

Serves 8

Samarqand, 18 Thayer Street, London W1

There's a very funny press release for the Samarqand restaurant, possibly directed at Russian and Central Asian foodies living in London. It promises, in a kind of meerkat-speak, that this is "The restaurant we've ALL been waiting for!!! SIMPLE CONCEPT which makes the restaurant even more worth going – you SIMPLY feels: at HOME AWAY FROM HOME!!!"

Skate with cocoa - a taste of paradise?

As he judges a post-Blumenthal Masterchef, John Walsh asks if some gastronomic combinations are scientifically wrong

Exiles' injury toll mounts as high price is paid for superb victory

London Irish 23 Munster 17

Fourie heroics in vain as Lamb leads Exiles to slaughter Leeds

London Irish 40 Leeds 24
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