Their book is outselling Jamie and Nigella – but foodies are horrified by their four-ingredient recipes. Tanith Carey meets the Australian housewives who believe home cooking needn't be either complicated or time-consuming

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Raw pain in vintage Miller

The medieval culture as a whole was less work-oriented, and the whole point of Christmas was to follow the injunction in Ecclesiastes to "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die", and work was cancelled for a full 12 days or more, from 25 December until Plough Monday, which next year falls on 12 January.

Son of a talented, though alcoholic, artist and nephew to Richard Doyle, the great Punch cartoonist, Conan Doyle hid his considerable literary energy behind the bluff exterior of a medical man.

Of all the Brooklyn exports to the British music scene, MGMT span the most musical generations with their blend of Sixties synth-fuelled psychedelia, Bowie influences and rock. That tickets for tonight sold out in June and touts are selling them for £100 outside is testimony to their meteoric rise.

For the late, great Alan Coren, laughter was the key to moving his audience, say his children Victoria and Giles

Punch axes the dividend to conserve cash; Scandal of Britain's energy crisis

Punch Taverns scrapped its final dividend yesterday "to conserve cash" in the face of ongoing economic uncertainty, putting stocks across the sector on the skids.

It may not please the parents but it's reality for her generation, she tells James Mottram

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It took an iron will to become a female parliamentary candidate in the 1950s, and a masterful biopic to make viewers urge her on

Ricky Hatton won every round on Saturday night, 55,000 people traipsed out of this stadium smiling and a glorious fight in New York is planned for October.

Just before he died earlier this year, The Independent’s beloved humorist granted an extraordinary interview to his friend Tony Staveacre