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What do you fancy? Pizza Express staff to be taught how to flirt with customers
Thursday 14 October 2010
They already work long hours frantically dashing between tables and a sweltering kitchen while desperately trying to ply customers with a pudding or that extra glass of wine – but now Pizza Express employees will have to find time to flirt too.
Two women found dead in suspected suicide
Thursday 30 September 2010
Police were investigating a suspected double suicide today after the bodies of two women were found in a flat.
League of gentlemen: How to get the effortlessly cool style of Paul Newman and Steve McQueen
Sunday 19 September 2010
For these new pupils, the first question is: Who am I?
Saturday 04 September 2010
England women into rugby World Cup final
Thursday 02 September 2010
England's women reached the World Cup final after beating Australia 15-0 at the Twickenham Stoop tonight.
Poorer children at higher risk of road injury
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Children living in poor areas are more likely to be road accident victims than those living in richer neighbourhoods, research suggested today.
Nursery worker guilty of assaulting toddler
Tuesday 25 May 2010
A nursery worker was today found guilty of assaulting a toddler in his care.
Album: Yaaba Funk, Afrobeast (Yaabaphone)
Sunday 09 May 2010
This London 10-piece get the whole Afrobeat/hi-life mix just about right with a loose, natural sound driven by a fluid yet intense rhythm section, bursts of on-the-nail brass, and plenty of light and shade in the vocals, which are shared by Richmond Kessie and Helen McDonald.
Dylan Jones: 'One of the sexiest things I’ve seen is David Bailey’s short film of his wife Catherine eating an egg'
Saturday 08 May 2010
SHOWstudio.com is 10 years old this year, a decade in which the photographer Nick Knight's website has showcased a wild assortment of interviews, blogs, videos, photographs and all manner of fashion-related tricky-dickery. It was one of the first sites to broadcast live from catwalk shows and fashion shoots, and offer access to the previously closed world of high fashion. It was original, sometimes clever, and people liked it. Which is why it's hung around.
Green socialite gambles on a blue victory
Sunday 02 May 2010
Simon Carr: Zac's like an amateur but it's usually the professionals that win
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Skye Gyngell: Women don't buy into the cult of the macho celebrity chef
Thursday 08 April 2010
The reason there are not more female chefs in professional kitchens is probably that they are dominated by men, and women feel uneasy about being outnumbered.
Nursery worker arrested over abuse claims
Friday 05 March 2010
A nursery worker has been arrested over claims that he mistreated a two-year-old boy in his care.
- 1 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 2 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 Be more professional! GCHQ staff rapped as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals messages that he says point to 'fit up'
- 5 Top A&E doctors warn: 'We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore'
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