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Sugar warning for 'healthy drinks'

People are underestimating sugar levels in drinks which are perceived to be "healthy" options, according to new research.

Album: Vince Gill, Guitar Slinger (MCA/Decca)

How do you follow up a 43-song Grammy-winning album? If you're Vince Gill, by going back to basics and recording a straightforward Nashville pea-souper, thick with sentiment, big feelings and yet more emotional confabulations about life, death and the whole damn shooting match.

Sugar: arriving on the boxing scene in the ’70s, he was soon regarded as one of the sport’s main voices

Bert Sugar: Writer who lit up boxing with his colourful tales and opinions

Owing money, he gave one writer a cheque for $600. Asked if it would bounce, he said, 'like a basketball'

AG Barr crosses with Rubicon into tropical ice cream

The Irn-Bru maker AG Barr is moving into the ice-cream market with a range of tropical flavour tubs and lollies under its Rubicon brand.

Beauty: The best pretty nail polishes

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Baumesiter: If people want to improve their willpower in their daily lives they should eat healthy food

Insight: Roy Baumeister, psychologist

'Willpower is not like intelligence – you can learn it'

Brandy snaps are perfect with ice-cream

Brandy snaps

Makes about 10-15

'Parachute me into High Street, China' Muhammad Ali once said, 'and every kid would know who I am'

Boxing: Why Muhammad Ali really is the Greatest of all

No sporting icon has ever matched the popularity of the man from Louisville who was as brilliant outside the ring as he was in it

Chilli, ginger and coriander vodka cocktail, spice-crusted cashews and maple tamari almonds

Maple tamari almonds

Serves 4-6

Cranberry and red onion sauce

Cranberry and red onion sauce

Serves 6-8

You may have to watch your fillings when eating Bill's chewy caramels

Chewy caramels

Makes 12 long caramels or 24 small caramels

Scarily good: Crumbly chocolate-topped fudge

Chocolate-topped fudge

Makes approximately 42 x 3cm pieces

Bill's fluffy coconut marshmallows remind him of lamingtons, a treat from back home in Australia

Coconut marshmallows

Makes about 36-38 pieces

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Voices of: Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Olivia Colman
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Nothing's sacred: the illegal trade in India's holy cows

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Alcohol: I drink therefore I am

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Brendan Rodgers: Just like Mourinho... only different

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Gary Lewin: Players need winter break

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Tamil asylum-seekers to be forcibly deported
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Aftershock: How Haiti's quake hit the whole of Hispaniola

Aftershock: How Haiti's quake hit the whole of Hispaniola

Two years on from the disaster that shook the Caribbean state, its eastern neighbour, the Dominican Republic, fears a new wave of illegal immigrants could hurt its economy