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The pastry for apfelstrudel has to be rolled so thin you could read a newspaper through it. Or cheat and use filo - nobody will knowThere is apple in neat, thin slices; golden sultanas the size of pistachios; the warm Christ (Read More)
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A new film bringing the life of John Keats to the big screen prompts a personal Romantic pilgrimage to RomeThe rose-seller is stalking me. It is a brilliant blue-skied November morning in Rome and I am standing on the Spanish (Read More)
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Changing rainfall patterns are redrawing the weather mapA farmer pulled me up on the lane approaching my village last week. We always stop to talk about the weather. I've written a book about it and he has a long memory. "Fea (Read More)
The Guardian:
Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industryMusic, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Science:
Shady, wintry spots will soon be full of these diminutive flowers, from deepest purple to pristine whiteHardy cyclamen used to be the preserve of enthusiasts who swapped plants and seed with elaborate collectors' numbers and (Read More)
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Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
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Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection"O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date prophylactic sheaths!" The (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
He left Britain after his girlfriend Rachel Nickell was murdered 17 years ago, to escape the trauma and the press. This week André Hanscombe returned – to force the police to face their mistakesThe picture is attractive – pal (Read More)
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The twin rivers that bring thousands of tourists to Cockermouth turned on the town after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, driving 250 people out of their homes.Torrents flung cars across the picturesque centre, (Read More)
The Guardian:
First miracle man. Then the EU president. A famous BelgianMost of Herman Van Rompuy's website, as one might perhaps expect of an upstanding European (and since last night, Europeans don't get much more upstanding than Herman) (Read More)
BBC:
A man is cautioned after he cut down trees which then brought down power cables and caused extensive disruption. (Read More)
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Some of you may not be aware, but here in the states we have a fine Christmas tradition, of fairly recent vintage, called the war on Christmas. This war, as you might guess, is being waged by secular liberals, who insist on s (Read More)
The Guardian:
She was one half of the of the environmental artist known to the world as ChristoThe flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to e (Read More)
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Officer unaccounted for after bridges collapse as Workington riverbanks burst amid torrential rainA search is under way for a male police officer who is missing after a bridge collapsed in Workington during flooding, Cumbria (Read More)
The Guardian:
Lifeboats are launched to aid those stranded as severe flooding cuts off the centre of Cockermouth in CumbriaA major rescue operation was launched tonight to evacuate more than 200 people after severe flooding cut off the ce (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
I know people who swear by the charms of Lagos or Grozny. For them, as me, a city is where friends are. Take note, Jan MorrisI once sat next to a woman at dinner who asked me where I lived. When I replied, London, she frowned (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Woolly mammoths and other giant ice-age mammals faced extinction 2,000 years before deadly speartips were inventedWoolly mammoths and other large, lumbering beasts faced extinction long before early humans perfected their ski (Read More)
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