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The Olympics: you need brass to go for gold

What makes an Olympic medal-winner? Well, money and a private education will certainly help. It's posh at the top

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Patty Hearst, the SLA and me

James Kilgore spent 27 years on the run and time in jail as part of the terror group that kidnapped Patty Hearst

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Petitions: Sign up for a little chaos

A Conservative plan to give petitioners new rights may backfire

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Handout photo issued by IrisPR of Tilly the Tooth Fairy doll designed by six-year-old Aine Gallagher. Tilly the Tooth Fairy, who should be placed under a pillow, comes with a small pouch in which children can place their lost tooth. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday October 12, 2009. The youngster, from Dungannon, Northern Ireland, beat around 700 other competitors to be crowned winner in the Argos competition to design a toy which will be available in Argos stores in the run-up to Christmas.

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Women  

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Fashion Q&A: The Preen team

Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi, designers who started out in Britain, talk about their style hits and misses

Emma Jeal in her flat with 5 month old Ashton.

Help me to be a mum: a foyer to fulfilment

Gordon Brown is backing ‘halfway houses’ for young mothers from troubled backgrounds. Penny Wark pays a visit to one

Nutrition advice: are avocados fattening?

Half a medium avocado gives you around 132 calories, which is less than a 100g portion of hummus

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My new fave place: the tiny toilets at school

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Property & Gardens  

John and Anne Thomas-Ferrand found peace near Tenby

What would you pay for a quiet life?

For anyone in search of peace, quiet homes are hot property — especially within striking distance of civilisation

Solar panels: what a bright idea

Fitting solar panels could make financial sense when the government pays up to 44p a unit for home-grown electricity

How to make a killing with a filling

If you’re looking to develop a tricky city site, paying a visit to an ‘urban dentist’ could be well worth your while

New York fairy tale

Magical home of a design duo and their seven children

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Health: Sleep special  

A handful of Vitamin pills

Dr Mark Porter: The five vitamins you should be taking

How to navigate the hyperbole about the benefits of vitamin supplements

Alex Wade was bitten by a tick carry Lyme disease when out walking his dogs Rio and Maya

My struggle to combat Lyme disease

A surfer had to give up his beloved sport because of a degenerative spinal injury — and then he got Lyme disease

The happiest men in the world

A Buddhist monk and a British peer have very different views on the secrets of a contented life. Were they still smiling after East met West?

Nutrition

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Are avocados fattening?

Amanda Ursell on all our dietary dilemmas

Food & Drink  

Roasting tray of chicken thighs and vegetables

How to cook root vegetables

With a bit of imagination you can work magic with much maligned parsnips, celeriac and, yes, even Jerusalem artichokes

Stripped floors, leather chairs, dark-wood tables

AA Gill reviews Milan

All the dishes had elaborate presentations, which elsewhere I might have sneered at. But here they had a church-hat charm

Why tomato can wake up a dull red

I taste in a wine is probably completely different from what you taste in it. It also means wine columns are useless

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Giles Coren
 

This is the biggest project yet by far for the Galvin brothers and it gives London one of its grandest restaurants  

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It's a marmalade masterclass

Rhubarb sticks

100 seasonal recipes for February

Taramasalata

How to make the perfect cod’s roe

Men  

Anthony Hopkins

Hopkins: I'm still an outsider

Despite 50 years at the top, the Welsh-born actor still does not feel at home in his profession. Does he care? No

Author Simon Beckett with his wife Hilary

Unknown crime writer wows Europe

Former odd-jobs man Simon Beckett only found literary success in his mid-forties and is now mobbed at book readings in Germany

The schoolboy who lost a fortune, twice

Benjamin Cohen was years ahead of Google and inadvertenly created Europe's first porn search engine, but what went wrong?

Valentine's gift ideas

How to let the lady in your life know how much you love her

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Don't go back to university, warn employers

Too many unemployed graduates are returning to university to do pointless postgrad courses, the findings indicate

University crisis looms as applications leap

Record rise in the number wanting to enter university indicates that hundreds of thousands will fail to find places

It’s a mess, darling, but you did try

A new book trashes modern parenting ideas about constantly praising children. Our author, father of two, puts it to the test

School Gate

Should parents set up their own schools?

Fiona Millar and Toby Young debate the issue

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