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‘But I hate sprouts!’ Surviving the family

Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. Combine family tensions with alcohol and problems can swiftly arise

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Chef Bryn Williams makes a delicous game terrine with pigeon breasts, chopped pistachio nuts and apricots

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Peter Jones’s head chef helps us with a testing Christmas skill

10 tips for cooking for a Christmas crowd

Military planning — and lots of pre-prepared dishes — are the secrets of festive success

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‘But I hate sprouts!’ Surviving the family

Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. Combine family tensions with alcohol and problems can swiftly arise

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Why every girl wants to be a stylist

Styling is now a career with the profile, prospects and pay that little girls aspire to. But is it all it's cracked up to be?

The art of good lingerie

As a Victoria’s Secret model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley knows good underwear. She offers some very sage advice

Alpha Mummy

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Seasonal food 

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How to carve your turkey, step-by-step

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10 top tips when cooking for Christmas

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Property & Gardens  

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The rise of Bristol

Welcome to the city of extended youth and Britain's hippest city, with its ethical start-ups, offbeat artists and green-living locals

My Marrakesh excess

Princess Hetti von Bohlen und Halbach, the queen of Morocco’s party scene, is vacating Bled Targui, her pleasure palace

Beyond the Brochure

Daisy Waugh revisits the houses she loved and loathed in 2009 - and tells her detractors they should lighten up

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Under-12s treated for cocaine addiction

Experts say that the rise in the number of addicts is probably linked to children using the drug as a coping mechanism

Albany Mums, a group supporting the midwives, protesting at the Department of Health over King?s College Hospital?s ending of the contract

Secret report damns home births service

A confidential report on the Albany midwifery practice claimed that complications were more common in births it handled

Thalidomide survivors get £20 million package

The Government has awarded the funding over three years for people who were left disabled after their mothers took the drug

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How to have a healthy Christmas: top ten

Men  

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The playboy and the Tory party leader

Tycoon David Ross has a life of parties, yachts and beautiful girls. But are his links to the Tory party toxic?

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Back to ballistics

Just how fast does a cutting edge superbike feel? To find out Warren Pole scares himself stupid on BMW’s new 193bhp flagship

Modern heroes: meeting our military

Discipline, pride, humility, strength. As more and more of our boys see active service, we discover what Britain's soldiers are made of

Men 

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What it feels like to be a pick-up artist

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Education  

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Extended school day will encourage learning

A state school with a ten-hour day, based on an American model, may boost the learning of pupils from poorer families

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Teaching an old school new tricks

Is super-head Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, really as confident and carefree as he would have us believe?

King’s College gets chorus of criticism

The Cambridge school famous for its choristers has fallen foul of inspectors getting tough with the private sector

School Gate

Choristers from Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, pratice their carols in the cathedral ahead of a busy christmas period.

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