Sunday, 22 March 2015

Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U: The new gaming service ready to take on the console giants





A NEW gaming service is set to launch that hopes to make long download times, annoying lag, and dropped visuals a thing of the past.


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Are food labels telling us the whole truth? Common calorie myths debunked





We all try to watch our weight but how much should we trust food packaging to tell us the truth?


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Airplane toxic fumes danger for 10% of Brits





AN investigation is looking into whether a genetic condition makes flying dangerous for six million Britons


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Brain drug brings new hope for Alzheimer’s victims





A DRUG that targets plaque build-up in the brain could be of “significant benefit” to those with early stage Alzheimer’s, experts claimed last night.


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Chas's Rock 'N' Roll Allotment on sowing early spring seeds





RAKED over the soil to a pretty good tilth where my leeks had been so plan to sow a few early spring seeds there tomorrow.


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Full bloom: Top floral trends for spring





FLORAL patterns are big this season, so get your wardrobe blooming with these colourful trends.


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Metallic rucksacks, snakeskin platforms and stacking rings: Top trends for spring





THERE'S something for every budget in this week's must-haves.


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All there in black and white: Monochrome fashion





TURN up the contrast in magical monochrome with our top fashion picks.


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Darling buds: Floral fragrances for spring





FABULOUSLY floral fragrances are spring’s blossoming choice – our beauty editor takes her pick.


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TV presenter Richard Bacon: 'My best friend is my wife Rebecca'





RADIO and TV presenter Richard, 39, divides his time between north London and Los Angeles with his wife Rebecca and their children Arthur, three, and 13-month-old Ivy.


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American access Allison Janney: 'I'd only give up acting if I fell madly in love'





BRIGHT, beautiful and bubbly, Hollywood star Allison Janney has got it all – so why hasn’t she found true love? Here she opens up to Christine Smith.


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Throw in your lot with these liars: TV reviews of Ordinary Lies and Poldark





IT HAS been a few years between TV car showrooms.


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Downton Abbey makes hay as the sun shines over the stars





Downton Abbey’s stars have been spotted filming market scenes for the sixth series of the hit ITV show, which returns this autumn.


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EXCLUSIVE: Two faces of Poldark clash with original star's return





IT IS the clash of the Poldarks tonight in the most talked-about period drama since the launch of Downton Abbey.


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VIDEO: 'Ellie Goulding shot me down.' Luke Friend on celeb crushes and salsa dancing





LUKE FRIEND is already over Ellie Goulding as he reveals that Wolf of Wall Street beauty Margot Robbie will be his girlfriend in time for the release of his debut single Hole In My Heart.


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Seerenade/ Carmina Burana by Birmingham Royal Ballet: Reviews





CARMINA BURANA is a flat-out brutal pastiche of medieval religious obsessions. It is also, with its cast of thousands, a perfect window on to this superb company of dancers.


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Theatre round-up: The Producers, The Cutting Of Cloth and Stevie reviews





BY ADAPTING his cult comedy, The Producers for the stage, and in the process making his debut as a Broadway composer and lyricist, Mel Brooks turned a film about one of the worst musicals of all time into a show that is one of the best.


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Opera round-up The Wild Man of the West Indies and La Boheme: Reviews





ENGLISH TOURING OPERA has rediscovered Donizetti’s virtually unknown “Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo”, first performed to huge success in 1833, but vanished from view by the late 19th century. Renamed The Wild Man of the West Indies, it is cannily teamed during ETO’s spring tour with opera’s most popular work in Puccini’s La Boheme.


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A bizarre black comedy: The Voices review and trailer





THE VOICES is a bizarre black comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as an arrested adolescent who turns serial killer encouraged by his loquacious household pets, profane cat Mr Whiskers and cheery bull mastiff Bosco.


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The Divergent Series Insurgent: Review and trailer





COULD Shailene Woodley be a Meryl Streep in the making? The 23-year old actress has already received a Golden Globe nomination for The Descendants and impressed in blockbuster weepie The Fault In Their Stars for which she was Oscar-tipped last year.


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