Saturday 14 February 2015

Valentine’s Day treats: Macarons, Tangerine lollipops with sherbet





TRIED-and-tested tips from Saturday magazine’s celebrity chef


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Paul Hollywood: 'There was a huge amount of banter on The Great Comic Relief Bake Off'





AS FOUR more celebrities line up for The Great Comic Relief Bake Off, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood reveal the secrets of the tent…


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Gary Busey hits woman in Malibu accident

MALIBU, California (AP) " Authorities say Gary Busey has struck and slightly injured woman with his car while backing out of a shopping center parking lot in Malibu.The accident happened shortly before 3 p.m. Friday on the Pacific...


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House Of Fools' Bob Mortimer: 'We’re just trying to make each other laugh'





VIC REEVES and Bob Mortimer return for more anarchic antics in their madcap sitcom, House Of Fools…


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Bon Jovi performs intimate set in Kenneth Cole store

NEW YORK (AP) " Most of the time when you hear a Bon Jovi song in a store, it's playing over a loudspeaker. But Thursday night, around 100 lucky fans were treated to seeing the New Jersey-born rocker perform a bunch of his hits during...


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Julie Walters on new drama, Indian Summers: 'It isn’t romanticised and it isn’t nostalgic'





ACTRESS Julie Walters heads the cast in a lavish new Channel 4 drama that’s been described as The Jewel In The Crown meets Downton Abbey


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How a bad night’s sleep can make us pile on the pounds





LOSING sleep could make you fat, say scientists.


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Killing America's deadliest sniper: Eddie Ray Routh on trial for Chris Kyle murder





EX-MARINE Eddie Ray Routh is standing trial for the murder of Chris Kyle, the US Navy Seal whose combat exploits in Iraq inspired the Oscar-nominated film


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A true Lady and a brave spy: The remarkable story of the Queen Mother’s close friend





THE remarkable story of the Queen Mother’s close friend whose Countess title was a cover for her wartime espionage exploits defying the Nazis


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Debenhams, Miss Selfridge and Avis: The orange things we're lusting after this week





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


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Julianne Moore: I used to be a real geek





AT 54 the actress looks set to win her first Oscar but as she tells GARTH PEARCE she has always been a slow starter and credits her mum with spurring her on to success


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Man who tried to sell stolen art in Los Angeles gets 4 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) " A man who tried to sell stolen paintings worth a fortune, including works by Marc Chagall and Diego Rivera, was sentenced Friday to more than four years in state prison.Raul Espinoza pleaded no contest to one...


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The open face of Doctor Who

Three decades is just a short trip in the Tardis for the Doctor, but Peter Davison is just like everybody else, and has to time travel the slow way - one day at a time. However, 35 years after he signed on for the lead role in Doctor...


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Friday 13 February 2015

Lawyer: Hirsch in rehab, doesn't remember attacking exec

LOS ANGELES (AP) " An attorney for actor Emile Hirsch says the actor does not remember the night he is accused of attacking a studio executive because he was drunk.Attorney Robert Offer wrote in a statement obtained Friday that...


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Chris Martin pledges 15 years to Global Citizen to boost org

NEW YORK (AP) " Chris Martin is lending his talents the Global Citizen organization over the next 15 years to help the group achieve its goal to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030.The Coldplay frontman will help curate concert...


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T.J. McNamara: Dark curtains hung for drama

In the downstairs gallery at Two Rooms, a group show called The Smoothing of Things is an attractive collection of strong academic abstraction that acts as a prelude to the exhibition upstairs of Noel Invanoff's Slider Painti...


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How to grow potatoes in patio bags





GROWING potatoes in black plastic bags on your patio or balcony is even easier than growing them in the ground.


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Nick Atkinson: The machine that animates forgotten furniture

Katy Wallace and her partner Paulus McKinnon are both magpies with an eye for picturesque objects in various states of disrepair. McKinnon used to collect alluring weatherboards that had come adrift before washing up on windswept...


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Clearing out the closet

English actor-writer Rob Ward brings his award-winning play Away From Home to Auckland next week as part of the Pride Festival. It centres on a football fan who works as a rent boy and falls for one of his clients - a top football...


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Gallipoli - Lads to the slaughter

Here's the thing you notice first: they all look so young. These are kids, you think to yourself, what the hell are they doing dressed up as soldiers charging with fixed bayonets up a hill into enemy fire?This, I couldn't help thinking...


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