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An easy cheese, peas and egg dish, enhanced with leeks and greens, makes a crowdpleasing summer mealWhenever I think of cheese and peas together, I think of “Cheesy peas!”, a fictional food advertised to “northern types” by Paul Whitehouse as part of a comedy sketch on The Fast Show, a television series…

Meera Sodha’s recipe for spinach, pea and cheddar frittata | Meera Sodha recipes
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Meera Sodha’s recipe for spinach, pea and cheddar frittata | Meera Sodha recipes

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When is a valise not a valise? When you’re in a foreign land where they call it a holdall The band I’m in is cruising to the end of its tour, with two nights at Victoria Hall in Settle, headlining a weekend festival. The weather on the drive up from Manchester is unpromising, but by the time we reach Settle the…

Tim Dowling: After 35 years in the UK, I’m still getting lost in translation
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Tim Dowling: After 35 years in the UK, I’m still getting lost in translation

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Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

Profound lessons from dog training, the story of the Brexit campaign and France’s struggle with heat-trap homes
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Profound lessons from dog training, the story of the Brexit campaign and France’s struggle with heat-trap homes

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Philip, 74, an antiquarian book dealer, meets Carol, 66, who is retiredWhat were you hoping for? Reciprocated love at first sight (I don’t ask for much in this life). To meet a kindred spirit who might even become a partner. Continue reading...

Blind date: ‘She seemed to like me, but I’ve been wrong about this kind of thing before’
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Blind date: ‘She seemed to like me, but I’ve been wrong about this kind of thing before’

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Last month she had a post-defeat meltdown and insisted she was done with tennis. On the eve of Wimbledon, she talks about what really happened – and why her ‘aggressive’ face gives people the wrong impressionIt’s less than a month since Aryna Sabalenka told the world that she felt like walking away from…

‘I understand why some people think I’m a bitch’: world no 1 Aryna Sabalenka on screaming, stunt matches, and why she’s much nicer off court
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‘I understand why some people think I’m a bitch’: world no 1 Aryna Sabalenka on screaming, stunt matches, and why she’s much nicer off court

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As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment? Continue reading...

Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown
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Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

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A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fansLike many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got lucky. So he was…

Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please
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Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please

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Activists aim to repeat disruption of Jeff Bezos’s wedding when billionaire Tilman Fertitta drops anchorProtesters in Venice are planning to disrupt a visit by the billionaire US ambassador to Italy in his 117-metre superyacht, which they fear he plans to dock in the lagoon city.“We ruined the party for Jeff…

Venice protest planned for US ambassador’s superyacht visit
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Venice protest planned for US ambassador’s superyacht visit

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