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25 May 2012

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Long Live the Queen... Of Good Dog Training?

Anna Jane Grossman
Anna Jane Grossman

Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this year. The event marks a milestone in one of the life of one of the most famous dog owners in the world. Her Royal Lizness has always been pretty prim and private. But when it comes to her dog obsession, she's relatively...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Maria Elia
Maria Elia

Tasteful Adventures

I'm blessed that the career I chose to follow allows me to travel and participate in some amazing projects around the world. Cooking is something I've dreamt about from the age of four and many years on I'm happily living my dream as a chef.

This Spring I had the...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Iain Anderson
Iain Anderson

Great British Business - We Can Still Do It

Normally you see me writing for HuffPostUK on politics. I'm told in LA they call it "showbusiness for ugly people."

This week I managed to break out of my political space and attend a rather more glamorous launch. Not a politician to be seen!

...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
The Reverend Jennie Hogan
The Reverend Jennie Hogan

The Art of Ink is Back

The art of ink is back. The creative act of the cursive script with lavish loops and lines bleeding into textured paper is returning to true desktops all over the world. Pen makers and stationers are seeing a significant increase in sales of fountain pens.

In the past five...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Lucy Meadmore
Lucy Meadmore

Like a Virgin...

WARNING: This post contains content that some may find offensive.

I recently found myself in a situation. It involved a boy and it involved sex, but that's where the familiarity stopped. We met a while ago; there was A LOT of excellent snogging, some drinks and...it's never been anything more...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall

Women Make Other Women's Work Life Balance More Difficult

It's a fact: no man can ever come close to judging women's parenting and work choices as harshly as other women. I've just been writing a TV adaptation of my novels that - apparently unusually for a male author - feature a hard working woman as the central character (Jenny...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Scottee
Scottee

Gay Marriage - An Issue of Conscience

The man in charge of the land of the free (not Donald Trump) rocked up to ABC News earlier this month and told America gay marriage should be legal. Earlier this week the leader of this great country had a spokesperson issue a statement declaring gay marriage was a government...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
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Peter Shakeshaft
Peter Shakeshaft

Russian Thirst for Fine Wine

For many of us, the mere mention of alcohol and Russia evokes stereotypical images of heavy drinking Muscovites, consuming large amounts of vodka, in smoky bars at sub-zero temperatures; and although Russians have always had a close affinity for alcohol, this is far from the truth.

Wine consumption has increased...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Charlotte Friedman
Charlotte Friedman

The Summer Time Blues

Summer is looming on the horizon and the usual applications for summer holiday contact are piling up on lawyer's desks and in the lists of County Courts up and down the land. Mediators are beginning to see their first lot of seasonal cases based on how much time children should...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
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Ellee Seymour
Ellee Seymour

Wendii's DIY Funeral for Her Mother

I had no idea about burials laws until coming across Wendii Miller, a Cambridge graduate, who carried out her own DIY burial for her 98-year-old mother Doris, even digging the grave after collecting her corpse from Grimsby Hospital mortuary and driving her mother's remains back to a burial...

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  • Posted 24 May 2012
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Oliver Childs
Oliver Childs

Tobacco Firms Have Failed to Act on Radioactivity in Cigarettes - Here's Why

It's a plot worthy of Hollywood - a fatal radioactive poison, secret documents, suppressed information, and drugs.

But this isn't fiction. This is the story of the tobacco industry's knowledge, policy and inaction around radioactive material in cigarette smoke. And how it took a painstaking search through thousands of court-ordered...

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  • Posted 24 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Andrew Wasley
Andrew Wasley

Where Does Your Salad Come From?

Exploitation in the food industry is alive and well. That's according to the latest grim report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which studied the experiences of some of the migrant workers (almost invisibly) toiling in our fields, factories and restaurants.

According to the report's authors, who interviewed more than...

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  • Posted 24 May 2012
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Barbara Frost
Barbara Frost

Ringo Starr Brings Flower Power to WaterAid's Chelsea Garden

A Beatle is a gardener's best friend after all, as Ringo Starr paid us the amazing honour of opening the 'Herbert Smith Garden for WaterAid' at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 on Monday.

The Beatles legend has been a WaterAid supporter since 2003, and understands better than most the...

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  • Posted 25 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Dr. Sohom Das
Dr. Sohom Das

Being Admitted to a Psychiatric Ward - The Experience and the Process

I recently watched a film - a terrible film - which had an archaic, grotesque depiction of life in a psychiatric ward. I won't tell you what film, as I do not wish to promulgate my disdain for it. After I recovered from the boredom, I woke up, wiped dribble...

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  • Posted 23 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
BritChick Paris
BritChick Paris

I'm 38 and Want a Baby - Is it Too Late?

Some of you may have read my blog about having a miscarriage and then being too scared to try again.

I'm finally fully embracing the idea but very soon I turn 39. All through my thirties I thought I was bobbing along fancy-free and young at heart. Now the...

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  • Posted 23 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Toby Lichtig
Toby Lichtig

Not on our Streets

"Buy Sex - Pay the Price," scream the posters in Brixton Tube. A silhouette of a shady man stands underneath the headline, moodily checking his mobile phone. "Lambeth Council and Lambeth police are targeting those who buy sex," explains the blurb, helpfully reminding commuters that "Prostitution is a form of...

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  • Posted 23 May 2012
  • UK
Peter Watt
Peter Watt

Let's Talk About Sex(ting)

The NSPCC published a very worrying piece of research earlier this month on 'sexting'. I say worrying because it gave an insight into the sorts of pressures that young people are under to take part in sexting. And that got me thinking about just how seriously this issue...

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  • Posted 23 May 2012
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Greg Jenner
Greg Jenner

Why the Queen Makes It Hard to Be a Republican

This week, many Arsenal fans experienced a strange sense of internal conflict. With resentment in their eyes, and confusion in their hearts, they found themselves cheering on their bitter rivals, Chelsea, in the Champions League Final. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", says the Arabian proverb, and a...

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  • Posted 23 May 2012
  • UK
Ashleigh Brown
Ashleigh Brown

Wall Eyed at Waterloo

Anyone who entertains a complex based on the idea that computers will become self-aware and start taking over the world has undoubtedly been labeled neurotic in days gone by. Science fiction's multimedia warnings have been discredited under the banner of playful nonsense. Countless depictions of a dystopian future, riddled with...

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  • Posted 24 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
Ella Krasner
Ella Krasner

Yachts Without Crew vs Crimean Sea Scorpions

Arkady and I usually go somewhere hot at Easter, so invited friends Mikhail Alexeievich and Maria to join us in the Carribean. However, being Jewish, they can't come because it's Passover, so they're going to visit some Russian friends in Israel.

Instead we invited Nika and Vasiliy Vasiliyevech....

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  • Posted 24 May 2012
  • UK Lifestyle
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