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Giorgio Locatelli’s recipe for pasta con le sarde – pasta with sardines, anchovies, fennel, raisins and pine nuts

With Arab flavourings like saffron, plus fennel and anchovies from the island itself, this dish sums up Sicily

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022

Abel Selaocoe: ‘As an African cellist, I’ve always been looking for a home’

The electrifying, township-born musician on attending South Africa’s Eton, moving to Manchester and feeling Bach’s groove

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022

Brenda Hale: ‘There’s absolutely no need to scrap the Human Rights Act’

The former supreme court president on the government’s Rwanda plan, her star status among law students and her latest brooch

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022

Between port bombings and air raid sirens, life in Odesa goes on

The new grain deal should help the Black Sea port’s economy – but existence has been hollowed out by the pressure of war

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2022

Child vaping risks becoming ‘public health catastrophe’ in UK, experts warn

There are fears that the e-cigarette boom has the potential to create a generation of young people hooked on nicotine

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2022

The curious case of the Russian JCB dealer and the millionaire

Questions have arisen over sales of the British diggers in Russia after sanctions over the war in Ukraine descended

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2022

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

The Guardian - AU · Jul 22, 2022

‘Strap in and enjoy the ride’: behind the scenes at Jean Paul Gaultier’s wild fashion musical

The kilt-wearing, Madonna-dressing fashion legend and Eurotrash star has seen it all. Now his fabulous life is being turned into a riotous revue

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

Repair works to begin next month on collapsed bridge ten months after it closed

Work to repair a crumbling bridge near Croftamie is to finally begin next month, ten months after the route was shut. Traders and villagers have been left frustrated by the amount of time the Catterburn Bridge, on the A809, has been out of bounds, w

Daily Record · Jul 22, 2022

Balmaha drivers warned over parking charges after £100 fine sparks panic

Clare Henderson's daughter visited the car park for an hour late at night to witness the sunset over Loch Lomond.

Daily Record · Jul 21, 2022