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SUMMER ESCAPE

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GO WITH THE FLOW

SOUNDS OF SOUTH AFRICA

WIMBLEDON HOPES

EXPLORING THE CAPITAL’S CANALS

GOLDFISH COME TO TOWN

SAM STOSUR TALKS UP HER CHANCES

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EDITOR’S LETTER They say the sun will be shining this week so it’s time to get outside. High on the list of activities should be a trip to Wimbledon (see page 54 for our interview with Samantha Stosur). If you can’t take a whole day off work, duck out of the office at about 3pm one afternoon and line up for a ground pass – I promise it’ll be the most polite queue you’ll ever stand in.

You could also explore London’s canals (see page 12), and if you’re looking for the best beer gardens in town check out tntonline. co.uk/londonlife.

78 São Paulo: feel the beat in Brazil

63 TRAVEL

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9 LONDON 9 London Eye 10 London Life 12 WATER WAY TO GO: Discover the charm of London’s canals 14 Food & Drink 16 Spotted

19 ENTERTAINMENT 19 20 22 23 24

Celebrity News Look Who’s Talking: Eric Bogle Cinema Culture TO A DIFFERENT BEAT: Tom Tom Crew mix it up at Udderbelly 26 TNT Life

28 MUSIC & CLUBS 28 Music 30 THE MIDAS TOUCH: SA electronic duo Goldfish play in London 32 Music Listings 34 Clubbing 35 Clubbing Listings

64 Best beaches near London

36 NEWS & SPORT 36 38 40 43 44 46 48 51 52 54

Australia News New Zealand News South Africa News The week in sport Rugby NRL AFL Cricket General THE GRASS IS GREENER: Aussie Samantha Stosur on Wimbledon

63 Global Vision 64 BEACH BALL: Spend a day by the sea in southern England 66 TNTT Weekender: Vienna 69 Late Deals 70 BEACH BREAKS: Where to surf and sunbathe in France 72 Hotshots 74 Travel Tips 75 Travel News 76 On The Road 77 Gear Up 78 SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM: Sway to the samba in São Paulo 12 Cruise by London’s canals

57 CAREERS & MONEY 57 Careers 59 HEAL THE WORLD: There’s more to nursing than working in a hospital 60 Money 61 Coming & Going

REGULARS 54 Samantha Stosur’s Wimbledon dreams

4 Letters 6 Wins 138 Desperately Seeking & Dear Reuben

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It has great travel advice and, actually, great advice on so many things from arriving to going back home again!

But that won’t be for a while for me – you have really inspired me to make this an adventure and stay in Scotland as long as I can.

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CRUNCH TIME Yes, all this credit crunch business sucks but there is some good that has come out of it. Here are some benefits I’ve got out of the recession.

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Ed: Concerning, maybe.

Pathetic? No. Just to ramp up the excitement even more, keep an eye out for our bumper Ashes edition of TNT on Monday, July 6.

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Recently an article on news.com.au said that more Aussies than ever were coming to London to live, work and travel despite the global recession.

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COMMUNITY CORNER EAT MEAT, TALK CRICKET The Britain-Australia Society is holding a celebration of cricket barbecue this week.

It will be attended by former Australian cricketer Rodney Hogg. There will be plenty of good food and wine available and raffles

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KENWOOD HOUSE PICNIC CONCERTS FROM £25 WHAT: Live concerts by Ray Davies, James Morrison, the Gipsy Kings and Jools Holland, among others, performed in the open air in the grounds of Kenwood House in north London.

WHEN: June 27-August 2.

DO IT BECAUSE: Treat yourself to an evening of fine music in the sumptuous parkland surrounds of Kenwood House, one of the finest stately estates in England – and you can explore surrounding Hampstead Heath beforehand. There are also concerts at Audley End in Essex (about an hour from London).

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Capital idea: St James’s Park St James’s Park is only minutes from some of the biggest tourist attractions in London but its genteel tranquillity means it’s a fine destination in its own right.

The park is a magnificent oasis of grassy areas, trees and picturesque shrubberies, and a great place to escape the surrounding hubbub. It’s a far cry from the 13th century, when the area housed a hospital for women with leprosy. These days the only illness is likely to come from

a mangy squirrel. Tourists seem to love having these rats with bushy tails eat out of their hands. Yuck.

Renting a deckchair (£1.50 for two hours) is recommended, especially on weekends when brass bands do their thing in free afternoon concerts. Stalls sell reasonably priced drinks and snacks. DANIEL LANDON

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BRITAIN EXPLAINED WIMBLEDON’S ONGOING TRADITIONS In an age when almost every big event has loads of sponsors and corporate backers, and opens its doors to all to attract support, it’s rare to find something that eschews all this for its oldschool traditions.

At Wimbledon there are no Pepsi or Coke billboards, no Nokia or Sony plug-in zones, blokes

are known as gentlemen and sheilas as ladies, players can only wear white clothes, they use old-fashioned grass courts, and strawberries with cream are still the most popular food.

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KAYAKING AND CANOEING During summer there are few better ways to

explore London’s canals than by going for a paddle in a kayak or canoe.

The Regents Canoe Club in Islington has monthly open evenings (£5) for non-members and introductory sessions for beginners (£10). (regentscanoeclub.co.uk) Thames River Adventures offers tours along Regent’s Canal as well as the Thames, (thamesriveradventures.co.uk), while the Pirate Castle (thepiratecastle.org) in Camden Town, though mainly a youth club, has evening sessions twice a week when you can jump in a canoe for only a fiver.

DIY BOAT TRIP Canal holidays are a popular holiday choice in Britain – there are hire locations and routes all over the country, including London. Prices start

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Summer’s a grea t time to hit the canals

lthough the River Thames hogs all the glory as London’s most famous waterway, it’s not the only bit of water snaking its way through the capital.

London is also home to mile upon mile of canals that are great for exploring by boat, or on foot or bicycle along their adjacent towpaths.

Canals began being built across the UK in earnest in the 18th century to transport goods.

Until steam power the boats were hauled along by horses on the riverbank – hence the term towpath. But their usefulness was soon eclipsed by the invention of railways, and they’re rarely used for transport these days.

Here are the best ways to check ‘em out.

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from about £500 for a two-berth boat for a week (see canalholidays.com). Or convince your boss to hire a canal boat for a party. Prices start from £160 per hour (see londoncanalcruises.com; beauchamplodge.co.uk; or floatingboater.co.uk).

CYCLING AND WALKING – NORTH The 13km Regent’s Canal, from Little Venice to Limehouse, is the pick of canals in London. It starts at the genteel Little Venice, but there’s no towpath until just before Regent’s Park, where you’ll pass huge stately homes and get a free peek at London Zoo’s aviary.

On weekends Camden Lock is hugely crowded but a great spot to grab a bite to eat.

After King’s Cross is the 878m Islington tunnel, so you’ll have to meander through Angel itself.

After the Narrow Boat pub in Islington you’ll come to the half-grungy, half-gentrified De Beauvoir Town, before reaching Victoria Park.

The path then continues to the Thames at Limehouse Basin.

Regent ’s The River Thames and plenty of fun Canal (above) offer

of parts of the capital you might not otherwise see. It runs from Little Venice, past Kensal Green cemetery (worth a look) and Southall (the best curries in London) to the Grand Union Canal itself at Hayes.

The towpath along the Grand Union Canal starts at Brentford and heads to the far west of London, to an area of canals and lakes officially known as Little Britain, on to Uxbridge and then north to Birmingham.

How about a houseboat in Little Venice?

CYCLING AND WALKING – EAST The path alongside the curiously named River Lee Navigation starts just near the Bromley-By-Bow Tube station.

After running north through Hackney Marsh and Walthamstow Marshes and then past a whole bunch of reservoirs, it’s only 8km or so until you’re past the M25 and into Essex, some wide open spaces and the Lee Valley Park.

CYCLING AND WALKING – WEST The 23km Paddington Branch of the Grand Union Canal provides an interesting snapshot

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GRAND UNION PADDINGTON BRANCH

Camden Lock

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MUST-DO LONDON FUN The 45-minute canal boat trip from Camden Lock to Little Venice (or vice versa) is a great way to while away an afternoon.

Jason’s Trip runs each way (£7.50 one way, £8.50 return); the London Waterbus Company (londonwaterbus.co.uk) does the same (£6.50/£9.30) and also stops at the Zoo; while Walker’s Quay (walkersquay.com) does return trips from Camden (£8.50).

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Camden Lock is “ a great spot to grab a bite to eat ”

A decade or two ago it was only out-there types who’d live in a canal boat or houseboat, but these days it’s all the rage.

There’s not a huge range available, but you can rent a one-bedroom boat from about £250 per week. A studio aboard a bigger boat is from about £150 per week.

On board you’ll get running water, electricity and a flushing toilet.

You can buy a boat for as little as £5000 but you’ll need somewhere to moor it – it can cost £7000 a year to rent a mooring.

A typical boat and residential mooring package starts from £50-80k, up to a cool million for something fit for a rock star.

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the food at this cosy, gourmet London hideaway.

THE GRUB It could be loosely described as traditional English fare with a modern twist, as well as bits and pieces borrowed from other parts of the world. The king prawns with chilli and garlic are fresh and exquisitely prepared – in general, the seafood is top notch. The

roast loin of pork with apple sauce is also delicious.

BEHIND THE BAR A great selection of Antipodean and European wines, but they start at £19 a bottle.

BILL PLEASE A starter and a main will cost you about £22.

VERDICT A must-visit for special occasions, or if someone else is paying.

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Stroll along the Thames from Waterloo to Tower Bridge, stopping for a drink or a meal along the way.

IN NEED OF A DRINK For the best view of the river and the City, you can’t beat the Oxo Tower Bar (Bargehouse St, SE1 9PH). If you want a bit of history, the George Inn (Borough High St, SE1 1NH), now owned by the National Trust, was once a coaching inn in the 1600s; it features in Charles Dickens’ novel Little Dorrit. Or squeeze into the Gladstone Arms (Lant St, SE1 1QN) and enjoy a pint while listening to live music.

GRAB SOME GRUB There are many options to choose from at Sir Terence Conran’s ‘gastrodome complex’, from thoroughly British fare at Butlers Wharf Chop House (Shad Thames, SE1 2YE), to the Design Museum’s Blueprint Café (Shad Thames, SE1 2YD). And

OF THE BEST: JAZZ VENUES Pizza On The Park Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LY Near by Hyde Park Corner, this upmarket Pizza Express offers live jazz through the week, which you’ll have to buy a ticket for.

Borough Market

a table at the Hope And Anchor (The Cut, SE1 8LP) is well worth the wait if you’re after excellent gastro grub.

FILL YOUR BAG Nothing beats a foodie trip to Borough Market (off Borough

High St) where stalls piled high with delicious treats will get the juices flowing. Look out for the Summer Slow Food Markets happening outside the Southbank Centre on July 10-12 and August 4-6, where there will be plenty of produce.

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the Gallery Restaurant with an Aussie-inspired menu created by Michelin-starred chefs Shane Osborn and Brett Graham. Plus stock up on ingredients from Down Under from the Food Hall.

For more information see selfridges.com.

One of the highlights of

the festival is a tasting led

by UK wine writer Matthew Jukes, who will share his 100 Best Australian Wines on Tue, Jun 30, at Australia House from 6pm-9pm.

Tickets are £17.50 for a single and £30 for two. Email rsvp@wineaustralia.com for more information.

Eccleston St, SW1W 9LX The Scottishthemed Macdonald Bar has late-night jazz from the ’30s to the ’50s on Mondays to Saturdays, to match its oldfashioned elegance.

Le Quecumbar Battersea High St, SW11 3HX Gypsy jazz from a time gone by and a glass of wine on the patio make this perfect for a sultry summer evening.

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As part of the week-long G’Day UK festival, which kicks off on Wed, Jun 24, Selfridges and Wine Australia will host an array of Aussie food and wine treats.

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NEW ZEALAND Woman’s Weekly: Exclusive pictures and the full story behind actress Tupele Dorgu’s wedding.

David Bain finds love after his not guilty verdict. Plus a look at Prince Harry’s latest squeeze, UK TV presenter Caroline Flack.

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I ROVE YOU: Aussie TV host Rove McManus married former Blue Heelers actress Tasma Walton in a beach ceremony in Broome, Western Australia, last week. “The day was everything we hoped for: simple, quiet and intimate, in a beautiful Broome landscape with a small group of family and close friends celebrating beside us,” Walton said.

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Actress Jessica Alba escaped vandalism charges after she was caught plastering posters about declining shark numbers all over Oklahoma City.

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A BAD WEEK FOR

R’n’B superstar Usher has filed for divorce less than two years after his wedding to Tameka Foster Raymond. The couple have two children together.

TALES FROM THE HOOD Russell Crowe made headlines for his diva-like behaviour on the set of Robin Hood.

Apparently Crowe doesn’t want to stay in Wales, where the movie is being filmed, and has demanded a helicopter picks him up from Windsor each morning and returns him at night, The Mirror reported.

Tensions are said to be

SAY WHAT?

”No we didn’t get along. I’m not going to lie and bullshit you.”

Transformers actress Megan Fox confesses she’s not a fan of Lindsay Lohan.

It really feels great to have won an international photo competition and also know that my work has been a part of a London exhibition.

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high between Crowe and his long-time collaborator, director Ridley Scott. An insider revealed producers had to be flown in because the pair won’t talk to each other.

Separately, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced that Crowe will receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame during 2010.

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OK!: Home and Away star Lincoln Lewis admits to filming a sex tape.

Meanwhile, his Channel 7 colleague Jodi Gordon returns to work after an embarrassing week of hitting the headlines for her wild partying. Model Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom head to Broome for a holiday. Plus Cameron Diaz talks about love, life and death.

SOUTH AFRICA YOU: Former footballer Lucas Radebe reveals his kids keep him strong as he talks about death, being a single dad and dating in his first interview since losing his wife. An exclusive interview with The Bold And The Beautiful’s Eileen Davidson, who dishes the dirt on her boys, pets and surfing with the stars. Plus the hottest Confed Cup hunks are rated as football fever takes over.

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Eric Bogle The Scottish-born Aussie folk singer on Blair, barbecues and his anti-war song And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda …

INTERVIEW ALISON GRINTER

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Your most famous songs are inspired by the horrors of World War I. What fascinates you about that war?

When I was 12 years old I bought a series of books called World War I Illustrated for about 50 pence. And I’ve still got them, I brought them to Australia … Plus our grandmother had photos of two brothers on the mantelpiece who died in the war – they both died in France – so, you know, it was such a pivotal point in human history that I became involved in it.

Have you ever been to Gallipoli?

No, I’ve been to the Western Front a few times. I remember the first time I saw the ossuary at Dorgdogne, where they keep the bones of the 40,000 French soldiers.

And just walking around the graveyard and seeing the ages of the wee boys buried there. If you’re not affected in some way then you’re not human.

You’ve still got the Scottish accent haven’t you?

What?! [Laughs] I thought I sounded

YOU DON’T SAY?

What would your superpower be?

To wave my hand and melt every weapon in the world instantly.

What’s the best costume you’ve worn to a fancy dress party?

I was dragooned into a fancy dress party on the ship coming across to Australia – six weeks on a ship and you get bored shitless. I got a bunch of knickers, pinned them to my chest and went as a chest of drawers.

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Your songs have been covered by the likes of Joan Baez and The Pogues. Do you have a favourite version?

Well my favourite version of And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is by June Tabor who’s a wonderful traditional English singer. The Pogue’s version is in my top

I probably “ sound as broad as a haggis ” three. He [Shane McGowan] sings it with the right amount of anger and bitterness, which the song deserves, because he’s an angry, bitter, drunken shithead – so he couldn’t sing it any other way!

Were you surprised when former PM Tony Blair presented the lyrics of your song No Man’s Land to a young girl

in Belfast prior to instigating the peace process in Northern Ireland?

Well I was surprised and I thought, well he obviously hasn’t listened to the fuckin’ song – otherwise there wouldn’t be British soldiers in Iraq fighting a useless fucking war and dying … but I was surprised he knew of the song, and the song actually spoke to him. It gives me a little hope that there might be more depth to the man than I thought in the first place.

And then the next day The Times newspaper printed that you were a dead World War I soldier!

[Laughs] Yes, and as I lay bleeding in the trenches I scrawled the lyrics in blood.

It’s a really great story and I wish it had happened … But the truth is more prosaic.

You also wrote The Aussie Barbecue Song. What’s your barbecue speciality?

My speciality is getting someone else to do it. I’ve never been a great one for eating outside among the flies and heat.

So you’re not a dinky di Aussie, even after all these years?

Well I don’t like cricket and I hate fuckin’ barbecues. But no, I’ve been an Australian citizen since 1982. My wife is Australian, my dogs are Australian. My home is here.

I’m an Ostraayaan.

» At James Theatre, Rickmansworth Rd WD18 7JF Watford (ericbogle.net).

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What song is always guaranteed to get you on the dance floor?

Great Balls Of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis – God I’m showing my age here.

like an Ostraayaaan! It’s strange because to you I probably sound as broad as a haggis. But when I go back to Scotland people say to me: ‘Geez, you sound just like Chips Rafferty, son’. It’s all in the ear.

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CINEMA Year One

SCREEN TEST: JACK BLACK

Jack Black, Michael Cera, Hank Azaria

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★★★★★

With so many great comics – Jack Black, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd, Hank Azaria, Harold Ramis – putting their heads together to make Year One, you’d expect it to be a singular pleasure.

Sadly, this biblical comedy is less than the sum of its parts due to a lame script that’s depressingly low on genuinely funny moments.

This despite a premise that has a lot of comedic potential.

Lambasted for being rubbish at hunting and gathering, cavemen Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) head out into the unknown to start a new life. Their bumbling trip brings them into contact with a series of Old Testament figures including knife-happy Abraham (Azaria) and his son Isaac (Christopher MintzPlasse), as well as bickering brothers Cain (David Cross)

1 What is Jack Black’s comedy rock band called?

2 What is the name of the high-kicking comical cartoon character Black recently voiced?

3 Here’s the quote: “Hey buddy, I’m out of the bowl.

I’m drying off my wings and trekking across the lid.”

Now name the movie.

4 Which controversial music video features Black getting smashed in a motel room?

5 In which film does Black have a small role as Beatle Paul McCartney?

and Abel (Rudd). But what should have been one of the sharpest religious satires since Life Of Brian turns out to be rather toothless.

With director Ramis clearly afraid of offending the Bible brigade in America, the film

takes the low-brow route and resorts to brainless scatological humour. Year One is ultimately a waste of top talent.

GOOD FOR: Those who get a kick out of watching a man eat shit. PIERRE DE VILLIERS

THE REEL DEAL Beautiful Kate director Rachel Ward encouraged starlets to get their kit off to get ahead in the cut-throat film industry.

“If you’re going to be an actress in film, you can’t be coy,” Ward told The Sunday Telegraph.

“Breasts are sexy.

I want to see them and audiences want to see them ... We don’t want to see willies because they’re ugly.”

Ward (left) also said she wished she’d got naked more often as a young actress and the issue was something her actress daughter Matilda “is having to think about.”

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS 1 Ray Charles 2 I’m Not There 3 Jake La Motta 4 Six 5 Richard Nixon LAST WEEK’S WINNER Sam Struthers

SUNSHINE CLEANING

★★★★★ Amy Adams is sensational as a single mom who, in an effort to send her son to private school, starts a crime-scene clean-up service with her sister (Emily Blunt) in this charming comedy-drama by Kiwi director Christine Jeffs. It’s a bit low on gallows humour, but Alan Arkin is in great form as a scheming grandad.

GOOD FOR: Fans of Little Miss Sunshine. PDV

TENDERNESS

★★★★★ Russell Crowe plays a cop on the trail of a teenage psychopath (Jon Foster) he is convinced is about to kill in Aussie director John Polson’s infuriatingly sluggish drama.

The build-up is intriguing but some ridiculous twists and characters you just don’t care about weigh down a film that not even Russ can save.

GOOD FOR: Diehard Rusty fans. PDV

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A British prison flick beat three home-grown dramas to win the illustrious $60,000 first prize at the Sydney Film Festival last week.

Bronson, a film about Britain’s most violent prisoner Charles Bronson, beat strong competition from Steve Jacob’s Disgrace, based on the Booker-winning novel by author JM Coetzee; Khoa Do’s Missing Water, about a Vietnamese refugee; and Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate, about a writer visiting his dying father.

For a chance to win two tickets from Vue email answers to grabs@tntmagazine.com by noon on Wednesday with ‘Cinema’ in the subject line.

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CULTURE SISTER ACT It seems like the West End is inundated with movies made into musicals at the moment, and Sister Act is the latest in the line-up.

Following the same plot as the film, singer Deloris Van Cartier (Patina Miller) seeks police protection after witnessing a murder, and is placed in a convent under the rule of Mother Superior (a staid Sheila Hancock), where she transforms the choir and the nuns’ lives.

Unlike the movie though, the tunes are not a clever ecclesiastical take on pop hits, but are a new score by Alan Menken in keeping with

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SEE THIS: Stage the production’s ’70s setting.

It’s not original stuff, but the show’s costumes, Miller’s powerful voice, and the feelgood vibe (Julia Sutton’s Sister Mary Lazarus is a hoot) make Sister Act frivolous entertainment at its best.

JANINE JORGENSEN

» London Palladium, Argyll

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WORTH A LOOK Catch a double bill of comedy with Latin! Or Tobacco And Boys, Stephen Fry’s classic tale of public school

buggery and blackmail, and Last Drinks, the world premiere of a play about four motley boozers by Aussie playwright Duncan Ley » The Cock Tavern Theatre, Kilburn High Rd, NW6 6JH

EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

BOOK OF THE WEEK

ABSTRACT AMERICA

TRAVEL AS A POLITICAL ACT

★★★★★

You’ll need to be a fan of the most abstract of abstract art to get the most out of these sculptures, paintings and installations by 35 US artists.

While there are some stunning pieces, such as a pianist made of blue tarpaulin and huge plaster cast figures,

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Kilburn Park (0844 477 1000; cocktaverntheatre.com). Jun 23-Jul 11. £12

there isn’t the visual punch of Saatchi’s former survey of Arab art, and there are plenty of WTF moments – not the least Gedi Sibony’s packing crate, masquerading as art.

DANIEL LANDON

» Saatchi Gallery, King’s Rd, SW3 4SQ Sloane Square (saatchi-gallery.co.uk). Until Sep 13. Free

I’m sure Rick Steves is very charming in person. The blurb even reveals his “charming, winning persona” has made the author and TV presenter America’s favourite travel guide. The problem is, coming new to him through this book, it doesn’t come across.

As he recounts tale after tale in order to show the reader how travel can broaden the mind (not really a new idea, is it?) he comes across as the kind of ‘been everywhere’ traveller

who hogs dinner table chat and starts every sentence with “In Africa …”

Yes, Travel As A Political Act is well-researched, the history accessible, and the layout and black and white photos endearing, but sentences like “I’m not condemning cruise vacations. I’m simply saying I don’t consider that activity ‘travel’,” made this travel writer want to lock herself in a lower deck cabin for a six-month round-the-world cruise just to spite him.

Maybe his usual audience needs to be told how to travel, but for most of us he’s preaching to the converted, in a baby voice. AMY ADAMS

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TO A T N E R E F F I D BEAT ers Aussie perform are Tom Tom Crew diences u a w o w to t e s with at Udderbelly usic their mix of m c talent and acrobati EL WORDS DANI

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rocodile Dundee might have done wonders for tourism in outback Australia, but it didn’t do much for the country’s cultural and artistic image.

But if there’s one group trying to show just how diverse and innovative Australian music and performance can get, that group is Tom Tom Crew.

A blend of never-say-die drumming and percussion, powerhouse beatboxing and scratching, and gravity-defying acrobatics all merged into a furious and

adrenaline-pumping mash-up of visual and musical action, Tom Tom Crew are one of the star attractions of the Udderbelly season (see right) this summer.

Drummer Ben Walsh says audiences are both blown away and fascinated by the relentless nature of the group’s shows.

“People love it because they feel the passion and that we’re not just going: ‘Oh yeah, we’ll just do a show, whatever’. We’re really trying 110 per cent.

“And we’re not up there doing a kangaroo

Far more than kangaroo dancing and didgeridoos

dance and playing a didgeridoo – audiences are like: ‘Wow, that’s Australian urban arts, that’s amazing’.

“A lot of people have that archaic Crocodile Dundee image. But Australia has incredible hip-hop musicians, amazing electronic music, and amazing breakdancers and circus artists – we are on an artistic level good enough to be on the world stage.”

People love it “ because they feel the passion ” VISUAL FEAST Tom Tom Crew’s blend of visual and musical elements is what’s needed to entice audiences these days, Walsh says.

“People are so used to things blowing up and CGI-dominated DVDs now, so when you’re doing a live show you have to give people a real reason to come and watch it.”

Which is where four acrobats hurling themselves 6m up in the air, doing back flips and loads of circus-style acts comes in.

“We’ve got four guys doing seven routines, seven different styles of circus,” he says. “They’re really pushing themselves to the limit.

“So when we’ve finished a show – the sheer physical decathlon of the show – the audience is there with us, on their feet.

“With such an over-stimulated society these days you really have to push it to the limit.

That’s the kind of vibe we create, we’ve

taken a whole bunch of really strong, fantastic elements and smashed them together.”

BANG THAT DRUM The lifeblood of the show is Walsh’s drumming from his self-made 360˚ drum kit, which allows him to strike a beat on his upstroke as well as the downstroke, making for ever-faster drumming.

Alongside him are the 2005 world champion beatboxer Tom Thum, and DJ Dizz1.

“The music wraps around what the acrobats are doing,” Walsh says. “Sometimes it happens in a literal sense and they’re tumbling and flipping and I’m drumming the rhythms of their body as they’re moving, and sometimes we’re providing fat dub-step beats or huge, booming hip-hop music or a bit of jungle.

“It gives the acrobatics and circus skills a fresh soundtrack and makes it accessible to everyone. You have to put the right soundtrack to it to make it work.

“If you do get hip-hop, dub-step and know your urban music, you can hear the references and get all the gags. But even if you don’t know anything about them or particularly like them, you can appreciate the skill and passion.”

Can you stomach this udderly great event?

Udderbelly is a 406capacity touring venue in the shape of an upsidedown purple cow. It’s at Southbank until July 19, with a diverse range of acts.

Some of the highlights: THE CAT’S MEOW: CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN A variety show including music, circus, dance and theatre, hosted by the fabulous O’Sullivan.

Jun 27. £18 BEARDYMAN’S COMPLETE AND UDDER SHAMBLES Beatboxing maestro Beardyman joins his mates for an eclectic collaboration.

Jul 6&13. £14 4 POOFS AND A PIANO See how camp comedy song and dance can get.

Jun 30-Jul 1. £15 THE BEST OF THE COMEDY STORE A stellar line-up of stand-up comics.

Jun 26, Jul 18. £16 WHY I DON’T HATE WHITE PEOPLE Theatre with a comic edge in Lemn Sissay’s poignant look at race.

Jul 13. £12

» Udderbelly, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX Waterloo (0871 663 2500; underbelly.co.uk).

Until Jul 19. From £14

Camille O’Sullivan

Tom Tom Crew brings Australian urban culture to England

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UDDERBELLY GOES OFF

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MEET THE CREW Alexandra Buchlakova Accounts assistant From: Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia

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Our Alex works hard, studies hard and plays hard!

She despises salad and can’t get through the day without satisfying her sweet tooth or having her Pom Bears.

Exams are over so be sure to see her at the pub, making up for months of studying hibernation … and enjoying scheduled after-hours pub meetings with the bank.

MUSIC BLUR Midlife: A Beginner’s Guide To Blur

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(Parlophone)

★★★★★ Given the speed at which the music industry is collapsing, the thinking at the world’s big record labels is: ‘we’d better make as much cash as we can from our catalogue’.

The excuse for Midlife is Blur’s imminent reformation tour, which stands to make the band far more money than this clumsy attempt at summing up their career.

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THE MARS VOLTA

SPINAL TAP

RESIN DOGS

Octahedron

Back From The Dead

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(Hydrofunk Records)

One of those below-theradar bands that sells more records, tickets and T-shirts than you might expect, The Mars Volta have built an impressive fanbase by being, essentially, Muse without the tunes. Octahedron contains more of the same nonsensical lyrics, baffling titles, widdlywiddly guitar solos and OTT musical pyrotechnics that have both highlighted and blighted their four previous records. If this is your sort of thing, you’ll have made their acquaintance already. WFJ

Some 25 years after we first heard it, the joke is just as funny.

But does it really need retelling? Not if the results are as tedious as Back From The Dead, which for the most part is a collection of note-for-note remakes of tracks from the original metalparodying movie. There are a few new songs scattered among the retreads, but even the most generous and easily amused listener may struggle to give them the benefit of the doubt. Cynical, and not in a good way. WFJ

For their latest cut n’ paste project lead Dogs DJ Katch and Dave Atkins applied a revolving door policy to contributing DJs, musos and MCs from around the globe. Despite the mash up of every hip-hop genre imaginable (not to mention the endless parade of talent from LA’s Abstract Rude to the UK’s Demolition Man), this LP is surprisingly cohesive, revelling in urban themes light years from the Resin Dog’s hometown of BrisVegas.

ALISON GRINTER

★★★★★

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SOUNDS OF HOME

NEW ZEALAND

SOUTH AFRICA

NO.1 Boom Boom Pow, Black Eyed Peas MAKING NEWS Jet will release their new album on August 25.

The LP, entitled Shaka Rock, will be released on the band’s newly created Real Horrorshow Records in conjunction with Allen Kovac’s Five Seven Music imprint.

NO.1 Knock You Down, Keri Hilson ft Kanye West MAKING NEWS Veteran Kiwi muso Chris Knox was rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke last week. Knox, best known for his hit Not Given Lightly, was a member of ’70s punk bands The Enemy, Toy Love and Flying Nun-signed duo Tall Dwarfs.

NO.1 Break The Silence, Jason MAKING NEWS Grahamstown’s National Arts Festival Fringe on July 2-11 will boast an eclectic mix of Saffa talent from The Parlotones and Jesse Clegg to guitarists Guy Buttery and Nibs van der Spuy.

Classical, choral and orchestral music will also feature.

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LIVE REVIEW Kings Of Leon O2 Arena June 16 ★★★★★ Even the vast O2 arena doesn’t scare a post Only

By The Night Kings of Leon.

Opening with Closer, as on the album that sent them stratospheric, the Followills seem quite at home.

“We’re just throwing a few songs together,” drawls Caleb. But skipping through your oeuvre for a stadium this size takes guts. The risk pays off. Sex On Fire gets the biggest roar and the likes of California Waiting and Milk aren’t foreign to the crowd. ”This is the best show we’ve played in a long time,” says the once reticent frontman.

These days KoL can draw in the masses, and win them over too. AMY ADAMS

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AUSTRALIA

has form in this department, having previously shovelled out a Radiohead compilation against the group’s wishes.

And as with Radiohead, the compilers have foregone a chronological running order for a names-from-a-hat track listing that doesn’t do the group many favours.

The fragile shuffle of Good Song sits awkwardly between the low-grade Britpop of Chemical World and the gurning Parklife; Stereotypes sounds even more facile next to the dim-lit Trimm Trabb; and She’s So High doesn’t come off well next to anything.

Unnecessary, to say the least.

WILL FULFORD JONES

MUSIC

GIG GUIDE MUSIC & CLUBS

Alison Grinter PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST LIVE MUSIC

GIG OF THE WEEK AC/DC Next time someone gives you stick for being Australian, makes fun of your accent (“bony and piercing” was one description), or calls you a convict, don’t get angry. Don’t even get even. Just calmly point out that if it wasn’t for our earthy (some would call it ‘boganish’) demeanour, we’d never have been able to produce the world’s greatest rock ’n’ roll band. Gratifyingly AC/DC are back in town to unleash timeless anthems such as Let There Be Rock and Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution, and tracks off new album Black Ice.

» Wembley Stadium, HA9 0WS

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Wembley Park

(0870 534 4444). Fri, Jun 26. £55

JAMIE T

HARD ROCK CALLING: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, NEIL YOUNG, THE KILLERS & MORE

Out of all the cheeky, chavvy MCs to emerge from London in recent years, Jamie T is one of the more inventive.

His debut LP Panic Prevention heralded a ramshackle aesthetic, earning him a Mercury Prize nomination in 2007, and his new track Sticks ’N’ Stones is as catchy as anything he’s put out before. Expect a riotous show.

Brought to you by ubiquitous tourist-trap chain Hard Rock Café, this urban festival boasts a superstar line-up. The Killers will headline on Friday while ye olde hippy Neil Young and blue collar rocker The Boss will grace the stage on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

» Electric Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP

» Hyde Park, W2

Camden

Town (0871 2200 260). Wed, Jun 24. £14

Hyde Park Corner (0870 534 4444).

Jun 26-28. £45

BELIEVE THE HYPE THE PEPYS

SOUND BITES

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THE LINE-UP Jamie Bardolph

Taylor (vocals/bass/guitar), Olly Morson (guitar/bass), Chris Olivares-Chandler (percussion) and Hans Thompson (bass/guitar).

HAILS FROM Deptford, East London.

THE BUZZ SO FAR Inspired by sources as diverse as Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and Jamie T, these fuzzy popsters have already established themselves in London’s indie-dom with blistering shows at the Camden Crawl.

They aren’t averse to putting on the odd exhibition/live art installation either, and design their own CD packaging.

THE BAND SAYS “We now seem to live in a society that wants to champion mediocrity. This needs to stop.”

THE CRITICS SAY ”The Pepys’

Speaking of the world’s greatest rock band (see above), AC/DC may be forced to find a new venue for their gigs at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium because the shows clash with the AFL’s precious pre-season.

Never mind that AC/DC haven’t toured Australia in nine years, and the February shows have sold out. The AFL insist they have contractual priority. Buggers.

Cheers To Baby Harlem is a melancholy indiepop classic in the making.

Wistfulness and scratchy guitars have rarely sounded so good.” (Q Magazine) LINK myspace.com/thepepys.

THE PLUG Debut single Cheers

To Baby Harlem out now through NMG Records.

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touch South African duo Goldfish’s commitment to live instrumentation has made them an unexpected hit in clubland WORDS ALISON GRINTER

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ominic Peters of Capetonian electroimprov duo Goldfish is sunning himself in the village square of Ibiza Town.

“I’m actually checking my email,” he reports cheerfully down the phone line. All right for some. “Well, it makes up for all the airports we sit in the rest of the time,” he explains.

Goldfish have reason to be busy jetsetters.

From Brazil to Holland, from Russia to the Balearics – where the band are based for the summer – everyone’s going crazy for their jazzinflected, invented-in-the-moment electro.

And they’ve reached hero status back home in South Africa, where they received a record

eight Sama nominations this year. “No one’s ever done that before,” Peters agrees sheepishly.

“We ended up winning two.”

So just how did the Goldfish juggernaut get under way?

PACHA RESIDENCY The mania kicked off when Peters and Goldfish’s other half David Poole were doing shows in France some years back. On a whim, they jumped on a plane to Ibiza and managed to “blag” a show at Pete Tong’s Café Mambo, where they performed a gig for the DJ superstar.

“He was blown away and was like ‘you guys

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Dominic Peters (right) and David Poole

should come and play at Pacha tonight’. We were like ‘let me check my schedule – oh look, we’re free!’” laughs Peters.

This led to talks with Pacha head honchos, an album deal with the clubbing superbrand, and a summer residency at the hedonistic mecca alongside the likes of Basement Jaxx, Paul Oakenfold and Faithless. That was two years ago, and now the boys are back in Ibiza

Surfing and music “ are the two things that get us excited ”

Ross Hillier, Marek Sikora

for another summer residency and are enjoying all the lovely stuff that comes with it.

“It’s quite a surreal success story for a couple of boys from Cape Town,” muses Peters.

JAZZ ROOTS Indeed, what makes Goldfish’s ascendency in clubland even more remarkable is their background in jazz. Both have masters degrees in jazz from the University of Cape Town.

“We’re musicians not DJs, we’re not really inspired by DJ culture,” says Peters.

“We had this idea to create this concept of combining live instrumentation and all the jazz training we had with the dance and electronica side of things, and it went from there.”

Debut album Perceptions Of Pacha reveals how flawless eclecticism can be in the right hands. Township sounds meld with dance beats and jazz instrumentation. There’s also a languidness to their electro, which is explained

by the fact they are laid-back surfer dudes.

“Surfing and music are pretty much the two things that get us excited,” Peters says.

LONDON CALLING

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC But it’s Goldfish’s exhilarating live act that has really impressed. Described by one critic as like “watching paintball”, Peters and Poole eschew backing tracks to play an array of instruments – double bass, sax, keyboards, flutes, synths – along with compelling visuals to create a multidimensional experience.

“We used to watch DJs and we’d be like, ‘that’s cool playing other people’s music, but how about playing your own music in that style?’” Peters says.

What makes this technique possible is their use of a groovebox, an electronic device known as a ‘band in a box’, which allows them to make loops of sound and play them back on stage.

“It’s the most fun you can have standing up, I reckon – it’s awesome,” Peters chuckles.

“It’s like ‘speed painting’, we set up all the little separate parts and when we play live we mix them up and change depending on how we’re feeling or how the crowd is feeling.

“Once at an outdoor gig the sound system set off the alarms of the cars in the car park, so we turned off the music and recorded the alarms and brought that back into the track,” says Peters. “It’s that instant participatory thing where we’re not playing at people, we’re playing with them.”

Goldfi sh will be taking a break from their hectic schedule to play Toast South Africa at Clapham Common this week.

Joining the electro duo at the festival will be fellow Capetonian and jazz vocalist Sakhile Moleshe, who features on Goldfi sh’s storming tune Fort Knox.

“A lot of people compare him to a kind of Gnarls Barkley sound,” says Peters.

And is Peters looking forward to downing some Saffa tipple? “Yeah!” he says. “It will be great to sample some South African wines and be reminded of home again.”

We have gold tickets to Toast South Africa to give away to one lucky reader and nine mates. See tntonline.co.uk/ competitions for details.

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MUSIC LISTINGS MONDAY 27

SATURDAY 2

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Concern, Mewgatz

Dub Pistols The hip-hop, breakbeat and ska collective use horns and turntables for the performance. Koko, Camden High

The Chicago-based indiepop performer promotes his album Vs Children. The

St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £14.50.

Luminaire, Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7JR (020 7372 7123). Adv £8.50.

Jooks Of Kent, The Nuns The trio play blues and boogie crossed with rock and roll.

Kenny G The saxophonist promotes his album Rhythm And Romance. Royal Albert

The Grosvenor, Sidney Rd, SW9 0TP (020 7733 1799). £5.

Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP (020 7589 8212). £29-£50.

Left With Pictures, My Sad Captains, The Riff Raff

Rosemary Branch Festival: Pete Letanka Trio South

The London-based combo play melodic indie-pop. The

African swing band. Rosemary

Lexington, Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB (020 7837 5371). £6, w/flyer/NUS £5.

Branch Theatre, Shepperton Rd, N1 3DT (020 7704 6665). £10.

Raphael Saadiq The Grammy Award-winning American soul singer and producer plays tracks from his back catalogue.

IndigO2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260). £22.50 & £30.

NOFX American punk-

TNT’S TOP BOOKING

NINE INCH NAILS O2 Arena, Peninsular Sq, SE10 0DX North Greenwich (0870 534 4444). Wed, Jul 15. £32.50 You want to what me like an animal? Trent Reznor’s nihilistic rock vehicle rolls into town this summer. Expect to hear 20 years’ worth of hits.

Chris Wood Acoustic folkrock from the singer-songwriter and guitarist. The Slaughtered Lamb, Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DX (020 7253 1516). £14, concs £12.

rockers. Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT (0905 020 3999). £20.

Gary Moore, Buddy Whittington The veteran guitarist promotes his album, Bad For You Baby Baby.

Hammersmith Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £26.91-£34.26.

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TUESDAY 28

KT Sullivan The vocalist

The Bug, DJ Adrian Sherwood The London outfit

performs the songs of Jerome Kern. Live! On The Park At Pizza

play experimental rock. The

On The Park, Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LY (020 7235 5273). £15 & £25.

Rhythm Factory, Whitechapel Rd, E1 1EW (020 7375 3774). £10.

The Wednesday Night Showcase Acoustic

Easy Star All-Stars The New York four-piece perform covers with a reggae twist. Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £17.50.

Putney, Lower Richmond Rd, SW15 1EU (020 8780 9383). £5.

Sleepercurve, White Light Parade, HK:UK The London

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, Danny Schmidt Folk from the Australian singer-songwriter and her band, including tracks from her album Despite The Snow Snow.

trio play progressive indie-rock to promote their forthcoming EP.

showcase of signed and unsigned acts. The Bullet

Bar, Kentish Town Rd, NW1 8PB (020 7485 6040). £5, w/flyer £4.

And Bar, Dover St, W1S 4LQ (020 7629 9813). £15.

Skinny Molly

Southern US rock band featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Mike Estes. The Half Moon, Half Moon Ln,

THURSDAY 30

The Blockheads The veteran

punk-rockers play their hits. The

Electric Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP (020 7485 9006). £23.50.

The Luminaire, Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7JR (020 7372 7123). £8, adv £6.

Herne Hill, SE24 9HU (020 7274 2733). £12, adv £10.

The Deadly Vibes, The Risk, The Branded

Tarrbaby, Three Times Daily

The American three-piece play country-rock tracks from their album Feels So Good I Wanna Do It Again. Boston Arms, Junction Rd, N19 5QQ (020 7272 8153). £7, concs £5.

Willie Garnett’s Big Band

Gravity, Spector, Gunner Sgt, Continental Train Wreck The outfit play indie-rock songs.

Sax-led swing from the 17-piece.

Bull’s Head, Lonsdale Rd, SW13 9PY (020 8876 5241). £7.

Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, w/flyer £5.

Hope And Anchor, Upper St, N1 1RL (020 7354 1312). £6, concs £4.50.

The Yeah You’s, Meg Hutchinson Alternative duo

Indie-rock trio from Ipswich.

Mike Kintish and Nick Ingram perform electro-rock tracks.

Sam Lewis Soul, blues and folk from the guitarist and his band playing tracks from album Everything You Are.

The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £7.

12 Bar Club, Denmark Place, WC2H 8NL (020 7240 2622). £6.

Okkyung Lee, Christian Marclay, Steve Beresford, John Butcher Experimental

WEDNESDAY 29

Zoot Money’s Surprise Party The veteran blues man

tracks from the New York performer. Cafe Oto, Ashwin

plays his monthly residency.

St, E8 3DL (020 7923 1231). £10.

Bull’s Head, Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, SW13 9PY (020 8876 5241). £10.

James Marsters

Bridgefire, Son Of Bitch Heavy soulful rock four-piece from London. Bull And Gate, Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2TJ (020 8826 5000). £5, concs £4.

Nina Ferro with Boisdale Blue Rhythm Band The Australian jazz singer performs with the outfit. Boisdale Of Belgravia, Eccleston St, SW1W 9LX (020 7730 6922). £12, diners £4.50.

José González The Swedish singer-songwriter plays lo-fi pop.

Hayze, I’m Spartacus, Hipsters Fix, The Blockade The Cavendish Arms, Hartington Rd, SW8 2HJ (020 7627 0698). £5.

Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £8, £7 before 10pm.

The Wolfetones

Brian Warfield and his band play upbeat interpretations of Irish ballads and songs.

Irish Cultural Centre, Blacks Rd, W6 9DT (020 8563 8232). £15.

SUNDAY 3 Ian Anderson Jethro Tull flautist. Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk St, EC2Y 8DS (0845 120 7500). £17.50-£25.

Rhydian The Welsh X Factor finalist performs tracks from his self-titled album, which features covers and originals.

Hammersmith Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £22.02-£39.15.

trio play experimental rock.

Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, concs £4.50.

Compton Terrace, N1 2UN (020 7226 1686). Adv £20.

John Standing The vocalist performs the songs of Noël Coward. Live! On The Park At Pizza

Ultravox The 1980s

Pink

new wave and electropop band perform tracks from their repertoire. Roundhouse,

The pop singer performs tracks from her album Funhouse. O2

On The Park, Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LY (020 7235 5273). £15 & £25.

Tacoma The Paris-based

Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8EH (0844 482 8008). £32.50 & £35.

Arena, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260). £35.

Jim White The Americana

Mick Thomas, Rachel Hatfield, Natalie MCcool

country singer plays tracks from his extensive back catalogue.

The Australian soloist performs folk-rock. The Troubadour,

Jeniferever, Red Skys, Caesura, Codes In The Clouds Indie-rock from the

Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, N1 2UN (020 7226 1686). Adv £17.50.

Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £12, adv £10.

Swedish four-piece playing tracks from their album Spring Tides. Monto Water Rats, Gray’s Inn

The London singer and instrumentalist plays soul, funk and electronica. The Troubadour,

The acoustic pop vocalist plays songs from his album Like A Waterfall. Union Chapel,

East Wintergarden, Canada Sq, E14 5AB (020 7334 3922). £17.

Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £6.

Blues, funk and soul from the seven-piece. Dover St Restaurant

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Jayson Norris, Rhys Morgan, Amphibic Acoustic rock singer-songwriter originally from New Zealand. Halfmoon

FRIDAY 1

Submit your free listing at least three weeks prior to the publication by emailing gigs@pressassociation.com.

Tina Turner The Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter performs hits from her back catalogue.

O2 Arena, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260). £50-£200.

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FAST FORWARD AC/DC Wembley Stadium, Jun 26 (0871 2200 260). £55 Animal Collective Brixton Academy, Aug 20 (0844 477 2000). £18 Blur Hyde Park, Jul 2-3 (0870 534 444) £45 British India Dublin Castle, May 24 (020 8806 2668). £6.

John Butler Union Chapel, Jul 17 (0870 264 3333). £17.50 The Cat Empire Shepherds Bush Empire, Jul 3-4 (08444 77 2000) £17.50 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Latitude Festival, Jul 16-19, Henham Park, Suffolk, (latitudefestival.co.uk) £150 Die! Die! Die! Cargo, May 10, (020 7403 3331). £6.50 The Drones The Luminaire, May 21 (wegottickets.com). £8.50 Gurrumul Union Chapel, May 13 (0844 576 5483).£12.50 Manic Street Preachers Roundhouse, May 28-30 (0844 482 8008). £26.50 Mr Scruff Koko, May 23 (0870 4325 527). £15 Pet Shop Boys O2 Arena, Jun 19 (0870 534 4444). £30 Shapeshifter Forum, May 22 (0844 847 2405). £17.50 Toast Festival: Dave Dobbyn, Jayson Norris, Goldfish Clapham Common, Jun 26-28 (0871 230 5583). £15-£150

CLUBBING

MUSIC & CLUBS

CLUB GUIDE

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Natasha Vuckovic PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST CLUB NIGHTS

CLUB OF THE WEEK DANCE OFF Take yourself back to 1998 when Jason Nevins and Run DMC’s It’s Like That was blasting out of clubs, and kids were glued to the telly watching its dance-off film clip. Well, a taste of those good old days is back as a dance-off hits Matter this week. Street dance troupes will battle it out for supremacy while DJ Yoda (right), Ironik, Killa Kela and World DMC champs Shiftee & Switch (with a four turntable show) get the beats pumping. And that’s the way it is.

» Matter, The O2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DY

North Greenwich (020 7549 6686). Thu, Jun 25, 7pm-11.30pm. £15

beats/breaks

funk/soul

drum ’n’ bass

electro

hip-hop

PEOPLE FROM IBIZA

FABRIC LIVE

Forget about overpriced flights and the unforgiving arrival times of flying to Ibiza. Get a dose of Balearic sunshine right here as one of the island’s biggest clubs, Amnesia, comes to London for a bit of a taster.

Expect great summer beats.

This is a club night for all those drum ’n’ bassers out there. Fabric regulars Grooverider and Fabio are back at the superclub this week. They’re joined by the Dub Police and MCs Rod Azlan and Flow Dan.

» Egg, York Way, N7 9AP King’s Cross (020 7609 8364).

Sat, Jun 27, 10pm-7am. £15

UnClubbed (Newstate)

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(above), who also produced the album.

It’s a bit more civilised dinner party than post-club chill-out, but it’s an interesting take on some of dance music’s well-known tunes.

We have two pairs of tickets to Dance Off and five copies of UnClubbed to give away. To enter, email grabs@tntmagazine.com with ‘Dance Off’ or ‘Unclubbed’ in the subject line by noon on Wed, Jun 24.

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house/garage

rock/metal

techno

CLUB NEWS

» Fabric, Charterhouse St, EC1M 3HN Farringdon (020 7336 8898). Fri, Jun 2, 10pm-6am. £13.

LP REVIEW This 19-track album takes club classics and ‘unclubs’ them, stripping them down to more mellow, jazzy and chilled-out versions of their former selves.

Tracks include Rui De Silva’s Touch Me Kings Of Tomorrow’s Finally, and Mezmerized featuring the vocals of Zoe Durrant, by Sacha Collisson

hard house/trance

Deadmau5 (above) is pissed off with websites streaming his music and advertising it as high definition or high quality.

“Nothing makes me vomit in my mouth more than listening to anything short of a 16 bit 44.1kHz Wav/Aiff file. Perhaps it’s just the audiophile in me,” the Canadian producer rants.

“I am actually witnessing and realising for the first time in my life something that I have created has been reduced to some regurgitated re-re-re-re-recording of a set and dubbed ‘high quality’.

Quite frankly, I’m a little embarrassed,” he says.

DJ Carl Cox was forced to cancel some of his gigs in

Barcelona and Fraga in Spain this month, after falling ill. “I have been taken sick, and under doctors’ instructions I am not allowed to travel,” the big man says. “I have only ever cancelled six shows in 10 years,” he adds.

Clubbing brand Hed Kandi is putting its mark on the rowing scene by hosting the Henley Royal Regatta’s official afterparty on July 3 and 4. The rahrah darling event takes place in an “achingly glamorous” marquee at Henley-OnThames’ Fawley Meadows.

Tickets cost £30. For more info, see keithprowse.co.uk.

CLUB LISTINGS TNT’S TOP BOOKING

MONDAY 27 Authentic Cuban Night

Electrovibe James Mac and DJ Lukass play house and electro. Club Boulevard, The Broadway, W5 5JY (07912 654 543). 10pm-late. £10.

DJ Flecha plays Cuban beats, plus dance classes.

Fiesta Havana, Fulham Rd, SW6 5NH (020 7381 5005).

5pm-2am. £5, free before 9pm.

Bite DJs Lydia, Ian, Marcus and Complexus play electro, hip-hop, indie, Motown and pop. Punk, Soho St, W1D 3DN (020 7734 4004). 9pm-3am. £5, concs £3, free before 10pm.

Explosive DJ Rugrat spins R’n’B, funky and club classics.

Zoo Bar, Bear St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188). 10pm-3.30am. £5.

Hard Core Salsa DJ

House Rules Bank Holiday Special Norman Jay spins house classics. Plan B, Brixton Rd, SW9 4AY (0870 116 5421).

9pm-6am. Adv £10.

Lost And Found Keb Darge and Andy Smith play blues, rock and Northern Soul. Madame Jo Jo’s, Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040). 10pm-3am. £8.

Miami 305 Funky house and pop from Mr Mak and Edge. Stanza, Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 5DY (020 7494 3020).

9.30pm-3am. £15, mems £10.

Platinum Funk The

Mario plays mambo and salsa. Salsa!, Charing Cross

Delicious Thursdays R’n’B

Funky Fridays DJs provide funk,

resident DJs supply R’n’B, hip-hop and funky house.

and retro hits on the ground floor, with house and party anthems in the basement. Zoo Bar, Bear

disco, pop, African beats and 1980s hits, plus live performances from Jesse, Ken and Tyrone.

The Libertaire, High St, W3 6NG (020 7160 0572). 10pm-late. £10, ladies Free before 11pm.

St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

10pm-3am. £10, £8 before 10pm.

Royal Oak, East Hill, SW18 2QB (020 8874 4892). 7.30pm-late. Free.

Fuse The resident DJs spin funky house and indie. The

Hospitality High Contrast and Skream Zinc spin house. Matter

chart, party and retro hits in the basement with R’n’B, electro and house in the VIP room. Zoo Bar, Bear St,

Langley, Langley St, WC2H 9JA (020 7836 5005). 4.30pm-1am. £8, free before 9pm, £3 before 10pm.

At O2 Arena, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0AX (020 7549 6686). 10pm-6am. £15.

WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

9pm-3am. £7, NUS £5, adv £4.50.

Members Night DJ Bambach

Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277).

5.30pm-2am. £4, free before 9pm.

Double Shake It With Laquisha Jonz Andrew

Salsa Night The resident

Elmore and Tommy Sandhu supply club hits. The Shadow

DJs provide salsa tracks. The Standard, Blackhorse Ln, E17 6DS (020 8503 2523). 8pm-9pm. £6.

Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 10pm-3am. £5£10, free before 10pm, mems free.

Game On Residents spin

TUESDAY 28 Barrio Latino Merengue, salsa, bachata and urban Latin tracks from Chino and Alex. Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury Ave,

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W1D 7EP (020 7287 2715). 9pm-3am. £5, £4 before 11pm, NUS £3.

Socialism Brockie, Nicky

Forca Brasil DJ Fred spins

BM and Phantasy provide drum ’n’ bass. Herbal, Kingsland

salsa, samba and Latin tunes, plus live bands. Salsa!, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277). 5.30pm-2am. £4, free before 9pm.

Lost In London Party hits on the ground floor, electrohouse in the basement and commercial R’n’B in the VIP room. Zoo Bar, Bear St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

9pm-3am. £7, guestlist/NUS £5.

Salon DJ Aubrey spins club anthems. The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 9pm-late. £5-£10, free before 10pm, mems free.

supplies funky house anthems.

Latin Fever Latin music from resident DJ Jorge, plus live bands. Salsa!, Charing Cross

The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 9pm-late. £5£10, free before 10pm, mems free.

Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277).

7pm-2am. £10, £8 before 11pm, £4 before 9pm, £2 before 8pm.

Rewind Residents spin classic

Twisted The residents supply

Rd, E2 8DA (020 7613 4462).

9pm-2am. £7, £5 before 12am, NUS £4, ladies Free before 11.30pm.

club anthems. LVPO, Dean St, W1D

house and commercial dance.

5BQ (020 7434 3399). 9pm-3am. £8.

Trannyshack Tasty Tim and

Silk Cuts DJ Nick Fletcher spins

Dusty O supply chart anthems, plus live bands. Madame Jo Jo’s,

global house. Jewel, Glasshouse

Motion, Victoria Embankment, WC2N 6PA (020 7389 9933).

8pm-late. £10, guestlist £5 before 11pm, free before 9pm.

St, W1B 5DQ (020 7439 4990).

9pm-1am. £10, guest list £5.

Upper Class DJ Leo spins

For full listings info go to tntonline.co.uk/ whats_on Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040).

10.30pm-3am. £5, w/flyer £3.

Wicked Wednesdays

The residents supply R’n’B and hip-hop. Sound, Leicester

Sq, WC2H 7NA (0870 863 1010).

9pm-3am. £10, £2.50 before 11pm.

THURSDAY 30

Arpdays DJs Idjut Boys, Bill

house. Jewel, Glasshouse St, W1B 5DQ (020 7439 4990).

9pm-1am. £10, guest list £5.

FRIDAY 1

Appropriate For... Party!

Residents spin dance, pop and club classics. Apt, Queen St, EC4N

1TX (020 7618 9020). 7pm-3am. £5, £3 guest list. Free before 10pm.

Back In The Day Resident DJ Stevie B spins retro pop, electro, funk, house, dance and R‘n’B.

White Heat DJs Matty and Olly spin rock and disco.

Brewster and Jonny 5 spin club hits. Cargo, Rivington St, EC2A 3AY

Madame Jo Jo’s, Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040).

10.30pm-3am. £7, adv £6.

(020 7739 3440). 7pm-1am. £8.

Escape Soho, Brewer St, W1F 0SU (07833 327002). 9pm-3am. £4.

Classique The residents

Calentito Resident DJs spin

play house classics, 1980s pop and commercial R’n’B. The Hill,

pop, R’n’B and classic soul.

WEDNESDAY 29

Muswell Hill, N10 3ST (020 8365 3651).

10pm-3am. £10, £7 before 11.30pm.

Salvador And Amanda, Great Newport St, WC2H 7JA (020 7240 1551).

9pm-3am. £10, guestlist £5.

SATURDAY 2

Digress Soho, Beak St, W1F 9RA (020 7437 0239). 12noon-3am. £10, £7 before 11pm, free before 10pm.

Steve Smart Steve Smart spins dancefloor hits. Club Boulevard, The Broadway, W5 5JY (07912 654 543). 10pm-1.30pm. £10, ladies £5 before 11.30pm.

XXL Techno and pop from resident DJs for a crowd of hirsute guys and their admirers. The Arches, Southwark St, SE1 1RU (020 7403 9643).

9pm-6am. £12, concs/mems £8.

SUNDAY 3 Dubfire Paul Woolford, Tim Sheridan Vs Mr C and Biased Guy spin dubstep.

Matter at O2 Arena, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0AX (020 7549 6686).

10pm-6am. £15, adv £12, NUS £10.

Born 2 Boogie DJ Legs,

Playboys and Milk Tray spin R’n’B, hip-hop, soul and reggae. Archangel, Kensington High St, W8 5NP (020 7938 4137).

10pm-2am. £10, concs £8.

Funkinyou 5th Anniversary & Sunglasses Party DJ Arkoss and special surprise guests play house, funk and electro.

Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). 10pm-5.30am. £15.

Carwash Resident DJs play 1970s and 1980s disco and funk.

N-Joy The resident DJs

Club Aquarium, Old St, EC1V 9DD (020 7251 6136). 10pm-3.30am. £15.

supply club anthems.

Destination Resident DJs

Cheap$kates Disco and hip-hop courtesy of DJ Downfall.

spin funky house, dance, commercial dance, R’n’B and club anthems. On Anon,

Moonlighting, Greek St, W1D 4DR (020 7734 6308). 9pm-3.30am. £6, NUS £4.50, w/flyer £4.

Piccadilly, W1V 9LA (020 7287 8008).

9pm-late. £10, £7 before 11pm, free before 10pm.

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Rock The Kaz Bar Resident DJs spin disco, funk, pop, house and R’n’B grooves.

Motion, Victoria Embankment, WC2N 6PA (020 7389 9933).

10pm-3am. £10, free before 12am.

Wetyourself Resident DJs spin electro and minimal tunes. Club Aquarium, Old St, EC1V 9DD (0776 704 7420).

10pm-4am. £10, w/flyer £5.

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The amount in dollars that will be pumped into QLD’s healthcare system to help it cope with its booming population.

AUSTRALIA Missing Aussies Authorities were searching for three New South Wales residents believed to be in refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka.

The two women, aged 26 and 29, and a 62-year-old man were thought to be among 300,000 people being held by the Sri Lankan government in camps following the end of the country’s civil war.

Winton wins award Novelist Tim Winton won his fourth Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most

BRIGHT IDEA: The Sydney Opera House is lit up as part of the Vivid Sydney Festival last week. The theme was Fire Water and performers recreated the 1814 sinking of the Three Bees convict ship, which went up in flames.

prestigious literary prize.

Winton won with his novel Breath, about surfing and lost youth in 1970s Western Australia.

Retail jobs down The Government’s stimulus package had failed to secure jobs in the retail sector, the Australian National Retailers Association (ARNA) said.

It revealed 12,400 full-time jobs had been lost while 6000 part-time jobs had been created.

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Queensland Police were under fire after a man died after he was shot with a 50,000 volt Taser

near Townsville. Police initially said they shot Antonio Galeano, 39, three times with the stun gun, but reports suggested he may have been Tasered for more than two minutes. ”They were electrocuting him, he was screaming in pain,” his partner Sandra Winn said.

No tour for New Kids Reformed ‘90s boy band New Kids on the Block have cancelled their Aussie tour, blaming the economic downturn.

“We are, in fact, in the middle of a worldwide recession and we just cannot make it work,” said singer Donnie Wahlberg.

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rooftop party at a mate’s place.

“We listened to quite a variety of songs both from Spain and abroad to accompany this spot,” an Orange spokeswoman in Madrid said.

The friends in the ad are seen carrying everything from surfboards to speakers and blowup pools to the party – but we have to ask, where’s the barbie?

The national average price of petrol in dollars – an eight-month high.

The number of Australians expected to work in renewable energy by 2020.

*And finally … Spain waltzes Matilda Waltzing Matilda, Australia’s unofficial national anthem about a sheep stealing swagman, has become an unlikely hit in Spain after featuring on a TV advert for mobile network Orange.

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What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ A member of the notorious Moran family is murdered in a busy Melbourne café.

■ The victim’s sister-in-law is charged with being an accessory to murder.

■ Fears grow that gangland warfare will reignite.

angland warfare gripped Melbourne last week when a member of the criminal Moran family was killed.

Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran, 60, was shot dead inside a crowded deli café at lunchtime in Ascot Vale last Monday.

He was the fourth member of the Moran clan to be murdered in a series of gangland killings which stretch over a decade.

Moran’s sister-in-law Judy Moran, 64 – whose two sons and husband, Lewis, were all killed in the turf war – was

VICTORIA The number of first home buyers in Victoria hit a record high in May this year, with 4946 entering the market. First home owner grants jumped by more than 67 per cent since May 2008.

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Police at the crime scene where underworld figure Desmond ‘Tuppence’ Moran was shot

charged with being an accessory to the murder. Her friend Suzanne Kane, 45, faced the same charge, and Kane’s boyfriend, Geoffrey Amour, was charged with the murder.

Hours after Judy was refused bail for being a risk to the community, her home was damaged by a suspicious fire. Neighbours reported

hearing explosions before the house went up in flames.

Victorian premier John Brumby said he hoped the shooting would not reignite Melbourne’s gangland war.

“I thought this was all finished … I hope we don’t see any more of this, I hope it’s the end of the matter,” Brumby said.

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Ex-federal treasurer Peter Costello announced he would resign at the next election, ending months of speculation whether he would challenge for opposition leadership.

Costello, who was long seen as a successor to former prime minister John Howard, will spend the rest of his term in politics as a backbencher.

“You will be the judge, but I think over 20 years I have made a difference and I feel that I can leave with honour,” Costello told reporters.

“I’ve seen too many people grow old in politics and get trapped by it. I’ve seen others

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TIME IN THE TREASURY Costello delivered a record 12 consecutive budgets, nine in surplus. He also tried to get ex-PM John Howard to give up his leadership.

that have the electorate decide the time of their departure.”

Both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull praised Costello for his contribution to Australian politics.

“He has served our nation well, we salute him and thank him for his service,” Turnbull said.

The state is expected to record a $1.95bn deficit for 2009/10. Premier Anna Bligh said Queenslanders should view it as a mortgage rather than a credit card bill.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA WA’s auditor general Colin Murphy said it would take $800m and 250 years to fix the state’s ailing road network at current maintenance levels. Nearly a third of the state’s roads have reached the end of their life, he added.

NEW SOUTH WALES A 49-year-old gunman held police at bay for eight hours during a siege at a McDonald’s in Port Macquarie. More than 20 people were in the restaurant at the time.

No one was hurt.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA Catholic priests were ordered to stop offering congregations communion wine in South Australia because of swine flu fears.

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Mum wants justice Nelson mother Judy Ashton whose daughter was killed in a head-on car crash by a repeat offender on the police witness protection scheme announced she was trying to take the police and the Corrections Department to court.

Debbie Ashton, 20, was killed in December 2006 when a car being driven at speed on the wrong side of the road by Jonathan Barclay collided with her car near the family home at Hope. Barclay’s previous offending was not disclosed when he appeared in court on other charges shortly before the crash, allowing him to avoid going back to jail.

Return of the King Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson will head a major government review of the Film Commission – a body he once accused of making poor funding decisions.

David Court, head of screen business at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School,

NAKED AMBITION: A group of young southern men get their kit off for the annual naked rugby match in Dunedin. Needless to say, there were plenty of tackles flying about with only one interruption … when a fully clothed streaker ran on to the pitch.

would work with Jackson on the review. The pair will examine the Commission’s legislation and constitution, its functions, powers and finances.

Jackson and Court planned to consult with a number of local filmmakers for the review.

Hill gets his way

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Jeweller Michael Hill received permission to build residential bunkers on his Arrowtown golf course.

Independent commissioners granted resource consent to build 17 subterranean houses on the The Hills Golf Course – against recommendations by Queenstown

*And finally … a joint effort

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Security staff handed the unemployed man to police.

Apart from breaking drug laws, the man would have broken parliamentary codes of conduct surrounding behaviour in the chamber, Parliamentary Service spokesman Warren Inkster said.

Parliament’s premises are designated non-smoking.

Bad case of the flu A Lower Hutt woman was in a critical condition with swine flu in Wellington Hospital’s intensive care unit.

The 30-year-old morbidly obese woman was believed to be a unique case.

The number of confirmed cases jumped to 216 from 153.

158 of the new cases developed in a seven-day window.

“We were just trying to start it … It wouldn’t have happened if the door hadn’t been unlocked.” Karori man Timothy Hellner, 22, after being arrested for hopping into a helicopter, while drunk, at Queen’s Wharf in Wellington “The trio then entered a female bathroom area … got naked and had a bath together.”

Prosecutor Sergeant Amelia Steel, on three rugby players whose post-match romp waterlogged a Balclutha hotel.

“It looked like it was going to break her neck and I just knew instinctively that I had to make it let go of her.”

National bravery award winner Peter Macintosh relives saving a twoyear-old from the jaws of a Staffordshire terrier.

“We find it much more sociable here.

There is a huge emphasis on family life and relaxation time” NZ-based Pom Chris Gorman on news Aotearoa topped a Natwest International survey on quality of life.

“To take offence seems … prudish and curiously anthropomorphic.” The Television Commercials Approval Bureau on complaints about two horses mating in a TV ad for Moro bars.

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A man who lit up a cannabis joint in the public gallery of the debating chamber in Parliament was charged with possession of a class C drug.

Parliament security grabbed the man, in his 30s, after discovering him toking a cannabis cigarette during the second reading of the Resource Management (Climate

Lakes District Council planners that the application be declined.

The houses will have floor areas up to 700m². Some include lap pools, wine cellars, libraries, fireplaces and courtyards.

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olice are investigating a self-styled Maori sovereignty group running a fake visa scam.

Hundreds of people have flocked to Gerard Otimi’s meetings in Waikato and South Auckland, where for $500 they received stamped visas and documentation saying they are adopted into his hapu and legally entitled to stay in New Zealand.

However, Otimi admitted they were meaningless.

“The documents are to notarise them, and the Immigration Department, to say they are now under our care,” he said on TV3’s Campbell Live.

He agreed it was “exactly right” that the documents had no status at all with immigration authorities.

Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples said the scam could harm Maori-Pacific Island relations. “I really, really feel for the Pacific Island people

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UPPER NORTH ISLAND MAF gave approval for Northland Zion Wildlife Park to reopen after keeper Dalu Mncube was killed by a white tiger last month.

MAF said it was satisfied with the welfare of the animals at the zoo and Zion’s improved state of the enclosures.

Maori Affairs minister Pita Sharples (inset) is upset about fake Maori visas being sold

who have been duped in this way,” he said.

Pacific Island Affairs Minister Georgina te Heuheu urged victims to go to the police. “It’s deplorable that anyone would do this to some of the most vulnerable people in our country,” she said.

Police said investigations into the scam were continuing.

NOTHING FOR SOMETHING Former Maori activist Gerard Otimi said about 50 families had each paid him $500 for the documents – and in return he gave them $500 of “Maori barter currency” to cancel out the fee. He said the cash was in the bank.

LOWER NORTH ISLAND Two men were taken to hospital after they were attacked by at least four weaponwielding assailants outside a Pak’ N’ Save supermarket in Napier. The attackers wielded blunt weapons and were thought to be patched Mongrel Mob and Black Power members.

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Nai Yin Xue had to be restrained by security guards after being found guilty of murdering his wife An An Liu, in the High Court at Auckland last week.

As the jury foreman read the decision, Xue pumped his fist in the air and yelled “disagree, disagree”.

He protested “I am innocent”, as he was taken away to the court cells by prison officers.

The all female jury took around seven hours to find the martial arts expert guilty.

Crown prosecutor Aaron Perkins said an “avalanche of evidence” pointed towards

THE ABANDONMENT ISSUE The case gained international media exposure after Xue dumped his daughter, dubbed ‘Pumpkin’, 3, at a Melbourne train station before fleeing to the US.

Xue being his wife’s killer.

The defence’s claim that Ms Liu died at the hands of two unknown men as part of a sex act gone wrong was “nothing short of a bizarre explanation – that’s because there’s no one else to point the finger at,” Perkins said.

The Christchurch Polytechnic Students’ Association lost $125,000 after the jailing of the office manager who worked for it for 18 years. Helen Lenihan, 55, spent about five years over-paying her own wages, paying personal rent, and writing cheques for her own accounts. She was jailed for 22 months.

LOWER SOUTH ISLAND A bus full of 6and 7-year-olds narrowly escaped disaster when its driver managed to stop just centimetres from a falling 49-tonne crane in Frederick St, central Dunedin.

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Fans score free tickets Fifa gave away free tickets to the Confederations Cup, after poor attendance at the soccer tournament’s opening matches last week.

Southafricantimes.co.uk reported Fifa spokesman Nicolas Maingot as saying: “there will be a number of complimentary tickets handed to institutions [that] have been very supportive of the event”.

Miangot said schools and local authorities would be among the first recipients of the free tickets.

He added that the free tickets were only for group matches.

Looking after Stats SA National planning commission minister Trevor Manuel is to take over responsibility for Statistics SA, Business Day reported last week.

The organisation will also have its role expanded to supply information needed for Government’s strategic planning, statistician-general Pali Lehohla said.

“We don’t shorten national anthems.”

Fifa spokesman Nicolas Maingot after Nkosi Sikelel’i Africa was cut by 90 seconds at the Confederations Cup opener between SA and Iraq.

SWORD KILLING: Schoolboy Morne Harmse, seen with his parents Machiel and Liza, appears in the High Court in Johannesburg last week. Harmse pleaded guilty to killing a fellow pupil with a Samurai sword. The sentencing of Harmse was postponed to August 31.

Ponzi scheme hits UK UK businessmen were among the victims of South Africa’s largest Ponzi scheme, allegedly operated

by Barry Tannenbaum, The Telegraph reported last week.

The newspaper named Peter Long, chief executive of Tui Travel, and Richard Kirk, CEO of fashion chain Peacocks, as being among the group of UK investors who put money into Tannenbaum’s Frankel International company.

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Government was looking to provide alternative income sources for struggling fishing communities in an effort to

curb poaching, agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Thursday.

Briefing media at Parliament, she also raised the possibility of reviewing the manner in which fishing quotas were allocated.

Circumcision deaths The death toll in the Eastern Cape’s winter initiation season rose to three, the provincial health department said on Thursday.

Spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said police discovered the body of a 22-year-old after a raid on an illegal circumcision school in the Transkei.

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Malema said: ‘“The youth of South Africa must be careful, especially those who think that sleeping around is fashionable.

They must know doing that is like committing suicide.”

“Obviously, we’re pleased … As long as he’s behind bars somewhere it’s good for us.” Police spokeswoman director Sally de Beer after sex crimes accused Dirk Prinsloo was arrested in Belarus for allegedly robbing a bank.

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*And finally … advice for SA’s youth ANC Youth League president Julius Malema called on the youth to help crime-fighting initiatives and avoid having multiple sexual partners to curb HIV/Aids.

In his Youth Day address

“To begin with, soapies suck … The reality is that most of our people cannot relate to this soapie circus; only a selected filthy rich [sic] can be co-opted to this opulent lifestyle.”

Young Communist League spokesman Castro Ngobese on why soap operas should be banned.

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Prinsloo faces prison ■ Alleged South African child sex offender Dirk Prinsloo arrested in Belarus.

■ He was recognised by a young boy after an alleged bank robbery.

■ Prinsloo could face a 10-year prison sentence.

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Dirk Prinsloo with ex-lover Cezanne Visser

assaulted two women before a cashier pressed the alarm button. Prinsloo then ran away.

The boy helped police compose an identikit, which led to Prinsloo’s capture.

The former Pretoria advocate fled South Africa in 2006 after he was arrested with his former lover Cezanne Visser, known as Advocate Barbie, on child sex charges.

According to Belarus’ home

affairs department, Prinsloo admitted guilt and could face 10 years in prison.

He would most likely have to serve his sentence in Belarus before he could be extradited to South Africa.

Back at home Prinsloo would face charges of rape, indecent assault, sex acts with children, the possession and production of child pornography, and fraud.

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Government will not seize farms Agriculture minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said the government would not seize white farms to redistribute to blacks because it would harm South Africa’s economy.

Southafricantimes.co.uk reported Joemat-Pettersson told a conference in Cape Town last week that the “willing-buyer, willing-seller policy” would be followed.

“There are times when the land becomes too expensive for the state to purchase, and if we face a programme of expropriation it would further destabilise the economic industry of agriculture,”

the agriculture minister said.

After the fall of apartheid in 1994, the ruling African National Congress set itself a target of handing 30 per cent of all the South Africa’s agricultural land to the black majority by 2014.

The progress towards this target has slowed down and only about 4 per cent of the land has been acquired from private owners amid funding problems that government officials say might hinder the meeting of this goal, according to Reuters.

Agriculture unions welcomed the announcement.

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The inaugural game at the Nelson Mandela Bay 2010 soccer stadium ended with a pub on the grounds being robbed by two armed men last Tuesday. Police spokesperson Marinda Mills said police were investigating how a gun was smuggled into the stadium while the touring Lions rugby side played the Southern Kings.

GAUTENG Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg had to strike criminal cases off the roll because the court’s telephones were not working. Beeld reported that magistrates warned more people could go free if the court did not receive CDs for back-up recordings of proceedings.

WESTERN CAPE Businessman Hugh Glenister’s latest bid to save the Scorpions was turned down by the Western Cape High Court. Judge Siraj Desai said he would give reasons for the court’s rejection at a later date.

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Platinum dust, cocaine and stolen wheels were among the items seized during a police raid in Rustenburg, which formed part of anticrime activities for the Confederations Cup.

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description given by a 10-year-old boy led to the arrest of alleged South African child sex offender Dirk Prinsloo at an internet café in Minsk in Belarus last week.

According to Beeld, Julia Askaldovich, a Belarus police investigating officer, said the arrest was “a great shock” for Prinsloo. It came only days after an alleged bank robbery attempt by Prinsloo in Baranovichi.

The boy was playing outside the bank in which Prinsloo, armed with a toy gun, knife and bottle of gas spray,

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FOOTBALL The AFL will support Australia’s bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 soccer World Cup. Great form from the AFL to put the greater good ahead of petty inter-code rivalry.

TENNIS Lleyton Hewitt’s build-up for Wimbledon continues with a 6-4 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal in an exhibition match. Nadal’s knees are shot, but it’s still a great result for Hewitt.

RUGBY LEAGUE Roosters coach Brad “Freddie” Fittler fines himself $10,000 after trying to get into the wrong room at his Townsville hotel, while half-naked and drunk.

Blind Freddie, indeed.

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HORSE RACING Australian sprint star Scenic Blast makes his Royal Ascot debut by winning the King’s Stand Stakes, to become the fourth Aussie horse to win the race in the past seven years.

HORSE RACING Takeover Target is a shock scratching from the Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot, after the nine-year-old gelding suffered an elevated temperature in preparation.

RUGBY New Zealand retains its junior world title after beating England 44-28 in the junior world U20 championship final in Japan. Must be almost as good as a real World Cup win.

WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL Socceroos star Tim Cahill scores two second-half goals to fire Australia to a 2-1 win over Japan, ensuring Australia goes unbeaten in World Cup qualification. And Cahill rules.

I expect all of “ them to target me

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I would, if I was facing me

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Aussie spinner Nathan Hauritz knows the Poms will try to smash him out of the attack during the Ashes.

At least he’s honest.

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MONDAY TENNIS Wimbledon Day one from All England Midday BBC2 TUESDAY RUGBY Emerging Boks V Lions Can the back-ups prevail?

5.30pm Sky Sports 2 WEDNESDAY RUGBY LEAGUE NSW V Queensland Can NSW bounce back?

10.30am Setanta 1 THURSDAY CRICKET England V Australia Women’s Twenty20 2.30pm Sky Sports 1 FRIDAY CRICKET West Indies V India First ODI from Kingston 3.25pm Sky Sports 3 SATURDAY MOTORSPORT Speedway British GP All the action from Cardiff 4.30pm Sky Sports 1 SUNDAY FOOTBALL Confederations Cup final Could be a big match-up 7pm BBC3

PUB TALK: BRITISH SPORT EXPLAINED Andy Murray at Wimbledon How’s Murray’s draw?

Marat Safin is the only dangerous player in Murray’s quarter, so Murray should cruise into the last four.

Can he really beat Federer here?

That’s the big question. Murray is seeded to meet Federer in the final, and while Federer has lost just once here in the past six years, Murray boasts a 6-2 record against him. But they’ve

never met on grass, and Federer won their only grand slam encounter, thrashing Murray in last year’s US Open final.

When did a Pom last win?

Fred Perry won eight majors in the ‘30s, including Wimbleon and the US Open in 1936. No British male has won a major since.

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AUSSIES’ GRAND SLAM The Wallabies will this year embark on an end-of-year grand slam tour of the UK and Ireland for the first time in 25 years, opening their campaign against England at Twickenham on November 7, before facing Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

SIVIVATU RE-SIGNS All Blacks winger Sitiveni Sivivatu has re-signed with the New Zealand Rugby Union through to the 2011 World Cup. The retention of the Chiefs winger is a boost after 2008’s exodus of stars to overseas clubs.

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South Africa withstood a late surge by the British and Irish Lions on Saturday to prevail with a narrow victory in Durban.

Springboks flanker Heinrich Brussow scored in his first Test on home soil and captain John Smit also collected a try, while flyhalf Ruan Pienaar kicked 13 points.

The visitors were punished for their own indiscipline in the scrums and Pienaar kicked two easy penalties to give the Springboks a 19-7 lead at half-time. After the Lions were again penalised, the Boks opted for a lineout to maintain the pressure, and Brussow touched down after a forward surge, with Pienaar’s

routine conversion extending the lead to 26-7 in the 47th minute.

Having failed to make any impact up front, the Lions opened the game up and Tom Croft scored his second try in the 68th minute to make it 26-14 after Jamie Roberts again cut through. The ball was recycled, Croft exploited a rare gap and Stephen Jones converted.

Mike Phillips capitalised on a spell of intense Lions pressure close to the Springboks line to throw a dummy and then slip through for a try with five minutes left. But the Boks, who last won a Lions series 29 years ago, held on.

The result means that the Lions, who won all six of their warm-up games against provincial sides, have now lost six Tests in a row since beating Australia in Brisbane in 2001.

Western Force have signed World Cup-winning Springbok Andre Pretoius as their marquee international for next season’s Super 14. The 30-year-old flyhalf played 31 Tests for South Africa.

The Force have also signed Wallabies prop Matt Dunning.

BRAID STAYS WITH REDS In a boost for the struggling Queensland Reds, former All Blacks flanker Daniel Braid will play a second season with the Super 14 battlers. Braid, 28, considered leaving to sign with Welsh club Llanelli Scarlets.

JUNIOR ALL BLACKS WIN Hosea Gear scored a brace as the Junior All Blacks continued their push for the Pacific Nations Cup, with a businesslike 45-17 win over Fiji in Lautoka on Friday.

They face Japan on Tuesday, and Tonga on Thursday-week.

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tremendously good news for all who care about Canterbury and Crusaders rugby.”

Carter said he was happy to be back at club that won the title in 2005, 2006 and 2008.

“Christchurch has always been home for me, so it’s great to have re-signed with Canterbury rugby through to 2011,” Carter said.

“I’m looking forward to playing in a red and black jersey again and being part of the province that has given my rugby so much.”

Carter is expected to resume playing in the Air New Zealand Cup in August, but is tipped to miss the Tri-Nations.

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All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter has signed a new contract with the Crusaders until the end of 2011, scuttling speculation that the world’s best flyhalf might jump ship to join the Blues.

Carter, 27, played 69 games for the Crusaders between 2003 and 2008, before joining French club Perpignan on a lucrative short-term contract. But Carter’s European sabbatical was ruined by an Achilles injury in January that saw him miss most of Perpignan’s campaign.

“Dan is obviously a world-class player, and it will be fantastic to have him back,” Crusaders boss Hamish Riach said. “It is quite simply

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Keven Mealamu NEW ZEALAND The All Blacks hooker had one of his best games in recent years, with his powerful legs relentlessly driving his side forward. Mealamu provided the intial spark for the All Blacks’ first try and his lineout throwing was accurate all night.

It’s been “ a big change, but now I’ve learned French it’s opened my mind up a fair bit

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Who’d have thought former NRL hoon Craig Gower, now playing rugby for Italy, would become such a man of culture?

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The sides scored a try apiece, with the telling difference being the kicking of the New Zealanders, who landed three penalties in atrocious wintry weather, while France were restricted to a conversion and a penalty.

The All Blacks opened the scoring with a try to Ma’a Nonu, after Isaac Ross and Tanerau Latimer sparked a series of All Blacks drives at the line which exhausted France’s defence.

Stephen Donald, who had a grim kicking night in the wind, missed the conversion but landed his first penalty just before half-time

to give the All Blacks an 8-0 lead at the break.

Five minutes into the second half, a brilliant solo effort by French winger Cedric Heymans cut the gap. Heymans he stepped around four tacklers in a 50m dash to the line and Julien Dupuy added the extras to bring France back to 8-7, but that was as close as they would get.

The All Blacks regained the initiative with Nonu and Kieran Read both going close, before Donald landed his second penalty to give New Zealand a 11-7 lead with 35 minutes remaining.

Luke McAlister landed a penalty to extend the All Blacks lead to 14-7, before Dmitry Yachvili closed out the scoring with a penalty of his own.

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Robbie Deans’ experimental Wallabies backfired rather than exploded, grinding out a scrappy win over a second-string Italian outfit on Saturday night. Australia scored five tries to nil, but only shook off the inexperienced Azzurri in the last 10 minutes with tries to backs Lachie Turner and Adam Ashley-Cooper.

Stirling Mortlock, Matt Giteau and the entire front row were rested, but coach Deans’ reserve combinations failed to find much rhythm.

With the score 20-12 in the 70th minute, Quade Cooper snuffed out Italy’s hopes with a neat flick pass to put winger Turner over to

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seal the match. In keeping with the strange display from Australia, replacement wing Ashley-Cooper was man-of-the-match award with two entertaining tries in front of a meagre crowd of just 20,280 at Melbourne’s Docklands.

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A potentially serious elbow injury to boom centre Jamal Idris has taken whatever gloss the Bulldogs gleaned from their win over Penrith.

Idris was taken from the field with 13 minutes remaining after dislocating his elbow as he fended away Maurice Blair. The 18-yearold writhed on the ground as trainers ran out.

The Bulldogs led 14-6 when Idris left the Cowboys 24

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22 Roosters M Aubusson A Cherrington B Jones S Shackleton tries C Fitzgibbon 3 goals

North Queensland held off the fast-finishing Roosters to register a heart-stopping 24-22 victory in Townsville. The Roosters let slip two golden opportunities to win the game in the final three minutes, with the glamour club slipping to its sixth straight loss.

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14 Raiders T Thurling P Graham J Carney tries T Campese goal

The Sea Eagles withstood a stirring late comeback from the Raiders to post a 20-14 win at Brookvale Oval, which pushes them into the top eight after a nightmare start to their premiership defence.

Manly were coasting at 20-0 midway through the second half, but three Penrith tries Storm 14 C Cronk M Cross tries J Tomane 3 goals

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Halfback Mitchell Pearce only had to find support in the 77th minute, but his pass sailed wide, and the visitors were denied again in the final 30 seconds with desperate Cowboys defence sealing their eighth win of the season.

The Roosters could suffer a heavy toll from their latest loss, with captain Braith Anasta assisted from the field in the 69th minute with a season-ending ankle injury. in seven minutes slashed their lead to just six points with 11 minutes remaining.

The Sea Eagles made a terrific start with debutant five-eighth Kieran Foran crossing for a try in the third minute with just his second touch in first grade rugby league.

Sparked by some great play-making options from their skipper and halfback Matt Orford, Manly totally dominated the first half-hour. a try and also pulled off a try-saving tackle, while backrowers Ryan Hoffman and Sika Manu were busy. Tigers halfback Benji Marshall was also effective, but conceded he “panicked” and overplayed his game.

The Tigers’ season is now on life support, while Melbourne’s campaign continues to gain momentum; the win even more precious as it came without four Origin stars.

Hazem El Masri BULLDOGS The Bulldogs veteran was the difference against the Panthers, with his second try of the night icing the game, just as Penrith were mounting a late charge.

THE TABLE Team Dragons Bulldogs** Titans Storm* Cowboys Knights Broncos Sea Eagles Panthers Rabbitohs* Warriors* Eels* Tigers Raiders Sharks Roosters

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W 10 10 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 5 5 4 5 4 4 3

L 4 3 4 4 6 6 5 7 7 7 7 8 9 9 9 11

PD PTS 118 22 107 22 22 22 99 21 106 18 28 18 -6 18 26 16 25 16 -25 15 -43 15 -126 13 -45 12 -49 12 -80 10 -157 8

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Melbourne can see light at the end of the Origin tunnel after escaping with a two-point win over the desperate Wests Tigers.

Melbourne held off the Tigers for a 14-12 victory at Olympic Park, where the visitors have now lost in eight successive appearances.

Halfback Cooper Cronk starred as he scored

field, but barnstorming Panthers backrower Frank Pritchard ensured a tight finish when he brushed through some flimsy defence, and a hopelessly outsized Luke Patten, to close the gap to just two points with eight minutes remaining.

But the Bulldogs pulled away again when Hazem El Masri scored his second of the night to finish with a personal haul of 14 points, before Brett Kimmorley capped the win with a last-minute field goal.

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Collingwood moved into the top four while the Swans now find themselves a game and percentage adrift of the top eight, after the Magpies prevailed in a hard-fought encounter at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.

For much of the first half, Collingwood threaten to run away with the game, edging out to a 27-point lead midway through the Bombers 19.17.131 M Lloyd 3 S Lucas 3 A Davey 2 S Lonergan 2 H Skipworth 2 A Monfries 2 M McVeigh 2 C Hooker J Watson J Winderlich

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The Demons trailed by just four points leading into half-time, before being overwhelmed by the greater firepower of a more experienced Essendon outfit. The Bombers were well led by veterans Dustin Fletcher and Scott Lucas, who enjoyed a welcome return to form.

second term. But the visitors couldn’t put the Swans away, and the home side fought back doggedly after the break, with Ed Barlow putting his side in front for the first time in the match just before three-quarter time.

The Swans had further chances to seize control early in the last quarter, but couldn’t capitalise on the scoreboard, and then, when the momentum swung back the Pies’ way, they made it count, with Leon Davis booting three crucial last-quarter goals to get his team home.

Dockers 11.9.75 M Pavlich 2 M De Boer S Dodd P Duffield P Haselby N Suban S Hill G Ibbotson M Walters A Sandilands

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13.16.94 Cats S Byrnes 5 S Johnson 3 T Hawkins 2 R Gamble P Chapman C Enright

Geelong posted their 12th win of the season, but were forced to fight for it against Fremantle, whose performance belied their low ladder position. There was only six points separating the side with five minutes remaining, before goals to Shannon Byrnes and Paul Chapman.

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also have vacancies by season’s end.

Former Collingwood captain Nathan Buckley (pictured) looms as a central figure, with Kangaroos president James Brayshaw indicating his club would interview Buckley.

“He will be one of the people we speak to,” Brayshaw said. “He’s a superstar and he’s got an enormous amount to offer any footy club that he ends up being the coach of, so we would be negligent as a club if we didn’t explore where he’s at.”

THE LADDER Team Saints Cats Bulldogs Magpies Lions Crows Blues Bombers Hawks Power Swans Roos Eagles Tigers Dockers Demons

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W L 12 0 12 0 8 4 7 5 7 5 7 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 7 4 8 3 9 3 9 3 9 1 11

D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

% 174 151 124 109 103 100 115 99 95 90 95 76 87 80 80 70

PTS 48 48 32 28 28 28 24 24 24 24 20 16 12 12 12 4

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SUNDAY 5am Setanta 1 ROOS V BULLDOGS

Other Round 13 games Bombers v Blues, Saints v Tigers, Magpies v Dockers, Cats v Power, Eagles v Hawks, Lions v Demons

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Kangaroos coach Dean Laidley last week resigned from his post, signalling an early start to the coaching merry-go-round that is expected to take place at the end of this season.

The Kangaroos were to review the senior coaching position after round 16, but Laidley took the decision out of their hands. Laidley, 42, took over the Kangaroos’ coaching job in 2003, and steered them to 72 wins from 149 games, including three finals series.

The Kangaroos join Richmond in the market for a new senior coach, after the Tigers and Terry Wallace parted company earlier this month. Collingwood and Port Adelaide could

MAGPIES After the Magpies lost midfielder Scott Pendlebury to injury in the first minute of the game, Alan Didak moved into the engine room and produced his best game for the year, racking up 34 touches and booting two goals, while his use of the footy was superb.

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Kiwi quick Shane Bond’s return from the cricketing wilderness could coincide with New Zealand’s tour of Sri Lanka in August, but the fast bowler may need to reenter the Test set-up via an A team tour of India.

When Bond joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL) in late 2007, he was blacklisted by the Indian board, who were keen to scuttle any competition for their own Indian Premier League. As a result, New Zealand’s greatest pace bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee was effectively banned from representing the national side.

Now back in the selection frame after severing ties with the ICL, Bond, 34, has declared his desire to play all forms of the game for New Zealand.

“I’m available to be picked but I expect to be picked on merit, like everyone else,” Bond said. “I’ve done three

HOW LONG BEFORE TESTS? If Bond doesn’t make the Test squad to tour India, he may have to wait until February 2010 to add to his 17 Tests. New Zealand hosts a one-off Test against Bangladesh, before a three-match Test series against Australia.

months’ solid training and it feels really good.

“If I get picked for the A side, that’s six weeks away, but whenever it may be I’m just excited about playing again.”

A bowler of Bond’s pedigree might expect to be fast-tracked straight into the Test team for the tour to Sri Lanka, but with so little first-class cricket under his belt, he may instead head to India with the A team, before joining the limited overs squad in Sri Lanka for a five-match series in September.

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Warne fires opening Ashes shots Even in retirement, Shane Warne is doing his bit to help Australia win the phoney war ahead of the first Ashes Test, beginning in Cardiff on July 8.

The legendary spinner last week took a potshot at English batsmen Ravi Bopara and Paul Collingwood, suggesting Bopara was too showy to make it at Test level, and that Collingwood relied on stronger personalities around him.

“Bopara is a good first-class cricketer, but he is not an international cricketer,” Warne said. “I just don’t think he’s got the temperament.”

“He can be put off his game easily and is too worried about how he looks.

“Let’s hope England aren’t relying on Bopara, because

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Australia begins their first tour match on Wednesday, facing Sussex at the County Ground in Hove. Australia will field 12 players, to better assess their options ahead of the first Test on July 8, with the battle for bowling spots particularly fierce.

SAFFAS NOT CHOKERS Jeremy Snape, South Africa’s sports psychologist and performance coach, insists their World Twenty20 semifinal defeat to Pakistan will not compound pressure on a team yet to shed its “choker” tag, but rather serve as motivation for future series.

NORTH MAKES CASE Test newcomer Marcus North believes his off-spinners can play a key role in the Ashes.

North, who notched 117 in his Test debut against South Africa in February, says he could form a three-pronged spin attack with Michael Clarke and Simon Katich.

CLARK BACKS FITNESS Aussie bowler Stuart Clark insists he is 100 per cent fit after an elbow injury, but admits he needs match practice. Clark has played 22 Tests, taking 90 wickets at an average of 22, but faces a bowl-off with his fellow quicks for an Ashes berth.

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Warne also criticised Paul Collingwood’s captaincy during the Twenty20 World Cup, and said he believed Collingwood was reliant on Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss to generate hsi team’s momentum.

“Paul Collingwood can be good, but has to be batting with someone like Kevin Pietersen to bring the best out of him,” Warne said.

AUSSIE UNDERSTUDIES Australia A face Pakistan A in a four-day match starting on Friday in Townsville. The side, which includes Cameron White, Doug Bollinger, Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges, will play two four-day matches, three ODIs and a Twenty20.

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“You were ready for battle last week but you weren’t ready for war.” Kiwi World Cup-winning coach Sir Brian Lochore after the All Blacks lost to France.

“I went up to them and said, ‘who do you think has got more to lose, you have millions of dollars and I earn $30 an hour as a security guard.

Who’s going to look like the bigger goose?’” Words of wisdom from the bouncer who ejected Tim Cahill from a King’s Cross nightclub.

“It’s a bloody disgrace …

You don’t go around abusing people and acting like a big-time Charlie.

Ever since the World Cup it has just gotten worse and worse.” An unnamed Socceroos player emailed a Melbourne paper regarding the off-field habits of some of his teammates, and absolutely teed off.

“I had no idea how to set a field to him. He scored a hundred, and it was impossible to know what to do with him. You pitch the ball in one place, and he makes room for himself.

So you pitch it in another, and he starts driving you as if he were facing a bowling machine.”

Former Aussie opener Justin Langer rates young gun Phil Hughes and backs the 20-yearold for a big Ashes series.

Blues aim to rebound NSW must bounce back from their loss in game one of this year’s State of Origin battle to stop Queensland clinching a record fourth series win, but an injury to Michael Jennings has not helped their cause.

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The loss of Jennings robs the Blues of plenty of speed out wide, but Queensland coach Mal Meninga said replacement Joel Monaghan would still prove a handful.

“It adds a new dimension to their footy side – Jennings is a

fantastic players who offers a lot of speed where big Joel, he’s got experience, he’s been there before, he’s a really rock solid player and very good in the air,” Meninga said.

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was really afraid that I wouldn’t finish the race,” Stoner said.

“We did everything we could to prepare for it, but halfway through I gave up, I was absolutely dead and had nothing left. I started to suffer from really strong cramps and I could barely ride.”

Stoner, who rides for Italian team Ducati, will aim for an improved performance this weekend, in a race he won comfortably last year.

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The Dutch MotoGP in Assen this weekend will break a three-way tie at the top of the overall standings.

Australian rider Casey Stoner is level with Yamaha pair Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo on 106 points, all three men having won two races so far this season.

Italian Andrea Doviziosi is fourth, on 69 points.

In a thrilling finish at the Catalan Grand Prix in Spain two weekends ago, seven-time champion Rossi overtook Lorenzo on the final corner to snatch victory, with an ill Stoner, settling for third. “I

Civoniceva stressed that, while the Maroons were on the verge of history, they wouldn’t be getting ahead of themselves.

“We don’t really talk about it or anything like that. Obviously we’re just so focused on the now,” Civoniceva said.

“All the talk has been around whether we can make it four series wins in a row but it’s something we as a group haven’t really spoken about.”

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South Africa made it through to the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup despite losing 2-0 to Spain in Bloemfontein on the weekend, but owe New Zealand a debt of gratitude, after the Kiwis held Iraq to a 0-0 draw to aid South Africa’s progression.

But it doesn’t get any easier for South Africa, aka Bafana Bafana, who will face either Italy or Brazil in the semi, with those powerhouses having played overnight.

The Confederations Cup is widely viewed as a warm-up for the 2010 World Cup and, as host nation, Bafana have been keen to prove they will not be easybeats next year.

“The important thing is we

go to the semi-finals,” Bafana coach Joel Santana said. “It is important for the players. It is important for the people.”

Against Spain, though, South Africa were outgunned, with David Villa and Fernando Llorente scoring.

“They’re not number one in the world for nothing,” South African midfielder Steven Pienaar said. “If you’re not well organised they can punish you and that’s what happened.”

Bernard Parker (left), who scored two goals against New Zealand, played alone up front and created little, but Pienaar and Teko Modise regularly threatened with flanking runs.

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Parko chasing first Brazil win Aussie surfer Joel Parkinson will be chasing his first Brazil title when the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro starts this week in Florianopolis.

The Queenslander has been in top form this year; wins at Bells Beach and the Gold Coast catapulting him to the head of the ASP Tour standings, and a win in Brazil would put the 28-year-old in the box seat for a maiden world title.

“I haven’t been as consistent in Brazil as I would have liked,” Parkinson said.

“This will be a critical event in the year’s point score. I’ve put a lot of time and effort into what I am doing away from the contests so that I am in the

GROUNDS MCG SEND OFF The Socceroos are hoping to arrange a fixture against Brazil, Argentina or perhaps England at the MCG in May, as their last match before departing for the World Cup in South Africa. The Aussies are keen to play a top side after qualifying undefeated.

CRUMP’S RECORD BID Aussie speedway veteran Jason Crump will be aiming for a record 21st win at the British Grand Prix in Cardiff on Saturday. Crump, 33, has won the world championship twice, and currently sits atop the leaderboard after four of the season’s 11 races.

WEBBER DENIES RIFT Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber denies his recent run of hot form is causing friction with highlyfancied Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel, insisting relations betweeen the pair are fine and that his rivalry with Vettel is healthy.

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Patrick Mills and Joe Ingles are among four Australian Boomers hoping to be picked in Friday’s NBA draft.

Mills, 20, was a stand-out at the Beijing Olympics, scoring 20 points against the USA. Luke Nevill and Aron Baynes round out the Aussie group.

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fter a breakthrough semi-final appearance at Roland Garros this month, Samantha Stosur’s confidence is at an all-time high. In Paris, she beat world number four Elena Dementieva in the fourth round, before falling to eventual winner Svetlana Kuznetsova in three tight sets.

“When I saw how convincingly Kuznetsova beat Safina in the final, it definitely showed me how close I was, and I want to get back to that position and get through,” Stosur, 25, says.

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takeaway pizza and a glass of wine. Maybe after Wimbledon I’ll get a chance to do it properly.”

A CAREER HIGH After her career-best grand slam performance in Paris, Stosur’s ranking shot up to 18 in the world – the first time she’s ever been top 20. As well as a renewed faith in her ability to take it to the top players, Stosur will also benefit from a higher seeding at the All England Club.

“I know I can compete against those top 10 players. Now it’s just a matter of finding that consistency,” she says.

“That only comes by eliminating weaknesses.

Better players will target those weaknesses and use them to control the points. You need to be able to play the game on your terms.”

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A HOME AWAY FROM HOME? For many years, Australians treated success at Wimbledon as a birthright. Between 1956 and 1971, six Aussie men shared 13 titles, often facing compatriots in the final.

But Stosur admits that, while Australians

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still love the atmosphere, the surface is no longer a major advantage. Even with her big serve and heavy groundstrokes, she expects few favours from the switch to grass.

“The idea of Australians growing up on grass, of being naturally suited to it, it’s not so accurate anymore,” she says.

“The game’s more global now, and we play more on hardcourts and clay.

“It’s harder for me to use my forehand as a weapon the way I can on clay. But I feel good, I feel like I’ve been able to adjust quite quickly.”

There are only two Wimbledon champions in the men’s draw: Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt.

Hewitt doesn’t lose to many mugs at Wimbledon, and this year, he is the major beneficiary of Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal. Hewitt would have met Nadal in the second round, but he is now drawn to meet the fifth seed, 20-year-old Argentine Juan Del Potro.

Del Potro is a talent, but has no grasscourt pedigree and has never been beyond the second round. If Hewitt can beat Del Potro, he will inherit a gentle path into the quarter-finals.

DOING IT IN STYLE Australia’s historical success revolved around the cut-and-thrust of the servevolley game, and Stosur will be looking to embrace that tradition this week.

“I’ve been hitting a tonne of volleys since coming off the clay,” she says.

“I’ll be looking to serve and volley, but the grass isn’t as quick as it used to be. People can get away with staying back.”

As for how far she can go, Stosur is confident, but remains low-key.

“Getting past the second round will be a good start for me, and I expect to be able to do that,” she says. “But I’ve got to be switched on, and hopefully then I can find myself somewhere in the second week.”

HOW TO GET YOUR TICKETS In the first week, tickets for show courts range from £29 to £62, while ground passes are £20 before 5pm and £14 after. There are 6000 ground passes on sale each day, so you can probably show up at 7am and get one, but if

you want access to Centre Court or the other show courts, you’ll need to bunk down in Wimbledon Park along with the other diehards. But remember, you can only buy one ticket per person.

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In 1999, Jelena Dokic, then 16, caused one of the biggest upsets ever when she thrashed top seed Martina Hingis 6-2 6-0 in the first round, becoming the lowest-ranked player to beat a top seed at a major in the Open Era. And it wasn’t a one-off. Dokic went all the way to the quarter-finals, beating ninthseeded Mary Pierce in straight sets along the way. At the time, it seemed a major talent had arrived. Of course, Dokic’s life spiralled out of control, thanks mostly to the malignant influence of her father-manager, Damir.

Only now, aged 26, is she is rebuilding her life and her career. What a fairy tale it would be if, a decade after she emerged, Dokic goes deep into this year’s tournament.

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taking my first chef’s role at a small restaurant. In 2000, I decided it was time for something different and headed for Glasgow.

What does your job entail day-to-day?

A large amount of my job involves training and foodtasting, and so a lot of my time is spent tasting other chefs’ food.

What’s the best thing about your job?

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How did you get into your line of work?

What’s the most challenging thing about your job?

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I was studying visual arts in Adelaide, but I had always been into cooking so I decided that was the way I wanted to take my career. So I went to college and trained before

Any time that you let things slip just one bit someone has a chance to criticise you about what you have served, so you are only as good as your last dish. That’s the challenge.

ON THE JOB DAN BLENCOWE Career Head chef, Stravaigin restaurant, Glasgow Age 33 Lives Glasgow (West End) From Adelaide, Australia

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The best thing for me is that in some jobs you can work really hard and nobody will notice what you have done – but when it comes to cooking, you wear your heart on your sleeve. Anybody can come in and taste the food and say ‘it’s good’ or ‘not good’ or ‘that’s the best meal of my life’.

I’m getting lots of interviews but I never seem to land the job. What is it that I’m doing wrong?

It wasn’t that long ago that you could tick most of the boxes in an interview and get the job. But with competition for roles so hot you need to be doing more than that.

Hays GlobaLink manager

Rachel Baldy says preparation is the key to landing the job.

Know the role inside and out and thoroughly research the organisation.

She recommends you should rehearse job interview questions and pay close attention to body language and voice. And finally, dress smartly but conservatively.

he unemployment rate in Australia rose in May to 5.7 per cent.

That was expected. But for the first time the Bureau of Statistics measured the number of underemployed – people who want to work full-time but are making do with parttime work only.

Add together the jobless and the underemployed and nearly 13.5 per cent of the workforce can’t get enough work.

John Buchanan, head of the

Workplace Research Centre at Sydney University, said men were feeling the brunt of it.

“Most of that change has come from males, where the under-utilisation rate has gone from 8.2 per cent to 12.5 per cent,” he said. “In the space of a year, that is phenomenal.”

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Up to 40,000 of this year’s graduates will struggle to find work in six months, according to figures compiled

by The Guardian. The paper said the number of graduates without work was likely to be double 2008’s total.

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world Nursing is a varied industry and goes beyond hospital wards – with many different career paths for the ambitious WORDS NATASHA VUCKOVIC

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hile other sectors are cutting back on staff in the current economic climate, nursing remains a profession where good employees are in demand.

“There are lots of career opportunities at a higher level in England,” says Nuno Pinto, internal division team leader for healthcare recruiter HCL plc.

He believes career progression is very achievable in London: “So many people come and go, there are always open places.”

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PLENTY OF OPTIONS Nursing is an extremely varied industry and there are hundreds of career paths to consider.

As a staff nurse you can progress to team leader, ward manager and to director level.

There are also opportunities in the education sector as a teacher or a lecturer, or in corporate nursing working for global organisations.

GETTING UP THE LADDER Michele Jogee, registered manager of recruiter Health Professionals, advises post-graduate training in a specific clinical area.

“It’s one thing managing people, but you need to be a specialist within your field to be able to competently manage a team,” she says.

“Doing a post-grad course in a particular

There are lots of “ career opportunities at a higher level ” clinical area enables nurses to climb the ladder.”

Pinto adds UK hospitals are known for investing in nurses’ professional development, often supporting their studies financially and with time off.

Hands-on experience is also essential as it allows you to develop critical thinking.

“The more experience you have, the better it will be to progress your career,” Pinto adds.

COMMUNICATION IS KEY Speaking to other nurses is a great way to find out what jobs are on offer.

Health Professionals runs information sharing events so nurses can get together and discuss career opportunities.

“It is through events such as these that nurses realise opportunities are open to them beyond the hospital ward,” Jogee says.

OVERSEAS MARKET Going abroad could be a way to take your nursing career to another level.

Barry Pactor, international and marketing director at recruiter HCL plc, says there is a “massive” demand for nurses all over the world.

“If you have two to three years’ experience under your belt, there are fantastic roles in the US, Canada, UAE and Ireland,” he advises.

Pactor (below) says the best way to find a job overseas is to get in touch with a health care recruiter that can help you take care of work permits and other documentation.

“There are enormous opportunities for nurses to see the world, gain skills and earn decent money.”

» See tntjobs.co.uk. HCL plc (020 7451 1451); Health Professionals (020 7201 1140).

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Aldi scoops brand award iscount supermarket Aldi offers its customers more than its competitors, Which? consumer group reckons, after awarding the chain its annual Best Supermarket gong.

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Peter Vicary-Smith agreed.

“Consumers want to know that if they spend their hard-earned cash on a product or service it will be worth it.

“We’re delighted to be celebrating individuals, local businesses and well-known consumer brands,” she said.

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Hickton also warned that the traditional distribution model would never recover.

BT has called for an end to the ‘free ride’ video websites, such as YouTube and iPlayer, have had on its network and is looking to charge content owners for delivery of their programmes. BT is chasing both the BBC and Google for cash in return for carrying all that video.

I’ve just moved to London from Edinburgh, so I don’t really have a budget yet. I’m crashing on a mate’s floor and trying to spend as little as possible.

What do you blow your cash on?

At the moment, the bare necessities. Food, groceries, my phone bill and a bit of board. Admittedly, I still spend too much on beer.

Do you have any extraordinary expenses?

I’ve managed to get hold of some tickets to the Ashes, and they weren’t cheap.

I bought them before I quit my job, and that money would be pretty handy at the moment. If I run out of cash completely, I might be forced to scalp them.

ONE HELL OF A PUNTER With the Ashes approaching, it’s worth remembering the man who turned the game on its head – Kerry Packer. He was loaded, and loved to gamble. » He was the richest man in would bet the full amount on Australia, with a net worth of over A$6 billion in 2004. » Rumoured to once have lost £13.6 million in a three-day baccarat binge in Las Vegas. » At London’s Crockford’s the maximum bet on a hand of blackjack is £250,000. Packer

all seven hands. » He tipped a pub waiter A$10,000 after another venue refused him service because it was too late. » Had eight heart attacks.

One left him “clinically dead” for seven minutes.

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Depending on your living arrangements, you might be able to save on your monthly bills by switching your gas and energy supplier for a better deal.

Your options may be limited by where you live, but it’s definitely worth doing a quick price comparison to see if you’re getting the best value possible.

But remember, price isn’t everything. Anyone who has ever had to deal with a broken water heater in winter will tell you reliability and customer service are also important factors to consider.

Get online and check out uk-energy-saving.com to see if you’re being ripped off.

said: “Aldi’s ethos of offering products of similar or better quality to market leading brands, but at lower prices has long proved successful with consumers and has now been recognised by a trusted consumer guide.”

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COMING & GOING ACCOMMODATION There are Antipodeans and South Africans calling all parts of London home, but generally they tend to head west (Acton, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Hammersmith), north (Dollis Hill, Kilburn, Willesden Green) or south (Clapham, Southfields, Tooting).

For listings see tntonline. co.uk/accommodation Dossing Offer to chip in £5 a night minimum.

Hostels Expect to pay at least £10-£25 a night.

Sharing You can share a room for about £50 a week, while a room to yourself will start at around £80 a week.

Going it alone A bedsit or studio is at least £150 a week.

Bills Bills can include phone, gas, electricity, water, council tax and a TV licence.

Bond This is usually a month’s rent. You may also have to pay one month’s rent in advance.

Leases You may need to sign a lease, which will typically run for six or 12 months.

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you want, though it’s usual to give a month’s notice and help find someone to move in.

Pay and cancel your bills

Namely council tax, internet, phone, gas, electricity, TV, gym membership, insurance.

Settle overdrafts and credit cards Any defaults on bank

payments will be filed with a credit reference agency (making it difficult for you to set up an account or rent a flat if you return), or you could receive a County Court Judgement.

EMPLOYMENT Getting a job doesn’t have to be an impossible task. Register with a couple of agencies, the cream of which advertise in TNT and at tntjobs.co.uk.

Most recruitment agencies handle specific sectors: IT, banking, finance, secretarial, legal, medical and teaching are the broad categories.

Make an appointment to see a consultant, and take your passport, CV and references with you. Some agencies will help you open a bank account.

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NATIONAL INSURANCE You need a National Insurance (NI) number to work in the UK. Call 0845 600 0643 to make an appointment to apply for one.

Some NI contributions go into a State Second Pension (S2P). You can contract out of this and direct the money into a private pension fund instead.

You’ll need to do this before the end of the tax year or your contributions will be lost.

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much notice you need to give your employer will depend on your contract (usually two weeks to three months). You must give at least one week’s notice if you’ve been in your job for a month or more.

Give notice on your flat

Check the conditions of your Tenancy Agreement. If you want to leave before your lease is up, you may be liable to pay until new tenants are found. If you’re living in a sharehouse and haven’t signed a contract, you can move out whenever

The UK tax year begins on April 6, and if you work only part of the tax year you should get some tax back.

The tax threshold is £6475 per year – so if you earn less than this, you won’t pay any tax. You’ll need a P45 (when you leave a job) and a P60 (at the end of the tax year).

If you’re leaving the UK and won’t work again before the end of the tax year, you can claim a rebate by filling in a P85.

SHIPPING Get plenty of quotes, checking sizes and whether customs and tax charges are covered.

For sea freight (which should take no longer than 12 weeks to arrive) you’ll pay around £80-£150 for your first box – less for suitcases – and £30-£90 for additional boxes.

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It really feels great to have won an international photo competition and also know that my work has been a part of a London exhibition.

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Surf, sand and fun – we round up some of the best seaside attractions just a short trip from London WORDS AMY ADAMS

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he UK might lack the white sand and turquoise water of a classic beach holiday destination, and the weather rarely helps its cause. But, being an island, the country has an ace up its sleeve.

The miles of rugged coastline mean there’s a seaside to suit every need – and whether you want cheesy fun or sandy solitude, you’ll find it within an hour or two of London.

BEST-LOOKING BEACH In the final scene of Shakespeare In Love Gwyneth Paltrow is shown strolling across a seemingly endless stretch of terracotta sand. The shore in question is Holkham Bay in Norfolk (pictured),

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and frankly if it’s good enough for Gwynnie it’s good enough for us.

The vast sweep out to the North Sea manages to soak up the crowds so that even on a steamy bank holiday it’s as far from the back-to-back sunbathers of Brighton as you can get. Nature lovers will enjoy the wildlife that hides among the miles of dunes and marshes of Holkham National Nature Reserve, while naturists will enjoy the privacy afforded by said dunes.

BEST SEASIDE PIER Southwold on the Suffolk coast has avoided the candyfloss and neon lights that blight so many English seaside resorts. Instead the town is a mix

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of organic cafés, Adnams pubs, Cath Kidston boutiques and second-hand camera shops.

Wander down to the beach for a walk past the rainbow-coloured huts and you’ll reach the recently renovated pier. If the sun’s out grab all you need for sandy fun from the Beach Shop.

If not, hunker down over fish and chips in the Promenade Café or try your luck at the Under the Pier Show, a mad collection of home-made slot machines including the fortune-telling Booth of Truth and the wandering mechanical hands of the Autofrisk.

BEST SECRET BEACH Luccombe is not only one of the most remote beaches on the Isle of Wight, it’s possibly also the most secluded in the UK. We’d tell you how to get there, but then we’d have to kill you …

OK, arm twisted. It’s between Shanklin Old Village and Bonchurch. Park in the free car park just before Smugglers Haven Tea Room (the last facilities for a while) and with your back to the main road turn left and take the footpath down, wrestling overgrown trees and bushes as you go. Once you’ve found the small beach there’s a whole lot more to discover, including impressive rock formations and smugglers’ caves.

BEST FOR SURFING The new retro beach ‘pods’ at Boscombe are supposed to lend this corner of Bournemouth a feel of Western Australia, according to their

designer Wayne Hemingway (founder of Red Or Dead). While this might be pushing it, the completion of Europe’s first artificial surfing reef in August will help the cause.

This stretch of Dorset coast is already home to the third largest surfing community in the UK and the new reef, which will boost the size and shape of the waves, is expected to draw a whole lot more. Good job there are already lots of surfer-friendly hangouts to keep them happy, such as the Urban Beach Hotel, the Urban Reef café-bar and Sorted surf shop.

BEST FOR TACKY FUN As fans of The Apprentice will know, Margate isn’t the easiest of towns to market, lacking as it does most of the attractions of a modern tourist destination: no boutique hotels, no chichi shops and little in the way of slow food.

But this is part of the Margate experience. It’s the kind of place where chintzy B&Bs serve up greasy breakfasts, it’s OK to drink Stella on the beach (rather than fresh fruit smoothies), and an elderly male stripper might entertain a table of ladies during dinner in a family restaurant (seriously, this happened to me). Let’s hope plans to turn the town into a trendy art hub, funded in part by Margate’s favourite daughter Tracey Emin, don’t alter the tack too much.

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Think of the shabbiest, ugliest, most boring and chaotic city you’ve ever been to – then think of the opposite, and you’ll have Vienna. With its splendid architecture, a wide collection of museums and galleries and regular performances of world-class ballet and classical music, this is the place to embrace high art. Throw in atmospheric bars, taverns and cafés, and you’ve got the makings of a wonderful city.

spectacular gardens and the world’s oldest zoo (founded in 1752).

BEST OF THE REST The centre of Vienna is a compact area crammed with majestic buildings, stately palaces, churches, and parks.

The best way to (quickly) soak it all up is to jump in a tram and do a lap of the Ringstrasse (ring) – the series of roads running in a circle around the centre of Vienna.

St Stephen’s Cathedral, with its massive spire and grand interior, is right in the middle of the Ringstrasse.

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If you’re looking for a high vantage point, head out to the Prater amusement park and climb on board the Riesenrad (Ferris wheel). It’s a 65m high symbol of Vienna, a movie star (see The Living Daylights and Before Sunrise) and a history lesson. Built in 1897 to mark the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, the structure was damaged by bombs in World War II but rose triumphantly from the ashes to rotate once more, thus symbolising the reconstruction of Vienna.

TRY THE LOCAL TIPPLE Coffee houses are a local speciality. Expect a great line in coffee, tasty cakes and a laid-back, sophisticated atmosphere. Vienna is also home to some fantastic wine bars, where you can enjoy a glass of quality vino for a price that’s not going to bust your wallet.

CHOW DOWN Vienna’s contribution to global cuisine is the king of hearty foods: wiener schnitzel.

Meat covered in breadcrumbs then fried doesn’t sound too promising, but when it’s done well, it’s delicious.

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but book ahead for July, August or Christmas.

GETTING THERE Vienna is well connected to the rest of Austria by bus and train.

Many budget flights use the Bratislava airport in Slovakia (about 90 minutes away).

VISAS South Africans need a Schengen visa.

CURRENCY Euro. 1 GBP = 1.18 EUR. LANGUAGE Austrian-German.

GETTING AROUND The Vienna Metro is fast and frequent.

Consider buying a 24-hour travelcard for cheap travel.

Trams are quick for trips across the centre of town.

GOING OUT €5 for a beer.

ACCOMMODATION Dorm beds from €17 a night (see wombats-hostels.com) or private rooms from €40.

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The Schloss Schönbrunn, the baroque palace that was Marie Antoinette’s home as a child, is a microcosm of Vienna – touching on many of the things for which the city is famed. Go there to learn about its past royal inhabitants, its baroque exterior and rococo interior, and visit the room Napoleon is said to have slept in when he inhabited the palace in 1805 and 1809, and the famed Spiegelsaal (Hall of Mirrors) where Mozart performed when he was just six years old. Outside, there are some

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BEACH BREAKS Venture beyond Biarritz to find France’s best sunbathing and surfing beaches WORDS TREVOR PADDENBURG

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home to about a dozen camping grounds if you fancy getting back to nature. Otherwise there are apartments in town or restored farmhouses in the countryside which can work out good value with a group of mates.

I’m staying at Natural Surf Lodge, a relaxed eco surfing retreat a short drive from the beach at Seignosse. My mission for the trip is to have a crack at surfing the area’s famous beachbreak swells. In fact, you can’t visit Hossegor and its surrounds without at least attempting to ride the waves. The town’s population doubles in spring and summer with visiting surfers who come for the world-famous conditions, many camping in

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’m greeted in the southern French surfing resort of Biarritz by a wave of sauna-like 30˚C heat. After living in Blighty, France’s Basque coast – with its glorious weather and wealth of sandy beaches lapped by the Bay of Biscay – is a welcome relief.

Not for me the swarms of sun worshippers in busy Biarritz, though. I’m headed forty minutes up the coast to the more laid-back beaches of Hossegor and Seignosse, where the scent of pine needles replaces exhaust fumes and the most stressful part of the day is deciding between a swim, a surf, a stroll or a sleep-in.

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vans in beach car parks and strumming away on acoustic guitars.

If the powerful waves are too daunting, try idyllic Lake Hossegor for sailing or fishing. Or explore the pine forests that back on to the beach and have walking and cycling tracks.

Further south, the beaches of Capbreton will please anyone hunting a tan. Interestingly, you can also see the remains of World War II bunkers that were occupied by the Nazis and used to defend the beaches from invasion.

Hossegor is home to a lively strip of cafés, surf shops and bars as well, with a piazza on the beach. Stop in at Rockfood or The Beach

Hotel for a cold pint and a fresh crusty baguette, or try the hot waffles served from street vendors while you watch the waves roll in.

Don’t try to cram too much activity into your day, though. A leisurely breakfast followed by a good stint down at the beach and an afternoon siesta in a hammock should leave you feeling pretty damn content – and a very, very long way from London.

» Trevor Paddenburg travelled with Natural Surf Lodge (+33 674 160 228; naturalsurflodge.com).

A six-night stay including B&B accommodation, surf equipment, lessons and transfers is €499

AROUND THE REGION Don’t spend all day on the beach: there are plenty of things to see on the Basque coast.

BAYONNE The cultural capital of the Basque people hosts fascinating music festivals and events.

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This relaxed beach-side resort is also home to a bustling fi shing port – perfect for picking up some fresh fillets to sling on the barbie for dinner.

BIARRITZ The closest major airport and the region’s glitzy beach resort gets flooded with surfers and sun seekers in peak season, with plenty of options for a big night on the town.

ST JEAN PIED DE PORT A good base for an excursion into the valleys and quaint villages of the Pyrenees.

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WHEN TO GO Summer in Hossegor is loads of fun but very crowded from JulySeptember. Later, the surf is better and the crowds are not as intense.

GETTING THERE Budget airlines fly direct to Biarritz.

From there it’s a 40-minute cab or bus ride to Hossegor.

GETTING AROUND Hire car is ideal if you want freedom to explore. It’s also easy to bike ride around Hossegor, Capbreton and Seignosse beaches. Beach transfers are included at the Natural Surf Lodge.

VISAS Australians and New Zealanders do not need a visa. South Africans need a Schengen visa.

CURRENCY Euro.

1 GBP = 1.18 EUR. LANGUAGE French.

GOING OUT A beer costs €5.

ACCOMMODATION Hotel rooms from €45 per night, or camping at beachfront camp grounds.

SEE visitfrance.co.uk or naturalsurflodge.com.

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WINNER CHAMONIX ALPS Chris Flack, Christchurch, New Zealand

Chris has really put things into perspective by reducing the group of people to insignificant dots against the vast expanse of snow-covered mountains.

Using black and white has emphasised the contrast, but it’s the composition that really

makes the most of this scene.

The group is surrounded by huge jagged triangles of rock as far as the eye can see.

HOT TIP: By excluding the sky in a landscape you can really make the background dominate the scene.

RUNNER-UP PORTRAIT, EGYPT Georgina Rees, Sydney, Australia This guy’s outfit speaks volumes about his cheeky character. Georgina has used the lines on the cap, the collar of his jacket and the check shirt as leading lines and to frame his face. She has also filled the space and placed the face for a very intimate composition.

Using a bit of fill-in flash would have helped but luckily

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there are catchlights in the eyes anyway, otherwise this shot would not have been so engaging.

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THEME: ELEPHANTS Elephants in the rain by Kelly Arnold, Sawtell, Australia Elephants are popular safari subjects just by virtue of the fact that they are very large, full of character and are not particularly scary or quick. Kelly has put a spin on her elephant shots by capturing them in the pouring rain.

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WHY THIS WORKS: 1 The group of elephants is closely huddled together emphasising their vulnerability to the elements (especially touching as the adults are protecting the baby).

2 Elephants placed low in the scene again making them look exposed and helpless.

3 Rain clearly visible against their dark skin – rain can be

tricky to show up well in a photo.

4 Lush green grass is a good contrast. It adds colour and brightness to the dull weather.

5 Rain blurs out the background giving depth to the scene.

HOT TIPS: 1 Rain makes animals and people behave differently.

They are also more distracted

so it is great for getting candid shots.

2 Rain adds sparkle to everything it touches. The dullest subject can look glamorous in the sunlight after a downpour.

3 Raindrops can decorate the smallest, most insignificant objects and hold miniature reflections of the world, so put on a close-up filter.

4 If photographing while it’s raining don’t use the flash – it will only light up the closest rain drops and underexpose your shot.

5 If getting the rain itself in the photo proves tricky, try capturing it as it splashes in puddles or runs off surfaces.

Alternatively, you could use a fast shutter speed to freeze the drops as they fall.

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If you’re looking for a great place to TIP OF EEK stay in Cornwall, THE W try Porthtowan Backpackers. It’s in an out-of-the-way place on Cornwall’s north coast by one of the best surfing beaches in the country.

It’s a great place to explore Cornwall from and is also really cheap.

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A great place to shop in Amsterdam is the “9 straatjes” (9 little streets) that run across the main canals south of Dam Square.

You’ll find plenty of vintage clothes shops with cocktail dresses, handbags and ball gowns. Check out Laura Dols at 6-7 Wolvenstraat and Lady Day at 9 Hartenstraat.

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I’m in the process of booking our travels for the summer and would like to know whether there is a cheap and easy way to get from Italy to Greece? We will be starting in Naples and our next stop will be the islands of Greece, however flying seems to be expensive and getting a ferry looks like it would take a couple of days.

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My friends and I are doing a van tour but would like to stop in the south of France, or anywhere in Europe, for two weeks or so to do some fruit picking to earn extra cash – as we’re sure to run out of money! Is there a company or anyone we could get in contact with before we leave London?

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This kind of work is by nature seasonal, and often lasts only a few weeks in any particular place. It’s hard going, and rather than hourly rates you’re normally paid according to how much you pick. As a general rule, soft fruit, apples, pears, grapes and vegetables all ripen as the summer progresses, with olives and oranges having a much later season.

The best way to plan for this is to have a look at anyworkanywhere.com and pickingjobs.com, as well as tapping into the traveller grapevine on where to head and when. Susan Griffith’s Work Your Way Around The World (Vacation Work, £12.99) is another superb resource.

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Firstly, you can fly between these countries should you be so minded – skyscanner.net can advise on good connections, usually via another European hub. Air One (flyairone.it) flies direct from Naples to Athens with fares starting from £114 one way.

For a more fun journey, ferries from Italy to both Croatia and Greece leave from ports on the west coast of Italy – Ancona, Bari and Brindisi being chief among them. This means that in order to get to Split or Dubrovnik (adrolinija.hr for operators and timetables) or to Corfu or Igoumenitsa (ferries.gr), you first need to get to the right side of Italy. The principle of sailing to the closest port means that you’ll need to get onward transport to Piraeus, the port of Athens, should you wish to hop around the main island groups. These ferries, however, are the cheapest and easiest way to get from Italy to Greece in the height of summer.

Now this doesn’t apply to Simone, but many of you have been asking about getting from

Croatia to Greece and vice versa. There are no sea connections on this route. Instead you’re looking at an overland journey via Montenegro, Serbia and Bulgaria or Montenegro and Albania, or back-tracking from Croatia to Italy and then taking an onward ferry to Greece. Check your visa status carefully as some nationalities need visas in advance for Balkan countries.

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Flight Centre is now offering a ‘fly for free’ guarantee.

Find a scheduled airfare for cheaper elsewhere and the company will cover the cost of that fare, excluding charter and no-frill carriers.

Head of marketing Steve Norris says: “We are so confident we offer the best value deals in the UK that we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is.”

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TOURS FOR LESS Kuoni has launched its 2010 Worldwide brochure, with some prices 20 per cent lower than 2009.

The new brochure also features a broader range of entry level prices, offers and earlybird incentives.

WEBSITE WARNING Ryanair passengers are being told they must check in online ahead of a 10-hour shutdown of the airline’s website.

Rryanair.com will close from 7pm on June 24 until 5am on June 25 due to “essential upgrade maintenance” on the site.

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North-east England has launched an outdoor activity planner online.

The Adventure Generator at visitnortheastengland.com helps visitors choose from a range of outdoor activities, including beach walks, kite surfing and skydiving.

BEST CAMPING BUDDY The person we’d least like to share a tent with at a festival is Paris Hilton, according to a survey

by Tangerine Fields.

The camping service, which provides readypitched tents, tipis and yurts at 25 UK festivals, asked 500 people who they would and would not like to sleep next to this summer.

British National Party leader Nick Griffin ranked as the second least popular tent buddy, followed by Peaches Geldof and Pete Doherty.

The survey revealed the person we’d most like to share a tent with is Johnny Depp, voted number one by 40 per cent of respondents.

The reluctant heart-throb was followed by

T4 presenter Steve Jones, ex-T4 presenter Alexa Chung, and Ronnie Wood’s Russian girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova.

When it comes to who we’d most like sit around a campfire with, singer Jack Peñate came in first, chosen by 44 per cent of the survey participants. Kings of Leon came in second place, and Blur third.

Tangerine Fields also asked campers which luxury item they would want the company to provide. The air bed came out top but beauty necessities were not far behind, with 40 per cent of campers choosing hair straighteners.

For more see tangerinefields.co.uk.

Guidebook branches out The world’s first-ever Lonely Planet concept store is set to open in early July 2009 as part of Sydney Airport’s $500 million international terminal redevelopment.

The shop will sell the full range of Lonely Planet’s digital products and travel guides, as well as travel accessories and merchandise.

Howard Ralley, Lonely Planet’s sales and marketing director, says: “We figured where better to open the world’s first Lonely Planet store showcasing all that we do,

from digital services to guidebook content?

“As well as over 500 books, videos and quality travel gear, there’ll be i-touch screens to deliver expert information from our authors, plus the ability to print your own custom guidebook from our pick and mix chapters.”

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WORDS DANIEL LANDON

WORLD BODYPAINTING FESTIVAL

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Seeboden, Austria July 13-19 Discover just how amazing body art can get – there’ll even be glow-in-the-dark models, plus music, concerts, dance, and a ‘body circus’ fantasy ball.

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FESTIVAL OF THE REDEEMER VENICE, ITALY WHAT: A massive fireworks

display and gondola regatta.

Venetians tart up their boats with decorations and at sunset congregate at St Mark’s basin for eating and boozing while they wait for the 11.30pm fireworks. The big regatta is on the following afternoon.

WHEN: July 18-19.

WHY: It’s been held since 1577 to celebrate the city’s liberation from the plague, which wiped out one third of its 150,000 inhabitants.

DO IT BECAUSE: You don’t need a reason to visit one of the world’s most beautiful cities, but this event will add an extra dimension – it’s reputed to be the Venetians’ favourite festival.

HOW MUCH: Free.

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LOCK IT IN RUNNING OF THE BULLS Pamplona, Spain Jul 6-14, 2009 sanfermin.com

EDINBURGH FESTIVALS Edinburgh, Scotland Aug 7-Sep 6, 2009 edfringe.com and eif.co.uk

LA TOMATINA Buñol, Spain Aug 26, 2009 latomatina.es

BURNING MAN WOMAD Malmesbury, Wiltshire July 24-26 The original world music festival brings together a diverse range of bands and musos from across the globe, playing just about every form of music and instrument under the sun.

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Where in the world?

Black Rock Desert, Nevada Aug 31-Sep 7, 2009 burningman.com

OKTOBERFEST Munich, Germany Sep 19-Oct 4, 2009 oktoberfest.de/en/

HOGMANAY Edinburgh, Scotland Dec 31, 2009 edinburghshogmanay.org

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Leah Rauch 20, from Sydney, Australia What’s the best place you’ve been to?

Southern Italy. It was the first place I’ve been where people didn’t speak English, so it really felt like being overseas.

Bret Gill from Wellington, New Zealand, at the beach in Barcelona

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Fulham. I’d never been to a suburban club before – hilarious night.

Weirdest thing you’ve eaten?

Spam, at a homestay in Samoa.

Every meal there was crazy food, I had no idea what it was.

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Best place in the UK?

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THE INSIDER ANNA MACDOUGALL, OPERATIONS MANAGER, IMAGINATIVE TRAVELLER The best part of my job is … When travellers take the time to get in touch and say that they really enjoyed our tours, particularly if it’s the first time they’ve travelled with us.

My first big trip was …

Travelling and working in Paraguay for six months. It

Amy Adams SOLVES YOUR TRAVEL GEAR PROBLEMS MASTER CHEF No excuses for not whipping up a three-course meal with the Fold and Go 2 Burner from Coleman. It runs on propane gas, accommodates two pans at once and folds up when you’re on the hoof.

THE DAMAGE: £70 WHERE: cotswoldoutdoor.com

BASIC INGREDIENTS Keep it simple with the Primus Mimer Stove. Like a fine wine, it’s a robust, classic number. Unlike a fine wine it’s ideal for trekking, backpacking and general camping trips.

THE DAMAGE: £17.50 WHERE: snowandrock.com

may not be the place to go if you are looking for spectacular sights, but if you’re interested in a quirky destination then I’d certainly recommend it.

My most memorable travel experience was … Looking down over Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, and seeing how close some of the most holy sites of the world’s major religions are to each other.

My favourite place in the

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After a 20-year hiatus of adventurous holidays, my dad decided it was time for the five of us to rough it once more on a trip to New Zealand.

The plan was to walk the Milford Track, a four-day trek where along the way you stay in huts, complete with running water and gas cookers. Much easier than childhood camping in a field in the middle of nowhere, we all thought.

But that was before we almost set fire to the communal kitchen the first night; were shamed by the galley efficiency of the other walkers for the rest of the trip; and on the final day, had to resort to dividing out lumps of Branston pickle for lunch because we’d chosen to pack a box of wine rather than extra food.

Which goes to show that cooking in the great outdoors, even with basic facilities, is no mean feat.

It takes a bit of forward planning, ruthless choices on what’s necessary and what’s not, and the ability to chop, mix and stir in a very confined space.

It’s all made easier by having the right equipment, of course, and splashing out on decent cookware is bound to be cheaper than meals out in the long run.

GET PACKING: COOKWARE

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DO THE POTS The key to travel cookware is to make sure it’s non-stick, like this five-piece Teflon set from Outwell. No one wants to spend hours scrubbing scrambled egg off a pan when they’re on holiday.

THE DAMAGE: £29.99 WHERE: outwell.co.uk

KEEP IT COOL One of the most important camping accessories has to be the esky or cool box. Get your hands on this wheelie Igloo Cooler from new dedicated festival boutique Marsh-mellow in Spitalfields.

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world is … Petra in Jordan, because it was one of the places that all my life I had dreamed of seeing.

The next destination on my travel wishlist is …

Cuba or Venezuela.

My top travel tip is ...

Never underestimate how far a smile can get you.

I always pack … Chocolate and instant porridge.

My guilty travel pleasure is … My mobile phone.

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Get your groove on in São Paulo, Brazil, where the clubs positively ooze the sultry sounds of samba WORDS ANNA KATSNELSON

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ne of Brazil’s greatest poets and lyricists, Vinicius de Moraes, once quipped that São Paulo was “samba’s grave”, but in fact, the country’s largest city is alive with samba. Ironically, the best samba in Sampa (São Paulo’s nickname) is at bars located around cemeteries in the city’s Vila Madalena and Pinheiros districts.

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LEARN FROM THE LOCALS The first lesson of any music bar tour in Brazil is to find a tiny dive bar and befriend some locals, as they always know what’s going on.

This might seem quite difficult in a city of almost 20 million people, but this huge urban centre is still waiting to be discovered by hordes

of tourists. Therefore, Paulistanos are warm and receptive to any intrepid traveller who wanders into their dens.

One such barzinho high on regulars and low on tourists is Bar do Cidão. A tin shack exterior masks the riches inside. Small wooden tables and walls of pictures are welcoming, but by 9pm the bar is empty. Could my samba cheat sheet (samba-choro.com) be wrong?

Cidão, the owner, seats me at the best table in the house – there are only about 10 – in front of the makeshift band stand. Closer to 11pm a couple of older musicians pile in, set up their instruments and, as I’m the only one in the bar, start chatting to me.

Immediately, I have a list of at least 10 samba

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This spot is filled “ with the young and the beautiful ”

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spots I have to discover while I’m here. Time flies as I soak up the insider tips, and before I know it the bar is full of laughing locals, and a bouncer has shown up at the door to stop anyone else getting in.

Because this is São Paulo, a lot of the sambas are by Adoniran Barbosa, son of Italian working-class immigrants. Barbosa might be Sampa’s most famous samba son, but his heartwrenching lyrics are popular everywhere. His O Trem Das Onze, which means ‘The 11pm Train’, is a farewell song and the unofficial samba anthem of São Paulo. It plays at closing time in almost every samba joint in the city.

Meanwhile, the lime caipirinhas and cachaças from the state of Minas Gerais flow like water.

By the time the music is over at 4am, I’ve agreed to meet one of the regulars, João, the next day at a hot new samba joint.

MAKING MUSIC IN STORE It’s Saturday morning and I’m off to the centre of town to do some sightseeing and pick up a musical instrument. Two streets, Rua Santa Ifigênia and Rua General Osório near Largo General Osório – which previously sported the unfortunate nickname ‘Cracolandia’, but now renamed Rua do Samba – are home to a number of music stores.

I randomly pick Contemporânea, a store full of pandeiros (tambourines) and violãos

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NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO It’s not for nothing locals call São Paulo ‘cidade da garoa’ (city of the drizzle). During the winter months of December to February it’s dry but cool, and the city is warm and wet in summer (June to August).

GETTING THERE British Airways (ba.com) operates flights to Brazil from London.

Tam Linhas Aereas (tam.com.br) also flies from Heathrow. Guarulhos Airport is 16 miles (30km) north-east of the city.

GETTING AROUND São Paulo has an extensive metro network, but it closes at night. Buses run 24 hours a day. Taxis are a good and safe option, but they are not cheap.

VISAS Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans all need visas.

CURRENCY Real.

1 GBP = 2.76 BRL. LANGUAGE Portuguese, though English is widely spoken by the city’s younger generation.

GOING OUT A beer costs about 6.4 BRL, a caipirinha is 9.6 BRL. ACCOMMODATION Hostel dorm rooms start from 41.7 BRL per person per night.

A private room is 99.5 BRL. SEE spturis.com and cidadesãopaulo.com.

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(guitars), sheet music and song lyrics.

I’m in luck. Every Saturday from 10am-2pm the store hosts jam sessions of choro, a fast and often only instrumental music played mostly on cavaquinhos (ukuleles) and guitars. As the music of Pixinguinha and Jacobo do Bandolim pours over me, I forget that it’s Rio that owns the moniker “Brazilian samba-choro mecca”.

IN THE SWING OF THINGS At 2pm, I grab a bus to Pinheiros for the Saturday street fair at Praça Benedito Calixto, where another choro band plays more Valdir Azevedo and Gonzaguinha. When the music ends, I move on around the corner to Saravah Bar, where my new friend João is already seated at the bar.

This stylish spot is filled with the young and the beautiful. As the silver-voiced singer takes the stage next to the band, couples dance in every nook and cranny of the bar. The atmosphere is steamy, and it’s only 6.30pm.

Sara, the owner, comes over to talk. A former stewardess, she loves foreigners, and her bar is named after lyrics in one of De Moraes’ songs Samba Da Bênção in which the musician hails the important things in life (saravah).

The atmosphere “ here is steamy, and it’s only 6.30pm ” Lee, Brazil’s greatest rocker, recently responded to De Moraes’ snub: “São Paulo is rock’s cradle.”

Lee might be a little biased as she and the other members of the ’60s psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes came from São Paulo.

After so much great samba and choro in less than 24 hours, I need to pay my respects to São Paulo’s more famous rock scene. My next stop at the recommendation of one of the samba bar regulars is Café Piu Piu in the neighbourhood of Bixiga, Barbosa’s old stomping ground. This eclectic city favourite is open six days a week,

THE CITY’S ROCK SCENE There might be an unimaginable amount of samba joints to try out in the city, but as Rita

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BIG TRIP and plays everything from Led Zeppelin covers to Jorge Ben Jor samba-rock tunes.

NEXT WEEK: LA TOMATINA A big, red food fight in Spain

THE BEAT GOES ON …

BAR BRAHMA What: Mega-live music club.

Where: Avenida São João 677, Centro (brahmasp.com).

When: Daily.

BAR DO CIÃO What: Traditional samba and choro joint.

Where: Rua Deputado Lacerda Franco 293.

When: Daily.

BAR SARAVAH What: Trendy samba bar.

Where: Rua João Moura, on the corner of Rua Cardeal Arcoverde.

When: Call +55 11 8772 7050 to check.

CAFÉ PIU PIU

Graffiti in São Paulo

WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS GET ARTY For a city that at first sight seems brash and obnoxious – the loud traffic and landscape of skyscrapers – São Paulo is surprisingly attuned to art and architecture.

The city hosts the second largest art meeting in the world, the Bienal de São Paulo. The striking Museu de Arte de São Paulo, designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi, overshadows Avenida Paulista, and the Pinacoteca do Estado is a neoclassical building from the early 20th century.

Redesigned in the ’90s as a palace, it now holds a collection of Brazilian art.

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SEE GRAFFITI For the flip side of São Paulo’s art scene check out the Choque Cultural Gallery (choquecultural.com.br), which specialises in urban art. Graffiti by prominent artists has been sanctioned by the city’s government on stretches of main roads. Some of the best are on Rua 23 de Maio and Rua Doutor Arnaldo.

PARK LIFE Parque Ibirapuera is the city’s most famous park, with an array of buildings designed by

the famous centenarian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Others include Parque Burle Marx to the south (designed by the world renowned landscape artist who bears the park’s name).

To the north is Parque da Cantareira. It’s a jungle environment within the city limits with great hiking trails. The best view of the city is from the park’s Pedra Grande.

What: Rock, samba rock, and Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB).

Where: Rua Treze de Maio 134 (cafepiupiu.com.br).

When: Check the website.

Ó DO BOROGODÓ What: Samba bar and dance club located in a large warehouse.

Where: Rua Horácio Lane 21.

When: Call +55 11 3814 4087 to check.

HIT THE BEACH About an hour away from São Paulo is the built-up beach town of Guaruja. Its proximity to São Paulo has made the once beautiful fi shing village an unimaginable sprawl. But beautiful Atlantic beaches, with clear, crisp waters and fabulous waves, are just to the north of this tourist haven. Check out the isolated beach of Praia Preta, a hike away from the city’s Praia Branca.

OUT OF TOWN A visit to Embu das Artes, a cobbled town 40 minutes away from São Paulo’s city centre, is the best way to spend a Sunday. One-storey multi-coloured houses, shops, galleries, antiques and the Sunday fair provide the draw.

Bar Brahma

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ALL HAIL SAMBA On Sunday I’m back in samba central at large warehouse Ó do Borogodó in Pinheiros, where a 10-piece roda de samba keeps me sambando until I’ve worn out my soles.

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Kiwi, Ozzie flatshare.£490.00 pm Tel: 07833 740 410 Email: Burton_clare@yahoo.com.au BARNES SW13 Dbl rm, overlooks river, 30secs to shops and transport. Tel: Hayley 07787 079 237.

BAYSWATER Double studio flat avail, close to amenities. Recently refurbished. Own kitchen, en-suite bathroom. Bills incl. £150 pw Tel: 020 7795 6525 BRIXTON Fully furnished room avail. Sharing 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms, lounge & garden with 5 thers.Close to station & amenities.

Internet access, landline. Bill incl. £340 Tel: 07778 648 035 brixtonroom@hotmail.co.uk CAMDEN: FURNISHED dbl rm avail in bright sunny garden flat, close to park, all amenities & station. All mod cons, £500pcm incl. bills. Dep. reqd. Tel: 07872 643 451.

LONDON BRIDGE Two bedrooms and a living room. Deposit req. Bills incl £720 pm Tel: 07904 631 709 rooms4rent@live.co.uk MAIDA VALE Fully furnished double room avail. Good transport links. Sharing fully-fitted kitchen & bathroom with 1 other. Roof terrace Bills incl. £100 pw interlet@interlet.com MANOR HOUSE Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

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NOTTING HILL GATE Bedsit room avail. Recently decorated, own kitchenette & shared bathroom.

Close to station. Bills incl. £120 pw Tel: 020 7795 6525 PUTNEY BRIDGE Furnished room with double bed avail. Close to amenities, river. Two bathrooms, well-equipped kitchen with diner.

Internet access. All mod cons. £125 per week Tel: 07956 344 613 joesoares@f2s.com SOUTHFIELDS Double room avail.

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Internet access .£85pw Tel: 020 7795 6525

TOOTING BROADWAY Double room avail. Furnished with bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and shelves, bedside tables, TV. Access to patio garden,internet. Price of £110 pwincl. bills. 07730 529 270 betty.75@wp.pl

EUSTON Studio flat avail. Close to station. Wooden floors throughout, with cooking facilities & en-suite bathroom. Free internet, Sky TV £210 pw Tel: 020 7795 6525

VAUXHALL Recently refurbished studio with en-suite kitchen & bathroom avail. Fully furnished, close to amenities. £130 pw interlet@interlet.com

FULHAM BROADWAY Furnished room avail. Bathroom share with 1 person, own well-equipped kitchen.

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WALTHAMSTOW CENTRAL Single room avail. Close to station & amenities. Internet access.

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WEST KENSINGTON Fully furnished single bedsit avail. Own kitchenette, sharing bathroom with 2 others. Close to the station. £85 pw Tel: 020 7795 6525 WIMBLEDON PARK Room for rent close to station. Fully furnished house and room with double bed, sharing with 3 others, back yard. £475 pm Tel: 07763 258 989 devonbooth@gmail.com

WIMBLEDON Double room in 3 bed flat avail.Close to station. Fully fitted kitchen, lounge, balcony.

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the cowgirls at The Church on Sun, Jun 14, and now miss my neon-clad boy! You were wearing a yellow visor and the neon clothes to match. We hooked up just before getting kicked out of The Church, but made it to She Bu at different times. We even took some good pictures together, ha ha. I went looking for you, but then had to take my mate home. Get in touch! Email churchcowgirl@hotmail.co.uk.

Shermo: You know you rock!

I’ll miss the antics we get up to and, of course, all of the stink yarns. We’ve had great times: the Reddy, Walkie and many random trips. I’ll miss you lots. It’s not going to be the same here without you. You’re my besty for life. Fanny.

Young Melbourne guy on free tour of Edinburgh on Tue, Jun 16: You have short

dark hair and a blue Rip Curl jacket. I was a fellow young Aussie girl. I asked where you were from and I want to talk to you more.

If you read this, email me at marat_chong@hotmail.com.

Happy birthday Stinky head bottom face: Can’t wait to

rock out for your 22nd at Glasto. Love you so much … a google to the power of infinity plus seven! Love your little Stanley lover.

Happy birthday Helen and Cova: Girls, another

post your message at tntonline.co.uk/seeking or email seeking@tntmagazine.com Steve Steel: Cannot believe you’re leaving our Brixton family. Who’s going to translate what Eddie says now? And what about roll call? What do we do again?

What if someone doesn’t turn up? How will we know?

You’re a good manager and we’re going to miss you. Have an awesome adventure and save us a seat in NZ! Kinnie and the Gang.

Young Aussie/Kiwi nannies in west London: Interested

in meeting up for after-work drinks so we don’t bore our mates with baby talk, with the possibilities of setting up play dates or visits to the park etc? Email nanniesinlondon@ googlemail.com and we’ll try to start our own network.

Possum: Happy birthday possum! I hope you have

the best birthday ever. Thank you for everything this last year. I can’t wait to share more bottles of good wine and great conversation with you. Love you madly! Lisa.

My Whanau at 38: I’ll miss you all so much, especially you supergeek! The last two and a half years have been the best.

Damn immigration. Itchy.

Two lost wallets: Lost the first one on a night bus on Acton High St (opposite the police station). It was a white MCM wallet with my NZ driver’s licence in it. The second one was near Acton Tube stop about three weeks ago. It’s a red wallet and had my NZ 18+ card and Queensland driver’s licence in it. Not worried about the wallets, just need those IDs! Email scottyvile@hotmail.com.

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birthday to celebrate together in London! How many good memories we have so far, but let’s make one more and party like we used to.

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The King Of Kong: Happy birthday for Thursday, my china! You might be away from home but we can still rumble in the jungle. Now, just remember the FSB rule – I don’t want any more of your monkey business :-) VL.

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