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EDITOR’S LETTER The saying ‘eat, drink and be merry’ was surely coined at Oktoberfest. Any time somebody asks me about this German institution I describe it as the happiest place on earth.

While it’s been a magnet for Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans for years, Oktoberfest is a truly international event where a few steins break down any language barriers.

If you’re planning to go, check out Trevor Paddenburg’s survival guide on page 70 for some handy tips.

Enjoy the mag.

70 Oktoberfest: make merry in Munich

57 TRAVEL

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9 LONDON 9 London Eye 10 London Life 12 BATTLE SCARS: Your guide to World War II sites in London 14 Food & Drink 16 ARE YOU A KITCHEN NIGHTMARE?: The secrets to being a good cook 18 Spotted

21 ENTERTAINMENT 21 22 23 24 25

Celebrity News TNT Life Look Who’s Talking: Rose Byrne Cinema Culture

26 MUSIC & CLUBS 26 Music 28 SWEET TEMPERED: The Temper Trap bring their big sound to the UK 30 Music Listings 32 Clubbing 33 Clubbing Listings

62 Fine food and classic views in Italy

57 Global Vision 58 CITY AND SCENERY: The best of both worlds in western Ireland 60 TNTT Weekender: York 61 Late Deals 62 IN GOOD TASTE: Fine fare in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region 64 Hotshots 66 Travel Tips 67 Travel News 68 On The Road 69 Gear Up 70 GET THE BEERS IN: Top tips on making the most of Oktoberfest

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Australia News New Zealand News South Africa News The week in sport Rugby NRL AFL General

50 CAREERS & MONEY 50 Careers 51 LAW AND ORDER: What it takes to work as a legal secretary 54 Money 55 Coming & Going

16 Learn to be a sharehouse chef

REGULARS 4 Letters 6 Wins 130 Desperately Seeking & Dear Reuben 12 Get a feel for wartime London

28 The Temper Trap set to take UK by storm

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While it’s great you’re trying to help people save money, it might help if you gave them all the information. In the Easy money column, you seem to suggest a return train ticket London to Edinburgh will cost at least £90.

That might be true but two advance singles with the National Express online discount can get you there and back for only £33 if you book ahead.

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➥ TNT1351 JULY 20-26 IN LOVE WITH LONDON I like what you wrote (Loving London life). You have it to a T. I would like to comment on the last bit, however.

“A year in London will toughen you up and put you in life’s fast lane. For all of you who haven’t found its appeal yet – stick it out. It creeps up on you when you least expect it.”

This only happens while you are living there.

Once you get home your frustration rises at how everything you said is the exact opposite back home.

I would be on a plane in no time if I had my way, and living the rest of my life in London.

For those of you that complain. Suck it up princess, the grass is greener on your side of the world.

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C’MON, AUSSIE, C’MON Oh, no Ricky Ponting please stop the pain now.

The bloody Poms are going to go off their heads for the rest of the summer after winning

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The bloody Poms are “ going to go off their heads for the rest of the summer ” the second Test at Lord’s. As if it wasn’t bad enough when I was on the other side of the world in 2005, now I have to put up with this constant gloating where I live.

Come on Ricky and co.

Don’t do it for everyone in Australia. Stuff them, they don’t have to put up with the shit I’m copping every day. Do it for us poor Aussie bastards who have to work with the unbelievably annoying Poms every day.

Max, Fulham

WHERE’S THE HONOUR? How could Andrew Strauss not have known that catch at Lord’s didn’t carry last week?

My blind grandmother standing at fine-leg could have told you it was questionable at best.

If that’s how the Poms want to win it and be led by a man

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with no integrity, than pity the great game of cricket in England. Imagine the outcry if it had been Ricky Ponting who’d done it? He would have been hounded out of the country by now.

Michael, Croydon

SUCH A GREAT DEAL? I must confess I’m a big fan of Primark. How could you not be when you an outfit costs £7? But I’m starting to wonder if this is false economy.

I buy stuff there every week but it’s normally at the bottom of the drawer in six weeks.

I suppose Oxfam are doing well out of me at least.

Sarah, Hammersmith

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YOUR SAY GOTTA GET AWAY

How good is it to travel at the moment? For anyone who hasn’t booked any summer holidays yet, here are 10 good reasons to get off your arse and do it now.

1. You can avoid swine flu paranoia in the UK – hopefully you’ll just avoid swine flu, period.

2. Get away from the Poms bragging about the Ashes.

3. Summer might have got off to a good start but we all know how

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4. The food is better everywhere else in Europe than the UK. 5. You don’t have to get on the Tube – enough said.

6. You can stay out till the early hours and sleep in until lunch.

7. If you say you’re going to do something and it doesn’t get finished (like this list) nobody cares.

Enjoy summer.

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COMMUNITY CORNER REMAINS RECLAIMED Two representatives from Australia’s Gunditjmara people of south-west Victoria last week reclaimed human remains from University College London. Tom Day and Ken Saunders also met other UK institutions in relation to the return of further remains of their people.

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The prize package is for the last weekend of the festival on October 2-6, and not only will you stay in Munich to enjoy Oktoberfest, you’ll also spend one night in Stuttgart for Volksfest – a lesser known beerfest but a far more ‘German’ and less touristy event.

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Practitioners of Falun Gong protest in Parliament Square over the 10-year persecution of their spiritual discipline by the Chinese Communist Party. The protesters claim that Falun Gong members have been tortured and intimidated by the Chinese Government, and are calling to dissolve the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

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CARNAVAL DEL PUEBLO FREE WHAT: A massive celebration of Latin American music, dancing, food and colour. This year it’s merged with the Brazilian Day festival for double the Latino action. There’s also a street parade from Elephant Road (near Elephant & Castle station).

WHEN: August 2, 10am-10pm. Parade starts noon, arriving at Burgess Park 3pm.

DO IT BECAUSE: It’s the biggest festival of its type in Europe, featuring a host of top-line Latin bands, musos and dancers.

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Capital idea: Notting Hill celebrity tours Admit it: you look out for Hugh Grant’s blue door or the Travel Bookshop when you’re in Notting Hill. Now, with Celebrity Planet’s new Notting Hill Tour, you can breeze by those stomping grounds just like Julia Roberts.

Our entertaining Aussie guide, and his trusty pooch Clarence, offer a behind-thescenes look into one of London’s most famous neighbourhoods, as well as the hangouts of its glitzy residents.

On the two and a half

hour stroll you’ll peek into sites including a Love Actually (above) locale, the former home of Richard Branson, and one of the few Banksy works left in the city. You’ll also see where Pink Floyd played their first gig and Bob Marley recorded Exodus. ALI NIGRO

This weekend of interactive games – from hide and seek to Twittering for villians – will take some beating as the year’s most out-there event.

» Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX Embankment (southbank centre.co.uk) Jul 31-Aug 2

EMIRATES CUP £25- £50 More top-flight pre-season soccer friendlies hit London.

This time it’s Arsenal, the Scottish champions Rangers, Atlético Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain playing four matches over two days.

» Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, N5 1BU Arsenal (arsenal.com). Aug 1-2

» Tours depart from the Sun In Splendour, Portobello Rd, W11 3DA Notting Hill Gate (thecelebrityplanet.com). TueSun, 2.30pm. Until Oct 31. £10 VERDICT: CAMERAS READY

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WARM BEER An enduring stereotype of Brits is that they love warm beer – a prospect that horrifies newly arrived Antipodeans and Saffas used to wellchilled brews.

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THE BLITZ The Blitz, an unrelenting wave of bombing by the German Luftwaffe (air force), lasted from September 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, and was one People asleep on the platform at Circus Tube during an air raid tntonline.co.uk Piccadilly

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t ended almost 65 years ago, but it’s hard to overstate the continuing impact World War II has had on London and Britain. Unlike cities in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, London was on the front line of the war. Not only was it the nerve centre of the fight against the Nazis, large swathes of the capital were flattened by German bombs.

While the buildings are repaired and Germany and Britain on good terms, how the war affected the lives of Londoners – and the war’s legacy – make for interesting exploring.

PAY YOUR RESPECTS LONDON’S WAR MEMORIALS ■ The Cenotaph, in the

A reconstructed bomb site at the Imperial War Museum

The Cabinet War Room s

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of the grimmest events in London’s history.

The blitzkrieg (German for lightning war) caused about 20,000 deaths and destroyed or damaged a third of London’s homes. With its docks, factories and warehouses the East End was a particular target and suffered hugely, but St Paul’s Cathedral survived despite being struck by 28 bombs.

The Museum of London in Docklands is a must-see – it’s got fantastic displays on the Blitz and how it affected Londoners.

Other places to check out include: ■ For a re-creation of the sights and sounds of several tonnes of bombs dropping on your suburb visit the Britain at War Experience (britainatwar.co.uk) in London Bridge.

■ The London Fire Brigade Museum (london-fire.gov.uk) tells of the heroics of the mostly untrained men and women who put out the fires. Visits must be booked in advance.

■ London Walks (walks.com) runs several tours that explain the Blitz and World War II. ■ If you spot an out-of-place building among a row of terraces it’ll likely be the result of post-war rebuilding to replace a bombed-out home.

THE NERVE CENTRE The Cabinet War Rooms (cwr.iwm.org.uk) is an underground bunker in the heart of Whitehall that was the central shelter for government and military

strategists. It now offers an evocative insight into the place where Winston Churchill, the inspirational PM from 1940-45, masterminded British resistance and fightback.

The Cabinet War Rooms has a museum dedicated to Churchill, including exhibits on his personal life, successes and failures (many blame Churchill for the disastrous World War I campaign at Gallipoli).

The Blitz was “ one of London’s grimmest events

■ The Australian War

Memorial London is at Hyde Park Corner, on the traffic island around Wellington Arch. Etched in the wall are the 23,844 home towns of Australian servicemen and women who died in WWI and II, and the 47 locations of major battles in which Aussies fought.

■ A few metres away the

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INVASION PREVENTED If the Battle of Britain hadn’t failed to go Hitler’s way, you could be reading this in German.

By May 1940 the Nazis had conquered most of western Europe and had their sights set on Britain. Enter the pilots of the Royal Air Force.

Outgunned and outnumbered, they held firm against the Luftwaffe from July to October 1940.

With Germany unable to wrest control of the skies the Nazis were forced to delay invasion, ultimately for good. The Battle of Britain is best experienced at the Royal Air Force Museum (rafmuseum.org.uk).

THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM There are galleries on many aspects of World War II, including the lead-up to the war, the Blitz, the Battle of Britain, and how the conflict affected the average Brit.

And Outbreak 1939, a new exhibition opening on August 20, looks at the build-up to the war, the beginning of hostilities, and the early months of the conflict.

New Zealand Memorial in London consists of 16 vertical ‘standards’, set in formation on a grassy slope.

The standards are adorned with words and patterns evoking the Kiwi wartime experiences, and the bond between NZ and Britain.

■ There is a statue of Jan

Smuts, the South African statesman and Prime Minister who had a leading role in British high command during both World Wars, in Parliament Square.

The NZ War Memorial

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middle of Whitehall, is the focus of services on Remembrance Day (the closest Sunday to November 11) and other ceremonies, such as the anniversary of the D-Day landings by Allied troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944. It commemorates British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who died in the World Wars.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW Hiba

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134-138 Borough High St, SE1 1LB (020 7357 9633) London Bridge/Borough

THE SCENE Despite Hiba’s somewhat unpromising exterior, a warm, friendly and surprisingly modernlooking eatery lies within.

THE GRUB Hiba is Arabic

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Cookery course

for ‘gift from God’, and the food certainly lives up to this billing. We sampled fresh, perfectly spiced hummus, fattoush, shawarma chicken and batata harra (spicy fried potatoes with garlic), and rounded it all off with some traditional Lebanese desserts.

BEHIND THE BAR I wasn’t wowed by the wine list but

bottles start from about £12.

BILL PLEASE Good value for money: you can quite easily order a handful of mezze to share with prices starting at around £3.95. An obligatory service charge of 12.5 per cent applies.

VERDICT Straightforward, traditional Lebanese fare done well at a reasonable price. ALISON GRINTER

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There’s no end to Jamie Oliver’s empire. TNT visited his latest project Recipease.

WHAT IS IT? Part store, part cooking school, this buzzing kitchen emporium stocks Jamie’s cookware and freshly made food to go, and offers you the chance to assemble a meal to take home (Easy To Make) or learn how to make a dish from scratch (Easy To Learn).

WHAT WE COOKED Seeking something that goes beyond the novice cook’s repertoire and looks impressive, I opted for an Easy To Learn lesson on making a stuffed lamb rack (£35).

Leigh, our tutor, showed us the intricacies of French trimming a rack (that’s when butchers scrape the bones clean, topping them with little white hats). Knives in hand, it was our turn to test our skills – not as easy as it looks, and mind your fingers, especially

OF THE BEST: GARDEN GRILLS The Britannia Victoria Park Rd, E9 7BT Revamped into a stylish gastropub, The Britannia offers steaks, burgers and, of course, hog roast from its grill, overlooking Victoria Park. after a glass of wine. Then we stuffed the lamb with feta, sun-dried tomatoes and olives, tied it up, and took it home to roast.

ANY GOOD? The lamb was delicious, and once having got the hang of trimming it, easy to make. But

the class was not as intimate as other ones I’ve attended, perhaps due to the fact you’re watched by onlookers on the shop floor. JANINE JORGENSEN

» St Johns Rd, SW11 1PR Clapham Junction (jamieoliver.com/recipease).

Various prices

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main course, dessert and film screening, which includes the likes of Casino Royal and The Dark Knight, for £25.

See danddlondon.com/ restaurants/bluebird.

Tempting tacos Mexican fast food eatery Benito’s Hat in Goodge Street

turns one-year-old this Wednesday, and they’re throwing a party with some celebratory specials.

Tacos will be just £1 and Coronas will also be £1 each.

The party gets started at 5pm, and the restaurant will be open till 11.30pm to make sure everybody gets their fill.

Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AF Situated in a hotel’s secluded courtyard, the grill changes regularly from a traditional barbecue to a more a lavish seafood feast.

The White Horse Parson’s Green, SW6 4UL You may have to stand with a drink in hand at this popular pub – but its grilled burgers can’t be missed.

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Catch some of cinema’s finest men at the Smirnoff Black Screenings at Bluebird restaurant in Chelsea, every Wednesday until Sep 15.

Sit back and enjoy an evening of Hollywood glamour, with a smooth Smirnoff Black cocktail,

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E M HO If you’re thinking about heading home this year, make sure you check out TNT’s Returning Home section in next week’s magazine.

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Property market in Oz and NZ Job market back home Tips for making the transition Profiles from people who have made the move

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NIGHTMARE? You can’t boil an egg. Your friends laugh at your attempts to prepare rice. You try to learn, but even basic recipes baffle you. TNT is here to help WORDS TOM STURROCK

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Chop to it: cooking can be easy

in the kitchen, here are some tips to get you cooking with gusto.

GET KITTED OUT You are going to need some equipment, but you needn’t break the bank, nor buy a bunch of new-fangled stuff you’ll never use. Start with a frying pan, and if you’re planning on cooking a lot of stir-fries, you’ll want a wok.

You’ll also need a heavier-bottomed saucepan to slow-cook sauces, curries and anything else you can’t slap together quickly in a pan.

Key ingredient: Cheap pans won’t last long. So while you don’t want to spend a packet, paying a little extra for quality won’t hurt.

TAKE A CLASS Consider taking a cooking course to build your confidence and develop the skills needed to put a meal together. It’s amazing how easy and fun

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ookery has become a noble art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen,” said Oxford scholar and vicar Robert Burton back in the 17th century. Burton sounds like a man who knew the shame of being utterly useless in the kitchen, and the frustration of living in a sharehouse where no one knows how to bake a potato.

If you’ve never been shown how to cook, teaching yourself can be confusing.

Simple procedures easily replicated after being shown can sound impenetrable in print, and recipes often assume the reader has some degree of expertise to begin with. Nothing puts a novice off cooking faster than reading a recipe, and being forced to Google terms such as “lightly braise” or “sauté”.

So, if you’re enthusiastic but clueless

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it is to cook a delicious curry once someone has shown you how.

The London Cookery School runs courses for beginners – they assume you can’t even boil water – as well as intermediate lessons for those who are a bit more confident.

Even if you don’t come away from a cooking class knowing how to cook hundreds of exotic dishes, it will get you thinking about food, and

It’s amazing how “ easy and fun it is to cook a curry ” at least the seeds of how to prepare a meal will have been planted.

Key ingredient: Ask questions. Everyone is there to learn. You don’t want to get home and realise you have no clue about a crucial step.

PLAN AHEAD, STOCK UP ON BASICS If you’re just finding your feet in the kitchen, it’s unlikely that you’ll have all the different ingredients lying around.

Once you’re a master chef, you’ll be able to cobble together a three-course meal from leftovers, but until then take time to plan your meal – look at a recipe, make a shopping list.

Spices are cheap, so don’t skimp. And if

Test your skills on your friends

there’s one kind of cuisine you particularly enjoy, chances you’ll be able to reuse the same ingredients.

Key ingredient: After you’ve been shopping, get to know your spices by smell-testing them.

If nothing else, it will make you want to cook.

COOK OFTEN, AND AS A GROUP Cooking for one is a pain. You have to buy small portions of everything, which makes less sense financially, and you’ll probably make too much.

Leftovers are fine for lunch the next day, but you don’t want six portions of spag bol in your fridge for the next week.

So get some mates together, particularly if you’re living in a sharehouse, and set aside one night a week for a cook-up. Put on some tunes, crack open some booze and start cooking.

Key ingredient: Cooking in groups can sometimes be tricky as everyone wants to get involved. Delegate from the start.

» Tom Sturrock attended the London Cookery School, Little Portland St, W1W 8BW Circus (cookeryschool.co.uk)

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LAMB TAGINE WHAT YOU NEED: 1kg leg of lamb, cubed; 5 tbsp olive oil; 2 onions, chopped; 3 garlic cloves, chopped; 2 tsp ground ginger; 1 tbsp ground cinnamon; 1 tbsp ground cumin; 1 tbsp saffron; 1 cup fresh parsley and coriander, chopped; 2 tbsp tomato purée; 1 tbsp honey; 1 cup almonds; 2 tbsp sesame seeds THE WORK: Place the lamb in a bowl and cover with the oil, ginger, cinnamon and cumin.

Heat some oil in a pan, and then brown the lamb, about eight pieces at a time, and set aside.

Sauté the onions and garlic in a heavy-bottomed pan. Add the meat, saffron, parsley, coriander, tomatoes, tomato purée and honey.

Add enough water to cover the meat. Bring to the boil and turn the heat down. Simmer for 90 mins until the meat is tender.

Lightly toast the almonds and sesame seeds in a pan, and sprinkle over the cooked meat.

Serve hot with freshly cooked couscous.

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ITALIAN Herbs and spices: Garlic, basil,

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Tomato sauce: Not ketchup, obviously.

Olive oil: Use standard olive oil, rather than extra-virgin olive oil.

Pasta: Don’t buy a huge amount of any one specific noodle.

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Fish sauce: Used as a substitute for salt.

Coconut milk: Used in many Thai curries.

Limes: Gives a sharp zesty flavour.

Palm sugar: Has a rich caramel flavour.

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US pop star Pink called in sick to an Australian concert after she was struck down with a bout of laryngitis. The concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre has been rescheduled.

RUSTY TO THE RESCUE Russell Crowe swooped in to help a real damsel in distress on the set of his new Robin Hood movie in England.

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Princess Beatrice’s amazing detox weight loss plan, plus Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt mark their twins’ special day with a family party.

AUSTRALIA New Idea: Sad Aussie prisoner Schapelle Corby hits rock bottom as she loses her grip on reality inside her Bali jail. Plus, the Jackson women wage war as Michael’s murder mystery continues, Demi Moore proves she’s the ultimate beach babe in a barely there black bikini, and all the latest from Australia’s new hit cooking show Masterchef.

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The Aussie star of cult TV show Damages talks about finding love, where to call home and those weight-loss rumours

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Rose Byrne INTERVIEW PIERRE DE VILLIERS

23 How are you? There were some photos of you a while ago where you looked very thin, with some reports suggesting you had an eating disorder.

No, I’m absolutely fine. They were only really saying those things in Australia, and were trying to sell newspapers. I was kind of shocked they would even notice me because I’m really under the radar.

When my mum rang and said: ‘Are you OK?’, I was like: ‘What are you talking about?’ I think I was probably just stressed at the time from working hard and lost weight and that was it.

Where do you live at the moment?

I’ve been based in New York for a few years now, but I guess I chase the work more than anything at the moment. I’m hoping to settle in a city one day. I just have to figure out where.

Australia is “ definitely my

emotional home

”

How often do you go to Australia?

Oh, I go back often. It’s definitely my emotional home. I miss my family and my friends, and they are all in Sydney.

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Much has been made of your longdistance relationship with Aussie writer and actor Brendan Cowell. How have you managed to stay together?

High phone bills! [Laughs] No, he’s been in New York with me pretty much the whole time. I did the film Knowing last year in Melbourne, and he was there so it’s been fine. We have a few weeks here and there, but generally we have pretty much navigated it. He’s a writer, so he can just hang out and write while I do Damages in New York. In the last two years we’ve actually been pretty much together the whole time.

When it comes to love, do you believe people are destined to be together?

I think lust is a huge thing that possibly gets mistaken for destiny sometimes.

I think destiny is a great idea and it does exist in certain ways, but love is very intangible and it can be so fleeting or transitory. There are so many different types of love, you know, that I feel destiny with romance is sometimes a dangerous combination. But I’m a sucker for a romantic film and cry every time I see When Harry Met Sally, so I probably do have a side that believes in that.

You started acting when you were pretty young. Did you always want to be an actress?

I was always performing. I’m the youngest of four so I was the young child performing for the other three kids, trying to get their attention and impress them. Then I started doing classes when I was eight and it was so much fun. It was all about imagination and exploring things. I kind of figured out that I could do it for a living as I grew up, and it was a natural progression.

Your new film Adam explores the importance of honesty and trust.

How much do you value those things in your own life?

All you have, really, is honesty in many ways. Whether that is with

YOU DON’T SAY? What song is guaranteed to get you on the dance floor?

Superstition by Stevie Wonder.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Chocolate and Sex And The City.

What would your superpower be?

Flying.

work or your relationships. I endeavour to be honest, but sometimes I feel that honesty is almost a selfish thing.

Sometimes it’s more constructive to tell a white lie in that moment. It’s a very interesting part of life.

It must be difficult to find someone in Hollywood who is completely straight with you, with no ulterior motive.

Yeah, absolutely. But I’m a cynic and a pessimist so I don’t believe anything that anybody ever says to me. It’s probably an incredibly Australian quality of mine.

» Adam is in cinemas from August 7

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The Taking Of Pelham 123

SCREEN TEST: JOHN TRAVOLTA

Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini

1 Who did Travolta dance with at the White House in 1985?

2 What do actor/drag queen Harvey Fierstein and Travolta have in common?

3 Name one of the three Tom Hanks films in which Travolta turned down the leading role.

4 What nickname did Mia (Uma Thurman) give Vince (Travolta) in Pulp Fiction?

5 Which Grease co-star was confused as an Aussie, but was actually British-born?

STARRING:

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★★★★★

With the likes of Denzel Washington, John Travolta and James Gandolfini on board, The Taking Of Pelham 123 promises to be a helluva ride. Sadly, the trio has little to sink their teeth into in what proves to be an average hostage drama.

A pale imitation of the 1974 film of the same name, Pelham 123 takes us beneath New York where a subway train is hijacked by gunwielding thugs led by the unhinged Ryder (Travolta).

Thrust into the role of hostage negotiator is dispatcher Walter Garber (Washington) who, along with the city’s mayor (an under-used Gandolfini), engages in a game of cat and mouse with an enemy that has bad mood swings

and even worse facial hair.

Plot wise Pelham 123, directed by Tony Scott, never goes anywhere, and it’s up to Washington and Travolta to hold our attention with some spicy dialogue. The two heavyweights shoot from the lip

about arse models, what it means to be Catholic and how difficult it is taking a dump in prison – but it doesn’t make up for a stale storyline.

GOOD FOR: People who don’t mind seeing top talent wasted. PIERRE DE VILLIERS

LAST WEEK’S WINNER Tess Murray

Audrey Tautou is captivating as fashion icon Coco Chanel, whose early life is explored in this fine biopic. Anyone expecting a procession of fancy frocks will be disappointed as director Anne Fontaine delivers a downbeat yet fascinating look at the forces that shaped the life of a woman who gave birth to an empire.

GOOD FOR: Lovers of stylish biopics. PDV

RUMBA

★★★★★ Australian-born performer Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel star as a pair of dancers whose lives are turned upside down after a car crash in this odd but enjoyable Belgian farce. The joke wears a bit thin but a series of hilarious, wellconstructed gags, reminiscent of Jacques Tati, make this a strangely moving experience.

GOOD FOR: Something different. PDV

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though. The 23-year-old says she is happy to tread the boards for now.

“I have such a passion for theatre,” she says.

Despite a successful year, The Sydney Film Festival could be in line for a bit of a shake-up, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

A review will look at moving the cutting-edge film event from winter to spring and expanding from central Sydney to Parramatta.

Figures released last week show the decision to cut the festival programme from 19 to 12 days paid off last month, with daily attendance running 39 per cent higher than last year.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS 1 Denzel Washington Beloved Country 5 Joe Slovo/Ruth First

COCO BEFORE CHANEL

THE REEL DEAL Australian model Nicole Trunfio (right), who wowed American audiences as a mentor on Make Me A Supermodel, has set her sights on an acting career.

The New York-based model has apparently recruited Nicole Kidman’s acting coach to teach her the ropes.

“Right now I’m working 10 hours a day with [acting coach] Susan Batson.

She taught Nicole Kidman and she’s absolutely amazing.

I love it so far,” she told the Sunday Telegraph.

Trufino, who is signed up for the next series of the model reality show, won’t be making a beeline for Hollywood any time soon,

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CULTURE ARCADIA Quite simply, this is a brilliant play by a brilliant playwright – but you’ll need to keep your wits about you to keep up with Tom Stoppard’s dazzling playfulness.

One elegant set, two time periods centuries apart, a precocious aristocrat and her randy tutor (Dan Stevens), a tortoise, hermit, landscape gardening, thermodynamics, Byron, and a cuckolded poet are just some of the ingredients stirred into the mix.

Delightfully witty, it’s a joy from start to finish with notable performances by Nancy Carroll as a 19th-

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SEE THIS: Stage century lady of the house, Ed Stoppard as a sensitive mathematician trying to plot the habits of grouse, and Samantha Bond and Neil Pearson, a pair of sparring academics proving that making sense of the past is as fraught as predicting the future. LOUISE KINGSLEY

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CLASSIFIED

THIS IS HOW

★★★★★

This exhibition seeks to go beyond a simple exposition of British contemporary art in favour of examining how and why people, societies and galleries classify art and life in general.

There’s a varied range of works, for example, that draw attention to the paradox of

Catherine Ashmore, Tate

Waterloo (nationaltheatre.org.uk). Jul 30-Aug 28. £5-£10

categorising a complex piece of art into a simple category.

The works by Damien Hirst and the Chapman Family, in particular, are brilliant parodies of our (often futile) desire to seek out order and meaning.

DANIEL LANDON

» Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P Pimlico (tate.org.uk).

4RG Until Aug 23. Free

MJ Hyland (Canongate) OUT NOW

★★★★★ Like life, fiction would be dull if you knew all the answers, and MJ Hyland is a master at keeping the cards close to her chest.

As with her two previous novels How The Light Gets In and Booker-shortlisted Carry Me Down, the author chooses as narrator a young male, slowly revealed to be at odds with the world. Patrick Oxtoby is a 23-yearold mechanic trying to fix a broken heart by escaping to a seaside town.

The twists and

turns that led to his situation filter through as the reader becomes sucked into the mind of a man wrestling between the desire to be loved and a fierce selfpreservation that makes it almost impossible to do so.

The combination makes him dangerously unpredictable, even to himself, and the second half of the book sees Oxtoby in prison.

Hyland’s knack for description locks you in there with Oxtoby, and through every sleepless night and inedible meal you join his quest to find the inner peace that comes with human affection. AMY ADAMS

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MUSIC A-HA Foot Of The Mountain (Universal)

★★★★★

MUSIC & CLUBS

A-Ha’s career arc has been defined not by dramatic reinventions but by stealthy progress, variations on the same basic theme.

“Stay on these roads,” they sang in the 1980s, and they’ve spent 25 years following their own advice. Their ninth album sticks to the same tarmac, pretty much.

What’s interesting is how much the world has come around to their way of thinking. Which is to say,

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REVEREND & THE MAKERS

CHRIS WOOD

JULIAN PLENTI

Albion: An Anthology

Julian Plenti Is A Skyscaper

A French Kiss In The Chaos

(Navigator)

(Matador)

A handful of recent BBC Folk Awards have given Chris Wood a higher profile than ever; a good time, then, for this two-disc, careerspanning retrospective. Wood is a fine songwriter and an even better singer; witness his recent Summerfield Avenue.

But he made his name as a fiddle player of rare tenderness and empathy; look no further than the tracks from the peerless Knock John LP he made with accordionist Andy Cutting in the mid-’90s. Highly recommended. WFJ

The press release describes Julian Plenti in vague terms as a New York City composer. Erm, did Interpol frontman Paul Banks really think we wouldn’t see through the nom de plume and new specs? Unchained from Interpol’s doomy postpunk, Banks has a lot of fun creating towering orchestral cathedrals of sound with his Logic Pro software. The results are beguiling in a Patrick Wolfish kind of way, and certainly an improvement on Interpol’s last album. ALISON GRINTER

(Wall Of Sound)

★★★★★

Although his debut album made the top five on the back of hit single Heavyweight Champion Of The World, Jon ‘Reverend’ McClure is still most famous as the ex-flatmate of Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner.

French Kiss In The Chaos probably won’t change matters. It’s spryer than his debut, and a little more even. But it’s still basically a man shouting student-union slogans over reheated indiedance grooves best left in the late ’80s. WFJ

★★★★★

★★★★★

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NEW ZEALAND

SOUTH AFRICA

NO.1 I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas MAKING NEWS John Bannister, the Aussie doctor who failed to revive Jimi Hendrix in a London hospital in 1970, backs claims in James Wright’s new book Rock Roadie that Hendrix was killed by his manager Mike Jeffery.

NO.1 I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas OUT NOW New Zealand experimentalists Kerretta release their new album Vilayer on Midium Records this week. The album, available online, includes brand new tracks such as single The Square Outside.

NO.1 I Know You Want Me, Pitbull MAKING NEWS Koos Kombuis, Fokofpolosiekar and Mix N Blend will be among the performers at this year’s Oppikoppi festival in Northam, Limpopo, from August 7 to 9.

The festival’s theme will be Smoorverlief (madly in love).

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LIVE REVIEW Oasis Wembley Stadium July 9 ★★★★★ The Gallagher brothers have not matured as gracefully as their Britpop chums (ahem) Blur. Nor, one could argue, has their music.

Oasis never learned to sound like anything other than, well, Oasis. As Liam sneers his way through the band’s recent hits, Noel does his best to keep the audience sweet. But it just can’t help feeling flat.

Still, you can forgive them almost anything when Don’t Look Back In Anger, Roll With It and Supersonic fill the arena to the apex of its arch. These songs defined a generation, and hearing them live reminds you just why Oasis epitomised ‘Cool Britannia’. CLAIRE GOODALL

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basically, that Foot Of The Mountain sounds just like Coldplay.

Fair enough, since the Norwegian trio pretty much invented Coldplay on anthem-packed albums such as Scoundrel Days and the later Minor Earth, Major Sky. But still, the likeness on tracks such as Sunny Mystery and the title song is striking.

A tinkly keyboard line leads to mild verse leads to massive chorus; rinse and repeat.

They get away with it though, because they’re better at it than anyone else.

Fashion will roll away in due course, but they may not even notice. WILL FULFORD-JONES

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GIG OF THE WEEK FIELD DAY FESTIVAL Victoria Park is fast gaining on Hyde Park as the green space of choice in which to witness some serious gig action.

This weekend’s Field Day promises a scintillating bill of acts against a backdrop a village fête (in all its quintessential, eccentric English glory, natch). The Temper Trap will be performing alongside cosmic Glaswegian rockers Mogwai (playing their only English festival show) nouveau goths The Horrors and electro gal of the mo’ Little Boots.

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» Victoria Park, Grove Rd, E3 5SN

Mile End (fieldday

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CORNERSHOP

LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Long before Bollywood music seeped into the mainstream via Slumdog Millionaire, Brit outfit Cornershop were rocking the Indian/indie hybrid, even achieving a number-one hit with the infectious Norman Cook remixed Brimful Of Asha in 1998. They’re back to plug upcoming album Judy Sucks Lemon For Breakfast this week.

Described by some critics as “the female Bob Dylan,” Louisiana-born Lucinda Williams made a name for herself by seamlessly blending folk, rock and country. This week the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will keep her rabid fans happy with tracks from latest album Little Honey alongside earlier hits.

» Heaven, Villiers St WC2N 6NG (ticketweb.co.uk)

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BELIEVE THE HYPE ARROWS OF LOVE

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THE LINE-UP Nima (vocals),

Luis (guitar), Kate (cello), Wim (drums), Emma (bass) and Bethia (synths).

HAILS FROM London.

THE BUZZ SO FAR Taking their name from William Blake’s Jerusalem: The Emanation Of The Great Albion, Arrows of Love are characterised by guerilla-style promotion tactics, incendiary live shows and a fierce independence.

For instance the sextet turned down the services of top producer Cameron Craig to self-mix their debut EP Burn This Town.

THE BAND SAY “96 per cent of live music here right now is either generic indie, folk or pretend punk, just painting by numbers, and that’s just boring … Seriously though, it’s inspiring in that it teaches us

exactly what not to be and fires up enough rage to make us do what we want to do.” (godisinthetvzine.co.uk) THE CRITICS SAY “Arrows Of Love delight in tumultuous brash sound with echoes of the capital edging their sound in brooding punky overtones.”

(alcopop.wordpress.com) THE RELEASE Burn This Town out August 3.

SOUND BITES John Paul Young, Kev Carmody, Little Pattie, Mental As Anything and The Dingoes are to be inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame.

Little Pattie, or Patricia Amphlett, a ’60s teen pop sensation, will join her cousin Chrissie Amphlett, inducted along with her band the Divinyls in 2006 (below). The ceremony will take place at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on August 27.

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sweet d e r e p m te epic rock, Australia isn’t known for its e Temper but Melbourne foursome Th that with Trap are set to change all their anthemic sound WORDS ALISON GRINTER

“N

ow that James Brown is dead, and Michael Jackson, we officially are the hardest working band in showbusiness,” announces Dougy Mandagi in a surprisingly Transatlantic twang.

The Indonesian-born, Hawaiian-raised singer fronts Melbourne epic rock arrivistes The Temper Trap. And judging by the band’s considerable achievements so far, he’s not telling porky pies.

The quartet, also made up of Lorenzo Sillitto (guitars), Jonathon Aherne (bass) and Toby Dundas (drums), were one of only two Aussie

Did you have a good time at Glastonbury?

Dougy: I wouldn’t say we had a good time – we were there to do a job. Hopefully we did it well.

Toby: We were onsite for about seven hours, that’s it. We flew in from Sweden the night before and went straight out to Glastonbury, to the John Peel stage, then we had 30 mins to eat some food, then on the back of quadbikes with all the gear through Glastonbury, through mud and the crowds, to another little stage, played another gig then back on the quadbikes, got home about 1am, 4am had to wake up to catch a plane to Helsinki to play another show.

We’re not “ writing songs to fill stadiums

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Do you think you were actually playing to some Brits as well as Aussies?

Toby: I heard some British accents in the audience.

Dougy: But you know, you can’t escape the Aussies, they’re always there at the front waving the flag doing ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!’ and you just feel obliged to go ‘Oi Oi Oi!’ Toby: And they get a little bit upset if you don’t give the ‘Oi Oi Oi!’ back. We were in Norway the other day and there were people with Australian flags at this festival in the middle of nowhere.

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Your music is most often described as “epic”.

How does that sit with you?

Dougy: [Wincing] It’s all good. I just hope that when the royalty cheques start rolling in that they’re as epic as the sound, ha ha ha!

Toby: Yeah, I want a long one with lots of zeros … But yeah, people keep saying we’re writing songs to fill stadiums. I don’t think we’re writing songs to fill stadiums.

Maybe it’s because your guitars are very U2, a sound that doesn’t come out of Australia much.

Dougy: We’ve always been outsiders in our homeland – we’ve never been part of that whole electro movement with bands like Cut Copy or Empire Of The Sun.

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bands (the other was Empire Of The Sun) to appear in the BBC’s prestigious Sounds of 2009 poll, alongside pop luminaries Florence And The Machine and Lady Gaga, earlier this year.

Plus they’ve got “festivals coming out of our ears!” – no bad thing since they have upcoming UK debut album Conditions to plug.

TNT Music caught up with Dougy and Toby, a couple of good natured chaps who are wont to take the piss out of themselves, their fans and certain TNT journalists …

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Dougy leads a chant of ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!’

Jim Abbiss, who produced the Arctic Monkeys’ first album, has produced your debut LP Conditions, which sounds like a proper album rather than just a collection of songs.

Dougy: Yeah, he’s got an impressive résumé but we were more interested in his earlier stuff with Björk, Massive Attack and Unkle.

Toby: It was hard finding a thread between these songs. Jim helped with that.

Your first single Sweet Disposition was used for (500) Days Of Summer. Have you seen it?

Dougy: We had a little private screening.

Toby: It’s OK, yeah.

Dougy: It’s cute, you’ll like it – it’s a chick flick.

TNT Music hates chick flicks!

Dougy: I mean, you’ll hate it – but it’s got a great song in it called Sweet Disposition!

It’s great American exposure, though.

Toby: Yeah, they put the song on the trailer round the time of SXSW festival. Our MySpace plays went through the roof, and we got a lot of comments from people in Middle America.”

Dougy: [affecting a Midwest accent] ‘What’s that song?! Who’s that band?!’

So you’ve got your album coming out soon, what’s next after that?

Toby: We’re not allowed to look more than one week ahead at the schedule otherwise we shit ourselves.

» Single Sweet Disposition out July 27 and album Conditions out August 10, both through Infectious

WHAT THE UK CRITICS ARE SAYING “They could end up being a lighter, breezier, less pompous and portentous Coldplay.” (Guardian) “Just watching them on stage it’s apparent this band are destined for major things.” (NME) “The Temper Trap are set to soundtrack the summer with their rousing, incessant anthems.” (The Fly) “Their turbulent, symphonic rock has something of the Arcade Fire about it.”

(The Times) “The Temper Trap are firmly at the top of the list of this year’s ones to watch.” (Clash)

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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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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,

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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

For full listings info go to tntonline.co.uk/ whats_on

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

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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

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CLUB GUIDE

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Natasha Vuckovic PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST CLUB NIGHTS

CLUB OF THE WEEK KINKY MALINKI It’s a hefty old line-up for this week’s Kinky Malinki night at way-out-east London nightclub Matter. Dutchman Funkerman (right) is one of the head honchos at Flamingo Records, the label behind the massive track Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, so he knows a thing or two about tunes that’ll make you dance. He’s joined by Germany’s D.O.N.S, remixers of classics such as Pump Up The Jam, and brilliant Brighton boys Prok & Fitch. Good tunes, good times.

» Matter, The O2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DY North Greenwich (020 7549 6686). Sat, Aug 1, 10pm-7am. £20 beats/breaks

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Get your festy hit this weekend with Eat Your Own Ears DJs and Erol Alkan. This is a festival that’s done fast food style – no tents, no major commute, just a simple serve of fat and juicy beats.

» Victoria Park, E9 Mile End. Sat, Aug 1, 11.30am10.30pm. £29.50 adv

drum ’n’ bass

electro

hip-hop

LOOSE JOINTS This is the launch of a new club night aimed at street dancers showing off their shape-cutting skills on the dance floor. Raw Deal, Stuart Patterson and Andy Blake are on the decks.

hard house/trance

house/garage

rock/metal

techno

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» East Village, 89 Great Eastern St, EC2A 3HX Old Street (020 7739 5173). Fri, Jul 31, 9pm-3.30am. £6 before 11pm, £8 after

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an electro-techie sound with storming bass lines. “Expect to be hearing a lot more about Brodinski this year,” says Mac.

We have VIP entry to Kinky Malinki for one winner and five mates, plus a set of Kinky Malinki-branded hair straighteners and three copies of the Bugged Out! album to giveaway. Email grabs@tntmagazine, with ‘Kinky Malinki’ or ‘Bugged Out!’ in the subject line by noon on Wed, Jul 29.

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We can’t wait for Deadmau5 to release his second album on September 22. The followup to 2008’s random album title, Lack Of A Better Name, will integrate different styles of music into “multi-blocks” of songs – whatever that means – and will feature the track Ghosts ’N’ Stuff, featuring Rob Swire of Pendulum. Meanwhile, the mau5ey one will be setting off on a 30-date Lack Of A Better Name tour of North America, kicking off in Ottawa on September 23.

Clubbers heading to Creamfields over the August bank holiday weekend will

get the chance to witness a groundbreaking performance

by Swiss-based producer Luciano called the Ether Live project. Synchronising sound and colour and taking more than four years to create, Luciano will conduct as five musicians each play separate instruments assigned a colour from the light spectrum. “It’s all about dance music and club music and the evolution of it! It’s very tribal … There are musicians on stage and new sounds but it’s all about dance music,” Luciano unhelpfully explains.

George Thatcher, Linda van den Broek

Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck Mixed by Brodinksi Brodinski’s sound is a mash-up of the unusual, something you’ll notice straight away thanks to the trippy sounds of Bathroom Gurgle by Late of the Pier.

Touted as one to watch

by Radio 1’s Annie Mac, the French producer’s mix for Bugged Out! incorporates

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.

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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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TIESTO VICTORIA PARK Bethnal Green Jul 3, £36 The Dutch DJ is coming to London this summer for a bit of festival fun.

Having sold out the O2 Arena last year, he’s sure to do the same at this event.

Get your tickets now at ticketmaster.co.uk.

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WRAP UP OF LAST WEEK’S EVENTS FROM AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH AFRICA

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The reward in dollars for information leading to the body or whereabouts of Tasmanian mother Helen Munnings.

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Moran charged Gangland widow Judy Moran was charged with the murder of her brother-in-law, Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran.

Her co-accused Geoffrey ‘Nuts’ Armour and Suzanne Kane were also charged.

The shooting happened outside a café in Ascot Vale on June 15.

Soapie turns 21 Past and present Home And Away stars celebrated 21 years of the seaside soapie.

Ray Meagher, who plays Alf, the world’s longest-serving

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character, led the celebrations at Sydney’s Cargo bar, where both fans and cast mingled.

Rape charges dropped Rape charges against Victorian MP Theo Theophanous were dismissed on Friday.

Magistrate Peter Reardon said the complainant was “an entirely unreliable witness”.

The prosecution had alleged the MP raped the woman at Parliament House in 1998.

After the dismissal, Theophanous said he would take the weekend to consider his political future.

Mum’s murder charge A South Australian woman charged with murdering her severely disabled son faced court last week.

Lawyers for Beverly Eitzen, 46, said she was a loving, caring and devoted mother.

The court heard Eitzen’s 16-year-old son was severely disabled with the mental capacity of a two-year-old, was prone to violent outbursts and had caused extensive damage to the family home.

The teenager’s body was found in a car outside Mount Barker police station.

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She notified the managers of the venue who called the police.

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Family slain at home ■ Five family members bludgeoned to death in a violent home invasion.

■ Surviving daughter on a school trip at time of attack.

■ Police searching for any information about the family that could explain the deaths.

NEW SOUTH WALES Six luxury boats were destroyed in a huge blaze at a marina on Sydney’s northern beaches, with two people, including a police officer, suffering smoke inhalation.

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to Australia and was being comforted in a safe place.

Police said they were anxious to interview friends of Brenda’s aunt Yun Bin Yin, a Chinese national.

Homicide Squad commander Geoff Beresford said Yin had been living at the Lin’s home

for the past 12 months and had studied business at Macquarie University for about six months.

Police were focusing their investigations in the Epping area, but said the appeal for new information had stretched to China. Officers refused to speculate on a motive.

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First swine flu vaccine trials begin An Australian vaccine for swine flu could be available in weeks, with the world’s first human trials now under way.

Bio-pharmaceutical companies CSL and Vaxine were confident their vaccines would protect against the potentially deadly virus.

Adelaide-based Vaxine began trials at the Flinders Medical Centre with 300 subjects, and Melbourne’s CSL began its trial on 240 people at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Both companies said the trials were the first tests of a swine flu vaccine on humans and will later conduct further

NO SIGNS OF STOPPING The number of swine flu deaths in Australia rose to more than 40. More than 800 people have died from the flu worldwide.

trials on children and those with chronic diseases.

CSL’s Andrew Cuthbertson said he expected initial results would allow distribution of its government-funded vaccine in October.

The federal government ordered 21 million doses of CSL’s vaccine, should it be proven to work.

A crop duster walked away from his burning helicopter after it crashed and caught fire near Theodore in southeast Queensland.

VICTORIA Police seized 1200 guns and suspended a firearms dealer’s licence in country Victoria. The seizure was the first part of a regulatory clamp-down on breaches of the Firearms Act.

NORTHERN TERRITORY Federal Labor MP Damian Hale agreed to a court order that he not “threaten, assault or harass” his estranged wife.

Jennifer Hale applied for Domestic Violence Orders (DVO) against the politician early this month and he then also applied for one against her.

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The state’s black truffle harvest began, with growers tipping a bumper crop of the revered fungus this winter.

Growers are predicting a best-ever national harvest for 2009 of about 1.5 tonnes.

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olice were hunting for a motive after five members of a family were bashed to death during what’s thought to be a violent home invasion in a north-west suburb of Sydney.

Newsagent owner Min Lin, 46, his wife Yun Li Lin, 43, their two sons, Terry, 12, and Henry, 9, and Mrs Lin’s sister Yun Bin Yin, 39, were bludgeoned to death in their North Epping home.

The Lins’ other daughter Brenda, 15, was on a school trip to New Caledonia when she learned of her family’s death. She has since returned

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Guilty of Kiwi death Four Australians pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a New Zealand man during a racial street brawl in Perth’s north-eastern suburbs in November 2007.

The brawl between a group of Maori and more than a dozen Aborigines took place at Lockridge. The men pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the death of 18-year-old Jon Teotinga Warena.

Warena had boarded a plane to New Zealand at Perth airport but jumped off at the last minute as he was concerned for family and friends in the middle of a feud with a group of Aborigines.

Clark: keep promises Former prime minister Helen Clark called for all world leaders who pledged aid to developing nations at the turn of the millennium to deliver on their promises, despite the recession.

“What none of us want … is the global recession precipitating

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The number of people who drowned in the first half of the year, according to Water Safety New Zealand.

1800 PAYING TRIBUTE: The casket containing the body of Te Papa chief executive Seddon Bennington is welcomed as it arrives at the Te Papa Museum’s marae in Wellington. Bennington was found dead in Tararua Ranges on July 15 after going missing for four days. His funeral service will be held at the museum.

more conflicts in already fragile states, and winding back the clock on development in stable but still poor countries,” Clark told an audience in Washington.

NZ banker in UK court A New Zealand banker who groped and stripped a woman who passed out drunk at a cocktail party was found guilty of sexual assault in London.

Justin von Tunzelman assaulted the woman after spotting her “comatose” after a drinking session.

He denied the charges and

more than the 20 per cent deposit.

He said it was Westpac losing $111 million to Lane Walker Rudkin Industries that tipped his decision to withdraw his money.

“If you don’t support the community, the community won’t support you,” he told Westpac after cashing up.

claimed he was very drunk and suffered a loss of memory. The woman, who gave evidence from behind a screen, said she had no recollection of the incident.

Von Tunzelman will be sentenced in September.

Swine flu toll rises The number of people who have died as a result of swine flu in New Zealand was confirmed as 11 last week.

There were 2525 confirmed swine flu cases, and 71 people with swine flu were in hospital, with 24 of those in intensive care.

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The number of months of Motueka resident Cassandra Albert’s jail sentence after she shook her baby son, causing him permanent brain damage.

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The number of Wellington consumers who had to bus home after their train derailed north of Upper Hutt.

*And finally … give me the money Mapua artist Roger Griffiths made a stand against Westpac by withdrawing his $190,000 savings in $20 notes.

Griffiths, a Westpac customer for 25 years, decided to withdraw his money after the bank rejected his application for an $80,000 mortgage, despite him having

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High Court jury convicted Clayton Robert Weatherston of murder, rejecting his defence that he was provoked into stabbing ex-girlfriend Sophie Elliott 216 times.

The public gallery in the Christchurch High Court burst into applause and shouts of “Yes” and “Well done, thank you,” were heard as the verdict was delivered.

Weatherston, a 33-year-old Otago University economics tutor, was remanded in custody for sentence in Christchurch on September 15.

His defence team had tried to convince the jury that the emotional turmoil of the relationship with Elliott led to Weatherston losing control when it alleged she came at him with a pair of scissors during an argument.

The defence said that once Weatherston lost control the killing and mutilation of his

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Sophie Elliott was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Clayton Weatherston

22-year-old former student was an irresistible impulse.

The Crown alleged he had a knife in his briefcase with the intention to kill Elliott, and ended up cutting off parts of her body.

The defence had claimed provocation and had sought a manslaughter verdict, whereas the Crown claimed murder was committed.

A PRICE ON HIS HEAD Two sources told Newstalk ZB that Christchurch Prison inmates had taunted Weatherston from the moment of his arrival. One said $55,000 had been offered in exchange for his “unpleasant death” and that price was expected to reach six figures.

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Culture tops sport in New Zealand Culture is increasingly contributing to New Zealand’s economy, according to a survey by the ministry for culture and heritage.

The Cultural Indicators Report for New Zealand 2009, released last week, showed culture topped both sport and the economy in importance to New Zealand’s sense of national identity.

“Evidence that employment in the cultural sector is growing is especially heartening, as it dispels ageold myths that pursuing study or work in the arts is a fruitless task,” ministry for culture and

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EMPLOYMENT PROVIDED NZ’s cultural sector employs about 126,000 people, including artists, curators, designers, screenwriters and musicians.

heritage chief executive Lewis Holden said.

“The [report] suggests cultural and creative industries have grown at least at pace with the rest of the economy,” he added.

Median incomes for those in creative occupations ($36,800) remain slightly above the national median ($33,700).

Two people walked away relatively unscathed after their van collided with a train on a level crossing near Kaikoura. Residents said the train sounded its horn twice before the smash. The van, travelling south towards Kaikoura, was shunted a few metres along the tracks before the train came to a stop.

LOWER NORTH ISLAND A tornado struck the south Taranaki town of Opunake, following a severe weather warning for the area from the MetService. Several houses lost roofs and had windows smashed and power poles across Opunake were knocked down.

UPPER SOUTH ISLAND An alpine skier buried in an avalanche in Southern Alps in Canterbury died of his injuries. The man was one of a group of five, including three tourists and two guides, skiing in the Ragged Range, near Methven. This was despite a high risk of avalanches in the area.

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Queenstown Airport was given approval to build its Runway Extension Safety Area. The area needs to be built by 2011 to meet Civil Aviation Authority standards on international flights.

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Vaccine for HIV/Aids

President Jacob Zuma met the chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria last week.

President Zuma and Branson discussed a possible partnership between Virgin Unite, the not-for-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, and the South African ministry of health to establish a disease control hub in South Africa.

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FLYING FISH: Port Elizabeth’s Bayworld “celebrity” dolphins Domino and Dumisa flew off to an aquarium in Hong Kong last week. The move was necessary because aquarium staff feared the father and daughter would mate. They will now live separately at the Ocean Park aquarium, where they will be introduced into a breeding programme with other dolphins.

Sewerage warning The Eastern Cape will make history for drowning in its own sewage, the DA’s spokesperson on public works in the Eastern Cape, Pine Pienaar, warned members of the province’s legislature last week.

Speaking at a debate on Premier Noxolo Kiviet’s stateof-the-province speech, Pienaar said municipalities across the province had reported that their sewerage systems had reached full capacity.

“Most of them are about 30 years old, and while money is being spent to expand towns,

nothing is being spent to increase the systems’ capacities.

“I have heard reports of towns in the former Transkei region where raw sewage is flowing across streets and flowing into rivers,” Pienaar said.

SA not saving enough South Africans save very little and this is cause for concern, minister of finance Pravin Gordhan said at the release of the Consumer Financial Vulnerability Index last week.

“We have to attract foreign investment because savings in South Africa are so low,” he said.

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Number of volunteers who simultaneously blew vuvuzelas for 30 seconds before the kick-off of the Vodacom Challenge clash between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at the new 2010 soccer stadium in Port Elizabeth’s last week.

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these exorbitant costs have on the poor and on the costs of doing business … I believe that South Africans have long suffered poor competition and exorbitant telecommunications costs unnecessarily.”

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The percentage of newly qualified doctors who leave South Africa, according to Mike Waters, the DA shadow minister of health.

The first clinical trial of an HIV/Aids vaccine developed in South Africa was launched in Cape Town on Monday.

Medical Research Council president Anthony MBewu said the development of the vaccine was a “giant leap” for science and technology in South Africa.

The trials will be conducted by the South African Aids Vaccine Initiative at Crossroads in Cape Town, and in Soweto.

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SUMMARY ■ President Jacob Zuma condemns countrywide anti-poverty protests.

■ Protesters arrested for stoning vehicles and setting buildings on fire.

■ Zuma promises to listen to grievances over poor service delivery.

resident Jacob Zuma condemned the violent anti-poverty protests that swept the country last week, but vowed to listen to public grievances over poor service delivery.

More than 200 people were arrested when protesters in townships around the country stoned vehicles, looted shops and set fire to buildings.

Most of those arrested were released on bail or with a warning.

Zuma and the ANC denounced the violence and called for an end to the unrest,

COAST TO COAST GAUTENG Three men were arrested for allegedly robbing a cyclist at knife point in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, on Tuesday. “The three, between ages 18 and 19, stopped a 37-year-old and forcefully took his bicycle and R300 cash,” said captain Mega Ndobe.

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Thokoza residents on the rampage during violent protests over poor service delivery

which put pressure on the new government’s election promises to ease crushing poverty in the country.

International news agency AFP quoted Zuma as saying: “Our Constitution allows our people the right of freedom of assembly and expression and to protest where they feel they need to, but this must be done

within the ambit of the law.

“There can be no justification for violence, looting and the destruction of property, or attacks on foreign nationals residing in our country.”

Zuma, however, pledged to address public grievances and acknowledged that there were service delivery problems.

MPUMALANGA Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza condemned the violent protests that gripped municipalities in the province over the past few weeks. Mabuza urged those unhappy with poor service delivery to take up the matter with the provincial government instead of resorting to violence.

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More nuclear power plants planned Three large nuclear power plants are in the pipeline for South Africa’s coastline – two in the Western Cape and one in the Eastern Cape, Die Burger reported on Friday last week.

The newspaper report quoted an environmental impact study by engineering consultancy Arcus Gibb.

According to the study the government was keen to fasttrack the project, but plans about the project have not been widely released.

The study said building on the first of the three nuclear power plants, a 4000 megaWatt unit at Duynefontein

POWER SURGE The three nuclear power plants – provisionally known as Nuclear 1, 2 and 3 – will each be able to deliver double the amount of electricity from the current Koeberg power plant.

near Melkbosstrand, could begin in July 2012 and would take six years before it would be ready for production.

The second would be built at Bantamsklip on the Western Cape’s south coast, and the third at Thyspunt near Cape St Francis in the Eastern Cape.

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A group of people rushed into two Durban supermarkets last Wednesday afternoon, looting food from shelves in a protest against high food prices. “They were angry.

Some even ate the fried chicken and pies,” said an eyewitness. Police were on the scene and arrested 100 people.

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South African Air Force helicopters airlifted 20 crew members off a stricken bulk carrier shortly before it sank off the West Coast near Saldanha on Thursday.

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AFL Fremantle’s shocking season gets even worse with Des Headland and Michael Walters part of a police investigation into a mass brawl in Perth on Sunday morning.

RUGBY Front-rowers Stephen Moore and Ben Alexander trade punches at a Wallabies’ training session. Pity they didn’t show that sort of fight in the loss to the All Blacks.

BOXING John Hopoate is rated as stronger than Iron Mike Tyson after retaining the Aussie heavyweight title. But we’d rank the ear biter higher than the bum poker any day.

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CYCLING Aussie Cadel Evans admits he has no hope of a podium finish in this year’s Tour de France.

“For professional reasons I can’t comment on the problems I’ve been having,” he says. Cagey.

FORMULA 1 During a season in which he’s finally had a car fast enough to challenge for the drivers’ championship, Mark Webber signs a new contract to stay at the Red Bull team in 2010.

BMX New Zealander Sarah Walker, 21, wins the BMX World Championship in Adelaide, making up for the disappointment of coming fourth at the 2008 Olympics.

SUNDAY NETBALL The Melbourne Vixens overpower the Adelaide Thunderbirds 54-46 in a fiery match to win the trans-Tasman netball championship.

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Sydney Roosters coach Brad Fittler has a sook that he was the last to know he’d be sacked at the end of this season

MONDAY CRICKET The Twenty20 Cup It’s quarter-final time Sky Sports 1, 5.30pm TUESDAY HORSE RACING Glorious Goodwood A famous racing carnival Channel 4, 1.45pm WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL West Ham v Spurs Pre-season friendly Sky Sports 1, 10.30am THURSDAY CRICKET England v Australia Day 1 of the third Test Sky Sports 1, 11am FRIDAY SWIMMING World Championships Watch those swimmers go Eurosport, 8am and 4.45pm SATURDAY RUGBY LEAGUE Leeds v Warrington Super League action Sky Sports 2, 6.30pm SUNDAY FOOTBALL Arsenal v Rangers The Emirates Cup Sky Sports 2, 4pm

PUB TALK: BRITISH SPORT EXPLAINED Rugby league’s wasteland Is this an area for drunk leaguies?

Not at all. South and west England has dozens of pro sporting teams but only one top-flight league team – London’s Harlequins (right). Rugby is the contact sport of choice in the region, but in northern England it’s the opposite: rugby league is king.

Why the regional disparity?

In the 1890s rugby wanted to stick to its amateur ways, but most players from the north were working class and couldn’t afford to play for nothing.

So the northern clubs embraced the breakaway professional code of league, while the richer south stuck with union.

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Tahu runs back to league Disgruntled Wallaby Timana Tahu will walk away from his $A400,000 a year rugby contract to play for Parramatta in the NRL next year.

Tahu played off the bench for much of the past Super 14 season and failed to make the Australian team this year.

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He quit the Eels in 2007 to take up his lucrative contract with the Australian Rugby Union but endured a difficult two years in rugby, due to injury and loss of form.

But after news of Tahu’s desire to walk away from union surfaced Wallabies coach Robbie Deans revealed the centre was very much in his plans, and would have started against Italy last month if not for a stomach bug.

“It’s entirely Timana’s choice,” Deans said. “I’m a

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great believer that players are entitled to choice. If he wants to be somewhere else, that’s all we need to know really.”

Tahu has yet to publicly speak about his decision to give away the 15-man game.

He is expected to join the Eels on a three-year deal. The powerful centre, who won an NRL grand final with Newcastle in 2001, enjoyed a successful three-year spell with the Eels between 2005-07.

Parramatta chief executive Paul Osborne said Tahu would be welcomed “with open arms”.

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A South African consortium has taken the number of bidders for a place in the expanded Super 15 rugby competition to 10.

Seven groups from Australia, two from New Zealand and now one from South Africa have expressed interest in joining in 2011.

The South African bid, the last to be received, is from the Southern Kings – representing Eastern Province, Border and South Western Districts.

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The Blue Bulls lost their first match of this season’s Currie Cup as the Sharks ran out deserved 19-13 winners in Durban, overshadowing the visitors at the breakdown and playing more direct rugby.

Three yellow cards did not deter the Sharks, who sealed a forwards-dominated game with a 70th-minute try to Skipper Badenhorst. The Bulls scored after the final hooter to get a bonus point.

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Carter on the way back Dan Carter passed the first significant test towards regaining his All Blacks spot when he completed a club game in Christchurch on Saturday.

Carter played the entire 80 minutes for Southbridge, his first competitive match since injuring his Achilles in February, and declared himself available for Canterbury’s opening Air NZ Cup match at North Harbour this weekend.

He missed his first four shots at goal but ran the Southbridge backline with aplomb, having a hand in two tries before scoring himself in the final minute.

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A trademark second-half surge wasn’t enough as the All Blacks went down to South Africa in a bruising Test in Bloemfontein on Saturday.

Completely outplayed in the first half and lucky to be trailing only 14-3 at half-time, New Zealand threatened to overhaul the hosts in a spirited second-half performance.

But a 70m try by Boks centre Jaque Fourie, after Jason Eaton dropped a sloppy Piri Weepu pass with New Zealand on the attack and trailing by only four with eight minutes to go,

sealed the game for the hosts, who were far more desperate towards the end of the match.

The Springboks dominated up front in the first 40 minutes, with lock Victor Matfield and local boy Heinrich Brussow on the openside flank to the fore while the All Blacks struggled with their discipline and made silly mistakes – though they were let off by Ruan Pienaar missing four from five penalties.

Stephen Donald landed five from six to keep the All Blacks in it, with their fightback started by a brilliant try to centre Conrad Smith, who was outstanding in attack and defence.

McCaw: plenty of work to do New Zealand captain Richie McCaw said there were some obvious areas to work on when the two teams meet again in Pretoria this weekend.

He identified discipline, lineouts and territory tactics as areas to work on.

“We weren’t smart enough to play at the right end of the field in that first half,” he said.

“I thought we defended pretty well but it was what we were doing post-tackle, going off our feet.”

New Zealand have won 24 of 34 tests between the two rugby giants since professional rugby began in 1996 but the South Africans wrestled the world rugby number one ranking from the All Blacks with their 28-19 win.

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Cowboys coach Neil Henry sets his sights on a now-familiar NRL target as he gets stuck into the competition’s referees.

44 Shane Rodney of the Sea Eagles congratulates Kieran Foran

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B Farrar 2 T Williams 2 M Ballin K Foran G Rose A Watmough tries M Orford 6 goals

20 Knights R Fa’aoso S McDonnell M Taufua tries, S Dureau 3 W Naiqama goals

Manly maintained their perfect record at Gosford’s Bluetongue Stadium and sounded a warning to the rest of the competition with a come-from-behind victory over Newcastle.

The Sea Eagles overcame a 14-0 deficit with six tries in 21 minutes – with Ben Farrar, Tony Williams and teenager Kieran Foran all

Titans 34

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K Gordon A Harrison M Henderson M Minichiello S Prince E Tonga tries, S Prince 5 goals

18 Broncos A Winterstein 2 D Copley tries C Parker 2 A Gorrell goals

A ruthless Gold Coast kicked the boot into injury-ravaged Brisbane, who slumped to a sixth loss from their past seven matches.

Guided brilliantly by Scott Prince, the Titans ran in six unanswered tries to race out to a 34-2 lead to put Brisbane out of the contest.

Cowboys 20

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J Thurston W Tonga C Webb J Williams tries J Thurston 2 goals

28 Panthers M Jennings 3 M Gordon J Sammut tries M Gordon 4 goals

The Panthers twice pegged back the lead for a a stirring win over the Cowboys in Townsville.

The match looked headed for golden point when the Cowboys’ John Williams crossed out wide in the 74th minute but Thurston fluffed the conversion. Michael Jennings sealed it for the Panthers, racing 40m for a try on full-time.

Raiders 4 D Vidot try

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25 Tigers T Moltzen 2 J Morris T Tuiaki tries B Marshall 4 goals, R Farah fg

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27 Eels E Grothe 2 L Burt K Kingston F Moimoi tries, L Burt 3 goals L Burt field goal

The Eels’ late season surge continued with a gutsy win over the Bulldogs. They raced to a 10-0 lead with tries to Luke Burt and Eric Grothe, then withstood plenty of pressure. The Eels made far more tackles than the Dogs, who couldn’t turn territorial dominance into points.

Storm 30

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B Anderson 2 W Chambers R Hinchcliffe C Smith J Tomane tries C Smith 2 J Tomane goals

10 Cronulla L Covell B Ferguson tries L Covell goal

An unconvincing Melbourne struggled for rhythm but eventually accounted for the Sharks at Olympic Park thanks to four secondhalf tries in 10 minutes. The lowly Sharks weren’t helped by several injuries during the game which limited their interchange options.

Warriors 4 J Moon try

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29 Dragons B Morris 2 D Boyd J Soward C Stanley tries, J Soward 4 goals J Soward fg

The Warriors’ season is all but over after a limp performance against the Dragons. The errorridden Warriors replied quickly to Brett Morris’s opening try, but the Dragons coasted through the second half for a convincing win.

TITANS The mercurial half-back had a hand in all six of his team’s tries, including bagging one himself, in a display that dazzled the Brisbane Broncos.

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L 4 5 6 6 8 8 8 9 9 10 9 10 11 12 13 13

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The Tigers extended their late season charge toward the top eight by demolishing Canberra, ending the Raiders’ slim finals hopes. The Tigers opened the scoring 12 minutes in with a try to half-back Tim Moltzen, and had the game in control by half-time, leading 19-0.

touching down, all in the final 10 minutes of the first half for a 16-14 lead at the break.

The dominance continued when a speculative kick by Michael Robertson in the 45th minute sent Scott Dureau and the ball crashing into the post. Hooker Matt Ballin was on the spot to fall on the loose ball for Manly.

Tries to forwards George Rose and Anthony Watmough stretched the advantage and sealed the Sea Eagles’ move into the top eight.

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Dockers coach Mark Harvey denies clubs are throwing games

John Anthony tackles Aaron Joseph

Pies strangle Blues

THE PLAYER

Simon Prestigiacomo

Blues 4.16.40

MAGPIES The in-form veteran fullback blanketed Brendan Fevola, keeping the Blues’ spearhead goalless for the first three quarters.

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SUNDAY DEMONS V TIGERS 4.10am POWER V HAWKS 5.40am EAGLES V BOMBERS 5.40am

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14.10.94 Magpies L Davis 3 D Beams 2 A Didak A Toovey C Dawes D Swan D Thomas J Anthony J Barham T Cloke T Lockyer

Collingwood suffocated the life out of Carlton to keep the Blues to their lowest score of the season and notch a commanding victory in front of 84,938 at the MCG. The Magpies’ win was set up in the first quarter-and-a-half, when they dominated with seven of the first eight goals of the match to build a 34-point lead. They bossed the Cats 15.9.99

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M Rooke 3 C Mooney 2 T Hawkins 2 C Ling G Ablett J Corey J Selwood M Stokes P Chapman S Hogan T Varcoe

14.14.98 Hawks L Franklin 5 C Brown 2 J Roughead 2 B Guerra C Bateman C Rioli J Lewis M Osborne

Geelong dealt Hawthorn’s finals aspirations a massive blow with a gutsy win at the MCG. The Cats booted the last five goals of the game to storm back from 28 points down early in the last quarter, Jimmy Bartel kicking the winning behind after the full-time siren.

Lions 17.14.116

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J Brown 8 J Polkinghorne 2 J Redden 2 J Brennan J Sherman S Black S Sheldon T Notting

11.9.75 Roos C Jones 4 L Thomas 2 B Harvey L Hansen M Campbell M Firrito T Goldstein

An inspirational eight-goal haul by Jonathan Brown led the Lions to a thumping of the Roos at the Gabba. The Lions led by 14 at half-time, and kicked clear in the third term for a win that means the club is just one victory away from securing their first finals berth since 2004.

Demons 6.14.50 A Davey B Miller B Moloney L Jurrah M Newton M Whelan

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10.8.68 Swans D Jolly 3 J McVeigh 2 J Bolton J Moore J White M Mattner R O’Keefe

The Swans scored only their second win of the last eight rounds with a dour victory over the Demons in Canberra to maintain their slim chances of making the finals. But the Swans hardly looked top-eight material, the lowly Demons closing to within 11 in the last quarter until a late goal by Jude Bolton sealed the win.

midfield, Scott Pendlebury and Dane Swan running rampant with 12 disposals each in the first quarter, while Simon Prestigiacomo, Leigh Brown and skipper Nick Maxwell were solid in defence.

The Blues never looked potent enough to reel in the deficit, managing only one goal in each quarter, with small forward Eddie Betts scoring his side’s only two majors of the first half, and Brendan Fevola kicking his only goal 15 minutes into the last.

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J van Berlo 2 T Ruffles 2 A Grover A Sandilands C Pearce D Mundy H Ballantyne N Suban

8.18.66 Eagles M LeCras 2 A Hansen A Selwood B Ebert J Kennedy M Priddis M Rosa

Fremantle maintained their hold over West Coast with a nail-biting win. They trailed by seven early in the final term before majors to Jay van Berlo and Tim Ruffles. Ashley Hansen goaled with a minute left to close the gap to five but sturdy defence got the Dockers home.

Saints 16.10.106

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N Riewoldt 5 S Milne 5 J Gwilt 2 A Schneider J Gram R Eddy S Dempster

9.7.61 Bulldogs C Ward 2 M Hahn 2 D Addison M Boyd N Eagleton R Griffen R Murphy

The Saints again showed their class with a resounding victory over the Bulldogs. St Kilda’s defensive hold across the ground was the key to the win, the Dogs’ normally slick style coming unstuck. Stephen Milne, Lenny Hayes and Brendon Goddard starred for the Saints.

Bombers 14.12.96 A Lovett 2 K Reimers 2 P Ryder 2 S Lucas 2 A McPhee B Stanton C Dempsey J Winderlich M McVeigh R Dyson

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15.11.101 Tigers J Riewoldt 6 J Post 2 M Morton 2 B Deledio D Jackson J King M White N Brown

Richmond held on for a nailbiting win over Essendon, who fought back from 23 points down at 21 minutes into the final quarter. But Richmond defended grimly for a deserved victory. Jack Riewoldt (six goals) and Ben Cousins (31 disposals) were the Tigers’ best.

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“Certainly it is a boost for us, he’s a quality player, he’s played well for a long time, he’s probably the linchpin in that batting order.” Aussie batsman Mike Hussey takes delight in another’s misfortune, admitting he’s relieved that England’s Kevin Pietersen will miss the rest of the Ashes series through injury.

“It’s disappointing when teams have to resort to thuggery out there.”

Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic defender Joline Henry gets stuck into the sour grapes after her team lost to Adelaide in the preliminary final of the Trans-Tasman netball league.

“My math’s not really good but I think they only scored six in the second half.”

Manly coach Des Hasler has seems to be having trouble counting when the figures get bigger than the number of fingers on one hand.

Outsiders find form Shane Watson and Stuart Clark have made strong claims to be recalled to the Australian team for the third Test starting on Thursday.

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Watson, who is returning from injury, made 84 from only 96 balls in a tour match against Northants and put up his hand to open in the Test and survive a new ball assault from the England bowlers.

“I feel like I have the game to be able to handle that and it

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would be awesome challenge to have that opportunity,” Watson said.

Clark, who is battling to return to the team after an arm injury, bowled with typical economy and took

‘Cadel Evans still has more to give’ Cadel Evans can bounce back from a horror time in this year’s Tour de France to again be a contender for cycling’s greatest prize, fellow Aussie rider Michael Rogers has said.

Evans, 32, one of this year’s pre-race favourites, has been blighted by poor performances and internal wranglings in his Silence-Lotto team, and he lost a massive 30 minutes on the leaders during the final week.

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a wicket in his first over, while Watson reaffirmed his allround skills with two wickets.

Opener Phillip Hughes looks set to be dropped after he was out for 10, again dismissed by a tight, rising delivery. He has now failed to reach 50 in his last six innings.

There were further worries for Australia with Mitchell Johnson’s wayward form continuing, the left-arm quick belted for six runs an over.

THE EVANS RECORD Tour de France runner-up 2007 and ’08.

Mountain Bike World Cup winner 1998 and ’99.

races in him,” said Rogers, whose own race was marred by crashes. “And I’m sure that if I concentrate solely on [the tour] I can perform well.”

Evans said: “I see the Tour now from the other side, it’s nice but I wish I was at the front.”

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In the first six months of this year an extra 25,800 women have found jobs at a time when the number of men with jobs has fallen by 56,400.

Asked about the discrepancy, Melbourne Institute labour economist Mark Wooden said

the male story was a “classical downturn story”, but that the female side of the equation was “bizarre”.

“The only explanation I can come up with is that the industries that are continuing to do well are those that employ women,” Wooden said.

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Word processing, typing and office duties are part of the role, but you may also have to arrange meetings or attend hearings.

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You can also get an ILEX (Institute of Legal Executives) Legal Secretaries Certificate and Diploma. There are no entry requirements and the course covers administration in a legal environment, communication skills and more.

You can take courses at one of ILEX’s many partner colleges or from its Tutorial College.

A Level 2 Certificate Programme costs £386, as does the Level 3 Diploma.

THE PAY “Anywhere from £25,000 to £38,000,” says Julie Woods, recruitment specialist at Robert Walters. At the moment, fluency in foreign languages will jack up those numbers. But starting out you’ll be looking at earning £15,000-£20,000 per year.

GETTING WORK The good news according to Daniel Cardon, manager of the legal division at Robert Walters, is that all organisations with an in-house legal function require a legal secretary.

This means plenty of opportunities in the UK to get your foot in the door.

Maria Iannella, originally from Melbourne, is a legal secretary in the litigation department of Allen & Overy in London.

Did you do any training?

I did a three-year TAFE course (Associate Diploma of Business – Legal Practice) in Melbourne.

Why did you choose to become a legal secretary?

I wanted a profession that was varied and interesting but allowed me to spend time with my family and friends, where I could leave the office at 5.30pm and not have to bring my work home with me or stress too much about it. And as I enjoyed the legal industry, I thought being a legal secretary would be an ideal role.

Hardest part of the job?

Adapting your style of work to that of the people you work with.

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WHERE DOES YOUR DOSH GO? Bill Nikolakis

Aussies better off abroad ustralian expats are among the highest paid in the world, but the foreign worker Down Under must make do with far less.

One in five Australians working overseas earns more than $320,000 a year, while only 4 per cent of those arriving in Australia earn the

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growing concerns about the state of the global economy,” HSBC Australia head of personal financial services Graham Heunis said.

“With almost half of Australian expats living in the financial hubs of Singapore and the UK … these concerns are particularly salient.”

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The biggest mobile phone operators are profiting from a “secret” tax by forcing landline customers to pay high charges for connecting calls to their network. Mobile termination rates have been criticised for stifling competition and increasing landline and mobile call costs.

More than a quarter of New Zealanders will use credit cards to pay bills from July to September, a survey by a credit reporting company suggests. The survey found that 28 per cent of the 905 New Zealand adults surveyed planned to spend money they didn’t have to pay bills.

How do you budget?

Poorly. I give myself a weekly allowance, which I hate myself for exceeding every other week.

What do you blow your cash on?

Rent obviously. But food is also a big one. I love eating out, and also cooking at home. I’m known to overcater and buy more than I need. My mates approve, but my hip pocket doesn’t.

Do you have any extraordinary expenses?

I have a fascination for old machines. I collect them, try to fix them up, and then inevitably leave them lying around. I have a handful of vintage scooters that cost me a packet to buy and then restore.

THE HISTORY OF MONEY When you’re ferreting around in your wallet for a 20p coin, do you ever think: ‘why is this little lump of silver worth anything?’ Here’s how it started » Representative money is » Egyptians used warehouse believed to have originated in Sumeria around 8000 BC, where small baked clay tokens were used to trade. » The Babylonians developed the earliest rules on business practice, legal contracts, debt and private property.

receipts: farmers would store grain in royal silos, and get a receipt for goods. » The gold standard, based on paper notes convertible into quantities of gold, was adopted by countries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Supermarkets are big on two-for-one and three-for two-deals. Sometimes it’s a bargain. Other times it’s just a way of getting you to buy stuff you don’t need.

If there are goods on offer that you know you’ll go through, don’t be afraid to buy in bulk. If you have some mates around, buy a carton of beer rather than two or three six-packs. You know it makes sense.

But at the same time, don’t be dazzled by ‘more for the sake of more’. Sometimes one six-pack is all you need. And make sure you shop around.

On high streets where there are several outlets, prices can vary significantly.

same amount, according to a recent HSBC study.

The study says local employers offered the lowest expat pay of all 26 countries surveyed. The emerging economies of Asia, the Middle East and Russia pay foreigners most lavishly.

“These results reflect

Job Architect From Melbourne, Australia Lives Maida Vale Age 30

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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I’m an Australian who’s lived in the UK for almost 26 years. I came on an ancestry visa and received Indefinite Leave to Remain a long time ago. I’m also married to an Englishman (the reason I stayed).

I’ve never applied for British citizenship as I didn’t want to give up my Australian citizenship, which I understood would have to happen. Am I right in believing that I can now have dual citizenship? I have started the process of applying for a UK passport but am having difficulty getting a definite answer.

were an Australian citizen. However, you are now permitted by both British and Australian authorities to hold dual citizenship.

Changes are planned to the qualifying criteria of becoming a British citizen, due at the end of 2009. So if you are currently eligible we would advise lodging your application as soon as possible. You may do so if you have spent no more than 270 days outside of the UK in the most recent three years, and have passed the Life in the UK Test.

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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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TRAVEL GLOBAL VISION A seal wears sunglasses at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo during last week’s solar eclipse.

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Scener y stern Enjoy the best of both worlds in we Islands Ireland: explore the rugged Aran town by day, then spend a night on the in lively Galway WORDS CLAIRE GOODALL

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ying flat on my tummy, fingers gripping the cliff edge, I gingerly extend my neck and peek over. There’s a sheer drop of 100m to the churning surf below, and I instinctively reach for a firmer grip on the TNT camera.

The Irish are famed for their love of anything that little bit bonkers (leprechauns, Father Ted, Guinness as a food group), and up here at Dún Aengus on the Aran Island of Inishmór the opportunities for lunacy abound.

There’s no health-and-safety style barrier – nothing at all, in fact, but your own common sense – between visitors and the margin of the vertiginous limestone cliffs.

Tourists with a better head for heights are clambering among the surviving stone walls of the Bronze Age fort, posing for photographs, windswept and squinting against the sun, with their feet dangling into the void.

ISLAND LIFE The concentric crescent walls of Dún Aengus have been crumbling into the Atlantic for more than two thousand years, as the Aran Islands – just off Ireland’s west coast – are blasted by whatever the ocean throws at them.

With nothing between here and the US but endless kilometres of open water, the scenery is characterised by exposed grassland beneath

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Ennis Guinness will set you Aran Islands back €4. Expect to pay more on the islands.

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dramatic skies. Today, though, the breeze is light and only thin wisps of distant cloud scatter the blue. It’s the perfect weather to explore, whether that be on foot, by pony and trap or in one of the many tourist buses that jostle for business at the ferry terminal in Kilronan.

We’ve opted for bike hire, and cycling along the narrow meandering lanes proves an idyllic way to take in the coast – broken by sandy bays and a rocky outcrop that’s home to a seal colony.

Inland bleak farmland hugs the backbone of the island, crisscrossed by drystone walls and dotted with sleepy villages, all overlooked by an eerie, deserted lighthouse.

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CITY LIGHTS Back on the mainland, Galway City offers an interesting counterpoint to the atmospheric, laid-back islands. Atmospheric and laid-back in an entirely different way, the city bursts with a youthful glee that somehow manages to sit harmoniously with the cobbled streets and quaint, colourful shop fronts.

From the street performers of Eyre Square

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to the plethora of welcoming pubs lining Quay Street, there’s a lively throb to central Galway that penetrates the soul.

Whether you like your Guinness poured slow and drunk slower, surrounded by idle Irish chatter, or served to the tune of rollicking folk music amid a high-spirited student crowd, you’ll find craic in Galway that suits your taste.

And there’s nothing bonkers about that.

» Claire Goodall travelled with Shamrocker (+353 1672 7651; shamrockeradventures.com).

The seven-day All Ireland Rocker tour is £279 The cliffs at Dún Aengus

Galway City

The Aran Islands are the final outcrop of the limestone pavement covering a large swathe of western Ireland.

Known as the Burren, this desolate landscape features a patchwork of rocky slabs scored by narrow fi ssures.

ENNIS: A MUSICAL CITY If Irish cities get under your skin, Ennis is an itch you’ll want to scratch. Smaller than Galway but with a similar happy-go-lucky vibe, Ennis is home to a legion of pubs where you can listen to traditional Irish folk music while sipping on a pint of the black stuff.

CONNEMARA: CHARMINGLY IRISH

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GETTING AROUND Galway is easily explored 107 75 77 61 71 67 69 90 on foot. Buses serve the Aran Islands ferries.

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VISAS Aussies, Kiwis and Saffas can visit Ireland without a visa.

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The rusty bogs, lonely mountains and wild valleys of Connemara epitomise Irish scenery at its best.

Whether you hug the coast or explore the trails of the national park, it’s worth spending a few days letting the region’s timeless beauty sink into the consciousness.

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Surrounded by Roman walls and home to Europe’s oldest shopping street, a giant Gothic cathedral and a live archaeological dig that has unearthed an entire Viking village, York yields an endless stream of fascinating relics from centuries past. What’s more, it’s only two hours by train from London.

HEADLINE ATTRACTION York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe, took 250 years to build and is the most visited cathedral in Britain, with a colossal stained glass window the size of a tennis court. The climb up a narrow staircase to the top of the central tower is well worth it for a cracking view over the city and the Yorkshire Moors.

TNT Weekender of St Mary’s Abbey, built by William the Conqueror’s son in 1250. On a sunny day you’ll find locals chilling out here.

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GHOSTS AND GHOULS York was named the most haunted European city by the International Ghost Research Foundation in 2002. Don’t miss the Ghost Hunt of York guided walk. See ghosthunt.co.uk.

The Shambles, York’s most famous shopping street, once housed dozens of butchers.

The sloping pavement was designed so that blood from slaughtered carcasses could drain away. Today the Tudor buildings that seem to lean together are home to souvenir shops and tea rooms.

OUT OF TOWN You can use York as a base for exploring the hauntinglybeautiful national park of the Yorkshire Moors, or 18thcentury country estate Castle Howard. If you like the ocean you can get your beach fix at nearby Scarborough.

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Visit the Jorvik Viking Centre, a great interactive museum built on an actual Viking settlement. You can also walk the medieval City Walls encircling cobbled streets.

Look out for Bootham Bar one of the city gates (in York, a ‘bar’ is a gate and a ‘gate’ is actually a street), where traitors’ heads were displayed in medieval times. In summer head to Museum Gardens next to the striking remains

York is famed more for its tea shops than its nightclubs and you will find a lovely cuppa at Betty’s and Little Betty’s. For something a bit harder head to an ‘old man pub’ such as The Black Swan or The Blue Bird.

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o the Emilia-Romagnans, the stomach is a bottomless pit into which only the finest ingredients may enter. Luckily mine is feeling cavernous at the Green Village restaurant outside the town of Modena, as plates piled high with cured meats, pickled vegetables, bread, cheese and salads sit before me. This is just the antipasti (starters) – there are still four more courses to go.

For the initial taste-bud teaser, we are shown how to make the famous tortellini with spinach, ricotta and local Parmigiano Reggiano.

Legend has it that the shape of tortellini was created by an innkeeper who fell in love with a guest at the inn, and after spying her through

SHORT BREAK TRADITIONALLY SPEAKING Products from Emilia Romagna must adhere to strict criteria to gain certification.

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PARMIGIANO REGGIANO What: A hard cheese produced in

Mushrooms on the market

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What: A thick tangy sweet syrup produced since the Middle Ages.

How it’s made: Juice from the grapes is boiled and stored in wooden barrels, and then continually blended.

Cheap imitation: Commercial balsamic vinegars used for salad dressings.

Benedictine monasteries since 1200.

How it’s made: Pure cow’s milk is curdled in huge vats until it is salted and stored.

Cheap imitation: Parmesan is loosely used to describe similar cheese.

LAMBRUSCO What: A sparkling wine produced by the Etruscans and Romans. It’s traditionally dry, but some sweet wines are also made.

How it’s made: It goes through a second fermentation in a pressurized tank.

Cheap imitation: The New World produce medium-sweet ‘Lambrusco’ wines.

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Pagani and De Tomaso. The Ferrari museum is well worth a visit for any Formula 1 fan as it holds the first 1947 125 S Ferrari (pictured), as well as the F1-2000 that helped Michael Schumacher win his first of five consecutive world championships with Ferrari.

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the keyhole of her room, he made a pasta that he called the ‘bellybutton of Venus’.

STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE

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There’s no doubt that Italians are passionate about their food. According to our local guide: “Everything is carefully arranged and thought out – it’s all about texture.”

Wandering through Modena’s market only the freshest ingredients are on display.

The market bursts with colour from blood-red peppers and Kermit-green lettuces to mushrooms of all shapes and sizes.

Emilia-Romagna has long been one of Italy’s richest gastronomic areas, producing staples such as tomatoes, potatoes and onions, as well as quality products such as Parma ham, Parmigiano Reggiano and balsamic vinegar (see above).

Beyond the fast cars and fancy shops, though, is an ancient town known in Roman times as Mutina. We wander past the 19th-century Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti, renamed after the death of the opera singer, who was a life-long resident of Modena. It’s no surprise the well-rounded tenor was from such a foodie area, being the son of a baker.

Tenor Andrea Bocelli and many others gathered at Modena’s World Heritage-listed cathedral Duomo for Pavarotti’s funeral. Built in 1099, it looms over the Piazza Grande (main image) like a white angel. Its Romanesque marble exterior is adorned in sculptured celestial and grotesque reliefs.

Soon enough it was time for the next meal and I wondered would it be local zampone (stuffed pig’s trotter) or succulent pork loin fried in the local grape sauce? It didn’t matter. Either way I was going to walk out a stuffed tortellino.

» Jo Cackett travelled to Italy with Emilia Romagna Turismo (emiliaromagnaturismo.it) Local lad Luciano Pavarotti

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NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO Early spring and autumn to avoid the summer heat and crowds.

GETTING THERE Ryanair (ryanair.com) flies from London Stansted to Bologna. It’s a 30-minute train ride to Modena.

GETTING AROUND Take a bus tour to explore the countryside of Emilia Romagna. Modena is small enough to walk or cycle around.

VISAS Australians and New Zealanders do not need a visa. South Africans need a Schengen visa.

CURRENCY Euro.

1 GBP = 1.16 EUR. LANGUAGE Italian.

GOING OUT A beer costs about €3.

ACCOMMODATION Dorm rooms from €15 and private rooms from €30.

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If you’re looking for a side dish, though, there’s plenty of history to the region.

The Romans set up garrison towns along the Via Emilia – an ancient road that connects Rome to the north through Bologna, Modena, ReggioEmilia and Parma.

Without Roman roads, Modena wouldn’t have become the ‘capital of engines’ – spawning the factories for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Masarati,

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WINNER LIBERTY ISLAND, NEW YORK Julien Leliervre, Brittany, France

Julien reckons he was lucky to get the plane in this shot, but photography is about waiting for the moment and being ready to capture it.

It wasn’t simply luck that composed the dramatic diagonal of the flag across the whole frame, or that

placed the plane in the top left corner – especially not luck that the white sky did not underexpose the whole thing.

An excellently timed and composed image.

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WHY THIS WORKS: 1 Horizon low, making the sky seem huge and giving impression of space.

2 Time of day means the street lights have turned on for extra interest.

3 Lots of lightning across the whole sky.

4 Reflection in water fills the foreground.

5 Gentle curves of the islands in front break up the flatness of the horizon.

HOT TIPS: 1 Photograph at night or dusk when the bolts stand out and exposure is easier.

2 Exposure is tricky so take lots of shots. Put the camera on a tripod, use a low ISO, set the

shutter to ‘bulb’ (open shutter), set aperture to F8-F16, focus on infinity, open the shutter and wait for the lightning, then close the shutter.

3 Avoid sheet lightning, lightning with rainfall, very weak thunderstorms where lightning is very intermittent, and distant lightning.

4 Be aware of the ambient light and use that to judge how long to leave the shutter open before closing it.

5 Stay safe – avoid open fields, being near trees, poles or power lines, using a phone, or being near a lake or stream.

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Make sure your legs are up to it though – it’s 61m, and there are 287 steps to the highest balcony.

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Fast, comfortable buses link the main cities, and smaller places can be accessed by minivan.

Distances are large but on the whole you won’t need your own vehicle. The exceptions are the Skeleton Coast in Namibia and the Okavango Delta in Botswana. One requires wheels, the other wings. You can arrange an Okavango trip in Maun and fly from there.

Things change in Zambia, where transport isn’t so good. Victoria Falls is breathtaking and you should spend a few days here seeing not just the big waterfall but some of the scenery.

If you do pop over to Zimbabwe (which is safe, and the views of the falls are better) you’ll find great cheaper accommodation.

Lots of overland trucks cover this route but going your own way is more than possible.

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For those without children a flight sitting next to a roaring toddler is hell. However, the only thing that can top that is doing it with your own toddler and having to cope with the glares of other passengers.

Sarah, I think you’re best off just toughing this out. After one eight-hour flight you won’t relish another, but you certainly won’t want to do two trips to and from an airport, into an unfamiliar hotel in a new city.

If you’re set on it, the obvious stops would be Dubai and somewhere in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok or Tokyo), which are childfriendly enough. Fiji would require going via LA, which means longer flights. Turkey isn’t a logical stop as it’s too close to home.

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Tiffany Frankish, 22, from Sydney, Australia What’s the best place you’ve been to?

Edinburgh at Christmas time.

The Christmas festival was on, with all the lights, and the Ferris wheel was really cool.

Dream destination?

I’d love to spend Christmas in Canada.

Your most over-rated place?

Glasgow. It was kind of dull.

It didn’t do anything for me.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve eaten?

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Even stranger is that some statistics show skin cancer rates and sun cream use have risen simultaneously.

Of course there could be a variety of explanations for this – not least that many of us think applying sunscreen makes us immune to harmful rays, as opposed to slightly safer, and so we spend longer in the sun than we would otherwise.

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The good news is there are loads of natural alternatives, brimming with weird and wonderful but importantly chemical-free ingredients, which help deflect the sun’s harmful rays.

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SURVIVAL GUIDE CHAPTER 1: BEFORE YOU GO HIT THE HISTORY BOOKS Oktoberfest began in 1810 as a wedding feast for Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and his bride, Princess Therese von SachsenHildburghausen – a name that’s more of a mouthful than a beer-fest pork knuckle.

BAG A BED Hotels and hostels book out in a flash for Oktoberfest – some up to a year in advance.

See munichtourist.de for late deals and accommodation availability.

Otherwise, jump on a package tour that includes flights or coach transport and hostel accommodation. Prices are competitive and you’ll make instant Oktoberfest friends.

LEARN THE LINGO Essential German phrases for the beer festival include: prost – cheers bieseln – to take a leak fetznrausch – very drunk noagerl – the dregs of a stein ogschdocha – tipsy

SURVIVAL GUIDE CHAPTER 2: WHILE YOU’RE THERE SACRIFICE THE SLEEP IN As much as you want to snooze after a big night, it’s imperative you’re up and at ‘em early or you’ll miss out on a table. Steins are served from 9am on weekends, so start lining up outside your chosen beer tent from 8.30am.

GRAB A GLASS Stealing a stein is a bit of a tradition for some

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eptember is just around the corner and that can only mean one thing in the world festival calendar – Oktoberfest.

Never mind the confusion of dates (the world’s biggest beer festival was moved from October to the end of September for a better chance of scoring sunny weather): this is all about beer. Seven million litres of the stuff in fact, thrown in with 30,000 litres of wine, 62,000 pork knuckles, 460,000 roast chickens and six million punters merrily “prosting” each other as they guzzle steins of Bavarian brew during this debauched two-week festival in Munich.

Surviving Oktoberfest is no mean feat.

There are booze-related dangers to contend with, such as passing out, wetting yourself or falling asleep in a garden. Then there’s the risk of not getting a good seat, choosing the wrong beer tent or missing Munich’s other sights.

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NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO This year’s Oktoberfest runs September 19 to October 4.

GETTING THERE Budget airlines fly direct to Munich.

Otherwise, book a package tour from the UK. GETTING AROUND Munich is relatively compact and well serviced by public transport. Buses leave from the Hauptbahnhof every 20 minutes for Dachau Concentration Camp. For Oktoberfest, look out for signs reading Zur Festwiese, meaning Festive Meadow.

VISAS South Africans need a Schengen visa to visit Germany. Australians and Kiwis don’t need visas.

CURRENCY Euro.

1 GBP = 1.16 EUR. LANGUAGE German, though English is also widely spoken.

GOING OUT Steins are about €8.

ACCOMMODATION Dorm beds in hostels start at €25.

Hotel rooms are from €60 for a double.

SEE muenchen.de/ oktoberfest.

festival-goers, but beware the €50 fine if you are caught.

A WEE LITTLE PROBLEM You’ll see many a wet stain as your beerfest mates surpass the point of inebriation and don’t quite make it to the dunny.

Luckily loos are aplenty, with extensive troughs for blokes and loads of cubicles for ladies. A good rule once you’ve broken the seal is: one stein in, one stein out.

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MEET THE LOCALS Several million tourists flood Munich for Oktoberfest, but the festival is also hugely

popular with the locals. Make sure you chat to a few over a stein or three.

FANCY PANTS If you really want to blend in, buy some lederhosen, the local garb worn by German drinkers. You can’t help but feel festive in the traditional outfit.

A BREAK FROM BEER Stop drinking? Of course not! But if you need a change from beer, swap your stein for a weisse and head to the wine tent.

CRIMINAL MINDS Not to bang on about safety, but keep your valuables at home or safely secured. It’s all too easy to lose or be robbed of your phone or wallet after several steins.

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TAKE A MARKER PEN Without sounding like your mum, it’s important to be smart about your drinking. Bavarian beer packs a 5 per cent-alcohol punch and it’s a common mistake for punters to go too hard too soon, and then pass out in a puddle of their own pork knuckleflavoured vomit.

Plenty of drinkers keep a tally of their beers in marker pen on their arm – handy for knowing how much you’ve had, and not a bad badge of honour either.

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BIG TRIP PROST! OTHER BEER FESTIVALS UNTAPPED Oktoberfest is the grandaddy, but there’s no shortage of other German festivals dedicated to beer.

CANNSTATTER VOLKSFEST Very few tourists have cottoned on to German’s second-largest beer swilling festival. Called Volksfest (the people’s festival), it’s held in Stuttgart two weeks after the beginning of Oktoberfest. See cannstatter-volksfest.de.

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Purity Act, but after 10 or so you’re still going to feel seedy in the morning. Hair of the dog is as good hangover cure, as is a giant German breakfast (see below).

EATING DEFINITELY AIN’T CHEATING Sipping steins at Oktoberfest is an all-day affair, so if you don’t eat you’re definitely not going to last the distance. What’s more, the food at the fest is almost as famous as the beer.

Whole roast chickens, sizzling sausages and giant pork knuckles are the menu staples, along with oversized pretzels and obatzta, a tasty German cheese.

HOSTEL HIGH JINKS Your hostel address tends to become hazy after a hard day’s guzzling. Take a business card, store the address in your phone, write it on your torso in marker pen or snap a photo of your backpackers’ on your camera, or you’ll end up doing laps in a taxi.

CASH AND CARRY Oktoberfest ain’t cheap, but the experience is

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worth the expense. Steins are €7-€8, so budget about €100 a day if you’re drinking loads, eating pork knuckles and buying souvenirs.

OTHER GOOD ’UNS Hannover and Bremen also host colourful beer festivals complete with funfairs and plenty of amber nectar.

HERBAL HIGHS Snuff, a powdered mix of caffeine and mint, is sold throughout Munich and is popular at Oktoberfest. Have a snort in between steins for an extra high

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Another beer festival styled on Oktoberfest, Gaudobens Volksfest is held in Straubing and attracts plenty of locals who come for the event’s unique beers and customs.

See volksfest-straubing.de.

OVER HERE, WENCH Beer wenches are as much a part of the festival as the beer and pork knuckles.

It’s a good idea to hand over €10 per stein for your first few rounds – it seems a generous tip, but it will ensure your wench comes back with a refill once your steins are empty.

SURVIVAL GUIDE CHAPTER 3: AFTER YOU LEAVE TAKE A HOLIDAY FROM YOUR HOLIDAY All that beer swilling is hard on the body. Give

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yourself a day or two at home to recover before heading back to work or, even better, book another holiday back-to-back.

A VISIT TO THE DOC Get your beer-induced stomach ulcer checked out by your doctor, as well as any red rashes that may have appeared on your body as a result of a beer-fest romance.

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LOCK IN 2010 If you loved Oktoberfest as much as everyone else, lock in your accommodation and flights for 2010 now, ensuring you score the best hostel beds and the cheapest airfares. Then it’s time to hit the pub to start training for next year’s beer swilling!

Oktoberfest kicks off with the Brewer’s Parade on the first day, as the colourful procession heads from Sonnenstrasse to the fairground. The first keg is tapped in the Schottenhamel tent – a good choice if you want to see the pomp that marks the opening of Oktoberfest.

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THINGS TO DO BESIDES DRINK BEER Sure, drinking is the focus of Oktoberfest, but even teetotallers can have a terrific time in Munich.

AROUND THE GROUNDS The beer tents are set among a giant theme park. Try the Olympia Looming or Power Tower ride for maximum thrills.

FESTIVE FUN Just wandering in the Oktoberfest grounds is a euphoric experience. Make sure you tear into a giant pretzel or gingerbread man while you’re at it.

The biggest and rowdiest beer tent, Hofbräu is the most popular with Aussies and Kiwis. It’s home to the legendary ‘Pig Pen’, a debauched standing-

middle of the city, the English Garden is a lush expanse of nature, perfect for nursing a hangover, spotting Germans sunbathing in the nude, and watching surfers tackle a standing wave in the Isar River.

JETTING AROUND GERMANY Take a few extra days to explore more of what Germany has to offer – you won’t regret it.

The capital, Berlin, is one of Europe’s most fascinating cities. From there catch a train south to Dresden, which was destroyed by bombs during World War II, before finishing your tour in Heidelberg or Mainz.

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If all that beer chugging is giving you a cultural cringe, venture out and about in Munich and admire the art at the Alte Pinakothek (pinakothek.de), packed with treasures from the Middle Ages.

A good all-round tent that attracts a mix of tourists and locals. Löwenbräu is considered one of Bavaria’s best drops, so you’ll be sipping quality beer all day in this tent.

TIME TO CONCENTRATE Dachau Concentration Camp (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de) makes for a sobering but worthwhile excursion from the beer tents.

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Sheena at the Dutch Tent Party at El Molino campsite at Pamps on Saturday, July 11: Can’t a man go

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