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EDITOR’S LETTER TNT readers sure are a creative bunch. While most of us just fire off a few emails about (often drunken) adventures on the road or take a few happy snaps, our annual Travel Writing and Photography Awards received hundreds of quality entries. Check out the best of the captivating images and writing

by TNT readers in our special section starting on page 67.

68 See our award-winning travel photography entries

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9 LONDON 9 London Eye 10 London Life 12 ON COURSE: Learn a new skill at one of these classes 14 Food & Drink 16 Spotted

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To Emma (‘Backing the bus’) who raved about night buses after she effortlessly took one to get home, and was quicker than her friends who caught a cab – surely this sort of experience is the exception that proves the rule?

For every happy night bus trip there are hundreds ruined by drunk/wired/ stoned/minging/feral/wacko people who like nothing more than making things as uncomfortable and unpleasant as they can for everyone else.

Matt, Hackney

I agree with Emma, the night bus is great.

One of the first things I was warned about when arriving in London was not to take the night bus home. I was told it was very unsafe and filled with hoodie gangs and drunken louts.

But I’d be lost without it. The night bus is cheap – perfect for when you’ve spent

➥ TNT 1362 OCT 5-11 TALKING NONSENSE We regularly read reports on the latest ramblings from the ANC Youth League’s president Julius Malema, and your story on last week’s South African news page ‘Malema declares war on Nedbank’ is a fine example of this.

I was just wondering if the media aren’t giving this hooter

For every happy night “ bus trip there are hundreds ruined by wacko people ” that last tenner on another round of drinks – can be taken from almost anywhere in the capital, is usually filled with an assortment of Londoners, most of whom are friendly after a night out, and the journey gives you enough time to finish that greasy kebab on the way home.

Transport in London has its ups and downs, but I’ve no complaints about taking the night bus.

Stacey, Wimbledon

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mouth too much publicity?

Every time they report on one of his ludicrous statements, he tops it with another.

The ‘does the falling tree in the wood make a noise if there is nobody to hear’ argument comes to mind. If we start ignoring the idiot will he stop?

Will it matter what he says if nobody listens?

Maybe it will be worth our while sending him into the woods of isolation, so that the next time a tree falls, it will fall

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on him. Certainly everything he has said over the past few years is more of novelty value than importance.

Malema is at best a grownup clown with a child’s mentality who should not be seen nor heard.

James du Preez, Southfields

BROUGHT TO BOOK You know Christmas is coming when every Z-list celebrity gets his/her thinking cap on to bring out a halfhearted book in October.

I am amused and bewildered how celebrity biographies get to the top 10 best-seller list, when everyone must have the common sense to know that these books were written by ghost writers.

How can a 16-year-old write about his/her life story when they are still fighting teenage acne. These types of books are awful trash.

Simon, Fulham

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YOUR SAY AUTUMN PLEASURES

I can’t believe the weather is chilly again already. I dug out my gloves, scarf and boots this week for the walk to the Tube station.

I’m ready for autumn though – it’s definitely my favourite season in London, especially as back in Australia the seasons barely exist.

I love watching the leaves turn orange and drop off the trees.

I love how the snug English pubs make

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So enjoy autumn in London. Summer might be over, but you’ll still have fun here, even when the weather cools.

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GOOD JAPANESE FOOD Can anyone recommend some good, authentic Japanese restaurants in London?

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A man looks at an artwork of a mixed media installation by artist Lucy Skaer during a preview of The Turner Prize at Tate Britain. There are four artists short-listed for the prize, with the winner to be announced on December 7. Named after the painter JMW Turner, the prize – with a winner’s purse of £25,000 – is presented annually to a British visual artist under the age of 50.

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LONDON LIFE

WHAT’S ON Daniel Landon PICKS THE BEST OF LONDON THIS WEEK

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AUTUMN AT KEW £13 WHAT: The Royal Botanic Gardens is perhaps the most scenic spot in London, and with autumn upon us it becomes even more captivating as the leaves turn exquisite shades of red, brown, orange and gold.

WHEN: The gardens are open all year. There are free ‘autumn foliage’ guided tours daily until November 1.

DO IT BECAUSE: You could pay thousands to fly to the US and check out the autumn leaves in Massachusetts, or you could see the original and best right here in London. And you can get a bird’s eye view from the treetop walkway.

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Capital idea: Camden markets The first time you exit Camden Tube on a weekend afternoon and face this pulsating, twisted cornucopia of souls is a breathtaking experience.

In a world where most high street shopping strips look the same, Camden has managed to retain its niche as a hangout for freaks, weirdos, goths, retro heads, hippies and anyone with a slightly seedy underground vibe. And despite the mass of tourists it’s this vibe that makes it unique.

Curiously, there’s actually

numerous individual markets on and just off the side of Chalk Farm Road, starting at Inverness Street, past the lock to the Stables Market. All up, it’s a fascinating, if slightly chaotic, place to visit. But if you take the view that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em – at least for the duration of your visit – you’ll have a ball. DL

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The world’s strongest men muscle up in Wembley Arena to lift tall buildings in a single go – well, almost – in the International Strongman Champions League 09.

» Various venues (bfi.org.uk/ lff). Oct 14-29

» Empire Way, HA9 0DH Wembley Park (strongman cllondon.co.uk). Oct 18

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» Battersea Arts Centre, SW11 5TF Clapham Common (bac.org.uk). Oct 14-17

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BRITAIN EXPLAINED MORONIC BENDY BUSES

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London’s double-decker red buses are famous around the world, but since 2002 they’ve been ditched on many routes in favour of widely loathed bendy buses.

But why were 18m long monstrosities introduced on

London’s tiny, congested roads? First, they hold 149 people – 59 more than a double-decker. Second, they’re wheelchair accessible – unlike double deckers. And third, they’re quicker to get on as there are three sets of doors, not just one.

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different from a lager (such as Stella Artois or Foster’s) as it is from a glass of sherry. You can discover the difference at the perfectly named Beer Academy (beeracademy.co.uk).

Vinopolis (vinopolis.co.uk) is London’s homage to wine. It runs hugely fun wine tasting nights and longer courses if you want to get really serious about your tipple.

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SEX IT UP, BABY Let’s face it: most people who are single want a) a partner, b) more sex, or c) both.

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To help you cope with ups and downs, life coaching can be invaluable. An ex-TNT staffer found Aspiring Change (founded by an Aussie; aspiringchange.com) a massive help during some tough times.

THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH Teaching English overseas is a great way to combine work and travel – whether it’s in Japan, Italy, Thailand or just about anywhere else. To help you on your way, TNT is hosting introductory courses in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).

The weekend-long courses will be run by International TEFL Training’s experienced staff, and those who complete the course will get a TEFL certificate that’s recognised in non-English speaking countries worldwide.

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EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY To impress and fatten your friends, learn how to make a scrumptious cake at the Cookery School (cookeryschool.co.uk), or get down and dirty with a hunk of dead animal, and tell a rump from a rack, by taking a butchery course with The Ginger Pig (thegingerpig.co.uk).

A pint of traditional English ale is about as

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Begin your journey towards an Oscar by taking an acting class at the City Academy. A one-day introductory course is £59.

If you fancy your skills on the decks then head to the Subbass DJ Academy (subbassdj.com).

For painting and drawing, check out the Islington Arts Factory (islingtonartsfactory. org). To put some lead in you pencil try Dr Sketchy (drsketchylondon.co.uk), where “beautiful burlesque performers and rippling hunks of man-flesh” are available for you to draw.

And if you want to boost your personal awareness and develop practical skills to deal with the threat of physical harm, the people at Personal Safety Training (personal-safety-training.co. uk) have you covered.

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BAR REVIEW Crown & Goose ★★★★★

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100 Arlington Rd, NW1 7HP 020 7485 8008 Camden Town

THE SCENE This charming venue, hidden in Camden’s quieter back streets, is difficult to characterise as either pub or restaurant. Effortlessly melding dingy boozer ambience with

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gastropub quality and comfort, the Crown & Goose offers the best of both worlds.

THE GRUB Seasonal, freshly cooked dishes of the Britishwith-a-twist variety. Battered pollack with fat chips came deep-fried to crispy perfection, while the autumn Eton mess beautifully offset tart berries against sweet meringue.

BEHIND THE BAR Selection

of quality wines from £3.40 a glass. Heineken and Amstel among the beers on tap.

BILL PLEASE £25 a head for a two-course meal with wine.

The 12.5 per cent service charge stings – but then table service in a pub is an indulgence worth paying for.

VERDICT Ideal for catching up with friends in an informal setting. CLAIRE GOODALL

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A week dedicated to chocolate is an excellent idea. Make an indulgent treat, and check out what events are on.

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OF THE BEST: SPANISH Camino Regent Quarter, N1 9FD Whether you’re after churros and coffee, drinks and tapas or a more substantial meal, this restaurant/bar offers a great taste of Spain in King’s Cross.

Cambio de Tercio holding Chocolate Afternoon Tea with pastries, tarts, dipped strawberries and a chocolate tasting platter for £17. » Artisan du Choolat (Westbourne Grove, W2 4UL) is having chocolate cocktail

happy hour from 5.30pm6.30pm, with drinks at £4.50. » Harrods (Brompton Rd, SW1X 7XL) has plenty of samples to taste in its food emporium. » For more events, see chocolate-week.co.uk.

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Get it where: £1.89 for 330ml from Tesco.

Moro Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QE Famous for cooking up Moorish inspired food, Moro is one of those must-visit London restaurants worth booking for.

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MEET RUSSATY: They’re not quite Bennifer or Brangelina, but Russell Brand and Katy Perry could be the latest high-profile couple to get paparazzi lenses clicking.

The pair were spotted strolling hand-in-hand in Paris, and then canoodling at a fashion show.

Comedian Brand, 34, has made a name for himself as an eccentric, over-sexed weirdo with a penchant for tight trousers and ridiculous back-combed hairdos, while Californian Perry, 24, has scored chart hits with I Kissed A Girl and Hot N Cold.

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Former Noiseworks and INXS singer Jon Stevens was discharged from hospital after spending almost a month recovering from open heart surgery. His condition had deteriorated due to an infection.

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Nicole Kidman copped some flak from the Daily Mail amid claims she’d had a “Croydon facelift” after being pictured with an extremely tight ponytail that appeared to pull the skin of her face super taut.

THINK, THEN SPEAK Contentious radio host Kyle Sandilands told his listeners he will bear in mind that what he says on air is not the same as speaking to his friends.

Sandilands was suspended for a month without pay from co-hosting his 2Day FM Kyle and Jackie O Show after he said comedian Magda Szubanski, who is the face of a weight loss programme, could become slimmer if she was put in a concentration camp.

At the end of his first

morning broadcast after his suspension he said he would be more careful with his choice of words on air in future.

“I am probably going to think about things that I say from now on, because sometimes over the years I’ve felt so free and in the company of friends – you know, people sometimes say things in the company of friends they may not say at the supermarket,” he said.

SAY WHAT?

”Madonna makes things happen. I still love her. But she’s retarded, too.”

Guy Ritchie’s bizarre testament to his ex-wife.

Woman’s Weekly: Kate Middleton is lining up to marry Prince William in the future, but how is her wedding being put at risk?

Plus, the inside gossip on Justin Timberlake’s alleged dumping of hottie Jessica Biel for sexy singer Rihanna.

AUSTRALIA OK!: Angelina Jolie refutes suggestions she’s not a good mother after reports that her kids run wild and there’s trouble with the twins. Plus, Nicole Richie’s amazing weight loss just three weeks after giving birth to her second baby. And see the pics of Khloe Kardashian’s whirlwind wedding to Lakers star Lamar Odom.

SOUTH AFRICA YOU: Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler look radiant, but how’s their relationship really going? Plus, two women’s heart-rending tug-ofwar over an unborn surrogate child. And actress Hlubi Mboya, who plays Nandipha in Isidingo, is letting it all hang out for a new local movie, A Small Town Called Descent, which tackles xenophobia in South Africa.

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This English rose loves all things Australian, except the Aussie cricket team that is, taking great satisfaction in their Ashes defeat. Not only is Claire extremely passionate about her job, with stray commas and rogue indents keeping her awake at night, but she’s also done her bit to establish new IT relations – all in the name of work, of course.

LOOK WHO’S TALKING

The British wine expert explains why North Africa’s vineyards are the ones to watch, and how to appreciate the funnier side of a good drop

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Francis Gimblett INTERVIEW ALISON GRINTER

21 What surprised you the most about Africa’s wine industry?

The fact that it’s all under Muslim rule … many of the wineries are partnerships with European firms although the land is all owned by the state and leased on a short-term basis to the partnerships. Nearly all the staff in the wineries are practising Muslims. Many of them drink. About 30 per cent of people across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia drink – mostly in their own homes, but there are also restaurants and bars. The ones that do call themselves ‘the more enlightened ones’. That’s not my comment, that’s theirs …

Nose size is no “ indication of wine tasting ability ” Still, making wine in predominantly Muslim countries must make for some interesting scenarios.

They’re not allowed to market the wine, or advertise, and there’s no sponsorship, most of them don’t have websites. It’s not like Napa Valley [in California] where you’ve got trains going up and down and bunting everywhere.

Part of your odyssey was to track down French film star Gerard Depardieu who has a winery in Morocco, and who you suspect you pissed off on The Graham Norton Show.

What did you say to him?

I dunno. I was a bit flippant.

I said: ‘Nose size is no real indication of wine tasting ability’. I mean he took it very well on the show, and he was laughing. I don’t know whether I did

[piss him off] or if he just couldn’t be bothered with me.

What’s his winery like?

Fabulous. He has a real understanding of how to make great wine. The interesting thing about the three countries is the huge potential they have because of the altitude.

They’ve got cooler vineyard sites than in the South of France.

In the book you drink wine to guard against getting food poisoning. Is that a travel tip you’d stand by?

Why not? I’d accidentally drunk tap water from around this feta cheese and I thought I’d try a glass of alcohol. It was certainly used by the army in Roman times.

What tipples should we be looking out for from Africa?

There’s not much yet. There’s some wines from a company called Castel in Morocco,

they’re available in Nicolas stores. They do a brand called Halana and have got a Syrah which is worth a look. There’s one available from a place called Caves de Pyrene and they’ve got a wine called Chateau Roslane – a red like a Cab Sav blend. I predict there’ll be some North African wines competing at the highest level in 10 years or so.

Apparently you dream of owning your own vineyard. Where would it be and what kind of grapes would you grow?

In England, something around Haslemere in Surrey near my home, and there’d be Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Mineur – but only for sparkling wine. England has just started to understand how to make wine in our climate. We’re only suited to sparkling wine production.

You also do ‘comedy wine tasting’ events – er, please explain …

We started our company Taste The Vine 12 years ago. We all put on shows – just combining comedy and wine tasting. The wine trade is very conservative so I try to do something different.

» See thewineadventure.com. In And Out Of Africa out now through Wine Adventurer Press

YOU DON’T SAY? What did you have for breakfast?

Three satsumas and a triple espresso.

Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?

Yeah, Viscount Linley [Princess Margaret’s son]. That’s why I grew my hair so as not to look like him!

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

Dakota by the Stereophonics. It’s very upbeat and anthemic. I don’t need a glass of wine to dance to that one.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

SCREEN TEST: TERRY GILLIAM 1 Who co-wrote the screenplay with Gilliam for his fantastical comedy Time Bandits?

2 What is Robin Williams’s character on a mission to find in The Fisher King?

3 In what year is Gilliam’s time-travelling film Twelve Monkeys set?

4 It’s been rumoured that Gilliam will be involved in a film connected to which British animated rock group?

5 When did the UK-based Gilliam renounce his American citizenship?

Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole

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When Heath Ledger passed away during the filming of The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, director Terry Gilliam very nearly pulled the plug on the movie.

Thank God he persevered, since the film turns out to be a fitting tribute to the tragic Aussie actor. Featuring charismatic turns by Ledger as well as Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell who stand in for him, Parnassus is a visually striking, hugely creative fantasy movie.

The twisted storyline sees the mysterious Doctor Parnassus (Plummer) staging shows around London with his daughter Valentina (Cole).

Things go wrong when they

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meet the smooth-talking Tony (Ledger) and run into the devil, who wants to take Valentina away from Parnassus.

With Gilliam throwing together bizarre scenes that have all the coherence of a fever dream, the film is

sometimes too weird for its own good. However, with Ledger lighting up the screen this is still a sad reminder that the world has lost a rare talent.

GOOD FOR: Remembering just how good Heath Ledger really was. PIERRE DE VILLIERS

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You know a horror film is going to be shocking when the leading star can’t bear to watch some scenes.

Australian-born actor Costas Mandylor, who stars as Detective Hoffman in the blood splattering horror franchise Saw, says he walked away when watching a scene from the upcoming sixth instalment in which a girl (played by Tanedra Howard) gets her head crushed in a metal trap.

“I said that’s too much for me, I’m going to go back to my room,” Mandylor (right) said.

Mandylor, who joined the

Chop socky star Tony Jaa returns with a revenge tale set in ancient Thailand that lacks the pace of the original Ong Bak. A turgid storyline about an orphan who takes revenge after his folks are killed weighs the film down, but this is worth watching for a brutal climactic fight scene.

GOOD FOR: Those who like bone-crunching action. PDV

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Saw franchise from the third movie, added he was surprised so many people can stomach the films – created by Australians Leigh Whannell and James Wan.

THIRST

★★★★★ Park Chan-wook, director of Oldboy, breathes life into the vampire genre with a darkly witty tale about a bloodsucking priest who is drawn to the wife of an old friend.

Veering between fantastical moments and twisted farce, Thirst is refreshingly different from the anaemic vampire flicks doing the rounds.

GOOD FOR: Those who find Twilight too sedate. PDV

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E G R O E G ’s Angel. a li a tr s u A s a from her start y a w g n lo a ith a healthy w n a She’s come c ri e m A e is now an goes with it Melissa Georg t a th ll a d n a reer – Hollywood ca TTRAM WORDS JAMES

t’s not many actors who can say they have Steven Soderbergh to thank for their whole career. Melissa George, on the other hand, owes the director – big time.

The Perth-born actress, who shot to fame in Oz as Angel Brooks in Home And Away, came to Hollywood in 1999, after playing “a naked hooker” in thriller Dark City. At the time, Soderbergh was casting for The Limey – and George won the role of Jenny, the daughter to Terence Stamp’s career-criminal. “I pretended

to be an American,” she recalls. “Then when I got the role, I said, ‘I’m an Australian.’ He was like, ‘Oh shit!’ So he paid for my visa, which cost three or four grand, out of his own pocket.

That started my career, and I ended up getting into America. Just because of Soderbergh.”

BREAKING THE MOULD The daughter of a nurse and a construction worker, George seized her opportunity. After a smattering of twisted horror films (30 Days

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Of Night, The Amityville Horror), a recurring role in Alias, a bit part in Friends as Rachel’s nanny and even an appearance in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, George has a very eclectic career on her hands.

“I just keep getting these really random jobs that come up that are really out of left-field,” she says. “Sometimes, when there’s consistency, like when you’re Sharon Stone, there’s a benefit to that, because you gather an audience, and they follow you throughout your career, and you’re not breaking the mould. But I’ve never done that. I like to be diverse.”

This is certainly true. When TNT meets the actress in a hotel bar near Marylebone Station, George is in London promoting psychological thriller Triangle (see box-out) but, just days earlier, she was on the set of British romcom Swinging With The Finkels.

Then there’s acclaimed TV series In Treatment, for which she won a Golden Globe nomination for playing a sex addict patient. “It’s been a very good year,” she grins.

LOVED UP Now 33, George is married to Chilean-born director Claudio Dabed (right), her “Latin lover” who she met and wed in Bali. They

live in New York – primarily, she says, to escape the attention of LA’s paparazzi.

“There’s a site called ‘Melissa George daily’ and there’s shots of me every day of my life,” she sighs. “I say: ‘Mum, if you want to know where I am, look at this site.’ I don’t cope well when I see a shot where I don’t look so good.”

AUSSIE ROOTS Since becoming naturalised in the US, George says she feels American. “But I’m Australian when I go back to Oz … I go very Aussie. I think my temperament is very Australian. Very tough, incredibly resilient. So I have that, which gets me through the streets of New York.”

Until Triangle, she hadn’t worked in Australia since filming Roman drama Roar with Heath Ledger in the late ’90s. “I’ve been offered many, many films to come home,” she says. “But it wasn’t like: ‘I have to go home and work’.”

After a stint on Grey’s Anatomy this year, George admits she’d like to do more serious drama.

“I like Cate Blanchett’s career. You don’t see her going out and doing broad comedies. Not too much.

“I think when you’re a happy person, the dark side is very intriguing. But the funny side is more who I am – and I haven’t really been me in a film. Now people are starting to see that I can do both.”

Triangle may have been shot on Australia’s Gold Coast but it wasn’t a holiday for Melissa George.

“I was hurting,” the actress says. “I was really upset throughout the whole shoot. Too much emotion, too many tears. I really committed – and when you commit, it hurts.”

George plays Floridabased single mother Jess, who – together with some friends – gets stranded on a spooky ocean-liner when their yacht is upturned in a freak storm.

Despite co-starring with a bunch of Australian actors – including Liam Hemsworth and Emma Lung – George admits it didn’t really feel that way.

“Being an American – and a nutty one at that – I was so much in my own head,” she says.

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CULTURE SHOW STUDIO: FASHION REVOLUTION For most people high fashion conjures up images of rakethin models on catwalks in outlandish clothes no sane person would wear. But for Show Studio – the fashion website led by leading British designer Nick Knight – a model and her clothes is just the beginning of a cuttingedge, interactive explosion of creativity.

This exhibition does a brilliant job of showing how Show Studio, since its launch in 2000, has turned the fashion world on its head by pioneering all sorts of new ways for the public and

ENTERTAINMENT

SEE THIS: Exhibition designers to interact with fashion – most notably, but not exclusively, online.

While there’s still plenty of wacky fashion to take in, the ways in which Show Studio presents it should interest just about anybody.

DANIEL LANDON

» Embankment Galleries,

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Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA Temple (somersethouse.org.uk).

Until Dec 20. £5

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WORTH A LOOK Controversial artist Damien Hirst takes centre stage in Damien Hirst: The Blue Paintings. » The Wallace Collection, Manchester Sq, W1U 3BN

images of London feature in Frank Auerbach: • Striking Temple (courtauld.ac.uk). Oct 16-Jan 19. £5

Bond Street (wallacecollection.org). Oct 14-Jan 24. Free

London Building Sites, 1952-62. » Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN

THEATRE OF THE WEEK

BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK

SPEAKING IN TONGUES

101 BEST EVER CURRIES

DIVORCED AND DEADLY

Sarah Cooke

Josephine Cox

(BBC Books) OUT OCT 15

(Harper Collins) OCT 15

Part of the BBC’s Good Food series, this cookbook takes a delicious journey through Thailand, Malaysia, India and Indonesia, with 101 popular curry dishes.

Plenty of veggie options too.

Ben, a recent divorcee, writes a list of all the things he has to do (not sign up to the gym, smoke cigars, play the field) as he re-enters the adventurous world of dating.

THIS IS SOCIAL MEDIA

LUCKY BREAK

Guy Clapperton

(Orion) OCT 15

(Capstone) OCT 16

Paul Nicholls, a former jockey who became one of the most successful trainers in the business, gives an insight into his methods, how he got to the top, and dishes up a stack of insider stories.

★★★★★

This production of the stage original on which Andrew Bovell based his celebrated film Lantana proves a more claustrophobic, though not always more intense, affair.

With overlapping dialogue and a cast of four, including Kiwi actress Kerry Fox, playing

nine characters, it does call for concentration, but the pieces of this jigsaw gradually fall into place thanks to an intricate set of coincidences.

LOUISE KINGSLEY

» Duke of York’s Theatre, St Martin’s Ln, WC2N 4BG Leicester Square (dukeofyorkstheatre.co.uk).

Until Dec 12. £10-£48.50

Get more from social networking by tweeting, blogging or linking your way to business success.

Journalist Clapperton offers practical advice on how to create brand awareness.

Paul Nicholls

MORE THEATRE The National Youth Theatre tackles Erin O’Connor

one of Shakespeare’s rarely performed final plays, Cymbeline, with its mix of bloody tragedy and comedy, set, unusually, in Britain.

» Arts Theatre, Great Newport St, WC2H 7JB

Leicester Square

(arts-theatre-london.co.uk). Until Oct 24. From £10

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MUSIC THE VERONICAS Hook Me Up (Warner Brothers)

★★★★★

MUSIC & CLUBS

Heaven only knows what’s taken them so long. Hook Me Up got its Australian release back in November 2007 and has shifted more than 150,000 copies, so quite why it’s had to wait two years for a UK release is a mystery.

A couple of lively extra tracks (one a cover, the other a B-side) have been tagged on to the end for the British market, but this is basically the same album that did such good business back in

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THE FLAMING LIPS

EDITORS

THE TWILIGHT SAD

Embryonic

In This Light, On This Evening

Forget The Night Ahead

(Warner Brothers)

(Sony)

(Fat Cat)

Well, here’s a turn-up.

Just when it seemed as if the Flaming Lips had been entirely swallowed up by their own quirkiness, along comes a record that seems not only free of whimsy but free of choruses. Embryonic is a return to the band’s experimental roots, a collection of crooked songs, jams and atmospheres that recall no one so much as krautrock innovators Can. At 18 tracks and 70 minutes, it’s far too long. But there’s a lot on this dense disc to like. WFJ

A neat trick, this. There’s barely an original note on Editors’ third album, and yet they still don’t sound like anyone but themselves.

Most of that is down to Tom Smith’s ridiculous vocals, which remain a stumbling block, but there’s also something canny in the way they jumble together their very obvious influences from the ’80s rock canon. There’s more synth and less guitar here than on their previous records. The Killers still do this sort of thing rather better. WFJ

The band name conjures up some kind of wishy-washy melancholy, but Forget The Night Ahead is a far fiercer record from a group happy to bring the noise. It’s not a massive step forward from Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters, the Scottish quartet’s 2007 debut: a bit denser, a bit louder, but still recognisably the same band. James Graham’s workaday singing isn’t great, but his bandmates cover him with some rich and powerful arrangements. WFJ

★★★★★

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SOUNDS OF HOME AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALAND

SOUTH AFRICA

NO.1 Sexy Bitch, David Guetta feat Akon.

MAKING NEWS Rockers Powderfinger harnessed the power of social networking sites when they did three surprise guerrilla gigs in one day in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, which were all advertised through Twitter.

NO.1 Sexy Bitch, David Guetta feat Akon.

MAKING NEWS Neil and Tim Finn, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga Savage and Scribe will play a massive benefit concert in Auckland next Monday, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going to Samoan communities affected by the recent tsunami.

NO.1 Million Dollar Bill, Whitney Houston.

MAKING NEWS The 2010 Soccer World Cup will kick off with a live music show, featuring African artists along with a clutch of world stars, organisers said. The concert will take place at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium on June 10.

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Australia, and with which many of you may already be familiar.

Like too many pop albums released these days, the Melbourne duo’s second long-player is absurdly frontloaded. Most of the good stuff is crammed into the first 20 minutes, at which point the quality begins to dissipate.

Still, it’s fun while it lasts, which it does on the chart-conquering and very ’80s-esque Untouched, the quivering This Is How It Feels and the daft flirtatious pantomime of Take Me On The Floor. Avril Lavigne goes electro? Pretty much.

WILL FULFORD-JONES

LIVE REVIEW Bat For Lashes Roundhouse Oct 5 ★★★★★ Yeasayer helped Bat For Lashes on her latest album Two Suns, and are lending further support tonight, belting out their Afro-pop.

With the crowd revved, Natasha Khan gambols on stage, her sequined cape glittering as she launches into a set that alternates between albums and sees the dance beats of the second filtering into Fur And Gold. BFL is at her most magical, though, when sat at a piano, wind-machine off and her vocals given the spotlight.

“Shall we carry on with a bit more dancing?” she asks at one point. I don’t hear anyone say yes.

AMY ADAMS

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GIG GUIDE MUSIC & CLUBS

Alison Grinter PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST LIVE MUSIC

GIG OF THE WEEK DONT LOOK BACK: SPIRITUALIZED Jason Pierce, aka J Spaceman, came crashing to earth in 2005 when he contracted pneumonia and ended up in intensive care. His ordeal inspired Spiritualized’s gorgeous, recent offering A&E, but it’s the band’s 1997 album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space that’s regarded as their masterpiece. Pierce practically bankrupted himself making it, roping in legendary musos from New Orleans and Memphis. But the end result, to be played in its entirety at RFH, is regarded as one of the best albums ever made.

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» Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX

Waterloo (0871 663 2501). Oct 12-13. £27.50-£32.50

JAMIE T

KINGS OF CONVENIENCE

Taste-wise Jamie T’s ramshackle pop/ rap hybrid has always been up there with Marmite. But love or hate him, Mr Treays’ debut Panic Prevention showcased a sound that was uniquely his own. Follow-up LP Kings And Queens sticks to the T template on tracks such as the frantic, catchy Sticks ’N’ Stones with stunning results.

Norway’s indie duo made up of singer/ guitarist Erik Glambek Bøe and guitarist Erlend Øye return with a new clutch of delicate acoustic tunes on upcoming album Declaration Of Dependence, which will get an airing at the Barbican this week along with old KOC gems such as Misread and Cayman Islands.

» Shepherds Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Grn, W11 8QE

» Barbican, Silk St, EC2Y 8DS

Shepherd’s Bush (08444 77 2000). Thu, Oct 15. £16.50

BELIEVE THE HYPE ELEPHANTS

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THE LINE-UP Owen (guitars,

vocals), Tom (guitarist), Dean (bass), and George (drums), the latter an erstwhile British ski squad member who sold his skis to pay for his drumkit.

HAILS FROM Kent.

THE BUZZ SO FAR From their inception in September last year, in a practice room somewhere in Kent, the band have made progress at a pace as blisteringly fast as their guitar riffs, picking up ringing endorsements along the way from Radio 1 legends Steve Lemacq and Huw Stephens.

THE BAND SAY “We’ve given ourselves a year to make some progress as a band.

We knew that labels, radio, and fans weren’t going to come to us, we knew we had to get ourselves seen

Barbican (020 7638 8891).

Wed, Oct 14. £15-£25

SOUND BITES Kylie Minogue performed a sell-out show in LA last week as part of her first-ever American tour.

She also did shows near San Francisco and in Las Vegas en route to the City of Angels, and then in Chicago, New York and Toronto.

If the six-show run proves to be a success, promoters say Minogue may return for a longer tour.

and heard, so we put the effort in to do it.” godisinthetvzine.co.uk THE CRITICS SAY “The fledgling Folkestone quartet live up to their name, leaving a giant footprint with their brazen, Americanised grungy heavy rock.” The Fly

THE RELEASE Debut single Alexander out Mon, Oct 12, through Vacuous Pop.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jayson Norris, Rhys Morgan, Amphibic Acoustic rock singer-songwriter originally from New Zealand. Halfmoon Putney, Lower Richmond Rd, SW15 1EU (020 8780 9383). £5.

Sleepercurve, White Light Parade, HK:UK The London trio play progressive indie-rock to promote their forthcoming EP. Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, w/flyer £5.

The Yeah You’s, Meg Hutchinson Alternative duo

FRIDAY 1

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, Danny Schmidt

Skinny Molly

The Wednesday Night Showcase Acoustic showcase of signed and unsigned acts. The Bullet

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 Blockheads The veteran

punk-rockers play their hits. The

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

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.

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

Sax-led swing from the 17-piece.

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

Hayze, I’m Spartacus, Hipsters Fix, The Blockade Indie-rock trio from Ipswich.

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

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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

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.

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.

Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £6.

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.

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

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

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

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

Heavy soulful rock four-piece from London. Bull And Gate,

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

Folk from the Australian singer-songwriter and her band, including tracks from her album Despite The Snow Snow.

Mike Kintish and Nick Ingram perform electro-rock tracks.

Bridgefire, Son Of Bitch

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

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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Natasha Vuckovic PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST CLUB NIGHTS

CLUB OF THE WEEK FABRIC 10TH BIRTHDAY To celebrate 10 years of mayhem, 4,186,029 punters, about 160,000 cases of beer and 1,300,000 shots, legendary nightclub Fabric is holding a massive party.

Thursday has Andy C and DJ Hype; Friday night Simian Mobile Disco, Filthy Dukes and Scratch Perverts. Fabric will not close at the weekend, partying until Monday morning for a super sesh for hardcore fans.

» Fabric, Charterhouse St, EC1M 3HN

Farringdon (020 7334 3922). Thu, Oct 15, 9pm-3am, £10; Fri, Oct 16, 10pm-7am, £15; Sat, Oct 18, 11pm to Mon 20, 5am, £25

beats/breaks

funk/soul

GROOVE ARMADA PRESENTS BLACK LIGHT

drum ’n’ bass

electro

hip-hop

BLITZ PARTY

This is Groove Armada’s London leg of their Black Light tour. The boys will play a live set alongside a full band. A great chance to preview tracks from their new album out in February.

This is a ’40s themed soiree complete with ration books, sandbags, searchlights and military bunk beds. Live swing bands and DJs will get you doing the jitterbug on the dance floor. Dress is ’40s glam or military uniform.

» The Coronet, New Kent Rd, SE1 6TJ Elephant & Castle (020 7701 1500). Oct 15, 7.30pm-12.30am. £20 adv

» Village Underground, Holywell Ln, EC2A 3PQ Old Street (020 7422 7505). Sat, Oct 17, 8pm-2am. £15 adv

PLACE TO BE Whisky Mist Quite the celeb hangout, this Mayfair haunt has a chic masculine feel to it (as all whisky bars should) with a dark and plush interior.

It caters for a sleek crowd, so you’ll need to dress in your finest garb to get in and expect to pay a hefty sum for drinks.

This place is not for everybody, but it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re keen to spot some famous

WIN

faces. Just make sure your wallet is feeling full!

» Hertford St, W1J 7SD Hyde Park Corner (020 7208 4067)

We have one pair of tickets to Fabric’s 10th birthday on Friday night with Simian Mobile Disco. To enter, email grabs@tntmagazine.com with ‘Fabric’ in the subject line by noon on Wed, Oct 14.

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hard house/trance

house/garage

rock/metal

techno

SHAUN ROBERTS

Fabric’s head of programming has been working with the club for more than 10 years.

He started flyering for Fabric before it opened. He spends five with TNT in the lead-up to the club’s birthday.

Ten years is a long time.

What’s your fondest memory of the club?

Around 2002. Dancing in front of the DJ booth at about 8am.

There were about 100 people left and every person was either a colleague or a good friend. [Creative director and resident DJ] Craig Richards was on fire. Happy days.

Can you spill the beans on any DJs tantrums?

Sorry, no. What goes on tour stays on tour.

Fabric has called the term ‘superclub’ a ‘ridiculous noun’ it doesn’t want to be associated with. Why? Look at every club that has been labelled with that hideous moniker. They are the antithesis of what we do.

I hate, hate, hate that term as much as I hate people who call Fabric ‘Fabrics’. What the fuck is that about?

FABRIC FACTS AND FIGURES: * Number of microphones broken by MCs: 53 * Number of bartenders hired: 600 * Number of toilet flushes: 8,299,200 * Furthest cab ride back home: Cardiff

CLUB LISTINGS MONDAY 27 Authentic Cuban Night 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

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

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.

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.

Mario plays mambo and salsa. Salsa!, Charing Cross 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.

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

Delicious Thursdays R’n’B and retro hits on the ground floor, with house and party anthems in the basement. Zoo Bar, Bear

Funky Fridays DJs provide funk, disco, pop, African beats and 1980s hits, plus live performances from Jesse, Ken and Tyrone.

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

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Game On Residents spin

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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

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

club anthems. LVPO, Dean St, W1D

house and commercial dance.

Cross Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277). 5.30pm-2am. £4, free before 9pm.

Rd, E2 8DA (020 7613 4462).

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

5BQ (020 7434 3399). 9pm-3am. £8.

Trannyshack Tasty Tim and

Silk Cuts DJ Nick Fletcher spins

global house. Jewel, Glasshouse

Lost In London Party hits

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

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

on the ground floor, electrohouse in the basement and commercial R’n’B in the VIP room. Zoo Bar, Bear St,

Wicked Wednesdays

WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

9pm-3am. £7, guestlist/NUS £5.

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

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.

Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040).

10.30pm-3am. £5, w/flyer £3.

Sq, WC2H 7NA (0870 863 1010).

9pm-3am. £10, £2.50 before 11pm.

THURSDAY 30 Arpdays DJs Idjut Boys, Bill

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

9pm-1am. £10, guest list £5.

FRIDAY 1 Appropriate For... Party!

Residents spin dance, pop and club classics. Apt, Queen St, EC4N 1TX (020 7618 9020). 7pm-3am. £5, £3 guest list. Free before 10pm.

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

White Heat DJs Matty and Olly spin rock and disco.

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

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

10.30pm-3am. £7, adv £6.

(020 7739 3440). 7pm-1am. £8.

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

Classique The residents

Calentito Resident DJs spin

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

pop, R’n’B and classic soul.

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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.

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

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

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.

SATURDAY 2 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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Platinum Funk The resident DJs supply R’n’B, hip-hop and funky house.

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

“You know how it is. You want to try to compete with those younger folk in their 90s.” Brisbane great-grandmother Ruth Frith, 100, who will participate in the World Masters Games in Sydney.

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AUSTRALIA Another Kokoda death A 55-year-old Sydney man died on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.

He was the second Australian in a week and fourth this year to die while attempting the gruelling trek.

A woman in her sixties was flown out less than a day later from the same group.

Didak home invader A man was charged over allegedly breaking into the home

GOOD CAUSE: David Jones ambassadors Gai Waterhouse and Megan Gale attend the inaugural David Jones National Breast Cancer Foundation Donation Day. The retailer donated all profits from Thursday’s trading to the breast cancer charity.

of controversial Collingwood star Alan Didak and confronting the AFL player’s girlfriend.

Police said they found a 40year-old man in the front garden of the Kew home and alleged the man tried to attack them before he was arrested.

He was bailed to appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on November 24.

Five confirmed dead

Alan Didak

Five Australians were confirmed dead following the tsunami that struck the Pacific island of Samoa on September 29.

Three adults and two children

*And finally … crocodile arrested

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wandered into Arrkuluk Camp in the town.

The sharp-toothed reptile was kept bound up in a police cell for three days before a crocodile farm picked it up.

Nobel prize winner Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was announced as Australia’s first female Nobel laureate.

The prize was for the major breakthrough of discovering the enzyme known as telomerase that assists chromosomes in cells to stay eternally young.

Originally from Tasmania, Blackburn, 60, now lives in the United States but studied at Melbourne University and is a dual citizen of both countries.

“I will be sad to say farewell. Although I will return to private life I hope to continue some measure of service to the public in the future.”

Former treasurer Peter Costello resigns as a member of Parliament.

“Such were his talents that, even for those of us on the receiving end of one of his barbs, it was hard not to laugh, even as you winced in pain.” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praises Costello.

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Northern Territory police had their hands full when they decided to take a crocodile into custody.

Police from Gunbalanya “arrested” the 2m croc after it

from Australia died in the giant wave, which claimed a total of 176 lives.

“Well, people talk to me about all sorts of things … I’m not going to lie and pretend something hasn’t happened.” Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey on being approached to replace Malcolm Turnbull as leader.

AUSTRALIA

What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey admits he was sounded out about taking over the Liberal leadership.

■ Party still split over controversial emissions trading scheme legislation.

■ Ex-treasurer Peter Costello resigns from parliament.

pposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership looked uncertain as dissent over his role in the party grew.

Revelations that shadow treasurer Joe Hockey had been approached by Liberal MPs about taking over the role, a rise in employment figures and further signs the economy was on the road to recovery made it a week to forget for Turnbull.

Perhaps the only good news was that former treasurer Peter Costello would not mount a challenge after the Member

NEW SOUTH WALES Mystery surrounds the death of Sydney sailor Andrew Short and a crew member in a yachting accident off Flinders Islet.

The 48-year-old and Sally Gordon, 47, were pulled from the water on Saturday after their maxi Shockwave crashed into rocks during the Flinders Islet Race.

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Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership is on the ropes

for Higgins announced his retirement from parliament.

Internal polling leaked to the media last Friday showed the Liberals had taken a battering, with swings of up to 8 per cent against them in some electorates since the 2007 election.

Turnbull challenged those “anonymous smart-arses”

within the party to get behind his stance to negotiate with the Government on emissions trading by putting his party leadership on the line.

“You have a lot of critics in my line of work and ideally they are limited to people outside the party,” he said.

“Politics is a team business and we have to work together.”

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Hey Hey skit sparks major outcry

Daryl Somers

COAST TO COAST

Hey Hey It’s Saturday made a splash within a week of its return to television, creating a wave of outrage around the world with a skit featuring men in black make-up.

A skit by a group of doctors, called the Jackson Jive, aired during the Red Faces talent segment, and consisted of a frontman in white make-up impersonating Michael Jackson, backed by dancers in blackface and wigs.

American singer and guest judge Harry Connick Jr took offence, giving them zero.

He said if the act had appeared on US television, the

broadcast would have been terminated immediately.

Host Daryl Somers was forced to apologise live on television, and the performers followed suit the next day.

It was reported Connick Jr nearly walked off the set before returning later to accept Somers’ apology.

“Thanks Daryl – and I just wanted to say on behalf of my country, I know it was done in humour … but we have spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that we take it really to heart,” he said.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA Premier Mike Rann revealed he had been receiving death threats over the past six months. Rann was assaulted by a man on October 1 and it has since emerged Rann was a friend of the alleged attacker’s estranged wife.

VICTORIA A man accused of hurling his fouryear-old daughter from Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge told a court he was not guilty of her murder.

Arthur Phillip Freeman, 36, was committed to stand trial for murdering Darcey Freeman as he drove her to school on January 29 this year.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA Details of a car crash in which a teenage Perth girl died were posted on Facebook before her family was informed. Police said distressed family members arrived at the scene after news of the crash was posted on the site.

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Search ends in arrest A two-day search for an alleged gunman near Norsewood in southern Hawke’s Bay ended last Tuesday.

David John Bourke, 46, from Wanganui was charged with failing to stop and using a firearm against policeman Warwick Davis on October 4, as well as assaulting another man with a knife.

Bourke appeared in Palmerston North District Court and was remanded for psychiatric assessment.

Police said that as the investigation progressed, further charges were expected to be laid in relation to the discovery of the body of Bourke’s brother, Timothy Barry Bourke.

700

The number of buses taken off the road by NZ Bus after it locked out its drivers during an industrial dispute.

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The number of confirmed deaths in New Zealand due to swine flu.

STANDING TALL: Iva Lamkum of Sola Rosa performs on stage during the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards at Vector Arena last Thursday. Ladyhawke was the big winner of the night taking out six Tuis, including single of the year for My Delirium.

police and taking Key from the airport to New Zealand’s High Commission, reached speeds of 100-120km/h.

Key conceded he had been “keen to have a shower because I’d been on a plane for 24 hours,” but said the motorcade was slowed down at his security personnel’s request.

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22.4m The record amount in dollars won by a Manukau couple in the Powerball lottery.

Key in hurry to shower Prime Minister John Key was forced on to the back foot after his visit to tsunamistruck Samoa was clouded by claims his motorcade drove at excessive speeds.

It was reported that the motorcade, led by Samoan

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Seven New Zealanders were confirmed dead after the tsunami that struck Samoa.

One New Zealand toddler was also missing, presumed dead.

Prime Minister John Key said fast-thinking Samoans had saved

the lives of dozens of other Kiwis who were in the country at the time.

Maori TV concerns Concerns were raised about Maori Television’s (MTS) bid to obtain rights to screen Rugby World Cup games in 2011.

MTS broadcasts to about 85 per cent of the country but there were concerns that some people wouldn’t be able to watch the World Cup, which is being staged in New Zealand.

MTS put in a $3 million taxpayer-funded bid – reportedly greater than bids by Television New Zealand and TV3.

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The amount in centimetres of snow which fell in some parts of Hawke’s Bay last week.

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The international ranking which the University of Auckland was given in the UK Times Higher Education list of universities. It was the only New Zealand university to make the top 100.

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The number of prisoners in New Zealand jails who identify themselves as Muslim.

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detective Aaron Paulsen said.

But the woman behind the counter did not speak fluent English and did not understand the note, Paulsen said.

The man eventually fled empty-handed.

Police were also looking for a second man seen outside the fish and chip shop during the attempted robbery.

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Patience is a virtue, even when you work in crime.

Christchurch police were last week looking for a man who abandoned a fish and chip shop robbery after becoming frustrated with the owner’s poor English.

The man entered the Ferry Road shop and handed over a “threatening hand-written note”,

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SUMMARY ■ Two-year-old Aisling Symes goes missing last Monday afternoon in Auckland.

■ Police initially think the child may have wandered away from home.

■ After finding no signs of the girl, police treat the missing child as an abduction case.

olice were looking at boosting the number of officers searching for missing toddler Aisling Symes, which was now being treated as a kidnapping.

The two-year-old went missing from Longburn Road in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson at about 5.30pm last Monday.

More than 100 police and volunteer searchers scoured the area but failed to find any sign of Aisling, leading police to believe she was abducted.

Inspector Gary Davey said

UPPER NORTH ISLAND Teenager Kaine Lewis was beaten to death in Murupara. Lewis, 17, suffered severe head injuries. Eight men were arrested for a range of offences in connection with the incident but no one had been charged over his death.

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Alan and Angela Symes, the parents of missing toddler Aisling Symes, front a press conference seeking information

police had about 40 people on the investigation team, a number which could increase as the search progressed.

Davey said an Asian woman seen walking with Aisling on Longburn Road about the time she went missing had still not come forward.

Aisling’s mother, Angela

Symes, said it had been the most harrowing week of her life. “We have had no sleep and feel like we are barely existing – surviving every moment, not knowing where Aisling is,” she said.

“Is she near us, or has she been moved far away? Is she being treated well?”

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Tears flowed when disgraced former MP Taito Phillip Field was sentenced to six years in jail, but his lawyer said he could not rule out an appeal.

Field, 57, stood in the High Court at Auckland clutching a Bible as he became the first MP to be jailed for bribery, corruption and perverting the course of justice.

His lawyer Paul Davison, QC, told reporters six years was “a tough penalty for someone like Mr Field”.

Justice Rodney Hansen sentenced Field to four years on the bribery and corruption

WHAT WAS HE GUILTY OF? Field was found guilty of 11 bribery and corruption charges after getting Thai nationals to work on his properties in return for immigration assistance.

He was also found guilty of 15 charges of wilfully attempting to obstruct or pervert the course of justice.

charges and two years on the charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The sentences were to be served consecutively.

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LOWER NORTH ISLAND A quake measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale hit Wellington on Saturday.

The 6.02pm quake was centred 20km northwest of Wellington, at a depth of 40km and was felt throughout the region.

UPPER SOUTH ISLAND Vandals in Christchurch went on a $100,000 damage spree destroying parking meter machines. The Press reported 18 machines, worth $9700 each, had been destroyed in the past three weeks.

LOWER SOUTH ISLAND Police officers responsible for a woman who was found dead in a Dunedin police cell after inhaling her own vomit failed to follow correct procedures, according to an Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) investigation. Juanita Shaw, 36, was arrested on August 23 after failing to appear on drug and fraud charges.

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Bank wins award Absa was recognised as the Most Innovative Bank in Africa at the African Banker Awards in Istanbul, Turkey, the bank said.

Absa’s Tanzanian subsidiary, the National Bank of Commerce (NBC), was honoured as the Best Local Bank in Africa.

38 Police not ‘anti-white’ The police department was not discriminating against whites when re-enlisting those who wished to rejoin the service, it said.

Spokesman Zweli Mnisi said that over the past three years more whites were being considered and re-enlisted than any other race groups.

Visser found guilty Former advocate Cezanne Visser, also known as “Advocate Barbie”, was convicted on 11 of 14 sex charges against her.

North Gauteng High Court Judge Chris Eksteen found that Visser had been a willing partner in the sexual abuse of three young girls from a

Cezanne Visser

CALL ME: President Jacob Zuma launches his hotline – 17 737 – in Pretoria. The presidential phone service is aimed at addressing the public’s queries and problems related to housing, water and electricity across all provinces.

children’s home, and three young women. The trial was postponed to December 8.

Rape trial 40 years later A woman who claimed she was raped more than 40 years ago was allowed to have the matter brought to trial, in a Constitutional Court ruling.

The court ruled that the High Court in Kimberly was wrong to give the man accused of the crime permanent stay of prosecution.

Judge Albie Sachs said the accused’s right to a fair trial would be protected by a presumption of innocence.

Montgomery arrested Former Springbok rugby star Percy Montgomery was arrested after allegedly assaulting his wife, Tasmin, in Umhlanga, according to a report in the Cape Times.

Montgomery appeared in the Verulam Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and was released on bail.

The charge was withdrawn on Friday morning, with Montgomery and his wife saying that “no one was punched nor was anyone injured” and that they were “together and very happy as a family”.

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were compiling the changes to the ranks, which would be submitted to minister of police Nathi Mthethwa.

Stander said the ranks were “demilitarised” in 1995 and this had impacted on the South African police service.

The new ranks formed part of a move to change the SA police from a “service” to a “force”.

“I should have kept my front teeth. Most of the younger people do it, but I don’t think it’s cool any more.” Capetonian Ebrahim Jardin, 33, on the trend of extracting front teeth and getting gold or silver dentures.

“Sponsors have a constitutional right to dissociate their brand with the pathological liars and irresponsible bimbos that have tainted Athletics South Africa.”

Young Independent Democrats (YID) spokesman Bevin Dorkin on Nedbank’s withdrawal of sponsorship from the athletics body.

“Just like [ASA president Leonard] Chuene, [ANCYL leader Julius] Malema is a loose cannon, blurting out idiotic arguments.

Therefore, the YID would like to call on Malema to offer his fellow idiot a job at the ANCYL.” Dorkin again.

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National police commissioner Bheki Cele would soon be referred to as “general”.

Cele said moves to change the ranks within the police force were under way, after President Jacob Zuma made the call to do so earlier this year.

Deputy national police commissioners Hamilton Hlela and Maggie Stander

QUOTE UNQUOTE “My Lord, it’s not easy being here. I don’t particularly like Mr Nel [the state prosecutor].

I believe the accused doesn’t like Mr Nel and I don’t think many people that I know like Mr Nel, and I say that with respect.”

Convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti testifying in Jackie Selebi’s corruption trial.

SOUTH AFRICA

What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ Convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti testifies in the Jackie Selebi trial.

■ He is asked about various trips he made to the UK, relating to Selebi’s charges.

■ Agliotti makes a deal with the State for indemnity from possible prosecution.

onvicted drug dealer and state witness in former top cop Jackie Selebi’s corruption trial, Glenn Agliotti, chose to accede to the authority of the British monarchy when he could not remember the dates of his trips to London, detailed in British intelligence reports.

“I wouldn’t doubt your majesty’s report … It’s highly unlikely I went for two days. If your majesty said I was there for two days, I’m not here to doubt her or her organisation,” he said.

Testifying for the State in

KWAZULUNATAL The SA Airlink pilot whose plane crashlanded on a school sports field in Merebank on September 24, died at St Augustine’s hospital in Durban. Captain Allister Freeman “had sustained severe internal injuries” during the accident, said Netcare 911.

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the Johannesburg High Court, Agliotti said Selebi showed him some documents from UK intelligence authorities detailing his whereabouts, a claim relating to the defeating the ends of justice charge against Selebi.

Selebi also faced corruption charges, related to payments of at least R1.2 million he

allegedly received from Agliotti, ex-Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach, and slain mining magnate Brett Kebble.

Agliotti made a deal with the State that if he answered questions honestly he would get indemnity from prosecution on all criminal charges he could face related to the Selebi case.

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Arms deal back in the spotlight The skeleton in the South African government’s arms deal closet could explode into the public arena if the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) carried out its plans to prosecute British arms firm BAE Systems, reported Southafricantimes.co.uk.

The warning came from Financial Times world news editor Alec Russell who was addressing members of the South African Business Club in London.

Russell, who was a foreign correspondent in South Africa, was discussing his new book, Bring Me My Machine Gun: The

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Battle For The Soul Of South Africa From Mandela To Zuma, when he said no matter how many times the ANC told the world the arms deal saga was a thing of the past, the SFO’s decision could take the matter out of South African politicians’ hands.

“Stuff will emerge that could be deeply embarrassing,” he said.

The decision by the fraud watchdog to seek the UK attorney general’s consent to prosecute BAE followed a breakdown in negotiations to force BAE into admitting guilt of illegal arms dealings.

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GAUTENG A couple were arrested for cultivating “magic mushrooms” when a hidden drug laboratory was discovered in their rented home in Randpoort. Police said they followed a tip-off and found mushrooms with a street value of R500,000.

MPUMALANGA The financial viability of Mpumalanga municipalities was on the brink of collapse, according to a provincial task team. An investigation found public participation lacking in development and review processes during budget consultations and in the implementation phases of projects.

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A 25-year-old man was arrested in Tsolo for allegedly raping a 70year-old woman. Eastern Cape police said the woman, who was sleeping alone in her Mbinja village house, was attacked at 10pm last Thursday night.

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CRICKET Australia beat New Zealand in the final of the Champions Trophy, with opener Shane Watson scoring his second consecutive unbeaten century. Pity about the Ashes.

RUGBY LEAGUE Former Parramatta and Wests fullback Brett Hodgson, now playing for Huddersfield in the Super League, wins the Man of Steel award as the comp’s best player. Ridiculous name.

RUGBY Ewen McKenzie is appointed Queensland Reds coach for the next three seasons, edging former Reds and Wallabies coach John Connolly for the role. He’s got his work cut out.

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MOTORSPORT Aussie Formula One driver Mark Webber claims his rivalry with teammate Sebastian Vettel has been the highlight of a season that has been both frustrating and impressive.

ATHLETICS Aussie pole vaulter Steve Hooker wins the Don award for Australia’s most inspirational performance of the year, after shaking off a serious leg injury to win the world championship.

TENNIS Lleyton Hewitt loses to Mikhail Youzhny in the semi-finals of the Japan Open, but his ranking continues to rise and he could be back inside the top 20 by the end of the year.

SUNDAY TRIATHLON Craig Alexander wins the Hawaiian Ironman, becoming the first Australian to take out triathlon’s most famous race twice, winning in eight hours, 20 minutes and 21 seconds.

Robbie asked me “ whether I thought

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Wallabies flanker Rocky Elsom on becoming Australia’s 76th Test skipper.

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MONDAY TENNIS Shanghai Masters The season is nearly over 7am Sky Sports 1 TUESDAY CRICKET Victoria V Wayamba Champions League action 11.30pm British Eurosport 2 WEDNESDAY FOOTBALL England V Belarus The Poms are getting chirpy 7.30pm ITV1 THURSDAY RUGBY Toulon V Saracens European Challenge Cup 7.30pm Sky Sports 2 FRIDAY FOOTBALL U/20 World Cup Final Who’s the next big thing?

7pm British Eurosport SATURDAY FOOTBALL Aston Villa V Chelsea Villa need to pinch a win 12.30pm Sky Sports 1 SUNDAY MOTORSPORT Australian MotoGP Racing from Phillip Island 5.45am BBC1

PUB TALK: BRITISH SPORT EXPLAINED Ins and outs of English cricket What’s happened?

The Poms announced their squads to tour South Africa from next month.

What’s the upshot?

Steve Harmison looks finished at international level and Monty Panesar faces an uphill battle to make it back. Liam Plunkett is in line for another crack at Test cricket and Luke Wright

(pictured) is the first cab off the rank to replace Andrew Flintoff.

Big shoes to fill – can he play?

Well, he was born here, so that’s a nice change for England.

He’s played 25 ODIs, mostly as a lower order batsman, but hasn’t done much. Still, he’s only 24, and Flintoff was also pretty ordinary at that age.

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Harbour upset Bay of Plenty AIR NZ CUP RESULTS N Harbour 28 d BOP 7 Hawke’s Bay 54 d Counties 8 Auckland 10 d Taranaki Waikato 35 d Otago 29 Southland 41 d Tasman 0 Canterbury 50 d Manawatu 26 Wellington 41 d Northland 7

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Bay of Plenty’s semi-final dreams look to be in tatters after they suffered their second loss in a row, going down 7-28 to North Harbour in Albany.

After running in the top four for much of the season, Bay of Plenty are on the verge of becoming also-rans, having dropped to eighth with two rounds left to play.

They came into the match needing a win, but faced early disruption when prop James McGougan failed a fitness test just before the game and was replaced by Ted Tauroa in the starting line-up.

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Lions upset Western Province The Lions’ Earl Rose gets tackled

CURRIE CUP RESULTS Lions 27 d W Province 25 Sharks 45 d Griquas 30 Cheetahs 55 d Kavaliers 10 Blue Bulls 61 d Leopards 24

The Sharks will play the Cheetahs in Durban and the Blue Bulls will face Western Province at Newlands in the two Currie Cup semi-finals next weekend after the Golden Lions beat log-leading Western Province 27-25 in a pulsating match at Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Trailing 17-3 in the first half, it didn’t look good for the Lions but they clicked into gear on the half-hour, and hit back with two tries to Doppies la Grange to be back to 20-17 at the break.

The Lions snuck into the lead after 53 minutes, when

they won a lineout, set up a maul in midfield and then moved the ball to the right with quick hands for Dusty Noble to dot down.

But Western Province came back with a vengeance. When Francois Louw went over after a sustained attack, even with the conversion missed,

Province were ahead, and it looked bleak for the Lions.

But six minutes later, Chris Jonck put the Lions ahead decisively with his first kick of the match. With eight minutes to go, the Lions slowed the play down and held out after a turnover for a deserved and exciting victory.

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The New Zealand Rugby Union says it is “delighted” at the news seven rugby will be included in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Chief executive Steve Tew said the decision has come after a six-year campaign to get the sport re-admitted into the Olympics, after over 80 years on the sidelines.

“We are obviously delighted.

Sending our best athletes to participate in the Olympics games is a fantastic step for rugby,” he said.

Tew said he believed the IOC wanted to “refresh the games and look into the future, basically sevens is part of the movement”.

“Given New Zealanders shared passion for rugby and the Olympic Games, I am sure all Kiwi rugby fans would be excited at the prospect.”

Bay of Plenty started well, launching an attack that lasted 13 phases before finally breaking down. But once Harbour grabbed the ball, Bay of Plenty were always struggling to keep up with their opponents.

Such was North Harbour’s pace and accuracy with the ball, they made the Bay of Plenty defence look like Swiss cheese, as Tuigamala scored two well-taken tries with Luke McAlister chiming in with one of his own.

Mike Harris put two penalties on the board and kicked two conversions to help North Harbour take a 25-0 lead into break.

Bay of Plenty produced a much-improved showing in the second half, but North Harbour were too strong when it mattered to be denied.

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READY TO RUMBLE The Wallabies name their squad for next month’s Grand Slam tour

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hen Wallabies coach Robbie Deans announced his 35-man squad for the autumn internationals, it raised more than a few eyebrows.

To get his team back on track after a poor Tri-Nations, Deans took some drastic action, appointing the inspirational Rocky Elsom as captain and including seven uncapped players in a tour group that takes on New Zealand later this month, before embarking on a Grand Slam against the British nations in November.

The beleaguered coach will hope that combinations forged on tour can carry Australia through to the 2011 World Cup.

HOW IT STACKS UP The injection of new blood includes a trio of 20-year-old backs in flyhalf Kurtley Beale, his

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WALLABIES SQUAD Forwards: Adam Ashley-Cooper, Berrick Barnes (vice capt), Kurtley Beale, Luke Burgess, Quade Cooper, Ryan Cross, Will Genia, Matt Giteau, Rob Horne, Peter Hynes, Digby Ioane, Richard Kingi, Drew Mitchell, Stirling Mortlock, James O’Connor, Lachie Turner.

Backs: Ben Alexander, Richard Brown, Mitchell Chapman, Mark Chisholm, Pek Cowan, Dave Dennis, Matt Dunning, Rocky Elsom (capt), Matt Hodgson, James Horwill, Sekope Kepu, Salesi Ma’afu, Stephen Moore, Dean Mumm, Wycliff Palu, David Pocock, Tatafu Polota Nau, Benn Robinson, George Smith.

Waratahs teammate centre Rob Horne, and Queensland halfback Richard Kingi.

The other rookies are forwards: the Brumbies duo of prop Salesi Ma’afu and flanker Mitchell Chapman, Western Force flanker Matt Hodgson and NSW lock Dave Dennis.

Deans needs an improved showing from his forward pack, which no longer includes veterans Phil Waugh and Al Baxter.

WALLABIES FIXTURES NEW ZEALAND October 31, Tokyo

GLOUCESTER November 3, Gloucester

ENGLAND November 7, London

IRELAND THE NEW SKIPPER It’s easy to see why Deans opted for all-action flanker Rocky Elsom as his new skipper.

“Rocky has the respect of his teammates because of his approach and the total commitment he brings,” Deans said.

The coach was quick to point out that former captain Stirling Mortlock is still very much part of his plans, and that he hopes the centre will “go the distance” to the 2011 Rugby World Cup. THE OUTLOOK Australia’s tour of Europe will be fascinating for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, Deans, once hailed as a master coach, is under real pressure for the first time since his appointment. The awful Tri-Nations showing tested the patience of Wallabies fans, who are wondering if it will ever all come together.

Secondly, planning for the next World Cup will begin to escalate from here on. It will be fascinating to see which young guns can seize their opportunities and really push their cases for inclusion in Deans’ long-term plans.

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SCOTLAND November 21, Edinburgh

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HOLLAND TO INDIA Australia named 22-year-old spinner Jon Holland in their squad for the seven-match ODI series in India. Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges were recalled, while Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Callum Ferguson and Nathan Bracken are injured.

OPEN SEASON The Australian domestic limited-overs competition kicked off over the weekend and the Sheffield Shield begins this week. Victoria is the early favourite to win both competitions, with NSW a close second.

BILLY’S KID IN THE MIX The son of former Australian fast bowler Craig “Billy” McDermott, Alister, is tipped to make his first-class debut with Queensland this season.

McDermott, 18, played his maiden ODI against Western Australia on the weekend.

GILLY JOINS ALL-STARS Adam Gilchrist will join fellow greats Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Matthew Hayden in an All-Star side to play against an Australian team at the Gabba in an exhibition Twenty20 at the Gabba on November 22.

ASHES LOCKED IN The fixtures for the 2010-11 Ashes series in Australia have been released, with the series kicking off in Brisbane on November 25 next year, heading to Melbourne for the fourth Test and winding up in Sydney in the new year.

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Victoria and NSW sent shockwaves through the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament in India, as their potent bowling line-ups set up crushing first-up wins.

Victoria produced an emphatic performance in their group D match, demolishing the Delhi Daredevils, who were the pre-tournament favourites, by seven wickets.

The Bushrangers limited Delhi to just 8-98, with Clint McKay claiming 3-17, before their batsmen chased down their modest target with more than three overs to spare, Rob Quiney top-scoring with 40 runs off 33 balls.

Earlier, Australian domestic champion NSW scored 6-144 and restricted South Africa’s Diamond Eagles to just 9-91 to register a 53-run victory in a group B encounter on Friday.

A NSW team featuring eight Australian representatives were sparked by a composed player-of-the match innings from skipper Simon Katich,

Brett Lee is one of NSW’s international stars

who scored 53 off 41 balls, before his bowlers finished the job, Stuart Clark claiming 3-12.

The results leave both Aussie teams well-placed to progress to the league phase, where NSW seem likely to have the easier draw.

While the Twenty20 is an unpredictable format, and any side can win on their day, the odds on the Australian sides seem likely to shorten.

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Cape Cobras qualify emphatically South Africa’s Cape Cobras became the first team to qualify for the league stage with wins in both their group stage matches, on the back of two outstanding individual batting performances.

In the opening match of the tournament last week, the Cobras chased down Bangalore’s imposing target of 181, with JP Duminy unbeaten after making an imperious 99 off 52 balls.

Then, on Saturday, against the Otago Volts, the Cobras batted first, and rattled up a whopping 4-193 from their 20 overs, with opening batsman Andrew Puttick unbeaten after making 104 off 62 balls, posting the first century of the tournament.

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Puttick, 28, only came into the side as cover for Proteas skipper Graeme Smith, who withdrew from the tournament with a leg injury, but his brutal innings will ensure he receives plenty more opportunities at this level.

In reply, Otago never really looked like giving the massive total a shake and fell 54 runs short despite the best efforts of Brendon McCullum at the top of the order.

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“I don’t know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.” Brett White will play rugby league for Australia, provided he cancels his wedding, planned for this weekend.

“Leaving footy is a bit like growing up – eventually, you give up on all your fantasies. Football, as a fantasy, has surpassed all others in that respect, and I’m grateful it held on for so long.” Retiring AFL player Tim Boyle with a nice line on riding off into the sunset.

“That is what we got accused of for the last bloody three years! It’s hard to know. I hope that is the case.” All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw (below) when asked if the Springboks have peaked too early for the 2011 World Cup. “A few years ago we were training in a small rural town. It was a public session and some woman stripped off and had ‘Marry me, Richie’ written on her chest and ran across the training field.”

McCaw again. He’s a popular man back home.

Roos ready to rumble Australia named a starstudded squad for this month’s Four Nations rugby league tournament, but still face an anxious wait on a handful of injured players and a call on who will start at fullback.

Giant Broncos centre Israel Folau withdrew from the squad with an ankle injury, and doubts persist over Anthony Watmough, Nathan Hindmarsh and Brett White.

The Kangaroos other problem is a relative luxury – they need to choose between superstars Billy Slater and Jarryd Hayne at fullback.

Coach Tim Sheens last week claimed he had yet to decide who would get the nod, but former Test star Mal Meninga insisted Slater would be preferred, with Hayne slotting in elsewhere.

“Billy Slater will play fullback,” Meninga said. “And Jarryd Hayne will be on the wing. Both will be playing in the footy side.”

Sheens claimed he had

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picked players in form, and with a view to maximising the side’s flexibility.

“It’s all about winning this particular tournament,” he said. “I’m not planning a club thing here where you’re blooding young blokes ... it is who is currently in form.”

“It’s about on the day and that side has been beaten, last year in the World Cup and they were beaten in the TriNations overseas last time they toured,” Sheens added.

KANGAROOS SQUAD Petero Civoniceva, Cooper Cronk, Robbie Farah, Paul Gallen, Kurt Gidley, Ben Hannant, Jarryd Hayne, Nathan Hindmarsh, Justin Hodges, Ryan Hoffman, Greg Inglis, Michael Jennings, Darren Lockyer, Luke Lewis, Brett Morris, Josh Morris, David Shillington, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Sam Thaiday, Johnathan Thurston, Trent Waterhouse, Anthony Watmough, Brett White.

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much to drink and I don’t think I missed too many people that night,” Fevola said.

“I want to express my deep sorriness. It was absolutely disgusting, my behaviour.”

The Lions will now boast the most powerful forwardline in the league, with Fevola slotting in alongside Jon Brown.

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After one of the most hectic AFL trade periods in memory, the Brisbane Lions got their man, luring Carlton fullforward Brendan Fevola north in return for their first-round draft pick and young tall Lachlan Henderson.

Brisbane were the busiest club in trade week, also recruiting Brent Staker, Amon Buchanan, Xavier Clarke and Andrew Raines, but Fevola was the big domino. Fevola, 28, kicked more goals than any other player in 2009, but was put up for trade by Carlton after getting drunk and allegedly assaulting a female journalist at last month’s Brownlow Medal count.

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GROUNDS A deal for rugby league-AFL convert Karmichael Hunt to play rugby for French club Biarritz is in jeopardy, after Hunt failed to organise his Pacific Islands passport. Hunt was to earn $300,000 for a six-month stint in France, beginning in January.

HOOKER EYES RECORD Will Davison (left) and Garth Tander celebrate

Holden wins Bathurst Holden drivers Garth Tander and Will Davison have won the Bathurst 1000, overcoming a variety of weather conditions to win Australia’s best-known V8 Supercar race.

Tander and Davison led for the majority of the 161-lap, 1,000km race around Mount Panorama.

But they also had a late slice of luck when a safety car period with 20 laps remaining elevated them from third to first as the two leading cars were forced to pit and lose track position.

“It’s absolutely awesome.

Words can’t describe it. What a result for the team – absolutely fantastic,” Tander said.

“What a race for Holden and what a way to come back.

“We had a really fast car and we did a really good job in the pit stops.”

It is Holden’s first win at Bathurst since 2005, and breaks Ford duo Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup’s run of three successive victories. Lowndes and Whincup finished fifth.

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New Zealand coach Ricki Herbert is confident his side can produce the goals that are needed to book a World Cup spot when his side meet playoff qualifying rivals Bahrain in a month’s time.

The Kiwis, who last played in a World Cup in 1982, held an unrelenting, but distinctly unlucky, Bahrain to a goalless draw in the first-leg of the 2010 World Cup Asia/Oceania playoff in Manama on Saturday.

Bahrain missed at least four clear chances to score, while New Zealand defended stoutly and emerged unscathed, with their goalkeeper Mark Paston

AUSSIES WILL TAKE DRAW Australia held Holland to a 0-0 draw in a friendly played in greasy conditions in Sydney on Saturday night. Though the Dutch dominated proceedings, Socceroo Brett Holman might

Aussie pole vaulter Steve Hooker admits his icy relationship with pole vaulting great Sergey Bubka has further inspired him to break the Ukrainian’s world record. Hooker’s best jump is 6.06m, while Bubka’s world mark is 6.14m.

TAYLOR WINS TITLE Australia’s Penny Taylor showed her big match pedigree to help the Phoenix Mercury clinch their second WNBA title, edging Indiana in the final. Taylor scored 14 points in game five, including two crucial free-throws in the last minute.

KIWI SOFTIES JOIN The New Zealand women’s softball team are to contest the Australian interstate competition. The White Sox will use matches against state sides, starting next month, to prepare for next year’s world championship in the United States.

have stolen the game three minutes from time, but blasted

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his strike over the bar.

Professional surfing’s governing body has endorsed a streamlining of the sport, abandoning the present two-tier system for an all-inclusive rating system.

The move will allow greater promotion of surfers from the World Qualifying Series.

the hero of the evening.

“I’m very proud of the way we played. We did not escape from a loss but played really hard for a draw. I’m very pleased with the overall performance,” Herbert said.

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THE LONG GAME New Zealand’s netball team faces England this week, and the Poms will be having nightmares about Kiwi star Irene van Dyk WORDS TOM STURROCK RANKINGS

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THE BIG MOVE Born in Vereeniging, South Africa, Van Dyk represented her country of birth 72 times, and was part of the team that eliminated New Zealand in the semi-finals of the 1995 world championships. She switched countries in 2000, and has since represented the Kiwis more than 100 times.

“Moving to New Zealand was the best decision I ever made. I just got so many opportunities over here, and I’ve never looked back,” she says. “It’s been an amazing ride

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rene van Dyk is one of the most feared netballers in the world; any side that plays New Zealand commits a significant part of their planning to trying to stop her. Easier said than done. Standing 190cm, she has a physical advantage over most opponents, and as the most-capped player in history she has the experience to exploit it.

She’s 37 years old, but age has done little to weary her. With the Silver Ferns squaring up to England in Bath on Thursday, Van Dyk looms large as the player who can tear the Poms apart.

– I don’t think I’d still be playing if I was still in South Africa; just the support and the training is at a whole other level in New Zealand.”

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THE GAME HAS CHANGED After 15 years playing at the highest level, no one is better equipped than Van Dyk to assess the way her sport has changed.

“Certainly, the game is more physical and faster than when I started out,” she says. ”The umpires are happier to let contests happen, and that adds spice to it, and brings an added level of competitiveness.”

Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the recently formed trans-Tasman competition, which pits five Kiwi teams against five Aussie teams, adding weekly instalments to the fierce netball rivalry between the two nations.

Australian sides have held sway in the first two seasons, with the NSW Swifts and Melbourne Vixens taking out the first two titles, but the Kiwis are no easy beats.

“It’s a competition involving the number one and number two netball countries in the world, who have an intense rivalry,” Van Dyk says.

“Netball is a part of that – that’s as big as it gets, but the profile of the sport can keep growing.”

AN ACCENT THAT STICKS Australia and New Zealand are at the top of the world netball tree, a pecking order unlikely to change as they play each other so often, making for constant improvement.

The Aussies, led by Sharelle McMahon, are also here, and face England in Bath on Tuesday.

“Some of the England players play in our trans-Tasman competition, so they’ll have taken a lot of what they’ve learned back to England,” Van Dyk warns.

She may represent New Zealand these days, but occasionally, the distinctive Saffa cadence rings through. Does she have a lingering allegiance to the Rainbow Nation?

“I have none whatsoever – I am a Kiwi girl through and through,” she insists. “You can’t give me a hard time about my accent – I did live there for 28 years.”

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SPORTING EXILES Netballer Irene van Dyk moved from SA to New Zealand. Here are other sporting expats.

Kostya Tszyu – After moving to Australia in 1992 the Russian-born boxer became the first man in 30 years to unify the junior welterweight belts. Tszyu’s sincerity and humour made him a national hero in his new country.

Kepler Wessels – South African cricketer Wessels played 24 Tests for Australia during apartheid.

He was tough, but too brusque and self-centred to resonate with Aussie fans.

Riki Flutey – The Kiwi flyhalf couldn’t cement a spot with Wellington or the Hurricanes, but was picked for England, and then the British and Irish Lions. He’s a one-man answer to: “Why can’t England match it against the All Blacks?”

Jelena Dokic (left) – At age 16, she thrashed Martina Hingis at Wimbledon. Her father, Damir – the prototype for crazy tennis fathers – insisted she play for Yugoslavia, and later Serbia and Montenegro.

She’s since ditched her dad and is Aussie Jelena again.

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break to move to London.

I was then lucky enough to pick up a role with Westpac in London.

What do you do day-to-day?

I spend most of my day helping expats and migrants set up their banking requirements in Australia before they leave the UK. I also help customers who are in the UK or Europe with any problems they may run into with their banking.

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osses beware – new research suggests a rise in job confidence may cause disengaged employees to rush to the exits.

Badly performing organisations are the worst at managing people and most at risk of a staff exodus.

New Zealand employers face a new wave of staff churn, according to Right Management regional general manager Bridget Beattie.

“Disengaged employees

are seven times more likely to leave in the next year than their engaged colleagues, our research shows,” Beattie said.

“And given that 57 per cent of Kiwi employees are disengaged, there is a large proportion of the workforce with potentially itchy feet.”

Career Customer Service Officer/Migrant and Expatriate Banking – Westpac Banking Corporation Age 26 Lives Fulham From Melbourne How did you get into your line of work?

I started with Westpac five years ago as a bank teller and worked my way up to a branch manager before taking a career

Queensland’s tourism industry continues to shed jobs. During the June quarter, the state employed more than 2700 fewer people than this time in 2008. Occupancy rates across the accommodation sector also dipped.

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Having to complete a lot of requests via email back to Australia. I miss being able to resolve issues myself or at least pick up the phone and get a problem fixed there and then.

make sure what you’re submitting is relevant and tailored to the job you are applying for – and whatever you do, don’t mention the wrong employer or job.

It’s not good practice to send off the same application form or covering letter to numerous employers as all workplaces are different.

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An east-west rift is poised to erupt as Sydney works to become a low-carbon economy, according to reports in the Penrith Star. Professional services, located in the east, will boom, but manufacturing, in the west, will be hit hard.

I really enjoy speaking with expats who may have been in the UK anywhere from five to 50 years. They often like to talk about things like AFL and warm weather and beaches you can actually swim at all year round.

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Name: Kelly Valencius Age: 22 From: Armidale, Australia Time in London: Five months Lives: Manor House Works as: Front of house manager at Core Grill Restaurant, Paddington’s newest waterside eatery.

Can you describe a typical day at work?

We’re open from mornings till evenings, seven days a week, so each shift varies.

FOOD FOR

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orking in a bar or restaurant tends to be hard graft. But the atmosphere, flexibility and pay can all add up to a pretty great way to earn a living.

Add to this renewed efforts by authorities to help regulate the ways tips and service charges are distributed to staff, and things are looking up for those working in hospitality.

TIPPING POINT We’ve all heard stories about staff either not receiving tips or companies using tips to pay their staff. The good news is that legislation that came into force on October 1 bans all tips, service charges, gratuities and cover charges from being used to make up the National Minimum Wage.

In an effort to make things more clear for both customers and employees, the British Hospitality Association (BHA) has published a voluntary code of practice on service charges, and urges restaurants, including those inside hotels, to disclose to customers exactly how

they manage their discretionary service charges and non-cash tips.

WHAT’S AT STAKE? The BHA says there’s been too little information in the past about the way service charges are collected, what they’re for and who gets them.

This has led to widespread criticism, which in turn has damaged the industry’s reputation.

The code will ensure that restaurants make crystal clear how they distribute the proceeds of the charge, who gets what and what percentage, if any, is kept by the restaurant owners to cover legitimate costs.

WHAT ABOUT PAY? There is a minimum wage for hospitality workers in the UK. The adult rate, which applies to those aged 22 and over, rose by 7 pence an hour from October 1 to £5.80, while the rate for 18- to 21-year-olds rose by 6 pence to £4.83.

The adult minimum wage rate is due to be extended to 21-year-olds from October 2010.

Did you need experience to land your job?

Experience is helpful but it’s not really a requirement.

I’d worked as a bartender, waitress and floor staff supervisor in Australia.

What are some of the challenges of your job?

You’re on your feet all day, and it can be physically demanding. We work hard and are always on the go.

What’s the pay like?

I make enough money to pay for all the vital things, such as my travel card, rent, phone credit and groceries.

I also have enough to cover the fun things like going out in London on weekends, shopping and travel.

Do you get good tips?

Tips vary, but are a great bonus on top of pay.

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Rethink your broadband alf of consumers are fed up with their broadband providers and seven out of 10 are disappointed with the speed of their connection, research by comparison site Broadbandchoices.co.uk has found.

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Michael Phillips of Broadbandchoices.co.uk says: “If you want broadband that ticks all the boxes, O2 and Plusnet are the best … Their customer service is efficient and they will activate your broadband quickly when you set up, and offer great value.”

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Now is the time to load up on bananas, as a supermarket price war has forced the fruit’s price down to the cheapest in 14 years. Asda got the ball rolling, charging 46p/kg, but promised the cuts would not affect banana suppliers.

Predictably, some rival chains are annoyed.

PayPal is marketed as the cheapest, safest way to make online transactions, and more than 20 million people have been sufficiently convinced.

But a new report suggests the system may be dangerously open to exploitation, with fraudsters able to hack into people’s accounts.

How do you budget?

Some weeks I hold it together. Other weeks I let my hair down and I’m broke for the next month. It’s fair to say I’m not very disciplined with money.

What do you blow your cash on?

I’ve been spending my spare cash on musical equipment since I was 18. It’s ridiculous because I don’t earn much, but see no problem dropping £400 on a guitar.

Do you have any extraordinary expenses?

I have a collection of cowboy boots. I have more than I can wear, but I keep buying more of them. I have a weakness for old pairs that are still in good nick.

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symbolise prosperity. » Feng shui gurus criticised the building’s sharp edges and negative symbolism. » New York’s Freedom Tower, on the site of the former World Trade Center, is expected to cost even more.

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The Poms are famous for their whingeing, but if you want to save a penny you shouldn’t be afraid to take a leaf out of their book.

If you go to a restaurant and you’re not impressed with the food or the service, complain politely and early on.

Restaurants are in the service industry, and you deserve satisfaction. You may get some of your bill taken off, or a complimentary drink.

The same goes with buying food at the supermarket. If you’ve bought something you’re unhappy with, send a complaint to the manufacturer – you never know how much free stuff you could get as a goodwill gesture in return.

offers a year’s contract with unlimited downloads for £12.23 a month and a free wireless router. Existing O2 mobile phone customers can get the same package for £7.34 a month.

Plusnet also offers a good deal with unlimited downloads for £11.99 a month,

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

For listings see tntonline. co.uk/accommodation.

Dossing Offer to chip in £5 a night minimum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pay and cancel your bills

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

Settle overdrafts and credit cards Any defaults on bank

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

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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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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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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 about £80£150 for your first box – less for suitcases – and £30-£90 for additional boxes.

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READERS’ TIPS GET YOUR FREQ ON

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It’s free to join the TIP OF Qantas Frequent THE WEEK Flyer programme if you are a UK resident.

So all Aussies living in UK should join while they’re here and save the A$82.50 it will cost them once they’re living back in Australia.

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YOU ASKED FOR IT Tom Hall FROM LONELY PLANET

In Berlin, take a trip up the Fernsehturm (TV) tower in Alexanderplatz. The tower is fantastic in its own right and has great views of the city, but once you’re up there it’s also worth having a drink or afternoon tea in the revolving restaurant at the top.

It’s not cheap, but you can just order coffee or a beer.

Plus the portions of cake are huge so you can share.

Sarah, via email

After a two-week trip in the Vendée region of France with my wife and three daughters, the only downside was the long drive. I’ve heard of a train you can drive your car on to. Does this ‘sleeper’ service exist, and if so where does it go and how much is it?

Craig and family, via email

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Visiting Myanmar is a personal ethical decision and I’d urge anyone considering the trip to undertake a thorough investigation of the pros and cons of doing so. You can download a free PDF entitled ‘Should You Go?’ taken from Lonely Planet’s Myanmar (Burma) guide at http://bit.ly/4dRTPe. Coming from Thailand, you can enter Burma at the Mae Sai border crossing near Chiang Rai to Tachileik, and continue on to Kengtung – but no further. If coming the other way with the right paperwork (issued in Yangon), you could exit Burma here.

The only overland crossing which would then allow travel into the Burmese interior is the one via Ruili, about 20 hours’ journey from Kunming in China. You must walk across the border and then continue on to Lashio, a fivehour journey, as part of a package which needs to be sorted in Kunming. The package will cost about US$200.

Just to confuse matters further, you cannot depart Burma by this route. A flight is much quicker and easier.

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Luciano Mortula

This sounds like the kind of thing people did in the 1970s, but Motorail services do still criss-cross the Continent, mainly in summer.

French Motorail (see raileurope.co.uk/motorail) services run from Calais to either Narbonne and Brive or Avignon, Frejus and Nice, and cost from £290 for a car and up to six passengers.

It’s a pretty civilised operation – having made your way across the Channel by ferry or Shuttle, your car is loaded on to the train. Then you board a sleeper carriage and snooze through the night. The next morning your car is unloaded, and you’re off.

This only works if you want to go to the south of France. For Brittany and Normandy you’re better off taking one of the alternative Channel crossings to Newhaven, Dieppe, Cherbourg or other ports further down the coast.

Alternatively, take the Eurostar and change in either Lille or Paris, then hire a car at your destination. I did this – and even if I did spend five hours on the TGV to Montpelier walking up and down carriages with a very overexcited toddler, it sure beat the long drive.

On arrival in Thailand and armed with a visa for Myanmar, is there any way I could travel overland to Yangon? I have heard it’s possible to reach Yangon coming from China with a group but not from any other country.

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Barcelona is the worst city for pickpockets, according to a list compiled by TripAdvisor.

One TripAdvisor reviewer compared pickpocketing in Barcelona to a generally practised sport, like football.

Visitors would also do well to watch their bags in Rome and Prague, which came second and third on the list.

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TALKING ITALIAN Find out what food Italians can’t live without and who their national heroes are in Speak The Culture: Italy.

The latest in a new series of guides from Thorogood aims to give readers the feel of what it’s like to be Italian in the 21st century.

EASIER PAYMENT As of October 1, Gap Adventures will no longer require travellers to pay a portion of their tour price locally on the first day of a trip.

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The list is made up of the nation’s iconic kiwi, Hector’s dolphin, yellow-eyed penguin, tuatara and kea.

CHILE PARK VOTED BEST The most popular National Park in the world is the Torres del Paine park in Chile, according to Trivago.co.uk.

The hotel price comparison site has compiled a list of the top ten national parks worldwide based on the most popular search requests from July to September 2009.

Torres del Paine National Park came top thanks to its combination of mountains, lakes and glaciers as well as its top attraction – the

magnificent three tower-like rock formations Torres del Paine, or ‘Blue Towers’.

Second on the list of national parks was Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the largest excavated area on the American continent with six square miles of remnants from the Mayan civilisation. In third place was Jasper, the largest national park in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, where you can ski in winter and trek, bike or raft in summer.

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WORDS DANIEL LANDON

TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING

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North Shore, Hawaii November 12-December 20 On the North Shore of Oahu, famous for its massive winter swells of up to 15m, pro-surfers take on giant waves for giant prize money in three separate events.

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ELEPHANT ROUND-UP THAILAND WHAT: Beautiful beasts

show off their strength and skill in Thailand’s biggest elephant show. Expect to see elephant tug-of-war, logpulling demonstrations, battle reconstructions and vintage elephant garb.

WHERE: Surin, Thailand.

WHEN: November 20-22.

WHY: The region of Surin has a long-standing history with elephants, traditionally capturing them in Cambodia and training them for work.

LOCK IT IN HALLOWEEN PARADE New York City, US Oct 31, 2009 halloween-nyc.com

TAR BARREL ROLLING Ottery St Mary, England Nov 5, 2009 otterytourism.org.uk

HOGMANAY Edinburgh, Scotland Dec 31, 2009 edinburghshogmanay.org

DO IT BECAUSE: It’s a fun time to visit the region. And where else can you cheer on your favourite elephant football team?

HOW MUCH: From 500 baht (about £10) for a seat at the elephant talent show.

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RIO CARNIVAL Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Feb 13-18, 2010 rio-carnival.net

BONFIRE NIGHT Lewes, England November 5 Celebrations for Guy Fawkes Night are taken up a notch with this spectacular parade by locals in medieval outfits, holding flaming crosses and effigies while firecrackers light up the night sky.

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Where in the world?

NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS New Orleans, US Feb 16, 2010 mardigrasneworleans.com

LAS FALLAS Valencia, Spain Mar 12-19, 2009 turisvalencia.es

THE TRAVELLER …

Matt Auer, 21, from Sydney, Australia Where’s the best place you’ve been to?

Hanoi, Vietnam. I ate a cobra heart – it was different.

Best place in the UK?

Snowdonia National Park in Wales for its beautiful scenery.

Most over-rated place?

Dream destination?

A safari in Africa.

Where are the friendliest locals?

Soren White and friends from the Gold Coast, Australia, at La Tomatina, Spain

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Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

You can get whatever help you need from anyone.

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Cardiff. It’s a big city, but I didn’t find a lot to do there.

GEAR UP

GET PACKING: TRAVEL WASH Amy Adams SOLVES YOUR TRAVEL GEAR PROBLEMS IN A LATHER With Lifeventure AllPurpose Soap you can clean pretty much anything, including fruit and veg. It’s biodegradable, concentrated so you won’t need much, and lathers easily.

THE DAMAGE: £2.99 WHERE: lifeventure.co.uk

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CLEAN SHEET Turn over a new leaf and be extra hygienic with these Pocket Soap Leaves. Take a leaf, mix with water, and wash your clothes, food, dishes or hair.

THE DAMAGE: £1.99 WHERE: gapyeartravel store.com

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HAIR MOOSE Australian grooming range Moosehead has launched Dirty Boy Hair & Body Wash, a 3-in-1 hair, face and body wash. It smells lovely and is moisturising too, so make that 5-in-1.

THE DAMAGE: £2.49 WHERE: moosehead.com.au

MARKET KNOWLEDGE It’s thought that soap, or soap-like material, was produced in ancient Babylon as far back as 2800 BC. It’s difficult to get your head around BC dates, but I think we can assume that this is a long time ago, and in the many, many years that have passed since, we’ve come up with many different forms of cleaning product.

From biodegradable, colour-fast, 2-in-1 detergent and fabric conditioner gel tablets,

THE INSIDER MARTHA BRYCE, PR EXECUTIVE, VISIT SCOTLAND The best part of my job is … Finding out about all the secret tips for travellers in Scotland.

My first big trip was …

Catching a lift in my dad’s lorry through southern Europe.

My most memorable

to volume-boosting shampoo for highlighted hair, the items we use to wash ourselves and the materials around us are many and varied.

If we were to take every form of soap we use in our daily lives on holiday, there wouldn’t be room for anything to wash – including ourselves.

When you’re travelling it makes sense to cut down, and thanks to the many multi-purpose soaps on the market, it’s not difficult to do so.

travel experience was …

A stroll on the soft white sands to St Ninian’s Isle in Shetland. The sea was turquoise blue, the sun was shining, the only sound was the sea, and there wasn’t another person in sight.

My favourite place in the world is … The seaside town of St Andrews.

The next destination on my travel wishlist is …

The Golden Spurtle World

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Porridge Making Championship on the edge of the Cairngorms.

My top travel tip is …

Ask the locals. There’s no better place to find out where the party is.

I always pack … A good road map. I love getting off the beaten track and taking the smaller roads.

My guilty travel pleasure is … Tea and cake at every opportunity.

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A record number of you entered our 19th TNT Travel Writing and Photography Awards, making choosing the shortlist harder than ever.

Here are the words and pictures that won our vote – and yours

NATURAL WORLD JUDGE’S COMMENT I adore the artistic element of this picture. The flash of colour shining through the muted leaves is charming and adds an element of beauty and surprise to the scene. It is almost as though the bush is eating the bicycle. It’s a unique image from a talented and imaginative photographer.

SHILA SULTANA, TNT PICTURE EDITOR

1ST PL ACE

TITLE: Overgrown PHOTOGRAPHER: Ruben Reehorst

JUDGE’S COMMENT The simplicity of this picture is lovely. The sharply focused bird captures your attention and it’s difficult to drag your eyes away from the crisp detail and piercing colours created by perfect lighting. I was mesmerised by the beauty of the bird.

SHILA SULTANA, TNT PICTURE EDITOR

2ND PL ACE TITLE: Kingfisher PHOTOGRAPHER: Ian Schofield TITLE: Trouble rides a fast horse PHOTOGRAPHER: Craig Brown

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3RD PL ACE

I love the composition of this picture. Everything in it is placed perfectly – the horse right of centre, moving across a thin strip of green grass before a huge blue sky. With the sun glinting off the animal’s shining flanks, this image captures something special.

SHILA SULTANA, TNT PICTURE EDITOR

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PEOPLE AND PERSONALITY 1ST PL ACE

JUDGE’S COMMENT

SHILA SULTANA, PICTURE EDITOR TITLE: Masai shepherd boy in Serengeti, Tanzania PHOTOGRAPHER: Jarrod Castaing

2ND PL ACE TITLE: Generation gap PHOTOGRAPHER: Kim Noakes

JUDGE’S COMMENT When I first saw this picture I was dazzled by how different this group’s way of life is from my own. The jewellery, clothes and setting all build a strong sense of culture. This and the vibrant colours initially drew me to the image, then I noticed other details (such as the two girls reading the same book), which add more layers to this thoughtful portrait.

SHILA SULTANA, TNT PICTURE EDITOR

TITLE: Smoking man PHOTOGRAPHER: Lara Craig

3RD PL ACE

JUDGE’S COMMENT Looking at this image, I’m immediately curious about what the man is staring at.

The mystery makes you want to know more. I love the personal touches – the pipe and jewellery, which give the man character.

The lighting adds to the scene and you’re left thinking about the subject, where he’s been in his life and where he’s going.

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If any image can draw you in, it’s this one. The earthy ground and grey clouds create a contrast of hot and cold, and the boy continues this theme. There are several reasons why this is the winner: the creativity, technological expertise and sheer beauty all make this an outstanding image. It’s truly stunning.

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TITLE: Thames Barrier PHOTOGRAPHER: Mykhaylo Ratushev

1ST PL ACE

JUDGE’S COMMENT This has to be one of the best pictures I’ve seen of the Thames Barrier. The lighting, colours and composition are perfect, and the metallic shimmer makes something right on our doorstep seem futuristic and other-worldly – it’s like a sci-fi vision of London. It’s a gorgeous piece of photography well worth being a winner.

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2ND PL ACE TITLE: Swanset PHOTOGRAPHER: Jeremy Sechtig

3RD PL ACE TITLE: Iconic London bus passing St Paul’s Cathedral at night

PHOTOGRAPHER: Ian Rogers

JUDGE’S COMMENT St Paul’s Cathedral looks striking in this picture, and with the red bus streaking by you couldn’t be anywhere but London.

The composition combined with technical precision prevent this image being another shot of a national landmark, and help create impact and atmosphere. It’s a well-executed image, which is difficult to get right.

SHILA SULTANA, PICTURE EDITOR

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What I love about this image is that it doesn’t look like it was taken in London. It captures a serene moment in the natural world (it could easily be placed in that category), which seems far removed from the urban environment. The lighting adds to this effect. It’s an original take on a much photographed city.

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Take your chances with a visit to Chernobyl – the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster WORDS MARK MAYO

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Abandoned kindergarten in Pripyat

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he three of us were about to enter the highly restricted exclusion zone around Chernobyl’s reactor – myself, a science teacher friend, and our guide Yuri in his noisy Lada, complete with pine cone air freshener hanging from the mirror.

We’d taken an overnight train from Rzezow in Poland to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, where Yuri had picked us up in the morning. A twohour drive through the countryside with Yuri regaling us with facts and figures about Chernobyl, his life, and his country, and we were at the first checkpoint.

Twenty-three years ago, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl’s unassumingly-titled Reactor Number Four exploded, sending a radioactive plume of toxic fallout west across

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REACTION TIMES A few minutes later and we were in sight of the infamous reactor itself. When it blew, firefighters gave their lives dropping water, sand and concrete onto the blaze in an effort to create a “shelter” (though the media termed it the “sarcophagus”) and hopefully prevent further leaking. We looked at the monstrous sides cracking and crumbling; the wear and tear was certainly evident – both visually and by the frantic sounds of the Geiger counter as we stood 400 yards from the site of the world’s worst ever nuclear power plant disaster.

We moved away and crossed over the Bridge of Death nearby, where people had stood to look directly into the glowing, melting core, not knowing they would die within weeks from radiation poisoning. It was a sobering sight, and entering the abandoned city of Pripyat did nothing to improve the scene. At the time, the purpose-built town held 50,000 residents, all of whom were evacuated in a rush and told to leave everything as it was, for they could return within three days, then a week, then a month.

They have yet to return.

The town at the time was going through a building boom, with the new school in place, hotels, and a new restaurant and theme park due to open in days. Now the main hotel had no windows, and a lone tree was growing out of the cracks on the eighth floor. The central supermarket looked like a small tornado was born within it, with vandals having long ago taken anything of value. The handprints of handball players still showed on the wall of

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Europe – 400 times more than that released in the bombing of Hiroshima. Today, a 30-mile exclusion zone with armed guards surrounds an inner ring with additional guards 10 miles from the reactor, and inside that zone – once home to the thriving city of Pripyat, and many smaller villages – there was nobody. We were about to change that.

At this point our car was given a half-hearted search by security while we stared wide-eyed at their weapons and the many Cyrillic warning signs. The only word we could translate was ‘stop’, with an ominous radiation symbol beneath it. Then we were through, and repeated the procedure at the inner ring. At this point Yuri presented us with a Geiger counter to measure the radiation levels, with numbers my science teacher friend understood, while I just worried over the ever-increasing speed of the “bip-bip-bip” coming from it.

As the tops of the reactor towers started to appear in the distance, we stopped to look at some mounds at the side of the road. These, Yuri explained, were once houses, buried by the government to prevent people from returning, and each with a radiation sign. Dutifully we moved the Geiger closer, and it responded by doubling its pace. We backed off.

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the gym, and the pool stood empty, the diving board lying abandoned by the edge.

Outside, the semi-legendary theme park was deserted. The bumper car arena had weeds, and a canoe-swing lay where someone had dragged it in the middle of the park. All around us it was eerily silent, save for the faint cry of a wild pig.

Yuri told us that some wildlife had returned, with pigs, foxes and moose spotted in the area.

Inside the school, classrooms were left with books on desks, tools lying where woodworking students left them, and the library was a mess of rotting books, its shelves long pushed over by vandals. A single newspaper lay on a desk, rather conveniently dated from the day of the explosion. On the board were drill instructions for gas leaks, and instructions on assembling a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Trundling back out in Yuri’s faithful Lada, we pondered over what we’d just experienced. A ghost city, the legacy of a tragedy that affected so many, destroying lives and ruining the collective hope and dreams of a city and its people, now just a skeleton of its former self.

Fewer than 5000 people enter the exclusion zone each year. Radiation is still at a critical level in the reactor though, and while short exposure in the surrounding area is sufficiently safe, any prolonged stay incurs a serious risk.

But as we went through the radiation scanners and stopped at Yuri’s office for some food just outside the inner border (all food is brought in from Kiev), we could see changes around us.

New above-ground water pipes snaked their way around – it’s considered too great a risk to put them underground. Scientists enter the area occasionally, and some residents had applied to return to their homes. Animals had apparently thrived upon returning, and ornithologists had observed birds flying in and out of a crack in the reactor’s sarcophagus, indicating a nest inside. More than two decades after that fateful day, against all the odds, life goes on.

JUDGE’S COMMENT Half the battle of good travel writing is picking a subject that readers will find interesting. The other half is writing about it in a clear, honest and informative manner.

Mark Mayo has both these boxes ticked. His destination couldn’t be more intriguing, and his writing style is deceptively simple, carefully fusing thorough research with razor-sharp observation.

He takes us to Chernobyl, building up a sense of the scale of the disaster while leaving us with hope for the future – highlighted by the wonderfully poignant image of birds nesting in the reactor’s sarcophagus.

AMY ADAMS, TNT TRAVEL EDITOR

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FOOT PATROL Is there more to Munich than beer and Oktoberfest? Find out on a free walking tour of the famous city WORDS MARK HANNON

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of peak tourist season … Well, for starters beer is still readily available so even if you can’t experience the festivities of Oktoberfest, you can put on your lederhosen or dirndl, grab a seat at one of Munich’s many beer halls, and down steins to your heart’s content.

Alternatively, like me, you could wake up on a cold winter morning feeling slightly dazed and confused from the previous night’s revelry and decide a spot of fresh air wouldn’t go astray.

So why not learn a little while you walk off that dusty feeling and join one of Munich’s free walking tours?

Ozzie, our tour guide, is a bit of legend in

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hen someone mentions the word Munich, most of us automatically think of two things – beer and Oktoberfest. History buffs out there may connect the capital of Bavaria with the birthplace of the Nazi Party; religious scholars may reflect on the city’s former archbishop who is now the supreme leader of the Church of Rome; and football fanatics may reminisce about the glory days of the city’s famous team FC Bayern Munich. However, for most of us Munich is forever linked with copious amounts of amber liquid and the festival that celebrates it.

But if you find yourself in Munich outside

these parts (go to Google and search for ‘Ozzie Munich Walking Tour’ and you’ll get the picture) and although not stereotypically ‘German’, he is proud of his home city and Bavarian heritage.

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GRAND DESIGNS Following a typical Bavarian lunch of beer and sausages, the tour loops through Marienplatz [main image] to pause in front of the touristheavy Glockenspiel – a giant cuckoo-like clock that depicts scenes of Munich’s past in the vein of Team America and the Thunderbirds.

Ozzie, like most locals, can’t understand the popularity of it, and after a few minutes standing in subzero temperatures, the group can’t understand it either.

Incidentally, the Glockenspiel, along with the two domed towers of the Cathedral, were the only historic structures in the old city to withstand the Allied aerial assault in World War II. Despite the old city’s aged appearance, the majority of the buildings are less than 60 years old. Ozzie informs us that “every building has been rebuilt to mirror the pre-war Munich streetscapes and facades, using detailed survey photographs compiled by the Nazis”.

The Nazis, knowing that Munich would be high on the list of Allied targets, undertook an extensive task to photograph and record the architecture of the city in anticipation of widespread bombing. These archival photos were then subsequently used by the city’s planners to restore Munich to its pre-war glory.

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OLD AND NEW As the tour starts, Ozzie asks us for our thoughts on what we think of when we hear the word ‘Germany’. Taking a particularly notorious Austrian and his political party out of the equation, the most common responses are beer, bratwurst, lederhosen and oompah bands.

Ozzie quickly informs us that all those typically German clichés are actually first and foremost of Bavarian ancestry and were subsequently stolen “by those people up north”.

As the tour snakes its way through the city, Ozzie chips in with snippets of historical importance and highlights prominent points of interest, such as the Frauenkirche – the Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady. The cathedral, with its characteristic domed towers, was designed by architect Jörg von Halsbach and consecrated in 1494. The building took a little under 20 years to complete, which at the time was considered akin to a miracle.

Ozzie tells us some locals believe the architect, a canny operator, hoodwinked the devil into helping fund the project to expedite construction. The story goes that on realising he’d been duped, the devil erupted into such a frenzied rage he managed to permanently stamp his hoof print on the cathedral floor – the print remains there to this day.

75 A GOOD BREW As the walking tour comes to a close, our attention is again turned to the amber liquid that has made Munich famous.

The group is told that all breweries within the city are signatories to the Reinheitsgebot – the famous ‘Bavarian Purity Law’ – which is one of the oldest food regulations in the world.

Introduced by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria in 1516, the law restricted Bavarian beer to only three basic ingredients – barley, hops and water – thereby ensuring the distinct fresh taste that is loved by so many. The original law has now been updated to include the use of yeast in the fermentation process (the properties of yeast were only discovered in the mid-1800s), however the fundamental principles of the brewing process have remained unchanged for more than 500 years.

With sunlight fading and a winter chill setting in, Ozzie wraps up the tour in front of the Feldherrnhalle – a commemorative structure celebrating famous victories of the Bavarian Army. This particular site is also significant as it marks the location where in November 1923, a group led by a young and ambitious Adolf Hitler attempted to overthrow the government by force. The unsuccessful attempt at taking power resulted in the deaths of four police officers and 16 conspirators, and saw Hitler arrested and imprisoned.

LIQUID GOLD As the tour disbands, Ozzie invites a bunch of us to join him for a drink at one of his favourite Munich beer halls. As we sit down at a table and reflect on what we’ve learnt, the consensus is that Munich definitely has more to offer than just beer and Oktoberfest.

However, as the first sip of liquid gold hits the back of the throat, we all agree that beer could quite easily be the only reason you ever need to visit Munich – everything else is a bonus.

JUDGE’S COMMENT This was my secondfavourite entry this year, so I’m really pleased it won the readers’ vote. I’m also not surprised, given that the reason I loved it was that I thought it was perfect for TNT – exactly the kind of feature I would run.

Mark Hannon hooks us in immediately by mentioning TNT favourite Oktoberfest, but keeps our attention by taking us in a different direction – a walking tour of Munich with colourful Ozzie.

Weaving the city’s history into his journey he strikes a delicate balance between light-hearted asides and more weighty observations.

Mindful of his audience, Hannon brings us back to the subject of beer, going full circle in a way that seems neat rather than contrived.

AMY ADAMS, TRAVEL EDITOR

TNT online For a full travel guide on Germany and its cities see tntmagazine.com/travel

» Ozzie’s Free Walking Tour starts most days at 10.15am from Wombat’s City Hostel, Senefelderstrasse 1, D-80336 Munich

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AWAY A Kiwi couple share their travels in bugbitten.com’s best online journal entry for TNT’s Travel Writing & Photography Awards WORDS RICH AND MERRIDITH BUGBITTEN.COM/RICHANDMERRIDITH

JOURNARL WINNE Halong Bay

SAILING AWAY Halong Bay, Vietnam Merridith booked us a Halong Bay tour and after a three-hour bus ride we came to Halong Bay and shuffled onto a small boat that would take us out to a junk (an old Chinese boat). It was here we met our

other tour guide Dean, from New Zealand.

Later we dropped anchor and rounded up some tandem kayaks. The weather was perfect and we paddled around for about three hours, visiting a couple of caves. A long hard paddle and it was time for possibly the most beautiful swim I have ever taken.

Picture a junk in Halong Bay, in about 35˚C temperature, cool refreshments, and a bunch of backpackers led by a crazy Kiwi tour guide. Good times!

FOOD FIGHT La Tomatina, Buñol, Spain At 11am a rocket signalled the beginning of La Tomatina, and five trucks made their way through the narrow, crowded streets. People in the trucks pelted the crowds with tomatoes, and as they passed there were more tomatoes to throw at one another. Tomatoes flew from every direction at staggering speed.

Many people wore goggles and head caps, which were pretty useless in the chaos, as were the T-shirts that were often ripped off.

After an hour, a second rocket signalled the end of the tomato fight and the streets were left with people saturated in red, and knee deep in tomato pulp.

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Blue Mosque

TURKISH DELIGHTS Istanbul, Turkey Three flights and 20 hours in transit, we made it to Istanbul and the place was beautiful. We were staying in Sultanahmet,

which was in a great location for sightseeing.

After a five-minute walk, we were at the Blue Mosque (a very impressive building).

Across the way was the Hagia Sophia, formerly a church and turned into a mosque after the conquest of Istanbul. It has been a museum since 1935.

Dinner time and we rounded up a group of backpackers and headed out for some local Turkish cuisine. Merridith and I shared a tasty lamb shish and pide, which were amazingly good. We topped it off with some baklava and then it was back to the hostel for a drink and belly dance show.

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SKYE’S THE LIMIT Scotland Next stop was the Isle of Skye. The jewel of Scotland, this region was incredibly beautiful, and very similar to New Zealand.

We were pretty sure our tour guide was taking the mickey, but he managed to convince some of us to dip our face in a cold stream to make us more beautiful and to kiss one another on the cheek to keep us safe from mischievous fairies.

On Skye, the mist lingers around the hilltops and makes for breathtaking views.

Apparently, the toll to cross the bridge to the isle used to be so expensive people would pick up a sheep before crossing because if you had livestock you didn’t have to pay.

This globetrotting Kiwi couple were selected as winner of the Best Bugbitten Travel Journal Award because of their dedication to keeping an impeccable online journal of their trip around the world.

From their hometown of Christchurch they have travelled around Asia and Europe, and they are now overlanding in Africa.

Rich and Merridith have a brilliant writing style, which gives a sense of being with them and experiencing their adventures first-hand.

Follow the rest of their journey at bugbitten.com/ richandmerridith.

TRAVIS PITTMAN, BUGBITTEN.COM Isle of Skye

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SKIFEST ■ Pamplona – Running of the Bulls

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