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EDITOR’S LETTER Whether you grew up on skis or you’re hitting the slopes for the first time, there’s something undeniably exciting about a holiday in the snow.

Fortunately the world’s best runs and biggest alpine parties are just a few hours away from the UK. For the lowdown on Europe’s top ski destinations, including how to snag a bargain, see our travel section starting on page 57.

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9 LONDON 9 London Eye 10 London Life 12 PRIZE EXHIBITS: Check out the best museums in London 14 Food & Drink 16 Spotted

19 ENTERTAINMENT 19 20 21 22 23

Celebrity News TNT Life Look Who’s Talking: Suraya Singh Cinema Culture

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Music Music Listings Clubbing Clubbing Listings 12 Museum piece: get cultured in London

62 Kitsch Christmas: Europe’s top markets

32 NEWS & SPORT 32 34 36 39 40 42 44 45

Australia News New Zealand News South Africa News The Week In Sport Rugby Rugby League Cricket General

57 Global Vision 58 DECK THE STALLS: Shopping at Europe’s Christmas markets 60 Late Deals 61 TNTT Weekender: Dublin 62 SNOW ANGEL: Ski the slopes of Engelberg in Switzerland 64 Hotshots 66 Travel Tips 67 Travel News 68 On The Road 69 Gear Up 70 SLOPING OFF: Your guide to planning a snow break 61 Raise a pint to Dublin’s fair city

47 CAREERS & MONEY 47 Careers 51 ’TIS THE SEASON: Making money during the Christmas period 54 Money 55 Coming & Going

REGULARS 4 Letters 6 Wins 130 Desperately Seeking & Dear Reuben 21 Talking dirty with Filament ’s Suraya Singh

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Trafalgar Square, WC2, Wednesday, November 4, 4pm Photo: Elizabeth Eun/TNT Images

Members of Sir Keith Park’s family and World War II Royal Air Force veterans unveil a statue of the serviceman in Trafalgar Square.

Park, a New Zealander, was the RAF commander responsible for the defence of London during the Battle of Britain – the name given to the air campaign waged by Hitler’s Luftwaffe against the UK in 1940 – and is largely credited with winning the decisive victory. The statue will stay on the square’s fourth plinth until May, and a permanent statue will be unveiled at Waterloo Place on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

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LONDON LIFE

WHAT’S ON Tom Sturrock PICKS THE BEST OF LONDON THIS WEEK

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LORD MAYOR’S SHOW FREE WHAT: It’s a massive day of parades, beginning at 11am and finishing with a spectacular fireworks display at 5pm, launched from barges between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges.

WHEN: Saturday, November 14.

DO IT BECAUSE: This event has been taking over London’s streets for nearly 800 years, and now features about 6000 people, military marching bands, Chinese acrobats, a procession of decorated floats and some sweet fireworks at the end.

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Capital idea: Soho Square Soho Square, the small grassy patch in the middle of some of London’s priciest real estate, dates back to 1670.

In its early days the square was one of London’s most fashionable addresses, although it used to be called King Square and a statue of Charles II still stands in the middle of it.

Home to the London headquarters of a stack of media giants, including 20th Century Fox, Soho Square also serves as a way station between the humdrum of Oxford Street and

the elegant dishevelment of Soho. It’s a leafy green oasis in the heart of the London swarm, and its location means it’s an interesting place to while away a lazy afternoon, as it attracts a mixture of tourists, creative types and Soho bohos.

On occasion it hosts curious displays of performance art, which can appear suddenly and without explanation. TS

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It’s based at the Southbank Centre, but there will be more than 250 shows at venues around London. Get online to check out the full programme.

This mouth-watering food expo is a great opportunity to broaden your culinary horizons or just gorge yourself.

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BRITAIN EXPLAINED SCOUSERS A scouser is someone from Liverpool, as Liverpudlian is too much of a mouthful.

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The Scouse accent, as demonstrated by Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard (left), is unique within Lancashire, and owes much to Liverpool’s status as a port city, with more than a hint of Irish. TS

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Overview: Exhibits aside, the building housing the museum is breathtaking, with its ornate Victorian frontage (left) and cavernous entrance hall. So take a few minutes to check out the architecture before immersing yourself in this

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ay what you want about British food and weather, but the Poms sure know how to do museums. If you’ve been in London for a while and haven’t yet spent a couple of days wandering around their biggest and best museums, you’re missing out.

So with winter loitering with intent just around the corner, set aside a rainy afternoon for a spot of museum-going. Here are the Big Five to check out straight off the bat:

FOR ALL THE OTHER STUFF London is home to scores of smaller, niche museums

Fun yet poignant comic art.

Little Russell St, WC1A 2HH Tottenham Court Road (cartoonmuseum.org)

» meticulous catalogue of the natural world.

Must-see: Everyone’s got their favourite animals, and the mammals section makes sure none of them go unaccounted for.

Special attractions: The new Darwin Centre opened in September, and the state-of-the art Cocoon building is the hottest ticket in town.

ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM Over 100 planes on show.

Colindale, NW9 5LL Colindale (rafmuseum. org.uk)

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Cromwell Rd, SW7 5BD South Kensington (nhm.ac.uk). Daily, 10am-5.30pm

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Overview: The museum’s emphasis is on the two world wars, and if you need to brush up your European history this is the perfect place to start, providing a crash course in the origins of both great wars. Or, if you just like guns, tanks and fighter planes (main image), you’ll also go home satisfied.

Must-see: The Secret War exhibition focuses on the world of espionage, featuring bottles of

It’s the ideal “ spot for a lazy stroll through antiquity

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invisible ink and an Enigma cipher machine.

Special attractions: The Holocaust Exhibition looks at the way Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews. Grim stuff, and it stays with you.

» Lambeth Rd, SE1 6HZ

Lambeth North (london.iwm.org.uk). Daily, 10am-6pm

BRITISH MUSEUM Overview: The building itself is spectacular, with a colossal opaque dome at its centre. You know it’s a serious museum when you stumble across the Rosetta Stone in the foyer. The ideal spot for a lazy stroll through antiquity.

Must-see: In Assyria in 720BC, King Sargon’s citadel was guarded by a pair of giant humanheaded winged bull statues (top right). Now they’re here. Awesome.

Special attractions: Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler is currently exhibiting, and spectacularly sketches the last days of Aztec civilisation in the 1500s.

» Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG

Tottenham Court Road (britishmuseum.org). Sat-Wed, 10am-5.30pm; Thu-Fri, 10am-8.30pm

VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM Overview: The world’s largest museum of arts and design fuses everyday quirkiness with the

Way better than Ikea

truly arcane. For example, in a retrospective on women’s fashion, medieval corsetry appears alongside a J-Lo style velour tracksuit.

Must-see: The V&A’s sculpture collection is incredible – one of the current highlights is the gallery of dazzling Buddhist pieces.

Special attractions: The Maharaja exhibition brings together pieces from India’s Royal Court, and there’s some serious bling on show.

» Cromwell Rd, SW7 2RL

South Kensington (vam.ac.uk). Daily, 10am-5.45pm (Fri, till 10pm)

SCIENCE MUSEUM Overview: Remember when you were little and you were really interested in how stuff worked?

The Science Museum taps into that child-like curiosity, ensuring you’ll spend hours marvelling at the ingenuity of your fellow man.

Must-see: The Energy Hall will get petrolheads revved up, with industrial engines that could easily be from a mad inventor’s workshop.

Special attractions: Cosmos & Culture is on currently, examining how astronomy changed our view of the universe and ourselves.

» Exhibition Rd, SW7 2DD

South Kensington (sciencemuseum.org.uk). Daily, 10am-6pm

LOST YOUR MARBLES? The Elgin Marbles in the British Museum are classical Greek sculptures, originally part of the Parthenon in Athens but acquired (ahem) by the Brits in 1812. Ever since then, the Greeks have been trying to get them back to Athens.

Lesley Fitton, the museum’s Keeper of the Greek and Roman Department, insists the Marbles serve a broader audience in the UK: ”You have to question whether every antiquity should go back to where it was found, because that would fragment the great collections wherever they exist: in London, New York, Paris.”

MUSEUM OF LONDON Centuries of fascinating and quirky history brought to life.

London Wall, EC2Y 5HN Barbican (museumof london.org.uk)

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LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM The story of the world’s most famous trains and buses Wellington St, WC2E 7BB Covent Garden (ltmuseum.co.uk)

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MUSEUM OF LONDON DOCKLANDS London’s proud (and murky) maritime heritage Hertsmere Rd, E14 4AL Canary Wharf (museum indocklands.org.uk)

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FOOD & DRINK

RESTAURANT REVIEW Wimbledon Tandoori ★★★★★

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THE SCENE A modern, upmarket curry house with a surprisingly cosy and womblike interior.

THE GRUB Flavoursome Indian staples with tikka, balti

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pressing us to order when clearly we weren’t ready.

BILL PLEASE A Wimbledon Village location means you will be paying Wimbledon Village prices (dahling!) so most menu items tend to be a little overpriced.

VERDICT A good solid Indian restaurant ideally placed to sate those curry cravings.

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EATING AUSTRIAN Kipferl Long Ln, EC1A 9EJ A deli that not only sells sausages, cheese and wine, but also serves cakes (sachertorte, linzertorte) and coffee like that found in any café in Vienna.

Cafe Strudel Upper Richmond Rd, SW14 7PJ If one of your favourite things is crisp apple strudel, then make your way to this sedate eatery. It also offers schnItzel, spatzle, and even Austrian fruit schnapps.

Tiroler Hut coconuts, we chat about how to buy fresh fi sh, Jennifer’s foodie travels, and where to find spices and the best Turkish olive oil in London.

And we get to eat, tucking into our bread, and delicious fi sh and prawns, and enjoying hot doughnuts straight from

the fryer. Full of food and new ideas, it’s a good thing Eat Drink Talk becomes eatdrink-walk to the Tube home.

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Feeling a bit flat before this course – perhaps because it’s a Thursday evening of a long week or the anticipation that I won’t really learn anything new, as has been the case with many of the cooking schools I’ve attended – It’s with surprise I find myself three hours later inspired to plan my next dinner party.

Eat Drink Talk, in Clerkenwell, offers cooking classes that combine demonstration and participation. Tonight it’s Cooking With Spices, and after we’re greeted with a grapefruit and clove Bellini, instructor Jennifer runs our group of six through the menu.

We’re making flatbreads with dukkah, Yemeni roast fi sh – a recipe Jennifer adapted after a trip to the country – prawns with coconut chutney and doughnuts dusted with five-spice sugar.

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“Longest flight ever but we had a great time … So excited to be here,” Spears said on Twitter after arriving.

She kicked off the first of 15 concerts in Perth.

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Flight Of The Conchords star Jemaine Clement says his offbeat HBO comedy series may not continue for a third season because it requires so much work, but a final decision will be made within a month.

MEL A DOTING DAD Mel Gibson and girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva “couldn’t be happier” about the arrival of daughter Lucia, although the Australian-raised Oscar winner blushed when the crew of his new film celebrated the news.

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Robyn, who filed for divorce in April. Gibson, 53, and Grigorieva, 39, were thrilled with the arrival of Lucia.

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On the set of the movie, which is being filmed in White Plains, the crew sang For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow and Gibson reportedly blushed.

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NZ Woman’s Weekly: Keisha Castle Hughes opens up about love, family and her dream white wedding, while there are also exclusive shots of Keisha, her partner Bradley and daughter Felicity-Amore. Plus Ivanka Trump’s wedding and Andre Agassi’s drug confession.

AUSTRALIA OK!: Everything you need to know about how the stars, including Rihanna and Kim Kardashian, get bikini ready. Plus on the eve of her Australian visit, Britney Spears goes behind the scenes of her Circus tour. Australia’s first Idol, Guy Sebastian, chats about his new album, babies, and almost ruining Jennifer Aniston’s 40th birthday.

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GUMBOOTS CHARITY EVENT WHAT The African Children’s Choir and Joe Driscoll perform at a Christmas charity event.

WHEN Mon, Nov 30, 6.30pm-1am.

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Ready for another round of Oktoberfest? Whether you went to Munich or missed out, join us for the reunion party on Sunday, November 22.

Tickets are £10 and include a stein of beer and a pretzel, plus entertainment such as roving oompah musicians, Bavarian Olympics, German DJ and drinking games.

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The sweetest of Swedes, Inger nevertheless does a good line in Afrikaans and AFL – even though she’s never seen a game. TNT’s resident stocking filler took on the Home Office and won – she’s off on the trip of a lifetime with her Saffa hubby to meet the folks.

What will Meet The Crew do without her?

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The Kiwi editor caused controversy by launching Filament, an erotic magazine aimed at women

ENTERTAINMENT

Suraya Singh INTERVIEW ALISON GRINTER What made you decide to start an erotic magazine for women?

I took it for granted that I could go into a women-oriented erotica shop and be able to find a lovely book of guys I find attractive. And I went into Shhh! in East London and looked through their mass of coffee table photography books and not only was there not the particular types of guy that I’d be able to find attractive, but there weren’t any guys … I found there was nothing aimed at women, so I started to research why that was and found there are these ideas that women aren’t as visual as men, but the latest research seems to say that’s a complete myth.

A lot of the guys in your mag look like girly boys. Why is that?

The University of Aberdeen’s face research lab has done the best research about what types of faces are attractive, and it does tend with women that if you get a man’s face and Photoshop it to slightly feminise it, women will almost always rate the slightly feminised one as more attractive. And with body shapes, the slim but muscular physique is much more popular than the uber muscled guy – the sort of Chippendales physique.

You’re the first women’s magazine in the UK to run pictures of guys with an erection. You must be very proud!

Absolutely. I mean we didn’t do it to shock people. We did it because after our first issue people were like: ‘This is great – I

love the photography, but I just want to see more.’ And also with the idea of erections versus a flaccid penis, you know we’re actually producing erotic photography … that’s our stated aim so the idea of looking at a guy – if he’s not hard, he’s not aroused, so it’s not erotic. So there was a real call to go in that direction. I didn’t expect to get to this point so soon, but one of the photographers we’ve been working with, who has a beautiful boyfriend, sent me a picture … I wasn’t expecting him starkers in bed in the morning with a hard-on! But it was such a beautiful, intimate set of photos I was like: ‘We just have to publish it’.

If he’s not hard, “ he’s not aroused, so it’s not erotic ”

much. It’s only really in the past few years that women have started creating the products that are consumed by women. Like, for example, vibrators … the popularity of vibrators among women has gone through the roof.

If anything, Filament seems a bit tame.

Is there going to be more full monty?

I am never ever going to publish a photo shoot that isn’t high erotic or high artistic quality, just because it’s got hard cock in it … all those magazines like Playgirl bought their images straight from the gay market, which is why they weren’t successful. So there is a demand for more explicit imagery, but it’s going to be a slow process. Playgirl used to be filled cover-to-cover with hard cocks which had no erotic quality at all. I really don’t want to publish an explicit image just for the sake of it.

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But your printer had other ideas …

They said actually we won’t publish erections or penetrations or ejaculations, which is an interesting list of things cos that obviously lets you do anything with the female body, but not with the male body, so we ended up having a campaign to raise enough money to change printers.

After Sex And The City are you surprised these double standards still exist?

Sadly the world hasn’t changed that

YOU DON’T SAY? Have you ever been mistaken for someone famous?

No, but I do occasionally have people spot me in clubs who go: “You’re the woman who does that erotica magazine!”

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

I’m quite into my cheesy ’80s stuff, so probably Tainted Love

by Soft Cell.

Vegemite or Marmite?

Marmite. NZ Marmite every time – Sanitarium.

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CINEMA SCREEN TEST: CAR FILMS

ENTERTAINMENT

Love The Beast

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Eric Bana

★★★★★

Eric Bana loves his car. So much so that he used his celebrity status to get a doco made singing the praises of his ‘Beast’ – a 1974 Ford GT Falcon Coupe.

Indulgent? Sure, but such is Bana’s enthusiasm and charm that you happily go along for the ride as the star restores his muscle car before wrapping it around a tree in 2007 during the Targa Tasmania rally.

Along the way, Bana, who also directs, visits some famous motor enthusiasts including Jeremy Clarkson and Jay Leno.

Featuring scene-uponscene of blokes looking under bonnets and soupedup cars tearing up the Aussie countryside, Love The Beast could easily have been nothing more than porn for petrolheads.

Bana’s got more depth than

1 Who was the director of the 1973 motoring movie American Graffiti?

2 Which car is featured in the 1977 film Smokey And The Bandit?

3 Which fast-paced 2001 movie starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel spawned three sequels?

4 What is the main character’s name in the animated Disney/Pixar film Cars?

5 Which car was featured most prominently in the 1969 film The Italian Job?

most movie stars, though, and his musings about how his car acts as a “campfire” to bring together friends and family are genuinely touching.

It helps that his mates are a hoot, with navigator Tony Ramunno’s recollections of

Bana as a teenager particularly entertaining. The most unusual of love stories, Love The Beast will make you fall for Bana, Tasmania and a car called the Beast.

GOOD FOR: Top Gear fans.

PIERRE DE VILLIERS

Michael Caine is back on form as a former Royal Marine hunting hoodies in his old neighbourhood in a revenge flick that’ll make you squirm in your seat. There’s a lack of nuanced characters and the violence is sometimes OTT, but Caine’s classy turn makes this a drama worth watching for anyone with a strong stomach.

GOOD FOR: Those waiting for a Death Wish remake. PDV

COLD SOULS

★★★★★ Sophie Barthez’s hilarious metaphysical comedy sees Paul Giamatti play an actor who puts his soul in storage to deliver a better performance on stage. Strange, witty and featuring a turn from Giamatti that’s sheer genius, this will delight fans of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

GOOD FOR: Those who like challenging comedies. PDV

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LAST WEEK’S WINNER: Joseph Grosso

★★★★★

sport journalist who struggles to raise his two sons after losing his wife to cancer.

The film is due out in the UK in January.

Aussie political thriller Balibo has already impressed the critics, and now music from the film has been honoured at the 2009 Screen Music Awards in Sydney.

Composer Ego Lemos took out the honour for best original song composed for the screen, for his title track Balibo, while composer Lisa Gerrard received the best feature film score award.

Balibo tells the true story of five Australian journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS 1 Love Story 2 Ian McEwan 3 Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal 4 Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman 5 Anya Smith

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THE REEL DEAL Aussie model-turned-actress Emma Booth (pictured) says filming romantic scenes with British heart-throb Clive Owen in the Australian outback was like every woman’s dream – apart from the flies that kept crawling up her nose.

The pair were filming The Boys Are Back, a new movie by Shine director Scott Hicks, around South Australia’s stunning Fleurieu Peninsula.

“We were trying to do these really intimate scenes and it was like: ‘Oh my God, I’ve got a fly crawling up my nose’,” Booth said.

The Boys Are Back is based on the memoir of Simon Carr, about a

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MUSIC ROBBIE WILLIAMS Reality Killed The Video Star (Virgin)

★★★★★

MUSIC & CLUBS

Over the past four years Robbie Williams has been shoved from the spotlight by his former band mates. Ever-competitive Williams is attempting to seize the public’s attention back by being as much like Popular Robbie Williams as possible.

He might as well have called his eighth album Take That, Take That.

The faint melancholy of Intensive Care is absent here, as are the ill-judged attempts

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The Time Of Our Lives

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Still not yet 17, Miley Cyrus has risen to superstardom by serving as a surrogate big sister to every pre-teen in America. The commercial canniness that’s marked her career continues on The Time Of Our Lives, which pays clever homage to a plethora of styles: mock-rock (Kicking And Screaming, Talk Is Cheap), Nashville balladry (Obsessed, The Climb), R’n’Bslanted pop (Party In The USA) and so on. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when her audience grows up. WFJ

As the cover of The Pursuit makes clear, Jamie Cullum is keen not to get stuck in the lucrative but stifling jazzcrooner ghetto. The trouble is he’s not quite sure how to get out of it. The Pursuit blends straightforward readings of show tunes, such as If I Ruled The World and Just One Of Those Things, with stilted soul (We Run Things), sub-Keane pop (Mixtape) and other even less successful stylistic flirtations. It’s a laudable mess certainly, but a mess nonetheless. WFJ

The quality that first marked out 16-year-old debutante Joss Stone as someone worth watching was her rare and unusual habit of playing it straight, of singing rather than oversinging. Three albums later, she’s lost her restraint. The clumsy Colour Me Free! is defined not by the half-cooked soul backing band but by Stone’s nearconstant, desperate-toimpress warbling. Oh, and by that extraordinary cover, ugly enough to drive listeners to download. WFJ

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SOUNDS OF HOME

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NO.1 Meet Me Halfway, Black Eyed Peas.

MAKING NEWS The Hoodoo Gurus will release their new album, Purity Of Essence, almost 30 years after they first formed. The album, named after a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s flick Dr Strangelove, is slated for release in February.

NO.1 Tik Tok, Ke$ha.

OUT NOW Muso friends of Kiwi punk legend Chris Knox, who suffered a stroke in June, have banded together to release STROKE – Songs For Chris Knox on November 16. It features songs from Knox’s career covered by the likes of The Verlaines and Don McGlashan.

NO.1 Girl Lost In The City, Jesse Clegg.

ON TOUR Pretoria newcomers Sticky Antlers will be touring their debut, self-titled album in December. The hairy improvpop collective, known for their uncompromising attitude to music, will confirm dates on their MySpace page soon.

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LIVE REVIEW Ladysmith Black Mambazo Cadogan Hall Oct 23 ★★★★★ South African a capella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo enjoyed their big break in the late ’80s when they appeared on Paul Simon’s Graceland, and the same innovative arrangements and soaring vocals are on full display.

The group’s pieces start slowly, with almost whispered chants, before rippling to loud, powerful choruses, which are captivating in their energy and soulfulness.

That said, the staid allseater Cadogan Hall is probably not the ideal venue for such a joyous act. TOM STURROCK

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AUSTRALIA

at electro that blighted Rudebox. Produced expertly

by Trevor Horn, Reality Killed The Video Star is a big pop album, which recalls all manner of other stuff – Oasis (Superblind), Pet Shop Boys (Difficult For Weirdos), ’60s soul (You Know Me) – but, somehow, only ever really sounds like Robbie Williams.

Part of it is down to Williams’ strong vocals. And part of it is down to his wretched lyrics, attempts at profundity that often come closer to utter nonsense; the worst offender is gibberish ballad Blasphemy.

Still, the spotlight’s his again, which is all he ever wanted.

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GIG GUIDE MUSIC & CLUBS

Alison Grinter PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST LIVE MUSIC

GIG OF THE WEEK MUSE With song names like Supermassive Blackhole and Knights Of Cydonia, Muse, you suspect, have always been more than a little bit aware of the ridiculous proggy potential of their music. More power to ’em because this knowledge has stopped them from sounding overly bombastic. Well, that is until the Brit trio released their latest album The Resistance, with its nods to Queen and rock opera. Even so, they can still pull it off, and their live shows are never anything less than amazing. So what are you waiting for?

» O2 Arena, Peninsular Sq, SE10 0DX

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North Greenwich

(0870 534 4444). November 12-13. £40

LIAM FINN

BEYONCÉ

With a reclusive attitude to match his Grizzly Man appearance (Liam shunned repeated attempts to be interviewed

by TNT in September) he is nevertheless carving out a niche for himself that is distinct from his iconic dad. He will be joined by Eliza-Jane Barnes and will no doubt play cuts from new-ish EP Champagne In Seashells.

Who’s fiercer, do you reckon? Selfstyled “goddess of fierce” supermodel Tyra Banks, or uber-diva Beyoncé (aka Missus Jay-Z or Sasha Fierce – her selfstyled alter-ego on her latest album)?

My money would be on Beyoncé, whose booty-shakin’ and powerful pipes trump one of Tyra’s death-ray stares any day.

» Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, W12 7LJ

» O2 Arena, Peninsular Sq, SE10 0DX

Shepherd’s Bush Market

(0870 060 0100). Nov 9-10. £13.50

BELIEVE THE HYPE BIRDS OF TOKYO

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THE LINE-UP Ian Kenny (lead

vocals), Adam Spark (guitar/ producer), Anthony Jackson (bass), Adam Weston (drums).

HAILS FROM Perth.

THE BUZZ SO FAR The band won rave reviews with their debut album Day One, garnered major respect with their second album Universes, and are now enjoying some breakthrough success with 10 WAMI awards under their belt and 3 songs in this year’s Triple J Hottest 100.

WHAT ELSE? Ian Kenny is also the frontman for hard metal group Karnivool, and Adam Weston drums for dark folkrock group Tragic Delicate.

THE BAND SAY “We just wanted to give every instrument its own unique space so that the songs could breathe and come to life.”

North Greenwich

(0870 534 4444). Nov 14-16. £50

SOUND BITES The Drones’ noirish tune Shark Fin Blues has been voted the greatest Australian song ever by the quartet’s fellow Aussie songwriters, The Age reports.

The poll, which was voted on by the cream of Aussie songwriting talent including Josh Pyke, Augie March’s Glenn Richards and Sarah Blasko, was conducted by youth broadcaster Triple J.

THE CRITICS SAY “It is a

LINK birdsoftokyo.com.

seriously great rock record.

Nothing cliched about it.

It’s a band discovering some fresh angles in both the sounds of it and the strength of its songwriting.”

(Richard Kingsmill, Triple J music director.)

THE RELEASE Universes out now

through MGM. ELIZABETH EUN

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MUSIC LISTINGS MONDAY 27

SATURDAY 2

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Concern, Mewgatz

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

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

St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £14.50.

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

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

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

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

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

Left With Pictures, My Sad Captains, The Riff Raff

Rosemary Branch Festival: Pete Letanka Trio South

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

African swing band. Rosemary

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

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

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

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

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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TUESDAY 28

KT Sullivan The vocalist

The Bug, DJ Adrian Sherwood The London outfit

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

play experimental rock. The

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

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

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

WEDNESDAY 29

Zoot Money’s Surprise Party The veteran blues man

tracks from the New York performer. Cafe Oto, Ashwin

plays his monthly residency.

St, E8 3DL (020 7923 1231). £10.

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

James Marsters

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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CLUB GUIDE

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Natasha Vuckovic PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST CLUB NIGHTS

CLUB OF THE WEEK SATURDAY SESSIONS Moby, provider of endless music for giant ad campaigns, comes to Play at Ministry’s Box this weekend for a special set, supported by Christian Smith and Tom Middleton, while Lottie and We’re Not Cool! are playing the bar. Meanwhile, if you’re keen to catch Moby in a more intimate environment, he’ll be playing a small, unplugged gig on Sunday at the London Palace Theatre, where he’ll play tracks from his new album Wait For Me.

» Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt St, SE1 6DP

Elephant & Castle (0870 060 0010). Nov 14, 11pm-7am. £18 otd, £15 adv

beats/breaks

funk/soul

drum ’n’ bass

electro

hip-hop

LATENIGHTTALES

FABRICLIVE

The lads from Snow Patrol have put together a mix for LateNightTales, putting away their musical instruments and getting busy with a bag of records. Catch them at the LP’s launch to see another side to the band.

Maestros at the art of scratching, the Scratch Perverts bring their indisputable talents to Fabric this Friday night for a jolly good knees-up. Other DJs on the night include drum ’n’ bass names Andy C and GQ.

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We have three copies of Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto Las Vegas album to give away. To enter the draw, email grabs@tntmagazine.com with ‘Perfecto’ in the subject line by noon on Wednesday, November 11.

Listen out for Swedish House Mafia don Steve Angello’s latest track, Tivoli. Taken from his upcoming artist album Yearbook, it’s a

“For me, Vegas is the future.”

So says Paul Oakenfold, who recently renewed his Perfecto residency at Las Vegas club Rain for another year.

The album is what you’d expect to hear at his night – a classic trance sound with big bouncy beats, obligatory breakdowns synonymous with

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cracking tune that’ll keep those winter blues at bay.

It’s also been given a slick makeover in a remix by competition winners HY2rogen and Fr3ky.

If you’re always missing out on festival tickets because you forget when they’re on, then fear not, forgetful friend.

A website called eFestivals has put together a limited edition calendar that’s filled with festival dates for 2010, along with exclusive pics from different festivals during 2009 to get you in the festival mood. Released just in time for Chrissy, they cost £10.99 and are available from eFestivals.co.uk.

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the genre and the occasional uplifting vocal.

While the track listing can be a bit more filler than dance-floor killer, it’s good old-fashioned Oakey doing what he does best. Out now.

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Paul van Dyk has composed a track to be played at the 20th anniversary ceremony of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week (Monday, November 9).

Called We Are One, it will be played live at the ceremony in front of Brandenburg Gate, where a symbolic wall of domino pieces will be knocked over. Van Dyk (above) grew up in communist East Berlin where he got into dance music by illegally listening to West Berlin radio stations in the 1980s.

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“This tells you something about the state of Fiji at the moment. Even when you express ideas in as balanced a way as you possibly can, people take umbrage.”

Academic Professor Brij Lal, following his expulsion from Fiji.

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AUSTRALIA Teens face charges Three teenagers were facing almost 200 charges collectively of raping and torturing two men.

Ahmed Yehia, Nabil Merhi and Eric Mumbler were charged with a raft of sexual and assault offences that allegedly took place in Melbourne’s northwest during May and June this year.

Interest rates go up The Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens said the decision to lift interest rates would help ensure sustainable economic growth and keep

looking good: The Fashions on the field at the Melbourne Cup has something for eveyone. More than 100,000 people flocked to Flemington for Australian racing’s biggest day. More than $125 million was bet on the race in Queensland, NSW and Victorian TABs.

inflation close to its target.

The central bank raised the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.5 per cent, from 3.25 per cent, following its monthly board meeting. It followed a similar rise in October.

It was also the fourth time in a row the bank had altered rates on Melbourne Cup day.

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A Sydney police officer accidentally shot himself in the leg while making an arrest.

Police said the 31-year-old acting sergeant was reholstering his gun when it went off after he and three colleagues spotted an

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looked like a VHS cassette and was covered in stickers of $50 notes.

She rightly suspected it contained cash and belonged to a bank, so she handed it in to Springvale police.

Unbelievably, it appeared the package had been left behind by security guards who had refilled an ATM.

Oil leak plugged An oil well leaking off the Western Australia coast was finally plugged.

The oil began leaking on August 21 at the Montara oilfield near the West Atlas oil rig, more than 200km north-west of Western Australia’s Kimberley coastline.

The rig’s owner, PTTEP Australasia, said it could not have done things differently.

“Clearly this is getting worldwide publicity and it’s not the sort of publicity the Australian petroleum industry would want and with 70 per cent of that industry off Western Australia’s coast, it’s not the sort of publicity we want.”

Western Australia’s premier Colin Barnett on the oil leak and fire on the West Atlas oil rig.

“Reserve Bank Governor [Glenn] Stevens ... has said there is simply too much stimulus in the economy.” Opposition finance spokeswoman Helen Coonan.

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It seems some people still value honest and a clear conscience ahead of their bank account.

A good samaritan in Melbourne handed in a package she found containing $100,000.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Australia Post employee found the loot outside her work building.

The package she discovdered

attempted break-in at the entrance to Westfield in Chatswood.

The policeman was taken to hospital in a stable condition.

“We’re not about to simply allow a coup culture to spread. That’s why we’ll maintain a hard line in relation to this regime.” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd following the expulsion of Australia’s high commissioner from Fiji.

The psychiatric hospital where two imates died from stab wounds

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■ Two inmates at a psychiatric hospital die from stab wounds.

■ Another inmate charged over the deaths.

■ Leave programme at hospital is suspended after accused was allowed leave.

A Sydneysider won $8.5 million dollars in Monday Lotto. It was the biggest haul ever recorded for a single New South Wales resident. The winner, from Greystanes in Sydney’s western suburbs, asked to remain anonymous.

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involuntary patient at the psychiatric hospital, armed himself with a large kitchen knife and killed his 54-yearold roommate Splatt by stabbing him several times in the upper body.

Lakovski then allegedly went into the next room and stabbed Notas, 36.

Police said the first incident

appeared to have been sparked by an argument between the two roommates, who were regarded as friends and went on fishing trips together on day passes.

After the incident all leave for inmates at the hospital was cancelled and Victorian Premier John Brumby said there would be a full inquiry.

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Relations with Fiji deteriorate

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psychiatric inmate was on suicide watch after being charged with the stabbing murders of two fellow inmates in a lowsecurity unit of their secure Melbourne hospital.

Peko Lakovski was facing two counts of murder over the deaths of Raymond Splatt and Paul Notas at the Thomas Embling Hospital, a facility used by the criminal justice system, on Wednesday.

The two dead men had previously been charged with murder in relation to the deaths of their mothers.

Police alleged Peko, 49, an

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Australia expelled Fiji’s top diplomat in retaliation for a similar move by the Pacific Island nation and warned it would take a hard line against the country’s military regime.

Fiji, which was suspended from the Commonwealth earlier this year for failing to hold democratic elections, ordered the Australian and New Zealand diplomats out of the country on Tuesday.

Self-appointed Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama gave both governments a day to recall their envoys.

He accused Australia and

ACADEMIC EXPELLED A leading Australian expert on Fiji was also expelled from the Pacific nation.

Professor Brij Lal was taken into custody after giving media interviews on the situation in Fiji.

He was later given 24 hours to leave the country.

New Zealand of sabotaging nation-building efforts by refusing to grant visas to Fijian judges.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned the government would not support a “coup culture”.

A court sanctioned a $9.6 million compensation payout to a boy left braindamaged after being sucked down a drain at The Southport School. The settlement was believed to be one of the largest compensation payouts in Queensland.

VICTORIA A woman who stabbed her former lover’s bull terrier 23 times was sentenced to three years’ jail. The court heard Bianca Farrar, 31, went to her ex-partner John Geere’s East Bentleigh home in January last year armed with two knives.

Geere’s mother later found one of the family dogs, named Snoopy, lying on a blanket bleeding from stab wounds.

TASMANIA The lower house voted down legislation to legalise euthanasia. The Dying with Dignity Bill was beaten 15-7.

Greens leader Nick McKim said he would not give up on the legislation.

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Troops committed

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The amount in dollars it cost in the year to June 2009 to fix and maintain the country’s state houses.

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Diplomats kicked out

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Royal meeting: Prince Edward speaks to students who took part in the The Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award at Sacred Heart College in Wellington. It was also announced that Prince William will visit New Zealand as part of an official tour in January.

Frank Bainimarama’s regime.

Foreign affairs minister Murray McCully said Cleaver was declared persona non grata

by Fiji and was instructed to leave the country.

Appeal dismissed An appeal against conviction by one of two brothers jailed for the murder of Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie was dismissed.

Wiremu Curtis was sentenced in the High Court at Rotorua in February to life imprisonment for the three-year-old’s August 2007 murder.

Curtis’ lawyer, Craig Horsley, last month argued insufficient

emphasis had been placed on his client’s limited mental capacity.

Kiwi hero honoured A statue commemorating the New Zealander who led the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain was unveiled in London.

The statue of Sir Keith Park was erected in Trafalgar Square where it will remain for six months before moving to a permanent site in Waterloo Place, close to New Zealand House.

His tactical brilliance and inspirational leadership were credited with playing a vital role in the defence of Britain.

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$3080 to an anonymous buyer.

The listing described the artwork as “light and hollow and highly polished”.

The sculpture was on display at the COCA Gallery in Christchurch, exhibited on a steel stand.

Mahon is a Canterbury painter, printmaker, author and sculptor, who usually works in bronze.

The percentage of people who believe crime is a serious problem in New Zealand according to a Victoria University study released.

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The percentage of Kiwis who don’t want SAS troops involved in the war in Afghanistan.

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The percentage of people officially unemployed. It is a nine-year high.

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The percentage of bachelor degrees awarded to women last year.

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The percentage of children injured on driveways by cars who live in stateowned housing.

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A sculpture of ACC and environment minister Nick Smith made out of cow manure topped $3000 on auction site TradeMe.co.nz.

The auction for the sculpture, entitled Nick Smith In The Shit, closed on Friday.

The winning bid for the artwork by Canterbury artist Sam Mahon finally settled at

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The amount of complaints made by prisoners in the past 12 months.

A firefight in Afghanistan involving New Zealand troops would not affect the Government’s commitment to international forces there, Prime Minister John Key said.

The troops came under fire from insurgents but none were injured.

The patrol, comprising Hiluxes and Hummers, was returning from the north-eastern area of Bamyan province, when it was attacked by insurgents.

New Zealand hit back at Fiji and expelled their acting head of mission in New Zealand, Kuliniasi Seru Savou.

The move came after New Zealand’s deputy high commissioner Todd Cleaver and Australia’s high commissioner James Bartley were told to leave Fiji.

The latest flashpoint in poor relations with Fiji was over the inclusion of judges in a travel ban imposed on members of self-appointed Prime Minister

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What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY

■ An Auckland is found guilty of murdering his infant daughter.

■ Mother also found guilty in connection to the death.

■ Jury hears of more injuries suffered by child.

UPPER NORTH ISLAND Police were investigating the death of a woman who was believed to have been killed in a home invasion. Barbara Catherine Julian, 70, was found dead in her home in the town of Kaitaia.

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n Auckland father was found guilty of murdering his 11-weekold daughter, Tahani.

An Auckland High Court jury also found the man, Azees Mahomed, guilty of two counts of causing her grievous bodily harm.

He and his wife Tabbasum, 26, were also found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life by the jury.

Tahani was admitted to hospital with serious injuries on December 28, 2007, and died four days later.

Police bugged the Mahomed’s home after the incident and the intercepted

LOWER NORTH ISLAND Azees and Tabbasum Mahomed in court over the death of their daughter

taped conversations were played to the jury during the trial.

In the taped conversations, the couple, originally from South Africa, could be heard praying to Allah and talking about how the infant could have been fatally injured.

The jury heard the child had

suffered previous injuries, including a broken leg and a brain haemorrhage and was also found to be malnourished.

The jury forewoman broke down in tears after delivering the verdicts.

The Mahomeds were remanded in custody until sentencing on December 15.

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Council prepares report for coroner The coroner examining how West Auckland toddler Aisling Symes lost her life would have the benefit of a report into the stormwater drain in which her body was found.

Two-year-old Aisling was found in the drain near her grandparents’ former residence in Longburn Rd, Henderson on October 12, a week after she went missing.

Neighbours reported that the drain had been a concern to them, with one neighbour moving across the street due to her concerns.

The council received four complaints over five years

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about the drain in question.

Neighbours said the manhole could be removed by the strong water flow during heavy rain, though rain was not heavy the day Aisling went missing.

Waitakere City Council spokeswoman Lisah Henry said the council would provide a report into the drain to the coroner as requested by November 16.

She said the report was in the process of being written but as Aisling’s death was subject to a Coroner’s Court hearing, no public comment would be made.

A teenager admitted bashing an off-duty policeman outside a Hastings party last month.

City Charles Timu, 17, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Napier detective sergeant Dan Foley who spent a week in intensive care.

UPPER SOUTH ISLAND An elderly man was found dead following a fire that gutted a house on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch. The man was reported missing and his body was later discovered in the remains of the house, said senior constable Steve Ditmer of Akaroa police.

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A section of Mosgiel, west of Dunedin, was cordoned off after contractors working on a drain sucked up what was believed to be a World War II grenade. The men were banging on the drain when the grenade fell out.

Fortunately, it did not explode and an army disposal unit disposed of it.

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House prices fall House prices fell 4.6 per cent year-on-year in October, according to Standard Bank’s latest residential property report.

This was a slight improvement from the declines recorded in August and September, economist Johan Botha said.

“There are signs that the residential property market is stabilising and that interest in residential property is returning,” he added.

Chuene suspended Athletics South Africa (ASA) president Leonard Chuene, some employees and the ASA board were suspended.

The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said Chuene was suspended pending the outcome of an investigation over ASA’s handling of athlete Caster Semenya’s gender testing.

The decision followed a special Sascoc board meeting, which was held to consider a

Leonard Chuene

tribal gathering: Members of the Ndebele tribe attend a gathering of traditional leaders from all over the country in Pretoria. The gathering at Freedom Park was in honour of former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

report of the committee’s legal and arbitration commission into the Semenya debacle.

commit indecent acts while he was under the age of 16.

Klay testifies

State witness Dianne Muller took on former police head Jackie Selebi in the high court.

Muller, the ex-fiancée of Selebi’s former friend Glenn Agliotti, was responding to a statement by defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers who said Selebi’s wife, Ann, had never received a handbag which Agliotti bought on a trip with Muller to the UK. “We brought the handbag in the UK. He told me it was for Ann,” Muller claimed.

Declarations of love between singers Jurie Els and Robbie Klay often followed their sexual encounters, the high court in Pretoria heard.

Klay testified that Els told him he loved him afterwards, to which he would reply: “I love you as well, Uncle Jurie”.

Els, who now lives in New Zealand, pleaded not guilty to two charges of indecent assault and a charge of soliciting Klay to

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of a book called Pot Plant Owl, which was written by the townhouse owners.

The book chronicles the 54-day drama of chicks landing under car wheels and being harassed by barking dogs and lawnmowers.

“Who do you think you are? Are you not aware that I am Julius, the president of the Youth League? I know that some of you hate me.”

ANCYL president Julius Malema’s alleged comments to traffic police when pulled over for speeding in Limpopo, quoted in City Press.

“It seems that the mud is rising. I have no desire to subject my family, myself or my calling to serve our people to these sorts of indignities and destructive politicking.”

Allan Boesak announcing his resignation from Cope.

“Every time Eskom opens its mouth, people’s interests in solar energy are rejuvenated.” Glen Macdonald, owner of Sunpower.

“As fate would have it, and unbeknown to me, the girl I was with filmed the incident.” Former Springbok Joost van der Westhuizen admitting he was the man taking drugs in a video with a stripper.

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A spotted eagle owl family, which adapted to Johannesburg’s hazardous city life by nesting in the pot plant of a townhouse, has gained celebrity status in the publishing world.

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■ Union calls for wealth of South Africa’s richest man to be nationalised.

■ Spokesman threatens to lobby other unions to launch a militant campaign.

■ ANC claims the union is acting out of jealousy.

NORTHERN CAPE Fourteen policemen were arrested in De Aar over their alleged part in a fraud syndicate.

They were believed to be among 21 police officers, two reservists and nine civilians who allegedly siphoned off 1080 litres of petrol.

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he National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) called for the nationalisation of the wealth of South Africa’s richest man, Patrice Motsepe and ANC struggle hero, Tokyo Sexwale.

The controversial announcement followed the release of South Africa’s ‘Rich List’, published by the Sunday Times, which showed that mining oligarch Motsepe was the wealthiest person in the country with R14.2 billion.

Numsa said it was concerned that massive riches were concentrated in the hands of private individuals.

“We strongly believe that our national democratic

LIMPOPO Patrice Motsepe

revolution, as encapsulated in the Freedom Charter, was never meant to reproduce or replace a white capitalist class with a black capitalist class or co-opt connected politicians to join exploiters,” spokesman Castro Ngobese said.

Ngobese warned that Numsa would lobby other unions to mount a “radical and militant” campaign to put a

stop to “excessive privately owned wealth and salaries which are reproducing racialised apartheid inequalities and opulence”.

In response, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe told the Sowetan newspaper the call was driven by, “a strange phenomenon among Africans of being jealous when fellow Africans succeed”.

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Maroga quits as Eskom boss

Jacob Maroga

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Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga resigned after the Cabinet expressed its concern over the negative effect the company’s proposed tariff increases would have on the economy.

“It is a difficult time for Eskom,” board member Mpho Makwana said.

“Maroga needs time to heal, we have to allow that process to go on.”

The resignation came as the Government began looking at ways to mitigate Eskom’s proposed 45 per cent a year electricity price rise in

the next three years.

“There are a number of areas that need further consideration, particularly the social, micro and macro impact of the price increases, before government can provide the necessary guidance to the industry,” Government spokesman Themba Maseko said.

Opposition parties the DA and FF Plus welcomed Maroga’s resignation, saying it would give way for management restructuring at the electricity utility.

The Capricorn municipality in Polokwane budgeted R30 million to install ventilated pit latrines in its villages in a bid to curb a cholera outbreak. The toilets will be built in such a way that they ventilate the odour and ward off flies.

EASTERN CAPE Around R7 million was set aside to build silos as part of a cropping project that will create job opportunities. Milling plants linked to the silos will produce maize meal and crushed maize as part of AsgiSA’s integrated dry-land cropping programme.

FREE STATE Two workers at Pamodzi Mine and 30 illegal miners were arrested after agents infiltrated underground mining operations.

Operation Zama Zama was conducted by members of the Welkom Police Illegal Mining Task Team, recently set up to combat illegal mining in the province.

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CYCLING Aussie Cadel Evans signs for American outfit BMC Racing Team. The decision ends his association with Belgiumbased Silence-Lotto. Here’s hoping he gets the support.

TUESDAY

NETBALL Australian netballers Jane Altschwager and Peta Stephens confirm they’ll be switching allegiances to play for New Zealand teams in the 2010 Trans-Tasman League.

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RUGBY LEAGUE The Warriors announce Simon Mannering will captain the side next year instead of veteran Steve Price. Being the class act he is, Price says Mannering has his full support.

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HORSE RACING He didn’t win the Melbourne Cup, but Bart Cummings claims the Oaks at Flemington with Faint Perfume. It was the 81-year-old’s 257th Group One victory. When will he stop?

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SAILING It’s revealed Australia could host the 2010 America’s Cup. Swiss defender Alinghi put Australia up as an option after struggling to reach agreement with US team Oracle.

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SWIMMING South Africa’s George du Rand smashes the 200m backstroke short course world record in Moscow. His time is more than half a second faster than the old record,

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WEDNESDAY TENNIS Paris Masters The end of season is in sight 10am Sky Sports 2

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MOTOR RACING Jamie Whincup regains the edge in the Australian V8 Supercar title race after clinching both races at Phillip Island. With two rounds to go he’s going to be hard to catch.

I still think I have “ a lot to achieve in

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rugby. I still have the ambition to play at the highest level and I still have the competitive edge

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THURSDAY GOLF Australian Masters Watch Tiger Down Under 3am Sky Sports 1

Sacked Wallabies winger Lote Tuqiri tries to convince everyone money had little to do with his move to Leicester.

SUNDAY CRICKET South Africa V England Twenty20 international 12.30pm Sky Sports 1

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South Africans playing cricket for England Where did it all start?

Living as a coloured in apartheid South Africa, Basil D’Oliveira was not allowed to play first-class cricket. He made his way to England and made his Test debut in 1966.

Who’s followed since?

Tony Greig, Allan Lamb, Robin

Smith, Kevin Pietersen and Jonathon Trott are just some of those who have followed.

Will it change?

Probably not. With a well-established county scene, foreign players with the right family ancestry will always look to England to make a living.

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Canterbury the best again A commanding forward pack and a late penalty by Stephen Brett sealed a 28-20 victory for Canterbury over Wellington in the Air NZ Cup.

Party time for Canterbury

Canterbury, the defending champions, had built up a strong 18-3 lead by half-time which slow-starting Wellington had reduced to 25-20 with two minutes remaining before Brett put the result beyond doubt.

Canterbury made an explosive start, ending two minutes of unbroken play from the kick-off with fullback Colin Slade scampering 60m for a try.

Slade was one of the standout performers for Canterbury, scoring two tries and proving to be rock solid in the face of a constant aerial bombardment from Wellington. But when he was

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Springboks off to woeful start The Springboks suffered a dismal start to their northern hemisphere tour when they were rolled 22-17 by Leicester.

Leicester even overcame the handicap of missing England internationals Tom Croft, Lewis Moody, Jordan Crane, Dan Hipkiss and Louis Deacon as well as having eight players on the injury list.

Jongi Nokwe’s eighthminute try put the Springboks in front but the Tigers hit back with a try from Argentina international winger Lucas Amorosino while 17 points from the boot of scrumhalf Ben Youngs proved crucial.

A couple of late penalties from Ruan Pienaar brought the Springboks, who had also defeated the British and Irish Lions 2-1 and took the Tri-Nations this year, to within a score but Leicester held firm.

The English champions opened up a surprise 16-8 lead in the first half on the back of sure kicking from 20-year-old

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Youngs, and Amorosino’s superb try.

South Africa named five uncapped players in their XV, as they prepare for Tests against France, Italy and Ireland.

Only Odwa Ndungane remained from the team that beat New Zealand in the final

Tri-Nations match in September.

Worse news came for the Springboks when hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle and prop Gurthro Steenkamp were ruled out of the rest of the tour after suffering injuries in the loss.

Prop Jannie du Plessis is also in doubt for the rest of the tour.

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Former Wallabies star Lote Tuqiri said he had cast aside the hurt of losing his Australian Rugby Union (ARU) contract after signing for English club Leicester.

Tuqiri made his debut for the club on Friday night when he came on in the 55th minute against the Springboks.

The ARU cancelled Tuqiri’s contract in July after a 67-Test career which yielded 31 tries.

“It did hurt initially, but you move on,” Tuqiri told The Times.

“I was high profile back in Australia and I could have been smarter about one or two things. But that’s in the past.

“Now I just want to get back to playing.”

Tuqiri, who switched from league to union in 2002, was linked with a move to Wests Tigers in a bid to relaunch his NRL career next season.

sin-binned with 15 minutes remaining, Wellington capitalised on Canterbury being a man down by scoring 10 quick points through a penalty to Piri Weepu and a converted try

by Scott Fuglistaller.

Slade’s return to the field, with Canterbury clinging to a five-point lead, turned the game again as they swept downfield in the closing minutes for Brett to land the decisive penalty.

The Canterbury forwards were a telling factor in the game as they controlled the turnover ball.

A steal by lock Sam Whitelock put Slade away for his first try, and his second, just before half-time, came from a backline move after a series of forward rushes.

RUGBY Adam Ashley-Cooper barges over for a try against England

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Robbie Deans talks of his faith in the Wallabies.

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Australia WILL GENIA He was Australia’s best performer against the All Blacks in Tokyo and followed it up with a cracking display at Twickenham against England.

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It was a “ highly competitive Test match.

I thought we could have won by more, to be honest

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All Blacks coach Graham Henry dismisses any suggestion Wales should feel hard done by.

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Australia kept their grand slam hopes alive with a desperately-tense 18-9 victory over gallant England at Twickenham.

In a gripping encounter, Australia trailed until the hour mark before fullback Adam Ashley-Cooper clinched the first leg of the slam for the hugely relieved Wallabies with a powerhouse try eight minutes from time.

Ashley-Cooper, who scored Australia’s sole

try in last year’s Twickenham triumph over their old foes, was mobbed by teammates after carrying four defenders over the line and planting the ball in the left-hand corner.

Matt Giteau nailed the sideline conversion.

But the Test could have ended in disaster for the Wallabies when a depleted England looked poised to spring a massive boilover after taking a 9-5 lead into half-time.

But the Wallabies weight of possesion and field position finally won out.

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Wales were left fuming with a head-high tackle

by Dan Carter that went unpunished in their 19-12 loss to New Zealand.

The All Blacks playmaker tracked back magnificently after Shane Williams had stepped his markers to produce a crunching, try-saving tackle on Martin Roberts, who had the line at his mercy in the 71st minute with the score at 19-9.

Luckily for Carter, neither South African referee Craig Joubert nor his assistants noticed the outside-half’s swinging arm which seemed to make full contact with Roberts’ head and shoulders, an act that would normally see a player penalised at best, sin-binned at worse.

Asked whether Carter, who was booed by the crowd whenever he touched the ball after

Brendon Leonard passes for New Zealand

the incident, should have been yellow carded, Wales coach Warren Gatland was adamant: “Yes, I do.”

Carter kicked four penalties and converted Andew Hore’s sole try of the game, and was crucial in marshalling both the visiting side’s defence and attack in a hard-fought game that was tied 6-6 at half-time.

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A heavyweight England floored world champions New Zealand to set up a Four Nations final clash with Australia.

Two quickfire tries from Hull KR winger Peter Fox in the closing minutes of the first half proved crucial after Bryson Goodwin had matched Kyle Eastmond’s opening score for England.

Ben Matulino ensured the contest remained open by touching down early in the second half but a Kevin Sinfield penalty settled

England’s nerves as their disciplined defensive work was rewarded.

New Zealand handed a debut to 19-year-old Kieran Foran in place of injured Steve Matai.

England effectively had four props in action with captain Jamie Peacock operating in the second row behind Adrian Morley and James Graham.

On a slick surface, England began slowly but took the lead after 10 minutes thanks to good work from Burgess, who went through two tackles before putting St Helen’s Eastmond in under the posts.

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the break with Brett Morris grabbing two tries in five minutes.

And although Olivier Elima grabbed a consolation score for France, Jennings registered his third try of the game.

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Sheens calls on side to step up Australia coach Tim Sheens called on his side to find another gear in this weekend’s final against England.

“To be fair to the players they improved but I still don’t think we really found our true level and that is something we’ll have to rectify next week,” Sheens said.

“We scored some tries but I don’t think we really got going.

No disrespect to France but just because we did enough to beat them it doesn’t mean we did enough to satisfy me.”

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Penrith Panthers centre Michael Jennings insisted he could handle the pressure of the Four Nations final after grabbing a debut hat-trick in the demolition of France.

The 21-year-old bagged the first two tries of the game to set the Kangaroos on course for a comfortable win in Paris.

Jennings, Panthers Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year in 2007, completed his hat-trick as Australia hammered home their advantage in the second half.

The French held out for 22 minutes before Jennings crossed twice in five minutes to set the Kangaroos on course for a comfortable win.

Luke Lewis went over to score shortly after

LANCE HOHAIA It may not have been the result the Kiwis were chasing, but Hohaia once again showed how important he is to his team.

He had another busy day at the office and will still be around for the World Cup in 2011.

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Home-ground advantage could not be underestimated in New Zealand’s sudden-death football tie with Bahrain, former All Whites coach John Adshead said.

Having taken the All Whites to the World Cup finals in 1982, Adshead understands the pressure coach Ricki Herbert faces as he prepares for the must-win qualifier on November 14.

The 1982 team created a slice of sports history during their long World Cup qualifying campaign.

It ended in a sudden-death qualifying match in Singapore in January 1982, where they cut China out of the World Cup finals in Spain.

Now, as new players try to lay the walk the same historic

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New Zealand football path, Adshead said the game’s venue would give the team a critical edge.

“There is a base of noisy supporters and compact supporters. That number will grow on the day,” Adshead said.

“Many of the players are

used to playing on that ground. None of the players will have ever played in it when it’s full … there’s a little tingle down the back of your spine when you come out and see a stadium like that.”

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Royal Ascot targets Cup winner Royal Ascot organisers were targeting Melbourne Cup winner Shocking for the Hardwicke Stakes in June.

Ascot talent scout Nick Smith watched Shocking’s Cup triumph and also suggested trainer Mark Kavanagh look at entering him in the prestigious King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in July.

“Shocking is such a progressive type that we are recommending to Mark Kavanagh that he should look at the Hardwicke and then consider the King George,” Smith told Britain’s The Daily Telegraph.

“This horse is not your [Ascot Gold] Cups type and should be effective over a mile and a half in Britain.”

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“I’ve had to watch the replay of last year’s race for a year and now I can forget about it. I’ve won the Melbourne Cup.” Winning jockey Corey Brown, whose horse Bauer was beaten by a nose by the Bart Cummings-trained Viewed in last year’s Cup. “I love horses, I’ve had them all my life, my father had them and now I’ve got a bit of coin behind me, I thought I’d have a bit of a crack.” Shocking’s owner Laurence Eales, a former rodeo rider who now owns earth-moving company EA Hire.

“I get a feeling that the final will be – I wouldn’t use the word spiteful – but I think it’s going to be a rugged affair.” Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens has been surprised at the confrontational approach from opponents in the Four Nations tournament in Europe.

“Just like Coke tastes better out of a glass bottle, French champagne tastes a lot better out of the Melbourne Cup.” Mark Kavanagh (below), the trainer of Melbourne Cup winner Shocking.

Flemington crowd of 102,181 and under grey clouds destroyed the fairytale of South Australian farm horse Alcopop and of Bart Cummings’ attack on a 13th Melbourne Cup. Shocking was bought two years ago for $64,000 by former Cairns rodeo rider Laurence

Eales but last week’s Cup win buoyed his bank balance by A$3.3 million.

It was also a dream come true for jockey Corey Brown, who came second by a nose on Bauer last year, second in 2002 and was injured in a fall in an earlier race on Cup day in 2007.

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What do you do day-to-day?

I manage online advertising campaigns for multiple media agencies. This involves coordinating the creative materials for the ads and uploading them onto a server and distributing these ads to several websites.

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My first role out of uni was a software support position, but I found IT wasn’t really for me. I wanted something a little more fast-paced and I came across an entry-level role

What’s the best thing about your job?

I find the media industry to be fun and dynamic, especially online. It’s very much a workhard-play-hard atmosphere and there are lots of social events that allow me to get to know other people who work in the industry.

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Deadlines! Sometimes the lead time before a campaign launch is quite tight and making sure all the creative is set up ready to go and distributed to the websites can prove to be a challenging task.

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How can I diversify my skills?

Diversifying your skill set is important, particularly in the current climate.

Catherine Goosem, of Hays GlobaLink, says one way of doing this is to request an internal secondment to a different part of the business or to an international office.

This will also enable you to

develop your skills within a new environment.

It’s also a good idea to speak to your line manager or HR department about options you have for more training or qualifications, and whether the business is able to sponsor you. Other possibilities include taking unpaid work experience or volunteering.

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he demand for qualified civil engineers in New Zealand is set to take off as the Government’s new infrastructure plan is implemented, according to Tim Davin, the director of policy for the Institution of Professional Engineers in New Zealand.

“The Government commitment of infrastructure spend is in a number of areas, including transport, rail, electricity, broadband and local

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The Government’s National Infrastructure Plan is a 20-year strategy, updated every three years. Over the next five years the Government is budgeting NZ$7.5 billion, which it says will support thousands of jobs.

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’TIS the SEASON … to make money. Here’s our round-up of jobs to help you earn a little extra over the Christmas period WORDS ELIZABETH EUN

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or most of us Christmas means shopping, presents, holidays, food and family. But if you’re smart about it the festive season can also equal extra cash – especially if you get involved in some of the extra work that needs doing at this time of year.

THE SMART MAIL Even without threat of postal workers strikes, Christmas is the busiest time of year at Royal Mail, with nearly double the normal amount of post to sort through. The organisation will be hiring 20,000 extra staff in December, with shift workers needed across the country. You can apply online at royalmail.com.

RETAIL THERAPY FOR YOUR HIP POCKET Most of the major stores are taking on loads of seasonal workers to help offset the holiday rush.

Although you most likely won’t have holiday benefits or designated hours, some stores will Remember, mail theft is a crime

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ARE YOU THE CARING KIND? Jane Horne, deputy branch manager at the Clarina Careforce Group, says Christmas is the perfect time to develop your experience as a carer.

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they’ll be hiring 20,000 temporary workers this season, in the hope of delivering a boost to the economy and offering customer service benefits.

Half of Asda’s workers will come from its seasonal squad, which consists of people who come back every holiday season, so Sainsbury’s is likely to be your best chance for a permanent job post-season, as it has promised to keep on at least 1000 staff once Ask Santa for a job the Christmas lights come down. offer a small employee discount, and if you do your job well there are often opportunities to stay on in a permanent role.

Check out the stores that are likely to be under the pump during the pre-Christmas rush, such as Toys R Us (toysrus.co.uk) and HMV (hmvcareers.co.uk), which are both planning to hire at least 4000 new workers. HMV is also adding 15 temporary shops in London for the festive season, guaranteeing job vacancies. Some stores, such as Selfridges (selfridges.com), also offer Christmas fixed-term contracts.

“AISLE TAKE THAT JOB” Chain supermarkets, such as Marks & Spencer (marksandspencer.com), Asda (asda.jobs) and Sainsbury’s (sainsburys.co.uk), have announced

POURING XMAS PINTS Loads of bars and pubs will need extra staff this festive season, but finding out who’s hiring will require a bit of work. So hit the streets, look for signs or just pop in and ask.

JOIN THE PARTY The holiday season equals lots of parties, and event planning companies will generally take on temps, as many of their regular staff will be spread thin.

Esprit Group is hiring at least 500 people to work events, with a starting salary of £6 an hour and ample opportunity for pay raises.

Shifts for events tend to be at night, so if you want to just pick up some extra work on top of your day job, this may be ideal.

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have light care duties such as assistance with dressing, cooking, light housework and companionship. Others have high care needs, such as hoisting or feeding.

What’s the pay like?

Pay is from £426 to £609 per week plus five days’ double pay over the whole festive season, meaning you can earn up to £1520 in the two weeks over Christmas.

Do people need experience or qualifications?

No previous experience or qualifications are necessary, just a caring nature. We offer a five-day residential training course. » For more information see careforcegroup.co.uk

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Esprit Group’s Suzi Ley Greaves answers training and a pay raise. the important questions: Q: What do you look for Q: What sort of events or in an applicant? clients do you take on?

A: We’re essentially looking A: It could be anything from for happy, outgoing people a christening, a celeb party, who enjoy being around a film premiere or an event other people. at a royal palace.

Q: Do staff have a Q: Do you offer training? choice of events?

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Why is there an increase in the demand for carers over the Christmas period?

We have increased demand for care staff over the festive period because a lot of our staff who have worked throughout the year want to go home. On the other hand, there are a lot of people looking for work over Christmas.

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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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Give notice on your flat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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hristmas markets are tacky, hectic and likely to add a couple of inches to your waistline – but isn’t that what the season is all about? Get in the mood at one of Europe’s bustling festive markets.

COLOGNE, GERMANY Much of Cologne becomes a market in December, but the most famous is found crouching in the shadow of the city’s Gothic cathedral on Domplatz (left) – several stalls sell cookie-cutters in the shape of the Dom’s

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BERLIN, GERMANY Why visit one Christmas market when you can visit 60? Berlin (above) doesn’t do festive shopping by halves – the most popular markets are at Charlottenburg Castle, Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz. For something different, head to the Jewish Museum, where a Hanukkah Market in its glass-covered courtyard hosts stalls of Jewish specialties.

Go for: Hanukkah wares, marionette shows and live concerts.

When: Various dates between November 24 and December 31.

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FOR SALE Many wooden items loosely described as handicrafts (think crib figurines, decorations, carvings and the like), as well as natural-fibre clothes and some sort of traditional shoe or slipper.

towers. There’s also a medieval market at the Chocolate Museum on the banks of the Rhine.

Go for: Spekulatius, a local cookie.

When: From November 27 to December 23.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA The Wiener Christkindlmarkt on Rathausplatz is the largest and most popular market in Vienna, but by no means the only one worth visiting. For a spectacular setting head to the market set in front of Schönbrunn castle, and for more traditional handicrafts make a beeline for the Spittelberg market.

Go for: The fairy-tale park featuring a post office in the clouds at Rathausplatz market.

When: Various dates between November 15 and December 26.

DRESDEN, GERMANY The Dresden Christmas market, known as Striezelmarkt, was first held in 1434, making it one of the oldest in Germany. Most of the stalls can be found in the Old Town around the famous Frauenkirche church.

Go for: The Dresden Stollen – sugar coated fruitcake. During Advent a giant stollen is paraded through the city.

When: From November 26 to December 24.

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tack and piped music, so you’ll struggle to find a more traditional market.

Go for: Nuremberg Plum People – little figures made from prunes.

When: From November 27 to December 24.

BASEL, SWITZERLAND Switzerland might be less famous for its Christmas markets than its neighbours, but what the Basler Weihnacht lacks in history it makes up for in superlatives. This is the largest Christmas market in Switzerland, with 150 stalls dotted round the Old Town, as well as the most traditional, and boasts the longest illuminated Christmas street in Europe.

Go for: Glass-blown figurines.

When: From November 26 to December 23.

DRINK Wet your whistle with various warming alcoholic tipples, such as mulled wine (made from red or white wine), rum punch and meth (honey wine).

EAT The highlight of most Christmas markets is first smelling, and then devouring, a variety of crêpes, baked apples, chestnuts, grilled sausages and gingerbread sold from dozens of different stalls.

TNT online For a full guide on Europe’s Christmas markets check out tntmagazine.com/travel

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LILLE, FRANCE Jump on the Eurostar and nip across the channel to Lille, where you’ll find 80 chalets in Lille’s Place Rihour, many specialising in endless varieties of gingerbread. Down the road at the Grand Place there’s also a Ferris wheel and snow-covered village.

Go for: The chance to see Father Christmas “fall” from an 80m belfry on the Saturday before Christmas.

When: From November 18 to December 30.

NUREMBERG, GERMANY The 180 stalls that fill Nuremberg’s main square each winter are covered in distinct red and white stripy canvas, giving the market the not-so-catchy nickname ‘Little Town from Wood and Cloth’. Officials keep a lid on the

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Most markets claim to offer local specialities, but it’s amazing how similar they can be. This is what you can expect from most alfresco festive shopping extravaganzas.

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Tourists and locals jostle on Dublin’s cobbled streets, seeking a pint of Guinness in a traditional pub, soaking up its culture, from live Celtic music to a literary tour, or shopping on Grafton Street. Ireland’s capital has a distinctly cosmopolitan vibe that ensures visitors are guaranteed a good time.

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HEADLINE ATTRACTION Dubliners know a thing or two about partying, and one of the highlights of visiting the city is the nightlife. Head to Temple Bar for a raucous night on the tiles or, for something a little quieter, The Stag’s Head off Dame Street is a quaint boozer. If you’ve been inspired by Riverdance and want to see the Irish fiddle in action you’ll find most pubs have live music nights. Try Sean O’Casey’s in Marlborough Street or, for the real thing, head to the Irish Cultural Institute in

Monkstown, easily accessible by the DART train service.

Take a tour of the home of the black stuff at the Guinness Storehouse. Don’t miss out on sipping a pint and taking in the city views in the brewery’s Gravity Bar.

university. Admire the illuminated pages of one of the world’s oldest manuscripts, the Book Of Kells. Retrace the steps of famous writers James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde on a literary tour of the city, or walk the hallowed halls of Trinity College.

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You don’t have to settle for stodgy potato-laden pub grub in Dublin. Take your pick from a wide range of restaurants, many of the best are located on the south side of the city. For a spot of afternoon tea, bag a seat at Queen of Tarts on Lord Edward Street.

The Baileys cheesecake is delicious.

Grafton Street is home to Irish designers selling chic clothes and jewellery.

Discover Dublin’s more ethnic neighbourhoods near O’Connell Street or browse the markets on the cobbled streets near Temple Bar.

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PARK LIFE If the bustle of Ireland’s capital becomes too much, take time out in St Stephen’s Green and Merrion’s Square. Stroll along the River Liffey and take in the views from Dublin’s bridges.

OUT OF TOWN Take a trip along the coast using the DART service. Go south to the pretty seaside village of Dalkey or north to Howth, a popular destination for day trippers from Dublin.

NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO Any time or go for the St Patrick’s Day party on March 17.

GETTING THERE Many budget airlines fly into Dublin Airport.

From the airport take a taxi (about €20, around 20 mins) or a bus. The Dublin Bus is €3 but takes a while. Other shuttle services, including Aircoach (between €6-€8 one-way), are quicker.

CURRENCY Euro. 1 GBP = 1.11 EUR. GETTING AROUND The Dublin Bus service runs throughout the city. You need the exact fare for boarding. DART train services run to the coast and the outer suburbs.

GOING OUT A pint is €5.

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and fir trees of Alpine villages such as Zermatt, and the towering hotels and concrete malls of purpose-built resorts like Flaine. Engelberg in Switzerland is neither. Its centre is surrounded by belle époque buildings, pastel-coloured and dotted with balconies. Today it looks a bit like Nice in a snow dome.

An attractive, snow-sure resort with easy transport links from Zurich, could Engelberg, whose name means Angel Mountain, be the Alps’ best-kept secret? I’m starting to think so until I get off the shuttle bus to the first ski lift to find a stagnant sea of skiers and boarders

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o much snow has fallen in the Swiss ski resort of Engelberg that in a country used to snow and unused to transport disruption, our train can’t go any further.

“This is very unusual for Switzerland,” our guide says. “You know there’s a lot of snow when the train stops.”

A replacement bus takes us on the final leg of the journey and, with snow chains firmly in place, we arrive in Engelberg to see the town looking its prettiest.

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waiting for the doors to open. The latest dump has delayed the lift opening, but even so it’s still a long slog to the top. The huge vertical distance from the town to the highest lift station means you need to catch four lengthy lifts to the top.

ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP When we get off the third cable car at Stand, the shark fin summit of Mount Titlis pierces the sky, and the snow – source of so much trouble – lies in thick powder. All is forgiven.

You can take the final lift, a rotating cable car with a glass bottom for panoramic views, up to Klein Titlis to access glacier skiing or take in the scenery from the highest tourist destination in central Switzerland, but we’ve been waiting long enough. It’s time to hit the slopes.

The ski area is separated into beginner and intermediate areas, with several well-known off-piste runs for the more advanced. By the top of the third lift we’ve already signed up for the tougher pistes, and I launch myself down the steep, churned piste, praying my legs will remember what to do.

In these conditions, though, it’s no concern when they don’t – a soft landing is pretty much guaranteed. It also doesn’t matter it’s not the biggest ski area I’ve come across, with countless waist-deep powder runs metres from the piste.

LONG WAY DOWN One of the highlights of Engelberg skiing, though, is that you don’t have to repeat the lift

sequence on the way down. There’s a 12km run from Titlis to the valley – one of the longest in the Alps – and it conveniently starts off tricky and steep but, as your legs tire, gets gradually more gentle and winding until you reach Sammelplatz for the bus home.

After a run like this you need sustenance – and Engelberg isn’t short of restaurants serving up hearty Swiss food, such as Älplermagronen (Alpine farmer’s macaroni) and rosti. At the wooden-clad Alpenclub we tuck into a huge vat of fondue, soaking up the melted cheese with bread and potato, leaving just enough room for the legendary house chocolate mousse.

Engelberg might be good, but it’s surely this recipe that’s the best kept secret in the Alps.

» Amy Adams travelled with Switzerland Tourism. See myswitzerland.com or call the Switzerland Travel Centre on 00800 100 200 30

WHEN TO GO The ski season runs from December to April but skiing is possible all year round on the Titlis glacier.

GETTING THERE Fly direct to Zurich and catch a train via Lucerne (one hour). Swiss (swiss.com) operates daily flights from London from £69 return. For train information see myswitzerland.com/rail.

GETTING AROUND You can easily walk around the town of Engelberg and there are shuttle buses to the ski lifts.

VISAS No visas needed for Aussies and Kiwis. Saffas require a Schengen visa.

CURRENCY Swiss Franc (CHF). 1 GBP = 1.63 CHF. LANGUAGE German.

GOING OUT A beer is about 4-5 CHF. ACCOMMODATION Dorm beds from 31.10 CHF at the Engelberg Youth Hostel. See hihostels.com.

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For après-ski with a difference, head to the Igloo Village at Trubsee (near the top of the first lift). You can get a warming gluhwein and fondue at the bar, or splash out on a night in your own igloo.

The village is rebuilt every year and each room is decorated with wall carvings. There’s even a sauna and hot tub. See iglu-dorf.com.

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EARLY MORNING SUNRISE Mark Johnson Sometimes it’s similarities, not differences, that make us yearn for the familiar. A smell, a taste, a sound that brings

THE ROAD BACK TO HOME Cameron Mitchell Missing the green, green grass of home? If you are reading this in the packed London Underground on a grey Monday morning, this shot sure to bring back the thrill of open spaces and rolling hills.

Seeing that road was the reason you went hiking round the big wide world in the first place! You never guessed it would lead to a land of congestion charges, bus-filled bike lanes and Tubes rammed with grumpy commuters.

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on that nostalgic yearning for a past time or far-off place.

This shot taken a few miles from home looks like both the middle of nowhere and the centre of everywhere. Seeing

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a sunrise reminds us the same sun is shining the world over. » Mark wins a three-day tour of Scotland for two valued at £198 from Haggis Adventures (haggisadventures.com)

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Toning pictures used to be a way of ensuring your prints were preserved to archival quality. The look is so nostalgic that many photographers deliberately emulate the effect and it certainly worked for Nicole, whose modern composition is given an extra edge by sepia toning.

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WHY THIS WORKS: 1 Wacky composition for staid subject is tempered by sepia toning.

2 Toning gives a warm feel to what was probably cold light.

3 Monochrome concentrates the eye on lines in the shot.

4 Lots of diagonals introduced by tilted camera angle give a feeling of movement.

5 Sepia toning gives an oldeworlde feeling to the oldeworlde city of Amsterdam.

HOT TIPS: 1 The traditional way: Shoot black and white film, pre-soak in bleach, wash the print, then soak in toner to convert silver halides to silver sulphides.

2 The green way: Replace the silver using a dye toner bath.

3 The easy way: Fix a sepia tone filter to your camera.

4 The digital way: Use photo software programmes.

5 The creative digital way: Desaturate the image until you get the black and white effect you like, then play with the colour levels.

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For classic German TIP OF food in Berlin, THE WEEK try the Staendige Vertretung pub under Friedrichstrasse station on Schiffbauerdamm.

It’s the perfect place to try currywurst (curried sausage) or boulette (meatballs) and German beer, and it’s good value and in walking distance of the Brandenburg Gate.

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YOU ASKED FOR IT Tom Hall FROM LONELY PLANET

Visit the Scottish National War Memorial in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. Entry to the memorial is free and the only way to get access to it is via the castle. Say at the castle ticket office that you want to go to the memorial and they can’t refuse entry.

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I’m considering an overland trip from Egypt to Lesotho down the east coast of Africa. I’ve had a yellow fever jab and intend to take antimalarials. Which places should I avoid and which cultural customs should I be mindful of? Is it possible to avoid overt tourism? When is the best season to see wildlife and how reliable is public transport?

Also, what should I budget?

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Spring in Paris is famed because the warm sunshine and blooms bring couples out on to streets. But what indeed do you do if it’s winter and you’re ‘too in love’? Well, you go anyway, and have a glass of champagne at St Pancras then hop on the Eurostar.

Then you skip down to Les Jardins du Marais (homeplazza.com), the perfect hotel for breakfast in bed (ahem) after an evening strolling the backstreets of the Marais. Take a walk up to Parc de Belleville for superb views, preferably late in the day so you can head to Rue Paul Bert for dinner at a great bistro.

I’d also suggest visiting smaller museums, like the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries Gardens and the Musée du Moyen Age in the Latin Quarter. But most of all just walk, talk and smooch. Paris is at its best when you don’t really do anything at all.

There will be Christmas markets, but regular readers know how I feel about them so you’ll have to find them yourself. The window displays in the Grands Magasins on Boulevard Hausmann are just as festive and a Parisien institution.

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With yellow fever vaccine in your veins and anti-malaria tablets there are few barriers to making it from Cairo to the Cape, but you should also check you are up-to-date for things like rabies, hepatitis and typhoid.

In terms of staying safe there are few specific obstacles – there’s a danger of pickpockets, but expect friendliness and hospitality from most people you meet. You’ll avoid mass tourism in many places along the way. Sudan in particular is a raw experience, and one which needs preparation in the form of a sometimes-trickyto-arrange visa.

But otherwise you need only detour slightly if you feel that you’re surrounded by travellers.

The Kenyan and Tanzanian wildlife parks and Zanzibar are places where you’ll note plenty of the visitors – but be imaginative in your route planning and you’ll have just as special places largely to yourself. Once you’ve covered flights you’ll need about £300 a week.

People always say you should go to the romantic city of Paris in spring, but what if you’re too in love and can’t wait that long?

Is there a Christmas market and somewhere to ice skate? What would you recommend to young lovers for a visit in early December?

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Winter hotspots

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Egypt and Morocco are the fastest growing holiday destinations this winter, according to EasyJet. The airline has seen a surge in popularity for flights to these countries, and has launched a new route from Luton to Sharm El Sheik and additional flights from Gatwick to Agadir to cope with demand.

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WHERE TO VISIT IN 2010 Iceland and Las Vegas are just two of the places you’ll find good value for money on holiday in 2010, according to Lonely Planet.

In Best In Travel 2010, a guide to the top places to go and the best things to do around the world, Lonely Planet lists the best value destinations to visit in the coming year.

The book, now on sale, is the fifth in the annual series and claims to capture the world’s hottest travel trends, destinations, journeys and experiences for the year ahead, bringing together the expertise of Lonely Planet authors, staff and travellers.

Las Vegas makes the list due to the huge discounts available as a result of the city being hit hard by the recession, and Iceland, due to the collapse of its currency lowering prices.

Other places tipped as 2010’s best-value

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Tour company’s eco effort Intrepid Travel will offset the carbon emissions of all the trips it operates directly in 2010, after a trial run of 38 trips proved successful this year.

Carbon emissions will be offset with energy efficiency and clean energy projects in Thailand, India and China.

The travel company hopes

to become carbon neutral by the end of 2010.

See intrepidtravel.com.

destinations include perennial cheap favourites Thailand and Mexico, as well as a few more surprising destinations.

London, for example, makes the list as it has become more affordable for visitors (if not for its residents) as a result of the economic crisis.

Lonely Planet travel editor Tom Hall says: “The tables have turned, and London’s reputation as one of the world’s most expensive cities is over.”

The Lonely Planet guide names New Zealand as one of the top countries to visit in 2010. Other countries on the list are: Greece, El Salvador, Germany, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Portugal, Suriname and the US. Best In Travel 2010 also features the top 10 cities and regions to travel, including Australia’s south-west region.

BAG A BARGAIN

SKI BREAK SITE

Grab a half-price overlanding trip to South America this week as part of Dragoman’s ‘super sale’.

The adventure travel company will be offering 50 per cent off selected summer departures (December-April) from November 9-13.

See dragoman.com.

Plan your skiing holiday using budget airlines, transfers and accommodation at Skiingholidays.com.

The new travel website allows users to compare the cost of independent trips with traditional package holidays, ensuring they get the best price for their winter trip.

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WORDS ELIZABETH EUN

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Lyon, France December 5-8 Lyon’s Fête des Lumières sees the city bursting with light, from candles displayed in the windows of homes to city monuments illuminated with patterns and colours.

» lumieres.lyon.fr

LOCK IT IN HOGMANAY Edinburgh, Scotland Dec 31, 2009 edinburghshogmanay.org

VENICE CARNIVAL Venice, Italy Feb 5-16, 2010 veniceconnected.com

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

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L’ESCALADE GENEVA, SWITZERLAND WHAT: Geneva’s largest

festival commemorates a failed coup by the Duke of Savoy in 1602, with a huge bonfire and general merriment. There’s also a torchlit procession.

WHEN: December 11-12.

WHY: The carnival-like festival is a celebration of the Genevans’ win over attackers on the city.

DO IT BECAUSE: Legend has it a housewife defeated a Savoyard attacker by tipping

a hot pot of vegetable soup over his head, and sounding the alarm. Genevans celebrate the event by smashing, and then eating, marzipan-filled chocolate cauldrons.

HOW MUCH: Free.

» geneva.com

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NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS OXFORD CHRISTMAS MARKET December 10-20 The university city’s first Christmas market will feature local choirs and bands performing carols while you wander the 33 stalls selling unique crafts, free-trade items and edible goodies, and warm up on mulled wine.

New Orleans, USA Feb 16, 2010 mardigrasneworleans.com

LAS FALLAS Valencia, Spain Mar 15-19, 2010 turisvalencia.es

ST PATRICK’S DAY Dublin, Ireland Mar 17, 2010 stpatricksfestival.ie

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David Hudd, 24, from Melbourne, Australia Where’s the best place you’ve been to?

Montenegro – it has the second biggest canyon in the world.

Best place in the UK?

Brighton, for the nightlife and its little alleys.

Most over-rated place?

Venice. It looks good, but it smells and is too expensive.

Dream destination?

Serengeti, for the wildlife migration.

Weirdest thing you’ve eaten?

Ox-tongue soup in Indonesia. It was all right.

Donna Freak and Kahlie Jensen from Australia, at Cinque Terre, Italy

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Mostar, Bosnia. If you need directions, it’s no problem – and they’ll take you out for a drink.

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GET PACKING: SLOPE STYLE Amy Adams SOLVES YOUR TRAVEL GEAR PROBLEMS IT WAS ALL YELLOW The Vars Down jacket is stuffed with duck down to keep you as warm as the sunshine yellow fabric suggests. There’s also a pocket for an MP3 player for tunes on the go.

THE DAMAGE: £150 WHERE: berghaus.com

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DAY-GLO WEAR Burton Fly ski pants combine old school colours with new school technology, which includes breathable, insulated fabric, fleecy pockets and inner thigh vents.

THE DAMAGE: £165 WHERE: snowandrock.com

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PIECE OUT Rip Curl has branched out into ski wear and seem intent on bringing the summer vibe to the slopes.

Climb into this neon pink Old Rules one-piece, and never get lost again.

THE DAMAGE: £300 WHERE: ripcurl.com

MARKET KNOWLEDGE No matter what ski resort you go to you’ll always find someone, usually male and middle-aged, wearing an odd-coloured all-in-one ski suit.

Previously you might have pointed and sniggered, glancing down reassuringly at your own muted, khaki separates.

But this year it seems the boot will be on the other foot.

Not only is one-piece ski wear back in fashion, but bright colours are too.

Think neon boiler suit for

THE INSIDER TOBY BUTLAND, TREKAMERICA MARKETING MANAGER The best part of my job is … Hearing all about the amazing adventures our clients have on the road.

And the worst part is …

Being too busy to take time out to experience our tours.

My first big trip was …

I left New Zealand on my

an idea of what the cool kids will be wearing on the slopes this year.

If you’re a beginner, or just self-conscious, you may not want to embrace this attention-grabbing look entirely. Instead, you can go half-way there and team a bright jacket with more sombre pants, or vice versa.

If you can’t afford a new outfit, ask your parents to raid the attic – it’s time to give that 1980s onesie a new lease of life.

big OE and jumped straight into a month of backpacking around Turkey – a crazy culture shock to say the least.

My favourite place in the world is … Yosemite National Park in the west of the USA – it is simply breathtaking.

My most memorable travel experience was …

Cruising the Las Vegas strip in a super-stretch limo.

BRIGHT STUFF You can always rely on Santa Cruz to not hold back when it comes to colour, and the Alpha tech pants are no exception. As well as being eye-catching, they’re breathable and waterproof.

THE DAMAGE: £90 WHERE: extremepie.com

The next destination on my travel wishlist is … A camping trip in the Alaskan wilderness.

My top travel tip is …

The more you put in, the more you get out.

I always pack …

A head torch.

My guilty travel pleasure is … Trying local delicacies – I’m probably one of the only people who manages to get fat when I travel.

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THE WHOLE KIT AND CABOODLE Big winter tour operators, such as Neilson (neilson.co.uk/ski), Inghams (inghams.co.uk) and Crystal (crystalski.co.uk), use their enviable buying power to offer all-inclusive deals at reasonable prices. One of the best offers is from Crystal through its winter programme Ski +, which has a week in Les Arcs, one of France’s biggest and best resorts, from £479 per person, including accommodation, lift pass, kit hire and flights if booked by November 30.

And it’s not only the big operators that are offering great all-inclusive deals. Some of the cheapest deals this winter are with Outgoing (outgoingski.co.uk), which works with the Union Nationale des Centres Sportifs de Plein

Avoid half-term “ to save your money and your sanity ” Air (UCPA), a French government-backed organisation providing cheap accommodation in resorts in France. They are offering six days in Chamonix between February 7 and 13 for £599, which includes accommodation, lift pass, ski hire (snowboard hire €15 supplement), all meals and an après-ski itinerary. They’ll even throw in a return coach fare for £99.

A QUESTION OF TIME One of the major price determinants for a ski trip to the Alps, and the difference between affordable and eye watering, is the time you head out there.

As with flights and accommodation elsewhere in the world, Christmas, New Year and Easter price hikes apply, and these times should be avoided. In addition, due to skiing and snowboarding being family and school excursion-friendly pursuits, avoiding the halfterm holidays is also critical in saving both your money and your sanity.

The UK 2010 half-term dates (February 13-20) should be given a wide berth, unless you have a bizarre penchant for paying double and being in close proximity to acne. The school holidays in

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We’ve sifted through thousands of resorts and ski packages to let you in on the secrets that guarantee an epic alpine adventure.

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DRAGON LODGE, TIGNES, FRANCE A minute’s walk to the nearest piste, this chalet tailors to each guest’s ideal holiday.

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Price: From £25 per person per night.

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Roxy Chicken Jam, Saalbach (January 8-10; roxy-europe.com), is the world’s biggest girls-only snowboarding competition, with live gigs and numerous parties on the go.

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SKI LODGE, ENGELBERG, SWITZERLAND Unique atmosphere, located in the centre of town, with a great bar.

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Price: From £55 per person per night.

Altitude, Méribel (March 20-26; altitudefestival.com), is the world’s only high-altitude comedy festival with international DJs and bands.

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HOTEL NIVES, VAL GARDENA, ITALY Strikes a balance between boutique number and bijou family-run secret.

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Price: From €112 per person per night.

The Brits, Laax (March 2128; brits10.com), started off as the British national skiing and snowboarding champs but has morphed into a massive week-long music festival.

RUDE CHALETS, MORZINE, FRANCE Innovative chalet accommodation, in great ride-in ride-out locations.

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Price: From €425 per person per week.

responsibility to a large operator. By organising your own trip you can add to the sense of adventure, the thrill of the chase, and the sense of satisfaction – and, let’s face it, planning a holiday is often more fun than the work you are supposed to be doing.

If the DIY ethos is more your thing, we advise starting off with Interhome (interhome.co.uk), a rental agency for private landlords, which has Boarding in Andorra

Top Of The Mountain Concert, Ischgl (May 1; ischgl.com) has in past years featured Bob Dylan, Elton John, Scissor Sisters and Sugababes to name a few.

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an incredible amount of self-catering chalets available at resorts all over Europe (also see the breakout above).

Self-driving is also an option from the UK, with resorts Morzine and Avoriaz within closest reach. From London you are looking at about a four-hour journey to Calais, and then a 10-hour drive to the resorts from there.

Operators such as Erna Low (ernalow.co.uk) also provide self-catering packages that can include the cost of a ferry crossing, making life a little easier and cheaper.

If driving yourself doesn’t appeal, Eurostar (eurostar.com) has direct services from London to the French resorts of Moûtiers, Aime-laPlagne and Bourg-St-Maurice, from £149 return.

There’s a choice between a day or night journey, which takes under eight hours. So you can leave on the Friday night and wake up to a full day’s skiing with your environmental conscience and your body well rested.

Snowbombing, Mayrhofen (April 5-10; snowbombing.com) has live rock and electronica gigs, and fancy dress is encouraged (below).

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Alan or Alen or ?, from Auckland, who lives in London: You said you’re

a surfer, and we met in Turnmills a long time ago.

Then I saw you at the Cross club, and you saw me too.

We saw each other again in Pacha, and our eyes met. If you‘re single, leave me a message, it would be nice to meet you. See tntmagazine.com/seeking.

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The crazy Kiwis in Dollis Hill: Loved those wild times.

Late nights, heavy drinking, and heavy petting. I only wish I could remember it.

If only we didn’t drink so much sambuca! BOOM! Can’t wait to pick up where we left off in NYC. Love, Spider Chocolate.

Daniel (the Pom) from Ealing:

I had loads of fun hanging out with you at the Reddie on Saturday, October 24. I’d love to hang out with you again at some stage, so if you see this, you can email me at reddiebites@live.co.uk. Lisa.

Sarah: Big fat congratulations to you and Rich, can’t wait to see the rock! Cx. TNT Halloween Party pictures from The Grand Union Kennington, Saturday, October 31: I was at the party

and had a great night – hope I didn’t take any heads off with my chainsaw! It was such a good night though, I didn’t

post your message at tntmagazine.com/seeking or email seeking@tntmagazine.com

take any pictures. Can anyone who has pictures please post them on Flickr or email a link to alan_clarke59@hotmail.com.

I was the one with the white suit and a chainsaw.

Ed: Check out our pics from the party on page 16, or see tntmagazine.com/spotted.

Fluffy and Buggsy: Thanks

for all the good times. Park life at The Warren won’t be the same without you two cheeky chappies. Love, the alternate hedgehogs.

Dr Fox: I was the ugly mother at the Science Museum on Friday, October 30, suited up as Dr Jackal. You were dressed as The Bride Of Chucky in a see-through wedding dress with perky ears. Remember, you touched my tail at some stage? Maybe it was the puppet show, but I completely forgot to take your name or number, but I could feel you

were in for some Halloween fun. Email me at theevilone 01@gmail.com and we can contemplate some horrendous activities that only consenting adults would ever consider.

Come on, make my night.

Let the cocktails live on:

Goodbye to all the Londoners who have come in and out of my life over the last two years. I still can’t believe I’m leaving this amazing place. Remember Thursday Adventure bar cocktails must live on. I also expect a phone call when You’re The Voice comes on. All the best to you all, and see you soon in Brisvegas. Love, Cocktail Queen Kate xxxx.

George from Manchester who now lives in Clapham:

I met you at The Grand in Clapham a few Saturdays ago.

We exchanged flirty looks and you asked me to dance at the

Desperately Seeking is a reader forum, and all messages should be within the spirit of the page; TNT cannot take responsibility for offence caused. No phone numbers can be printed. Messages may be edited for publication. See tntmagazine.com/seeking

Q

My friend got dumped twice this year, and her self-esteem is at rock-bottom.

She keeps freaking out that she’ll never find anyone.

We’re strictly friends but I’ve been thinking of taking her out and maybe giving her a sympathy shag just to cheer her up a bit. Is that iffy?

A

It’s not completely insane: sex usually leaves people happy. But your friend seems

more concerned about finding someone to love.

Remember, too, that the leap from being ‘just friends’ to ‘friends with benefits’ is

bloody massive, and should be negotiated with caution.

Before you proceed, keep one thing in mind: men and women think differently. It

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end of the evening. We were too shy to exchange numbers.

I’d like to meet up again. I was the girl in the black skirt, with whom you danced to the last song of the night. See tntmagazine.com/seeking.

Brad: I’ll miss you when you’re gone. Our once-a-week trysts were the only thing I looked forward to. Will miss your biting wit and icy blue eyes.

But most of all I’ll just miss your buff, hot bod. Stay Frosty.

Whiskey Tango Gal. The man in the stripy hat who I met at the Clapham Common fireworks: You lit

my sparkler and I licked your toffee apple. Let’s get together again and create some more explosions. Email me at youmakemycatherinewheel@ bang.com.

Hot girl on the first-class train in Nice … London wants you back: You introduced

yourself to me and I didn’t even know it, but you got my attention pretty quick with those beautiful blue eyes and wavy blonde hair. I’ve been lucky to see all sides of you Emily, and share so many magic moments! :-) Your confidence, especially on wheels, was so hot, he he. You were my summer love and who knows, Sydney doesn’t sound too bad? London town misses you and I do too … just a little :-). From your Kiwi.

seems obvious, but for some reason slips the mind so easily at crunch time – say if you’re drunk and she’s needy.

Shagging her then reverting to being mates might seem plausible to you, but chances are it’ll probably be worse for her self-esteem than just taking her out for a drink.

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