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Bringing homethe bacon (Northumberland Gazette)
BUTCHER Mark Turnbull is hoping to bring home the bacon in a national competition.
Canadian leaders tuck into ‘seal meal’ to defy EU ban over annual slaughter (Times Online)
Canadian lawmakers are to protest against the European Union’s ban on seal imports today — with their stomachs.
Art review: The Roberts/John McLean (The Scotsman)
THE ROBERTS **** SCOTTISH GALLERY, EDINBURGH JOHN MCLEAN: SCULPTURE FROM PAINTING **** BOURNE FINE ART, EDINBURGH
My London: Meg Matthews (Evening Standard)
She loves Hampstead Heath and Top Shop, wants to see Stephen Byers naked on a plinth in Trafalgar Square, and is always being asked by cabbies if she's 'that girl who married a Gallagher.'
Canada's parliamentary restaurant to serve seal meat (Daily Telegraph)
Canada's parliamentary restaurant is set to serve seal meat in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
Canada MPs to be offered seal meat at parliament restaurant (BBC News)
Seal meat is to go on the menu at Canada's parliament to allow members to show their backing for the annual hunt.
Seal meat to be on menu at Canadian Parliament (Reuters )
Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
Lord Mandelson's department accused over £300m spent on venture capital funds (Daily Telegraph)
Lord Mandelson's department has been heavily criticised by MPs for paying millions of pounds of public money to poorly performing city fund managers.
The best and worst of times for publishing (Guardian Unlimited)
Even in its supposedly golden ages, the book trade has been sustained by shifting large quantities of junk, and so it remains Just at the moment there's a constant background murmur of complaint from what one might call the New Elitists that the pure well of our literature is being polluted by – for example – celebrity novels and ghosted memoirs. To say nothing, of course, about the explosion of ...
Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton's first events of 2010 (Horse and Hound)
Our Badminton Horse Trials debutant Sarah Stretton heads to Aston-le-Walls and Isleham for her first runs of the year