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Brainy Dave’s Quiz

Winter Recipes

Pylewell Festival of food

Freize Art Fair

How To Do London on the cheap

Residual Heat - Episode One

Film Review - High Plains Drifter

London FashionWeek

Local News for local people

Shaka Zulu - Restaurant review

Freeze Festival

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1. The tallest man-made structure to datewas opened in Dubai. What is the nameof the building?

2. The sculpture, L’Homme qui Marche,sold for £65 million in London. Who wasthe sculptor?

3.One of the protectors of Anne Frankand her family passed away in January2010? What was her name?

4. The French-American mathematician,Benoit Mandelbrot, was the father ofwhich field of mathematics?

5. Gordon Brown made a fatal politicalfaux pas in Oldham during the electioncampaign. Which member of the publicwas the target of his insults?

6. When the The Togo national footballteam was attacked by terrorists, in whichcountry were they playing?

7. On 10 October 2010, a suborbitalspaceplane for tourists made its firstmanned free flight from 45,000 ft. Whatis the name of the company that will taketourists into space?

8. Which former Leader of the LabourParty passed away in March 2010?

9. The Duke of Vastergotland is nowmarried. To whom?

10. At the 64th Tony Awards, which actorwon for Best Performance by a LeadingActor in a Musical?

11. Which three-times Tour de Francechampion failed a drug test in 2010?

12. In which two cities were the lastWinter Olympics held?

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NOTHING’S nicer than a winter supper in front of thefire - especially after a hard day at work. If you’re on abudget, careful shopping and thrifty cooking can producesome delicious results. Here are some favourite recipes forwarming winter suppers that are cheaper than chips!

SPICED KALE AND CHICKPEAS - This thrifty supper isgreat served with grilled naan breads. Warm 2tbsp oil orghee in a frying pan, then add 3 cloves of garlic (crushed),2cm of ginger (peeled and crushed) and 2 chopped greenchillies. Fry for a minute before adding 250g shredded kale,approx 120ml vegetable stock and 2tsp garam masala. When the kale is tender –and the liquid has evaporated – add approx 120g cooked chickpeas and 100mldouble cream, the juice of half a lemon, and 1/2tsp salt, and simmer untilthickened. Garnish with fresh coriander.

HADDOCK WITH GRIDDLED LEEKS AND CREAM SAUCE - This looks like a fancy dinnerdish, but it’s easy to make. You can buy frozen haddock fillets for oven baking:look in your local supermarket and choose Icelandic haddock if available. Choose

small to medium leeks; wash and then steam them for 2-3 minutes oruntil floppy. Rub a griddle pan with butter and add the leeks,

then griddle. To make the cream sauce, soften 1 choppedshallot in 1tbsp butter. Add 100ml white wine and

reduce to half the volume. Add 3tbsp single creamand a drop of lemon juice and simmer tothicken - then strain and serve over the fishand leeks.

Something for theWinter and a look

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SAUSAGES are always in season! Think thrifty, and make them go further bybaking them in a yorkshire pud. Here’s a classic recipe that is the perfect

accompaniment for winter greens like cabbage or broccoli.

THIS RECIPE SERVES 2 TO 3 PEOPLE.• 115g plain flour • Pinch of salt • 1 egg • 285ml semi-skimmed milk

• 2 tbsp sunflower oil • 4 pork sausages

1. First, grill the sausages until lightly browned (they will cook more in the oven), thenslice them into 16 pieces and set aside. Choose a dish about 15cm diameter to cook thetoad in. Put it into the oven with the oil to preheat while you mix the batter. Set the

temperature at 200 degrees C, gas mark 7.

2. Beat the egg and set it aside. Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl and make a wellin the middle. Add the egg and half of the milk, and whisk the flour in from the sides toincorporate it slowly. Whisk until the batter is smooth and starting to bubble at the top.

3. Pour in the remaining milk and whisk again until it’s frothy. Take the dish from the ovenusing oven gloves and pour in the batter – it will sizzle. Drop in the sausage pieces, pushingthem with a fork to submerge them in the batter. Bake for 30-45 minutes or until a skewercomes out cleanly. Serve with gravy and winter greens such as steamed savoy cabbage.

THIS is a festival celebrating the very bestFood and Drink from local, regional, national,and international producers andvendors.

Pylewell Park, nearLymington, is set to play host to an

International Food and Drink Festival in Julynext year. The 1,500 acre estate will see over 100stalls attend in the form of a farmers marketrepresenting the county of Hampshire and itsbest producers of food and drink.In addition to the regional and national

producers, there will be an international foodvillage with caterers from all over the worldoffering visitors a taste of both their cuisine andculture.Celebrity Chefs will be on site with cookery

demonstrations and talks on local and seasonal

produce. An on site restaurant will offer VIPtreatment to corporate clients who will beentertained by a variety of musicians and genres.The event will be endorsed by Hampshire

Fare and will act as a finale to its nationallyknown festival that runs through the month ofJuly.There will be a small entry charge to the event

of £5 per adult, and £3 for OAP’s,which willinclude car parking, but children willreceive free entry.

To register aninterest, enquire about space, or

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AT the close of the eighth edition of Frieze ArtFair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, several galleriesreported their strongest sales since the fair’sinception in 2003.

Fair directors, Amanda Sharp and MatthewSlotover were delighted with reports of significantsales from both established galleries and from thenewer galleries in the Frame section and beyond.173 galleries exhibited over 1,000 artists at FriezeArt Fair 2010 - the largest in the fair’s history.

Twenty-nine different countries wererepresented. Collectors from the traditionalhotspots of Germany and the USA were joined by

a strong showing of Asian, Latin-American,Middle-Eastern and Russian collectors.

Quality

Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotovercommented: “Overall, we feel the quality level wasvery high this year - with very elegant installationsand presentations of significant artworks. Thistranslated into substantial sales, to both public andprivate collections, from Europe and the US butalso, increasingly, from the rest of the world. FriezeArt Fair is a truly global event.”

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Over 60,000 visitors were welcomed to the fairduring the five-day professional and public event.Strong sales were reported at every level.London’s White Cube gallery sold DamienHirst’s’ The True Artist Helps the World byRevealing Mystic Truths, for £3.5m, ThaddaeusRopac sold a Georg Baselitz painting for€630,000. David Zwirner gallery from New Yorksold Luc Tuymans’ 2006 painting Evidence for$850,000. Marina Abramovic and Anish Kapoorsold well on London’s Lisson Gallery with£800,000 for a black fibreglass Kapoor sculptureand £200,000 for an editioned hangingsculpture.Hauser & Wirth, who opened their new gallery

space in London during the fair, had significantsales including a 2009 Paul McCarthy sculpturefor £750,000 and a new work on paper by Ellen

Gallagher for $300,000.

Galerie FortesVilaca sold both editions of Sala de Lectura(Reading Room) by Los Carpinteros for $200,000each.Greene Naftali sold Tony Conrad’s Yellow

Movie 2/28/73 to a US museum for $150,000.Vitamin Creative Space sold their entire booth byCao Fei to a European museum.

20 October 2010, Frieze Art Fair 2010:High quality presentations attract strong

salesThere were more solo presentations than ever

before in the main section, from MarianneBoesky, Isabella Bortolozzi, BQ, Elizabeth Dee,Stephen Friedman, Casey Kaplan, DavidKordansky, Long March Space, Eva

Presenhuber, Vitamin Creative Spaceand Zero.

Frame, the section in the fair for galleriesunder six years old, supported this year by Cos,

reported important new contacts andgood sales made. Curatoradvisers Cecilia Alemaniand Daniel Baumann said:“This second edition ofFrame confirmed Frieze ArtFair’s commitment toshowcasing artists' work indepth. With its solo booths andspecific focus on both upcomingartists and seminal figures,Frame is a unique occasion to getto know new artists. This editionof Frame brought together someof the youngest artists in the fair,presented alongside key figuresand overlooked talents.”

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Listen to a lunch time recitalThe Church of St. James's, Piccadilly offers a holygrail of free (donation welcomed) recitalprogramming with free 50 minute concerts everyMonday, Wednesday and Friday. AtSt. Giles-in-the-Fields Church there are freeconcerts every Friday from 1.10pm whilst aroundthe corner at St. Martin-in-the-Fields a donationof £3.50 will get you in to a free lunchtime recitalat 1pm every Monday, Tuesday and Friday withworks from the likes of Franck, Parry, Mozart andGershwin.

Columbia Road Flower MarketColumbia Road, E2 7RG.Liverpool Street or Old Street tube.One of London's most visually appealing markets,Columbia Road overflows with bucketfuls ofbeautiful flowers every Sunday. There are bulbs,herbs, shrubs and bedding plants too. An earlystart is recommended (the market opens at 8am) ifyou want to guarantee yourself the pick of thebunch. A key tip is to wait until 3/3.30pm, this iswhen the stalls are closing and you can get someamazing bargains as the traders are keen to selltheir stock.

Visit the viewing platform “ViewTube” at the Olympic StadiumThe Greenway, Marshgate Lane, London, E15 2PJinfo@theviewtube.co.ukSee the building of the Olympic stadium come tolife before your eyes. View Tube is a viewingplatform to watch the Olympic Park being built; Itincludes educational facilities; cycle hire; a café;arts and culture activities, residencies and more;information for the local community.

How to find the View Tube:1. Exit Pudding Mill Lane DLR2. Turn immediately left3. Go down steps and cross road4. Follow blue hoardings round to left5. Go up ramp to Greenway6. The View Tube is a big lime greenbuilding.Open: Monday - Sunday 09.00 - 17.00

Visit the Old BaileyCentral Criminal Court, Corner of Newgate St & OldBailey, EC4 (020 7248 3277 www.oldbaileyonline.org). St Paul’s tube.For a perhaps a more unusual day out you couldwatch a court case at the Old Bailey. The public iswelcome to visit and a notice by the front doorgives details of forthcoming trials. Whether it is toindulge your curious side or perhaps just to seewhat really goes on inside a court this trip will notfail to disappoint.

Listen to the Bells of St. ClementsSt Clement Danes, The Strand, WC2R 1DH (020 72428282). Temple tube.

“Oranges and Lemons say the bells ofSt. Clement’s”

Relive your youth and go and listen to the bells ofSt. Clement’s, The nursery rhyme has somethingof a sinister note as it refers to the infamousexecutions that took place in Newgate.

St. Clement Danes Church is said to have givenrise to the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’(though others including St. Clement Eastcheapclaim the same). The bells ring out the tune at9am, noon, 3pm and 6pm Mon-Sat.

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Get a free tour of The Houses ofParliamentGet a free tour of parliament by writing to yourlocal MP. It does take a bit of forward planningas the waiting list can be up to six months long,but why not send your MP an email now, forgetabout it and be contacted in the summer nextyear with the plans for your free tour? You willbe shown around the Commons and Lordsdebating chambers and the Queen’s RobingRoom and get to experience up close one of thiscountries most significant buildings.

It is even possible to climb ‘Big Ben’, one ofLondon most famous landmarks, also byemailing your local MP well in advance. Visitorsare advised to be ‘confident in their health andfitness’ before making the ascent, yet promised aguided talk of the history of the tower, as well asan explanation of how this most-accurate ofclocks works.

For those who can’t wait that long, tickets fortours of parliament can be purchased for £14through ticketmaster. The tour of ‘Big Ben’ isavailable to UK residents only and tickets canonly be obtained through your MP. Visitwww.parliamnet.co.uk for details. Nearest tube:Westminster

Take a stroll on HampsteadHeathEmbrace the winter and go for a weekend strollon Hampstead Heath. Far less busy at this timeof year than in the summer months, it is still alovely way to spend a crisp morning or winteryafternoon. Wrap up warm, take a flask and getlost in the woods and perhaps search for some ofthe 300 varies of fungi recorded to have been

found in the forest. Wander past the beautifulKenwood House, home some impressive artworks, where one can take a look inside for free.

Take in the view over the famous bathing ponds,frequented more at this time of year by varioustypes of water fowl and perhaps spot the lessoccasional brave swimmer. Don’t forget toinclude a break from your walk on one of themany well placed benches and admire theimpressive views over London.

Visit the Wellcome CollectionThe exhibition ‘High Society’ at the Wellcome Collection,183 Euston Road is free to enter and runs until 27thFebruary. Nearest Tube EustonThe Wellcome Collection pitches itself as aplace for ‘the incurably curious’. With its seriesof exhibitions where medicine, history and artmeet, it provides the opportunity to see a wholerange of shows for free.

The current show, ‘High Society’, is anexploration of the role of drugs in society withartefacts collected from ancient Egyptian timesto present day. Get along there and immerseyourself, see images of Nasa’s experiments onspiders and find out what type of webs theyproduce whilst under the influence of variousintoxicants.

Browse photographs of Victoriansexperimenting with Laudanum, sit in adarkened space and relax as a revolving cylinderplays tricks on your eyes and view some of themany video and installation pieces.

The gallery stays open late on Thursdays - until10 pm, making it accessible for a bit offree, week night interest and intrigue.

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“Just when I need to give up smoking!! This’ll bea 30 Marlboro problem if I don’t watch out. AndI’m talking Reds!! Do you mind?” asked Mill,offering his packet.

“Actually, I do mind. My agent said I have tothink about my breathing and my skin, so Ipacked them in 6 months ago. It has beenabsolute hell but I can’t have my mouth lookinglike a cat’s arse by the time I’m 40.” repliedSerena Thompson. “Surely you noticed this was asmoke-free floor when you came up? Anyway, Ithought the strong arm of the law didn’t indulgein such vices these days. Doesn’t it make it harderto chase criminals?”

Mill gave a wry smile, surprised to hearsomething so vulgar from an actress like her. Shewas becoming a standard player in the usualEdwardian country house, bustles and lace, ”OhGod!! The heir’s gone and died on the Titanic!!What are we to do?” kind of dramas.

“Alright, I’ll delay the gratification. I need to stopanyway. My wife and I liked you in AnthonyPomeroy’s “Castleford Hall”, by the way. Fun towork with?”

“Fuck, no!! The guy’s ignorant. And minging withit!!!” she replied, betraying her estuarine rootswith an ever so slight, glottal stop. “But that’swhy you’ve got to get these photos, Inspector. Ifthe press get hold of them, my career is over!!”

Mill walked over to the window and stared outat the Selfridges store, all amorphous andsequined. He liked it. After the shithole thatmade up most of the Bullring, Birminghamneeded something to be proud of and SpaghettiJunction just didn’t cut it. Now they had the Cubeand the Mailbox as well. He turned his mind tothe matter in hand. Since Hermione Clapham-Dean had concentrated on the fantasy partscreated for her by her eccentric, movie directorhusband, Britain had a space vacant for theclassic English rose. And Serena Thompson, allpeaches and cream complexion, hour glass figureand dark hair might just fill it. Yes, she was a half-Irish, half-German lass from Essex with an accentstraight out of Billericay but nobody knew thatwhen she got up to perform, what with herRADA training and everything....

And talking of performing, she’d certainly“performed” in the photos!! The public reallydidn’t need to see them. And now some toilethad broken into her home and stolen her laptop.Why the hell did people take photos ofthemselves in compromising positions....

“I’m up for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscarsfor the Castleford role. They want me in Uncle

Vanya on Broadway next month. If this getsout....” said Serena, tears stinging her eyes.

“Look, you’ve done the right thing,” said Mill, ashe walked towards her chair. “We are onto him.If my colleague does what I expect him to do, Iwon’t be needing those 30 cigarettes,” hesmiled.

“How can you be so sure?” asked Serena, lookingup at the barrel-chested Police Inspector with thethighs of a rugby player. People had alwaysassumed she dated the androgynous ladyboysshe had to play the love interest to but, really,she liked them butch and older. A nice bit ofrough, this Inspector Mill.... A bit like Philip in thephotos.... God!! Why had they taken thephotos...? And why had she stored them on herlaptop...?!!!

Mill ignored the flicker of desire he sensed in hereyes. Again, better to keep to the matter inhand. His wife had only just forgiven him for hisindiscretions with that Special Constable last yearand he didn’t want to lose his wife, not again....And this was an up-and-coming star, definitelyout of his league.

“It’s simple,” he said, in a firm voice thatdefinitely wasn’t Brummie, despite having servedin the West Midlands Police for 20 years; therewas more than a hint of London to his accent.“The blackmailer knows you are scared and thatyou’ll send a go-between to collect the photosand hand over the money. He’ll be met by mysergeant and bish, bash, bosh, jobs a good ‘un.‘E’ll be banged to rights,” he growled and thengrinned. Sometimes those cliches... seemedappropriate.

Mill was half right. Sgt. McBride had indeedarrested one blackmailer minutes earlier. At thatmoment, Serena’s PR man-cum-little man whodoes everything, Tom, walked into the room;wearing an Alexander McQueen suit, with cheekbones so sharp you could slice fruit with themand with hair so floppy Hugh Grant was indanger of losing his job, it was clear that hischeek bones weren’t the only thing that werefruit-related about Tom. He sashayed towardsthem with a tea tray, raising an eyebrow at Mill.Mill was sure that Tom fancied him, which madehim smile.

“I’ve brought you lemon and ginger, Dear,” saidTom, setting a cup of herbal tea down on thetable by Serena. “Something to soothe you atthis terrible time.” His lips pursed into a littlemoue and his head dropped towards hisshoulder.“Thanks, Doll,” said Serena, like an East Endbarrow boy. Mill winced ever so slightly, the

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movie persona was very different to the womanin front of him.

“Your name wouldn’t happen to be John Stuart,would it, Inspector?” asked Serena.

Mill smirked. “Aah!! Not just a pretty face, eh? Iwas born in Islington and my father studiedphilosophy in his spare time. Sadly, I don’t sharemy namesake’s brains.”

Mill’s mobile rang. It was McBride.

“John, we’ve picked the guy up. It’s Philip, thefellow who appeared in the photos. The thing is,he’s not the only one. The other blackmailer’s herPR man, Tom.”

Of course, thought Mill. Tom had the means forblackmail (as her PR man and general wallah-of-all-tasks, he had full access to her personal life,he knew where she lived and how to get into herhome). Just because he was a pretty boy, workingin PR, didn’t mean Tom couldn’t be a lying,thieving, little toe-rag. Maybe he was jealous ofSerena, maybe he had a drug habit to fund.Maybe this Philip had something on Tom as welland coerced him. Serena’s star was definitely inthe ascendant and now would be a good timefor a bit of extortion.

“Cheers, Lee. I’ll see you back at the station”, saidMill, not wanting to let Serena, and especiallyTom, know exactly what was happening. Helooked at his watch.

“Ooh, is that Jaeger?” asked Tom. “They domake some very masculine watches,” he said,raising the eyebrow and pursing the lips yetagain.

“Talking of the time, I need to get a bath andthen get to bed,” said Serena. “Please tell meyou’ll have caught this man by tomorrowmorning, Inspector. I’m sure Birmingham is alovely place but I need to fly to New York onMonday so I can start rehearsing Vanya. I have tohead back to London tomorrow so I can pack.”

“Oh, like I said before, bish, bash, bosh....” Millreplied, raising an eyebrow back at Tom.

Tom looked at Mill, understanding the game wasup he dashed for the door and ran out into thecorridor.“Oh for fuck’s sake!! Get back here, you toe-rag!!” shouted Mill. He’d imagined his obviouspower would have been enough to subdue theeffete young man into submission. “You live andyou learn. You can’t go by good looks alone, canyou, Johnny-Boy?” he said to himself.

He leapt across the room and gave chase. Yep, hesmoked but he also did three days at the gymwith weights and two days cardio. Bench-pressed150 kg and ran 100 metres in 13 seconds. Therewas no way this little mincer would be escaping.As it happened, Mill didn’t have anything againsthomosexuals, his favourite brother was gay, buthe did prefer them honest, it had to be said. Andthis Tom was bent in more ways than one.

Out in the corridor, he saw Tom in the lift and thedoors were closing. Mill ran to the emergencyexit and down the stairs to the lobby of theMalmaison Hotel where he saw Tom run out ofthe front doors, into the Mailbox. Picking up thepace, Mill realised he’d be 10 seconds behind hisquarry at best. With a bit of luck, young Tomwouldn’t have spent the last year at the gym andwouldn’t have been top sprinter at school as hehad been. But then again....

Tom barged into a street preacher who wasshouting “Repent!! For the end is nigh!!”

“I wish the end fucking well was nigh, Mate,”said Mill to himself. “Another couple of minutesof this and my lungs will burn up!!”

Tom ran in to Cafe Rouge. Knowing that thiswould slow him down, Mill followed and sawhim crash into a waiter. After stumbling for a fewsteps, Tom continued down one aisle betweentables, round and up another. Waiting for hisquarry to draw level with him, Mill made a flyingtackle and brought Tom down on a plate ofgigot d’agneau au jus de thym. “What thefuck!!” said the surprised young man in theRalph Lauren polo neck who had been about totuck in.

“Sorry about this, Sir. We’ll get your mealsorted,” gasped Mill, with a wink. “Right, Tom,you toe-rag!! You’re nicked!! And I have soddingwell got... to stop... smoking!!”

Taking his handcuffs out, Mill arrested Tom andread him his rights before radioing for some localofficers on the beat to come and collect him. Ajob well done, except for the paperwork whichshouldn’t take more than a few hours. Nobodyneed know about Serena Thompson’s very torridphotos. Bish, bash, bosh and the job’s a good‘un!! Or is it...?

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HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER was one of ClintEastwood's best-loved western movies, and also the firstmovie he also directed. His role as “The Man With No

Name” continued after its introduction in the three now-famous spaghetti westerns that preceded it - “A Fistful ofDollars”, “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good, the

Bad and the Ugly”.

Released in 1973, High Plains Drifter finds a stranger (ClintEastwood) passing through Lago, a greedy mining town whose

prominent businessmen conspire to murder their sheriff whenhe discovers their income-producing mine just happens to be ongovernment land and threatens to expose them.

The lawman, Marshal Jim Duncan (Buddy Van Horn), ishorsewhipped to death by three hired assassins - Stacey Bridges(Geoffrey Lewis), Bill Borders (Scott Walker) and Cole Carlin

(Anthony James). No one lifts a finger to help Marshal Duncan, andhe is buried in an unmarked grave.

The three killers have been doing time and are about to be released fromprison. They aim to return to Lago and extract vengeance on its residents.Knowing they will return someday, the town's corrupt leaders hire threeother tough guys to defend them when the killers return.

Unfortunately, they have a small problem. The three tough guys decide to bullyThe Man With No Name just after he arrives in town, and orders up a drink atthe local watering hole. When confronted and cornered, the stranger promptly

kills all of them in a gunfight. The town leaders, in a panic because they get wordthe three killers have been released and our on their way to Lago, decide to hire the

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The Man With No Name soon finds that thereis not an honest fighting man in Lago, includingthe corrupt replacement Sheriff Sam Shaw(Walter Barnes). He tries to teach theincompetents how to defend themselves but findsthe task boring and useless. He has everybuilding in the townpainted red to unnerve theunwelcome visitors. Thestranger then leaves townand the townspeople areleft to fend for themselves.

Bridges, Borders andCarlin ride into town andtake over, killing along theway and putting everyoneon notice that their lives areat stake. Then The ManWith No Name returns andwhat happens next is whyyou should see High PlainsDrifter.

Violence

This is a violent film. Atone point early on, thetown tease and wife of themining owner, CallieTravers (Mariana Hill),manages to goad thestranger into dragging herinto the barn for a sexual encounter. At anotherpoint, prior to the arrival of the returning killers,a few unhappy businessmen conspire to kill thestranger with little success as the stranger blowsup the hotel and kills all four of them along theway. Another encounter finds the man with noname bedding the hotel owners wife, SarahBelding (Verna Bloom).

Despite the killing and indiscretions of TheMan With No Name, he is the “likeable” goodguy in the film because he avenges the murder ofMarshal Jim Duncan. The stranger just also

happens to be the only man in the story with theballs and the fighting ability to back up hismacho image.

No one plays macho like the legendary ClintEastwood. He doesn’t put up with much and hedoesn’t take names - he just settles the score and

solves the problemsno one else can.

High Plains Drifter,like so many ofEastwood's earlierfilms, got norecognition fromthe film industry. Ilike Clint Eastwoodas an actor and adirector, and itshows. I would givethis film anexcellent rating butcannot because ofone first-timedirector's flaw - theman with no nameis assumed by mostviewers to be thestranger’s brotheror family memberwhom he has cometo Lago to avenge.

In fact, theDirector Clint

Eastwood meant The Man With No Name to beMarshal Jim Duncan, an out-of-place, surrealattempt that made little sense to moviegoers.Even reviewers worldwide still assume that thestranger is not reincarnated as Marshal Duncan.

During an interview on “Inside the Actor’sStudio” in 1994 - 21 years later - Eastwood madeit clear that he favored the less explicit and moresupernatural interpretation. Fortunately,Eastwood got over that idea in later movies inwhich he was both the star and director, andwould go on to win 5 Academy Awards and 6additional Oscar nominations for his work.

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JASPER CONRAN AT LONDONFASHION WEEK, SEPT 2010

THE pictures do better justice to thedesigns. Pastels, yellows, flowers, prints,white canvas pumps and patent handbags.

Simple, elegant and chic.

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HERE is a run through of the clothes and

pictures of the models:

• Messy beehives, textured metallic mini

dressed and Eliza Doolittle serenading us at

Paul Costelloe

• Boys now suits and macs with a metallic

hue. Shorts to the knee too

• Floral pastel green textured mini dresses

on girls now with cropped jackets

• Deconstructed suits now for boys

• Throw in a floral maxi into the mix

• Boys bright red shorts fantastic, floral

prints on shorts and blazers, not sure

• Six suited boys now not models looks like

they found them in 151!

OPENING SHOW OF LFWWHICH WAS PAUL COSTELLOE.

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SHOCKING is probably the best way tosum up the Charlie Le Mindu show at LFW.

Human hair extensions made up theclothes; Poodles made out of hair wereworn on heads; as well as flamingoes.The most shocking ensemble, or lack of,

was when Charlie sent two girls down thecatwalk completely naked apart from hats,

handbags and sky high fluro pink heels.I talked to Charlie after the show and

asked why he had sent the girls down thecatwak naked. He said, “These were my

favourite pieces and I didn't want anythingto distract from these items. It didn't really

work though as people were moredistracted by the nudity!”

Charlie is a unique designer who pushesthe boundries of fashion. He has made

wigs for Lady Gaga and is about to do acallaboration with Disney.

CHARLIE LE MINDU ATLONDON FASHION WEEK

RAINBOW colours, fantastic prints,beautiful tailoring, exquisite shapes,Paloma Faith front row, beautiful.

ASHLEY ISHAM ATLONDON FASHION WEEK

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THURSDAY morning is the bestmorning of the week for me. That'sthe time when I pop down to thenewsagent down the street and pickup the local paper.

I flick through it quickly in the store,take it home and devour it at a moreleisurely pace as I eat my Cornflakes.

Like the Sunday papers, the localpaper has always been an important,habitual part of my adult life.

It's a thrill to see your friends smilingdown at you from the pages,celebrating an anniversary, maybegetting married, or having achievedsomething worthwhile.

It's also interesting to see what yourneighbours and people you know areup to - are they planning work ontheir home, have they been up incourt for something or are they up inarms about some proposal or theother?

Also, of course, there's the publicservice the local paper provides -keeping you in the frame over whatthe local council and businesses areplanning and letting you know thelatest in BMDs (births, deaths andmarriages).

And then there's the chance to pickup a veritable local bargain from thearray of classified and display adverts.

But now this valuable source of localnews, entertainment, buys andservices is under threat as neverbefore.

As The Guardian newspaper sosuccinctly put it recently: 'For the firsttime since the Enlightenment, largecommunities face the prospect ofmuddling through without anyverifiable source of news...theirpotential disappearance should be amatter of some public alarm.'

Indeed it should - we need a thrivinglocal Press, it is as much a part of thelocal community as the local policebobby or the library or town hall.

In the 1960s our local railwayssuffered a similar nightmare ofdecimation - with local branch lines

and service lost for good after thereport of axeman in chief, Dr RichardBeeching.

Beeching recommended the cuts to'streamline' local services but theinevitable result was that there wereno services left to streamline after hissavagery was implemented.

Ring a bell?

It should do - similar cuts are nowbeing suggested, and implemented,at local level in the world ofnewspapers.

This is something we should fightagainst.

Why is it happening?

Essentially, because classifiedadvertising is migrating to theinternet - but also because localcouncils are sticking the boot in bysuddenly producing their ownfreesheets on 'cost efficiency'grounds.

How are they 'cost efficient'?

Well, simple really - their existencemeans there is no need to spendmoney supporting local papers,because the jobs and council ads nowappear exclusively in their ownfreesheets.

The council freesheets are invariablydull, poorly produced and full of puffsabout how good a job the localcouncil is doing.

They are in no way viable substitutesfor the local papers they are replacingand helping sentence to a slow,painful death.

So what can we do about it...how canwe help our valuable local paperssurvive?

We can keep buying them, of course -but that in itself may not be enough.

As far as I can see, we can alsoexplore two otheravenues...

We can demand

of our local councils that they diverttheir adverts out of their freesheetand back into the local papers.

And we can demand of theGovernment that they divert some ofthe astonishing sums of money weplough into the BBC towards helpingthe survival of local papers.

They do, after all, provide a moreimportant service to the normal manand woman in the street than saysome avant-garde, little-listened radiostation or some so-called worthycause string of programmes on BBC4.

We need to lobby our local MPs andcouncils - and ask them for their help.

Subsidies and advertising returned toits rightful place may be the key tosurvival.

Otherwise, Thursday morningswill one day hold a less specialaffection in my heart.And probably yourstoo...

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THIS is a restaurant like no other. First thereis the size, 29,000sq ft. You would think thiswould be a difficult space to fill but Roger Payneand his team has done it with style so you are notoverwhelmed by the space and instead it makesyou want to explore. Thousands of conch shellsadorn the walls with the panels being handmadein Africa. Gigantic statues of Zulu warriorswatch over you as you indulge in a South Africangastronomic delight.

Impressive

Every wine is from South Africa and the foodis pleasing the expats, who are surely the bestjudge of character, three rugby players who eachordered a £70 platter of fine South Africanmeats of springbok, kudu,ostrich and borrewurst,which I can also assure youis also divine!

Our tastes buds werewhetted with biltong and adelicious accompanimentof a massai mara saucemade of peppers andolive. We then enjoyedpickled fish with onionswhich was served cold and was marinatedwith 12 spices it was delicious. Smoked salmoncured with Rooibos, a South African tea,

followed this was supposed to make it less oily butI couldn't really tell the difference.

The highlight of the evening for me was theBabootie. This is a spiced mince with bakedsavory custard on top, anyone who has been toSouth Africa will know this delight and Shaka

Zulu's offering is some of the best I havetasted.The meat board that I mentioned earlierfollowed and as our table was joined by theowner Roger Payne and head chef Justin

Wallace we had a special dish of pork skewerswith apricots which was again delicious.

Pudding was a fried sweet dough morsel whichdidn't live up to the main courses but we were allrather full at this time.

A special mention has to go to Tony Safqi whois an extraordinary cocktail magician who

tantalized our taste buds with a sumptuousblend of lemon, absinthe and eggwhite a potent mix. Shaka Zulu isworth the trip to taste his cocktails

alone.

www.shaka-zulu.comStables Market, Camden,

London, NW1 8AHTel: 0203 376 9911

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‘The most exciting thing is not doing it.If you fall in love with someone and never do it,it’s much more exciting’

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“Famous

quotes”

AndyWarhol

‘People need to be mademore aware of the need towork at learning how tolive because life is so quickand sometimes it goesaway too quickly’

‘It would be very glamorous to be

reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz

Taylor’s finger’

‘I’ve decided something:Commercial things really do stink.

As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass marketit really stinks’

‘ I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic’

‘I had a lot of dates but Idecided to stay home anddye my eyebrows’

‘Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches’

‘An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have’

‘Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting.The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet’

‘Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’

‘Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’

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RUMFEST celebrated the diversity andrapidly-growing popularity of rum, the UKRumFest saw two days of demonstrations,seminars, master classes, live salsa and sambadancing, cocktail sampling, a Tiki Cocktail FaceOff, and an opportunity to win a tropical dreamholiday at the world’s largest rum event.

Over the course of the weekend someinteresting statistics came to light! 5,500 guestscame through the doors over the weekend.

Over 450 different rums sampled,

Over 25,000 tots of rums sampled,Over 20,000 rum cocktails made,Over 5,000 litres of fresh lime juice.

The world’s biggest Pina Colada contained:95 Litres of Milk,100 litres of Pineapple Juice,100 Litres of Bacardi & Wray& nephew rum,12 Kg of ice.

The UK RumFest featured over 400 rumsfrom across the globe from the Caribbean,Central and South America, Asia and Africa,including brands like Appleton Estate fromJamaica, Bacardi from Puerto Rico, HavanaClub from Cuba, Mount Gay Rum fromBarbados, Ron Zacapa from Guatemala andSanta Teresa from Venezuela.The only place to see such a varied selection of

rums, the UK RumFest also showcases some ofthe rarest rums on the planet including theworld’s most expensive bottle of rum worth awhopping £26,000.

During RumFest World-leading mixologistscompeted against one another for the first timein the advanced Tiki Cocktail Face Off.Bartenders from the London hottest rum bars,including Mahiki, competed against USopponents in a challenge of champions to be thebest cocktail makers both side of the Atlantic.

The weekend of 16thand 17th October 2010

saw Kensington Olympiadescend into a carnival delight as

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During RumFest World-leading mixologistscompeted against one another for the first timein the advanced Tiki Cocktail Face Off.Bartenders from the London hottest rum bars,including Mahiki, competedagainst US opponents in achallenge of champions to bethe best cocktail makers bothside of the Atlantic.

Speaking ahead of thisyear’s event, organiserand UK RumAmbassador IanBurrell said: “Rum isnot simply a drink buta lifestyle. The UKRumFest gives aninsight into thisway of life bycelebrating itsever growingpopularity anda chance to pass on mypassions to both bartenders andconsumers alike. The weekend hosts theworld’s biggest celebration of rum includingtasters of the hundreds of varieties and anopportunity to watch the world’s bestmixologists. The Rum Experience really doesoffer something for everyone looking to developtheir appreciation of this wonderful drink.”

UK RumFest was not simply an opportunity

to taste the delights of hundreds of diverse rumsfrom across the world but also a celebration andenjoyment of its wider culture. Rum andchocolate sessions opened up the palette to a newdimension of flavours and after looking roundthe stands, you could relax in the Bacardi

Dominoes and Daiquiri Zone. Livemusic bands played out their

reggae rhythms accomp-anied by samba, salsa and

zouk dancers and salsa classesprovided an immersive

experience of rum culture.

3 measures dark rum3 tablespoons coconut milk

3 tablespoons crushed pineapplePlace the ingredients in an electric

blender.

Add two cups of crushed ice andblend at high speed for 30 seconds.

Strain into a tall tumblerand serve with a straw.

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