Life, Style and everything NICE

Who to invite to your red-carpet film premiere? They need to be: a) really famous, b) likely to wear something stupid, or c) given to starting fights
It’s not often you’ll find Simon Pegg, Joe Calzaghe, the Saturdays, Leigh ­Francis, James Blunt and Brian May ­sipping champagne and nibbling mini-burgers together, but then, wouldn’t you expect the [...]

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Diet and fitness specialist Joanna Hall demonstrates her technique for walking your way to better health
Joanna Hall
Felix Clay

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His tailor might have made his trousers too short, but my jumpsuits helped create an image of Elvis that has stuck in many people’s minds
I fell into wardrobe design by accident. When I was a kid, I was always drawing; my mother said I could draw before I could speak. When I was 20, I [...]

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The RHS must stop wallowing in its blue-blood, middle-England, rose-tinted social fantasy, says allotment blogger Soilman
A bit of background: I’m not a Marxist, I don’t live in a Moss Side tower block, I don’t own a pitbull terrier and – above all – I don’t hate the Royal Horticultural Society.
I thought I’d better kick off [...]

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Completely frozen lido in Hyde Park, London, fails to stop members of Serpentine swimming club taking a plunge

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Have you been keeping up with the latest trends this winter? If you’ve taken your eye off the ball, here is a handy guide to what’s fashionable now
Chris Fenn

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Bobbie Johnson takes Sanyo’s new electric bike for a spin and wonders if electronics companies are as green as they claim to be
Bobbie Johnson
Hildegunn Soldal

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Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
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Travellers warned that winter snap could cause major disruption to their festive getaway
Britons were last night steeling themselves for one of the most fraught Christmas getaways in years, as bad weather and snow closed major airports, paralysed roads and disrupted train services.
As the UK again found itself struggling to cope with a winter snap, transport [...]

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Eric Boswell, the composer of Little Donkey, has died at the age of 88. Listen to an extract from the festive favourite, performed by Gracie Fields and Graeme Danby

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