Apple pie recipes for Mothers Day: Pink lady apple, raspberry and elderflower pie

By Diana Henry 940AM GMT twelve March 2010

Perfect for Mother"s Day Pink woman apple, hiss and elderflower cake Photo PETER CASSIDY

Serves 6 to eight

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225g (8oz) solid flour

150g (5oz) butter

3 tbsp caster sugar

1 egg yolk, from a small egg

5 Pink Lady apples

200ml (7fl oz) elderflower cordial

100ml (3fl oz) water

25g (1oz) belligerent almonds

300g (10oz) solidified raspberries

15g (oz) flaked almonds

icing sugarine for dusting

Put the flour and butter in to a food processor and whizz until the reduction resembles breadcrumbs. Add the caster sugarine and whizz again. Now supplement the yolk and whizz a small some-more until the fritter comes together in to a ball. You might have to supplement a small cold H2O to assistance it. Wrap in clingfilm and leave to rest in the refrigerator for 45 mins or so.

Quarter and core the apples, withdrawal the flay on. Cut each entertain in to slices about 4mm (1/6in) thick. Put in to a vessel with the considerate and H2O and prepare kindly until they are only proposal on the outside. Strain off the liquid and measure. If it is some-more than about 75ml (2fl oz) bring to boil to revoke it to this volume. Pour over the apples and leave to cool completely.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas symbol 5 and put in a steel baking-sheet to warm.

Roll out dual thirds of the fritter and make use of it to line a cake plate measuring 25cm (10in) in hole and 6cm (2in) deep. Sprinkle the belligerent almonds on the bottom of the pie. Lay the apples and the raspberries on top, adding syrup as you go. Roll out the rest of the fritter and cut in to eight strips to form a lattice. Moisten each finish and lay opposite the tip of the pie, interweaving as you go.

Press down the ends to seal.

Put the cake in the oven on the baking-sheet and prepare until the ripened offspring is proposal and the fritter golden about thirty minutes. Eight mins prior to the end, separate on the flaked almonds and lapse to the oven. Dust the cake easily with topping sugarine to serve.

Newcastle fans urged to stop abusive taunting of owner Mike Ashley

By Rob Stewart 1120AM GMT twelve March 2010

Enough is sufficient Derek Llambias has called for Newcastle fans to stop berating Mike Ashley Photo PA

Newcastle United will head to Middlesbrough on Saturday aiming to make firm their care of the Championship and Llambias has warned that one after another barracking of the sports sell aristocrat at the Riverside could criticise the graduation challenge.

"The organisation enjoys the await of a good and constant fan-base and we all conclude that and the certain outcome it has on the players," Llambias said.

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"That said, the following comments are destined at a small and really disastrous organisation that notwithstanding the efforts on and off the pitch, still demand on chanting nauseous and violent comments about the club"s owner, Mike Ashley, generally afar from home where we need that 12th man most.

"We are you do all we practically can to get this good football bar at the back of up to the Premier League and notwithstanding the abuse destined at him by that territory of supporters, Mike continues to underline his joining by pumping in money.

"That negativity doesn"t assistance the ambience and positively doesn"t assistance the players. We are perplexing to emanate a positive, family ambience inside this good stadium, something we have underlined by fluctuating the family area for subsequent deteriorate and beyond."

Llambias, who runs the bar for Ashley, shielded his paymaster who stays a knave of the assent is a little supporters" eyes and is hold obliged for the club"s relegation from the Premier League last season.

"I have attempted tough to omit this abuse but honestly something needs to be said." Llambias added.

"Let me set the jot down true about Mike"s joining to Newcastle United. Since the commencement of the deteriorate he has pumped in �25.5 million in to this football bar and this week a serve �5 million was needed.

"In further to these amounts, Mike, realising the need to move in new faces and at the back of his manager"s request, outlayed �5.5 million in the Jan send window.

"This cash, as with all the supports that Mike has put in is interest-free. This income in vicious and is indispensable to cover the shortfall in between what we move in as a bar income - and what we compensate out in costs.

"Not all football clubs have such a champion and a little are on the verge of failure or have already left in to administration."

Llambias additionally took a appropriate at the Newcastle United Supporters" Trust that was set up to give fans illustration on the club"s board.

"The supporters" trust, certainly a well intentioned beginning by a organisation of constant NUFC supporters is simply not realistic," Llambias said.

"It is time this organisation additionally got at the back of the government so we can all move brazen in a certain demeanour with the same design -we all wish to see the bar in the tip moody and successful.

"It is time to move on, pull a line underneath what has left on in the past, stop the negativity and combine on giving the organisation complete, 100 per cent support."

Car scrappage scheme leaves a hole in used-car sales

By Graham Ruddick 700AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

In 2009, 6.8m used cars were sold, down 5.7pc on 2008 and the slightest given 6.71m were sole in 2000, according to credit rating group Experian.

Sales of small cars and those less than 3 years old were generally struck as the Government"s scrappage incentive, that offering a �2,000 bonus on 400,000 new cars, meant most new models were roughly as poor as a little used cars.

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The scrappage intrigue additionally limited the series of old cars for sale, thereby inflating prices, as used vehicles were scrapped rather than sole on.

The programme"s stroke came on tip of recessionary factors such as car owners keeping hold of their existent vehicles for longer, thus obscure sales and supply further.

"The retrogression and the scrappage intrigue have had a big stroke on the used car market," Kirk Fletcher, handling executive for Experian Business Information and Automotive, said.

The scrappage intrigue is due to close at the finish of Mar and Lookers, the car dealership group, pronounced it approaching used-car pricing and sales to surge forward in 2010 as the debility of argent opposite the euro pushes new car prices higher.

"The scrappage intrigue is entrance to an end, but worth for income will sojourn at the forefront of consumer"s minds, that equates to that they could relax their criteria and find out older, reduce labelled vehicles," Mr Fletcher added.

Manuel Pellegrini awaits his fate after Real Madrid crash out of Champions League

By Rory Smith 745PM GMT eleven March 2010

In the cold Manuel Pellegrini has warranted the rage of Spanish fans after Lyon finished Real Madrid"s hopes Photo AP

But he certified his destiny stays in the hands of boss Florentino Perez.

The Chilean has faced a swell of critique in Spain for unwell to finish Real"s abuse they have not reached the last eight given 2004 in a year in that the tournament"s last will be hold in the Bernabeu, notwithstanding Perez"s cost of some-more than �230 million last summer on the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, Karim Benzema and Kaka.

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Pellegrini, though, stays unbowed after crashing out 2-1 to Lyon on total on Wednesday night, claiming he did not determine to leave Villarreal for a "project that usually lasted one year" and insisting he can compare the achievements of his predecessors, Fabio Capello and Bernd Schuster, by wresting the joining pretension from Barcelona.

"My destiny depends on what the house decides, but I will not resign," he said. "I do not think this plan was usually about this year. We would have favourite to win all but we are still tip of the joining list and we have to spin the page as fast as possible. We can win the title, similar to Schuster and Capello did. You cannot decider a plan similar to this after only a couple of months."

The Spanish press, certainly, appear to remonstrate Marca"s front page on Thursday review "Out Goodbye Champions League, Goodbye Pellegrini". And Perez"s jot down will yield meagre goal for Pellegrini.

The building a whole aristocrat discharged Vicente Del Bosque after winning the joining in 2003 and shows no pointer of guidance from his mistakes. Though Madrid apparently longed for the dangling Xabi Alonso as they sought to ease ascent Lyon vigour in the Bernabeu on Tuesday and Pellegrini saw his counterclaim ripped to shreds, purposes not in in glorious have never appealed to Perez.

Instead, his summer spending plans are believed to inhere securing the signature of Franck Ribry, the Bayern Munich winger, and Angel Di Maria, of Benfica, as he attempts to safeguard Madrid eventually lift their quarter-final abuse in the foe they worth on top of all others, despite a year as well late.

Actress Rebecca Hall puts Hollywood on hold

By Tim Walker 958PM GMT eleven March 2010

Rebecca Hall is to fool around Viola in a National Theatre prolongation of Twelfth Night Photo WireImage

Rebecca Hall told Mandrake last year that she programmed to concentration on her Hollywood career rather than the stage. Her father, the renowned entertainment executive Sir Peter Hall, is gay that she is, though, rebuilt to have an difference for him.

The 27-year-old star of Vicky Cristina Barcelona is to fool around Viola in a National Theatre prolongation of Twelfth Night destined by Sir Peter to symbol his 80th birthday in November.

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"Fortunately, she has had a reconstruction of old enthusiasms," he says. "I similar to to see her you do what she is happiest you do and if you wish to have great entertainment you need Hollywood movies since they pay. Theatre doesnt."

Naked greed

Wealthy MP Bernard Jenkin had no difficulty essay a coupon for roughly �37,000 to pay off the Commons fees bureau after his dodgy losses claims. Mandrake wonders if his North Essex subdivision organisation will find it so easy to hang with him, though.

A series of members would cite an pure candidate. "People have regularly been happy to accept Bernards naturism and alternative eccentricities," says one, "but they pull the line at greed."

Barbara Follett, the usually MP forced to pay off some-more than Jenkin, is stepping down.

Unloverly thought

Is there a abuse of My Fair Lady? First, Keira Knightley had second thoughts about personification Eliza Doolittle in Sir Cameron Mackintoshs stirring remake. Now, Hugh Grant has pronounced "thanks, but no interjection after being sounded out to fool around Henry Higgins.

Caring and sharing

Labour harps on about Lord Ashcroft, but the Tories right away have an additional challenging fund-raiser in their camp. Richard Caring, the owners of The Ivy, hosted a celebration at Annabels this week that lifted some-more than �500,000.

"One of the auction prizes was a fire at Carings nation estate," says a guest at his Mayfair nightclub. "Bryan Ferry sang."

Caring, who done his happening in the broom trade, is still due income by Labour after he lent the celebration �2 million to cover debts it ran up during the 2005 ubiquitous choosing campaign.

Gordon Brown has terrible form when it comes to keeping his promises

By Jeff Randall 535PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

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Gordon Brown has a conspicuous might for requesting the Tipp-Ex

The great strife looms. After months of exhilarated build-up, we will shortly know the result of a competition in in between dual starkly resisting styles.

On one side is a big bruiser, the survivor of a small intolerable setbacks, whose continuation one can usually admire. On the alternative is a sleeker, some-more discriminating contender, respected, but not nonetheless desired by the nation.

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Yes, we are usually 7 days afar from the Cheltenham Festival"s main event, when Denman and Kauto Star will risk all to establish who is National Hunt"s biggest staying chaser.

If the domestic masters were half as compelling, ubiquitous choosing turn-outs would not be in decline. Gordon Brown contra David Cameron offers conjunction the flawlessness nor the firmness of a Gold Cup.

From Tuesday to Friday subsequent week, the courtesy of majority in commercial operation and governing body will switch from the grub of supervision by dishonesty to the philharmonic that is burst racing at the finest, where law in conflict cannot be concealed.

Prestbury Park in mid-March elevates the spirits, a pretentious daze from the grave awaiting of Alistair Darling"s debt shuffling, the oddity of televised leaders" debates and all that dull posturing prior to polling day.

With brag that can be invoked usually by someone whose romantic comprehension is buried in a safe of self-delusion, the Prime Minister voiced this week that the Budget will be on Mar 24.

His concomitant comments about "character" appeared to have been scripted by a stand up comic in need of a small uninformed material.

"For improved or worse, with me what you see is what you get," pronounced Mr Brown. It is a line so at contingency with reality, so manifestly untrue, so definitely silly that one hardly knows where to begin severe it.

Was this the same Mr Brown whose shameless justification to the Chilcot Inquiry was discharged by Army chiefs as "disingenuous"? The same Mr Brown who unleashed the "forces of hell" on his own chancellor? The same Mr Brown who cannot travel past a inhabitant statistic but rebasing the dimensions for slight domestic value (crime, inflation, growth)?

When events challenge the Prime Minister"s elite perspective of the world, he has a conspicuous might for requesting the Tipp-Ex. History doesn"t show up him given he possibly ignores or rewrites it. No British personality in my lifetime has embraced the technique of sincerity semblance with larger enthusiasm.

Mr Brown"s majority gross abuse of the credulity, "no some-more bang and bust", has been expunged from the script. In the place is a explain that his might saved us from the ravages of an American-inspired crash. Rather than atone his sins of profligacy, he seeks to feat them. Financial disaster is repackaged as a tactical delight his triumph.

"I won"t let you down," Mr Brown promises. Too late, old son, you already have.

With so most at seductiveness votes to be bought, illusions to be combined there seems small possibility that the Prime Minister will concede Mr Darling to erect a Budget in Britain"s wider interest. Crude giveaways will cover-up as investment.

It wasn"t meant to be similar to this. For those of proposal years or short memories, let me take you at the behind of twelve years. Mr Brown, afterwards chancellor, was scheming his initial full Budget and I went to talk him at the Treasury.

Labour had been in energy not even twelve months, nonetheless the portents looked surprisingly attractive. Inflation was underneath control, stagnation was falling, argent was strong, as was the batch market.

On entering his office, I beheld a book on the window table, Rewarding Work by the economist Edmund Phelps. I longed for the irony.

The chancellor"s thesis was mercantile responsibility. If usually I had well known afterwards what we all know now. To my regret, I authorised as well majority of his assertions of cunning to go unchallenged.

He told me "Interest payments on the inhabitant debt are �25 billion a year. We"re spending some-more on inhabitant debt amends than on schools or law and order, and that is a incident I don"t wish as a hallmark of a Labour governmente... The open borrowing sequence was �23 billion last year. We plan to get it down really substantially."

Then, branch on the Tories, Mr Brown barked "In 1992, they [the Conservative government] likely the necessity would be eliminated, and by 1996 it had turn �50 billion. I will not concede the nation to get in to that state again... We"re not going at the behind of to that sort of incident where incautious decisions, formed on a misreading of the cycle, lead us to have spending apportionments that we cannot afford."

Sorry to say, that is precisely what he finished up doing. With the stream necessity using at �180 billion, and annual seductiveness payments set to reach �40 billion (more than we cost on defence), the disaster he claimed had been left at the behind of by his prototype seems some-more and some-more similar to a golden legacy. Hard to believe, but we usually didn"t conclude how great we were carrying it.

In his early years, increased by a �23 billion asset from the sale of 3G licences, Mr Brown kept a obliged hold on the open purse. But by 2002, following Labour"s second choosing victory, he began to let rip.

In each of his five budgets in in between 2003 and 2007, Mr Brown overspent on normal by some-more than �30 billion, clocking up about �160 billion of debt.

What"s more, the oath he done to me in 1998 to lay "the foundations for long-term industrial and mercantile success" came to less than nothing.

Under Labour, Britain has strew production jobs at an shocking rate about 1.7 million have left given 1997. In that year, production accounted for 20.9 per cent of the United Kingdom"s GDP. By the time of the last election, it was down to 13.6 per cent. Today, it is revoke still.

Since my assembly with Mr Brown in 1998, alternative key indicators have changed in the conflicting citation stagnation is up, taxes are up, inhabitant word is up, sum borrowings (state and personal) are up, as are grant pot deficits.

Even with sterling"s twenty-five per cent devaluation (against a basket of tellurian currencies) in the past 3 years, the UK"s traffic opening for Jan reached �8 billion. Whither Mr Brown"s pull for competitiveness?

Between 2000 and 2010, the Government"s annual cost scarcely doubled to �700 billion. In sequence to put Britain"s state finance management on a trail at the behind of to sanity, commercial operation run groups, the CBI and the Institute of Directors, as well as association leaders, such as Marks & Spencer"s authority Sir Stuart Rose, are perfectionist early movement to revoke open spending.

Will we get it? Not if Labour wins a fourth term.

In this year"s Gold Cup margin there"s a 20-1 shot called Tricky Trickster. Do you ever get the feeling that he"s using the country?

Mothers Day: a night with Simon Cowell and Boeing 747 among bizarre gift searches

By Heidi Blake 1022AM GMT eleven March 2010

A night with Simon Cowell was between the some-more weird searches for Mother"s Day presents Photo PA

Other users have searched for "a servant" and "an tasteful man with loads of money" to benefaction to their mom this Sunday.

The website OffersSupermarket.co.uk, that has reported a 65 per cent surge in searches in the run up to Mothering Sunday, has gathered a list of the 10 funniest equipment users are seeking for.

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It includes a drifting carpet, a time appurtenance and a span of "mens high-heeled shoes".

One user goal to benefaction his mom with "metallic wallpaper", whilst an additional thought an air guitar would have a wise gift.

Offerssupermarket.co.uk prides itself on being means to find consumers anything object they wish at the most appropriate price, but staff at the online selling site have spoken themselves knocked about by most of the some-more weird Mother"s Day searches.

One ask for an new 1979 wall monthly monthly monthly calendar was successful, and staff were means to send the object to the patron after an endless search.

Eve Atkins, owner of the website, pronounced "The list brought a lot of delight to the office, and nonetheless we knew that we couldnt broach we still conducted a search. It is good that young kids wish to give their Mother such courteous gifts. The group felt really unapproachable of themselves when they located the calendar."

The 10 funniest online poke requests

1) Attractive man with loads of income

2) A 1979 wall monthly monthly monthly calendar

3) Time machines

4) Air guitar

5) A menial

6) Flying runner

7) Mens High heeled shoes,

8) Metallic Wallpaper

9) Boeing 747

10) A night with Simon Cowell

Scottish Power is last of big six to cut gas prices

156PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

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The organisation is the last of the "big six" appetite providers to revoke the gas tariffs this year as firms reply to neatly reduce indiscriminate appetite prices. Around 1.6m gas business will good from today"s reduction.

Scottish Power captivated critique not long ago for unwell to pass on indiscriminate cost reductions some-more fast when it suggested a 7.9pc climb in gain last year. It has not marked down customary gas prices given early last year. Scottish Power"s move will see the gas bills tumble by an normal of �66 a year.

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But the organisation was the majority costly customary remuneration gas provider prior to the ultimate turn of cuts and stays the beloved notwithstanding today"s announcement, according to eccentric consumer watchdog Consumer Focus.

An annual singular fuel gas check will cost an normal �832 with Scottish Power after the Mar 31 reduction, opposite �735 with E.ON, that will turn the cheapest after the cost change. E.ON is slicing gas prices by 6pc, with the remission receiving outcome on Mar 31.

Meanwhile, Npower voiced on Tuesday that it would cut gas bills by 7pc from Mar 26, ensuing in an normal remission of �50 a year for the 2m customary made at home gas customers.

British Gas and Scottish & Southern Energy have additionally both voiced cost cuts this year. British Gas last month marked down the gas prices by 7pc with evident effect, whilst Scottish & Southern Energy is slicing customary twin fuel gas prices by 4pc from Mar 29.

Scottish Power, that is owned by Spanish organisation Iberdrola, is additionally charity a �50 winter remission to assistance the majority exposed physical phenomenon customers, that will be credited to their comment by Mar 31.

However, whilst this year"s cost drops might be acquire headlines for gas customers, they come as well late to assistance ease the cost of heating bills during one of the coldest Januarys on record.

There have additionally been no reductions for customary physical phenomenon bills, solely for discounts charity by a series of providers to those profitable by monthly approach debit.

Consumer Focus pronounced it was unhappy that physical phenomenon had not come down in price. It additionally strike out at an strong "pack mentality" in between the providers to cut by identical amounts and inside of days of each other.

Audrey Gallacher of Consumer Focus pronounced "The appetite marketplace should be charity Premiership levels of foe unfortunately it is kicking around in the lowest levels of Sunday League. Any goal is right away left of the genuine cost fight this marketplace needs so badly.

"The shouts for an eccentric review by the Competition Commission should right away be deafening."

Common osteoporosis drugs could make limbs weaker if used for too long

157PM GMT 10 March 2010

Scientists found that bisphosphonates urge apportion at the responsibility of quality. Although the medicines helped safety bone, over time they appeared to deteriorate the structure.

As a result, it is believed diagnosis with the drug competence enlarge the risk of surprising fractures after 4 or some-more years.

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An estimated 3 million people in the UK humour from osteoporosis, majority of whom take bisphosphonates.

The disease is well well known as the ""silent epidemic"" since it mostly stays dark until a chairman breaks a bone. It is obliged for 200,000 fractures in the UK each year and poses a vital risk to post-menopausal women, inspiring about 20% of those elderly 60 to 69.

Bisphosphonates are additionally since to a small cancer patients who humour a loss of bone firmness possibly as a outcome of their disease or therapy.

They delayed down the rate at that skeleton are damaged down and demineralised as piece of the body"s healthy recycling process, permitting bone to turn denser.

But the dual new US studies by scientists in New York show they additionally dissapoint the vegetable and bright make up of bone, causing weaknesses that can lead to fractures.

""Although bisphosphonates have demonstrated an alleviation in bone quantity, small if anything is well well known about the goods of these drug on bone quality,"" pronounced researcher Brian Gladnick, from the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS).

One group of investigators from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) looked at 111 post-menopausal women with osteoporosis, 61 of whom had been receiving the drug for at slightest 4 years. The make up of their skeleton was compared with that of 50 sufferers treated with colour with colour with colour with calcium and vitamin D supplements but not bisphosphonates.

The investigate found that bisphosphonates softened bone make up early on in treatment, but over time this good diminished.

Dr Melvin Rosenwasser, an orthopaedic surgeon at the CUMC, pronounced ""In the early diagnosis period, patients utilizing bisphosphonates experienced improvements in all parameters, together with decreased buckling comparative measure and increasing cross-sectional area.

""However, after 4 years of use, these trends reversed, divulgence an organisation in between enlarged care and disappearing cortical bone constructional integrity.""

The second investigate conducted at HSS evaluated the bone combination of twenty-one post-menopausal women treated with colour with colour with colour for thigh fractures. Of these, twelve had a story of bisphosphonate diagnosis for an normal of 8.5 years. Nine had not been since bisphosphonates.

Samples of bone were private from each patient"s thigh bone during surgery and analysed.

Researchers found less constructional unity in the bone tissue from bisphosphonate-treated patients.

This could outcome in debility and minister to out-of-the-ordinary fractures, they said.

""Patients who had been treated with colour with colour with colour with bisphosphonates showed a rebate in tissue heterogeneity, privately with vegetable calm and clear distance compared with the carry out group,"" pronounced Mr Gladnick. ""This tells us that there competence be a small quantifiable differences in bone peculiarity parameters in patients on long-term bisphosphonate therapy, that competence minister to the growth of atypical fractures.""

Findings from both studies were presented currently at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons" annual assembly in New Orleans.

The scientists hold bisphosphonates conceal the body"s healthy capability to transform bone, but contend some-more investigate is indispensable to consider the long-term efficacy of the drugs.

""Bisphosphonate make use of still is a really in effect resolution that prevents bone loss in majority patients and no one is recommending that physicians equivocate prescribing these,"" pronounced Dr Rosenwasser. ""However, as baby boomers age and go on to sojourn active, it is critical that we control some-more investigate and rise sustainable, protected and in effect treatments for osteoporosis.""

South by SouthWest 2010

By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) 1040AM GMT eleven March 2010

All the courtesy this year will be on location-based services, such as Foursquare and Gowalla.

As well as keynote speeches, row discussions and a traffic show, the legal holiday additionally hosts an annual web endowment ceremony, that has turn an indicator of a little of the webs majority critical new websites. South by Southwest (SXSW) played a poignant purpose in pushing Twitter in to the mainstream, after the make use of took the 2007 legal holiday by storm.

This year all the courtesy is on location-based services, such as Foursquare and Gowalla, both of that are formulation vital updates to happen at the same time with the event. They goal that the hundreds of legal holiday attendees will make use of their services to plan their time in Austin and assistance to lift their profile.

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SXSW was launched in 1987 as a song legal holiday and combined movie and interactive components in 1994. As well as stars from the internet industry, musicians and movie stars will additionally deplane on Texas for the nine-day event, that is packaged with movie premieres and song showcases and is attended by tens of thousands of people from all over the world.

Part-time jobs for teenagers: Education for the real world

By Patricia Carswell 1100AM GMT eleven March 2010

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Of all of the teenage rites of thoroughfare so far, one of the majority gratifying has been dropping my son off for his initial paid job. Admittedly it was usually raking leaves for a next door neighbour not only enrolling at Goldman Sachs but this one small step in to the universe of work felt similar to a hulk step in to adult life.

Since afterwards (still, maybe mercifully, display no enterprise towards banking) he has branched out in to car washing, portrayal and decorating, timber chopping and guitar lessons. The money, that he"s saving for a post-GCSE plea expedition, has, gratifyingly, proposed to hurl in and the outing is apropos a reality.

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More gratifying than saying him lift the cash, though, is my flourishing clarity that he is removing a ambience of what genuine hold up is all about. I can harass and evangelise all I similar to about the worth of money, but but saying it for himself, the chances are that my divine difference will be filed in the territory of his teenage mind clinging to uninteresting adult lectures, to one side the dangers of the internet and the state of complicated cocktail music.

A back-breaking afternoon chopping logs, rewarded by a handful of frail notes, is an forever some-more in effect approach of removing the summary opposite that income doesn"t grow on trees.

As any primogenitor of a operative teenager will discuss it you, the advantages go over the quite financial. Suddenly under obligation to someone alternative than their relatives and teachers, they fast find that slacking off has consequences over a dodgy report. Made to wash up all over again, flustered in front of colleagues they"re penetrating to stir or worse not removing paid at all; the lessons are fast learnt.

These lessons will mount them in great stead for years to come. Jackie James, whose children, Rhys, 22, Philip, 19, and Nicky, 18, all juggled part-time jobs around their schoolwork, has no disbelief that it did them good.

"It gave them all majority and responsibility." she says. "And when Rhys was seeking for jobs after on, it gave him certainty as he knew he had the capability to do things for alternative people."

Some superbly idealistic teenagers even select to work for no money. Julia Marshall, 15, volunteers at a Cancer Research UK gift shop. She tells me that she was encouraged to request by a enterprise to help.

"Cancer is a big thing at the moment," she says, "and as I can"t work in a lab, this was the most appropriate thing I could do. I get a clarity of compensation from you do it, generally when the gift tells us how most the emporium has done during the year. But I regularly feel I could be you do more."

Inspired by these heartening examples of sedulous youth, it would be easy feel a hold complacent. In enlivening my son to work, maybe I"ve stumbled on a form of amicable fast-tracking that no volume of whim education or old-school-tie networking could buy something to interest both to my unapproachable clarity of preservation and my less estimable clarity of parental competitiveness.

Before I get carried afar with thoughts of amicable benefits and negotiable skills, though, I"m reminded that rising in to the marketplace isn"t all solid sailing.

Balancing schoolwork and a amicable hold up with the final of a trainer however good and internal is a challenge. Most teenagers aren"t sanctified with a entirely functioning time government gene and the pressures can mountup. Deciding in between a square of coursework that counts towards a GCSE and a joining to an employer or customer can be a difficult call.

Sam Kerr, 15, spends his Saturday evenings washing up and watchful tables at a internal pub.

"He does find it tough to fit it all in," says his mother, Louise. "He mostly plays rugby on a Saturday afternoon and comes back, lonesome in mud, with frequency any time to showering and eat prior to he goes out again. He has to have certain that he lets his trainer know if he"s going to be late and he has had to sense to think ahead."

Having a unchanging pursuit can be a draw towards in alternative ways, too. Sam has had to miss parties in sequence to go to work and infrequently it feels similar to a scapegoat as well far.

"It would be simpler to contend "Don"t go to work"," Louise says. "It"s a prolonged day at the finish of a prolonged week and infrequently he doesn"t feel similar to it."

For all that, she is austere that the benefits transcend the pitfalls.

"It"s taught him about joining and has since him a work ethic. He understands the worth of money, as well and he unequivocally appreciates his private, personal time."

That"s a toll sufficient publicity for me. Early practice competence not be the pass to success that I"d similar to to imagine, but it really has the advantages. And who knows? With the economy in the state it is, all those gardening and washing-up skills competence only come in utilitarian one day.

KEEPING TABS

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Check out the taxation position. Mr Darling might be after their cash.Give them a leg up. Tools and apparatus arent cheap.Cut them a little slack. Real work is tiring.

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Keep popping in. Really, dont.Snigger when they discuss it you how tough it is.Insist on pity their earnings. Payback time comes later.

Oddbins: Fall and rise of a British institution

By Jonathan Ray 700AM GMT eleven March 2010

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Previous of Images Next Fighting behind Oddbins is ditching the big brands in foster of not as big individualist producers Photo MARTIN POPE Jonathan Ray"s prime Oddbins wines Photo MARTIN POPE

After far as well prolonged in the ennui Oddbins has a open in the step once again. I worked there years ago in my year off, and during university holidays, in the days when it was wild, dumb and eccentric, with delightfully quirky wines (and even quirkier staff).

Friday nights in the Covent Garden store in Earlham Street were a hoot, with multi-tattooed Marcus on one till, Tom in his bespoke tux and black tie (off to the opera) on the other, and the physical education instructor blotto and snoring in the office. Locals would dump by to fire the breeze, fool around a discerning diversion of cards at the finish of the opposite and have a ambience of whatever new and sparkling bottles we had open.

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I gathering the Oddbins smoothness outpost for a while, too, until I was relieved from avocation after identical tiwn disasters. I returned multiform cases lighter interjection to carrying taken that kink in the Blackwall Tunnel a diminutive bit as well quickly and, a day later, incited up dual hours late with the sparkle for a Duran Duran manuscript launch. If Simon Le Bon had put as majority bid in to his singing as he did afterwards in to his invective, I unequivocally think that rope competence have done something of themselves.

Oddbins did majority to popularise booze celebration in Britain, pioneering the wines of Australia and Chile in sold and, for a while, those of Bulgaria as well (remember them?). It non-stop shops in Paris, put the staff by the Wine and Spirit Education Trust"s higher obligation and diploma courses, and was the usually sequence to exaggerate the own full-time art department, producing splendidly ardent posters and point-of-sale material. Having been sold, the organisation fell on tough times, though, and became something of a high-street joke, initial in the hands of Seagram and afterwards underneath the carry out of French drinks hulk Castel, who insisted on seasoned mixture it with cheap, dull brands and uninterested, lifeless staff.

It has not long ago been bought, though, by Simon Baile son of the prior owners Nick and it has been transformed. The list has been cut and the brands mostly ditched in foster of small parcels from individualist producers.

Baile has pronounced that if he and his group find a booze they like, they"ll happily buy only 600 bottles of it. Now happily out of the hold of Castel, there is no vigour simply to raise it high and sell it cheap.

As I find on a revisit to my internal store in Hove there are right afar wines of genuine impression on the shelves and at satisfactory prices, too. Unlike Majestic a long-time prime of cave there"s no smallest squeeze either, but if you buy by the (mixed) dozen you get twenty per cent off, at that point prices turn unequivocally keen.

Of the dozen or so wines I taste, there isn"t one that I wouldn"t happily splash again. I had rather taken my eye off Oddbins of late, but it"s a great British establishment and deserves to be taken severely once more. It once had something of a repute as a rather individualist booze traffic finishing propagandize and the traffic is congested with those who outlayed time in the employ. It"s great to see it behind on form. Its nearest rival, Majestic, needs to see to the laurels.

See the row (below) for five of my prime Oddbins wines.

jonathan.ray@telegraph.co.ukA full list of Oddbins wines can be found at www.oddbins.com

High travel gems five of the majority appropriate Oddbins wines

2008 Lobster Reef Sauvignon Blanc, 13.5%vol, New Zealand (�6.39 as piece of a churned dozen, differently �7.99).

I unequivocally love Kiwi sauvignons and this e.g. from Marlborough is a pink of a booze at a disarmingly medium price. It has the approaching cut grass, cats pee and gooseberry impression but is less pleasant and some-more calm and minerally than most. Almost thirst-quenchingly drinkable, it creates a penetrating aperitif or partner to majority fish dishes.

2008 Les Ollieux "Capucine, Vin de Pays de lAude, 13%vol, France (�6.39 as piece of churned dozen, differently �7.99).

A surprisingly formidable mix of carignan, grenache, syrah and merlot from Corbières-Boutenac in the Languedoc. Its jammy and succulent, with a deeply gratifying earthiness and rusticity. You unequivocally need something similar to a bubbling pot of daube de sanglier mopped up by crusty French bread to do it justice.

2007 La Multa Old Vine Garnacha, 14.5%vol, Spain (�5.49 as piece of churned dozen, differently �6.99).

From Calatayud in north-east Spain, this is conspicuous value. Made from 45-year-old garnacha vines, the violet-scented, intense, strong and richly flavoured with poetic hazed shear and cherry-like fruit. Its big stuff, with stout tannins, but these will warp afar when served with a luscious T-bone beef and hand-cut fries.

2007 Alain Roy Montagny 1er Cru, 13%vol, France (�11.99 as piece of churned dozen, differently �14.99).

Montagny can be a prolific sport belligerent for well-made, sincerely labelled white burgundy, nonetheless there are most prosy examples, too. This is first-rate, with crisp, crunchy ripened offspring and a toasty finish with blink-and-you-missed-it hints of honey. Its positively grand things and the tasty with duck and fungus pie.

2008 Falanghina di Majo Organic, 13%vol, Italy (�7.99 as piece of churned dozen, differently �9.99).

From Molise in southern Italy, this unblended falanghina is full of impression and charm. With pointed aromas of quince, pears and flowering plants on the nose and rounded, full-flavoured ripened offspring and spices on the palate, it seems roughly greasy in texture. Try it with a salad of frise lettuce, parched scallops and smoked bacon lardons.

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Kraft faces panel investigation

By Richard Fletcher, City Editor 600AM GMT 09 March 2010

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During the antagonistic bid for the British confectioner, the US-based food hulk lifted hopes that it would retreat a preference by Cadbury to close Somerdale, claiming that "Kraft Foods believes it will be in on all sides to go on to work the Somerdale facility".

But inside of weeks of completing the �11.5bn merger of Cadbury, Kraft voiced that it would pull forward with plans to close the Somerdale bureau in Keynsham at a cost of 400 jobs.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the impending Conservative claimant for the area, wrote to the Takeover Panel last month asking the City regulator to investigate.

"This sort of poise discredits the City, undermines certainty in monetary markets and deserves unrelenting disciplinary movement by the Takeover Panel," pronounced Mr Rees-Mogg. "It is an abominable approach to provide people, it is not how big multi-nationals should behave."

The row refused to comment, but reports indicate the regulator that has right away launched a rough investigation. If the regulator finds that Kraft has misled staff and investors it could publicly condemnation the US organisation and the City advisers.

The preference to examine statements done by Kraft is believed to have behind the appointment of Peter Kiernan, now a handling executive at Lazard, as executive ubiquitous of the Takeover Panel. Mr Kiernan suggested Kraft on the bid.

Meanwhile, in a debate last night Lord Myners, the monetary services secretary, called for the row to review UK manners with alternative countries. The former account physical education instructor additionally questioned either the row should additionally be charged with safeguarding shareholders of the association behest as well as the target.

"The Takeover Code is, for great reason, focused on safeguarding the interests of shareholders in the aim association requiring all shareholders to be treated with colour equally, since required report and advice.

"The formula says small about the interests of the bidder company, and nonetheless educational and anecdotal justification (ask the shareholders in GEC) suggests that where a takeover leads to really bad outcomes it is no rmally at the responsibility of the behest association and the shareholders," he said.

NY seeks fat tax on sodas to fight rising US obesity

By Sebastian Smith, in New York for AFP 1141AM GMT 09 March 2010

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Twenty per cent of young kids elderly 6 to nineteen are estimated to humour from obesity. Photo Nikolay Okhitin

State Health Commissioner Richard Daines took up the issue Monday, vocalization of a "golden opportunity" to emanate the tax.

"The thespian underpricing of sugar-sweetened beverages, their drawn out availability, and the constant selling of these products consecrate a stumbling retard to great health and are a transparent and benefaction risk to the destiny of the children," Daines said.

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He called plumpness "the greatest open health plea of this and the subsequent couple of decades".

Public officials in New York and alternative states are echoing that call, eyeing the taxation as a possibility both to change diets and to feed taxation coffers burned out by the recession.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, well well known for his anti-smoking electioneer in the city, additionally touted the thought in his weekly air wave residence Sunday.

"In these difficult mercantile times, easy fixes to the problems are tough to come by," he said. "But the soft drink taxation is a repair that only creates sense. It would save lives, it would cut rising health costs."

Nearly twenty per cent of US young kids in between the ages of 6 and nineteen estimated to humour from obesity, that can inspire diabetes, heart disease and alternative grave problems.

Health experts censure deficient exercise, but additionally the habit, quite between the poor, of washing down fast food with extra-sugary soda.

The predicament has fed ballooning open costs - $7.6 billion (�5 billion) in annual obesity-related healing bills in New York state alone - most of that are lonesome by taxpayers.

Tax proponents contend that soft drinks should be treated with colour similar to tobacco so that the supervision can effectively cost people afar from their bad habits.

The soft drink industry dismisses the cigarettes together and has lobbied tough - successfully so far - opposite the levy.

J. Justin Wilson, comparison investigate researcher at the soft drinks industry-connected Center for Consumer Freedom indicted the supervision of utilizing forged health arguments to censor in a new taxation on businesses.

"If the city or state is out of money, afterwards they should own up to it, rather than perplexing to censor taxes in a total slew of new fees," he said.

"They should own up to their monetary mismanagement and lift income taxes."

The industry scored a singular square of certain broadside on Monday when it voiced outrageous intentional reductions in the volume of high-sugar drinks sole to schools opposite the country.

Leading companies, together with Coca-cola and PepsiCo, assimilated former boss Bill Clinton in announcing the initiative, observant that there are 88 per cent fewer calories in drinks right away than there were in 2004.

"It"s a code new day in America"s schools when it comes to beverages," pronounced the head of the American Beverage Association, Susan Neely.

"Our libation companies have slashed calories in schools as full-calorie soft drinks have been removed. The beverages accessible to students are right away lower-calorie, nutritious, smaller-portion choices."

Wilson, at the Center for Consumer Freedom, indicted the supervision of denying people their guilty pleasures, or, as he put it, determining their own "balance of enjoying hold up and hold up extension".

"They"re punishing people for enjoying a small hold up once in a while," he said.

Property in France: owning a French vineyard

By Zoe�Dare Hall 1055AM GMT 09 March 2010

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Previous of Images Next Pick of the stand Girondine Chateau in Languedoc Caroline, Ellie, Sean and Sophia Feely Restored farmhouse in Plan de la Tour, Provence

For Caroline and Sean Feely, apropos winemakers in Bergerac has brought their family a lifestyle they outlayed years yearning for.

Their income might not review to their days in investment and program in Dublin, but by producing 20,000 bottles a year and charity a legal legal holiday let, booze classes, tours and a vine share programme, they have "a medium living", says Caroline, 41.

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The Feelys changed to south-west France five years ago with a toddler, Sophia, right away seven, and baby Ellie in tow. In poke of a residence and apart embankment with at slightest twenty-five acres of vines for around €360,000 (�312,000 at todays rate), they found only what they were seeking for, by the group My-French-House.com, in the encampment of Saussignac.

They have incited the cheap Chateau Haut Garrigue in to their family home, they rent out their legal legal holiday lodge (wildearthvineyards.com) and have converted the vineyard to deliver organic and biodynamic winemaking methods.

"We jumped in at the low finish from day one, you do all ourselves, with specialists to advise, but it was tough," Caroline says. "Wine is a prolonged diversion we usually expelled the initial reds in mid-2008, 3 years after nearing here and the full on, as when the vineyard is quiet, the winery is manic and clamp versa. But we love it.

"We consequence less and we work far harder now, but we are following the dream." For any one meditative of following suit, Caroline says to have certain you have sufficient income to cover dual years of handling costs, stand in the time and the cost you guess for renovations, and beware of the bureaucracy in France."

Owning a vineyard is still the mental condition for most Britons, but they conclude right away that the a rarely rival business, too, says Harris Raphael from the Dordogne-based estate group Pioneer France.

Vineyard properties on Raphaels books range from a two-bedroom residence with a chai (the construction containing the booze vats) and 6.25 acres of vines for �347,000, to a five-bedroom residence nearby Prigord with 12.5 acres of vines for �694,000 and a castle with 60 acres for �8.7 million.

"You will have to compensate celestial total for a skill in the particularly tranquil appellations such as St Emilion or Medoc. Bergerac is somewhat less costly and, if you see in areas that are not reserved to specific appellations but still furnish great wines, skill prices begin to see cheap," Raphael says.

At the alternative finish of the scale, Rupert Birch, a former investment banker, outlayed a substantial total on construction his home and winery on his 45 acres of land nearby Aix-en-Provence. Tired of the rat competition in London, he motionless to move to southern France, buy his vineyard and began a new hold up as a winemaker.

He outlayed �3.5 million on the land, a state-of-the-art winery and on construction his fantastic nine-bedroom palace unaware 3 towering ranges. On twenty-seven acres of vines, he produces up to 60,000 bottles of organic red booze a year. The land, residence and winery are for sale by Aylesford for �4.6 million (www.aylesford.com; 020 7351 2383).

"Id never grown a chopped tomatoes in my life, but I longed for to see if I could emanate something from blemish a great booze that would get approval from the internal community, as the peculiarity of whats in the bottle is the usually approach to benefit acceptance as nonetheless an additional Englishman perplexing to have booze here," says Rupert, 50. He complicated winemaking at university in Dijon prior to shopping the land.

"It was about creation my own wine, becoming different my hold up and it has been forever some-more rewarding than I ever imagined," he says.

"Its a full-time job. If I were a hobby winemaker who didnt wish to get my hands dirty, I could nominee it all. But Im the man on the tractor at 5am."

Rupert exports a third of the wine, sells a third locally and a third goes to great restaurants in Provence and Paris, saying an annual turnover of around �200,000. But after costs, he still only about breaks even, "which is about the most appropriate you can expect", he says.

"You have to see at this as a lifestyle, not a approach to have money," says Rupert, whose subsequent plan is to turn a winemaker in Patagonia. "And for someone similar to me who gets wearied easily, the perfect, given when traffic with wines and vines you are never confronted with the same resources twice."

For Niall Caven, a road residence owners from Oxford, the plea was the bureaucracy concerned in shopping and restoring a busted hamlet, nearby Carcassonne in the Languedoc. He paid for it for €1 million and planted it with twelve hectares of vines. As the largest writer in his internal co-operative, he creates up to 300,000 bottles of white and ros booze a year.

"Im the initial new owners of the estate given the 19th century and it has been a large rebuilding plan that has concerned five years of suffering and fad the suffering especially by perplexing to benefit formulation accede and traffic with French bureaucracy," says Niall, 53.

He spends one week a month on his French estate, Domaine de Cantalauze, staying in the converted one-bedroom apple store, whilst he rents out the luxuriously renovated 17th-century estate residence and the 100-year-old farmhouse. Between them they have 9 bedrooms and dual swimming pools, that he lets for up to �3,500 a week by Holidaylettings.co.uk (home No 107971).

"I didnt come here to have my fortune," says Niall. "Its something Ive regularly longed for to do. Its receiving far longer than planned, but the a pleasing estate that I get vehement about when I only see at it."

GETTING STARTED

A skill with 5-8 acres of vines allows you to furnish a little wine, though your concentration will be peculiarity rather than quantity. A standard small booze writer would have 13-38 acres. Expect to compensate anything from �350,000 to multiform million, depending on the peculiarity of vines. Properties with vineyards in the prestigious appellations, such as St Emilion and Medoc, authority reward prices. For great worth head to Provence or Languedoc.The initial step for most would-be buyers is to hit the Socit dAmnagement Foncier et dEtablissement Rural, well known as Safer (www.safer.fr) that helps immature booze growers find vineyards and finance.

Useful websites

proprietesdefrance.co.uk and frenchentree.com have a preference of wine-growing estates.

vinecole.com a booze propagandize in the Languedoc with courses in English and French for would-be vineyard buyers. winetourisminfrance.com get to know your grapes and regions.

frenchwineadventures.com rent a row of vines in south west France to give you a ambience of being a wine-maker.

FOR SALE

Restored farmhouse in Plan de la Tour, Provence, nearby the actress Johnny Depps home, with 1.8 acres together with vineyard. Winkworth France, 020 8576 5582; www.winkworth.fr Seven-bedroom 16th-century castle in Sauve in the Languedoc, below, with 39 acres, half dedicated to organic vines, and winemaking facilities. �1m, Savills, savills.co.uk/abroad; 020 7016 3740.Six-bedroom Girondine Chateau with adjoining two-bedroom cottage, pool and operative vineyard on twenty-one acres. Last year it constructed 368 hectolitres of wine. €2.65m, Knight Frank, 020 7629 8171.

Liverpools Steven Gerrard expected to escape charge for V-sign at Wigan

By Jason Burt 749PM GMT 09 March 2010

No central aim Steven Gerrard was not gesturing at Andre Marriner, he was suggesting he had been brought down twice in bad tackles Photo EMPICS

Liverpool reacted fast to repudiate the claim, that followed Gerrard"s engagement in the 82nd minute, after that he additionally mouthed an obscenity, for a complicated plea on Wigan"s James McCarthy during the 1-0 loss.

The FA, it is understood, accept Liverpool"s version of events that Gerrard was not gesturing at Marriner. Indeed the midfielder was creation the point that he had been brought down twice in bad tackles and there had been no permit whilst he was angry at being cautioned. He was not privately targeting the official.

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Marriner saw the greeting of Gerrard, who captained England last week and could do but being trustworthy to such controversy, and did not hold it estimable of serve low mark whilst the FA have not asked the arbitrate to recur the situation after reception his compare inform and vocalization to him.

While that will be a service to Liverpool, and Gerrard, the better has left them floundering in sixth on all sides and in genuine risk of unwell to validate for subsequent season"s Champions League. That would leave physical education instructor Rafael Benítez, who is still longed for by Juventus at the finish of this season, in a hazardous on all sides and affect the club"s finances.

The destiny of players such as Gerrard and, some-more pressingly, Fernando Torres, who will not wish to miss out, and Javier Mascherano, who is uncertain either he wants to pointer a new contract, would additionally be in doubt.

The club"s decrease drew a severe reprove on Tuesday from Dave Whelan, the Wigan chairman.

"Liverpool are in a mess," he said. "The owners, being American, I don"t think they feel what we [as British owners] feel.

"We went to Anfield progressing in the deteriorate and there"s positively no ambience and no heart at all. The supporters feel that and I think the players are starting to feel it."

With their deteriorate unravelling, Liverpool will right away transport to Lille on Wednesday for the first-leg of their Europa Cup last-16 match. They might well be but Yossi Benayoun for Thursday"s diversion after he longed for precision with an ankle injury.

Daniel Agger earnings whilst the usually certain headlines from the Wigan diversion was Glen Johnson"s comeback, after some-more than dual months out with a knee vinculum injury.

Weak online security checks putting people at risk

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 1113AM GMT 09 March 2010

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Personal security questions are used by a accumulation of websites, together with those of banks and credit label firms, to determine the temperament of the chairman attempting to log on to the site. Photo PA

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, found that fraudsters would be means to mangle in to around one in 80 accounts if since 3 chances to theory the answer to usual questions, such as a mother"s lass name or name of a initial propagandize or initial teacher.

Personal security questions are used by a accumulation of websites, together with those of banks and credit label firms, to determine the temperament of the chairman attempting to log on to the site, or to authorize changes to login sum and passwords.

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The investigate investigated how easy it was to theory or event on an answer to a subject if zero was well known about the intensity victim.

"The numbers were worse than we thought," Joseph Bonneau,the lead researcher, told the BBC. "Asking what was the name of someone"s initial class clergyman seems similar to a secure choice. The complaint is that there"s a tonne of teachers out there declared Mrs Smith."

The group pronounced that most websites were deliberation creation it most harder to entrance or reactivate accounts than by responding a array of elementary questions. Some sites could ask users 3 questions prior to it allows users to reset a password, whilst others are deliberation promulgation cue reminders by content message.

Williams F1: 2010 driver, team and car guide, analysis and statistics

By Tom Cary, F1 Correspondent 513PM GMT 09 March 2010

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Williams unsuccessful to gain on being one of usually 3 teams to rise the argumentative stand in diffuser last year. The FW31 was quick, quite in the hands of Nico Rosberg, but not consistently so, and Frank Williams mythological group in the future wound up seventh in the constructors championship.

Financial headaches, the withdrawal of engine retailer Toyota and the depart of Rosberg would not crop up to be a recipe for alleviation in 2010 but, as always, goal springs eternal. Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg are a good multiple of girl and experience, whilst the FW32 showed glimpses of form in testing.

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Telegraph verdict

Unlikely to be up there with Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren or Mercedes but could open the peculiar surprise.

Driver profiles

Rubens BarrichelloBorn 23/05/1972 Sao Paulo, Brazil

The majority experienced motorist in Formula One history, Barrichello should turn the initial man to reach 300 grands prix in Japan this year.

The Brazilian, who turns 38 this season, unequivocally shook off his tab of "also-ran" with a energetic second half to 2009, when he mostly outperformed group partner and contingent universe hold up Jenson Button. That won him a stipulate at Williams, where he is expected to finish his career.

Nico Hulkenberg Born 19/08/1987 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany

One of a purchase of rookies on the 2010 grid, Hulkenberg is maybe the majority expected to have an impact, not merely since he is pushing for the majority determined team, but since of his considerable pedigree.

The German won GP2 (the F1 tributary series) last year, and similar to Lewis Hamilton he did so at his initial attempt. Managed by Willi Weber, who additionally takes caring of a sure Michael Schumacher, Hulkenberg is one of F1s brightest immature stars.

Website www.williamsf1.comHeadquarters Grove, OxfordshireTeam principal(s) Sir Frank Williams and Patrick HeadChief Executive Officer Adam ParrDirector of engineering Patrick HeadDrivers Rubens Barrichello (Brazil), Nico Hulkenberg (Germany)2010 car FW32Engine CosworthDebut 1978 Argentinian Grand PrixRaces 520Wins 113Poles 125Fastest laps 130Constructors titles 9 (1980, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997)Drivers titles 7 (1980, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997)

Tullett says sovereign default to rock market

By Rowena Mason 843PM GMT 08 March 2010

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Terry Smith, the company"s arch executive, pronounced the association would good from larger sensitivity causing some-more trades, after increase rose somewhat and income remained prosaic in 2009.

"I would be repelled if there was not an additional predicament at a little point during the march of this year," Mr Smith said. "Banks have de-leveraged, but governments have leveraged up." The company"s income was prosaic at �948m and pre-tax increase grew 14pc to �156.5m on cost reductions.

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Mr Smith pronounced income was 6pc reduce in North America after 77 brokers defected to BGC Partners in between Aug and December. Tullett is receiving authorised movement opposite the opposition in the US, following on from a box in the UK in that it is suing BGC for allegedly luring afar 10 star brokers in crack of their contract. BGC denies the allegations and a visualisation in the High Court conflict is approaching this month.

The association pronounced it would see the outcome of an ongoing programme to sinecure new brokers during the year.

Market wake up has been fast this year, after a scattered time during the monetary crisis, but there has been a direction towards easier products and afar from difficult derivatives.

"Tullett has benefited from the resurgence of voice broking and less formidable products last year. It additionally cut costs, generally non-broker related," pronounced analysts from Oriel Securities.

Tullett pronounced it was still misleading what stroke any new manners restricting over-the-counter (OTC) trades easily regulated wake up conducted off exchanges would have on the business.

"We are, however, assured that colourful OTC markets will sojourn necessary to the in effect operation of the world"s monetary system, and that the purpose of intermediaries in those markets [...] will be of augmenting importance," the association said.

Tullett"s share cost sealed down 15.9 at 308.8p.

The Sun Inn, Edinburgh: hotel review

By Anne Jepson Published: 4:05PM GMT 08 March 2010

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BOUTIQUE MAKEOVER

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LOCATION This former mining building the stays of which, The Scottish Mining Museum, is five mins afar is an doubtful environment for a boutique road house and restaurant.

CHARACTER I knew this as a quirky and rather lifeless beer hall that did food. What a transformation. It has been refurbished especially as a infrequent place to eat; intimate, personal and honourable of the "boutique" tag.

ROOMS None are generous, and the apartment is unequivocally usually a room with a mezzanine and sauce room. Its low copper bath unequivocally is special, however, and unusually gentle for dual to lay in for hours. Fine mattresses and bed linen have for a great night"s sleep. The bedrooms at the front could humour from trade noise. Striking complicated dcor, with lots of warm, plain oak.

FOOD We stayed on a Tuesday and the restaurant/bistro was full and buzzing. Breakfasts are inexhaustible and the lunch and cooking menus are sundry and imaginative; Scottish furnish is promoted reduction the tartanry. Everything was beautifully baked and presented and the use was perfect.

WE LIKE The actuality there was no need to head in to Edinburgh for a great meal, that would have been the box formerly in this locale; really gentle lonesome outward bar, again a monument in this piece of the world.

NOT SO KEEN The dcor of a small rooms, since their size, is a bit complicated going, creation them feel a small cramped. There were a small teething problems with the plumbing.

ESSENTIALS 0131 663 2456; thesuninneskbank.co.uk. Double b & b from �80.

DIARY: Voices of racing unite in charity song: Horse Racing

By Marcus Armytage Published: 7:30PM GMT 08 Mar 2010

Chorus line: John McCririck took piece in the gift singular Photo: PA

Those who put the strain together goal the open will have it series one in the charts.

It is the brainchild of point-to-point tutor Richard Gurney. He wrote to Tony Hatch, bard of the original, asking if he would mind racing you do a satire of the song. The great songwriter replied that he didn"t do parodies, but if he did it would be identical to this and sent the new lyrics behind with his full blessing.

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The immeasurable infancy of "Cheltenham" is sung by Irish stone and nation thespian Laura Critchley, who has upheld the Sugarbabes and Boyzone and was, in 2008, voted most appropriate live hostess in Ireland.

Mercifully, racing"s biggest voices identical to those of AP McCoy, Charlie Swan, Noel Meade, Edward O"Grady, Nicky Henderson, Paul Nicholls, Big Mac and association are limited to the one word carol "Cheltenham", nonetheless on the video Andrew Thornton enthusiastically creates up for not being invited by Bob Geldof to sing on Live Aid.

You can check it out in the video form on Youtube prior to striking out 99p if needs be.

There are dual radio programmes this week (which I have listed in sequential order, rather than in sequence of merit) that are certain to get the armchair spectator in the mood for subsequent week"s Cheltenham Festival.

At 3.45 on BBC 2 today, a little of the (priceless) design and artefacts belonging to the Jockey Club Rooms in Newmarket underline on "Flog It" a sort of Antiques Roadshow with an edge; since it customarily involves people usually as well penetrating to spin the family ancient artifact in to cash. While nauseating value is precious on AR, it"s not value a dime on Flog It.

Just in box Jockey Club members think Nicholas Wrigley, the comparatively new Senior Steward, has taken leave of his senses and is saying what sort of distinction he can get at auction for a Stubbs or Gainsborough, rest positive zero from the Rooms is sold.

"Storyville - Racehorses", on BBC 4 at 9.00 on Thursday, is a illusory observational movie by Liz Mermin (The Beauty School of Kabal) about 3 racehorses, Joncol, Cuan Na Grai and Ardalan, lerned in Ireland by Paul Nolan.

It is opposite from alternative documentaries about racehorses since it aims to discuss it the story from the horse"s perspective.

It is a empathize that Joncol is not using in this year"s Gold Cup, but the programme comes rarely endorsed not usually by me but by the Telegraph"s radio critic, Simon Horsford, who describes it as "something special." He knows a thing or dual about racing, so you should take his recommendation and watch it.

Racing UK, the heavenly body racing channel that covers each competition at the Cheltenham Festival subsequent week, is on an additional selling drive.

Having offering to reinstate the cost of a subscription to any one signing up only prior to the 2007 Derby if Frankie Dettori won it on Authorized, they had a identical graduation (a safer gamble from their point of view) if AP McCoy won last year"s Grand National.

This time, for any one induction in between Mar 1 and the close of fool around on Mar 16, they will reinstate the annual price of �240 if Ruby Walsh wins the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase (Master Minded), Ladbrokes World Hurdle (Big Buck"s) and Totesport Gold Cup (Kauto Star).

He won all 3 races on those same horses last year and it looks identical to a potentially great deal.

It is not utterly identical to the free flights to America, that Hoover offering business who paid for �100 of appliances in 1993. That in the future cost the organisation �50 million.

Of the 1500 new recruits that took up the Dettori offer, 95 per cent renewed their subscription the following year, so there is process in this strong madness.

UK banks gilt-buying spree may not materialise

By George Hay, breakingviews.com Published: 6:03PM GMT 08 March 2010

By their own standards, a little banks already have enough liquidity. Last August, Royal Bank of Scotland RBS.L pronounced it longed for to set up a aegis -- consisting of cash, gilts and high-quality corporate debt -- of 150 billion pounds by 2013. By the finish of 2009, the state-controlled bank had increasing the liquidity bonds to 145 billion, from 90 billion pounds a year earlier. Barclays, that increased the pot from 43 to 127 billion pounds in the same period, professes itself likewise confident with the reserves.

Last Oct the Financial Services Authority referred to that UK banks competence need a sum of 620 billion pounds of new liquid instruments. But that was usually if banks did not revoke their faith on short-term indiscriminate funding. In fact, lenders are timorous their change sheets and lengthening their debt maturities. The FSA reckons that if short-term appropriation needs tumble by twenty percent, banks competence usually need an one some-more 110 billion pounds.

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This is of some-more than educational interest. In the past year, the Bank of England has helped keep down payment yields low by spending the immeasurable infancy of the 200 billion bruise money-printing intrigue on gilts. That programme has right away been put on hold.

The UK supervision might have a get-out clause. Only around thirty billion pounds of RBS"s new 145 billion pounds aegis is essentially gilts. Much of the rest is high-quality corporate debt. The FSA has been pulling for the total aegis to be "safer" emperor debt.

But there are dual problems. First, the FSA can usually proviso in the new mandate when markets redeem -- and currently it judged that they hadn"t amply to begin tightening standards. Second, alternative European regulators do not determine on the regulator"s difficult line. The FSA could confirm to go it alone at the risk of commanding additional costs on the banks. If not, the supervision might need to see elsewhere to account the debt mountain.

First three-way kidney transplants carried out in Britain

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 7:00AM GMT 08 March 2010

The pioneering operation concerned 3 pairs of donors and recipients.

Each donor was not a compare for their own desired one but was rebuilt to suggest a kidney to a foreigner in lapse for one for their associate or relative.

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Two sets of operations have right away been conducted successfully in Britain and patients concerned in the second array have oral publicly.

Without the operations they would each have had to sojourn on the watchful list for a donor that is on normal 3 years.

It is hoped some-more pooled transplants can be carried out in sequence to revoke the length of time kidney patients are on dialysis watchful for a suited organ.

Surgeons at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh achieved the operation and all 6 patients have finished a full recovery.

Newly-wed Teemir Thakrar, 32, from Hertfordshire, Chris Brent, 42, from Bexleyheath and Andrea Mullen, 54, from Aberdeen, were all watchful for a lifesaving donor when they assimilated the pooled medical operation list with their desired ones.

Teemir assimilated up with his mother Lynsey, 30, Chris sealed up with his sister, Lisa Burton, 45, from Hastings, and Andrea and her father Andrew, 53, took piece together.

Each of the 3 donors were concordant with one of the recipients and following successful medical operation operations are right away seeking brazen to a new life, that includes carrying children, going on holiday, and being means to lapse to work.

Donor pooling became authorised opposite the UK in 2006 and since afterwards two-way swaps, where dual non-matched couples barter kidneys, have turn some-more usual place, with twenty carrying taken place so far.

But a treble medical operation has usually been achieved once prior to in Britain, late last year but the patients concerned have never been identified.

The operation needs prudent formulation to prepare the opposite surgical teams, ride each organ to the suited target and safeguard all the surgery is carried out as shortly as probable to safeguard the kidneys are in good operative order.

Each surgical group began at the same time, stealing the full of health kidney from the donor, checking it, chilling it and make-up it in ice for the tour to the recipient. The viscera were afterwards ecstatic by special bearer to the recipient"s sanatorium where a second group make it.

The kidneys from Mr Mullen and for Mrs Mullen were flown in in in between Edinburgh and London and the viscera were ecstatic around the collateral in blue light ambulances.

The total pour out relies on each of the 6 patients being in good health at the same time.

Mr Thakrar, 32, said: "At my marriage to Linsey I had to go home and dialyse in the dusk and my ram do was flattering low key.

"Im right away seeking brazen to a prolonged hold up with Linsey and starting a family. Im additionally vehement about being means to practice again and removing behind to the gym. Im happy in the believe that dual alternative people will eventually be off dialysis too."

"I couldnt present to Chris but delay since we were incompatible, but this proceed I could still assistance him," pronounced Ms Burton. "I was fearful at initial and a bit uncertain about donor pooling, but Im gay that everybody is you do well and that I could assistance my hermit get better."

Mrs Mullen, a grandmother, added: "I feel improved than I have finished in years and I feel as though I have been since my hold up back. My seizure didnt only affect my life, but my husbands and my familys. I am so beholden to everybody for giving me this second chance."

Geoff Koffman, expert medical operation surgeon at Guys and St Thomas said: "Its needed we see at each choice and pooling donors similar to this gives patients a most improved possibility in hold up and helps free them of a lifetime on dialysis."

Lorna Marson, expert medical operation surgeon, who carried out the operation in Edinburgh, said: "Andrea and Andrew have finished a good liberation and we are so gratified for them both.

"Andrea had to bear a lot of credentials prior to the medical operation so but this treble operation, that was programmed in advance, it would have been doubtful that she would have been offering a kidney from the defunct donor list."

Mr Vassilios Papalois, expert renal surgeon at Imperial, said: "The surgery was such a success interjection to good group work on all 3 sites.

"I instruct the donor and target Linsey and Teemir a good destiny together and goal we can do some-more interconnected and pooled transplants. In the USA they are already you do up to twelve pairs at once so thats something to make an effort to."

The transplants were authorized by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), who umpire vital organ donation.

The organization has combined a some-more stretchable proceed to concession to assistance the 7,000 patients right away on the watchful list for a kidney medical operation in the UK to find a match.

One in 3 kidneys used in medical operation in Britain right away come from vital donors.

A orator for NHS Blood and Transplant said: "We are anticipating this is only the begin of things to come and that what is right away singular practice, turn probable in hospitals via the country."

Keith Rigg, President of the British Transplantation Society, said: "As a surgeon, we mostly see people who wish to present a kidney to a relative, partner or close friend, but they are not means to do so since of a mismatch in red blood or tissue type.

"Paired and pooled concession might suggest these people a solution; they can give to an additional integrate in the same incident for a concordant concession in return.

"Although interconnected transplants are apropos some-more common, this is the initial time we have seen 3 couples concerned in a transplant.

"The UK medical operation village will need to get some-more experience of donations in in in between dual or 3 couples prior to we can cruise attempting some-more difficult swaps. Other countries have achieved transplants in in in between incomparable numbers of couples, but it is value remembering that we do not have as big a pool of donors and recipients as countries similar to the United States."

Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas: Ive been lucky to escape serious injury

Published: 9:24AM GMT 07 March 2010

Key man: Arsenal cannot means to lose Cesc Fabregas to damage Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Ramsey, 19, fractured his right tibia and fibula in a plea with Ryan Shawcross during the second half of Arsenal"s 3-1 feat at Stoke last weekend.

Arsenal physical education instructor Arsene Wenger cursed the plunge into as "horrendous and unacceptable" after saying an additional of his players humour an horrific injury.

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Eduardo outlayed the most appropriate piece of a year on the sidelines when his deteriorate was finished by a plea from Birmingham defender Martin Taylor in 2008.

Midfielder Abou Diaby, who was sidelined for eight months with a damaged ankle after a plea from Sunderland"s Dan Smith in May 2006, feels such incidents will go on unless the Arsenal players get some-more insurance from referees.

Fabregas is mostly on the finish of a little strong hurdles and believes the Gunners have to mount up to severe diagnosis from teams seeking to hit them off their flitting game.

"Everyone thinks "We are personification Arsenal, we have to go in tough on them", and I have no complaint with the hit game," the Arsenal captain said.

"If opponents think that is the most appropriate approach for them to kick us, no problem, but when you put your feet half a metre high on someone"s leg, that is not right.

"It is not the initial time this deteriorate we have seen hurdles similar to this, but until someone breaks their leg nobody speaks about it.

"It has happened twice to me this deteriorate and I was propitious I did not get really bad injured.

"I am certain he [Shawcross] did not wish to mangle Aaron"s leg, but the plunge into was dangerous. It was terrible.

"I am certain he longed for to win the ball, but when your feet is that high usually he knows what he was perplexing to do."

Fabregas scored the opening idea in Arsenal"s 3-1 Premier League win over Burnley yesterday, but was taken off prior to half-time with a injure leg tendon complaint and is right away puzzled for the Champions League diversion with Porto on Tuesday night.

Henry Winter: FA Cup victory shows Avram Grant is restoring pride at Portsmouth

By Henry Winter Published: 10:03PM GMT 06 March 2010

Time to cheer: Avram Grant is full of happiness as Portsmouth better Birmingham to reach the FA Cup roughly finals Photo: AFP

On Saturday, between scattered scenes at Fratton Park, Grant led his strong misfits to Wembley.

Portsmouth have had so most ripped afar from them recently, from points to heading players, but they never lost their belief.

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Their manager, the man with a hang-dog"s see and the underdog"s drive, is mostly obliged for that. How the Pompey true love Grant. How they revelled in this better of Birmingham City.

When set opposite Pompey"s grievous debts, the income brought in by victory, �622,350, with roughly the same again on trial from Wembley, is a dump in the Solent but it transmitted a summary that the bar are alive and kicking, that they are value shopping by any examination suitor.

Grant has got them playing, got them surpassing along the highway to Wembley by formulating a tactical horizon (4-2-3-1) and daring mood that brings the most appropriate out of Tal Ben Haim, Jamie O"Hara, Michael Brown and Frederic Piquionne, whose dual goals in five second-half mins influenced genuine intrigue in to the FA Cup.

Derided at Chelsea in the arise of Jose Mourinho"s departure, Grant has struggled to be taken severely on these shores. Until now.

Grant has been increasingly expel in a drastic light at Fratton Park, evoking memories between fans of the approach Alan Ball stood organisation here between the monetary woes of 1998-99. Some praise.

Whether saluting the travelling await at St Mary"s or Turf Moor, Grant"s romantic rendezvous with the Pompey fans is inescapable.

"This is a diversion of passion,"" runs Grant"s mantra. "I try to put myself on the sidelines and recollect when I was a kid and upheld my team. These supporters merit someone who will quarrel for them.""

Pompey supporters were at their outspoken most appropriate here on Saturday, giving Grant and his players a tickertape reception, notwithstanding the bar indicating stewards would allocate any found on entry. (The fans believed that was since all the brooms, dust-pans and brushes had been sold).

Always ingenuous, Portsmouth supporters simply formulated a plan to take in copies of The Sun, assumingly the journal of preference for tickertapers.

"Do what the girls did in the old days, filch it dark in your knickers,"" one fan suggested associate supporters on Friday evening.

"My ex got 4 copies of The Sun, the uncondensed functions of Shakespeare and the Encyclopaedia Britannica in that way."" Pompey have lost most in new months but not their humour.

As the tickertape fell to earth, 3 sides of Fratton Park shook to "Avram Grant"s blue and white army"". Inspired by the fans, well-prepared by Grant, Portsmouth"s players brimmed with integrity opposite Birmingham in an FA Cup tie of flourishing grandeur.

O"Hara set the tone, gnawing in to tackles on Lee Bowyer, cranking the sound higher. Birmingham knew they were in a scrap.

Nadir Belhadj additionally held the mood, chasing a 15th-minute lost means down the left as if his hold up depended on it. David James, dropping smartly to his right, pushed afar Cameron Jerome"s shot. Brown quickly took the insurgency as well far, clattering Bowyer for the second time and being cautioned.

Apart from that first-half lapse, Brown all the time displayed his some-more helpful qualities, tracking behind to have clearances, starting by frustrating Jerome.

Steve Finnan afterwards loser Keith Fahey. Marc Wilson played an critical role, helmet the behind four. There was a collectivity about Grant"s men embodied in their pre-match huddle.

Midway by a bad initial half, usually when space non-stop up for Pompey, the vicious fates intervened. Spotting Danny Webber"s dart out wide, Belhadj sought to brush the round from left to right, usually for it to be incidentally intercepted by the referee, Steve Bennett. When you"re down… Not for long. Grant"s side refused to be downcast, fortifying stoutly.

Finnan threw himself in front of James McFadden"s shot. Ben Haim bending the round transparent as Jerome lurked. Brown done blocks on Bowyer and McFadden in quick succession.

Defensively superb prior to the break, Portsmouth demonstrated their aggressive corner in the second period, responding to Grant"s half-time words. When Scott Dann collided with Joe Hart, Piquionne tapped in the simplest of chances.

Lightning struck twice on the South Coast. O"Hara slid Piquionne by and his finish was expert, swept underneath Hart. Grant responded with a thumbs up. Portsmouth might be going down but Grant has easy a little pride, indicating them to Wembley.