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here is a gorgeos tomato soup recipe for those cold winter days.

you will need

2 carrots
2 sticks of celery
2 medium onions
2 cloves of garlic
olive oil
2 chicken or vegetable stock cubes, preferably organic
2 x 400g tins of plum tomatoes
6 large ripe tomatoes
a small bunch of fresh basil
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Peel and roughly slice the carrots
Slice the celery
Peel and roughly chop the onions

Peel and slice the garlic
Put a large pan on a medium heat and add...

Martina Navratilova's wedded bliss.

This summer, 33 years after she came out as bisexual, Navratilova proposed to her girlfriend of six years. She did so on bended knee, in public, on camera, at the US Open.


For Navratilova, there are actually two new roles today - wife and mother - Lemigova has two daughters. Navratilova reveals that Julia's younger daughter had been badgering to propose to her mother all year. And if Martina feels anxious about becoming a mum herself at 58, she doesn't show it.

This was a private ceremony for friends and family, but it...

Antonio Martin shooting: Police and protesters clash over teenager's death just five miles from Ferguson, Missouri

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The death of another black teenager by police gunfire in the heart of Missouri has sparked fresh protests following months of unrest about alleged police racism.

18-year-old Toni Martin was last night shot dead by a police officer in front of a Mobil gas station in the St Louis suburb Berkeley after reportedly threatening...

10 best gadgets of 2014 - top tech from smartwatches and smartphones to TVs and tablets

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1. Blue Mo-Fi

2. Focusrite iTrack Dock

3. Flexson VinylPlay

4. Motorola Moto X

5. Apple iMac with Retina 5K

6. Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro

7. LG G Watch R

8. Logitech Harmony Ultimate

9. Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S

10. Panasonic TX-50AX802

Why do surgeons wear masks? So no one recognises the sod who did the operation



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Joe Cocker dies after cancer fight at the age of 70

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Singer Joe Cocker has died of lung cancer at the age of 70.

Best known for his version of the Beatles' hit 'With a Little Help From My Friends', Cocker had a career spanning more than 40 years.

His best known hits included You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We...

Here is my own recipe for Cornish pasty.

you will need plain pastry to cover bottom plus top of a good size baking tin or tray.

ingredients

potatoes, carrots, peas(garden type), onion and corned beef.

chop up potatoes, carrots and onion and place them in a pan along with the peas and boil till cooked.

drain the veg and then rub in corned beef, don't overdo the corned beef. rustic the veg but don't overdo it.

rollout plain pastry and place on the baking tin or tray then empty the veg with corned beef on to the pastry then finish...

Glasgow bin lorry crash

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Witnesses recall 'horrific' scenes that were 'like a war scene' as five women and one man confirmed dead




Three members of the same family are feared to be among six people killed when a bin lorry veered out of control and smashed into a crowd of shoppers in the centre of Glasgow....

More than one in 10 of England's wildlife sites 'lost since 2009'

Wildlife Trusts says monitoring of ancient woodlands, hedgerows and churchyards shows 717 have been lost or damaged between 2009 and 2013

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watch people if you buy the product 'cats meow' we bought one and only 3 times use and it broke. since found out they have been getting a lot of faulty ones.

mike