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I fantasise about intimacy and romance every day, but it always stays a fantasy
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With most surgeries offering 10-minute slots, it’s important to be clear not coy. Here’s a GP’s advice on how to prepare for your visit
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If you enjoy getting a good deal, the figure you begin at is all important
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Children won’t be saved by a digital detox
Eva WisemanIt’s daft to blame all the ills of the modern world on social media -
As time passes, knowledge increases. Chuck Klosterman explains why things we hold to be true might not be after all
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Leigh Peele says being told she was ugly from an early age didn’t stop her from breaking the rules: ‘You’ll be defined by what you have the nerve to aim at being’
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The food blogger and author shares her love of a well-structured cheese board and the simple, beautiful moments of cooking
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There’s such a thing as too obedient, as the Simple Sabotage Field Manual shows
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Find out how your name fared in 2015’s list of most popular baby names in England and Wales – and how famous names did
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Do you forage on your runs? And do you find anything more original than blackberries? As always, share your weekend triumphs and woes below the line
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Now’s the time for warming soft fruits – and maybe some roast onions too
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‘You need a lot of lemons and they need to be the very best,’ says the owner of one of the few remaining groves on the Italian lakes
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Growing interest in the origins of chocolate is helping cocoa producers in Ivory Coast and Madagascar gain a bigger slice of the sector’s mega profits
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In his most personal interpretation of the fashion house’s esprit, John Galliano references his origins as an 80s club kid in London as well as Napoleon
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Dior, Vetements and Chanel show off elegance, heritage and mega-collaborations in the French capital
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Designer shuns pop spectacle of previous years to celebrate his craft, in a Paris haute couture week notable for anti-elitist moves
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Interim designers Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier give message of unity before widely reported appointment of Maria Grazia Chiuri from Valentino
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The best looks from Milan and Paris menswear SS17 collections
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Designer Kim Jones’s latest collection, unveiled in Paris, mixes punky mohair and zips with zebra prints and safari suits – and gets the thumbs up from David Beckham and Kate Moss
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Dolphins jumping and a band playing a song of hers in an Irish bar set the tone for life in this fun and fabulous beachside neighbourhood of Los Angeles
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Yellowstone national park is trying to manage crushing tourism that tangles roadways, spawns traffic accidents and provokes clashes between humans and the park’s natural world
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With US national parks such as Yosemite and Yellowstone facing overcrowding, we take a look at 10 beautiful but little-known parks where you’re more likely to see a bear, moose or ‘champion tree’ than another human
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If US national parks are to continue to thrive they must reflect the diversity of our population
James Edward MillsAs the National Park Service turns 100, a new campaign aims to make the country’s natural spaces more appealing to all Americans, regardless of race, over the next century
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ExperienceExperienceExperience: my face is held together by 52 screwsWe were both doing around 30mph on our motorbikes when we met on a corner. Our heads collided and my helmet disintegrated
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Felicity Cloake's perfect recipesFelicity Cloake's perfect recipesHow to make the perfect rum punchThe planter’s punch is a pleasingly laid-back classic. But what colour rum to use? Lemon or lime? And how do you keep it is as cold as possible without losing the punch?
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Sali Hughes on beautySali Hughes on beautyBeauty: the best of Victoria Beckham’s Estée Lauder makeup lineMy cynical heart steeled for anticlimax. I didn’t expect to be desperate to rave about the collection
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Swipe right - online dating for the real worldSwipe right - online dating for the real worldAsk Eva says goodbye: seven lessons I learned from answering your questionsI’m signing off after more than a year of helping you swipe right (or not), but first, here’s what I learned from being your electronic agony aunt
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Problem solvedProblem solvedSince their split my mother has been in pieces while my father flaunts his new girlfriendI am furious that my father is about to move in with a woman he claims he only met after he separated from my mother
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Private livesPrivate livesMy partner has a history of affairs and I have just found out he’s meeting his exHe claims he didn’t tell me because he knew I would be upset. I don’t want to be jealous, but I am so cross he didn’t tell me
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people
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The singer, 83, on overcoming shyness, taking risks, going to dark places and living with fame
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The wheelchair basketball player and Paralympics presenter talks about moving from Nigeria to the UK when he was three and being estranged from his parents for several years
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As UN Women launches its Rio legacy to keep young women playing sport, Britain’s most successful female Olympian talks about why teenage girls face a crisis in confidence, how to stop them skiving PE and why she’s not a feminist
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The Clash guitarist recalls spying on Mick Jagger eating dinner and life as a vegetarian in the 1970s
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The French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French
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12 August 1981: Some of Britain’s brightest young designers have incorporated garments in British wool in their autumn collections
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