Life
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Summer pudding
(Serves 6) 10 to 12 slices white bread, with the crusts removed200 g granulated sugar or light muscovado250 g each raspberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants200 g strawberries150 g gooseberries, loganberries or blueberries Rinse and drain the fruit,...
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King Alonso
Bahrain and Spain marked the end and the beginning respectively. It was the end of the first four away races, with all the teams trying to get to grips with their cars and their Pirelli tyres’ behaviour. Ironically, prior to the Bahrain GP, Infiniti...
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Euro debt gives Ryanair opportunity
Ryanair aims to grow much faster than previously indicated over the next five years in a bid to exploit the weakness of mid-tier European rivals struggling with recession, the firm’s chief operating officer has told Reuters. Three decades after it...
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Barbecued salmon with saffron-flavoured lemon and onion confit
(Serves 6) 6 x 175 to 200 g pieces of salmon filet, skin on, but scaled1 heaped tsp each of cumin, coriander seeds, and black peppercornsSeeds of 8 cardamom pods1-2 tsps Gozo sea salt4 tbsps extra virgin olive oil500 g onions, peeled, and thinly...
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A new form of space
The new BMW 3-Series Gran Turismo adds an innovative new concept to the successful BMW 3 Series line-up. The third body variant in the current model family combines the Sedan’s dynamic, sporting genes with the practicality and versatility of the...
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Dubai targets tourism growth
Dubai aims to treble its annual income from tourism to 300 billion dirhams (€63.47 billion) by 2020, which would involve doubling the number of its hotel rooms, a senior official said. Tourism is crucial to Dubai’s economy, which had a gross...
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Electronic nose could change wine industry
For winemakers (and wine drinkers), a keen sense of smell is essential. Without smell, one can taste little. Now researchers have devised what they call an ‘electronic nose’ that they say detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense of...
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Exercise – the best medicine
We live in a world of advanced scientific, technological and medical practice, but unfortunately, for all our discoveries and inventions are worth, we still haven’t quite achieved the idyllic goal of perfect health for all. Some might even say that...
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Express Group offers refrigerated transport from Spain to Malta
Express Group has recently established a collaboration with Spanish transport and logistics company Transportes Tresserras, with the aim of establishing a stronger and more reliable supply chain of chilled and frozen food products from Spain to...
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Emirates marks 15 years in Malta
Fifteen years after launching services to Malta, Emirates Airlines said its commitment to the market remains as strong as ever. Emirates has carried over 490,000 passengers to/from Malta since the island became its eight European destination and the...
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Petrus 2000 leads auction of Johnson’s cellar
Three bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 Pomerol fetched top price of £6,600 (€7,765 ) at a sale of UK wine writer Hugh Johnson’s private collection at Sworders auction house north of London, according to its website. A case of Chateau Haut-Brion 1990...
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Livelife Rehabilitation Centre marks its first anniversary
Livelife Rehabiliation Centre, the first private specialised Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Malta, recently marked its first anniversary. Located in the heart of Sliema, the centre is a joint venture between Caremalta Group and the St James...
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Solar-powered street lights in Birkirkara
Energy-saving specialists Alberta are behind the recent installation of solar-powered street lighting in Birkirkara. The project is part of a local council initiative. The state-of-the-art lights use energy-efficient LED technology that consumes far...
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Tuscany holiday winner
The winner of our Tuscany competition in association with YTC is Margaret Abdilla from Birżebbuġa. Ms Abdilla has won a holiday for two people at La Nuvola Farmhouse in Tuscany. The prize includes excursions. YTC had to change the date of the prize...
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World famous chefs into your kitchen
The rise of cooking shows made the guidance of professional chefs widely available, turning ordinary at-home cooks into culinary masters. Panna has raised $1.35 (€1.04) million to make the connection between chefs and home cooks even stronger. Panna...
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Thyroid unearthed
Although I have written about the two common thyroid conditions before, I have spent the past few months unearthing further information I would never have considered unless I had not been experiencing hypothyroid symptoms myself. What I discovered...
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The board members at TM
I find as a columnist with over 40 years writing experience behind me that I have feet firmly placed in two somewhat similar fields. I still get great satisfaction being entrusted with various new cars as I drive them around our most interesting...
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Two worlds collide in Bali
Shops are closing, cash machines are switched off, electricity lines have been cut and the streets are eerily empty of traffic. Locals are frantically sweeping their houses clean, banging noisy metallic objects and waving incense sticks around...
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Personalised Coca-Cola bottles launched
How does owning your own, personalised Coca-Cola bottle sound? If it sounds like fun, then you will love General Soft Drinks’ latest campaign, Share a Coca-Cola. The campaign gives consumers the opportunity to enjoy one of the most popular soft...
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Morally active care companies
In this day and age, care companies are vital to promote values, to enhance the value of others, and to value both the employees who work in the service and also the service users. Values is commonly used term in modern society. Every person has...
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