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Beautiful floral lingerie for Valentine's Day

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Sultry nightwear for Valentine's Day

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MaxMara, the epitome of Italian style open Scottish store

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Fin24.com | The appeal of alternatives

Investors like something different.




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Fin24.com | MONEY CLINIC: My loans are giving me a low credit score; how do I properly deal with them?

A Fin24 user looks to an expert for help in improving his credit score by paying off his debt.




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Fin24.com | MONEY CLINIC: How can I invest my R1.2m savings without eroding my capital?

A Fin24 set to retire this year is looking to invest his R1.2m savings in order to receive a monthly payout.




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Gerard Richardson: Californian reds

WELL, I don't know about you but my central heating has already been on twice in September and although I don't need much of an excuse to delve into the big heavy reds, two heating days is my current one.




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Drink Gerard Richardson: For a taste of nostalgia plump for a Riesling

RIESLING is perhaps the most famous, unappreciated, abused and generally misunderstood wine of all time and it’s probably also the one most of us cut our teeth on many years ago.




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Days Out: Scotland’s top 10 winter walks for foodies

Quiet, crisp and clear winter days are perfect for exploring Scotland’s most spectacular coast and countryside scenery – especially with the promise of a wholesome, heart-warming meal and a cosy room after a day exploring. While Munro-bagging at this time of year might be a little too ambitious, Scotland has no shortage of shorter and more gentle winter walks, all within a stone’s throw of some of Scotland’s best foodie destinations. Here is a selection of Scotland’s top 10 winter walk




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Mrs Brown's Boys culture wars are part of a wokelash against liberal snobs

IF there's one thing that online news proves without any shadow of uncertainty, it's that there's no knowing what will capture the popular imagination.




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Scottish independence: Coronavirus is a blow to Indyref2 and changes the Scottish political landscape

IT is a truth universally acknowledged – at least by its advocates – that all things inexorably advance the cause of independence.




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Picture special: Shahbaz Majeed puts Scotland in the frame

RIGHT now, Shahbaz Majeed should be heading to Glencoe. Or flying over central Scotland. Or making his way to Harris which he has been trying to get back to since his first visit in 2018. Or maybe visiting some other part of Scotland so he can capture it in a photograph. Instead, he is at home in Dundee (where he is web development manager at the University of Dundee), “climbing the walls,” and looking forward to life after lockdown.




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She talks for the animals: as Veganuary gathers pace, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk on her 40 year fight for their rights and why her new book shows the way ahead

Ingrid Newkirk isn’t sure exactly how many times she has been arrested. “Definitely a few dozen,” she’ll say, if you ask. I’ve just done exactly that, so right now the British-born founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is running me through a sort of greatest hits of her law-baiting exploits and the jailtime they have brought her in the name of animal rights.




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The height of fashion… a catwalk show above Everest Base Camp

It was the highest catwalk show on earth, 300 metres above Everest Base Camp - and the Herald was the only paper in Britain to have a front row seat.




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As Belgravia and The English game starts on TV, Barry Didcock on the enduring appeal of frocks on the box

IF ever we needed to indulge in a bout of collective escapism, if only for 60 minutes on a Sunday night, then that time is now. Thankfully ITV has just the thing – Belgravia, the latest big budget costume drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and a series that positively ripples with dimples, quiffs, honey-coloured chiffon frocks, eye-popping millinery and glamorous uniforms.




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Fin24.com | Australia faces record economic contraction, even as it plans to lift lockdown

Australia's central bank has predicted that the country is facing its biggest economic contraction on record.




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Fin24.com | Lockdown | It's not all health and securocrats, the President is listening to business concerns

State adviser says government was sympathetic to the economic difficulties caused by the on-going lockdown but growth in infections in areas such as the Western Cape are biggest risk to the faster reopening of the economy.




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Fin24.com | IMF: Previous warnings of global economic contraction were too optimistic

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Friday that previous estimates for the world economy to contract by three percent this year were too optimistic.




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Fin24.com | OPINION | How investment managers are really voting at shareholder meetings

Anecdotal evidence suggests that institutional investors in South Africa and across the globe are starting to take their ownership rights more seriously.




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Small town, big God

During Easter, the oldest town in Austria celebrated the life of Jesus and furthered the dream of planting a church.




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Distributing Bibles at the Reindeer Festival

Partners of OM EAST distribute copies of My First Bible to Nenets children on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Arctic Russia.




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Talking point in Georgian churches

OM EAST shares about a significant event in the Georgian church: OM EAST’s publication of the Right Choices Bible.




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OM EAST and local partners raise a banner in Roma villages

This summer nearly 1,000 Roma children in Roma villages throughout Central and Eastern Europe heard the Gospel.




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2016 Salamu Aleikum

Report from the Salamu Aleikum outreach among Arabs in Zel am See in Austria.




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Calm in the storm

Crisis turns into blessing as a local church reaches out to refugees arriving in Europe.




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'Finally we have found a place'

“It is wonderful and we are very grateful to God that we can live here,” Javid said. “Finally we have found a place where we can live our faith in Jesus in peace."




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International with lots of charm

"The Lord gave me a verse out of Isaiah 50:5...I started to understand that I had a lot to give, and that God’s ways for me might lead me differently than I had thought," said OMer Evelyn.




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Andy Murray signs up for virtual Madrid tennis tournament amid coronavirus crisis

ANDY MURRAY will swap a tennis racket for a games controller when he takes part in a virtual Madrid Open later this month.




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Special Olympics in Slovenia

We look at how the Slovenian FA is tackling disability football.




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Open Fun Football Schools

We find out about a life-changing scheme in Bosnia and Herzegovina.




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Ireland's final legacy

We find out about the grassroots plans for Dublin around the UEFA Europa League final.




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UEFA Champions festival history

Find out about the festival of football that has proceeded the UEFA Champions League final every year since 2006.




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UEFA Grassroots Day in Malta

We check out the UEFA Grassroots Day activities that took place at the Malta Football Association national training centre in Ta'Qali.




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KNVB talent identification

We investigate the system the Dutch use to unearth new talent.




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Maxi-pitches offer final legacy

We find out how UEFA is ensuring a lasting legacy for its major club finals.




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Dutch football's unsung hero

We find out why 2011 UEFA Best Grassroots Leader, John de Looze, is so valued at the KNVB.




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GB hockey star Alan Forsyth auctions prized memorabilia for NHS

THE first cap is the sweetest. For hockey player Alan Forsyth it came on October 19, 2015: Great Britain versus Argentina at Bisham Abbey. He scored on his debut, too, teed up by fellow Scot Chris Grassick after 28 minutes.




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The story of the Chicago Black Sox scandal

ONE of the biggest sporting scandals of all time was just about to erupt in the USA 100 years ago this month. It was in the spring of 1920 that a persistent rumour engulfed the Chicago White Sox baseball team.




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Georgia Adderley keen to hold court again after weeks of battering living-room walls

WHILE almost every athlete has been affected by the global shutdown of sport, it is perhaps the old and the young who are feeling it the most.




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Life on ice: How Glasgow Clan have rallied to prepare for post-shutdown

MAY is normally a busy month behind the scenes for Gareth Chalmers and the ongoing uncertainty around sport hasn’t changed that a huge amount.




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Thrown a curveball: Gus Mackay on navigating Scottish cricket through Covid-19 crisis

GUS MACKAY was full of good intentions when he agreed to become Cricket Scotland’s new chief executive last October.




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ABCD becomes KLMQ / Launch of BER leads to a renaming of terminal sections at Schönefeld Airport

When Berlin Brandenburg Airport is put into operation at the end of October 2020, Schönefeld Airport will become Terminal 5 (T5) of BER. In order to avoid duplicate names of terminal sections, gates and car parks at BER, the building and car park infras...




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Airport company applies for short-time allowance / Employees to receive at least 80 percent of net pay

Within just a few weeks, the corona crisis has led to a collapse of over 90 percent of flight operations in the capital region. In light of this dramatic situation, the Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB) Executive Board concluded a works agreement ...




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Drastic decline in passenger numbers at Tegel and Schönefeld in March 2020 / Impacts of the corona pandemic have become dramatically worse

Berlin’s airports are recording a drastic slump in passenger numbers. In March, a decline in passengers of 64.7 percent was recorded at Tegel and Schönefeld for the whole month. However, the number of passengers has continued to fall significantly over ...




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Passenger terminal at BER approved for use / Dahme-Spreewald administrative district grants approval

The Dahme-Spreewald administrative district’s local building inspection authority confirmed the completion of the passenger terminal (Terminal 1) at BER following completion of the construction work.




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Decline in air traffic in Tegel and Schönefeld in April / Covid 19 pandemic puts a limit to air traffic in the capital

27,593 passengers departed from and landed at Berlin's airports Schönefeld and Tegel in April. That is just 1 per cent of air traffic in comparison to April 2019. 22,079 passengers flew from Tegel, and 5,541 from Schönefeld.




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Recipe: Gary Townsend's wild garlic & walnut pesto

Wild Garlic & Walnut Pesto




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Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery, South Korean officials claim

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery or any other medical procedure, a South Korean official has said amid continued speculation about his health.




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Donald Trump says coronavirus vaccine will be developed ‘by the end of this year’

US President Donald Trump has told a town hall meeting that he thinks a coronavirus vaccine will be developed “by the end of this year”.




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Millie Small set the pace

Millie Small, who died Tuesday at age 73 in London, was the first Jamaican artiste to score a hit on the British pop chart. Her version of My Boy Lollipop reached number two in 1964 and was also successful in the United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.