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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good weekend to sow pumpkin, gourd, courgette or marrow seeds directly outdoors. And it’s by no means too late to sow turnips, beetroot, runner beans, spinach or chard.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good time to refresh compost if you grow camellias or azaleas in containers. Ericaceous compost loses acidity — especially when hard water is used.




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Lady Gaga's new album features Australian K-Pop idol Rosé with her girl group Blackpink  

It's the international pop collaboration that is set to whip fans around the world into a frenzy. 




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Allbirds Tree Dasher: New high performance running shoe launches

The brand behind the 'world's most comfortable running shoes' has today launched a new pair of 'high performance' sneakers designed for athletes and runners.




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Basketball fans refunded $5million after ill-fated game in Melbourne featuring the Boomers

More than $5million will be refunded to thousands of fans who bought tickets to a basketball that used false advertising to claim LeBron James would be playing.




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Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris targets January return from elbow injury

Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has revealed he could return to action as early as January as he continues his recovery from a dislocated elbow sustained in October's 3-0 defeat to Brighton.




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Albania 0-2 France: Corentin Tolisso and Antoine Griezmann score as France finish top of group

ALBANIA 0-2 FRANCE: Corentin Tolisso and Antoine Griezmann scored as France beat Albania 2-0 to secure top spot in Euro 2020 qualifying group H.




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Karim Benzema back in court over Mathieu Valbuena sex-tape row

The Court of Cassation, the highest-ranked court in the French justice system, assembled on Monday afternoon with 19 magistrates to try and settle a case which first emerged four years ago.




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Herbert Von Karajan album review: Some of his most enjoyable recordings here are of lighter stuff

Herbert von Karajan, who died in 1989, shifted 200 million albums - an astonishing figure for a classical musician.




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Bob Geldof on why the time is right for a new Boomtown Rats album

Bob Geldof is speaking about his daughter Peaches, who died from a drug overdose in 2014, aged 25, and has become overwhelmed by emotion. 'She was lovely,' Geldof says




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Maurizio Pollini album review: There is no surer way of appreciating Beethoven's genius than this

Hats off to Deutsche Grammophon. Not only is it the producer of the finest complete Beethoven set in this, his 250th anniversary year.




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Mark Bebbington album review: The performances are first class

Igor Stravinsky, not a great one for dishing out prizes to his colleagues, declared that Poulenc had the greatest melodic gift of any 20th-century composer.




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Ren Harvieu album review: Most of these 12 songs are still gorgeously uplifting

For a music lover, there's nothing better than putting on a debut album by an unknown and realising that you've found a new favourite.




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François Leleux album review: Secures a suitably exuberant and boisterous performance

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod's symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony.




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Dua Lipa album review: It feels like a minor classic of effortlessly likeable pop 

As if to demonstrate that pop is a game of fine margins, New Rules , Dua Lipa's excellent three-point manifesto for heartbroken girls, was the sixth single to be pulled from her debut album.




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Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about grief, love and female sexuality

Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses losing the love of her life and rediscovering joy through writing her new book City Of Girls




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Benjamin Grosvenor album review: His playing is entirely devoid of shallow point-scoring

Sometimes hype is just that; hype. But occasionally it's true.




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Laura Marling album review: This strange period has found its first classic album

Quite a few albums that should have come out now have been postponed till the autumn. You can understand why, but it's no use to the fans who have time to kill and a thirst for new music.




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Daniel Hope review: New album Belle Epoque 'will bring rich rewards to the curious'

We don't see much of Berlin-based Daniel Hope these days, but an album like this shows us what we are missing.




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Fiona Apple album review: Fetch The Bolt Cutters is one hell of an achievement

In a fascinating, fitful career, Fiona Apple has often felt like a one-woman band - singing, playing the piano, perhaps throwing in some rudimentary percussion.




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Joan As Police Woman album review: A light in the middle of the tunnel

Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn't postponed, it's quite likely to be special. Music, like the sky on a sunny day, seems brighter, sharper, deeper.




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My lightbulb moment: Royal wedding cake maker Fiona Cairns

Fiona Cairns, 62, from Leicestershire, founded her luxury cake-making business 34 years ago. She designed the royal wedding cake for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.




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Ferne McCann looks incredible as she shows ex Albie Gibbs what he's missing in tiny red bikini

The reality star, 29, looked sensational as she flaunted her toned figure in a tiny red bikini during a celebratory VE Day BBQ at her new house.




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Idris Elba is seen for first time since recovering from coronavirus

The 47-year-old, along with his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba, 30, tested positive for a 'very mild' strain of the coronavirus in March but has now fully recovered, and was seen in London on Saturday.




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Britney Spears unveils brand new cover for her 2016 album Glory...after fans sent it to #1 on iTunes

On Friday, Britney Spears rewarded fans for sending her 2016 album Glory to #1 on iTunes by unveiling a brand new cover. The revamped cover showed Spears posing seductively in the sand.




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Amanda Holden praises the NHS who 'saved her life' and 'got her through' stillbirth of son Theo

The actress described how she almost died while giving birth to daughter Hollie in 2012 and praised the National Health Service for 'getting her through' stillbirth of son Theo in 2011




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Amanda Holden admits she spent an 'excruciating' afternoon playing Simon Cowell her upcoming album

Amanda Holden has released a cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow to help raise money for the NHS, during the current COVID-19 crisis.




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ROB WAUGH: The Pixelbook Go is deliciously slim and worth the money

Google's Pixelbook Go is a Chromebook (basically running a browser, but with a few additional apps). I realised that it can actually do pretty much anything from word processing to website editing




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ISIS chiefs hiding out in Turkey with 'vast sums of money' are plotting jailbreaks in Syria and Iraq

Lieutenant General Saad al-Allaq said nine senior members of Islamic State, among them financiers and 'the best bomb makers that ISIS ever had,' were trying to orchestrate carnage from Turkey.




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Noah Albert charged with murder over alleged role in shooting of Omar Elomar

Omar Elomar, 18, died in a pool of blood outside a park on Cabramatta Avenue in Miller, in Sydney's west, around 11.10pm on February 15.




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Max Verstappen and Red Bull team-mate Albon make Holland road trip after cancelled Dutch GP

The Dutch Grand prix may have to wait that little bit longer for its return, but that didn't stop Max Verstappen and Alex Albon taking their Red Bull racers out for a spin and embarking on an epic trip.




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Chris Brown names his upcoming album after baby daughter Royalty

Over the past several months, the 26-year-old Liquor singer has been in a custody and child-support dispute with one-year-old Royalty's mother, Nia Guzman.




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Chris Brown cradles daughter Royalty on cover of upcoming album named after her

Chris Brown has demonstrated what an incredible father he is since embracing his daughter, Royalty into his life earlier this year.




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Chris Brown pledges $1 from each Royalty album sale before Christmas to charity

Chris Brown is splitting the royalties from Royalty. The 26-year-old has pledged to donate $1 from the sale of every copy of his upcoming album to the Children’s Miracle Network hospital




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Scott Disick parties Usher and French Montana at Chris Brown's album listening party

The 32-year-old television personality was spotted hanging out with Khloe Kardashian's ex French Montana and Usher among others on Tuesday night for Chris Brown's record listening party.




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Jofra Archer on target for an early comeback after elbow injury

EXCLUSIVE BY RICHARD GIBSON: Jofra Archer is on schedule to be bowling in just over a fortnight and hopes to be fully fit from the stress fracture of his right elbow within six weeks.




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Charlie Sheen looks worse-for-wear as he puffs on cigarette at Melbourne Airport ahead of tour

He made a public pledge not to touch alcohol while he's travelling Down Under for his speaking tour next month.




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Charlie Sheen, 53, looks tired and frail as he is helped off a yacht by two assistants in Melbourne

He touched down at Melbourne airport on Tuesday ahead of his highly-anticipated speaking tour, hosted by Channel Nine's Richard Wilkins.




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Jeb Bush on Late Show with Stephen Colbert while Donald Trump continues trolling  

Jeb Bush became Stephen Colbert's first political guest on the 'Late Show' and used the appearance to promise civility — just hours after Donald Trump hit Bush again for being boring.




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British traveller opens up his photo album from a trip through Africa in 1970 

The snaps were taken by Allan Hailstone in 1970 on a trip from London to Cape Town. He stopped off in Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Salisbury (now Harare) en route.




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Acclaimed novelist WILBUR SMITH says it's time to carry on up the Nile with a trip to Egypt

Wilbur Smith took his first trip to Egypt after his first novel was accepted for publication in 1963. And even though much has changed in the intervening years, he says Egyptians remain welcoming hosts.




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Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe's sister says she doesn't feel safe living in Melbourne after the rape

The sister( of an Israeli exchange student who was raped and murdered in Melbourne says she doesn't feel safe visiting the city.




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Codey Herrmann is jailed for raping and murdering student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne

Codey Herrmann, 21, bashed Ms Maasarwe over the head with a metal pole as she was walking home from the tram in Bundoora, Melbourne, on January 16.




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Malka Leifer could finally be extradited to Melbourne to face dozens of child sex abuse charges

Former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer could finally be extradited to Australia after she was deemed mentally fit to stand trial by an Israeli court on Friday.




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WHAT BOOK would Wilbur Smith take to a desert island? 

Wilbur Smith is currently reading The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. The writer revealed that he would take My African Journey by Winston Churchill to a desert island.




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Princess Diana niece Lady Kitty Spencer attends Melbourne Cup 2019

Princess Diana's niece, Lady Kitty Spencer, has stunned in a beautiful ombre dress by Roland Mouret at the 2019 Melbourne Cup.




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Devastated mother shares picture of her cradling stillborn baby

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Stephanie Broadley, 28, from Lincolnshire, was failed by staff at Grimsby's Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, in May 2018.




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Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam joins Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky at the UFC in Melbourne

He played the tough bikie outlaw, Jax Teller, in Sons of Anarchy, who was never one to shy away from a fight. 




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Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky score front row seats at the UFC in Melbourne

They've almost been married for ten years. 




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Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky ditch the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival for a Byron Bay party

They're the A-listers who ditched living in Hollywood for a more relaxed life in Byron Bay.