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Stuck For a Button?

1:24pm Tuesday 19th August 2008

Buttons will drop off at the most inappropriate moment leaving those without sewing skills in a right old flap. Until now, that is...

Riparian yarns

10:18am Tuesday 19th August 2008

In a column replete with superlatives, there’s praise for one of the truly great pubs of the North

Eat me

10:20am Tuesday 19th August 2008

Julius Caesar And The Druids: Revealed (five, 8pm); The Man Who Cycled The World (BBC1, 10.35pm); Money Makers: Beach Break Live (BBC3, 9pm)

Yorkshire's movie history

12:06pm Monday 18th August 2008

Many a great scene has been filmed in Yorkshire. Steve Pratt looks at a new book mapping out the county’s locations

Doughy duo

12:08pm Monday 18th August 2008

The Hairy Bakers (BBC2, 8.30pm); Superhuman: Genius (ITV1, 9pm); Profiling Ian Rankin (ITV3, 9pm)

All change

10:54am Saturday 16th August 2008

Barry Nelson visits Manchester to find out if the city lives up to its much-hyped reincarnation

A lot of bottle

The Spin Wine pourer

4:54pm Friday 15th August 2008

Corked wine or red stains on your table cloth are a thing of the past with these ingenious devices.

Papal bull

11:10am Friday 15th August 2008

Coming Up (C4, 11.40pm); The Tudors (BBC2, 9pm)

Going Wild

11:17am Thursday 14th August 2008

Having decided to become an actress at the age of eight, Emma Roberts tells Steve Pratt that she prefers to keep her wild antics for the film set.

The force is with animation

11:19am Thursday 14th August 2008

A long, long time ago, Star Wars drew an army of fans. One, Dave Filoni, has created a new film. Steve Pratt reports.


National News

Paedophiles face tighter controls

Jacqui Smith announced measures to tighten the movements of paedophiles

Updated 8:16am Wednesday 20th August 2008

Measures to tighten controls on the movements of paedophiles have been announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.


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