Sophie Dahl: from model to writer to television cook

By Elizabeth Grice 700AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

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SOPHIE Dahl has the honeyed purgation of a Fifties schoolteacher, in her solid black cardigan and unrevealing skirt. She is additionally strikingly thin, that creates it all the odder that in her dual new incarnations as a food bard and right afar a radio prepare she is being marketed on revealing memories of her old well-developed self. The food book is called Miss Dahls Voluptuous Delights. The new radio series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, promises a likewise erotic experience. What we have here on a image is not usually the food but the long-fingered vamp creation it.

Dahl plays it up with decorous intimacy, dropping trusting small morsels of personal story in to the in progress pot. One of her themed programmes deals with food and romance. In it, we clarity that the initial time she baked for a man spaghetti carbonara it was a disaster given he left but giving her a kiss. Too majority rosewater in the rhubarb Eton mess, she warns, produces an outcome "like on foot in to a bordello". She prefers her cheeses "sharp and mature, similar to my men". And she confesses to being so compulsively neat about the residence that she creates the bed with her beloved right afar her father the jazz musician, Jamie Cullum still in it.

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Classically dressed, not a mechanism out of place, Dahl drifts charmingly by the rituals of omelette Arnold Bennett and cherry chocolate compote in a unadulterated kitchen. "I am a Virgo. I neat as I go. I cant reside disaster in the kitchen or anywhere else." She loiters in dilettante food shops where there appear to be no alternative customers. A round of bovine animal mozzarella reminds her of "the rootless bit on someones arm." And everything, sometime, somehow, recalls a childhood of perfumed kitchens, generally that of her consanguine grandmother, Gee-Gee (mother of her actress father, Julian Holloway). On a grey winter day, you could simply tumble in to her indolent mood of culinary escapism.

Mischievous comparisons have been finished in the press in between her and the alternative kitchen voluptuary, Nigella Lawson. Sophie, who admires Nigella, thinks the trivial, purposeless and demeaning to both of them. Her pliability evaporates. Why should the attainment of nonetheless an additional masculine cook be treated with colour as fun, she asks edgily, when with women the insincere to be "knives at dawn"?

"I do think there is room for the dual of us. Its utterly an viewable and bottom some-more aged given what they are unequivocally comparing is the actuality that we are both middle-class women who arent lerned cooks. Stylistically, we are different. Temperamentally, we are different. I dont see the point of measuring up dual women opposite one another. With men, the all fooling around and camaraderie; an additional bloke fasten the team. With women, a clarity of foe is fostered that isnt there. What can I do about it? Absolutely ---- all."

That said, Dahl is well means to urge her on all sides on majority things. She wasnt indifferent by carrying a distinguished well read grandfather, Roald Dahl, from essay her own books, and she wasnt going to be deterred by the engorgement of radio cooks from apropos one herself. "The majority critical thing, for a book or these shows, is to do it with the majority firmness you can. So I took a low breath and did it. If it all goes titties up, there it is. If it goes well, the something to have done."

Dahl was once famously big. The story is well well known of how, in tears after an evidence with her mother, she was scooped up off the stairs of her residence by the outr fashionista, Isabella Blow, and finished in to a supermodel similar to nothing prior to or since. In a pallid, svelte universe of heroin-chic, her distance (probably never some-more than a 14) was a refreshing, if fleeting, novelty. It should have been a full of health development, but incited out to be some-more difficult than that. Exploitation takes most forms. She acted so provocatively in an Opium announcement for Yves St Laurent that the poster advertisement was banned. Later, she pronounced she felt hijacked.

"It was a somewhat strenuous and treacherous time given I had not left in to modelling with a little made at home agenda," she says. "I was eighteen years old and someone offering me a job. It was great fun, unexpected similar to being in this unequivocally embellished theatre, not utterly real. Thats the sum thing about conform the fantasy. To drop in to that at eighteen and nineteen was amazing. I was a available pitch for that time, but it didnt shift anything."

She went to America to shun the disagreeable seductiveness in her here and stayed for 9 years, essay a childrens story and a semi-autobiographical novel, Playing with the Grown-Ups. Her fantastic weight loss, she says, was usually something that happens to the women in her family. "We were all rather plump as teenagers. Then in the twenties we narrowed out. I was miserly and ate in that unselfconscious approach teenagers do, all the time extending and eating when I wasnt hungry."

She left her indication agencies at the back of dual years ago. "It unequivocally was sum sky to be a writer. As a indication or actress you are in use on someones whim. As a writer, you are in control. I am not trained by nature. Some days I would write in to the night. That somewhat sly approach of operative appealed to me. Theres something about the peculiarity of overpower in the center of the night."

She was vital in a top-floor unit in downtown New York when the Twin Towers collapsed. The initial craft "going in" sounded similar to "a large lorry crashing in to a window". In the issue of the second, she saw people jumping from the windows. "I was concerned and fearful but there was not a great understanding I could do solely have an additional crater of tea and scrawl by old dusk bags for a cigarette. Friends came over and we sat in overpower and shock, examination the news. In the overpower afterwards, you listened crickets. You listened birds. I recollect meditative we might never in the lifetime listen to overpower in New York again."

Though usually 32, Dahl is awash with nostalgia. Her peripatetic childhood, being towed around the universe by her nervous and uneasy mother, Tessa Dahl, or at boarding school, finished her hunger for fortitude not of one sold home but the place where "Your silent or your gran non-stop the doorway and there was this rush of whats cooking."

"I find wish in nostalgia. I dont know either thats given we didnt have a required finished at home upbringing. I grew up surrounded by unusual people with a lot of love and regard and food. It wasnt the normal but I have come afar from it flattering grounded and but any bitterness.

"Its no collision that I fell from my childhood in to modelling, that is winding and unsettled. We changed seventeen times when I was young. But as I grew comparison and proposed to have clarity of it all, I realised the significance of home. In in progress and writing, Ive found dual things that anchor me there."

Earlier this year, she tied together Jamie Cullum clandestinely and afterwards invited friends to what they detected was a blessing. The integrate met dual years ago at a gift duty where she sang and he accompanied her on the piano. "It beats assembly on Facebook."

There is still newness in their status. "My father is a great cook," she says. "I love observant "husband. Its droll that something so concept should have you so vehement to say."

They regarded their marriage as a in isolation undertaking. "Making that guarantee is a dedicated thing and not unequivocally for any one else. Its to be witnessed by your close family and close friends and thats it.

"It was smashing and joyous and thats all I wish to say. There is a reason because we didnt have the marriage "out there, as a lot of people do, and I wish to sojourn loyal to that. I think one has to be authorised to have things that are the skill of your own heart and this is one of them."

The Very Proper Miss Dahl has spoken.

* "The Delicious Miss Dahl" starts on BBC Two on Tuesday twenty-three Mar at 8.30pm

Six Nations 2010: Scotland v England match preview

By Gavin Mairs 939AM GMT twelve Mar 2010

Brick wall Joe Worsley will make firm England"s defensive line Photo PA

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Scotland v EnglandMurrayfield, EdinburghKick-off 17.00 GMT TV BBC1, BBCHD, BBC Red Button

Touchline duel The off-field tactical conflict in in between Scotlands Andy Robinson, the former England coach, and Martin Johnson is abounding with amour and heightened by the vigour on both men to broach to challenge their critics. Scotland have nonetheless to register a win in the championship underneath Robinson but feat at Murrayfield would go a prolonged approach to salvaging their season.

A second unbroken better for England would leave their debate in rags as well as giving Robinson the compensation of putting one over the RFU for sacking him in November 2006. Given the glorious line in in between success and failure, a credible win for the visitors, however, would see Johnsons men head off to Paris with hopes alive of a crack at the title.

Pitch conflict Joe Worsleys lapse to the England behind row might not have gratified those who crave for an unmitigated openside similar to Steffon Armitage to be the couple man in a wider diversion plan, but the Wasps player is a fearsome defender, whose first pursuit will be to stop Scotlands form of ball-carrying forwards passed in their tracks. Worsley additionally poses a carrying hazard himself in conflict so his conflict with Scotlands considerable breakaway trio, and in sold conflicting series John Barclay, will be key to the outcome. Not one for the gloomy of heart.

Talking strategy That England havent managed to marker up a win, or even measure a try, at Murrayfield given 2004 says most about how Scotland lift their diversion at home opposite the auld enemy. Worryingly for England, Martin Johnsons side transport to Edinburgh with subject outlines still unresolved over their aggressive bravery and capability to measure tries when chances are created.

Worsleys preference suggests England will conflict the fringes rather than the far-reaching channels, quite progressing on. But unless England can be some-more accurate with their kicking diversion and strive vigour with their chase, Scotland have the strike-runners, quite in their glorious behind row, to means the visitors trouble.

Match details

Scotland XV H Southwell S Lamont, N De Luca, G Morrison, M Evans D Parks, C Cusiter (capt); A Jacobsen, R Ford, E Murray, J Hamilton, A Kellock, K Brown, J Barclay, J Beattie. Replacements S Lawson, G Cross, N Hines, A MacDonald, R Lawson, P Godman, S Danielli.

England XV D Armitage (London Irish); M Cueto (Sale), M Tait (Sale), R Flutey (Brive), U Monye (Harlequins); J Wilkinson (Toulon), D Care (Harlequins); T Payne (Wasps), D Hartley (Northampton), D Cole (Leicester); L Deacon (Leicester), S Borthwick (Saracens, captain); J Haskell (Stade Francais), J Worsley (Wasps), N Easter (Harlequins). Replacements S Thompson (Brive), D Wilson (Bath), C Lawes (Northampton), L Moody (Leicester), B Youngs (Leicester), T Flood (Leicester), B Foden (Northampton).

Referee Marius Jonker (South Africa) Touch judges Peter Fitzgibbon (Ireland), Carlo Damasco (Italy) TMO Giulio de Santis (Italy)

Eurozone could risk sovereign debt explosion

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor 630AM GMT twelve March 2010

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Italy has to refinance 20pc of the complete debt, drumming the down payment markets for a sum ?259bn this year

"Debt-related emperor vulnerabilities have increased, quite in the Eurozone, where we design supervision borrowing will climb to serve new peaks," pronounced Kai Stukenbrock, the ratings agency"s European credit analyst. "The ensuing mercantile vigour from a postulated enlarge in financing cost could be poignant in the view."

The notice comes as down payment hulk PIMCO spoke of a "sovereign debt explosion" that has taken the universe in to uncharted waters and poses a vital hazard to mercantile stability. "Our clarity is that the significance of the shock to open finance management in modernized economies is not nonetheless amply appreciated and understood," pronounced Mohamed El-Erian, the group"s arch executive.

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Mr El-Erian pronounced majority analysts are still utilizing "backward-looking models" that destroy to learn the full bulk of what has taken place in universe affairs given the crisis. Some 40pc of the tellurian economy is in countries where governments are using deficits on top of 10pc of GDP, with no easy approach out.

Standard & Poor"s pronounced Europe"s states need to lift €1,446bn (�1,313bn) this year as the full repairs inflicted by the credit fall masked last year by puncture impulse measures becomes ever clearer. This will turn harder to account low as executive banks begin to tighten. "We hold that benchmark yields have benefited from liquidity injections in to the monetary zone and quantitative easing measures by the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. As that await could in the future be cold from 2010, additional supply in supervision down payment markets could begin pushing benchmark yields behind up. Such a growth could supplement to mercantile vigour in a series of sovereigns with high deficits," it said.

Several states have come to rely on poor short-term funding, storing up "roll-over risk" that will come to a head in entrance months. Italy has to refinance 20pc of the complete debt the world"s third largest after Japan and the US drumming the down payment markets for a sum €259bn this year. Belgium has to hurl over 22pc of the estimable debt.

"This implies coherence on some-more or less consistent entrance to monetary markets," pronounced the report.

Weaker states risk a stand in outcome of rising yields on benchmark holds as well as higher spreads as investors direct a larger risk reward in the harsher meridian right away confronting heavily-indebted countries.

Greece has already seen a surge of 300 basement points in the long-term appropriation costs given the new Pasok supervision of George Papandreou suggested that the country"s loyal bill necessity was 12.7pc, stand in the prior estimate.

The group estimates that a postulated climb in yields of 300 basement points would lift the weight of seductiveness costs each year by 3.9pc of GDP for Greece, 2.6pc for Portugal, and 2.5pc for Italy and Britain by the center of the decade.

A burst of this kind would volume to an additional �35bn or so in annual seductiveness costs, rounded off subsequent to to the UK counterclaim budget. This would fool around massacre with UK open finance management and force the Government to fist mercantile process even further. S&P"s notice obviously underscores the risk of watchful as well prolonged prior to restoring the necessity to a tolerable path.

The inform pronounced there had been a important enlarge in "alternative channels of borrowing" that "embellish" the loyal debt picture. France"s Socit de Financement de l"Economie (SFEF) has released €77bn of state-backed holds given 2008 and the Caisse d"Amortissement de la Dette Sociale has thick with liabilities of €103bn. Austria"s infrastructure financing companies, used to strut state impulse programmes, have €23bn in debts.

This dark iceberg of debt kept off change piece is expected to be the subsequent concentration of down payment vigilantes.

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Ian Christie

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Ian Christie (left) personification clarinet

With Ian personification clarinet and Keith trombone, the Stompers was a hard-driving outfit, initial featuring Ken Colyer"s cornet and after Dicky Hawdon"s trumpet. While Keith constructed hair-raising solos Ian wove movable patterns suggestive of the New Orleans clarinettist Albert Nicholas, that valid quite considerable over an enterprising stroke section. The rope done a important disc, You Always Hurt the One You Love, with I"m so Glad on the B-side, that recaptures, improved than most records, a small of the low-pitched power of the period.

But it was transparent that something (rock"n"roll) would substitute it, and the rope pennyless up when Keith"s interests led him afar from Dixieland to stick on the modernist Johnny Dankworth; as a outcome the brothers were well known as "Christies Ancient and Modern".

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Ian changed on to Alex Welsh"s rope afterwards assimilated Mick Mulligan, with whom he did most of his most appropriate work. But whilst a fine, calm soloist he usually schooled to review song in after hold up (unlike Keith who complicated at the Guildhall) and took small notice of the associated mandate for garb work. His bad mental recall for arrangements speedy Mulligan to allot with rehearsals.

When the disappearing fortunes of "trad" led Mulligan to give up in 1962, Christie proposed essay for the repository Lilliput, whose last editor, Richard Bennett, changed to The Sunday Telegraph, where he asked Christie to write jot down and unison reviews. This led to a commission to spook articles for the clarinettist Acker Bilk, that severely tender Lord Beaverbrook, the Express proprietor. When Christie met Beaverbrook, he was so repelled by the income he was offering that "the Beaver" increasing it in the fake of not carrying realised that the initial suggest was as well small.

For the subsequent twenty-six years Christie was at home in the boozy sourroundings of Fleet Street pubs, essay facilities whilst covering theatre, radio and, particularly, films. His duplicate was breezy, contained transparent accounts of plots and done prudent make use of of clichs, as when he began one essay on Casablanca, "You contingency recollect this..."

The son of a piano tuner who played banjo, Ian Christie was innate in Blackpool on Jun 2 1927. He mostly taught himself to fool around the clarinet, and left propagandize to sight as an electrician prior to you do National Service in the RAF.

Afterwards he took a photography march and changed to London, where Keith had assimilated Humphrey Lyttelton"s band. Ian total his song with operative in the photography dialect of Harrods, but his extreme Left wing governing body led him to see the "Hooray Henriettas" he snapped as the faces of the enemy.

One of Lyttleton"s innovations was a choice with dual clarinets, in that the musical Ian Christie valid quite in effect in duets with the louder Wally Fawkes, who reflected the change of the good soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet. In 1949 the rope invited Bechet to fool around at a unison in London and available with him notwithstanding a authorised anathema on American musicians behaving in Britain.

After giving up broadcasting in 1990 Christie strong on jazz again. His tinge was likened to the woody, severe timbre of Louis Armstrong"s sideman Ed Hall when he available with Fawkes the album, That"s the Blues, Old Man (1982) in that the span reminded one censor of ducking and mountainous around each alternative similar to swallows.

He additionally available Turned Out Nice Again with his own quartet, and played with Graham Tayar"s Crouch End All Stars, proof as touching as ever in sadness and ballads even when pang in his last months from Parkinson"s disease.

He but defended his pointy humour, and wrote new difference to Summertime, that he renamed Zimmertime.

Ian Christie was tied together 3 times, initial to Jeanne Howe (with whom he had a daughter) afterwards to Sarah Llewellyn (with whom he had an additional daughter) and eventually to Belinda Francis.

Labour claims it can pay down deficit with no more tax rises

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor 1000PM GMT eleven Mar 2010

Liam Byrne, the arch cabinet member to the Treasury, additionally ruled out any climb in Vat if Labour was returned to office.

Mr Byrne, who is series dual at the Treasury, was asked either the necessity could be halved as Labour plans to do, but some-more taxation rises to cut borrowing. He replied yes, that no some-more were needed.

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He told the BBCs Daily Politics "We"ve set out only how we will find that �19bn, and we set that out in the Pre Budget Report."

The �19bn is the volume Labour hopes to lift from programmed taxation rises that will proceed in the entrance months and embody a inhabitant word climb and a travel in the rate that tip rate of income tax.

There has been conjecture that the Budget in dual weeks time could embody an enlarge in Vat from 17.5 per cent to twenty per cent. But again, this was ruled out by Mr Byrne.

He pronounced "We don"t see a need to do that since we"ve done a little formidable decisions about National Insurance contributions."

Mr Byrne is seen as a close fan of Gordon Brown and his comments are expected to simulate the wishes of Number 10. However, Mr Darling, the Chancellor, is expected to wish to keep options open for his critical pre-election Budget that he will broach on twenty-four March.

In the pre-Budget inform in Dec Mr Darling pronounced that the Government would separate the �178 billion necessity in 4 years.

Mr Brown and Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary and close fan of the Prime Minister, are penetrating to settle a "dividing line" over Vat. They hold that the Conservatives are personally formulation to lift Vat.

In the Commons on Wednesday Mr Brown described Vat rises as the lucky approach Conservative governments

He told MPs "We done a preference in Nov not to go forward with VAT but to go forward with the National Insurance rise. In fact, traditionally the celebration that has lifted VAT is the Conservative Party.

"It was them who lifted it to fifteen per cent, and afterwards they lifted it to 17.5 per cent. The Tory taxation is VAT and they have imposed it many, most times."

The Conservatives are instead expected to try and move to hindrance the programmed National Insurance cut.

Mr Byrne additionally claimed that Mr Darling would not broach a "giveaway Budget" after this month to try and woo electorate only weeks forward of the election.

He pronounced "I can discuss it you this is not going to be a big give-away Budget."

The City and concerned monetary markets are penetrating to see that Mr Darling has a convincing plan to residence the necessity rather than try and seaside up Labour support.

Welsh women have most plastic surgery

By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent 502PM GMT eleven March 2010

The largest-ever consult about cosmetic surgery, for that 5,000 women were questioned, found a fivefold movement in the recognition in opposite tools of the UK.

While 10 per cent of Welsh women had undergone a little form of cosmetic surgery, according to the poll, in the East Midlands the figure was usually dual per cent.

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Meanwhile, the sorts of cultured procedures that appealed to women in opposite tools of the nation sundry enormously.

Overall, breast surgery possibly to enlarge or revoke was the majority renouned procedure, and the majority usual cosmetic operation undergone by women in Scotland and 6 English regions North East, North West, South East, South West, West Midlands and East Anglia.

But nose jobs were majority renouned in Wales, London, and Yorkshire and the Humber, whilst in Northern Ireland, the majority usual procession was the facelift.

In the East Midlands, breast surgery, rhinoplasty and facelifts were all similarly popular.

The consult by OnePoll was commissioned by Safer Cosmetic Surgery, a new network and website set up by surgeons who pointer up to usual reserve standards.

Dean Boyce, a expert cosmetic surgeon who functions in Swansea and Cardiff, pronounced he was intrigued by the findings.

He pronounced "I have no thought given women in Wales are so penetrating on cosmetic surgery I don"t think it"s given they are worse-looking. Maybe they are some-more big about the idea, or some-more sensitive about it, or maybe there is some-more promotion here than in alternative tools of the UK."

The check additionally found that women in opposite tools of the UK had considerably opposite views about either their partner should go underneath the knife.

In total, twenty-three per cent of women in Wales pronounced they would urge overweight men to have liposuction on their chests to remove "man boobs". Just half as most women in East Anglia and the East Midlands pronounced they would indicate such a march of action.

Safer Cosmetic Surgery was set up by cosmetic surgeons endangered about saying augmenting numbers of patients who had perceived botched surgery at the hands of fresh practitioners, and around poor deals abroad. Surgeons can usually stick on the network if they have a smallest of fifteen years" experience given healing school.

HSBC says Swiss data theft affects 24,000 accounts

Reuters 1143AM GMT eleven March 2010

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The bank had formerly pronounced "less than 10 clients" were influenced after Herve Falciani - a former HSBC computer dilettante - stole customer interpretation from the bank that he handed over to French taxation authorities.

"The theft, that was perpetrated by a former IT worker about 3 years ago, involves we estimate 15,000 existent clients who had accounts with the bank in Switzerland prior to Oct 2006," HSBC pronounced in a statement.

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On tip of that, up to 9,000 accounts that had been sealed in the past were affected. These accounts mostly were not big sufficient to be authorised for in isolation promissory note services, the bank said. It has 100,000 clients in Switzerland.

The debate comes at a supportive time for the sly zone - that serves abounding clients - with countries infrequently utilizing stolen customer interpretation to follow taxation evaders, a make use of one Swiss lawmaker has likened to bank robbery.

Swiss promissory note hulk UBS has seen billions of Swiss francs of customer income rush from the resources supervision operations among steady blows to the repute from a high-profile US taxation box and large writedowns that forced it to accept a supervision bailout in the crisis.

Germany"s Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, lifted the club in the quarrel opposite taxation semblance serve last month, observant Berlin was rebuilt to compensate for stolen interpretation on intensity taxation cheats at an unnamed Swiss bank.

HSBC pronounced in Dec that an ex-employee had stolen interpretation from the Swiss in isolation bank"s domicile in 2006 and 2007, but pronounced to the most appropriate of the believe fewer than 10 clients were involved.

HSBC "unreservedly apologised" to clients for the hazard to their remoteness on Thursday, but pronounced Swiss authorities pronounced they will not await the make use of of the stolen interpretation to answer requests from unfamiliar authorities about taxation issues.

Mr Falciani is additionally reported to have attempted to sell the interpretation to Germany for €2.5m (�2.3m), that taxation investigators there estimated could hillside in €100m for German coffers.

Alexandre Zeller, arch senior manager of HSBC"s in isolation bank in Switzerland, pronounced Mr Falciani eliminated interpretation onto a computer alternative than the one the bank released him and fled to beside France whilst underneath investigation.

Data burglary risk was autochthonous to the business, Mr Zeller said, adding that the bank had already combined insurance opposite this with USB keys and alternative technologies.

"We will regularly have new threats and we regularly have to deposit some-more to safeguard the IT security is all it can be," Mr Zeller said. "At the finish of the day, whatever you do, the human cause will remain. Private promissory note is a commercial operation of trust."

The stolen customer report is singular to accounts in Switzerland, incompatible ex-HSBC Guyerzeller accounts.

Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas ruled out of Premier League clash against Hull City

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The Spain midfielder longed for Arsenal"s midweek Champions League feat over Porto since of the injure leg tendon complaint that had seen him totter out of the win opposite Burnley.

Wenger will not take any risks forward of the outing to the KC Stadium for Saturday"s late kick-off.

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"His chances of personification are 0.5 per cent - that equates to unless a spectacle happens, he will not play. At the moment, Cesc is out of Saturday"s game," pronounced Wenger.

"We have a small disbelief about (Tomas) Rosicky (groin), but we will check that tomorrow morning.

"Nobody else is back, but we will lose (Alex) Song, since he is suspended."

With William Gallas still sidelined since of a calf problem, Wenger will be anticipating maestro Sol Campbell can shrug off grappling iron to face relegation-threatened Hull.

However, full-back Bacary Sagna is struggling with an ankle injury.

"Campbell looks improved than approaching today. Sagna has an ankle complaint but we will consider that tomorrow," pronounced Wenger.

"We will see how it develops, who is available, who I can play.

"We know we have 48 hours to hope for for this diversion and it is utterly needed."

Gallas is out of stipulate at the finish of the season, and as such is free to speak to any clubs, with Roma reported to be tracking the former Chelsea defender who turns 33 in August.

Wenger, though, is assured the Frenchman will magnify his stay at Emirates Stadium.

"I am not concerned. He is underneath stipulate until the 30th of June. We have not found an agreement yet. I encounter his agents again subsequent Thursday and we will try to find a solution," pronounced the Arsenal manager, who refused to be drawn on either the length of understanding was the adhering point.

"I would similar to to keep all that secret. I feel I have to apply oneself both parties and not to come out about the sum of negotiations."

Wenger combined "I do not know if he has oral to Roma, but he is out of stipulate and can speak to whom he wants.

"William is vocalization to us and the enterprise is to keep him here. I think he wants to stay here."

New MySpace chiefs plan major relaunch

By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent 509PM GMT 10 March 2010

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MySpace in the heyday supposing artists such as Lily Allen, with a height to have their name on.

While both management team refused to be drawn on the reasons surrounding Mr Van Nattas remarkable exit, they certified that they would "now be innovating at an took off pace". It was felt that Mr Van Natta had unsuccessful to rise and exercise new services discerning enough, according to a comparison digital source close to the association who spoke to The at the time.

"We have not altered plan dramatically, as we were both key leaders in building the companys prophesy with Owen. Now we wish to move on those ideas at a gait never seen before. We have a some-more polished concentration on calm and amicable find and are accelerating the product expansion around that vision," Mr Hirschorn said.

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Over the subsequent couple of months, the dual chiefs will manage the light hurl out of multiform new products and collection opposite the amicable network that has been losing users to opposition sites such as Facebook and Twitter over at a fast gait over the last dual years.

Some of the majority new Nielsen total verbalise for themselves in the UK in Jan 2010, MySpace had 3.9 million singular users compared to the strong 23.9 singular users on vacation Facebook during the same month. Even in the US where MySpace has regularly been historically bigger, 51.6 million singular users visited MySpace last month contra a whopping 116.3 million utilizing Facebook.

Mr Hirschorn explained the disproportion in between MySpace and Facebook as "MySpace is a not place for people to speak about what they are up to. Its the place people speak about what they are into."

As piece of this increasing concentration around calm find and sharing, MySpace will be rolling out a letter of reference engine that will indicate games, song and videos to users formed on their prior expenditure habits. This has already left live for new users, but will be entirely rolled out to those with existent MySpace accounts over the subsequent dual months.

There will additionally be a revamp of all users profiles, starting subsequent month with all song artists with a MySpace presence. According to Mr Jones this will urge the video and audio capabilities of profiles, formulating some-more of a "next era environment". It will additionally suggest artists some-more opportunities to have make use of of their profiles to set up things similar to competitions for fans. MySpace is operative with the song industry at the impulse about how to most appropriate rise the services for artists. Regular MySpace users will afterwards have these opportunities lengthened to them and their profiles. There will be automations collection to assistance people quit their old profiles over with larger ease.

The dashboard tool, that was done accessible to musicians last year, is to be lengthened to unchanging users at an unconfirmed point during the summer. This free apparatus now allows all artists and labels total entrance to charts, graphs and snapshots of MySpace song interpretation relating to the profiles and rule of their listeners.

The artists dashboard interpretation shows musicians where their fans come from, that songs are being played the most, form views, crony equate and the series form visitors. Trending interpretation are accessible for 7 day and thirty day glances and there is additionally feverishness map display usership.

The user dashboard will let people know how most times their couple to a video or song, has been re-shared and how their participation on the site is you do generally. This will afterwards lead to users being awarded points or repute badges depending on their levels of shift on the site. Mr Hirschorn pronounced that people not usually wish to bond when utilizing a network but they additionally suffer removing credit for pity or curating information.

The co-presidents are prioritising amicable games as piece of the revamp and goal to have it as renouned as song has been as a genre opposite the site. Presently they contend twenty per cent of their users are "connecting with games" on a every day basement and they wish that to be up to 50 per cent in the nearby future. Today at Games Developers Conference in San Francisco MySpace management team are announcing a couple of new amicable games that are disdainful to MySpace and are releasing multiform APIs that will concede third celebration developers to emanate games for MySpace. They will additionally be releasing a mobile micro concentration for MySpace gamers opposite a series of platforms that will concede people to embrace games alerts.

Mr Jones additionally discussed MySpaces mobile plans "Mobile is the largest expansion segment. We are aiming to recover twenty to thirty micro apps in the subsequent year, opposite the vital phone platforms [Android, iPhone, BlackBerry] that will each suggest small tools of the MySpace functionality.

"By additionally creation certain APIs available, third celebration developers can have make use of of certain tools of the calm to emanate really specific apps."

Both presidents are focussed on creation certain MySpaces liberation is product-led but have on purpose staggered the changes since they contend their userbase is really supportive to change.

When asked about how they plan on going about the formidable charge of re-capturing lost users who have left MySpace for the likes of Facebook, Mr Hirschorn pronounced "We still have 100 million users worldwide and at the impulse the concentration is on creation the MySpace experience good for them and afterwards once we have stabilised that userbase we will go out and win behind the users that have left."

Mr Jones combined "We are desirous to crash the drum for MySpace, but wish to wait for for the product to be up to speed. We are aiming to go on a outrageous selling pull by the latter apportionment of this year.

"I am assured we will be means to win users behind and capture code new ones since of the inlet of the internet. Usage patterns shift really fast and I have no disbelief that when we wish to spin on the viral outcome behind on we can do so really fast and with good effect. And secondly, when we are ready for the comeback, since we are owned by News Corp, we will have a really shrill voice cheering about us around the world."

Property in Devon: the home with a half-million pound view

By Adam Edwards in Devon 1200PM GMT 10 March 2010

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At the wrong finish of the New King"s Road, 100 yards from what was affectionately well well known to each Eighties Hooray Henry as Hackett"s Cross (after the used gentleman"s outfitters that was sited there), was an exhaust-stained row of grubby houses. And in an top ground-floor window at the finish of the terrace, sandwiched in between dirty potion and a soiled net curtain, was a small card pointer that review "Seaview".

My initial arrogance was that this was an mocking gesticulate by a pasty-faced civil joker, but afterwards my regretful side kicked in and I veered towards meditative that it was a commemoration from a tainted fortnight subsequent to the seaside.

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For a perspective of the sea is something to blow about, as the name on the normal British coastal boarding residence will attest. There are some-more "Seaview" b & bs in Britain than there are guest to protest about them.

There are streets, train parks, legal holiday lets and even a small locale on the Isle of Wight called "Seaview".

And I identical to to think that by rights that name should additionally be given to Bay House in Churston, South Devon. This is not given the Arts and Craft-style residence belongs in b & b domain far from it but given from the square one cannot usually take in the length and extent of Tor Bay but additionally on a transparent day and with a absolute span of binoculars see as far as the Isle of Wight"s "Seaview".

It is a flowing perspective that, according to the agents Knight Frank, is value half a million pounds.

"The skill is singular given it"s on the really tip of the headland, with the widest views," says Martin O"Brien, a thriller bard who hereditary the residence from his father, a former naval aver officer.

"It doesn"t have a difference if it is a dim and inclement night or a transparent and balmy day, the residence is dominated by the ocean. My father was spellbound by it he outlayed his latter years staring at the setting by a telescope."

Quite how that magnified perspective is labelled is a poser well well known usually to those who competition signet rings and laser fasten measures. The sea, with the difference of a couple of pointed changes of colour, looks flattering most the same wherever you are in Britain. And nonetheless last year a fisherman"s lodge in Kent that looked opposite the English Channel was sole for usually �250,000 (it is loyal it was subsequent to Dungeness chief energy station, but afterwards that competence be an tasteful scenery to lovers of industrial landscapes) and a small residence in Ayrshire with the Firth of Clyde in the front grassed area is usually valued at about �150,000.

The steer of the sea in the south-west of England, on the alternative hand, is, according to agents, the coastal homogeneous of a penthouse prosaic in Manhattan. And in particular, the crashing of the waves and the squeaking of gambolling dolphins in Tor Bay is value as most as the bricks and trebuchet that have up Bay House.

The cliff-top residence is written around the nautical asset. The flagstone square appears, identical to an forever pool, to disband in to the sea. Hidden next is a square grassed area with a identical outlook.

The upper-floor bedrooms have 8ft-wide shifting doors opening onto a large embellished balcony, and downstairs there is some-more potion opening onto the large square where one can delight in the eight-seat prohibited cylinder and watch the wink lights of merchantmen.

"Every chair, lounge and chair is destined at the view," O"Brien says. "You can hasten eggs in the kitchen whilst seeking at the Isle of Wight." That kitchen, along with the rest of the house, was not long ago refurbished in what the writer calls "Hamptons style".

The Hamptons sits at the finish of the south seashore of Long Island, off Manhattan. It is where F Scott Fitzgerald set his novel The Great Gatsby and has been a show up for American actors, directors, writers and captains of industry ever since. It is the devout home of engineer infrequent wear and each chichi residence (and there are really couple of that aren"t modish) has embellished Shaker furniture, delicate colour colours and old ash tongue-and-groove floorboards.

The Hamptons additionally has houses called "Seaview" that see out over the Atlantic Ocean and that could, with a Hubble telescope, brand a identical tiwn in Bay House a far nicer awaiting than focusing on the normal pebbledash one-story dwelling that is your normal British "Seaview". And far better, too, than a meant London terraced residence 50 miles from the sea.

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High speed rail network plans unveiled

By David Millward, Transport Editor 151PM GMT eleven March 2010

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His minute blueprint, rupturing by the Chiltern Hills, will move the centre of Birmingham 49 mins from the heart of London, whilst Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester would usually be 75 mins afar from the capital.

In serve a new rotate in the West Midlands would meant that Birmingham Airport could be reached from London in usually 31 minutes, rounded off the same time as it takes to get to Gatwick currently.

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Lord Adonis hailed the plans as a "step change" for Britain which, he said, would supplement genius to the packed rail network and foster mercantile growth.

But Theresa Villiers, his Tory shadow, poured ridicule on the plans.

"Labour have tricked the prophesy we set out 3 years ago for high speed rail. In withdrawal out Heathrow and environment out plans that give no organisation guarantees north of the Midlands, Labours plans are injured both by miss of aspiration and undermined by their incapacity to learn the simple law that high speed rail should an pick to a third runway not an serve to it," she said.

The plans voiced by the Government enclosed a minute track as far as Birmingham and outline plans how the network could be lengthened serve north.

As reported by the Daily Telegraph, the proposals embody a new vital rotate at Old Oak Common in north west London, where passengers would be means to shift from high speed trains onto the programmed Crossrail line using from to Heathrow from Shenfield in Essex as well as the Heathrow Express.

The airfield will be eleven mins away.

The line will begin at a made up Euston, head towards Ruislip and afterwards come in a hovel at the M25 prior to surfacing at Amersham. It would afterwards head west of Wendover and Aylesbury, mostly following the track taken by the A413.

Much of the track will follow the existent Chiltern Line prior to reaching the Birmingham International rotate and afterwards relocating to a new city centre hire at Fazely Street, in the Eastside metamorphosis area.

The new Birmingham International rotate will emanate a ride heart for the West Midlands joining not usually the airfield but additionally motorways and behaving as the bottom of dual serve lines, one to Manchester and the North West and the alternative using to Sheffield, Leeds and the North East.

Ministers goal plans to make use of endless tunnelling and following existent rail corridors will lessen most of the antithesis they could face as a outcome of their preference to run the line by the Chiltern Hills, an area of superb healthy beauty.

Some homes will be theme to mandatory purchase, but the Department for Transport, has sought to keep this down to a minimum.

John Cridland, emissary executive ubiquitous of the Confederation of British Industry, welcomed what he described as "visionary thinking".

But he additionally sounded a note of caution.

"But high speed rail will come with a large cost tab and earlier or after the subject of who pays for it will have to be answered. Private zone await for the judgment of high speed rail should not be misread as a eagerness to write a vacant coupon at a time of exceedingly spread out open finance management a full and open conference on in isolation appropriation will be essential. Equally, high speed rail contingency not be authorised to empty investment from alternative ride priorities.

Arsenal 5 Porto 0; agg 6-2: match report

By Henry Winter at Emirates Stadium 645AM GMT 10 March 2010

Hat-trick favourite Nicklas Bendtner eventually showed his guarantee for Arsenal with 3 goals to safeguard their swell to Champions League quarter-finals Photo PA

By the finish of a dispersion of Porto that was both pleasing and brutal, Arsenal supporters were chanting "ole, their thoughts racing subliminally brazen to a European consummate in a Spanish footballing bull-ring called the Bernabeu. After a arrangement as gaseous as this, Arsenal can positively brave to dream.

Of course, stipend contingency be done for the unsatisfactory inlet of the washed up here. Porto are scandalous for journeying as feeble as their bottled exports transport well; the meagre highlights of their fourteen visits to England is dual draws. Of course, some-more estimable threats distortion in wait for for Arsenal in the quarter-finals. But in overturning a first-leg necessity in Europe for the initial time given 1978, Arsenal displayed a liughtness of mood and transformation that gives them genuine idea of success in Europe.

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Against better-balanced, some-more noisy opponents, Arsenal will need their far-reaching players to lane behind more, and their counterclaim to be some-more prudent in attempting interceptions, but Arsene Wengers truth is secure in conflict being the majority appropriate form of defence. For the fans flocking to the Emirates, and neutrals tuning in, Arsenals proceed is a happiness to behold.

Here was Arsenal at their fluid, aggressive best. Here was Arsenal additionally at their majority variety-filled, being rebuilt to take the high highway as well as low towards Portos area. The full range of the hosts accessible weaponry were brought to bear on Heltons goal. Nicklas Bendtner proposed the subjection with dual poachers strikes in the initial half, Samir Nasri afterwards danced by the visitors counterclaim and Emmanuel Eboue raced by it prior to Bendtner finished his initial hat-trick with a low penalty.

What quite gratified Wenger was that Arsenal were clever from behind to front notwithstanding not in the spinal column of William Gallas, Cesc Fabregas and Robin outpost Persie. From begin to finish, Arsenal were terrific, personification with pace, comprehension and imagination, quite when the round was in the enchanting lean of Andrei Arshavin, a box of fireworks that kept bursting in Portos face.

Arshavin did not measure but his beautiful category was hammered all over this five-goal, five-star performance. The man from St Petersburg had obviously been to the barbers whilst out injured. He resembled a youth rating from the Battleship Potemkin primed for a big night out. He positively enjoyed himself here.

Arshavin might have had a close trim but he ensured Arsenal didnt. He done both first-half goals for Bendtner, Arsenals Dane branch in to Preben Elkjaer for the night to absolve Wengers preference to go on him at centre-forward.

Revealingly, Arsenals physical education instructor let trip that he hoped Bendtner would not turn "too assured after this. Bendtner has not regularly been to everybodys tastes at the Emirates, with a little fans doubt his spasmodic arrogantly-expressed conviction in his own abilities, but he positively delivered here, finishing with all the inventiveness blank in his wicked display opposite Burnley.

His initial came when Arsenal unexpected went Route One. Manuel Almunia, captain for the evening, drilled the round down the centre, utterly slicing out midfield. Arshavin showed genuine strength in the air, redirecting the round to Nasri, whose carry out was instant, his successive pass inspired.

The Frenchman stroked the round down the middle, mouth-watering Arshavin to have a see at Heltons goal.

Portos screw dashed out, not often electing to slip in feet initial on Arshavin. Fucile additionally dived in wildly, knocking the round afar from Helton and Arshavin but opposite to Bendtner, who had expected the probability of the balls attainment quicker than his marker, Rolando. An outstretched leg incited the round in 1-0.

Bentdners new fan bar usually had fifteen mins to reprise an old favourite, "One-nil to the Arsenal, until the No 52 struck again. Porto had usually themselves to blame. Harried by Abou Diaby, Fucile seemed to be ushering the round out for a throw but unexpected motionless to fool around on, gifting receive to Arshavin. Big mistake.

Arshavin could have put the round out, permitting the healing men to lend towards Nasri, who was lying nearby the centre-circle. He played on, embarking on a outstanding leap that Porto simply could not understanding with. He enjoyed a hold of happening when Fuciles unsuccessful interception fell pleasantly behind to him.

Arshavin accelerated, his low centre of sobriety carrying him past Nuno Coelho. As he neared the byeline, Arshavin crossed low and tough to the unmarked Bendtner 2-0.

As Arsenal celebrated, a couple of Porto players half-heartedly appealed for an offside opposite Bendtner but Frank de Bleeckere abandoned their entreaties.

The half was going beautifully for Arsenal and it could have left even some-more sweetly. A glorious square of proceed work in between Nasri and Diaby finished with Arshavin sharpened over.

Bendtner roughly picked up the match-ball prior to half-time but his placed shot was pushed afar by Helton. Bendtner afterwards showed an indisciplined streak, diving in on Fucile and sketch a counsel from De Bleeckere.

Arsenal knew that a Porto idea would force additional time and they withstood a short flurry of vigour after the break. The Colombian Falcao sought to levy himself some-more on an Arsenal back-line containing Sol Campbell, who can probably recollect the Brazilian Falcao. Campbell brought all his experience to bear, fasten Thomas Vermaelen in blotting out Falcao.

Just after the hour-mark, Arsenal struck twice to do afar with any flickering fire of aspiration that might have burnt in Porto hearts. Nasri wriggled in from the right, skipping past Raul Meireles, afterwards Cristian Rodriguez and afterwards Alvaro Pereira prior to outstanding the round past Helton 3-0.

Some artistic particular goals have graced Arsenals shining story and Nasris deserves to be enclosed amongst those specialist strikes.

And there was more, gloriously so. Arshavin modernized irresistibly prior to personification Eboue by the husky ruins of Portos defence. There was still copiousness to do but Eboues gait carried him around Helton and his low finish found the net 4-0.

Theo Walcott afterwards arrived to lower Portos depression, rught afar slicing in from the right and vouchsafing fly with his left foot, his shot catching Alvaro Pereira and deflecting afar for a corner. The England winger kept racing at the visitors, kept worrying them.

So did an additional substitute. Eboue was brought down by Fucile low in to blocking time and Bendtner quietly stroked home the chastisement 5-0.

Arsenal slip on.

Dubrovnik: Cities to put spring in your step

By Johnny Morris 1149AM GMT 09 March 2010

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Ultratravel writers try Dubrovnik, Krakov and Prague and suggest the majority courteous ways to suffer them.

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Soul-inspiring design in a compress old locale by the sea? Dubrovnik has not majority to dislike, says Johnny Morris.

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My crony Igor proudly forked out the Latin marker OBLITI PRIVATORUM PUBLICA CURATE (Forget in isolation interests, regard yourself with open affairs) on top of the pathway heading from Dubrovnik"s 15th-century Rector"s Palace in to the locale hall. This sign to the rectors who ruled the Ragusan commonwealth for usually one month at a time helps to insist the fast interest of Croatia"s majority important citadel. Old Dubrovnik is a gorgeous e.g. of common county shortcoming translated in to design a red-roofed gem of civic formulation elegantly laid out for the great of any one propitious sufficient to work, rest and urge inside of the walls.

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And soul-inspiring design it is, too. Surrounded on 3 of the five sides by the slick waters of the Adriatic Sea, Dubrovnik is a jigsaw of piazzas, palaces, cafes, monasteries, fountains and dinky southern Italian antique shops. Inter-locked on a tidy grid complement of car-free streets and passageways, the buildings are harmonised in paint and hardness by the internal limestone and firm inside of one-and-a-quarter miles of very old walls. As a indication metropolis, the old locale offers a present parcel of European history, enlightenment and cappuccinos that even the majority cloyed week end caller will find easy to unwrap.

Ironically, it is precisely this honesty and importance on common open spaces that have combined the city"s problems. After the dim days of the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Dubrovnik adopted an open-door process to any tourists who happened to be passing. "We were so blissful to see visitors return, it didn"t make a difference what journey ships came in from where," Igor explained. Hence the weeks in summer (and a small out-of-season weekends) when crocodiles of day-visitors from the enormous ships burden the Stradun, Dubrovnik"s main promenade, and when walking queues in the Pile embankment hit with trade jams of coaches entrance from the new port.

But to leave the beauty of Dubrovnik since of a small overcrowding would be as ridiculous as blank Venice for fright of removing wet. All that is indispensable for a pacific revisit is great timing (if you are rebuilt to abstain the festival, www.dubrovnik-festival.hr, from Jul 10 to Aug 25, both April-May and autumn are comfortable and less crowded) and a guide to a small of the some-more engaging ancestral offerings (see below). The initial time I visited was in 1993 when the place was still in shock after the Serbian barrage and I was one of usually 3 tourists rattling around the painful city. This time, the place was busy with business, and what a wish it was to see the valuables of the Adriatic portion the open once again. Dubrovnik is right to be enjoying the rebirth of both in isolation oppulance and open beauty; usually watch out for those crocodiles they can be deadly.

Where to stay

Hotel Excelsior & Spa (00 385 twenty 353 353, www.hotel-excelsior.hr) at Frana Supila 12. Five mins from the Polce gate, it offers glorious views of the old locale and the regretful island of Lokrum. Though the design is an peculiar brew of belle-poque and 1960s modernist, the construction has been tenderly refurbished, and the pleasing Villa Agave combined a three-bedroomed in isolation summerhouse charity the services of the five-star hotel. The overpriced and somewhat strict Pucic Palace (00 385 twenty 326 222, www.thepucicpalace.com), mainly located in an 18th-century antique house on Gundulic Square, with nineteen rooms, a rooftop grill portion seafood-based cuisine and the best-stocked booze club in the Old Town (doubles from �230). Alternatively, try the � la mode Hotel Bellevue (00 385 twenty 330 000, www.hotel-bellevue.hr), built on the slopes of a high inlet with the own in isolation beach, and deftly written so majority of the 93 bedrooms have expanded Adriatic views (doubles from �93).

Where to eat

Proto (00 385 twenty 323 234), at Siroka 1, is a excellent fish grill on a cosy Old Town roof tiles terrace, portion such internal specialties as black squid-ink risotto, and booze from Korcula (about �20 per person). Vapor (00 385 twenty 330 000, www.hotel-bellevue.hr) is a end grill portion complicated Dalmatian fish specialties in an superb cliffside environment (about �25 per person).

What to do

Take a packet to the island of Lokrum, usually fifteen mins from the old gulf and sanctified with local woodlands, botanic gardens, hilly beaches, a lake and the peculiar peacock. Visit the Dubrovnik Museum of Modern Art (00 385 twenty 426 590, www.ugdubrovnik.hr) at Put Frana Supila 23. Housed in a 1930s grand villa, this is a world-class gallery. More than half the muster space is on outside terraces with pretentious views. Walk with a guide around the city walls (tickets for ferries, tours and galleries are accessible from the traveller office, www.tzdubrovnik.hr)

Shopping

Sample the creativity of Croatian designers at Hippy Garden (www.hippygarden.com) on Od Pudu, a slight travel with boutiques offered products from Brazilian trilbies to eremite icons and Byzantine jewellery.

Elegant Resorts (01244 897515, www.elegantresorts.co.uk) offers a week end to Dubrovnik from �615 per person, together with two-nights" b&b at Hotel Bellevue, lapse flights with British Airways and in isolation transfers.

£2.85m insurance bill for pothole-damaged cars

226PM GMT 09 March 2010

AA Insurance pronounced around 1,900 pothole claims were done by motorists during Feb after roads were shop-worn by one of the majority critical winters on record. The organisation pronounced pothole claims had soared by around 600 per cent during the past 3 years, as councils onslaught to say the main road network.

Simon Douglas, executive of AA Insurance, pronounced "Nationally, the repairs to cars caused by potholes in Feb alone cost insurers around �2.85m the homogeneous of about 1,900 claims. But that"s usually the tip of the iceberg, since it takes critical repairs to have it value an word claim.

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"Garages and tyre centres are traffic with large thousands of punctured tyres, shop-worn tracking or damaged springs that don"t clear creation a claim."

The AA is job on the Government to make use of the additional income lifted from the enlarge in fuel avocation on Apr 1 to correct the country"s potholes, to forestall councils being forced to lift legislature taxation to cover the cost of maintenance.

Edmund King, the AA"s president, pronounced "Local roads are in a dreadful, dangerous state and puncture appropriation is desperately indispensable to stop the disease of potholes.

"However, with the engineer already profitable �46 billion per year in assorted motoring taxes and usually a small suit outlayed on the roads, it would be main road spoliation to direct some-more income from internal people."

Tame virus could prove prostate cancer weapon

247PM GMT 09 March 2010

Scientists who administered the pathogen to 6 proffer patients found it killed off cancer cells whilst provident normal tissue.

The respiratory, enteric, waif virus, or ""reovirus"" is drawn out but causes no poignant seizure in humans.

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People unprotected to it suffer, at most, amiable flu-like respiratory symptoms or diarrhoea.

Previous investigate has shown that reovirus has ""oncolytic"" potential, definition it preferentially targets cancer cells.

There is already a little justification of the outcome opposite lymphoid, ovarian, breast, pancreatic and high class glioma brain cancers.

The new Canadian investigate is the initial to exam the pathogen on prostate cancer.

Study personality Dr Don Morris, from the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Alberta, pronounced ""Our formula are a stepping mill in to destiny prostate cancer clinical trials with an additional difficulty of cancer therapeutics.""

The researchers recruited 6 men with early-stage prostate cancer that had not nonetheless proposed to spread.

Each was since a singular injection of the pathogen in to their tumour, guided by ultrasound.

Three weeks after the patients had their prostate glands private as piece of their normal treatment.

Analysis of the prostate tissue showed the genocide of cancer cells in the treated with colour tumours. However there was no pointer of the pathogen replicating in non-cancerous areas of the prostate.

""For the diagnosis of localised prostate cancer, we found that the reovirus is protected and has justification of specific swelling contra normal prostate cell efficacy,"" pronounced Dr Morris.

The commentary were reported in the biography Cancer Research.

Professor Robert Clarke, a part of of the journal"s paper board, pronounced ""People have well known of this focus of the reovirus in trials, but nobody to my believe has conducted trials in prostate cancer.

""I think this is an engaging approach. There is not a lot finished in oncolytics, but obviously it is an area that is removing augmenting attention, and we need all we can get the hands on to have a disproportion in these patients.""

Each year around 35,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 10,000 die from the disease.

World Cup 2010: Chilean Football Federation grateful for $250k Fifa earthquake donation

658PM GMT 09 March 2010

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The 8.8-registered trembler on February twenty-seven is estimated to have killed some-more than 800 people.

The sporting monthly calendar has survived in Chile, however, with last weekends Davis Cup tie with Israel going forward and a restructured made at home football championship set to resume this weekend.

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World footballs ruling physique Fifa were between assorted bodies to show support, with a financial gesture, whilst South American connection Conmebol additionally sent opposite $100,000.

Mayne-Nicholls, looming at the Global Sports Forum in Barcelona, pronounced "There has been a lot of support, a lot of letters, lots of things similar to that.

"We saw gestures from West Bromwich Albion, a little Italian clubs, Real Madrid, Almeria wore Fuerza Chile t-shirts and things similar to that.

"Fifa gave us $250,000 to cope with this and Conmebol gave us $100,000 to assistance rebuild.

"We have perceived await from all over the world, a lot of games flew the Chilean dwindle and people ancillary the country.

"We are unequivocally beholden and what they have finished will never be forgotten."

Asked either Fifas grant was rather paltry, he combined "Its not the volume of money, that is not the point. The point is that they unequivocally wish to assistance and co-operate.

"You will never redeem from what you lost so the not a make a difference of money. Its the oneness they demonstrate that is the critical thing.

"There was a 26-hour telethon and this, and alternative things, picked up $60 million for the rebuilding of the country. But we need some-more than $2 billion to rebuild.

"So it doesnt make a difference what we do, we will never be means to get the income behind to recover.

"That is not the point, the point is people unequivocally wish to assistance and were unequivocally beholden for that."

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Music industry failing to promote legal alternatives to piracy

By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent 730AM GMT 08 March 2010

Almost 10 million copies of Lady Gaga?s singular Poker Face were downloaded last year

Nine out of ten consumers that are wakeful of song services, have usually listened of dual determined brands iTunes and Amazon, according to the research.

Consumer Focus, the Government-backed watchdog, sees the expansion of the authorised online song marketplace as the most appropriate approach to plunge into online copyright infringement, but it claims that the song industry is unwell to foster the most authorised alternatives.

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The consumer physique surveyed 1995 adults and found that 4 in ten people are incompetent to name a singular online song use at all notwithstanding there being over twenty services on the market.

Consumer Focus has called for an all you can eat song intrigue so internet users can suffer unlimited, authorised song downloads for a small one some-more monthly fee.

Jill Johnstone, International Director, Consumer Focus, pronounced "The song industry is sharpened itself in the feet by not compelling authorised online song services. If jot down pity is causing the repairs the song industry claims, because arent they putting some-more bid in to compelling the authorised alternatives?

"Before we go down the coercion highway it is usually satisfactory to ask the song industry to do some-more to have people wakeful of the authorised options."

The IFPI, the traffic physique that represents the recording industry, estimates than 95 per cent of downloaded song last year was not paid for.

The Governments Digital Economy Bill, not nonetheless law, contains measures to undo determined offenders by a routine of graduated warnings.

The consumer physique has additionally called for remodel of UKs copyright chartering complement to have it simpler for online song services to indicate copyrighted functions to consumers legally.

They explain that remodel would inspire the expansion of some-more authorised alternatives such as streaming, "all you can eat", micropayment, announcement or subscription formed models.

The song industry pronounced it was a "fallacy" to indicate that recognition of authorised song services is low.

Geoff Taylor, the arch senior manager of the BPI, the jot down industry traffic body, pronounced "Its only not convincing to indicate that people who are downloading illegally havent listened of iTunes, Amazon or alternative authorised song services.

"Our most larger, some-more new and targeted online consult shows that recognition of authorised song services between internet users is roughly universal. The measures in the Digital Economy Bill are precisely what is indispensable to inspire bootleg downloaders to move opposite to those authorised services".

Chanel autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Paris Fashion Week 415PM GMT 09 March 2010

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Karl Lagerfeld, the multitasking photographer, art collector, linguist, writer, and the engineer at the back of the absolute French brand, Chanel, combined an additional pretension to his cv at the Paris prêt-à-porter deteriorate the stylish environmentalist.

The one-man conform "storm", had the Chanel invitations printed with his own blueprint of the involved frigid bear; combined an Arctic landscape from 240 tons of ice in the Grand Palais and, then, filled the pick up with feign fur.

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"Its so great now, technical advances are so undiluted you can frequency discuss it feign hair from the genuine thing," he pronounced backstage. "Fake is not stylish we have got a new Chanel tweed to stop copies but feign hair is."

"Its not tellurian warming, the global-cooling!"

The audience, vibrating in the Alaskan conditions of the Grand Palais, with Vanessa Paradis and Lindsay Lohan, between the front-row celebrities, would have straightforwardly agreed.

The models strolled by a North Pole forest of icebergs - sculpted by the group who combined the worlds largest road house done of ice and snow, in the Swedish encampment of Jukkasjä - wearing shaggy, fake-fur coats, and fake-fur-trimmed tweeds.

They splashed by icy waters, left by the melting bergs, in fake-fur yeti boots, and "Chanel", two-tone shoes, lonesome with cosmetic galoshes, a little of that came lax and were left floating behind, similar to detritus from a frigid expedition.

The fake-fur flurry enclosed downy mammoth-look trousers, for both men and women; Inuit-style knits; and evening-wear in fake-fox, churned with thickk cream edging and tweed, and accessorised with ice-crystal jewellery.

US drone strike kills five in NW Pakistan

1010PM GMT 08 March 2010

The ultimate in a array of US worker attacks targeted militants in the centre of Miranshah, the main locale of North Waziristan, a insurgent building nearby the Afghan border.

A security central in Peshawar reliable the set upon observant missiles from dual drones set upon a devalue in Miranshah, whilst residents pronounced the missiles struck dual opposite buildings close to each alternative in the main bazaar.

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"I was in the mosque when I listened 3 outrageous explosions. The physical phenomenon was away after the explosions," one proprietor said.

"Two drones dismissed 3 missiles in Miranshah bazaar. Two buildings in the centre of the concert were set upon and broken in the attack," he added.

A US worker set upon in Miranshah in Feb killed Mohammed Haqqani, a hermit of Al-Qaeda-linked warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose network is fighting opposite US and internal forces in beside Afghanistan.

Officials in Washington have praised the worker debate for expelling a series of high-value targets in turf personal as an comprehension black hole and that Al-Qaeda has incited in to the tellurian headquarters.

The growth US worker fight opposite Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders has focused increasingly on North Waziristan, a citadel of mixed belligerent groups, given a Dec thirty self-murder conflict killed 7 CIA employees in Afghanistan.

North Waziristan borders Khost province, where a Jordanian alloy incited Al-Qaeda stand in representative blew himself up in the deadliest conflict on the US view group in twenty-six years.

US officials, who never endorse the worker strikes, increasingly hold that Hakimullah Mehsud, personality of the Pakistani Taliban, perished in a US conflict in January.

However, there has been no central acknowledgment from the Pakistani supervision and the Pakistani Taliban demand he is alive.

His prototype Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a identical conflict in August.

Lanzarote: A land of sun, seaand soup

By Max Davidson : 12:18PM GMT 08 March 2010

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Returning to places with golden memories is a unsure business. As we lay down for lunch at Casa Emiliano, a family-run griddle in a bank encampment in Lanzarote, I am apprehensive. Can that never-to-be-forgotten garlic soup presumably be as great second time around?

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For dual years, I have been tedious all and various with tales of The Best Soup on the Planet, that I stumbled opposite by possibility in 2008. The sopa de ajos at Casa Emiliano cost usually €4 (�3.60) but the flavours erupted in the mouth. Garlic, onions, chilli peppers, lardons, uninformed tomatoes, a ideally poached egg.

I needn"t have worried. My mental recall has not been personification tricks. The 2010 sopa de ajos is, if anything, even some-more wealthy than the 2008 version. Nothing has changed. The same accessible Canarian family, 4 generations of them, discord to and fro. The same dual cats prowl by the rose garden. And there is the same pretentious view, with the far afar sea dancing in the object and the beside island of Fuerteventura peeping by the haze.

Lanzarote used to be nicknamed Lanza-grotty, a package-holiday island scarred by development. But that would be astray to complicated Lanzarote, the collect of the Canary Islands. Whether your ambience is for winter object or a family legal holiday in high season, it is a desirable and particular destination, where the flay of mass tourism has been mostly cramped to a couple of east-coast enclaves such as Puerto del Carmen. Once you know that pieces to avoid, there is zero to fright and majority to savour.

From the Timanfaya Palace, the in vogue four-star road house in the low-key review of Playa Blanca, we are means to try high and low by sinecure car, enjoying a near-perfect mix of food, perspective and enlightenment underneath a pleasantly sun.

The cuisine alone would clear a revisit to Lanzarote. If the sopa de ajos is the prominence of the foodie pilgrimage, there are smashing fish restaurants dotted right around the island. One fishing village, El Golfo, is so well-endowed with restaurants that the restaurants are the village. The object beats down, the waves pile-up opposite the rocks and, hey presto, a smiling waiter is at your shoulder, temperament a ideally grilled solitary or red mullet, held that morning. Bliss.

Scenically, it contingency be said, the island is some-more thespian than picturesque. Mother Nature has not been kind to Lanzarote. The island was ravaged by volcanic eruptions in the 1730s and total areas still distortion submerged underneath lava, creation for a bleak, roughly treeless landscape. But the islanders have shown a in contact with resourcefulness in adversity, quite when it comes to creation wine.

In the wine-growing segment of La Geria, raked by unbending crosswinds, particular vines have been planted in dug-out hollows in the volcanic dried their usually picturesque possibility of prospering. It is a labour-intensive operation, but there is zero wrong with the finish product, thrillingly frail on the palate.

La Geria borders the Timanfaya National Park, that is not to be missed. Here are the legendary "fire mountains" of Lanzarote folklore: the volcanoes whose aroused eruptions gave the island the character. They see tame, but appearances can deceive. The subterranean feverishness is still so extreme that, at the mountaintop restaurant, they griddle total chickens on top of the missile that funnels in to the volcano.

A train debate of the play ground gives you a ringside perspective of the volcanic plateau dotted with imperishable craters. It is a landscape of lunar severity, but eerily beautiful, quite in the early evening, when the desiccated brownish-red mountainous country spin each shade of pinkish and purple. So small of Lanzarote is artistic that, where there are small flecks of colour a rosemary bush, a flowering cactus, a dash of bougainvillea you conclude it all the more.

One of the prettiest villages on the island is Haría, tucked afar in the northern hills. It could be an oasis, with the plump palm trees, cascading window boxes and the air of contented calm. The tat of the review towns seems a universe away.

Teguise, the old capital, is an additional gem: sun-bleached colonial buildings slumbering in the haze. The hordes deplane on the locale on Sunday, that is marketplace day, so revisit during the week, when assent has been easy and you can try the warren of cafs and in vogue qualification shops.

Drive to the north of the island and you are rewarded by the majority fantastic perspective yet: the Mirador del Rio, a towering eyrie that looks opposite a slight pickle to the little Isla Graciosa. The Mirador, similar to so majority that is majority appropriate in Lanzarote, was combined by Csar Manrique, the artist who did some-more than any one to lift the form of the island in the late 20th century.

His might is majority clear in his old home, right away a museum, the Fundación Csar Manrique. Cunningly planted trees lead the eye upwards, towards the shining blue of the sky. Water facilities dance in the sunlight. It is a fantasy home, similar to something in a angel tale, but there is not a mill out of place.

One of Manrique"s running beliefs was that design should carillon with the landscape, not compete. Whether in his round Cactus Garden, mimicking a volcanic crater, or his off-hand Jameos del Agua, a subterranean H2O grassed area fashioned from a collapsed lava tunnel, he strove to simulate the geological story of Lanzarote.

He positively did that, contributing beauty note after beauty note to an island that is not short of appeal anyway. As a retreat from the British winter, usually a four-hour moody away, it is tough to better. And that is prior to you have tasted the sopa de ajos.

UCI ProTour 2010 race calendar

By John MacLeary Published: 4:00PM GMT 10 Mar 2010

Previous of Images Next Bright outlook: Paris-Nice will give European cycling fans their initial glance of the UCI ProTour Photo: REUTERS Petal power: Andr� Greipel, the HTC-Columbia sprinter, led the Tour Down Under from the opening theatre to the finish in Adelaide as the German won his second pretension in Australia Photo: GETTY IMAGES Do you feel lucky? Tom Boonen will be anticipating he can have it 3 in a row at Paris-Roubaix Photo: GETTY IMAGES

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Tour Down Under: January 19-242010 winner: Andr Greipel (Ger)Most wins: 2 Stuart O"Grady (Aus); 1999, 2001, Andr Greipel (Ger) 2008, 2010

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Andr Greipel won the 2010 Tour Down Under after the HTC-Columbia competitor led the six-stage foe from the opening day.

Greipel regained the pretension he won in 2008 - but was incompetent to successfully urge last year following a pile-up with a military car - as the German leveled Stuart O"Grady at the tip of the altogether winners" list with dual titles apiece.

The season"s curtain-raiser, once again, welcomed Lance Armstrong who, unsurprisingly, valid renouned with spectators as did Cadel Evans, Australia"s initial highway universe hold up who was equates to to wear the desired rainbow jersey for the initial time.

Team Sky, the initial ever British ProTour team, notwithstanding being but Bradley Wiggins, managed a one-two on the last stage, whilst claiming a lectern finish after Greg Henderson accomplished third fifteen seconds at the behind of Greipel and 6 ahaed of Evans.

Robbie McEwen done an considerable lapse from repairs with a rarely critical fourth-placed finish in the altogether ubiquitous classification.

Watch highlights from this year"s race

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Tour Down Under route

Jan 19, theatre one: Clare-Tanunda 141kmJan 20, theatre two: Gawler-Hahndorf 133kmJan 21, theatre three: Unley-Stirling 133kmJan 22, theatre four: Norwood-Goolwa 150kmJan 23, theatre five: Snapper Point-Willunga 148kmJan 24, theatre six: Adelaide, criterium 90km

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Paris-Nice: Mar 7-14Last year"s winner: Luis León Sánchez (Spa)Most wins: 7 Sean Kelly (Ire); 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Paris-Nice, or the Race to the Sun as it is affectionately known, is an eight-day theatre foe from the French collateral to Nice on the Cote d"Azur.

Dominated by Sean Kelly around the 1980s when the renouned Irishman won a jot down 7 unbroken titles, the initial big foe of the deteriorate provides European cycling fans their initial glance of the world"s majority appropriate riders on the open roads, whilst giving the directeur sportifs an denote of the deteriorate ahead.

Watch highlights from this year"s foe

Prologue | theatre one | theatre dual | theatre 3 theatre 4 | theatre five | theatre 6 | theatre 7

Paris-Nice route

March 7, prologue: Montfort l"Amaury, particular time-trial 8km Mar 8, theatre one: Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines-Contres 201.5km Mar 9, theatre two: Contres-Limoges 201kmMarch 10, theatre three: St Yrieix-la-Perche-Aurillac 155kmMarch 11, theatre four: Maurs-Mende 173.5kmMarch 12, theatre five: Pernes-les-Fontaines-Aix-en-Provence 157kmMarch 13, theatre six: Peynie-Tourrettes-sur-Loup 220kmMarch 14, theatre seven: Nice-Nice 119km

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Tirreno-Adriatico: Mar 10-162010 winner: Stefano Garzelli (Ita)Most wins: 6 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel); 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977

The Race of the Two Seas follows a track from the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the west seashore of Italy, to the Adriatic, off the east, and is raced over 7 days. The Tirreno-Adriatico is deliberate by majority as preferred credentials for Milan-San Remo.

Indeed, Mark Cavendish, the personality of last year"s Milan-San Remo, claimed the foe was instrumental to his initial Classic feat in 2009.

Tirreno-Adriatico route

March 10, theatre one: Livorno-Rosignano Solvay 148kmMarch 11, theatre two: Montecatini Terme-Montecatini Terme 165kmMarch 12, theatre three: San Miniato-Monsummano Terme 159kmMarch 13, theatre four: San Gemini-Chieti 243kmMarch 14, theatre five: Chieti-Colmurano 234kmMarch 15, theatre six: Montecosaro-Macerata 134kmMarch 16, theatre seven: Civitanova Marche-San Benedetto del Tronto 164km

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Milan-San Remo: Mar 20Last year"s winner: Mark Cavendish (GB)Most wins: 7 Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976

Following his feat at last season"s book Cavendish will be seeking to turn the initial cyclist to urge his pretension given Erik Zabel in 2001 - who is right away in make use of by the Briton"s HTC-Columbia group as an confidant to the sprinters.

Unsurprisingly, the Italians have dominated the foe given the pregnancy in 1907 where they have won 50 of the 100 races.

The late Tom Simpson became the initial British supplement to win the Milan-San Remo when, in 1964, he outwitted France"s Raymond Poulidor on the last Poggio stand prior to claiming his initial Monument of cycling.

Milan-San Remo is one of the longest one-day races in universe cycling, at customarily underneath 300 kilometres.

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Tour of Catalunya: Mar 22-28Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 7 Mariano Cañardo (Spa); 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1939

The Tour of Catalunya, the third oldest theatre foe in the universe and that celebrates the 90th book in 2010, is a midweek theatre foe that has, unsurprisingly, been dominated by the host riders.

Indeed, Spaniards have claimed 56 titles - together with Mariano Cañardo, who won 7 titles in in between 1928 and 1939 notwithstanding the foe being cancelled for dual years at the tallness of the Spanish Civil War.

Tour of Catalunya route

March 22, theatre one: Lloret de Mar 3.6km particular time-trialMarch 23, theatre two: Salt-Banyoles 183kmMarch 24, theatre three: La Vall d"en Bas-La Seu d"Urgell 186kmMarch 24, theatre four: Oliana-Ascó 209kmMarch 25, theatre five: Ascó-Cabacs 181kmMarch 26, theatre six: El Vendrell-Barcelona 162kmMarch 27, theatre seven: EsportParc-Circuit de Catalunya 117km

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Ghent-Wevelgem: Mar 28Last year"s winner: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)Most wins: 3 Robert Van Eenaeme (Bel); 1936, 1937, 1945. Rik Van Looy (Bel); 1956, 1957, 1962. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1967, 1970, 1973. Mario Cipollini (Ita); 1992, 1993, 2002

As the ProTour heads north for the Ghent-Wevelgem, riders" continuation will be tested by the famously oppressive Belgian breeze and rain. That said, the race, due to the prosaic course, is deliberate a sprinters" classic. Indeed, Mario Cipollini, the charming Italian, won a record-equalling 3 titles to one side Robert Van Eenaeme (Bel), Rik Van Looy (Bel) and the greatest of all, Eddy Merckx (Bel).

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Tour of Flanders: Apr 4Last year"s winner: Stijn Devolder (Bel)Most wins: 3 Achiel Buysse (Bel); 1940, 1941, 1943. Fiorenzo Magni (Ita); 1949, 1950, 1951. Eric Leman (Bel); 1970, 1972, 1973. Johan Museeuw (Bel) 1993, 1995, 1998

Cycling has a convention of the races being combined by journal owners, or editors, as a equates to of augmenting circulation. And the Tour of Flanders was set up by Karel Van Wijnendaele, of Sportwereld behind in 1913.

The foe itself, the second Classic of the five Monuments of cycling, creatively over from Ghent, the "home" of Belgian cycling, though, over the years the track has changed.

However, the foe has not diverted from the countless cobbled climbs, together with the critical Koppenberg.

A difficult float that even Merckx struggled to win. So difficult that customarily dual riders have won unbroken titles.

Simpson, in 1961, claimed his initial vital foe here, maybe interjection to Ghent"s own talismanic Albert Beurick receiving him underneath his wing.

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Tour of the Basque Country: Apr 5-10Last year"s winner: Alberto Contador (Spa)Most wins: 4 Jos Antonio Gonzalez (Spa) 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978

Celebrating the 50th book in 2010, the Tour of the Basque Country is a six-day theatre foe in the alpine segment of northern Spain.

Over the years, due to the terrain, the foe has been dominated by climbers. Alberto Contador, the UCI"s universe No 1 ranked rider, could have it a hat-trick of titles should he elect to float this year"s race.

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Paris-Roubaix: Apr 11Last year"s winner: Tom Boonen (Bel)Most wins: 4 Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel); 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977

Paris-Roubaix is the third one-day Classic of the deteriorate and presumably one of the majority singular races in universe cycling due to the endless sections of pav, or cobblestones, that creates The Hell of the North such a lottery of fitness and bravery.

Despite the title, the foe no longer departs from the French collateral - in 1968 organisers altered the begin line from Paris to the locale of Compiègne, around 60km north.

Unsurprisingly, Paris-Roubaix had been dominated by the Belgians who have won 53 of the 107 editions. France has had twenty-seven victories here.

Tom Boonen, last year"s winner, is out for a hat-trick of wins in the Roubaix Velodrome to next to fellow citizen Roger De Vlaeminick with the majority wins. A personality additionally in 2005, Boonen would move past Merckx, Francesco Moser (Ita) and Johan Museeuw (Bel), who additionally won 3 Paris-Roubaixs during their careers.

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Amstel Gold: Apr 18Last year"s winner: Sergei Ivanov (Rus)Most wins: 5 January Raas (Hol); 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982

Known for the countless short-sharp climbs, together with the twelve per cent Cauberg, that peppers the circuitous, mostly confusing, route, the Amstel Gold is the majority prestigious Dutch highway race.

Though comparatively immature - founded in 1966 - no particular has won a unbroken races given January Raas, the afterwards universe hold up and mixed Classics winner, defended his pretension thirty years ago in 1980.

Lance Armstrong, twice a second-place finisher, is approaching to foe this year.

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La Flèche Wallonne: Apr 21Last year"s winner: Davide Rebellin (Ita)Most wins: 3 Marcel Kint (Bel); 1943, 1944, 1945. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1967, 1970, 1972. Moreno Argentin (Ita); 1990, 1991, 1994. Davide Rebellin (Ita); 2004, 2007, 2009

Just 3 days after the Amstel Gold, riders will foe La Flèche Wallonne - a midweek one-day foe in the Walloon segment of Belgium.

Raced around a circuit, the Walloon Arrow includes multiform short, but high climbs - a little at roughly fifteen per cent - together with the Mur de Huy where the ardent Belgian cycling fanatics line the narrow, high banked roads, to emanate a wall of beer-fuelled sound where, after 3 laps, the personality will explain the initial piece of a probable Ardennes stand in - La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Italian Davide Rebellion won his third pretension here last year but is right away dangling from foe after he tested certain for CERA. Marcel Kint (Bel), Merckx and Moreno Argentin (Ita) as next to tip personality with 3 victories each.

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Liège-Bastogne-Liège: Apr 25Last year"s winner: Andy Schleck (Lux)Most wins: 5 Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975

Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the second one-day foe in the Ardennes segment inside of days, is the fourth Classic of the deteriorate and the oldest of all - La Doyenne - carrying proposed in 1892.

As the name suggests, the foe starts in the locale of Liège in eastern Belgium and heads roughly 100km south prior to returning around a longer track that includes climbs such as Stockeu, Haute-Leve, La Redoute, Saint-Nicolas and the Col de Forges.

Only 6 riders have managed the Ardennes stand in - Ferdinand Kübler (Swi), twice, Stan Ockers (Bel), Merckx, Argentin, Rebellion and Alejandro Valverde (Spa).

Although traditionally dominated by Belgians, locals have not distinguished a home win given 1999 when the late Frank Vandenbroucke triumphed.

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Tour of Romandy: Apr 27-May 2Last year"s winner: Roman Kreuziger (Cze)Most wins: 3 Stepehn Roche (Ire); 1983, 1984, 1987

A six-day theatre foe that proposed customarily dual years after the finish of Second World War, in 1947, as Swiss Cycling, the ruling physique for cycling in Switzerland, distinguished the 50th anniversary.

Staged customarily one week prior to the initial Grand Tour of the season, the Tour of Romandy is preferred credentials for the Giro d"Italia.

Ireland"s Stephen Roche won the pretension 3 times, together with the 1987 book - Roche"s crowning deteriorate when he claimed the Triple Crown of the Tour de France, Giro d"Italia and Road Race World Championship.

Tour of Romandy route

April 27, prologue: PorrentruyApril 28, theatre one: Porrentruy-FleurierApril 29, theatre two: FribourgApril 30, theatre three: MoudonMay 1, theatre four: Vevey-Châtel/Valle d"AbondanceMay 2, theatre five: Sion

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Giro d"Italia: May 8-30Last year"s winner: Denis Menchov (Rus)Most wins: 5 Alfredo Binda (Ita); 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933. Fausto Coppi (Ita); 1940, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953. Eddy Merckx (Bel); 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974

The initial of the Grand Tours will this year begin with an particular time-trial in Amsterdam as the Giro d"Italia opens outward of Italy for the ninth time given 1909.

Riders will foe in Holland for 3 days prior to travelling south as the Giro resumes on home dirt prior to it follows a counter-clockwise track around the country.

Climbers are approaching browbeat after organisers enclosed a little heartless towering stages in the 93rd edition. The Plan de Corones reaches gradients of up to twenty-four per cent. The penultimate theatre has five climbs, together with the Passo di Gavia that is this year"s Cima Coppi, the tip point of the Giro, declared in honour of the late, good Italian, Fausto Coppi.

The Giro concludes with a time-trial in Verona.

The personality of the foe wears the maglia rosa, or pinkish jersey, the colour of the pages of La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian every day sports journal that founded the foe and stays the main unite to the day.

Italian cycling fanatics will be unfortunate to see the jersey lapse to one of the sons - who have won 65 of the past 92 editions - after a two-year mangle that saw Contador and Menchov explain altogether victories. Only Merckx has left close to violation Italian riders" omnipotence on the foe after he equalled, in 1974, the good Alfredo Binda and Coppi who both won five titles each in in between 1925-33 and 1940-53 respectively.

Tour de France route

May 8, theatre one: Amsterdam (Holland), particular time-trial 8.4kmMay 9, theatre two: Amsterdam-Utrecht (Holland) 209kmMay 10, theatre three: Amsterdam-Middelburg (Holland) 209kmMay 12, theatre four: Savigliano-Cuneo, group time-trial 32.5kmMay 13, theatre five: Novara-Novi Ligure 168kmMay 14, theatre six: Fidenza-Carrara 166kmMay 15, theatre seven: Carrara-Montalcino 215kmMay 16, theatre eight: Chianciano Terme-Monte Terminillo 189kmMay 17, theatre nine: Frosinone-Cava de" Tirreni 188kmMay 18, theatre 10: Avellino-Bitonto 220kmMay 19, theatre 11: Lucera-L"Aquila 256kmMay 20, theatre 12: Città Sant"Angelo-Porto Recanati 191kmMay 21, theatre 13: Porto Recanati-Cesenatico 222kmMay 22, theatre 14: Ferrara-Asolo 201kmMay 23, theatre 15: Mestre-Monte Zoncolan 218kmMay 25, theatre 16: S. Vigilio di Marebbe-Plan de Corones, particular time-trial 12.8kmMay 26, theatre 17: Brunico-Pejo Terme 173kmMay 27, theatre 18: Levico Terme-Brescia 151kmMay 28, theatre 19: Brescia-Aprica 195kmMay 29, theatre 20: Bormio-Ponte di Legno 178kmMay 19, theatre 21: Verona, particular time-trial 15.3km

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Critrium du Dauphin Libr: Jun 6-13Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 3 Nello Lauredi (Fra); 1950, 1951, 1954. Luis Ocaña (Spa); 1970, 1972, 1973. Bernard Hinault (Fra); 1976, 1977, 1981. Charly Mottet (Fra); 1987, 1989, 1992

France"s penultimate ProTour theatre foe of the deteriorate is raced over eight days in the southeastern segment of Dauphin as credentials for the big one 3 weeks after - the Tour de France.

Indeed, all of the tip Tour riders over the years have won the Dauphin Libr during their careers, together with the five riders who have claimed five Tours or more; Jacques Anquetil (Fra), Merckx, Bernard Hinault (Fra), Miguel Indurain (Spa) and Armstrong.

The foe was founded by the proprietors of Dauphin Libr, the internal newspaper. However, in January 2010 it was voiced that they will pass the rights over to Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the Tour organisers, as they combine on publishing.

Caisse d"Epargne supplement Valverde will turn the initial supplement in the race"s 63-year story to win 3 unbroken titles if he triumphs on Jun 13.

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Tour of Switzerland: Jun 12-20Last year"s winner: Fabian Cancellara (Swi)Most wins: 4 Pasquale Fornara (Ita); 1952, 1954, 1957, 1958

A nine-day theatre foe that, similar to the Critrium du Dauphin Libr, is used by majority riders as credentials for Le Tour.

The foe includes multiform towering stages and, similar to last year"s race, dual particular time-trials. Unsurprisingly the stream pretension hilt is Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss Olympic, universe and inhabitant time-trial champion.

Cancellara, should he elect to foe the 74th book of his inhabitant Tour, will be anticipating to turn the initial supplement to keep the pretension given Andy Hampsten (US) in 1987 and the initial Swiss to win back-to-back editions given the pregnancy in 1933.

Tour of Switzerland track

June 12, theatre one: Lugano, particular time-trial 7.6kmJune 13, theatre two: Ascona-Sierre 179kmJune 14, theatre three: Sierre-Schwarzenburg 196kmJune 15, theatre four: Schwarzenburg-Wettingen 166kmJune 16, theatre five: Wettingen-Frutigen 164kmJune 17, theatre six: Meiringen-La Punt 208kmJune 18, theatre seven: Savognin-Wetzikon 202kmJune 19, theatre eight: Wetzikon-Liestal 179kmJune 20, theatre nine: Liestal, particular time-trial 27km

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Tour de France: Jul 3-25Last year"s winner: Alberto Contador (Spa)Most wins: 7 Lance Armstrong (US); 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

The Tour de France is the world"s greatest highway foe and the second Grand Tour of the season.

Founded in 1903 by Henri Desgrange, editor of L"Auto newspaper, the Tour is the greatest annual sporting eventuality in the world. Indeed, La Grande Boucle has some-more live spectators than even the Olympic Games or Fifa World Cup.

The 97th book of the Tour starts on Jul 3 in Rotterdam with the right away normal voluntary time-trial, as Holland hosts the fifth Grand Dpart.

The 2010 foe will applaud a centenary of racing in the Pyrnes with dual climbs of the critical Col du Tourmalet on stages seventeen and 18. Riders contingency additionally plunge into the Col d"Aspin and the Col d"Aubisque.

"With the jubilee of the initial channel of the Pyrenees, it"s judicious that the Pyrenees will be harder than the Alps on this Tour," Christian Prudhomme, the Tour director, pronounced at the launch in October 2009.

As would be approaching with the Tour travelling so close to the home of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Paris-Roubaix open classics on theatre three, riders can design to have to plunge into the pav so usual to the region.

"We don"t put cobblestones for riders to fall, but to have a selection," Prudhomme said. "There will be eleven kilometres of cobblestones in the last thirty kilometres. There will be a little damage."

The group time-trial, a prime fortify of Armstrong"s, the seven-time winner, was forsaken after the thespian lapse to last year"s foe following a 3 year absence.

Organisers have additionally enclosed customarily one particular time-trial, the 51km theatre from Bordeaux to Pauillac, on the penultimate day of racing prior to riders head towards the French collateral to finish the three-week, 3,596km, race.

Tour de France 2010 route

July 3, prologue: Rotterdam, 8km Jul 4, theatre one: Rotterdam-Brussels 224kmJuly 5, theatre two: Brussels-Spa 192kmJuly 6, theatre three: Wanze-Arenberg Porte du Hainaut 207kmJuly 7, theatre four: Cambrai-Reims 150kmJuly 8, theatre five: Epernay-Montargis, 185kmJuly 9, theatre six: Montargis-Gueugnon, 225kmJuly 10, theatre seven: Tournus-Station des Rousses 161kmJuly 11, theatre eight: Station des Rousses-Morzine Avoriaz 189kmJuly 12, rest day: Morzine AvoriazJuly 13, theatre nine: Morzine Avoriaz-St Jean de Maurienne 204kmJuly 14, theatre 10: Chambery-Gap 179kmJuly 15, theatre 11: Sisteron-Bourg les Valence, 180kmJuly 16, theatre 12: Bourg de Peage-Mende, 210kmJuly 17, theatre 13: Rodez-Revel 195kmJuly 18, theatre 14: Revel-Ax 3 Domaines 184kmJuly 19, theatre 15: Pamiers-Bagnes de Luchon 187kmJuly 20, theatre 16: Bagneres de Luchon-Pau 196kmJuly 22, theatre 17: Pau-Col du Tourmalet 174kmJuly 23, theatre 18: Salies de Bearn - Bordeaux 190kmJuly 24, theatre 19: Bordeaux-Pauillac, particular time-trial 51kmJuly 25, theatre 20: Longjumeau-Paris Champs Elysees 105km

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San Sebastián Classic: Jul 31Last year"s winner: Carlos Barredo (Spa)Most wins: 3 Marino Lejarreta (Spa); 1981, 1982, 1987

The San Sebastián Classic, a one-day foe in the alpine Basque segment of Spain, is contested less than a week after the finish of the Tour.

Favoured by climbers due to the terrain, the San Sebastián has been won 10 times by Spaniards given the foe was founded in 1981.

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Tour of Poland: August 1-7Last year"s winner: Alessandro Ballan (Ita)Most wins: 3 Marian Wieckowski (Pol); 1954, 1955, 1956. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol); 1991, 1992, 1993

The Tour of Poland, founded in 1928 by the Przeglad Sportowy newspaper, has been dominated by Polish riders who have won 50 of the 66 editions.

Until 1993 pledge riders were equates to to foe the theatre race, but given going veteran the altogether personality has come from outward the host republic on thirteen occasions.

Last year"s personality was Alessandro Ballan, the former Italian universe highway foe champion.

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Vattenfall Cyclassics: August 15Last year"s winner: Tyler Farrar (US)

The Vattenfall Cyclassics is a one-day foe in and around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany and the second youngest of the European ProTour races.

Founded in 1996, the Vattenfall Cyclassics has nonetheless to capture a widespread force and has had opposite winners in each book of the foe - nonetheless 6 Italians have triumphed.

After fasten the ProTour in 2005 the foe altered the name from HEW Cyclassics after the internal physical phenomenon association that sponsored it was, itself, rebranded.

Tyler Farrar, the twenty-five year-old Garmin-Transitions rider, and US team-mate of David Millar, won last years race.

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Eneco Tour of Benelux: August 17-24Last year"s winner: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)Most wins: 2 Iván Gutirrez (Spa)

The Eneco Tour of Benelux is an eight-day theatre foe that travels by the Benelux countries - Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.

The origins of the foe distortion in Holland though where it was creatively raced as the Tour of Holland prior to it was scrapped and a new foe born.

Last year"s personality was Edvald Boasson Hagen, Team Sky"s twenty-two year-old Norwegian, who won the altogether genarall sequence and the points classification, customarily as he did at the Tour of Britain.

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GP Ouest France: August 22Last year"s winner: Simon Gerrans (Aus)Most wins: 2 Philippe Bono (Fra) 1932, 1933, Eloi Tassin (Fra) 1945, 1948, Jean Gainche (Fra) 1958, 1962, Fernand Picot (Fra) 1961, 1963, Jean Jourden (Fra) 1968, 1969, Jacques Bossis (Fra) 1976, 1977, Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle (Fra) 1981, 1987

The GP Ouest-France, formerly well known as Grand-Prix de Plouay Ouest-France, is a one-day foe nearby the encampment of Plouay in Brittany, north-west France.

While no particular supplement has done the foe his own, the French have obviously dominated the GP Ouest-France.

The foe was proposed in 1931, however, it took until 1979 for the French monoploy to be damaged - Frits Pirard of Holland.

Britain"s Jeremy Hunt, right away roving for Cervelo, claimed the pretension in 2002.

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Vuelta a España: August 28-Sept 19Last year"s winner: Alejandro Valverde (Spa)Most wins: 3 Tony Rominger (Swi); 1992,. 1993, 1994. Roberto Heras (Spa); 2000, 2003, 2004

Spain"s three-week theatre race, the third and last Grand Tour of the season, will begin in Seville with a 16.5-kilometre group time-trial around the streets of the Andalusian capital.

Organisers, however, have motionless to flog off the 75th anniversary of the foe at night - a initial for Spain"s greatest theatre race.

The track itself includes 6 towering tip finishes - together with a lass coming for the Bola del Mundo - which, likewise to Mont Ventoux at last year"s Tour, is approaching to fool around a key piece in the last ubiquitous sequence as it will crop up on the penultimate day.

The Vuelta a España will mangle with convention in 2010 after organisers voiced that the golden jersey ragged by the altogether foe personality will be ditched in foster of a new red version.

Following the race"s change from late open the Vuelta has suffered as majority riders simply make use of it as credentials for the imminent universe championships that are customarily hold a week or so later.

Vuelta a España 2010 route

Aug 28, theatre one: Seville, group time-trial 16.5kmAug 29, theatre two: Alcalá de Guadaíra-Marbella 173kmAug 30, theatre three: Marbella-Málaga 156kmAug 31, theatre four: Málaga-Valdepeñas de January 177kmSep 1, theatre five: Guadix-Lorca 194kmSep 2, theatre six: Caravaca de Cruz-Murcia 144kmSep 3, theatre seven: Murcia-Orihuela 170kmSep 4, theatre eight: Villena-Xorret del Catí 188.8kmSep 5, Stage nine: Calpe-Alcoy 187kmSep 7, theatre 10: Tarragona-Vilanova i la Geltrú 173.7kmSep 8, theatre 11: Vilanova i la Geltrú-Andorra 208kmSep 9, theatre 12: Andorra la Vella-Lleida 175kmSep 10, theatre 13: Rincón de Soto-Burgos 193.7kmSep 11, theatre 14: Burgos-Peña Cabarga 178.8kmSep 12, theatre 15: Solares-Lagos de Covadonga 170kmSep 13, theatre 16: Gijón-Cotobello 179.3kmSep 15, theatre 17: Peñafiel-Peñafiel, particular time-trial 46kmSep 16, theatre 18: Valladolid-Salamanca 153kmSep 17, theatre 19: Piedrahita-Toledo 200kmSep 18, theatre 20: San Martín de Valdeiglesias-Bola del Mundo 168.8kmSep 19, theatre 21: San Sebastián de los Reyes-Madrid 100km

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Quebec Grand Prix: Sept 10Montreal Grand Prix: Sept twelve

Quebec and Montreal will host north America"s initial UCI dependent highway races after universe cycling"s ruling physique deemed the Canadian cities "strategically critical to the development" of the sport.

One-day races will path the dual particular cities over distances of 189km and 206km.

Both Quebec and Montreal have perceived UCI licences for the races until 2013.

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Tour of Lombardy: October 16Last year"s winner: Philippe Gilbert (Bel)Most wins: 5 Fausto Coppi (Ita); 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954

The Tour of Lombardy, or Race of the Falling Leaves, is the last foe of the ProTour deteriorate and last Monument of a prolonged season.

This year"s Classic around northern Italy will be contested for the 104th time and, unsurprisingly, has been dominated by Italians who have won 68 times given the initial book in 1905.

Henri Pelissier (Fra) and Kelly are the customarily non-Italians to have 3 Tour of Lombardys on their palmarès.

Last year Philippe Gilbert claimed the foe after a unusual end-of-season run with a fourth uninterrupted one-day delight in customarily 10 days.