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Beauty: Budget v Blow It

This weeks Budget v Blow It.Read

Gadgets of the Week: Cable Reduction Systems

This week's Gadgets of the Week with Cable Reduction Systems.Read

Restaurant Review: Caffe Uno in Birmingham

IT’S among my most used cookery books and one that I cherish.Read

National Curry Week: Recipe from Mango Tree restaurant

NEXT week it’s National Curry Week – celebrating a dish that Britain has taken to its heart.Read

Pub review: The Inn On The Green in Acocks Green

THIS IS a pub I’ve been meaning to visit for a long time, but it doesn’t look family friendly on the outside and the ultra-busy local environment makes parking extremely difficult.Read

Cheap as Cheaps: KMV Fish Bar in Smethwick

IF YOU want to go swimming to work off your chips, do note that Smethwick Baths is just up the road from this old-fashioned chippy.Read

BBC Good Food show has all the ingredients for a great show!

TAKE a smattering of leading celebrity chefs, stir together with new cooking techniques, top produce and irresistible drinks and you’ve got all the ingredients for the BBC Good Food Show at the NEC.Read

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Travel: Stratford as you’ll like it

A WEATHER forecaster on the Costa del Sol? A brewery sampler? Or perhaps an ice-cream seller at the seaside?Read

The Belfast Wheel alongside historic City Hall

Travel: Belfast's big makeover

IT has been through more than its fair share of troubles.Read

Mail reporter Christina Savvas having fun on the slopes with friend Bella Trifonos.

Travel: Soll has snow much to offer!

THE holiday got off to a great start as we landed, the blue-white mountains shining brightly beyond the airport, hushing the planeload of skiers, boarders and walkers in awe and anticipation.Read

Family life: No news is good news for Halai

A FORMER local news presenter who lost her job is proving it is still possible to look ahead by writing a book about positivity.Read

Family life: Ballroom that's strictly for kids

FORGET those computer games and having a lie-in, the Rialto Dance Studio in Acocks Green is proving that youngsters like nothing better than stepping out on a Saturday morning.Read

Family life: Trawling through the archives of the agony aunt

AGONY aunts have long been a mainstay of newspapers and women’s magazines but over the years their advice has altered drastically. And a good job as some of the advice doled out to letter writers over previous decades would be enough to turn our hair grey these days.Read

Family life: Tracy finds band of hope at last

AS A teenager Tracy Kennish starved herself and took laxatives to stay thin – then as an adult she binge ate until her weight nearly doubled to more than 13 stone.Read

Family life: Pipes of peace are healing the pain

IT may seem a strange way of healing headaches, placing a wax tube in the ear and setting light to it, but as a therapy Hopi ear candling has become increasingly popular.Read

Shopping: Rich berry shades returns for home decor

CHILL winds and storms may be nature’s signs that winter’s arrived but in our homes the first sign is the return of the rich, berry shades to the decor palette.Read

Shopping: Our pick of the best autumnal shades for lips

This week's Tried and Tested autumnal lip gloss.Read

Shopping: Finding the best Christmas deals

IT’S THAT time of year again when stores go head-to-head to bring consumers the best deals.Read

Jamie Oliver's protege cooks up new Craze with Rude Boy Food!

AS AN unemployed 25-year-old carpet fitter with a girlfriend and one-year-old daughter to support, Aaron Craze didn’t feel he had much in common with Jamie Oliver.Read

Pub review: Robin Hood Toby Carvery, in Hall Green

JUST when you might think that society has made progress, along comes the harsh truth – nobody builds pubs like this in the 21st century.Read