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WHAT’S ON Best things to do in London this week

ORANGE CRUSH Join Amsterdam’s biggest party

BRITAIN IN BRIEF An idiot’s guide to British history

WEEKEND ESCAPE How to see Istanbul in two days

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EDITOR’S LETTER While living and working in the UK, it’s easy for travel experiences to fall into one of three categories: weekend breaks; festivals; and week-long European sojourns.

Of course the classic travel odysseys still exist, and the Trans-Siberian is one such trip. It’s not what you’d describe as glamorous – but that’s half the point.

Have a look at Rebecca Galton’s feature on page 72 and you’ll learn that with a little preparation and a lot of patience, you’ll experience something memorable.

72 Watch the world go by on the Trans-Siberian

57 TRAVEL

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58 Go Dutch in Amsterdam

57 Global Vision 58 CLOCKWORK ORANGE: Party on at Queen’s Day in Amsterdam 60 TNTT Weekender: Istanbul 62 Late Deals 64 GRAND CANALS: See the South of France from a canal boat 66 Hotshots 68 Travel Tips 69 Travel News 70 On The Road 71 Gear Up 72 KEEPING TRACK: All aboard the Trans-Siberian express

34 NEWS & SPORT

60 What to do in Istanbul

9 LONDON 9 London Eye 10 London Life 12 ENGLISH LESSONS: Brush up on your history of England 14 Food & Drink 16 Spotted

19 ENTERTAINMENT 19 Celebrity News 20 Look Who’s Talking: Michael Craig 22 Cinema 23 Culture 24 BIG DREAMS: Kiruna Stamell on realising her acting ambitions 27 TNT Life

28 MUSIC & CLUBS 28 30 32 33

Music Music Listings Clubbing Club Listings

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Australia News New Zealand News South Africa News The week in sport Rugby NRL General AFL EYES ON THE GOAL: Les Murray on the Socceroos’ chances

51 CAREERS & MONEY 51 Careers 54 Money 55 Coming & Going

REGULARS 04 Letters 06 Wins 138 Desperately Seeking & Dear Reuben 10 Gear up for this week in London

12 After Henry: defining moments of Britain’s past

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No surprise to see TNT yet again heavily promoting Anzac Day in Turkey (‘Lock it in’, TNT 1334).

Why not encourage a few readers to drag themselves out of bed on Saturday, April 25 and attend the ceremony held each year at the Australian/ New Zealand war memorial at Hyde Park corner? For those not joining the hordes descending on Turkey, this is a perfect opportunity to show some pride in your country.

It’s not just some ceremony put on by the toffs at the High Commission. Each year, if you look hard enough, there is a group of strapping young Kiwi army lads who dress up in their best, crack out their medals and provide not just a timely reminder of the relevance of Anzac Day, but the beauty of military fitness training. Crikey!

How about an interview with one of these hot young sappers in TNT? Mrs Ross, via email

bolter” and getting his name incorrect certainly highlights that fact. What are we going to see next? Bryce McGain with a ‘C’ replacing the ‘G’ in his surname. The poor guy has had a bad enough week without being turned into a packet of frozen french fries.

A single error like that is bound to happen, but there were two more in the same briefs section this week. Brett Seymour, who has played his

Who cares if they go “ out on the piss … drink

too much and fall over? ➥ TNT 1334 MAR 23-29 FACING FACTS I don’t want to sound like I’m being too picky but I could have sworn that one of the first things you get taught as a journalist is not to get names and facts wrong.

In TNT 1333, Queensland cricketer Ben Laughlin was referred to as ‘Brett’ in the brief about his call-up to the Australian one-day team. Yes, he is, as you said, an “absolute

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entire rugby league career in the halves, has suddenly become a “Cronulla Sharks forward”. To top it off, Ky Hurst, who will go down as one of the country’s greatest surf and flat water distance swimmers, had his name misspelt as “Kye”.

I’m sure you guys have a mountain of work to do during the week and in general, the magazine is a very good read most weeks. But a little more

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attention to detail in the sport section wouldn’t go astray.

Mark, via email

Ed: Point taken Mark, but Bryce McGain might bowl better if he was a packet of frozen french fries.

LEAVE THEM ALONE I’m sick of the media picking on rugby league players.

Who cares if they go out on the piss with the boys, drink too much and fall over? Most 20-something blokes do it at least once a month.

Everyone always says these blokes are poor role models, but if the media didn’t report this rubbish, nobody would ever know about it and then it would have no effect on kids.

Perhaps it’s the media that are sending the wrong messages, not the footballers.

We’re already a couple of rounds into the season but all anyone wants to talk about is players drinking. Get over it.

Jamie, via email

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LETTER OF THE WEEK

YOUR SAY JASE IS JUST ACE

You’ve got to respect Jason Donovan.

After all, the man seems to have been the butt of jokes for years – almost like the poor cousin to the Minogue sisters in terms of success in the UK. But what I love about him is that he keeps bouncing back.

I haven’t seen Priscillla, Queen Of

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The Desert yet, but I certainly plan to and for one reason only – I want to see JD in drag.

Despite all the setbacks he’s had since moving over here, he keeps putting himself out there.

It’s a good lesson for a lot of us who are trying to find our way in London.

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TULIPS IN AMSTERDAM I am going to Amsterdam for Easter and wasn’t sure whether the tulips were a must see. Has anyone also done a bike ride around Amsterdam? Can you see the tulips on a bike ride?

Amy LIFE’S A BEACH I want to make the most of

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If it wasn’t for his very modern trailer, this penny-farthing cyclist could be straight out of 19th century London where these big wheeled contraptions were a curious, if risky, means of transport. Named for its wheels’ resemblance to the drastic size differences between the penny and farthing coins, these bicycles required skill and balance to operate.

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LONDON LIFE

WHAT’S ON Daniel Landon PICKS THE BEST OF LONDON THIS WEEK

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WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR £6.90 WHAT: Your last chances to catch a stunning collection of images of animals doing their thing in the wild, from gallivanting giraffes and gorillas sharing a feast of bushpig.

WHEN: Until April 26. The exhibition is very popular, so it’s best to book a timed ticket online beforehand.

DO IT BECAUSE: The exhibition has been open for months so it’s easy to keep putting it off, but everyone who sees it raves about it. It’s not every day that you get to see a snake and a frog eating each other.

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» Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7 5BD

South

Kensington (020 7942 5000; nhm.ac.uk)

Capital idea: Hampstead Heath Smack bang in the middle of North London, the huge oasis of green that is Hampstead Heath is undoubtedly one of the best parts of the capital.

It’s 320 hectares but feels bigger. It’s large enough to take a wander through meadows, woods and open fields and get the feeling you’re way out in the countryside. There are plenty of walking trails (cyclists are limited to a couple of routes), and even outdoor ponds where you can go for a swim.

Many of the fields are not

mowed, giving it a rustic feel – lying in the long grass, beer in hand, is a great way to spend a sunny day.

Make sure you take a wander up Parliament Hill – the view over London is spectacular, with a panorama stretching far over South and East London. DL

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DRESSED TO KILL £17 The first display in centuries of King Henry VIII’s weapons, armour and personal items promises to be amazing.

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WHAT THE HELL IS A TV LICENCE? It seems fair you need a licence to drive a car, but surely needing one to watch TV is nonsense.

In the UK it’s illegal (though technically possible) to watch telly without a licence, including on the internet and a mobile phone. The reason for the licence is to fund the mammoth and high-quality output of the BBC. They cost £139.50

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per year (half price if you’re blind), raising £3.4 billion a year for the Beeb.

Ludicrously, 9.3 per cent of this goes on enforcement.

Like a bad ’80s geek film, the TV Licensing mob has men in vans driving around checking if a home that hasn’t paid is receiving a signal, and they’ve got detection devices straight out of Ghostbusters.

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Confused by Pommy history? Here’s a guide to defining moments in England’s past WORDS DANIEL LANDON

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ith so many kings and queens and wars and battles, English history can seem incredibly confusing.

But it does matter: this seemingly chaotic past has made Britain the prosperous, stable, democratic, idiosyncratic country it is today. So here’s the TNT guide to English history.

EUROTRASH INVASION Before the Romans arrived in AD43 England was a loose collection of (mainly) Celtic tribes.

But once the Romans left in AD410 tribes from all over northern Europe – notably the Angles and Saxons – invaded.

The legacy: England became a predominantly

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Norman legacy : the Tower of London

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“Do I have to? ” King John signs the Magn a Carta

Anglo-Saxon region, with the Celts pushed out to Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

1066 AND ALL THAT In 1066 the ruler of Normandy in France decided to stake a claim to the English throne.

William the Conqueror won the decisive Battle of Hastings, and gained control of England.

The legacy: It was the last time England was successfully invaded. The Normans built the Tower of London, their ‘Domesday Book’ codified a taxation system (the bastards), and French merged with Anglo-Saxon to create the Middle English language.

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RIGHTS STUFF: RULE OF LAW IS BORN Fed up with King John doing as he liked, the land-holding barons forced him to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. The ‘Great Charter’ restricted the monarch’s power and codified (to a limited degree) rights and justice.

The legacy: The statement that “no free man shall be seized or imprisoned … except by the lawful judgement of his equal” set a powerful precedent for the rule of law.

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HENRY VIII SAYS BUGGER OFF POPE King Henry got through six wives in his bid to produce a male heir. When the Pope refused to annul his first marriage, he made himself head of the new Church of England.

The legacy: The split with Rome in the 1530s put power in the hands of the aristocracy, not the church, and led to England becoming a mainly Protestant country.

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A NOT-SO-CIVIL WAR Charles I thought the “divine right of kings” allowed him to do whatever he wanted. So parliamentarians (led by Oliver Cromwell) and royalists went to war. Charles lost and was executed in 1649. Cromwell put himself in charge,

but soon started to act like a king himself.

The legacy: The monarchy was restored in 1660 but the idea that citizens should be ruled by elected officials, not the monarch, took root.

POMS AND SCOTS GET LOVED UP England and Scotland were overcoming their age-old animosity by the 16th century, thanks to shared interests in religion, trade and the monarchy. In 1707 the two parliaments voted for a union, with the HQ in London.

The legacy: From 1996 film Trainspotting: “It’s shite being Scottish … Some hate the English.

I don’t, they’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers.”

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MEETING THEIR WATERLOO …

After conquering much of Europe Napoleon set his sights on Britain. But in 1805, off Cape Trafalgar in Spain, Britain’s navy defeated a French and Spanish fleet – wrecking invasion plans. In his last stand Napoleon was beaten (just) in the battle of Waterloo in 1815.

The legacy: Victory at Trafalgar helped lay the basis for Britain’s global economic domination.

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Dreaming of a son: Eric Bana broods as Henry VIII in 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl

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RULE BRITANNIA? Britain entered the 20th century as arguably the world’s richest and most powerful nation, presiding over a huge empire.

It ended the century eclipsed by the US, China, Russia, Japan and Germany.

But how?

Put simply, Britain never recovered its economic clout after the devastation of World Wars I and II, while the colonies clamoured for their independence.

However, the fact that Britain managed to win (or at least not lose) both world wars is still a source of great national pride.

BRITAIN HITS THE JACKPOT Rapid technological advancements from about 1760 changed the world. The Industrial Revolution kicked off in Britain thanks to: its ready supply of labour and natural resources; a thriving cottage industry; a big merchant navy; free trade throughout the country; and, controversially, the Protestant work ethic.

The legacy: The extraordinary economic growth created huge wealth, lining Britain up to be the superpower of the 19th century.

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FOOD & DRINK

RESTAURANT REVIEW Blueprint Café ★★★★★

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28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD 020 7378 7031 Tower Hill

THE SCENE Located on an upper floor of the Design Museum, the Blueprint Café affords wonderful views of Tower Bridge and the Thames.

THE GRUB A seasonal menu

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with strong Scottish and European influences. Baked shoulder of lamb accompanied by artichokes and olives is typical of the fare on offer.

BEHIND THE BAR Extensive list of red and white wines as well as champagne, dessert wines and port.

BILL PLEASE Mains start from £12.50 – but keep an eye out for offers of two courses

for £15 or three courses for £20. A 12.5 per cent service charge is added to the bill, but it does reflect the high quality of service here.

VERDICT A place where you can enjoy wonderful food at affordable prices, while looking out over one of London’s finest river views. Sounds too good to be true but actually isn’t.

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BUYING BREAD

Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread – but with so many types on offer, what to choose?

SOURDOUGH Rustic-looking bread made with wild yeast rather than packet yeast, which gives it its ‘sour’ flavour.

OF THE BEST: FOR CELEB SPOTTING The Ivy

RYE A heavy, often dark bread, made with the rye grain rather than wheat.

1-5 West St, WC2H 9NQ One of London’s legendary celeb haunts, located in Covent Garden, carefully seats the likes of film stars, singers and fame seekers.

No photos allowed.

GRANARY Hovis has the trademark on this type of loaf, made with different flours and malted grains, which add flavour and texture.

SODA Irish bread made with baking soda instead of yeast, which also gives it a crumbly texture, and a short shelf life.

Damper is actually an Aussie version of this bread.

McCain Simply Gorgeous Chunky Chips

chips, but baked at home.

Get it where?: Frozen aisles of big supermarkets for £2.29 per 550g packet.

from Black Truffle to Vanilla.

Verdict: A novel idea, but the Raspberry flavour we tested tasted artificial.

What the? Hot chips baked in beef dripping. ’Nuff said.

Verdict: These are seriously good – tasting like pub-style

Airspuma

MALT A sweet, chewy bread,

BLOOMER A white crusty loaf with round ends.

TASTE TEST

What the? Heston Blumenthal-style culinary foam at the press of a button, ranging in flavours

Zuma 5 Raphael St, SW7 1DL Japanese restaurant known not only for its guest list – Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the Beckhams – but for serving up excellent cuisine. Don’t forget your credit card.

Nobu 19 Old Park Ln, W1K 1LB With Robert De Niro as one of the founding partners of this global chain it’s only fitting to see A-listers sit down here for calorie-counted portions.

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A PRICEY SLICE With foodies raving about it, and the likes of Nigella Lawson

and Sean Connery as fans, Poilâne is one high-profile French bakery. Its speciality is a thick-crusted sourdough loaf (above), which is baked to an old family recipe. Visit the London store at 46 Elizabeth St, SW1W 9PA, and see if it really is worth forking out £10 for.

SPELT A high-fibre loaf with a mild nutty flavour.

more like a tea loaf than one for sarnies.

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STAR SPOTTING GLOSSY GOSSIP FROM HOME

Erin Miller WITH THE LATEST FROM THE WORLD OF SHOWBIZ

NEW ZEALAND New Idea: TV One newsreader Bernadine Oliver-Kerby admits being a new mum made it more difficult and yet more important to take on a role as ambassador for the Child Cancer Foundation.

Woman’s Weekly: Former Shortland Street actor Chris Hobbs on his new romance.

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Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary has spoken about motherhood and her sadness at not being able to share it with her mum.

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“Oh yes, that’s something

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Italian Wags are apparently taking bets on who’ll be the first to seduce hubby David Beckham.

I miss very much. So I deal with it in another way. My children know her through photos and stories,” she says.

Princess Mary wants her children to be “happy and positive individuals, with selfesteem and self-confidence”.

“We hope they will have the strength to make the right choices in life,” she says.

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“If people would just leave my personal life alone, then I could land a great role.”

Lindsay Lohan has a whinge about why she can’t get work

OK!: Stars, including Jason Dundas and Toni Pearen, strip to promote Earth Hour.

Woman’s Day: Grant Hackett and wife Candice Alley reveal they’re expecting twins. “It’s a dream come true,” Alley tells the magazine.

New Idea: An interview with Tasma Walton’s stepson, who shares another side to her as a mum.

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ENTERTAINMENT

LOOK WHO’S TALKING

Michael Craig The star of former Australian drama GP on his latest role, his Oscar nomination and his secret to longevity INTERVIEW ALISON GRINTER

20 You’re probably best remembered to Aussies as Dr William Sharp from GP. Did people ever come up to you and ask about the rash on their leg?

They did – yes. I thought when I finished that show I could have started a medical practice in North Sydney, called it the William Sharp Clinic, hired a couple of doctors and just taken the money. I could have made a fortune.

won that year, which was one hell of a film. We won the Golden Bear in Berlin. I think one of us went – Dickie [Attenborough] probably.

What sort of questions did they ask?

As you get “ older you kind of fade away ”

Well, everything. And in fact I became a terrible bore because I did learn a lot about medicine over the seven years I did the show and I would diagnose my friends – quite wrongly sometimes.

The list of people you’ve worked with reads like Hollywood’s Walk of Fame – David Niven Julie Andrews, Barbra Striesand, Oliver Reed …

Weren’t you also the nasty bishop in Brides Of Christ?

Yeah. He was a horrible man. I didn’t have a hell of a lot to do but I remember I had to deliver a service outside some girls’ school in Sydney and it was very, very hot indeed – I didn’t realise how much gear you have to wear as a bishop.

Robes and cords. Oh Lord!

You’ve had an illustrious career and were nominated for an Oscar in 1960 for writing the screenplay The Angry Silence. Did you go to the ceremony?

No, no, no, no – I was busy, we knew we weren’t gonna win and no one was gonna pay for us to go – we weren’t part of a big studio. I think The Apartment

Well, Oliver was a really nice kid – The Angry Silence was his first movie and he’d just come out of the army and he was a very fit guy and gung-ho and all that, and he actually stayed at my house [in Wimbledon] while he was getting his act together. I don’t know what went wrong for Ollie, he was a really nice guy and then he became a caricature of himself in his later days and died rather younger than he needed to.

you, had seen a lot in his life too.

Yeah, he was a great character. He keeps saying [adopts an ill-tempered US accent]: “I will be 82 next year,” as an excuse …

I’m not allowed to get away with that.

Is he a bit cantankerous?

He’s very endearing in his way. It’s about that business we all go through if we live long enough – that at one point in your life you meant something and then as you get older you kind of fade away. You’re still here but nobody recognises you.

You recently turned 80 and you’re still going strong. What’s your secret?

Smoking and drinking. I don’t know, I just get up and do it, I exercise a bit, I walk a lot and chop wood and play some golf, still.

» Trying, Finborough Theatre, Finborough Rd, SW10 9ED West Brompton (0844 847 1652).

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In Trying you play Judge Francis Biddle who was attorney general under President Roosevelt.

I imagine he, like

YOU DON’T SAY? What song is guaranteed to get you on the dance floor?

I’m not much of a dancer but something romantic like La Vie En Rose. I love Piaf. Have I seen the movie? No, I saw her in Paris way back then in the old, old days.

What would your superpower be?

Flying, like a seagull.

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What’s the best costume you’ve ever worn to a fancy dress party?

In Egypt I went as a sheik as best I could wearing a fez and a towel.

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ENTERTAINMENT

CINEMA

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Monsters Vs Aliens

SCREEN TEST: REESE WITHERSPOON

The voices of Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon

STARRING:

RT 94 MINS

★★★★★

For an animated movie to knock your socks off, it needs good vocal work.

A case in point is Monsters Vs Aliens, a thoroughly entertaining homage to 1950s sci-fi flicks that has talented actors Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen and Hugh Laurie in full voice.

A simple but effective storyline sees Californian babe Susan (Witherspoon) grow 50ft tall after being hit by a meteorite on her wedding day. Treated like a monster, she’s shipped off to a secret military facility to join other freaks like blue blob B.O.B (a scene-stealing Rogen), the insect-headed Dr Cockroach (Hugh Laurie) and the Missing Link (Will Arnett).

When Earth is attacked by an alien the motley crew are made an offer they can’t

1 Actress Reese Witherspoon appeared in which Christmas flick last year with Vince Vaughn?

2 The ‘bend and snap’ move was made famous in which Witherspoon movie?

3 To which Hollywood actor was Witherspoon formerly married?

4 Witherspoon had a guest appearance in Friends as which character’s annoying younger sister?

5 Name Witherspoon’s production company.

refuse – fight the invader and win their freedom.

The fact that Monsters Vs Aliens is in 3D means you’ll have to wear those ugly-arse glasses in the cinema, but such is the quality of the visuals it’s worth looking like a tit for an

hour and a half. The animation is matched by a smart script that pokes fun at monster movies and the sci-fi genre and features some sharp one-liners.

GOOD FOR: Sci-fi geeks who manage to get a date.

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★★★★★ A stirring doco that looks at how Ireland is actually the spiritual home of surfing.

Exploring waveriding’s Celtic roots through the story of George Freeth, who was responsible for the rebirth of surfing in Hawaii, it features waxfoot royalty such as Kelly Slater and top footage of brave souls taking on epic waves.

GOOD FOR: Those who love to ride tubes. PDV

MODERN LIFE

★★★★★ Filmmaker Raymond Depardon travels to the French highlands to reveal the hardships faced by a small farming community in a slow but touching documentary.

Depardon dragging answers out of weathered farmers can be frustrating, but given a chance Modern Life’s rustic charm will win you over.

GOOD FOR: Those who crave the peace of the country. PDV

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The new Star Trek movie will have its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House next month, presented by Aussie star Eric Bana.

Bana and his co-stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and New Zealander Karl Urban will present the eagerly awaited blockbuster to 1600 select people.

The story, based on creator Gene Roddenberry’s original TV series, also stars Chris Hemsworth, Simon Pegg, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Morrison and Zoe Saldana, with a cameo role by the original Spock Leonard Nimoy.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS 1 Shakespeare In Love 2 Goop 3 Duets 4 Apple and Moses 5 The Royal Tenenbaums LAST WEEK’S WINNER Daniel Hayward

THE REEL DEAL US actor Viggo Mortensen has compared rising Australian star Kodi SmitMcPhee to legends Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift after working together on upcoming film The Road.

Mortensen, 50, and Smit-McPhee, 12, play the father and son in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 postapocalyptic novel.

“He’s an incredibly talented actor, beyond his years,” Mortensen said.

Inundated with offers after his AFI Award-winning turn alongside Eric Bana in Romulus, My Father, SmitMcPhee chose to play his part in The Road over Wolverine.

Email your answers to erin.miller@tntmagazine.com by noon on Wednesday for a chance to win a pair of movie tickets from Vue Cinemas.

WIN

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CULTURE PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT It’s been 15 years since The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert hit the big screen, and now London audiences are about to be treated to a stage version of the iconic Australian show.

And West End audiences are in for a treat as the costumes are even more outrageous and the camp quips just as amusing.

Jason Donovan joins the cast as drag queen Tick (Mitzi), who takes two friends along for a bus ride from Sydney to Alice Springs.

It’s Aussie humour at its best, with quick one-liners

ENTERTAINMENT

SEE THIS: West End including “face like a cat’s bum” and a Neighbours ‘Scott and Charlene’ quip from Donovan.

Australian actor Tony Sheldon shows true flair as transsexual Bernadette.

A bright, uplifting joy of a show to watch. ERIN MILLER

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Shaftesbury Ave, W1V 8AY Leicester Square (priscilla themusical.com). Booking until Sep. £20.75-£65.75

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WORTH A LOOK Comedy drama Men Of Monsters is set in 1960s Hollywood and follows the lives of the people making

a monster movie. Australian actor Stephen Connery-Brown will appear as the lead. » Hen And Chickens Theatre, St Paul’s Rd, N1 2NA Highbury & Islington (020 7704 2001). Mar 24-Apr 11. £12

EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

THEATRE OF THE WEEK

20 WAYS F1 IS CHANGING OUR WORLD

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

★★★★★

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At first glance Formula 1, the pinnacle of motor sport, seems to have little in common with gumboots, baby capsules and tables.

But as this exhibition neatly shows, these and numerous other products

have utilised and benefited from technology originally developed by F1 teams.

Anyone interested in science, engineering or F1 will love it.

DANIEL LANDON

» Science Museum, Exhibition Rd, SW7 2DD South Kensington (0870 870 4868; sciencemuseum.org.uk).

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★★★★★

Set in the fields of rural Ireland in the summer of 1936, Dancing At Lughnasa follows the lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters.

Making her theatrical debut is Andrea Corr, lead singer of Irish band The Corrs.

Corr plays the naive sister Christina, whose passionate affair with a charming Welshman results in her pregnant out of wedlock. Her older sister Kate (Michelle Fairley) is the uptight family head trying to hold everyone together, as the sisters’ bond threatens to splinter.

The play drags on in long scenes of dialogue, but the

plotlines of regret and lives unfilled, and the anguish of the characters, will draw you in. ERIN MILLER

» The Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 8NB Waterloo (oldvic theatre.com). Until May 9. £14.50-£45

MORE EXHIBITIONS Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill. A

huge display of the King’s armour and possessions. » Tower of London, EC3N 4AB

Tower Hill (0844 482 7777; hrp.org.uk). Until Jan 17. £17

•elaborate designs of this era. »

Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence shows off the V&A Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7 2RL

South Kensington (020 7942 2000; vam.ac.uk). Apr 4-Jul 19. £12.60

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BIG

DREAMS

Australian actress Kiruna Stamell boosts her career with a UK TV role WORDS: PIERRE DE VILLIERS

A

s far back as Kiruna Stamell can remember, she’s always wanted to be on television.

“When I was about five I used to turn off the TV so I could see myself in the reflection on screen,” the Sydney-born actress says with a chuckle. “I’d watch myself jumping around and pretended I was a back-up dancer in a Kylie Minogue video. I thought being on television would be great.”

Two decades later Stamell has not only

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achieved her childhood dream of appearing on TV, but has also excelled on stage and in film.

Apart from starring in Moulin Rouge, EastEnders and play Whiter Than Snow (an interesting twist on Snow White), the actress can also be seen in new BBC drama All The Small Things, in which she plays a member of a church choir competing with another group of singers.

BEATING THE PREJUDICES Stamell’s success is all the more remarkable

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CELEB CAUSES Hollywood actor George Clooney (below) is a cofounder of humanitarian charity Not On Our Watch, and is dedicated to stopping the atrocities occurring in Darfur.

ENTERTAINMENT

GEORGE CLOONEY

BRAD PITT Together with partner Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt works with a number of social causes, including a design competition to rebuild New Orleans.

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ERIC BANA Kiruna Stamell as Pheobe in All The Small Things

given that, as an actress of restrictive growth, she has often encountered severe prejudice.

“Having dwarfism you get treated differently by society and experience different sorts of social barriers,” she says.

“I realised what I really wanted to do was push the envelope and challenge people’s preconceptions. A way to do that was to go into the arts.”

GETTING A BREAK FROM BAZ Having decided she wanted to be an actress, it didn’t take Stamell, 27, long to impress directors.

In 2001, while working as an extra on Moulin Rouge, she was introduced to Baz Luhrmann – who promptly cast her as La Petite Princesse.

“Landing that role was important because it was written especially for me after I met Baz,” she explains.

“I wasn’t just playing a short-statured character. It made me think there are people out there who would hire me based on my talent because that’s what got me the role, nothing else.”

Stamell has campaigned tirelessly for directors to follow Luhrmann’s example and treat those with dwarfism like any other actor when it comes to casting a film or TV series.

“Of course my height is up on the screen

WHAT IS DWARFISM?

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• Dwarfism is a general term that covers about 200 medical conditions. Generally the term refers to people under 4’10” tall.

• The most common form of dwarfism is the genetic condition Achondroplasia, which affects about 1 in 25,000 people.

• The majority of children born with the disorder have average-sized parents.

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for everyone to see and I’m not trying to hide it,” she points out. “But it doesn’t define who the character is.

“When I go shopping or to the dentist I’m not playing a ‘dwarf’. I’m just a person who happens to have dwarfism. That’s why I love doing All The Small Things.”

My height is up “ on the screen for everyone to see ”

Australian actor Eric Bana has thrown his support behind several leading charities at home, including a focus on assisting homeless young people.

CATE BLANCHETT Committed to green causes, Cate Blanchett has worked on campaigns for the Australian Conservation Fund and SolarAid.

FOLLOWING THE WORK It’s because of dramas like All The Small Things that Stamell has relocated from Sydney to Manchester. “There are more opportunities for me in the UK than Australia,” she explains.

“Because there is an attitude in Australia that everyone gets a fair go, there is this naïve assumption that we have achieved equality when it comes to performers of restrictive growth. It’s going to be a long, hard slog to remove those under-the-surface barriers.”

To help bring about a change of attitude in Australia, Stamell started the Atypical Theatre Company to ‘create opportunities for disabled artists or anyone who is aesthetically different’.

“I want to make a difference and like being a campaigner,” she says. “People ask me whether I want a different body but I wouldn’t have had my experiences and seen what I’ve seen in another skin.

You have to be proud of whatever you’ve got to work with.”

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TNT LIFE ENTERTAINMENT

MEET THE CREW Samantha Baden Deputy editor From: Sydney

Soon the bride to be, Sam is spending her lunch hour trawling bridal sites and is busy with her wedding shedding (including Latino and ballroom dancing) in the run-up to the big day.

But whilst staying clear of any unhealthy treats herself, she’s spoiling the rest of us with her mum’s home-made biscuits – we’re loving it!

SPOTLIGHT ON WINE PACK COMPETITION Whether it’s a glass of white, red or rosé that tickles your fancy, one of New Zealand’s leading wineries has a treat for a lucky wine lover.

Mud House Wines has teamed up with TNT to give one reader a wine pack containing two tickets to the Decanter New World Wine Encounter in London on Saturday, May 9, plus a case of Mud House Wines.

Mud House will also be providing wines for the TNT Anzac Ball on April 25.

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TOUCH RUGBY & NETBALL Make the most of summer with London Touch Rugby & Netball.

Competitions are held every Tuesday and Wednesday night at Old Actonians, a private sports club in Acton. The venue also has two bars and a barbecue area, giving you the chance to catch up with

your teammates after the games.

There are options to sign up as a team or as a single player, and registration is open now – so get on board for the 2009 season. » Old Actonians, Gunnersbury Dr, W5 4LL Acton Town. May 5-Aug 9.

See tntonline.co.uk/events

ANZAC SPIRIT TNT Anzac Ball Celebrate Anzac Day in style at TNT’s Anzac Ball. Being held at the Chelsea Football Club, tickets cost £50 and include a champagne reception, sit-down dinner and entertainment.

» To enter see tntonline.co.uk/ competitions

TNT IN 2 TOUCH SPRING SEASON WHAT In 2 Touch is organising touch rugby leagues all over the capital, so pick your location and join a team this spring.

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WHERE Venues throughout London.

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» Chelsea Football Club.

PLAY CRICKET IN LONDON Love cricket and keen to play in an amateur league? Check out Last Man Stands, a social Twenty20 cricket game played with a side of eight.

All eight wickets are needed to bowl a team out, and once the seventh wicket falls, the last man stands on his own.

There are leagues all over London playing on weeknights and Sundays, with new leagues

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in Richmond, Ealing, Kingston and Canary Wharf.

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MUSIC NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Reissues (Mute)

MUSIC & CLUBS

Nick Cave’s catalogue has never been out of print; indeed, much of it has been available for years at bargain prices.

Still, if you’ve missed out, Mute is giving all 14 Bad Seeds albums the reissue treatment, starting this week with the group’s first four sets.

Covers albums are rarely interesting, but 1986’s Kicking Against The Pricks (★★★★) is a strong one. Cave lends real menace to Hey Joe and

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Lefty Frizzell’s Long Black Veil, and gets away with playing a straight bat to Gene Pitney’s Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart.

Of the others, the best is the darkest: Cave’s 1984 debut From Her To Eternity (★★★) is closest in spirit to the singer’s work with the Birthday Party.

The Firstborn Is Dead (★★★) and Your Funeral … My Trial (★★★) from 1985 and 1986 respectively, both have their moments, but they’re spotty and suffer from sterile ’80s production. And ultimately, there’s little to dissuade listeners that Cave’s making the best music of his life right now. WILL FULFORD-JONES

GOMEZ

RÖYKSOPP

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PETER BJÖRN AND JOHN

LIVE REVIEW

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Living Thing

Animal Collective The Forum March 24 ★★★★★

★★★★★ Winners of the Mercury Music Prize in 1998 with their debut, Gomez have spent the past seven or eight years fighting against marginalisation at home while building a following in the US (thanks in part to fan/ patron Dave Matthews). But throughout their travails they haven’t really changed too much. Album number six is another slightly uneasy mix of campfire rock and singersongwriter earnestness, rich in rootsy guitar work but lacking in memorable tunes. WFJ

★★★★★ Set against the ongoing trendchasing that characterises other corners of the dance music circuit in 2009, the third and poppiest album from Röyksopp sounds almost quaint. Without exception, the best tracks are those the pair made without the help of guest singers: tracks such as Happy Up Here and the faintly Air-esque Röyksopp Forever have far more to offer than the duller likes of The Girl And The Robot, built around a dreary vocal from Robyn. WFJ

(Wichita)

★★★★★

It took eight years for success to arrive for this Swedish trio courtesy of Young Folks, a bouncy single with an infuriating catchy whistling motif that’s been heard on everything from football highlights to movie soundtracks. Those looking for more of the same won’t find it on this set of klutzy electropop. The relentlessness of Nothing To Worry About has a certain appeal, but too many tracks here seem designed either to irritate or bore. Some do both. WFJ

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NO.1 Love Story, Taylor Swift MAKING NEWS Empire Of The Sun have confirmed they will be touring Down Under later this year. The duo – aka Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele – are riding high on the success of their debut album, leading fans to wonder exactly when they’d do some live shows.

NO.1 Brother, Smashproof ft Gin Wigmore MAKING NEWS An Emerald City have finished their first album Circa Scaria, as a follow-up to their lauded debut EP from 2008. The Auckland six-piece will be on tour in April to show off their new tunes, before heading to Europe.

NO.1 Insomnia, Craig David ON TOUR After a mammoth tour spanning two months and three continents, The Parlotones are returning to South Africa to round off the odyssey. “The ultimate cherry on top is to end the tour at home,” said singer Kahn Morbee.

Save for a few lyrical references to ecstasy, the rave influences on Animal Collective’s new album Merriweather Post Pavilion are understated. That’s not the case tonight and it’s not just the huge mirrorball hanging from the ceiling.

Opening with the didgeridoo-inflected Lions In A Coma, the Baltimore trio mistakenly next segue into their standout track, the euphoric My Girls.

Unfortunately, they can’t duplicate their album’s Beach Boys-esque vocals live, and disappear behind a fog of dry ice, delivering noodly tunes better suited to head nodding than toe tapping. STEPHEN JEWELL

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MUSIC

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Alison Grinter PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST LIVE MUSIC

GIG OF THE WEEK JASON MRAZ Buskers – if we aren’t pitying them for their hatful of coppers we’re jamming fingers in our ears to avoid their interminable strumming. But Virginian singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is one busker who’s actually made it. His 2002 debut Waiting For My Rocket To Come, produced by John Alagía (John Mayer, the Dave Matthews Band) revealed an easy-going pop shtick which proved to be a hit with the masses, if not the critics.

His dream run continues with his latest, third album We Sing.

We Dance. We Steal Things, to get an airing this week.

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» Hammersmith Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH Hammersmith (0844 844 4748). Sun, Apr 5. £23

THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE BAYS

This quirky group from Seattle contains not a single American president. Which is probably a good thing, given some of the plonkers in the Oval Office recently.

Best known for the mid-’90s hits Lumps, Peaches and Kitty, they’re powering on with their fun, upbeat, post-grunge rock.

A true ‘independent’ band, The Bays never rehearse, never record in a studio and never release albums. In fact the only way to hear their improvised dance music is to see them live or to download free MP3s of their shows. Fresh from playing in Sydney, the English collective return to Blighty for a spot of pre-festival warm-ups.

» HMV Forum, Highgate Rd, NW5 1JY

» Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE

Kentish Town (0844 847 2405; kentishtownforum.com). Sat, Apr 4. £13.50

BELIEVE THE HYPE MAGISTRATES

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THE LINE-UP Paul Usher (vocals/

keyboards), Mark Brandon (guitar), Thom Galbally (bass), and Andy Grant (drums).

HAILS FROM Essex.

THE BUZZ SO FAR Pinned as “the saviours of white-boy funk,” the band’s feel-good tunes are shaking up the indie scene.

WHAT ELSE? After hearing their demo, XL labelmate Damon Albarn invited Magistrates to his studio and offered his services as mentor.

THE BAND SAY According to their MySpace page, the band want to “infect the world with a groove like some out-of-control STD.” THE CRITICS SAY “Talk about hot property: Magistrates are radioactive.” (NME) WE SAY Usher’s funky falsetto and the band’s soulful

rhythms have an organic quality that makes dancing to their music impossible to resist.

THE RELEASE Download Make This Work free from magistratesband.com.

THE PLUG Playing Launch Party at Queen of Hoxton, Curtain Rd, EC2A 3JX,

Mornington Crescent

(0870 4325 527). Sat, Apr 4. £14

Old Street (0870 0600 100) on Friday, April 3. Free before 10pm, £4 after. ERICA MASINI

SOUND BITES The John Butler Trio as we know them are over.

The main man, John Butler himself, has kicked out longterm drummer Michael Barker and bass player Shannon Birchall for “artistic reasons” as he gets set to record his fifth studio album.

“They have been a pleasure to live, love, learn, record and tour with,” Butler said, though this obviously didn’t stop him sacking them.

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SATURDAY 4

Krampusz Experimental

The Bays Improvisational

rock from the London outfit. Bull

four-piece. Koko, Camden High

And Gate, Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2TJ (020 8826 5000). £5, concs £4.

St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £14.50.

Cloven Hoof, Pagan Alter, Elixir, Celtic Legacy, Bitches Sin The Irish heavy

Letters To Leaders, Mars Fortress, Your Army, Zodiac N Black The Exeter-based

metal band play their hits. The Underworld, Camden High St, NW1 0NE (020 7482 1932). Adv £12.50.

quartet play melodic indie-rock.

Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, concs £4.50.

The Deans Covers band.

The London five-piece play rock tracks. Hope

The Half Moon, Herne Hill, Half Moon Ln, Herne Hill, SE24 9HU (020 7274 2733). £10, adv £8.

And Anchor, Upper St, N1 1RL (020 7354 1312). £5, concs £4.50.

Fangs Electro-punk from the

Prego, Imajim London-

Glaswegian outfit. Barden’s Boudoir, Stoke Newington Rd, N16 7XJ (020 7249 9557). £5.

Milestone, Helsingfors

based indie-rockers. Monto Water Rats, Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £6.

Zarif, Larkspur Falls The north London singer-songwriter performs soulful pop from her album Box Of Secrets. The Barfly, Camden, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AN (0844 847 2424). Adv £5.

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TNT’S TOP BOOKING

THE SECRET GARDEN PARTY Huntingdon Mill Hill Field (near Cambridge), PE28 2PH (secretgardenparty.com). Jul 23-26. £144 Jarvis Cocker is headlining, but this is as much about self-expression as the music. Quirky, arty and alternative (burning boats, anyone?) it’s light years away from those big, soulless festivals.

Jenny Carr Australian jazz vocalist.Boisdale Of Belgravia, Eccleston St, SW1W 9LX (020 7730 6922). £12, £4.50 before 10pm.

Jonny Flynn The indiefolk singer-songwriter plays original material.

The Lexington, Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB (020 7837 5371). £7.50.

Dean Owens Pop-rock and country from the Edinburgh-based vocalist. The Slaughtered Lamb, Great Sutton St, EC1V 0DX (020 7253 1516). £8.

Jack Peñate, Magistrates London-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers St, WC2N 6NG (020 7930 2020). £12.50.

Shaun Samonini, Bobbie Gordon The soulful pop singer promotes his latest single Stronger.

The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £7.

WEDNESDAY 1 The Fall Punked-up tunes from Mark E Smith and his band. Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £20.

Lowstride Scene, LiSa DeE, Yellow Garage Indie-rock outfit. The Bullet Bar, Kentish Town Rd, NW1 8PB (020 7485 6040). £5.

James Yuill, Post War Years The London folk performer plays tracks from his album Turning Down Air For Water.

The Barfly, Camden, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AN (0844 847 2424). Adv £6.

THURSDAY 2 Chicane Dance and electro outfit. Koko, Camden High St, NW1 7JE (0870 432 5527). £16.

The Green River Project, Achilla The Camden-based group play heavy metal. The

Fraff, Dethscalator The London-based band play art rock and indie. The Wilmington

Rd, NW6 7JR (07949 008253). £5.

Carly Kling, Scenes Of Nudity, David Stewart The Australian vocalist plays acoustic pop. The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). Phone for Prices.

Jason Mraz The American singer-songwriter performs tracks from his album We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things.

Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £23.

Old School Tie, The Score, The Temp And The Tycoon The Swindon outfit play avant-garde pop.

Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, concs £5.

Hot Toddies, Bumblebees

Reuben Richard’s Soul Train Blues, funk and soul

five-piece play rock tracks. Bull And Gate, Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2TJ (020 8826 5000). £5, concs £4.

Jaya The Cat, The Skints

Lucas, The Operation, Cavalier, Sion Indie-pop outfit.

Camden High St, NW1 0NE (020 7482 1932). Adv £7.50.

Dublin Castle, Parkway, NW1 7AN (020 8806 2668). £6, concs £4.50.

The Southampton-based indie-folk six-piece perform tracks from their album In Bars. The Good Ship, Kilburn High

Arms, Rosebery Ave, EC1R 4RL (020 8318 4999). £6, £5 w/flyer.

Pentonville Rd, N1 9JB (020 7837 5371). £5, w/flyer £4.

Reggae-influenced punkrock outfit. The Underworld,

from the seven-piece. Dover St Restaurant And Bar, Dover St, W1S 4LQ (020 7629 9813). £15.

Silversun Pickups, Swiss FX The Californian outfit play indie-rock tracks. Proud, The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AH (020 7482 3867). £10, adv £8.

My First Tooth, The Shebeats Indie-folk from

SUNDAY 5

The Mekons, De Rosa

the Northampton quartet.

Billy No Mates, The Cut Ups

Upbeat punk-rock group.

The Fly, New Oxford St, WC1A 1EP (0844 847 2424). Adv £6.

The pop-punk outfit play tracks from their EP Hot Cakes. The

The Windmill, Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5BZ (020 8671 0700). Adv £10.

Windmill, Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5BZ (020 8671 0700). £5.

Puressence The downbeat

Pocketbooks, The Loves, The Give It Ups

indie-rock band play tracks from their latest album Don’t Forget To Remember. Halfmoon

The melodic pop combo promote their album Flight Paths. Jamm, Brixton Rd,

Covenant, Mesh, RBN

Putney, Lower Richmond Rd, SW15 1EU (020 8780 9383). £10.

SW9 6LH (020 7274 5537). £5.

Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP (020 7485 9006). £18.

Industrial electro-pop trio from Sweden. The Electric

Kenny Rogers Veteran from London play rock tracks.

12 Bar Club, Denmark Place, WC2H 8NL (020 7240 2622). £7.

Simply Red Mick Hucknall and Chris Singleton And Band The London indie-rock

his soulful band on a greatest hits tour. O2 Arena, Peninsula Sq,

singer-songwriter promotes his album Twisted City. The

SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260). £40-£50.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Rd, EC1R 3BL (020 7253 4285). £10.

Betty Steeles The Brixton-based

country singer-songwriter.

Frisky & Mannish The

The Apollo, Queen Caroline St, W6 9QH (0844 844 4748). £42.50.

cabaret duo present a musical journey through the history of pop music. Leicester

Stiff Little Fingers The Belfast-based punk-rock band play tracks from their back catalogue. The

Square Theatre, Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX (0844 847 2475). £10.

Forum, Highgate Rd, NW5 1JY (020 7344 0044). Adv £18.50.

The London-based outfit play ambient tracks. Monto

solo-artist plays acoustic pop.

The Troggs The 1960s punkrock group play their hits.

The Troubadour, Old Brompton Rd, SW5 9JA (020 7370 1434). £6.

100 Club, Oxford St, W1D 1LL (020 7636 0933). Adv £18.50.

Submit your free listing at least three weeks prior to the publication by emailing gigs@pressassociation.com.

Plateaux, Tim O’connor Water Rats, Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1X 8BZ (020 7837 4412). £6.

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AC/DC Wembley Stadium, Jun 26 (0871 2200 260). £55 Blur Hyde Park, Jul 2-3 (0870 534 444) £45 John Butler Union Chapel, Jul 17 (seetickets.com). £17.50 The Drones The Luminaire, May 21 (wegottickets.com). £8.50 The Living End Koko, Apr 22 (0870 4325 527). £13.50 Mr Scruff Koko, May 23 (0870 4325 527). £15 Shannon Noll O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, May 8 (o2shepherdsbush empire.co.uk) £15 Pet Shop Boys O2 Arena, Jun 19 (0870 534 4444). £30 The Prodigy, Dizzee Rascal Wembley Arena, Apr 16-17 (0870 4000 6888). £32.50 Razorlight O2 Arena, May 7 (0870 534 4444). £27.50 Seal Hammersmith Apollo, Jun 26 (08448 44 47 48). £30 Shapeshifter Forum, May 19 & 22 (0844 847 2405). £17.50 The View Forum, May 16 (0844 847 2405), £15 Amy Winehouse, Toots And The Maytals, I Blame Coco O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, May 31 (o2shepherdsbush empire.co.uk). £35-£45 Yeah Yeah Yeahs O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, Apr 25-26 (o2shepherdsbush empire.co.uk), £18.50

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Great Portland St, W1W 5PW (020 7323 7229). £6, £5 w/flyer.

Brook’s Blues Bar, The Telegraph, Telegraph Rd, SW15 3TU (020 8788 2011). £10.

Kalorie, Seratoner The London

Psychedelic post-punk four-piece. Bull And Gate,

band play psychedelic indie-rock tracks. 229,

Traditional Chicago blues outfit.

Underworld, Camden High St, NW1 0NE (020 7482 1932). £6.50.

The Rushes, Maura Kincaid, David Preston The four-piece

Union Jackals, Chik Budo, Farrs The London-based

Sonny Black And Chris Belshaw

The Californian four-piece play indie-pop tracks from their album Smell The Mitten. The Lexington,

Pipe, Capelle, Imma

Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2TJ (020 8826 5000). £5, concs £4.

FRIDAY 3

Haunted Stereo, Good Weather Girl, Aqualeem

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Natasha Vuckovic PICKS OUT THIS WEEK’S BEST CLUB NIGHTS

CLUB OF THE WEEK ZOMBIES SOUNDSYSTEM Put simply, Booka Shade are brilliant. From Mandarine Girl to In White Rooms, the German duo have got some damn fine tunes that are sure to get you cutting some serious shapes on the dance floor. Catch them for a live set at Matter this weekend as they headline the latest Zombies party at the East London venue. Paul Woolford, Luke Solomon and Shane Watcha will be doing DJ sets.

» Matter, The O2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DY

North Greenwich (020 7549 6686). Sat, Apr 4, 10pm-7am. £18

beats/breaks

funk/soul

FABRICLIVE

drum ’n’ bass

electro

hip-hop

THAT LAUNCH PARTY

While they usually play to the masses on the festival circuit or fill Brixton Academy with their own live shows, the Chemical Brothers are doing a very rare and exclusive DJ club set at Fabric this week. It’s a pretty special appearance by the duo, so catch it if you can.

It was called The House and Terrace but it’s been rebranded with the unfortunate name of That.

Kinki Malinki is hosting the night while ex-Home (Sydney) DJ Jason Bye and Ibiza’s Gordon Edge will be belting out some Balearic beats.

» Fabric, 77A Charterhouse St, EC1 3HN Farringdon (020 7336 8898). Fri, Apr 3, 10pm-6am. £17

» That, Boord St, SE10 0PF North Greenwich (020 858 8900). Sat, Apr 4, 10pm-6am. £15

LP REVIEW Fabric46 Claude VonStroke (Fabric Records)

and while some of the vocals can get slightly over-bearing at times, the mix will definitely get you tapping those toes.

We have two pairs of tickets to Zombies Soundsystem to give away. Email grabs@tntmagazine.com with ‘Zombies’ in the subject line by noon, Apr 1, for a chance to win.

WIN

house/garage

rock/metal

techno

CLUB NEWS

Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim has pulled out of his Snowbombing gig. The DJ, who was recently admitted into rehab for alcohol problems, says: “I’m choked to be missing out on the gig in the mountain forest, but I really hope Snowbombing will have me back for another crack at it next year. Sorry to let you down folks.” 2 Many DJs will be taking his spot at the party he was scheduled to play at the event in Austria this week.

Seems like every DJ and his dog wants to remix The Killers’ Spaceman. Last week we told you it was Tiësto doing it for Comic Relief, now

Sander van Doorn is having a stab. In fact, he was so into it, he made two remixes.

“I had so many ideas for this track that I ended up delivering two remixes to incorporate them all,” Van Doorn said. The first is a big, bouncy trance version, the second is darker with a driving sound and a great vocal breakdown.

Glade has announced the line-up for its four-day festival in July. Underworld, Booka Shade, Timo Mass, Plump DJs and Krafty Kuts are among the long list of names with more to be confirmed. Check out gladefestival.com.

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“I wanted to create a greasy, dirty vibe but also get melancholy and funky, a little hard here, a little soft there,” says Claude VonStroke, summing up his mix for Fabric46 quite nicely. The album has a deep sound that’s tinged with darkness,

hard house/trance

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CLUB LISTINGS MONDAY 30 Authentic Cuban Night DJ Fulham Rd, SW6 5NH (020 7381 5005).

6pm-2am. £5, free before 9pm.

Hard Core Salsa DJ Jorge Andre plays mambo and timba. Salsa!, Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277).

5.30pm-2am. £4, free before 9pm.

Popcorn Commercial dance, pop and R‘n’B, plus a cinema and chill-out room. Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers St, WC2N 6NG (020 7930 2020).

11pm-6am. £8, free before 12am.

Salsa Cellar The resident DJs play salsa. Downstairs At The King’s Head, Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA (020 8340 1028).

7pm-late. £7, concs £4.

Worldwide Underground Jazz, soul, hip-hop and swing with the BPM and Beccy Grierson. Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury

Casino Royale Residents supply 1960s garage, Northern Soul and psychedelia. The Barfly, Camden, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AN (0844 847 2424).

10.30pm-late. Adv £6.

MIXMAG EASTER FRIDAY PARTY MATTER The O2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 6DP North Greenwich (020 7549 6686).

Apr 10. £15 Timo Mass (right) and Simian Mobile Disco party with the world’s top clubbing mag at Matter. It’s gonna be big …

House Rules DJs Arno Cost, Jem Haynes, David Griffiths and Dave Penn play house and electro. Plan B, Brixton Rd, SW9 4AY (0870 116 5421).

9pm-6am. £12, adv £8.

Lost And Found Keb Darge and Andy Smith play blues, rock and Northern Soul.

Madame Jo Jo’s, Brewer St, W1F 0SE (020 7734 3040). 10pm-3am. £8.

The Mermaid’s Purse DJs Sioux-elin, Faster Pussycat and Sintheticboi play rockabilly, blues and rock. The Black

Game On Residents spin

Members Night DJ

Fridays Funk,

chart, party anthems and retro hits in the basement with R‘n’B, electro and house in the VIP room. Zoo Bar, Bear

Bambach supplies funky house anthems. The Shadow

disco, pop, African beats, funky house and 1980s hits, plus live performances from Jesse, Ken and Tyrone.

Prologue DJs Norman Jay,

Royal Oak, East Hill, SW18 2QB (020 8874 4892). 7.30pm-late. Free.

East Village, Great Eastern St, EC2A 3HX (020 7739 5173).

9pm-4am. £10, adv/NUS £8.

St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

9pm-3am. £7, NUS £5, adv £4.50.

Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 9pm-late. £5-£10, free before 10pm, mems free.

Jim Masters, Alex Phountzi, Nick Dare, Paul Louth and Ross Manthorpe play house.

Recession! DJs play indie, electro, pop and rock. The

Latin Fever Latin tracks from

Louis, Steve Lingam and T.E.D.D spin club hits. Proud, The Stables

Boogaloo, Archway Rd, N6 5AT (020 8340 2928). 8pm-1am. £5.

resident DJ Jorge, plus live bands. Salsa!, Charing Cross

Barrio Latino Salsa and urban

Market, Chalk Farm Rd, NW1 8AH (020 7482 3867). 7.30pm-late. £10, £8 w/flyer, £7 guestlist.

Silk Cuts DJ Nick Fletcher spins global house. Jewel, Glasshouse

Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277).

5.30pm-2am. £10, £2 before 8pm, £4 before 9pm, £8 before 11pm.

Latin tracks from Chino and Alex. Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury Ave,

Smile The resident DJs spin

St, W1B 5DQ (020 7439 4089).

9pm-1am. £10, guest list £5.

Push The residents play

Warp Flying Lotus, Kode9

indie, electro, pop and 1980s classics. Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury

and Zomby play trip hop, funk, dubstep and rave. The LightBox,

Ave, W1D 7EP (020 7287 2715).

10.30pm-3.30am. £8, concs £6.

South Lambeth Place, SW8 1SP (020 7434 1113). 9pm-2am. £10.

Rock It Balearic and

Hannah Holland, Mikki Most and Ian Robinson play techno and electro. Warehouse Rave, Scrutton

disco-house courtesy of Nick Tcherniak. The Langley, Langley

St, EC2A 4PJ (07932 674528).

9.30pm-6am. £12, adv £8.

Bedrock Resident DJs spin

St, WC2H 9JA (020 7836 5005).

7pm-1am. £8, free before 10pm, guestlist £5, free before 10pm.

indie, electro, rock, retro and pop. Moonlighting, Greek

SUNDAY 5

Twisted The residents supply

Candybox DJs Jamie, Michael

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W1D 7EP (020 7287 2715). 9pm-3am. £5, £4 before 11pm, NUS £3.

house anthems. Thirst, Greek St, W1D 3DR (020 7437 1977).

5pm-3am. £4, £3 before 12am.

Forca Brasil DJ Fred spins salsa, samba and Latin tunes, plus live bands. Salsa!, Charing Cross

Wicked Wednesdays

Rd, WC2H 0JG (020 7379 3277).

5.30pm-2am. £4, free before 9pm.

Leicester Sq, WC2H 7NA (0870 863 1010). 9pm-3am. £10, £5 before 11pm.

R‘n’B and hip-hop. Sound,

Lost In London Residents spin party anthems on the ground floor, electro-house in the basement and commercial R‘n’B in the VIP room. Zoo Bar, Bear

THURSDAY 2 Classique House, classics,

St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

9pm-3am. £7, guestlist/NUS £5.

1980s pop and commercial R‘n’B. The Hill, Muswell Hill, N10

Panic! Max, Gaz and That

3ST (020 8365 3651). 10pm-3am. £10, £7 before 11.30pm.

Perfect Fumble play indie and post-punk. The Roxy, Rathbone

Delicious Thursdays R‘n’B

FRIDAY 3

St, W1D 4DR (020 7734 6308).

10pm-4am. £8, w/flyer £6.

Club Tropik Caribbean, Latin, African and urban tropical sounds from DJ Marito. Loom, Clipstone

Place, W1T 1HJ (020 7255 1098).

10pm-3am. £5, NUS/w/flyer £3.

and retro hits on the ground floor, with house and party anthems in the basement. Zoo Bar, Bear

St, W1W 6BB (020 7436 0035).

7pm-2am. £10, free before 9pm.

Salon DJ Aubrey spins

St, WC2H 7AQ (020 7839 4188).

10pm-3am. £10, £7 before 10pm.

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club anthems. The Shadow Lounge, Brewer St, W1F 0RF (020 7287 7988). 9pm-late. £5£10, free before 10pm, mems free.

WEDNESDAY 1

Electric Record Player DJ Pete Herbert plays house, electro and balearic funk.

The Player, Broadwick St, W1F 8HN (020 7494 9125).

8pm-1am. £5, free before 9pm.

Hip-hop from Spin Doctor, Sarah Love, DJ Kayper, DJ IQ and The Last Skeptik.

Plus live performances from Royce Da 5’9”, Asaviour and Kila Kela. Herbal, Kingsland Rd, E2 8DA (020 7613 4462).

9pm-3am. £10, adv £5.Funky

The Ghetto, Old St, EC1V 9AJ (020 7287 3726). 10pm-late. £3.

Submit your free listing at least three weeks prior to the publication by emailing clubs@pressassociation.com

Shake Disco and pop from John Osbourne and Paul C in the main room, plus R‘n’B and hip-hop in room two. The Electric Ballroom, Camden High St, NW1 8QP (020 7485 9006).

10pm-3am. £10, NUS/Mems £8.

Trailertrash 5th Birthday Party Jojo De Freq, Idiotproof,

house and commercial dance.

and David spin indie and retro.

Motion, Victoria Embankment, WC2N 6PA (020 7389 9933).

8pm-late. £10, guestlist £5 before 11pm, free before 9pm.

Moonlighting, Greek St, W1D 4DR (020 7734 6308). 10pm-3.30am. £6, NUS £5, NUS £3 before 11pm.

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop B3, Matt Promo, Maximus, Radford and Shaun Douglas play house, electro and minimal.

SATURDAY 4 AWOL DJs Friction, Mampi

Calling All Tribes Buster Bennet and K-Tron supply bassline house and electro.

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Gardenia, Dean St, W1D 3SZ (020 7494 4955). 9pm-1am. £7.

Playground Antics Flash

Ave, W1D 7EP (020 7287 2715).

9pm-2am. £5, NUS £3.

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Flecha plays Cuban beats, plus dance classes. Fiesta Havana,

TNT’S TOP BOOKING

Swift, Randall, Darren Jay, Kenny Ken, Dr S Gachet, Ragga Twins and Moose spin drum ‘n’ bass and jungle. IndigO2, Peninsula Sq, SE10 0DX (0871 220 0260).

9pm-5am. £10-£16.50.

Herbal, Kingsland Rd, E2 8DA (020 7613 4462). 8pm-2am. £10.

Horse Meat Disco Jim Stanton, James Hillard, Filthy Luka and Severino spin disco.

Eagle, Kennington Ln, SE11 5QY (020 7793 0903). 8pm-3am. £6.

Blow Up DJs Paul Tunkin and Ian Jackson provide mod, indie, soul, pop, new wave and 1960s hits. Bar Rumba, Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 7EP (020 7287 2715). 9pm-4am. £8, NUS £6, £6 before 11.30pm.

WetYourSelf Phil Kieron, Cormac, Jacob Husley and Peter Pixzel supply techno, funk and pop. Fabric, Charterhouse St, EC1M 6HJ (020 7336 8898).

11pm-6am. £10, adv £8, NUS £5.

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“I think the Prime Minister is incredibly A-plus on these issues.”

US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner gives Kevin Rudd a glowing report for his advice on the economic crisis.

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AUSTRALIA Funding boost The Rudd government would officially support a UN declaration on indigenous rights which the previous Howard government voted against.

“We want indigenous Australians to be partners in efforts to close the gap,” said indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.

Meanwhile, it was announced 26 of Australia’s largest remote Aboriginal communities would receive billions in funding as

BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA: Immigration officers in Jakarta inspect seized passports following the arrest of 57-year-old Yusuf Karim, an Afghanistan-born American national, for fraud and suspicion of people smuggling involving dozens of Chinese nationals that paid him for jobs in Australia.

part of the Government’s push to improve living conditions.

It will go towards new housing and upgrading of services such as health clinics and schools.

Thieves not so smart Thieves who stole jewellery from country singer Jade Hurley worth $110,000 sold the goods to a pawnbroker for just $150.

Police located most of the $250,000 worth of jewellery stolen from Hurley, but two rings were still missing.

D’Arcy walks free

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Nick D’Arcy avoided jail for his attack on a fellow swimmer.

D’Arcy, 21, pleaded guilty to recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm on Commonwealth Games gold medallist Simon

Cowley at a Sydney bar last year.

He was placed on a conditional good behaviour bond for 14 months and 12 days.

D’Arcy warned other young drinkers, saying: “We obviously need to watch our behaviour when we are out and about.”

Police rape charges A senior constable from central Queensland was arrested on rape charges.

The 45-year-old was charged with two counts of rape and assault occasioning bodily harm, and 11 charges of indecent treatment of children.

A police spokesman said it was alleged the charges related to incidents which occurred several years ago and did not relate to his police officer duties.

*And finally … cane toads in for it encouraged to collect as many toads as they could which were euthanased and will be turned into compost for sugar cane crops. Stuffed cane toad trophies were put up as prizes.

“I grew up at a time when people regarded us as the backward state of Australia. And there was a time when nobody would have thought that we would be the first state in the country to elect a woman as our premier.”

QLD premier Anna Bligh on her election win.

“I can’t say it any simpler than that. I told a lie, which was a disgraceful thing to do.”

Former federal judge Marcus Einfeld, who was jailed for lying about a traffic offence.

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Perhaps in a case of poetic justice, cane toads will be turned into fertiliser as part of North Queensland’s inaugural Toad Day Out which was to be held on Saturday. People were

“I was wrong. That was very untidy of me. It was without justification and I apologise for it.”

Defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon on his failure to properly disclose free trips he took to China.

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AUSTRALIA

What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ Bikie brawl at Sydney Airport last week leaves one person dead ■ Man in critical condition following a drive-by shooting in Sydney’s north west ■ Prime Minister Kevin Rudd calls for “zero tolence” on bikie violence

ikie violence erupted at Sydney Airport last week when a man was bludgeoned to death in front of passengers during a brawl between rival gangs.

About 15 men were involved in the fight that left Anthony Zervas, the 29-year-old brother of a senior Hells Angel member, dead after he was struck repeatedly on the head by a portable bollard.

“I saw one of the men lying on the ground and another man came up with a pole and just started smashing it into his

WESTERN AUSTRALIA More than 80 whales died last week after they beached themselves on Hamelin Bay, south of Perth. Only three of the 10 whales that rescuers guided out to sea were believed to have survived.

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Police scour Sydney Airport after a man was bashed to death in a biker brawl last week

head,” said one witness, Naomi Constantine.

The airport attack occurred on the same day as a drive-by shooting in Sydney’s west, after which two men were taken to hospital.

A second drive-by shooting in Sydney’s north-west left

a man in a critical condition.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Government would look at what action could be taken to curb such violence.

“Bikie gangs, bikie thugs and organised criminal activity … should have zero tolerance,” he said.

More jobs to go as reality bites Nearly 9000 job cuts have been announced in Australia during the first three months of 2009.

The news comes as BHP Billiton axed 400 Queensland coal mining contract workers last week, on top of the 1100 job losses at its Queensland operations announced earlier in the year.

Queensland premier Anna Bligh said it was an example of another major employer suffering during a meltdown of world markets.

“We look forward to a time when it’s correcting itself, but in the meantime we’ll be

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working with people, we’ll send out our flying squads, we’ll sit down with people, we’ll help them find other jobs wherever we can,” she said.

The global economic crisis was also being blamed for job losses at one of Australia’s premier tourist attractions.

The Sunshine Coast’s Australia Zoo, which was founded by Steve Irwin, was to lay off 26 staff members and delay expansion plans.

“This is a regretful reality of these economic times, though we hope to recover quickly,” the zoo said in a statement.

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The Big Pineapple was registered on Queenland’s heritage list last week. The Queensland Heritage Council said the 16m-high structure represented a significant story in the Sunshine Coast’s tourism industry.

ACT Two men were shot dead at a home in Canberra. Russell Field, 20, of Chisholm was charged with two counts of murder.

One of the deceased belonged to a bikie gang.

Police said the incident was not linked to the biker gang violence in Sydney last week (see left).

SOUTH AUSTRALIA Two men, aged 18 and 19, were killed during a police pursuit in Adelaide Hills, after their vehicle smashed into a brick wall.

VICTORIA

Queensland premier Anna Bligh

Duck carcasses and used shotgun cartridges were dumped outside Victoria premier John Brumby’s office in a protest against duck shooting season.

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NEW ZEALAND

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Student loan bonuses

150k

Stab victim charges

Virender Singh

The amount of money raised by a sculpture exhibition on Auckland’s North Shore for women’s refuges nationwide.

NEW DEVELOPMENT: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark will become the new head of the United Nations Development Programme – the organisations’s third most important position and the highest diplomatic post held by a New Zealander.

against a knife-wielding youth who was not one of the complainants, and that he used it only in self-defence.

Guide criticised A leaked government report into the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre canyoning tragedy was critical of an inexperienced instructor.

Jodie Sullivan was in charge when six Elim Christian School pupils and a teacher were killed in a flash flood in the Mangatepopo Gorge, in April last year. A Labour Department

report called Sullivan’s decision to go into the gorge “an action on her part which ultimately resulted in the group being exposed to the hazard of a flash flood”.

Jetboat driver charged Maritime New Zealand charged jetboat driver Ian Morgan in relation to a Central Otago accident in which a Chinese tourist was killed last year.

Morgan was charged with operating a jetboat in a manner that caused unnecessary danger to other people.

*And finally … Kiwis upset by blog the Tasman, rubbishing everything from the country’s beer and meat pies to Russell Crowe and Rotorua, which they said “absolutely stinks”.

Kiwi tourism and business operators hit back at the blog saying the comments were “pathetically rude”.

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Percentage drop in New Zealand house prices in the three months to February.

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Number of Australian navy sailors who have been charged in relation to an alleged joyride on a digging machine while on shore leave in Taranaki.

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The man was taken to hospital with head and chest injuries.

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An Australian couple upset Kiwis with an online expat guide that labelled Auckland as a “horrible soulless city” and its inhabitants as “hobbits” who can’t dress properly.

The anonymous duo used their website, fushnchups.co.nz, to attack their new home across

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The number of infringement notices handed out last week for bad driving in the South Island.

A ute driver towing a skateboarder at more than 30km/h was one of the recipients.

The proposed student loan voluntary repayment bonus was extended to include student loans holders who live overseas.

Kiwis with student loans making a voluntary repayment of $500 or more will get an extra 10 per cent bonus from the Government.

A south Auckland liquor store owner who used a hockey stick to defend himself after being stabbed said he had no idea why police charged him.

The Manukau District Court found there was insufficient evidence to go to trial on charges against Virender Singh of injuring two youths with intent following an incident at Singh’s discount liquor store in Otara in September last year.

Singh, allegedly stabbed by a third youth during the incident, said he only used a hockey stick

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NEW ZEALAND

What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ Scottish tourist Karen Aim’s killer is sentenced to life ■ Teen Jahche Broughton, 15, will spend at least 12 and a half years behind bars ■ Aim’s father Brian said justice had been served and he held no grudges

aupo teenager Jahche Broughton got sympathy not contempt from the father of Scottish tourist Karen Aim, when the teen was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.

Broughton, 15, last month pleaded guilty to bashing Aim, 27, to death in a Taupo street in January last year.

His jail sentence has a minimum non-parole period of 12 and a half years.

Aim’s parents, Brian and Peggy, and her brother Allan were in New Zealand for the trial and sentencing.

Brian said justice had been

UPPER NORTH ISLAND A 29-year-old Samoan woman who gave birth on a flight from Samoa to Auckland was charged with abandoning the baby girl and assaulting her. Child Youth and Family (CYF) was now caring for the child.

Cleaners found the baby in a rubbish bin in the plane’s toilet after the woman had left the aircraft.

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done and he held no grudges.

Rather than anger, he felt sorry for the youth who had killed his beloved daughter.

“He has taken away Karen’s life, but he has also destroyed his own,” he said.

“If I go down the road of anger and revenge that

would only destroy my life.”

Broughton was also given a six-year jail sentence, to be served concurrently, for injuring a 17-year-old woman with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm in a separate incident a fortnight before the attack on Aim.

Call for Auckland to be a super-city

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A single region-wide unitary authority could be created in Auckland to replace its councils and community boards.

The massive shake-up would essentially create New Zealand’s first “super-city” and was the key recommendation of an eagerly-awaited Royal Commission into Auckland Governance, released last Friday by local government minister Rodney Hide.

The commission proposed the dissolution of the Auckland regional council and all seven territorial authorities in the city, instead opting for a new single unitary

WHAT THEY SAID The Royal Commission found Auckland’s regional council and its seven territorial authorities lacked a collective sense of purpose, constitutional ability and momentum to address issues effectively for the overall good of the region.

authority, to be called Auckland Council and lead by an “inspirational leader, inclusive in approach and decisive in action”, according to the report.

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LOWER NORTH ISLAND A King Country meatworker who nearly had one of his hands severed off by a bandsaw had it successfully re-attached by surgeons after a 13-hour operation.

UPPER SOUTH ISLAND A Christchurch postman was fired after three months of undelivered mail was found in his car.

About 3000 letters, cards and parcels were recovered from his vehicle, following a New Zealand Post investigation. Some of the mail had been tampered with and opened.

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Auckland could get the “super-city” treatment

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 struck 50km north-west of Te Anau last Thursday night. The quake, with a focal depth of 100km, was reportedly felt throughout Central Otago and as far east as Momona, south of Dunedin.

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SOUTH AFRICA

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QUOTE UNQUOTE “It would not be in the interests of the country to invite the Dalai Lama to South Africa at this stage because the attention of the world is on us as the host of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.” President Kgalema Motlanthe’s spokesman Thabo Masebe, quoted in The Star.

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Mbeki phone tapes ANC leader Jacob Zuma’s lawyers are in possession of taped phone conversations between former president Thabo Mbeki and a former Scorpions boss, allegedly recorded by state intelligence agencies, media reports said last Thursday.

“I have been advised – and believe – that monitoring and interception of telephone conversations … has been conducted by a state agency.

I have also been informed that the lawyers of Mr Zuma have such recordings in their possession,” former National Prosecuting Authority head Bulelani Ngcuka told The Times.

OZ IN AFRICA: South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela met Australian Governor-General Quentin Bryce in Johannesburg last Tuesday. Bryce was visiting 10 African countries to demonstrate Australia’s growing engagement with Africa.

Shaik medical records The Star newspaper denied being in possession of Schabir Shaik’s medical records, following the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s alarm over the media’s “violation” of patient confidentiality.

“We would like to stress that

we are not in possession of Mr Shaik’s medical records as implied by the Health Professions Council of South Africa,” The Star’s editor Moegsien Williams said.

In an article, the newspaper referred to the reports of several doctors who had treated the convicted fraudster.

Rand remains firm

Schabir Schaik

The rand was firmer against major currencies in late trade last Friday amid growing optimism that the worst economic turmoil has passed.

The currency was unmoved by local producer price inflation

*And finally … The Cousin in a movie his job and his wife divorces him on his birthday,” Hilton told News24.

“He goes out to celebrate with his loser friend Dave and wakes up in the boot of a car. It’s a very funny, feel-good movie,” he said.

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Credit card fraud Five people, four of them waitresses at a Cape Town International Airport restaurant, were arrested after a tip-off about credit card skimming, police said last Wednesday.

Police spokesperson captain Dennis Adriao said the four were arrested at a Spur outlet at the airport and had already appeared in court.

“I know it looks like chaos, but we’re getting better.”

Andrew Hopkins, senior registering officer of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, where refugees were being interviewed and registered.

“It was minor, just a scratch, no one was hurt.” Transport minister Jeff Radebe after he and 702 Talk Radio host John Robbie had a “minor collision” with their cars.

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Popular South African stand-up comic Barry ‘The Cousin’ Hilton will star in his first movie, Finding Lenny, which opens in South African cinemas in April.

“It’s a movie about a young man – 50 years old – who loses

data for February which came in better than expected.

The rand was 9.61 to the US dollar, 12.74 to the euro and 13.74 against the sterling at the end of last week.

“More than one paper came in with a cellphone number instead of an ID number on top.” Education department director general Duncan Hindle explaining the delay in the release of last year’s matric results.

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SOUTH AFRICA

What’s happening across the country

SUMMARY ■ Disagreement over the number of South Africans wanting to vote overseas ■ Most of the expat voters believed to be in London ■ The teacher who won the battle to vote overseas tells of his “delight”

pposition parties and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) are at loggerheads about the exact number of South Africans living abroad who want to cast their vote in the upcoming elections.

IEC spokeswoman Lydia Young refuted the claims of the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) that 80,000 expats had applied to vote abroad.

“That is incorrect. We have in total just over 19,000 notifications,” she said.

But Democratic Alliance chairperson James Selfe said

EASTERN CAPE A 13-year-old Umtata girl was shot dead by her boyfriend, 18, who then committed suicide.

“The motive was jealousy.

The young lady was having an affair,” police said.

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Expat Willem Richter who was instrumental in winning the right for South Africans abroad to vote

his party believed more than 20,000 expats would vote on April 15 – the day set aside for South Africans to vote abroad.

“Most of them are in London,” Selfe said.

Chief whip of the FF+, Dr Corné Mulder, said his party welcomed the large numbers of voters because it proved it

was the right decision to join expat teacher Willem Richter in his bid to secure voting rights for citizens abroad, by taking the matter to the Constitutional Court.

Surrey-based Richter said he was “delighted” to be able to vote on April 15 and was taking the day off to do so.

Controversy over Dalai Lama visit Civil society groups and a Constitutional Court judge have supported health minister Barbara Hogan’s stand on the South African government’s denial of a visa for the Dalai Lama.

Hogan said the government was “dismissive of human rights”, and urged it to apologise to the Tibetan leader.

The government said the Dalai Lama would not be welcome in South Africa until after the 2010 Soccer World Cup as it did not want the sporting event to be a platform to advance political causes around the world, nor did

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it want to jeopardise the country’s relations with China.

The Dalai Lama was travelling to South Africa to attend a 2010 peace conference.

The Helen Suzman Foundation said in a statement it supported the “principled stance” taken by Hogan.

Constitutional Court judge Kate O’Regan publicly backed Hogan, the SABC reported.

“It is a matter of dismay that human rights does not seem to enter into the picture of some foreign affairs decisions that are made,” O’Regan was quoted as saying in a radio news bulletin.

The cause of death of a 17-year-old schoolboy who died in his sleep was the result of a rugby injury, according to his father, Beeld reports.

MPUMALANGA Prostitution will not be allowed in Mpumalanga during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, but professional escort services will be. An advert by the Mbombela municipality asks for people who want to provide escort services to apply for a business licence.

KWAZULUNATAL A police officer appeared in the magistrate’s court in Pietermaritzburg last week for allegedly driving while being eight times over the legal alcohol limit.

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The Dalai Lama

A three-vehicle accident in Cape Town last Thursday left 37 people injured, paramedics said.

The accident involved a bus, car and truck, ER 24 spokesman Tristan Wadeley said.

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CRICKET Queensland Cricket defends Andrew Symonds after he and and other players were asked to leave a bar after reported boisterous behaviour. Boys will be boys.

CYCLING Kiwi cyclist Alison Shanks wins gold in the individual pursuit on the opening night of the World Track Cycling Championships in Poland, beating Beijing silver medallist Wendy Houvenaghel.

AFL Poor old Tasmania is shafted again, with the AFL’s secondin-command telling a football inquiry there were no plans to base a team on the island.

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CRICKET England’s crap weather means it loses to South Africa in the race to host the Indian Premier League, which had to be shifted because of security concerns.

RUGBY LEAGUE The Roosters deny they have secured former Raider Todd Carney for 2010 but say they still want to sign the boozeplagued playmaker, who’s currently working in a ... pub.

FOOTBALL Bafana Bafana gained a much-needed confidence boost after a recent shock loss to Chile with a last gasp 2-1 win over Norway in the annual Nelson Mandela Challenge.

SUNDAY V8 SUPERCARS Ford kicks Holden’s butt in the V8 Supercar Manufacturers Challenge races at the F1 GP with Craig Lowndes claiming two wins and Mark Winterbottom one victory.

I was greedy and “ wanted to score more runs. I was disappointed with myself to get out in that fashion

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Kiwi batsman Jesse Ryder, who got out to a crap shot on 201, makes no apology for sulking off the pitch before smashing his bat onto a concrete ledge and then hurling it away

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MONDAY NHL ICE HOCKEY Philadelphia v Boston Fast and violent sport. Cool Midnight, ESPN TUESDAY WRESTLING Late Night Raw Grown men fight. Oh yeah 2am Sky Sports 3

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Jenson Button Who is he?

He’s your typical Pommy sportsman. Talked up a lot, but never delivers. Correction, the F1 driver had managed just one win in 155 attempts before his upset victory in Melbourne.

Why do they go on

about him? Mainly because he’s dated good-looking celebrity types and gets paid millions of pounds of year to make up the numbers – in essence, he’s British as.

But can he actually race?

The answer, apparently, is yes.

He was a teen prodigy who won everything he entered and those in know say he’s never had the car to match his skill.

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ROUND 7

Israel Dagg on the burst

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Lions coach Leon Boshoff was “relieved of his contractual obligations” last week after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of verbally abusing his players. Allegations that Boshoff was racially abusive to black members of the team could not be substantiated.

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Home is where the heart is but the Highlanders saved their very best for neutral territory, hammering the Bulls in a major boilover at their temporary Palmerston North home.

A boistrous crowd at Arena Manawatu carried the inspired Highlanders to a memorable win, scoring five tries to two against the previously only unbeaten team.

The Bulls will leave Palmerston North muttering about the howling wind and manic supporters wearing blue buckets on their heads. In contrast, New Zealand’s southern-

most franchise will surely want to return there after producing one of the best performances in their history and announcing themselves as play-off contenders.

The Highlanders forwards grabbed control of the game from the outset, dominating the breakdown and not letting their powerful Bulls opposites settle with possession.

Otago captain Jimmy Cowan and fellow-All Blacks Adam Thomson and Jamie Mackintosh were outstanding but nobody let the Highlanders down in a resolute performance against a Bulls team that threatened at times, but could not produce sustained pressure.

South Africa has changed their rules to allow the New Zealand Maori side to play there. A proposed match in June in Soweto was blocked by racism laws, but the South African Rugby Union is now finalising details of the match – a warmup for the Lions tour.

AUSSIE RUGBY RICHES The Australian Rugby Union has announced an extraordinary $9.19 million turnaround in its financial fortunes for the 2008 calendar year. The ARU says its surplus was $712,000, wiping out a deficit of $8.48 million in 2007.

QUICK-WITTED OTAGO New Zealand Warrior five-eight Michael Witt last week signed a two-year deal to play rugby for Otago. The 25-year-old Queenslander joined the Warriors in 2007 but will now play for Otago in the AIr NZ Cup in 2009 and 2010. He hopes to gain a Super 14 contract.

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The Chiefs confirmed their status as Super 14 trailblazers with another tryfest to dispatch the Queensland Reds 50-26 in Brisbane.

The Chiefs continued their helter-skelter style with a lineup of speedsters and combative forwards who forced turnovers and ran like backs. An early three-try burst in seven minutes put the Chiefs out to 19-0 – the first typifying their danger from all over the park

when flanker Tanerau Latimer wrenched a turnover on his own 22m line and Stephen Donald dashed 70m to score. The Reds scored two tries to get back in the game through hooker Sean Hardman from a rolling maul and Berrick Barnes from an overlap.

But that was the last time the hosts got close as the Chiefs exploited an inexperienced Reds back three of Blair Connor, debutant Rod Davies and fullback Mark McLinden. All Blacks five-eighth Donald was outstanding for the Chiefs with 23 points.

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RUGBY Anthony Tuitavake of the Blues dives over to score

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Otago captain Jimmy Cowan just loves the way his team stood tall to hammer the previously unbeaten Bulls.

THE PLAYER

Daniel Halangahu WARATAHS The flyhalf was instrumental in guiding his team to victory over the Blues after two losses in a row.

Halangahu, in his first start for the Waratahs for two years, gave the backline some muchneeded direction and confidence.

THE TABLE Team Sharks Waratahs Chiefs Bulls Hurricanes Highlanders Crusaders Blues Stormers Brumbies Reds Force Lions Cheetahs

P 7 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6

Blues 22 v 27 Waratahs A Tuitavake, OAuva’a, M Hobbs tries; J Gopperth pen, 2 con

L 1 2 3 1 2 4 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 6

BP PTS 2 26 3 23 6 22 2 22 4 20 6 18 4 18 6 18 5 13 1 13 4 12 2 12 4 12 2 2

SATURDAY 7.30am Sky Sports 2 CHIEFS V LIONS

SATURDAY 9.30am Sky Sports 2 WARATAHS V STORMERS

OTHER ROUND 8 GAMES Crusaders v Bulls, Force v Reds, Cheetahs v Brumbies, Sharks v Hurricanes

D Halangahu, L Burgess, T Polota-Nau tries; Halangahu 2 pen, 3 con

Waratahs flyhalf Daniel Halangahu proved the difference as NSW won at Eden Park for the first time since the 1920s.

Halangahu, starting for the first time this campaign after replacing star Kurtley Beale, scored a try and kicked a conversion and a penalty early in the first half.

He put in a steadier performance than Beale Crusaders 11

W 6 5 4 5 4 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 0

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Waratahs pip Blues

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A Whitelock try; S Brett 2 pen

7 Stormers L Watson try; W de Waal con

The execution didn’t match the purpose but the Crusaders did just enough to beat the Stormers in a scrappy match in Christchurch. The home team dominated for long periods against a Stormers outfit that defended with desperation and could easily have snuck a late win rather than only a bonus point.

Both sides suffered from a high error count, preventing the scoreline from reflecting their Sharks 35 J Botes, R Kankowski, R Kockott, JP Pietersen, S Terblanche tries; Kockott 5 cons

v

14 Brumbies C Lealiifano, S Ma’afu tries; M Gerrard 2 cons

The Sharks trounced the Brumbies at home to go clear at the top of the Super 14. Sharks scrumhalf Rory Kockott slipped a fine pass to winger JP Pietersen who raced 50m untouched for the opening try on 15 minutes. The two teams then traded blows until Kockott and flanker Jacques Botes went over after the interval to kickstart a comprehensive victory.

has been producing and ended the night with 17 points. Halfback Luke Burgess was also a standout with his dangerous, sniping runs and he scored an intercept try before half-time.

Hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau made amends for a sketchy night of throwing when he scored from a lineout drive midway through the second half.

The Blues were better than a week ago when they were humiliated by the Chiefs but weren’t helped by the loss of All Black Ali Williams when the lock suffered a lower leg injury. attacking intent. The Crusaders’ defence was impeccable and they were keen to keep the ball in hand, often playing with excellent continuity before spilling a pass or losing possession.

Stormers No8 Luke Watson crossed against the run of play in the 10th minute, but a try by Crusaders winger Adam Whitelock seven minutes from half-time gave his side the lead for the first time, with a second penalty from Stephen Brett late on the only other points of the match.

Lions 32 J Fourie 2, T Clever, S Frolick tries; A Pretorius 2 pen, 3 con

v

38 Hurricanes C Smith 2, A Mathewson, M Nonu, W Ripia tries; P Weepu pen, 5 con

The Hurricanes found a second wind to beat the Lions 38-32 in an end-to-end match in Johannesburg. Having squandered a 17-0 lead the Hurricanes appeared out of it when trailing midway through the second half against a Lions side with all the momentum. But late tries to Ma’a Nonu and Willie Ripia secured a gutsy away win.

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NRL

We did not “ deserve it,

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but we won the game

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Eels coach Daniel Anderson’s honest take on the come-frombehind win over the Raiders, who had three tries disallowed.

44 Titan Luke Bailey takes on the Bulldogs defence

Dogs blow it again Titans 20

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P Campbell, L O’Dwyer, M Rogers, E Tonga tries, M Rogers 2 goals

12 Bulldogs B Goodwin, A Ryan tries, H El Masri 2 goals

The Gold Coast Titans rubbed more salt in to the wounds of the Bulldogs with a gutsy win at Skilled Park on Friday night.

Still smarting from the NRL’s decision to strip the club of two points for last weekend’s 14-man fiasco, the Bulldogs were outplayed by the Titans, who recovered from the loss of star playmaker Scott Prince to a hamstring before Tigers 40

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C Lawrence 2, T Tuiaki 2, D Collis, R Farah T Moltzen tries, B Marshall 6 goals

24 Roosters M Aubusson 2, B Anasta S Kenny-Dowall tries, C Fitzgibbon 4 goals

The Wests Tigers celebrated their ‘housewarming party’ at the Sydney Football Stadium with a brilliant come-from-behind win. The Roosters lead 12-0 after 10 minutes, but Tigers’ halfback Benji Marshall turned on the razzle dazzle to have a hand in three tries.

Eels 18

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E Grothe 2, J Hayne, K Inu tries, L Burt goal

16 Raiders J Croker, J Monaghan, J Picker tries, T Campese 2 goals

Parramatta five-eighth Jarryd Hayne produced two pieces of match-winning football to inspire an unlikely victory over Canberra. The Eels were sloppy until Hayne scored a 90m intercept try in the 61st minute that sparked an avalanche of points to overcome a 16-4 deficit.

Rabbitohs 22 C Wing 2 I Luke F Talanoa tries , C Sandow 3 goals

v

12 Knights J McManus J Sau A Uate tries

Warriors 10

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S Mannering, U Ta’ai tries, D Kemp goal

26 Broncos J Clinton, S Michaels, I Folau, A Glenn, D Lockyer tries, C Parker 3 goals

Brisbane maintained their perfect start to the season with a convincing victory over the Warriors at Mt Smart Stadium. The Broncos dominated possession and field position while the Warriors were hurt by silly mistakes and lost Brent Tate to a season-ending knee injury.

Cowboys 12

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S Bolton, J Williams tries, J Thurston 2 goals

26 Storm C Cronk, G Inglis, A Quinn, S Turner tries, C Smith 5 goals

Melbourne were not at their best but cruised to victory to continue their recent dominance of North Queensland. After shifting to the centres from five-eighth the Test and Origin star Greg Inglis caused problems for the Cowboys’ defence all night, while fullback Billy Slater was equally destructive.

Dragons 10 B Creagh B Hornby tries, J Soward goa

v

THE PLAYER

Benji Marshall WESTS TIGERS Marshall’s pinpoint kicking and smart dummy-half running led his side to victory, coach Tim Sheens saying it was the best game he’d played for the club.

THE TABLE Team Broncos Titans Bulldogs* Storm Eels Tigers Warriors Rabbitohs Cowboys Dragons Knights Sharks Roosters Panthers Sea Eagles Raiders

P 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 3

W 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

L 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3

PD 19 16 16 13 0 -4 -6 34 13 5 -2 -4 -32 -10 -24 -34

PTS 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0

*Bulldogs deducted 2 points for having 14 players on the field in Round 2

6 Sharks

Monday night game

D Simmons try L Covell goal

Sea Eagles v Panthers

Cronulla five-eighth Trent Barrett’s return to WIN Jubilee Oval ended badly as he was stretchered off with a neck injury during St George Illawarra’s win on Sunday. Although it turned out not to be significant, the injury overshadowed a gritty victory by the Dragons in what was a dour match.

ON THE BOX SATURDAY 9.30am Setanta 1 STORM V TITANS

Other Round 4 games Broncos v Dragons, Roosters v Eels, Panthers v Tigers, Warriors v Rabbitohs, Bulldogs v Sharks, Knights v Sea Eagles, Raiders v Cowboys

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Newcastle coach Brian Smith slammed the performance of the referees after his side crumbled to a 22-12 defeat from South Sydney.

Smith was annoyed at the whistle-happy effort by the referees and them missing an off-theball tackle that he claimed prevented a certain Adam MacDougall try.

kick-off. Makeshift halfback Preston Campbell was in the thick of the action for the Titans, setting up one try and scoring another, while exciting young backs Esi Tonga and Kevin Gordon had strong games for the home side in front of a crowd of almost 20,000.

Trailing by eight in the closing stages, the Bulldogs thought they had scored in the left corner with nine minutes to go but the final pass was called forward, extinguishing their hopes of a comeback victory.

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“I think Stacey should be considered as an Immortal” Warriors captain Steve Price gets far too excited about the stunning comeback to the NRL of Kiwi playmaker Stacey Jones.

“I’ve always wanted to get down there and play more in the Aussie sandbelt, because that is my favourite area to play” Tiger Woods engages in a massive suck up job about his planned trip Down Under.

Wonder if this ‘favourite area’ has anything to with the A$4.32m appearance fee Woods will get for playing the Australian Masters in November?

“Laying in that ditch with a shattered collarbone was a lot better than other health scares I’ve had” Tour de France legend and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong after his comeback was stalled by a nasty crash in Spain.

“I didn’t touch the ball or anything” Bulldogs captain – and illegal 14th man – Andrew Ryan has a whinge after the NRL club was docked the two competition points they’d earned with a last gasp win over Penrith.

Kiwis on the march

Daniel Vettori dismisses Virender Sehwag

Defiant batting by India forced New Zealand to bide their time as they hunted for victory in the in the second Test in Napier.

The New Zealanders smashed the Indian attack all over McLean Park after winning the toss and batting in the first innings. Jesse Ryder posted a marathon 201, repaying the faith shown in him by selectors after battling alcohol problems.

“It’s definitely a good feeling. I just stuck to my gameplan and I came off with a double,” he said. “I can’t ask for anything more at this stage of my career. I can’t complain.”

Ross Taylor added 151 and Brendan McCullum 115 in a mammoth 9dec-615.

New Zealand’s attack then dismissed the Indians for 305, with Chris Martin claiming 389.

Made to follow on, India

were 1-47 at the start of day four, with the hosts gunning for an early finish to the match.

But a typically resolute performance by the India top order stifled New Zealand bowlers as the visitors lost just one wicket on day four. They were unlucky to lose Rahul Dravid for 62, who was caught bat pad off a nonexistent edge.

PROTEAS BEAT AUSSIES Late big hitting by Mark Boucher led South Africa to victory in the opening Twenty20 international in Jo’burg. Boucher’s 36 off 22 balls guided the Proteas to 6-168, chasing 7-166. David Hussey hit 88 from 44 balls then took 2-21 in four overs of off-spin for Australia.

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Heikki Kovalainen.

“It’s one of the most frustrating and disappointing things that’s happened to me,” Webber said. “These things [cars] don’t do demolition derbies too well.”

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AFL ROUND 1

We “ created the

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opportunity, but we weren’t able to execute

”

Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse rues too many missed opportunities in a narrow loss to Adelaide.

47 Ben Cousins evades Carlton’s Chris Judd to fire off a handball

Cousins’ limp start THE PLAYER

Tigers 9.13.67

HAWKS Buddy’s final quarter heroics almost got the Hawks over the line from seven goals down with the gun forward showing he’s going to be close to unstoppable in ’09.

THE LADDER Team Blues Power Roos Saints Lions Cats Crows Magpies Hawks Eagles Swans Demons Bombers Tigers Bulldogs Dockers

v

M Morton 4 J Riewoldt J Schulz M Richardson R Tambling T Simmonds

Lance Franklin

P 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

W 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

% 224 162 151 123 111 108 105 96 93 91 81 66 61 45 0 0

PTS 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sunday night game

E Betts 5 J Waite 3 M Robinson 3 B Fevola 2 C Judd 2 M Murphy 2 S Wiggins 2 J Garlett J Russell M Kreuzer R Hadley

Ben Cousins must wonder if his AFL comeback was worth the trouble after he was injured and his new team was embarrassed by Carlton in the season opener at the MCG. The Blues produced some scintillating football and aided by numerous woeful Richmond mistakes opened with an eight-goal first quarter.

They never let up, booting five goals in each Hawks 16.7.103

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0

23.12.150 Blues

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L Franklin 5 J Roughead 4 M Osborne 2 S Dew 2 C Bateman C Rioli C Stokes

15.21.111 Cats C Mooney 2 M Rooke 2 R Gamble 2 S Johnson 2 A Mackie C Enright G Ablett M Blake P Chapman T Lonergan T Varcoe

Geelong won, but their goal kicking yips and wariness of Hawthorn were far from expunged in a classic grand final rematch in front of 69,593 at the MCG. The Cats only just withstood a late onslaught from the Hawks, who rallied from 43 points down early in the final term.

Lions 14.11.95

v

R Hooper 4 D Bradshaw 3 J Brown 3 T Johnstone 2 A McGrath M Rischitelli

13.8.86 Eagles M LeCras 6 A Hansen 3 D Cox D Kerr Q Lynch S Hurn

Michael Voss’s coaching career has only just begun but he’s already mastered the half-time spray as the Lions roared from 38 points down to overcome the Eagles. The Lions kicked nine goals to two after the long break but endured a goalless final term to hold on for the victory.

three of the next quarters before a crowd of 86,972. Cousins gathered a possession inside the first 10 seconds but from thereon struggled to find the tempo of the game. He limped off in the final quarter with a left hamstring injury and will miss at least three matches.

Carlton skipper Chris Judd overshadowed his former Eagles teammate by controlling the game after quarter-time while Jarrad Waite’s rebound and three goals earned him the honours over Tigers star Matthew Richardson.

Magpies 13.8.86

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J Anthony 2 M Clarke 2 N Maxwell 2 P Medhurst 2 T Cloke 2 D Swan L Davis S Pendlebury

13.12.90 Crows S Stevens 3 J Porplyzia 2 N van Berlo 2 C Knights J Petrenko N Bock P Dangerfield R Douglas T Walker

Adelaide upset the more fancied Collingwood on Saturday in their first win over the Pies at the MCG since 1998. After scores were level at the final break the Crows kicked two goals to one in the last term and held out the Magpies’ desperate attempts to snatch a late win.

Saints 12.8.80

v

S Milne 3 J Koschitzke 2 M Gardiner 2 N Dal Santo 2 A McQualter B Goddard J Gram

9.11.65 Swans H Grundy 2 A Goodes B Hall D Jolly K Jack M Mattner P Bevan R O’Keefe.

St Kilda produced an outstanding shut-down of Sydney in keeping them goalless for more than an hour for a hard-fought victory. After trailing by 27 points at the first change, a ruthless St Kilda booted the next 11 goals, with the final margin flattering the dour Swans.

Dockers v Bulldogs

ON THE BOX SATURDAY 9am Setanta 2 Getty Images, Fairfax

SWANS V HAWTHORN

SUNDAY 7.30am Setanta 2 EAGLES V PORT

Other Round 2 games Crows v Saints, Cats v Tigers, Magpies v Demons, Blues v Lions, Bombers v Dockers, Bulldogs v Kangaroos

Demons 10.7.67 B Green 2 R Petterd 2 A Davey B Moloney C Morton M Bate N Jetta P Johnson

v

15.11.101 Roos

Power 15.17.107

H McIntosh 3 D Petrie 2 L Thomas 2 M Campbell 2 A Simpson B Harvey D Hale L Harding M Firrito S McMahon

D Motlop 4 J Westhoff 3 B Ebert 2 R Gray 2 A Carlile D Pearce J Carr P Burgoyne

North Melbourne pulled away for an easy win over the 2008 wooden spooners at the MCG. The Demons, who fielded four first-gamers, showed plenty of fight and were within 14 points at the last change, but the Roos kicked 4.3 to 1.1 in the final quarter to win by 34.

v

9.12.66 Bombers B Stanton 2 A Lovett A McPhee A Monfries C Dempsey H Skipworth J Neagle S Lucas

Port Adelaide eased to victory over Essendon in a useful start to what shapes as a pivotal year for the club. The Power slotted the first three goals of a warm afternoon and the Bombers never managed to get any closer despite numerous promising patches.

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EYE ON THE

goal

With Australia poised for the Fifa World Cup, SBS pundit Les Murray looks ahead to 2010 WORDS TOM STURROCK

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f, as expected, Australia overcome Uzbekistan in Sydney on Wednesday, they will almost certainly be assured of a spot at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. While it would be an achievement well worth celebrating, SBS soccer expert Les Murray believes the Socceroos must aim higher than qualifying and adapt to achieve loftier goals.

“Australia should now qualify for every World Cup, but it’s dangerous to develop a mentality that qualifying is enough,” he says.

“We should dream of winning it.

“Qualifying should not be seen as the beall and end-all, not in a country like Australia that demands sporting success. Would we be satisfied if the Wallabies or the cricket team qualified for the World Cup? We must aim for the ultimate prize.”

THE GHOSTS OF 2006 Australia achieved its best World Cup result at Germany 2006, reaching the final 16 under coach Guus Hiddink. But just as a young soccer nation discovered an interest in the game, they were reminded of its unjustness.

“They lost to Italy, thanks to that tragic penalty,” Murray says ruefully. “Had Australia won that, they would have played Ukraine, who were rubbish, and could certainly have gone into the semi-finals of the World Cup.” Murray is cautious about Australia’s chances of improving on their 2006 result.

“We have to see the draw – that is critical”, he says. “Before the 2006 tournament, I had absolute faith that we would qualify. Japan

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LES MURRAY’S TOP FOUR AUSSIE FOOTBALLERS HARRY KEWELL (1996-current)

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Murray’s admiration for the winder is unabashed: “He’s the finest player Australia has produced by a long shot.”

MARK BOSNICH (1993-2000) Fell from grace so spectacularly that it’s easy to forget that he was, at one stage, the best goalkeeper in the world.

2 3

MARK VIDUKA

4

TIM CAHILL

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(1993-current) His 91 Premier League goals don’t lie. A star at Leeds, and Australia’s best ever striker.

(2004-current) Has shone for Everton this season. Murray says: “He’s universally admired for his performances this year.”

and Croatia didn’t have the players in the top leagues that Australia did. It’s a long road, full of potholes. Hiddink knew how to guide teams through that competition. [Coach] Pim Verbeek has never done that, so the jury is out on that one.”

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THE MAN IN THE TOP JOB In the court of public opinion, Verbeek seems weighed down by two things. Firstly, he’s not Guus Hiddink. Secondly, he’s been a vocal critic of the A-League, claiming it does not produce players who can succeed at international level.

Murray is a fan, though, and believes Verbeek has “done a good job”. Surprisingly, Murray is right behind the coach when it comes to the criticism of the A-League.

“He’s been vindicated,” he says. “It has lulled people into a false sense of security because it’s commercially successful and there are big crowds. It’s booming, but that doesn’t mean it’s of a high standard.”

ARE THE CATTLE GOOD ENOUGH? Murray is bullish about Australia’s current squad, which includes in-form stars such as Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell. “After that, there’s Marco Bresciano, Brett Emerton, Vince Grella and Lucas Neill,” he says.

“These guys are high quality players. If Mark Viduka is fit, he remains first-choice.”

Beyond these individuals, Murray identifies Australia’s physical, blue-collar approach as both a strength and a weakness.

“Australia is number one in the world in fitness and mental strength,” he says. “In

Tim Cahill

Les Murray

We must aim for “ the ultimate prize

”

Germany, when Australia came back after trailing Japan with eight minutes left, Hiddink said: ‘only an Australian team could have done that.’ That’s their toughness.”

But in Germany, Australia’s naivety was also on show, and their campaign was scuttled by the eventual champions, Italy.

“They lack something in balls skills and improvisation, and they can be badly educated as juniors, when they are taught to run hard and kick it far,” Murray says. “They don’t have the street smartness or the cunning that you see in European and South American players.”

THE RACE TO QUALIFY Team Australia Japan Bahrain Qatar Uzbekistan

W 3 2 1 1 0

D 1 2 1 1 1

L 0 0 2 2 3

PTS 10 8 4 4 1

*The top two sides qualify for the World Cup, while third place faces a play-off

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The government will cut the intake by nearly 20,000, down to 115,000 this financial year.

Manufacturing and building jobs have been taken off the critical skills list, forcing companies to find local skilled labourers.

“This is not a xenophobic response, this in not an antimigration response. It’s about

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Cadbury backs fair trade hocolate maker Cadbury recently pledged to achieve Fairtrade certification for its top-selling products by the end of this summer.

The move will increase sales for those farmers who already have Fairtrade certification, and enable many more farmers

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EASY MONEY Tom Sturrock MAKES YOUR CASH GO FURTHER

How do you budget?

I put £20 a week in my sock drawer and then just spend the rest of my money willynilly. And then I go back to the sock drawer. Not very scientific, is it?

to sell their produce under the system.

The confectionery giant’s commitment to sourcing Fairtrade cocoa for its popular Dairy Milk chocolate bars is a strong signal that responsible sourcing is moving out of a niche and into mainstream

brands, according to the Fairtrade Foundation.

In only the recent past, campaigners were knocking on retailers’ doors asking them to sell Fairtrade products. But now those companies have seen the rewards in promoting Fairtrade products.

RECYCLE YOUR PHONE

CHEAP EATS HEALTHY

Cash-strapped consumers can recycle their old mobile phones and pocket extra cash for their green efforts.

About 80 million unused mobile handsets are hiding in drawers and cupboards across the UK. They could be worth up to £206, depending on their condition.

The British Retail Consortium has responded to claims by consumer website Which? that healthy food is still too expensive, by pointing out that home cooking is currently increasing as customers buy more fresh ingredients and use retailers’ tips to improve their cooking skills.

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BIGGEST TIGHTARSES EVER

What do you blow your cash on?

Food, booze, transport, clothes, bills, rent. Plus a heap of shit I don’t need.

I buy books I don’t read and gym memberships I never use. One time I bought a home brew kit and it sat in my kitchen untouched for 18 months.

Do you have any extraordinary expenses?

I’ve just taken up smoking again after quitting for about five years. Getting back into hospitality didn’t help, but I also felt I needed a hobby.

You reckon your housemate is a tightarse because he weasels out of buying a round at the pub? Well, check out these spendthrifts, real and fictitious … » Hetty Green – the 19th» Charles Huffman – found century American billionaire businesswoman would travel thousands of miles to collect small debts in person. » Shylock – Shakespeare’s Jewish money-lender sets his bond at a pound of flesh, and then does his best to collect.

dead in a New York street in the 1950s, but was traced to a $7 per week room filled with $500,000 in stock certificates. » Ebeneezer Scrooge – Dickens’ miser despises poor people and longs for a return to Victorian era workhouses.

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Can’t afford to pay for your own internet connection?

Well, in London, there’s probably someone else nearby whose connection you can freeload off.

If you live in areas where houses are close together, you should be able to pick up a heap of Wi-Fi networks.

Certain names are a giveaway that a network probably isn’t password protected. Look for ‘linksys’, ‘default’, ‘Wireless’, ‘NETGEAR’, ‘belkin54g’ and ‘Apple Network 0273df’.

If you do get prompted for a password, try ‘public’, ‘admin’, ‘password’, and ‘1234’.

OK, it’s technically illegal - but everyone’s doing it and almost no one gets caught.

Job Barman From Melbourne, Australia Lives Kensington Age 29

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COMING & GOING ACCOMMODATION There are Antipodeans and South Africans calling all parts of London home, but generally they tend to head west (Acton, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Hammersmith), north (Dollis Hill, Kilburn, Willesden Green) or south (Clapham, Southfields, Tooting).

For listings see tntonline. co.uk/accommodation Dossing Offer to chip in £5 a night minimum.

Hostels Expect to pay at least £10-£25 a night.

Sharing You can share a room for about £50 a week, while a room to yourself will start at around £80 a week.

Going it alone A bedsit or studio is at least £150 a week.

Bills Bills can include phone, gas, electricity, water, council tax and a TV licence.

Bond This is usually a month’s rent. You may also have to pay one month’s rent in advance.

Leases You may need to sign a lease, which will typically run for six or 12 months.

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I don’t want to be considered an overstayer, so is there any way I can extend my visa?

Alternatively, can I come back into the UK on a tourist visa, not intending to work?

I also heard I must be out of the country for three months after my working holiday visa expires to qualify for a tourist visa.

a Working Holiday Visa from within the UK. As an Australian Citizen you do not require a visa to re-enter the UK once you have finished your travels in Europe. However, this will be at the discretion of the individual Immigration Officer on duty at the time of you re-entering the UK. As far as we know there is no stipulation stating that you have to be out the UK for three months before you are able to apply for a Tourist/Visitors Visa.

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Pay and cancel your bills

Namely council tax, internet, phone, gas, electricity, TV, gym membership, insurance.

Settle overdrafts and credit cards Any defaults on bank

payments will be filed with a credit reference agency (making it difficult for you to set up an account or rent a flat if you return), or you could receive a County Court Judgement.

EMPLOYMENT Getting a job doesn’t have to be an impossible task. Register with a couple of agencies, the cream of which advertise in TNT and at tntjobs.co.uk.

Most recruitment agencies handle specific sectors: IT, banking, finance, secretarial, legal, medical and teaching are the broad categories.

Make an appointment to see a consultant, and take your passport, CV and references with you. Some agencies will help you open a bank account.

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much notice you need to give your employer will depend on your contract (usually two weeks to three months). You must give at least one week’s notice if you’ve been in your job for a month or more.

Give notice on your flat

Check the conditions of your Tenancy Agreement. If you want to leave before your lease is up, you may be liable to pay until new tenants are found. If you’re living in a sharehouse and haven’t signed a contract, you can move out whenever

The UK tax year begins on April 6, and if you work only part of the tax year you should get some tax back.

The tax threshold is £6035 per year – so if you earn less than this, you won’t pay any tax. You’ll need a P45 (when you leave a job) and a P60 (at the end of the tax year).

If you’re leaving the UK and won’t work again before the end of the tax year, you can claim a rebate by filling in a P85.

SHIPPING Get plenty of quotes, checking sizes and whether customs and tax charges are covered.

For sea freight (which should take no longer than 12 weeks to arrive) you’ll pay around £80-£150 for your first box – less for suitcases – and £30-£90 for additional boxes.

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TRAVEL GLOBAL VISION The Las Fallas festival in Valencia comes to a close with the ceremonial lighting of the Fallas. This

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he streets are orange, the canals are orange and even the hash cakes are orange. It’s Queen’s Day in Amsterdam, and the Dutch capital has gone ‘oranjegekte’ (orange crazy) for the biggest street party of the year.

Every street, lane and alley within a mile of the city centre is jam-packed with punters. DJs at sound stages dotted throughout the city are pumping out beats, street vendors are selling Heineken by the truckload, and the aroma of roasting croquettes is in the air.

The city’s famous network of canals haven’t escaped the carnage either. Boats and barges of every size clog the waterways, most decked out in orange streamers and balloons and piled high with speakers pumping out more beats at an ear-splitting volume.

Even Amsterdam’s world-famous red It was all orange light district is quiet, with most of those who work here taking the day off to enjoy the revelry that has swept the city.

For a full travel guide on So what’s all the fuss about? Queen’s Day the Netherlands go to commemorates the birthday of Queen Juliana. tntonline.co.uk/travel When her daughter Beatrix took the throne in

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1980, she decided to leave Queen’s Day on April 30 as a tribute to her mother, and because her own birthday fell in January when the weather isn’t so good.

The abundance of orange, which has become Holland’s national colour even though it doesn’t appear on its flag, refers to the name of the Dutch royal family – the House of Orange.

While the main event goes on all day on April 30, the night before, known as Queen’s Night, has become an equally massive celebration.

Queen’s Day is a Carnival-style street party, but Queen’s Night is more of a music festival, with a dozen-odd sound stages around the city centre and some of the Netherlands’ best trance and house DJs taking to the turntables.

The Queen’s Night tradition only started in the 1990s, when pre-Queen’s Day riots were an

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GETTING AROUND The massive crowds mean pounding the pavement is the only real option. Trams and buses still run on Queen’s Day, but not in the city centre.

VISAS Australians and New Zealanders don’t need a visa. South Africans require a Schengen visa.

THE NETHERLANDS CURRENCY Euro.

1 GBP = 1.09 EUR. LANGUAGE AMSTERDAM GERMANY Dutch, but most locals speak English.

BELGIUM GOING OUT A beer is €5.

ACCOMMODATION A bed in a hostel dorm room starts from €12.

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increasing problem in another of Holland’s big cities, The Hague. Authorities convinced the rioters that celebrating was a better way to pass the time, and Queen’s Night was born.

Though it’s the biggest day on the calendar in Holland, the cool thing about this festival is that it’s relatively unknown on the world stage.

Many Dutch people living abroad try to make the pilgrimage home for the national holiday, while the vast majority of locals get involved as well, meaning tourists are a minority.

In any case, it’s easy to blend in – just grab a pint of Heineken, slap on some orange clothes or accessories and join a million other punters succumbing to a little ‘oranjegekte’.

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» Trevor Paddenburg travelled to Amsterdam with Busabout (0131 557 9393; busabout.com).

The Queen’s Day tour costs £199

Party time in Amsterdam

One man’s trash …

FREE TO ROAM On Queen’s Day it’s impossible to miss the ‘vrijmarkt’ or freemarket – a city-wide flea market where you can find everything from used dentist equipment to home-made treats and vintage clothing.

It’s the one day of the year the Dutch government makes a dispensation where people can trade without a licence and don’t have to pay taxes on their sales.

Locals set up stalls in parks, on sidewalks

and in just about any available nook or crannie. Estimates put the number of vendors at 1.8 million throughout the Netherlands, with the value of the sales topping 200 million euros.

Typically, kids sell their cast-off toys and clothes while entrepreneurs sell food, cold beer, and anything else imaginable.

Prices are negotiable and drop as the day progresses.

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TNT Weekender Istanbul TURKEY

The vibrant, sprawling city of Istanbul is a popular spot for Australians and Kiwis to visit on the way to Gallipoli next month. Since it’s not in the eurozone, Turkey is shaping up as one of the must-see destinations for 2009.

and packed with stalls selling knock-off designer handbags, carpets and glassware. Make sure you bring your best haggling game.

TRY THE LOCAL TIPPLE CHOW DOWN As Istanbul is located on the Bosphorus Strait, you’ll be able to satisfy your taste buds with

HEADLINE ATTRACTION The constant calls to prayer that echo across the city will be one of the first things you notice once you arrive in Istanbul. The largest and most famous of the mosques is the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque because of the colour of the interior tiles. There are always big crowds at this tourist attraction, and you’ll be expected to remove your shoes and cover up when you visit.

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Alcohol is quite cheap in Turkey, but be mindful as this is a Muslim country and heavy drinking sessions are frowned upon. Shopkeepers will also offer you apple tea, and it’s polite to accept.

A BIT OF HISTORY Istanbul has had several names through the ages.

It was initially known as Byzantium when it was an ancient port, and later changed to Constantinople after Constantine the Great.

AND A RANDOM FACT some fresh seafood. Head to Kumkapi Street, which is filled with seafood restaurants.

You’ll also be spoilt for choice with Turkish sweets, as every other street vendor has large trays of delicious Turkish delight and nougat.

GET THE CAMERA OUT Take a cruise on the Bosphorus to get some river-view snaps of

Istanbul is actually on two continents as the city is split by the Bosphorus Strait and straddles both Europe and Asia.

NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO You can visit

Istanbul all year round.

GETTING THERE There are daily flights from London to Istanbul.

VISAS Kiwis don’t need a visa. Australians need to get a three-month tourist visa when they arrive at the airport (pick one up next to passport control for £15).

South Africans can get a one-month tourist visa (£18).

MONEY New Turkish lira 1 GBP = 2.47 TRY. LANGUAGE Turkish.

GETTING AROUND Many main sights are within walking distance of one another, or jump on a tram.

BEER A beer is about 5 TRY. ACCOMMODATION There are plenty of cheap hotels in Istanbul. Double rooms start from about 60 TRY.

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Just a hop, skip and a jump across the road from the Blue Mosque is the Aya Sofya, which has served as both a mosque and church, and is these days referred to as a museum. The sprawling Grand Bazaar market is also close by,

the main sights. Also make sure you point your camera upwards at the domes while you’re in the Blue Mosque.

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DEAL OF THE WEEK Three days’ skiing in Chamonix, France, is £209 with Skiweekends.com (0870 442 3400). Departing April 23, the deal includes return coach travel and two nights’ B&B accommodation.

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Rent a cottage in West Wales for a week for £348 with Coastal Cottages (01437 772760; coastalcottages.co.uk). Offer applies to a property sleeping four near St Davids for weeks commencing April 4 or 11.

Depart April 22 for four nights in Dubai for £359 with Hayes & Jarvis (0871 664 0246; hayesandjarvis.com). Offer includes B&B accommodation and return flights.

Fly into Goa or Kerala and out of Mumbai for £399 with Goaway (020 7258 7800; goaway.co.uk). Offer applies to April departures.

Spend a week exploring Provence for £365 with Inntravel (01653 617970; inntravel.co.uk).

Departing April 11, the trip includes walking notes, selfcatering accommodation (based on two sharing) and Dover-Calais ferry crossings.

See St Lucia for £975 with Virgin Holidays (0844 5573 3870; virginholidays.co.uk). The deal includes seven nights’ full-board accommodation and return flights departing June 1-30.

Flight Centre (0870 4990042; flightcentre.co.uk) has five nights in Los Angeles for £549, including return flights and accommodation.

Depart April 26 for a 10-day tour of Europe for £620 with Topdeck (020 8987 3300; topdecktours.co.uk). Heading from Rome to Prague via Slovenia, Hungary and Austria, the trip includes city tours, B&B accommodation, five dinners and transport (no flights).

A 14-day tour of Costa Rica and Panama is £407 with STA Travel (0871 230 8512; statravel.co.uk), including tour guide, transport and 13 nights’ accommodation (no flights).

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A three-night city break in Nice is £199 with Cities Direct (01242 536900; citiesdirect.co.uk) including four-star, B&B accommodation and return flights departing April 21.

One night in Lille is £99 with Flight Centre (0870 499 0042; flightcentre.co.uk), including return Eurostar and B&B accommodation. Valid for travel until April 30. Offer ends March 31.

Five-star accommodation in Berlin is £74 with Wotif.com (wotif.com/hotelW3576) per double room.

Three nights’ four-star accommodation in Budapest’s Gellert Hotel is £168 with HotelConnect (0845 230 8888; hotelconnect.co.uk).

A short break on the Isle of Wight is £109 with Wightlink (0871 376 0013; wightlink.co.uk), departing April 8 and including return car ferry from Portsmouth or Lymington and two nights’ B&B accommodation.

A week in Majorca is £139 with Thomson (0871 231 5595; thomson.co.uk), including selfcatering accommodation and return flights departing April 17.

A two-night break in Wales is £179 with Haggis Adventures (01315 579393; haggisadventures.com).

Departing April 10 or 11, the deal includes accommodation, a barbecue and transport.

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eep in the south of France, a waterway called the Canal du Midi snakes through the countryside. Somewhere along it, glass of vin rouge in hand, we are discovering life in the slow lane.

Our leisurely trip started two days earlier in Argens, where we rented a boat for a week from Locaboat Holidays. The vessel proved a pleasant surprise. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-equipped kitchen leading onto a wood-panelled loungediner, and four sleeping cabins, each with its own shower and toilet. The deck contains a big wooden table for alfresco dining and a sofa for lounging on. Even with eight of us on board, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of room.

Before we could set off, however, we had to learn how to control the boat. Harold, a technician at the Locaboat Holidays base, gave us a lesson in canal etiquette, manoeuvring and parking skills. After running through the routes we could take, we were on our way.

We headed south-east, aiming to reach the closest point to the Mediterranean Sea. Handling the boat takes some getting used to.

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Joigny Scey-sur-Saône

from £282 FRANCE per person Cognac Lattes Beziers for seven Argens Narbonne nights based on eight people sharing the boat.

VISAS Australians and New Zealanders don’t need a visa, but South Africans do.

LANGUAGE French, but English is also widely spoken.

CURRENCY Euro. 1 GBP = 1.09 EUR.

OTHER BASES CAPPY Explore the charming towns and villages that line the Somme in the Picardy region in the north of France.

SCEY-SUR-SAONE The Saône is one of the most attractive rivers in France, with rolling rural scenery and many possibilities for swimming and biking.

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WHEN TO GO The season for canal boat trips with Locaboat Holidays starts March 26 and ends November 7.

GETTING THERE Travel by Eurostar and TGV from London to Narbonne. Book through Rail Europe (0844 848 4070; raileurope.co.uk).

Fares start from £97 return.

GETTING AROUND A Locaboat Holidays (0845 450 5229; locaboat.com) ‘Flying Bridge’ Pénichette 1500FB can sleep up to 12 people, but it’s more comfortable for eight. Cost starts

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JOIGNY The heart of the Burgundy region, which winds gently through the valley of the Yonne, with vineyards, orchards and forests en route.

REDON Inland Brittany at its best, with vast skies and granite villages. Cruise along the Canal de Nantes past the majestic Château de Josselin.

Mooring takes teamwork

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a bank or another boat. Fortunately, the speed limit on the canals is only 8km/h, imposed to protect the delicate ecosystem of the canal from the wash that faster speeds creates.

The slow pace suits our novice steering. It also adds to the camaraderie. Passing boats, walkers and cyclists all exchange friendly nods, waves or shouts of “salut!”

Not far from the village of Capestang, we notice a sign on a tree proclaiming “wine here”.

We moor the boat and take a gravel path down to a charming winery called Domaine de Guery – one of many that dot the canal.

We follow the “ring bell for the owner” instructions, and two minutes later the gregarious proprietor pops out to give us a wine talk and tasting. These local wines are superb, yet only cost a few euros per bottle.

The scenery surrounding the canal is beautiful, often flanked by vineyards stretching out on either side. Incredibly, this entire 240km waterway is man-made and was created back in 1680 after 15 years of shovelling earth by 12,000 men and women.

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LATTES Close to the bustling town of Montpellier in the south of France, only a thin strip of white sand separates the Mediterranean from the canals and lagoons in the region.

Self-catering is the way to go

ride up to the Gothic cathedral of St Nazaire, which towers over the surrounding area. The next day we cycle the 2km to the Med’s beaches from Port Cassafières.

Although canalside restaurants are plentiful, we mostly end up cooking on board and eating on deck, having foraged for supplies in local shops or at tiny stalls found by the locks we pass through.

Evenings along the canal are quiet, with most other boats occupied by families or couples. So at Capestang we walk to the town square and spend the night making friends with the locals over shots of Cointreau in small bars.

What makes canal cruising so special is the slow pace – making you appreciate small pleasures. At the end of a week of chilling, we are glad to travel home by TGV and Eurostar, which makes for a far more relaxing – and greener – journey than flying.

On the train, reflecting on our trip, I recall a line from the ’80s film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

COGNAC Once a vital artery for the carriage of salt, brandy and paper, the waterways in the Cognac region now boast a delectable and tranquil way of life.

Cognac

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HOTSHOTS Hayley Madden TALKS TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

WINNER MALAWI, Adam Sheehan, Brisbane, Australia Adam’s limited colour palette, stark use of lines and strong lighting come together in this shot for a dramatic, but thoughtful, image of two boys standing on a rocky outcrop.

The lighting on the rock is particularly pleasing with the blue reflection from the water filling in with some texture. The fluffy clouds help to make the silhouettes stand out.

HOT TIP: A strong diagonal will bring movement and strength to the most static of scenes. » Adam wins a three-day tour of Scotland for two valued at £198 from Haggis Adventures

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RUNNER-UP MONACO, Jane Ship, Brisbane, Australia Late evening sun has brought life to this very simple scene.

Without the strong side lighting the small figure wouldn’t have made much of an impression.

Placing the horizon centrally is usually a no-no, but Jane has made it work by keeping the subject interest in the middle and using a strong diagonal

lead-in line. This shot would work well as a panoramic.

HOT TIP: Horizontal lines and formats emphasise calmness and serenity. » Jane wins a photography course from Nigel Wilson Photography (020 7793 8664; photographycourses.org.uk) valued at £60

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HOTSHOTS

HOLIDAY SNAPS

HOW TO MAKE YOUR PHOTOS STAND OUT

THEME: ALLEYWAYS Alleyway in Rome by Andrew Hayward, Dunedin, New Zealand Alleyways are compelling subjects with their strong lines, zooming perspectives and air of secrecy. But they can be problematic lighting wise. Andrew has done a nice job with this alleyway, which he processed as black and white.

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WHY THIS WORKS: 1 Wide angle emphasises the foreground and rapid vanishing point.

2 Good focal point at near end of alleyway of no entry sign and motorbike, together with good focal point at end of alleyway of white building.

3 A lone figure walking in the alleyway – this always adds to the mystery of the atmosphere.

4 A good depth of field – alleyways benefit from front to back sharpness to make the most of them.

5 Low viewpoint has made the buildings on the side lean in towards each other for a feeling of conspiracy.

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HOT TIPS: 1 A dull sky avoids too much contrast. A sunny day will give you shadows leaving half the alleyway in darkness.

2 The lower part of the alleyway will probably be a stop or so darker than the top half, so use a graduated filter to darken the top half.

3 Extreme focal lengths tend to work best – a very wide angle to emphasise the converging lines or a very long lens to compress the front with the back.

4 Don’t just do the symmetry thing. Take a few asymmetrical views and try to find a strong focal point, which should be on the rule of thirds.

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TIPS Hamburg

READERS’ TIPS

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CHEAP TRAVEL

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YOU ASKED FOR IT Tom Hall FROM LONELY PLANET

If you’re on a TIP OF budget and want THE WEEK to get away, but are not fussed on where you go, check out the budget flight checker on Money Savings Expert (flightchecker.money savingexpert.com).

You can put in a departure airport and select dates (you can be flexible or click exact dates) then select a maximum price you’re prepared to pay, and the search engine will return all the flights leaving from that airport for under the price you have selected. Saves time faffing around trying to find the best deal by checking each destination one at a time!

Note: it doesn’t return results from Ryanair, so be sure to compare their price before booking.

Angie, via email

I want to go on a mini-break in Europe.

As the eurozone is so expensive right now, where would you recommend that won’t cost me an arm and a leg?

Anna, via email

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Italy in August! This really brings back memories – inter-railing trips with my brother, sleeping on the floor of Milan station after chomping through too many slices of the world’s tastiest pizza, and long drives through the Tuscan and Umbrian hinterland.

It brings back a few not-so-good memories too – Venice’s great beauty being smothered by hordes of visitors, the heat of Florence with a backpack, trying to score the tiniest slice of beach to yourself. In short, it’s hot and busy, but it’s still Italy.

You’ll need to book accommodation ahead everywhere. I’d give Venice a duck unless it’s the only chance you’ll have to visit. Following a meandering south-west route something like Verona – Bologna – Lucca and finishing on the Cinque Terre (day trip only I think, though you can do some walking and see the towns), possibly exiting via Genoa is a good way to spend a week avoiding the busiest places.

Pizza served from hole-in-the-wall outlets is, of course, the best thing to eat.

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The eurozone might have got pricier, but it doesn’t have to be expensive.

Skyscanner lets you search by date without specifying a destination and sorts results in order of price. When I checked, two places in Germany – Friedrichshafen and Hamburg – can be reached with Ryanair for less than £20 return, including taxes.

Now, you should all know how to avoid spending a fortune on extras with this airline: check in online, hand luggage only, cross your legs so you don’t need a pee.

Next up, accommodation. Friedrichshafen is on Lake Constance so there’s lots of choice, and going in the off-season means it can be dealtastic.

As a port city, Hamburg has loads of places to stay. If you can’t have a super long weekend in these cities for under £200 I’ll eat my shoes.

Nowhere in Europe has got cheaper if you are paying in pounds. Even Iceland will work out about the same as last year. Norway and Sweden are roughly the same. I would pick an interesting place with a good-value flight and work out the rest from there. After all, every town has a falafel stand – and where there’s falafel, there’s cheap travel.

My boyfriend and I have a week to travel in mid-August. We want to spend some time in northern Italy in places like Venice and the Cinque Terre. Do you have an itinerary we can follow or some tips on the best ways to travel around, places to avoid and things we have to see?

Nikki Alexander, via email

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TRAVEL NEWS MOBILE HOME

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VisitBritain is offering a free application that lets users view UK maps, ‘what’s-on’ guides, the best local restaurants and hotels, and weather reports via their mobile phone. Download mobiEXPLORE UK at visitbritain.com/mobile.

DIY BEAUTY BREAK Learn to make organic beauty products with GoLearnTo.com.

Spend a weekend near Montpellier in France making your own pamper products using all natural, local ingredients.

ISLANDS ESCAPE The Channel Islands were Britain’s holiday destination of choice in February, says Expedia.co.uk.

Searches for the islands are up by 101 per cent.

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PICTURE PERFECT TRIPS Where better to perfect your travel photography than the visually stunning countries of India and Morocco?

To coincide with the release of his new book Footprint Travel Photography, professional snapper Steve Davey is launching a range of travel photography tours, with all land arrangements provided by Intrepid Travel.

Impressions of Morocco, departing September 21, is a 13-day tour visiting the evocative cities of Fes, Casablanca and Marrakesh, as well as the stunning landscapes of the Sahara Desert and High Atlas Mountains.

Travelling from the Taj Mahal to the holy city of Varanasi, the 16-day Impressions of India

tour will drop by the Sonepur Mela festival in Bihar – the largest livestock fair in Asia famous for its second-hand elephant market.

Departing October 16, the tour will also visit the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh Gaya, and the bustling city of Kolkata.

Both trips involve extensive teaching by Davey, also author of Unforgettable Places To See Before You Die, covering technical subjects such as exposure and composition and tips for approaching people to shoot their portrait, travelling with a camera and tackling different picture opportunities you might come across on the road.

See bettertravelphotography.com/phototours.

Advice for Anzac service

Numbers up

The Australian High Commission has urged those travelling from the UK to Turkey for Anzac Day to get travel insurance, and log their details on its website smartraveller.gov.au.

Travellers with special needs are encouraged to register with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs website dva.gov.au.

For information on planning

Bookings for National Trust working holidays are up by more than 11 per cent on 2008 as increasing numbers seek holidays at home that offer value for money and a rewarding experience.

The holidays include activities such as hedge laying, dry stone walling and cider making. See national trust.org.uk.volunteering.

Fly the Aussie flag on Anzac Day

your visit see anzacsite.gov.au.

The Australian Embassy in Ankara is on +90 312 459 9500; the Consulate in Cannakkale is on +90 286 218 1721.

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ON THE ROAD

WORDS DANIEL LANDON

BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL

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Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland April 30 A modern twist on an ancient Celtic fertility festival, this event is a “wild procession of fire, drumming and revelry”.

Totally random, totally bizarre, but totally good fun.

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» beltane.org

BRIGHTON’S FESTIVALS BRIGHTON MAY 2-25 WHAT: The Brighton Festival Fringe is an open-access smorgasbord of more than 600 performances and events, from cabaret to club nights to street theatre. The Brighton Festival features high-class theatre, dance and music.

WHERE: Venues across Brighton, only one hour from London.

DO IT BECAUSE: Get a dose of culture or out-there fun in England’s only hip seaside

town. On May 2, 9, 16 and 23 the streets come alive for a huge outdoor party with dozens of free performances.

HOW MUCH: Much of the Fringe is free; higher-profile events from £10-15.

» brightonfestival.org; brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk

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LOCK IT IN ANZAC DAY Gallipoli, Turkey Apr 25, 2009 anzacsite.gov.au

MONACO F1 GP Monte Carlo, Monaco May 21-24, 2009 formula1.com

CHEESE ROLLING Gloucestershire, England May 25, 2009 cheese-rolling.co.uk

RUNNING OF THE BULLS SWINDON & CRICKLADE RAILWAY BEER FESTIVAL Swindon, Wiltshire May 2-4 Combine your love of beer with a ride on a steam train – your long weekend couldn’t get much more old school or English than this.

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Pamplona, Spain Jul 6-14, 2009 sanfermin.com

BOG SNORKELLING Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales Aug 31, 2009 green-events.co.uk

OKTOBERFEST Munich, Germany Sep 19-Oct 4, 2009 oktoberfest.de/en/

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Where in the world?

THE TRAVELLER …

Linda Anderson 26 from Brisbane, Australia What’s been your favourite destination?

Dream destination?

In the forest of the Congo, watching a band of gorillas.

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Dharamsala, India. It’s really peaceful and you can walk in the clouds while checking out the Dalai Lama’s residence.

Weirdest thing you’ve eaten?

Blair Harper from Thames, New Zealand, flying over the Valley of the Kings, Egypt

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A brochette (like a kebab) of sheep’s liver, heart, lung and fat, in Morocco.

I watched it get killed, too.

Weirdest story?

Dragging my mum to Syria and trying to cross the border into Jordan in an unlicensed taxi.

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GEAR UP MARKET KNOWLEDGE

THE INSIDER EUGENE BARI, MD OF PUMPKIN TOURS The best part of my job is … Making people happy – that’s the truth, it’s not a made up thing.

And the worst part is …

Traffic, backache, road coffee and halitosis.

My favourite place in

Amy Adams SOLVES YOUR TRAVEL GEAR PROBLEMS ONE THOUSAND POCKETS The Tardis of rucksacks, the Expandable Trek Backpack features multiple pockets, including one for a laptop, and extends by 20 per cent.

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THE DAMAGE: £55.99 WHERE: ruckjack.com.

ONE FOR SKATERS The Simplify backpack comes with two straps for securing your board. Also useful for carrying any other skateboardshaped items you might have.

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the world is … Brisbane, seriously. More specifically North Stradbroke Island.

My most memorable travel experience was …

Going on tour in Libya with an American rock band and arriving after five days of hard slog only to find someone had stolen all our gear.

Next on my travel wishlist is … A river in Russia that I’d

like to go fishing on. I can’t tell you the name because I’ve only seen it in Cyrillic. It’s in the middle of Siberia.

My top travel tip is …

Cheap isn’t always cheap; the price isn’t always what you end up paying.

I always pack … two pairs of underpants, two pairs of socks, two T-shirts and two tea towels. SAMANTHA BADEN

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When I was little my grandpa used to call me Amy Rucksack. Not the slickest nickname in the world, but accurate seeing as I was never without a rucksack full of all the important stuff essential to the daily life of a six-year-old While a lot might change as we get older and wiser, it’s reassuring to know that some things remain constant – one of them being the usefulness of a small rucksack, dubbed daypacks by the travelling world. And while they’ve always been good for valuables when backpacking, edibles when trekking, gymables when training etc, these days their role is becoming even more important.

As more airlines decide to charge us to put luggage in the hold where they’ll probably lose it, squashing all you need in a carry-on rucksack becomes a good way to both cut costs and avoid your bag ending up somewhere you’re not.

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Lose your sense of time and space riding the epic TransSiberian railway WORDS REBECCA GALTON

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BIG TRIP The Trans-Siberian RUSSIA (AND MONGOLIA AND CHINA)

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’m drawing a picture of a house and she tells me I draw like a little girl. I’m slightly offended but in all fairness I probably was five the last time I drew a house. I seal the deal with a big, round sun – it is supposed to be Queensland after all.

This is how we’ve been communicating with our cabin mate since we boarded the train in Moscow. She’s Russian and we’re Australian. She speaks a little English, we can say ‘privyet’ – ‘hi’ in Russian. We haven’t gotten very far with words.

Thankfully I’ve brought a sketch pad and soon she’s drawing an apartment building surrounded by a forest. This is her place near Novosibirsk, and now she wants to know what my house looks like.

I’ve drawn my old place in Australia as well as my London flat. There’s no big round sun at the top of that page.

It’s our first night onboard the TransSiberian and despite the impromptu art class, I think I might be bored already. I realise I’ve learned my first Trans-Siberian lesson.

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The noise she is “ making rivals that from the train ” LESSON 1: Don’t do too much too soon Already I’ve read three chapters of my book, completed an easy Sudoku, made two cups of tea, eaten half a pack of biscuits, inspected the bathroom facilities and ruled out a career as an architect. With six nights and more than 7000km of track left in front of me I’m going to have to spread things out a little.

I spend the next 80 minutes reading my Trans-Siberian guidebook (don’t leave home without one, if only so you have something else to read), then I decide to look out the window. I’m amazed at how long I’m able to watch the world chug past. I consider the possibility that I’ve been hypnotised, but I’m soon distracted by my cabin mate, unpacking what looks like a week’s worth of groceries.

LESSON 2: Life’s a picnic onboard the Trans-Siberian She’s taking up all the space on the small table between us and I am staring at her as she piles up the food. All this staring would seem rude in any other situation but there’s literally

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NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO GO The trains are busiest from May – September but it can be uncomfortably hot during July and August. Travel in May, June or September for warmth or March to experience the tail end of a Siberian winter. Avoid the first snow in October and the melting winter in April.

GETTING THERE Start in Moscow, or St Petersburg if you fancy another night on a train.

GETTING AROUND The main Trans-Siberian route is from Moscow to Vladivostok but tourists can veer off after Lake Baikal and get the Trans-Mongolian south through Mongolia to Beijing.

Consider using a tour company to book your train tickets, transfers, guides and accommodation.

VISAS All visitors need a visa for Russia and China and most do for Mongolia too.

Leave at least six weeks to sort them out. Ask your tour company if they offer visas.

CURRENCY Russian rubles (1 GBP = 49.14 RUB), Mongolian tugriks (1 GBP = 2225.91 MNT), Chinese yuan (1 GBP = 9.97 CNY). Take US dollars to exchange. There are ATMs in the big cities in Russia and China but don’t rely on them in Mongolia.

LANGUAGE Learn some key phrases in Russian, Mongolian and Mandarin.

SEE seat61.com, russiatourism.ru, cnto.org. mongoliatourism.gov.mn.

If I even see “ instant noodles I may lash out

stake, the room smells like stale air and walnuts and if I even see instant noodles I may lash out.

LESSON 5:

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nowhere else to look now that I’ve exhausted the ‘out-the-window’ option.

There’s chocolate, tea, biscuits, bread, cake, coffee, lollies, walnuts and an unnecessarily large tub of honey. She shares it around and we feast on honey-dipped walnuts till bedtime.

LESSON 3: Women snore There isn’t much room in a Trans-Siberian cabin and the louder your cabin mates snore, the smaller it feels. The noise she is making rivals that from the train. My only option is to plug in the iPod, start at ‘A’ and work my way through 8 gigabytes of songs.

There is real food onboard Thankfully, the dining car is where it’s at. The decor is old-school, the attendant is pumping God-awful music through the crackling speakers and there’s more than one Russian drinking vodka for brunch. The menu is in Russian and the waitress knows just three phrases: “chicken, beef steak, beef stroganoff”. I’d eat my own arm as long as it wasn’t served with noodles, so when the meal is served I am surprised it is delicious. I graze before heading to my carriage, where I meet a group of English tourists.

LESSON 6: You can shower when there’s no shower The conversation revolves around our attempts to keep clean when there are no showers on the

LESSON 4: Avoid cabin fever Day two is all about taking it easy (see Lesson 1). I read, sleep, read more then file my nails.

It is like being on a cruise or a beach holiday – without the sea and sunburn.

Day three, however, is all about getting as far away from the cabin as possible. My sanity is at

KEY Trans-Siberian Trans-Mongolian

St Petersburg

RUSSIA

MOSCOW

Lake Baikal

Omsk

Irkutsk

KAZAKHSTAN MONGOLIA

Ulan Ude

ULAAN BAATAR Vladivostok

CHINA

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BIG TRIP SUMMER V WINTER SUMMER

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T If you want to hop off you’ll need to wear all your clothes at once

T You’ll meet lots of new Russian friends T The landscape will be how you imagined Siberia – vast and snow-covered T You can go driving on Lake Baikal T It’s cold outside and warm on the train

to say ‘please’ in Russian and I’m self-conscious about my teeth, so my smile doesn’t really do the job either. I ask, via mime, for some bottled water and she says only has sparkling. It feels like I’m brushing my teeth with sherbet.

LESSON 8: train. Suggestions range from the sponge-bath to the all-out shower, using a plastic bottle with holes cut out. There is a drain on the floor of the bathroom so it is possible, but it does seem like an awful lot of trouble.

All this talk of hygiene reminds me I need to brush my teeth, but I’m out of bottled water so I have to visit the provodnitsa.

LESSON 7: The Russian word for ‘please’ is ‘puzhalsta’ I don’t think she likes me. The provodnitsa is the carriage attendant. She looks after your tickets and bedding, cleans the carriage and keeps the samovar boiling. I’ve forgotten how

OFF THE TRAIN RIDE THE METRO IN MOSCOW The Metro stations are a tourist attraction in their own right, but head above ground to visit the Kremlin, Lenin’s Tomb, Red Square and St Basil’s Cathedral.

CAMPING IN MONGOLIA Live like a nomad in a traditional-style ger in Terelj National Park. The felt-covered tents will keep you toasty in winter but you can work up a sweat hiking and rock climbing in the national park.

Timing is everything If there’s one thing you have on the TransSiberian, it’s time. Not that you ever really know what time it is. The trains run on Moscow time but Siberia is actually five hours ahead.

It’s with this in mind that I finally drift off to sleep on our fourth night onboard. It is the last night of this leg of the journey and I plan to spend the final six hours or so asleep.

Half an hour later the provodnitsa is waking me up. I’ve read the ticket wrong and we’re almost in Irkutsk. After four days I can’t believe I’ve run out of time.

NEXT WEEK: VAN TOURS

Hit the road in Europe this summer

PACKING LIST n Thongs/flip-flops – to keep your feet off the toilet floor n Pictures of your family and home – even if they’re on your mobile. Perfect for ‘chats’ with your new nonEnglish speaking friends n A pack of cards n A good book or four n Souvenirs from home – as gifts for new friends or homestay hosts. n iPod – useful if your cabin mates snore n Toilet paper and antiseptic wipes, cup, spoon, hot chocolate, teabags, coffee, instant noodles, packet soups, lollies. n Tracksuit bottoms and T-shirt – release your inner chav. This ain’t the Orient Express, innit?

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Æ You can leave the train in normal clothes Æ Many more foreign tourists will be onboard Æ The landscape will be green and beautiful Æ You can go diving in Lake Baikal Æ It’s hot outside and cool on the train

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DOG-SLEDDING IN SIBERIA Stop at Irkutsk, then head to Lake Baikal. In summer, spend your days diving, hiking and eating omul (the local fi sh). In winter you’ll be skiing, snow-mobiling, dog sledging and eating omul.

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WALL CLIMBING IN BEIJING Plan to stay at least three nights in the Chinese capital. See pandas at the zoo, visit Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, then go and climb the Great Wall.

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Telephone: 020 8133 4422. Email: info@thelettingsco.com TURNPIKE LANE 3 bedroom house available. Close to station.

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Telephone: 07776 411 118. Email: eduktur@hotmail.com WEMBLEY PARK Four bed house avail. 2 bathrooms, huge kitchen, laundry, lounge, garden, garage and off street parking. £400 pw.

Telephone: 07719 261 567. Email: raynorlettings@aol.com WEST HAM 3 bedroom house avail. Close to station & amenities.

Fully equipped kitchen and tiled bathroom with overhead shower. £950 pm. Tel: 07956 381 930 wajidhuss@yahoo.com WEST HAMPSTEAD Studio flat avail. Close to station & amenities.

Separate kitchen, bathroom with tub/shower & own private garden.

Washing and dryer facilities in the building. Bills included. £220 pw.

Telephone: 020 7795 6525. Email: interlet@interlet.com WEST HAMPSTEAD Studio flat avail. Close to station & amenities.

Fully equipped kitchen, separate bathroom, private garden, phone line and free internet connection.

Communal washing machine and dryer. Deposit required. £200 pw.

Telephone: 020 7795 6525. Email: interlet@interlet.com WEST KENSINGTON Studio apartment avail. Close to station.

Fully furnished with GCH and living area. Washing machine, fridge, freezer, gas oven, hob & a separate bathroom with shower. £150 pw.

Telephone: 07912 111 288. Email: info@thelettingsco.com WEST NORWOOD 2 bed flat avail.

Close to station and amenities.

Access to roof terrace. £218 pw.

Telephone: 07712 275 061. Email: pauliefitz@hotmail.com

ZONE 2 - Mins 2 Tube. 1 WK FREE RENT! Free internet, low bond, bills incl. excl. elec, move in now, no ref.

Triple rm £70pppw, Twin rm £65pppw. Tel: 020 8459 6203.

ACTON THREE bed flat available.

Close to station. BBQ. £1600 pm.

Telephone: 07974 278 549 ACTON TOWN Large room avail.

Close to station and amenities.

Furnished with sink, 2 wardrobes, drawer space, TV, DVD player and 2 king single beds. Deposit required.

Bills not included. £135 per week.

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Deposit required. Bills not included. £387 pm. Tel: 07914 864 221 CANADA WATER Double room avail. Close to amenities. Furnished with TV, DVD, clothing cupboard, drawers, double bed, desk, built-in heater and fan. Small backyard.

Deposit required. Bills included. £150 per week. Tel: 07877 161 938 CLAPHAM NORTH Two double rooms available. Close to station and amenities. £110 per week.

Telephone: 07807 364 010. Email: maryhennelly@hotmail.com CLAPHAM SOUTH room available.

Close to station. Fully furnished with double bed, two wardrobes, desk and drawers. Sharing with 2 guys and 2 girls. Deposit required.

Bills not included. £333 per month.

Telephone: 07817 971 978. Email: alisha.dorrigan@gmail.com COLLIERS WOOD Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Fully furnished. Deposit required.

Bills included. £110 per week.

Telephone: 07877 923 467. Email: tom.wheldal@talk21.com EALING DOUBLE room available.

Close to station. Garden. £120 pw.

Telephone: 07737 288 938 EAST ACTON Double room avail.

Close to station and amenities.

Bills not included. £110 per week.

Telephone: 07776 393 916. Email: paulcohen1985@hotmail.com

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Close to station and amenities. £138 per week. Tel: 07774 067 661 thisblondeiscrazy@hotmail.com EAST ACTON Room available.

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Sky, broadband and big backyard.

Sharing with 1 girl and 2 guys. £110 per week. Tel: 07530 817 841 tiffanyinlondon@gmail.com

FLATSHARE W12 Dbl room. Close to Tubes, Buses & Shops. Close to Portobello Market. £500pcm incl bills exc elec & Gas. 07861 215 747 HAMMERSMITH DOUBLE room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Internet access, mod cons and wooden floors. Garden with BBQ, furniture and decking. £150 pw.

Telephone: 07956 344 613. Email: joesoares@f2s.com HOLLOWAY ROAD Double room avail. Close to amenities. £130 pm.

Telephone: 07853 371 528. Email: edyko@hotmail.co.uk LEYTON DOUBLE room available.

Close to station and amenities.

Living room, free parking space & garden. Bills included. £450 pm.

Telephone: 07815 969 205. Email: gosia_kwasnik@yahoo.co.uk LEYTON DOUBLE room available.

Close to station and amenities.

Bills included. £600 per month.

Telephone: 07895 499 662. Email: meintjies.johan@gmail.com LEYTON LARGE room available.

Close to station and amenities.

Fully furnished with double bed, fridge, mini cooker, microwave oven, wardrobes and sink. £95 pw.

Telephone: 07931 737 879. Email: sunshines2008@hotmail.co.uk LONDON BRIDGE Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Furnished with chest of draws, bedside cabinet and wardrobe. £450 pm. Tel: 07713 904 9025 LONDON ROOM available. Close to station and amenities. Lounge, dryer, washing machine & large backyard. Bills included. £130 pw. ajthacker35@hotmail.com MANOR HOUSE Single room avail.

Close to station and amenities.

Bills included. £400 per month.

Telephone: 07722 715 862. Email: actarus783@yahoo.co.uk MOTSPUR PARK Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Wireless internet, SKY, free phone calls, washing machine and two fridges. Sharing with 6 others. Bills not included. £366 per month.

Telephone: 07894 300 115. Email: jessica_rail@hotmail.com NORTH GREENWICH Single rooms available. Close to station.

Furnished. Bills included. £95 pw.

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Fully furnished with a small TV. Large garden and private car park.

Bills not included. £80 per week.

Telephone: 07833 321 615 PRESTON ROAD Room available.

Close to station and amenities. £375 pm. Tel: 07931 781 859 s o p h i e . a . f e r r i s @ s t udent.mmu.ac.uk PUTNEY BRIDGE Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Fully furnished. £120 per week.

Telephone: 07817 407 571. Email: zeolondon@googlemail.com

PUTNEY BRIDGE Room available.

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Furnished with single bed. Two bathrooms, equipped kitchen with diner & internet access. £115 pw.

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Telephone: 07780 597 822. Email: azzasmith@gmail.com SHADWELL DOUBLE room avail.

Close to station and amenities.

Furnished with storage space and your own bathroom. Sharing with one other. Deposit required. Bills not included. £150 per month.

Telephone: 07786 260 070. Email: robzicle2@hotmail.com SHADWELL/WHITECHAPEL Room avail. Close to station and amenities. Sharing with 9 others.

Deposit required. £190 per month.

Telephone: 07943 743 591. Email: emf6683@hotmail.com SHEPHERDS BUSH Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

Private patio garden. £190 pw.

Telephone: 020 7795 6525. Email: interlet@interlet.com SHEPHERDS BUSH Double room avail. Close to station & amenities. £170 per week. Tel: 020 7795 6525 interlet@interlet.com SOUTH EALING Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

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Bills included. £530 per month.

Telephone: 07833 377 278. Email: patterson.liz@gmail.com SOUTH EALING Single room avail.

Close to station & amenities. Fully equipped kitchen. Garden with BBQ and palm trees. Bills not included. £85 per week. Tel: 07701 023 560 vakarimas@hotmail.com SOUTHFIELDS DOUBLE room available. Close to station. Wireless broadband, free international calls to OZ/NZ and SKY TV. £400 pm.

Telephone: 07530 949 513. Email: jodie.picton@surreycc.gov.uk TOOTING BROADWAY Single room available. Sharing with 2 girls. Bills not included. £260 pm. ange_neal@hotmail.com TURNHAM GREEN Double room available. Close to station. Fully furnihsed with 2 bathrooms, GCH and washing machine. £140 pw.

Telephone: 07773 816 418 TURNHAM GREEN Double room available. Close to station. Garden. £135 per week. Tel: 07737 288 938 TURNPIKE LANE Double room avail. Close to station & amenities.

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guys were Australians living in Wimbledon. One of you had a white, Slush Puppy logo T-shirt on and your mate had dreadlocks. You had a mate who was a DJ there that night.

Gutted we didn’t get your numbers, the gals dragged us outside. I came back to find you but you’d left. I’d like to catch up again sometime.

I had blonde hair, and wore aviators, a skirt, black singlet and black boots. Email twistedsissta@yahoo.co.uk.

Y6 PHS: You’ve been amazing.

Thanks for making my time in London so awesome. Good luck for SATs – I know you’ll do great! I’ll miss you loads.

Keep in touch. Miss Mill.

Micko’s arrival: Hey my beautiful man! Congrats on your wonderful Oz lotto win! We can’t wait for your arrival back to London and really look forward to our world trip together. When I see you I’m going to rock your world. You watch out boy. PS. You still owe me for that shower bet. Enjoy your flight.

Robert, the Saffa guy in the green top at the Wimbledon Walkabout on Thursday, March 19:

I borrowed your lighter and we started chatting. You’ve

email your message to seeking@tntmagazine.com

been in London for five years and I’ve only just arrived.

Feeling a bit lost and wondering if you’d like to show me around town some time? Or meet up for a drink?

Email robertatwalkie@ hotmail.co.uk. Vanessa.

Lucky Luke: Happy birthday, bro. Halfway to a century so got to start behaving now.

Yeah, right. Bi and James.

Lis: Once again you’re leaving us for Aussie shores! Things will not be the same without you! The travels, snakie nights, O’Neill’s, Walkie, Reddie, Irish guys, Ves Bar … The list of memories is endless! You’ve definitely left your mark in London in more ways than one and will be missed by many!

Don’t worry, we’ll inform the guys in your black book of … well you know what! Have a

ball back home and stay in touch! Love ya lots. xoxo.

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Sweeeets!: You little chipmunk, what can I say, I’ve enjoyed every moment of silliness with you. Hope you come to Oz sometime soon so we have some more giggles.

Will be thinking of you and smiling. Take care of yourself.

Love your No. 1 Floosey.

Jason Kalinhall: Have tried phoning you but can’t get through. Life without you

Desperately Seeking is a reader forum, and all messages should be kept within the spirit of the page; TNT cannot take responsibility for any offence caused. No phone numbers can be printed. For purposes of verification, we will only publish messages accompanied by a name, address and telephone number (not for publication).

Messages may be edited for publication. See also tntonline.co.uk/seeking

Q

Recently I was in a hostel in Rome and there was a couple shagging in the dorm.

It was after midnight and they were fairly quiet, but they woke me up I found it pretty gross.

What’s the etiquette here?

Can you tell people to knock it off or do you just have to bite your tongue?

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Let’s be clear – a rough and ready Roman hostel ain’t The Ritz, where the fact

you’re paying a fortune for a four poster should guarantee a good night’s sleep.

Even if a top hotel is out of budget, you can always splurge

on a private hostel room. But if cheap accommodation is what you’re after, you have to expect a few minor ‘inconveniences’.

These include drunk people

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sucks so please email beaverberries@hotmail.com. J. 26 crew: To all the good times, random road trips, funnels, Strongbow hands, dress-up days, and getting retardedly wasted! Going to miss it all.

You guys have made my time in London a blast. Catch you on the flip side to continue the chaos. Jase aka Mr Whippy PS. Sheep.

Shazza: Hey gorgeous, thanks for the kebab the other night.

Let’s do it all again some time.

You know where to find me.

Gina: Aww, our little gyna juice is leaving us! All the best for back home and we hope you have a great time with your family and beautiful new little nephew. 150 G isn’t going to be the same, neither is story time up in Gem and Katie’s room. We hope you’ve enjoyed every moment in London and never forget the great times we’ve shared. Love, Leeshy, Gem Gem and ka ka ka Katie.

Poop: I never thought I’d say this but I love you more than a barbecue on a sunny day. Monkey.

The Argyle Road crew: The time has come to move on.

Crane, Show Bag, 4x4, Carlos and the recent farting recruit, you have been tops to live with. Many good times we’ve had. I’ll miss your scents.

Remember, beware the Quattro. Stoolie.

stumbling from bed to bed till they find an empty one; those annoying travellers who have everything wrapped in plastic bags; and, of course, the odd backpacker bonking session.

My advice? Just enjoy it – people pay good money to see live porn, and you’re getting a private show, gratis.

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