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TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH TAKES A NOSTALGIC ROWBACK TO RECONNECT WITH HIS FIRST EVER CRUISELINER EXPERIENCE

This simply had to be the mother of all passenger cruiseliner upgrades, and it came completely out o ...

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How You Can Balance Independence and Protection for an Elderly Loved One

Caring for an elderly loved one is often a delicate balancing act. You want to respect their indepen ...

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Helping Adult Children Onto the Property Ladder Without Selling Up

Many parents reach a point where they want to help their grown children buy a home, but selling the ...

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Local GP Practices Face Growing Financial Pressures

GP practices across the country are facing mounting financial pressures as operational costs continu ...

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Golden Years Under the Spanish Sun

During the past year, British interest in Mediterranean coastal homes has increased. The leading des ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Paradise at the National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)

2,500 years on, Ian Rickson directs an all-female cast in Kae Tempest’s Paradise, a contemporary morality play, an adaptation of Philoctetes, the play Sophocles wrote dur ...

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A thrilling true British espionage tale gets Benedict Cumberbatch – and an underwhelming screen adaptation.

Joyce Glasser reviews The Courier (August 13, 2021) Cert 12A, 111 mins. In one of the most enjoyable spy thrillers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s, 1938 The Lady Vanishes ...

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A tragic 1960’s and a comic contemporary love story become entwined, but neither offers anything new.

Joyce Glasser reviews The Last Letter from Your Lover (August 6, 2021) Cert 12A, 109 mins. There’s a whiff of a Nicholas Sparks novel in the unabashed romance that satura ...

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