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Times A Populus poll for The Times has found voters are deeply pessimistic about the state of Britain today.

Mail It's official, the swine flu 'pandemic' is over (shame it cost us £1billion and scared thousands witless)

Times Women take longer than men to understand jokes but derive more pleasure from a good punchline.

Irish Independent We're living longer, but our old age is not spent in good health, a new report finds.

Daily Mail Pensioner rescues wife from burning 16th century cottage: Stanley Harley walked through wall of flames to save his wife.

Irish Times Over 50's reveal pent-up desire for leisure and holidays after a period of austerity and fear, says Mintel.

Mail Killers in your kitchen: Gender-bending packaging, exploding floor cleaners and toasters more deadly than sharks.

Times Anti-ageing. Eat one portion of any three of these superfoods to look ten years younger plus the eight diet fundamentals

STORIES

An amateur hero

It had become something of a joke over the years among the residents on Blue Ridge Drive, a swath of manicured suburbia carved into the scrub-brush brown canyons of Yorba Linda, California.

A Sojourn in Libya

Some years ago I had the pleasure of a sojourn in Libya. It was during the heady days of embargo following the Lockerbie bombing.

At that time there were two ways into the country, by boat or by low-level drop across the southern border with Chad. At that particular time I chose the former.

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Kill or Cure: a session with el Brujo

 

I enjoyed reading  Josh Gerak’s recent story in I-O , of his meeting with a ‘Curandero in Guatemala’ and it brought to mind the time I visited an Ecuadorian witchdoctor and I wasn’t even sick.

Rincon de la Vieja adventure

I got to Rincon de Viejo just as the last moments of light were disappearing. The 20km drive from the Pan American Highway was interesting. The soil and rock structure created by ancient lava flows made the drive like no other I had experienced in Costa Rica.
 

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