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Ms Smith said she was still hopeful of winning cross-party agreement on the need to increase the pre-charge questioning limit from 28 days to 42.She added that she would get the legislation passed, despite the threat of a back-bench rebellion.BROWN PROMOTES TWO YOUNG GUNS TWO ministers in their thirties were promoted to top Cabinet jobs last night.James Purnell, 37, who was Culture Secretary, replaces Mr Hain as Work and Pensions Secretary, with Stephen Timms as his deputy. Mr Purnell faced controversy recently when it transpired he had doctored a photo to fake his presence at an event.Andy Burnham, 38, who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is now Culture, Media and Sport Secretary.Yvette Cooper, the wife of Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, is promoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury.Paul Murphy returns to government as the Wales Secretary.
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Gasnier named sole Dragons skipper
Once bitten, twice not shy, Brown said he was likely to give all his fit stars a run in the traditional season curtain raiser, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. "At the end of the day it's a contact sport and things are going to happen," Brown said. "Hopefully for both sides it's a good contest and we both come through unscathed. "For half a dozen guys there's going to be blokes who need a good game in the Charity Shield to force their way into the side for the first competition game against the Tigers." The match will most probably be Gasnier's one and only pre-season hitout, with the 27-year-old set to be rested for the game against the Bulldogs at WIN Stadium on February 23. But even with the `c' next to his name on a permanent basis in 2008, Gasnier is likely to find himself under less pressure than he was heading into last year's Charity Shield.
2/1-29: Valentine's Day events
Valentine's Puppet Slam: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2. Adult puppet shows with comedic and romantic themes. For age 21 and older. Great Arizona Puppet Theater, 302 W. Latham St., Phoenix. $10 at the door; $8 in advance. 602-262-2050. www.azpuppets.org. Valentine's Art and Gift Show: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursdays through Wednesdays, Feb. 1 through March 3. New metal sculptures by Adam Horman are exhibited with jewelry by Alex Horst and Chelsea Stone. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Feb. 1. Van Gogh's Ear Art Gallery, 156B S. Montezuma St., Prescott. Free. 928-776-1080. www.vgegallery.com. .
Gordon's recipe for blandness
It is a hang-out no longer, just another soulless, prissy restaurant with uniformed staff who talk to you as if reciting a training manual. I rang last week to book a table for Monday lunch, the day the restaurant opened. I asked for a table at 1.30pm but was told that it must be 12.15pm or 1.45pm. "But, you are not open yet, how can it be that full?" "There are several other bookings," the girl on the phone replied. After she had finally managed to balance in her head the factors of Monday, two people, Foxtrot Oscar and lunch she asked for a phone number in order to confirm the booking two days before the designated time. This is a business that Ramsay has described as "providing fantastic food in a friendly, unpretentious environment - the ultimate local bistro".
Salty snacks mean more sodas for kids
Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. That's the idea coming from a British study published Wednesday in an American Heart Association journal. Salt is "a hidden factor in the obesity epidemic," said Graham MacGregor, a co-author of the study by researchers at St. George's University of London. And researchers say all that salt isn't coming from the salt shaker: About 80 percent comes from manufactured food. "Most people think that sodium comes from the salt shaker. The salt shaker contributes less than 10 to 15 percent," said Dr. Myron Weinberger, a professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. "Fast foods, for example, are just loaded with sodium.
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Contention & Conscious
We're going to have a Hector salad," he said. "We sautéed up some Hector liver, and there's some Hector bits, as well as confit pork that wasn't from Hector, though he came from the same litter." Naming the pig we were about to eat sat ill with me, but I understood the impulse. Most of us about to dine on this animal had watched him die the day before. At 9:30 on a cold, clear Sunday, I arrived at a Port Orchard farm and felt my ribs start to constrict. All week I'd been slipping the day's excursion into conversation as nonchalantly as I could. What are you doing this weekend? Oh, going to a party on Saturday and a pig slaughter on Sunday. Most people, even vegetarians, expressed more interest than revulsion, but all of us treated my attendance as an unpleasant duty.
Column: Cats' old foe roars back to playoffs
When Dalton and Atlanta's Carver High squared off in the Class 2A football state championship in 1967, the Catamounts prevailed 14-12 to bring home the title. But both schools had reason to leave that matchup with optimism about their respective football futures.Dalton had gotten the details right in its third title game in four years under Bill Chappell, still in the early days of his long career leading the Cats and obviously building something special.Carver coach Clarence Fisher was relatively new to his position as well, having taken over five years earlier, and the Panthers were going through big changes, too — with racial integration taking hold in high school athletics in the Peach State, they were among the black schools that had been allowed to join the Georgia High School Association just a year earlier.Good things, it seemed, were in store for both varieties of big cat, Catamount and Panther alike.That's not exactly how it went.As most local readers no doubt know, Dalton continued its winning ways.
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