News archive from 16 March 2013
Endurance exercise 'may damage the heart'
“Marathons can damage you heart,” according to a report in the Daily Mirror. BBC News and The Daily Telegraph reported similar findings based on a small study that examined the hearts of 40 endurance athletes before, immediately after and one week...

BREAKTHROUGHS GIVE ENGLAND CONTROL
England's pace bowlers seized the initiative on day three of the second Test with two more wickets in the first hour as New Zealand stumbled to 125 for five at the Basin Reserve. In reply to 465 all out, the Kiwis were therefore in obvious danger of...

Pupils go continental at French day
plenty of je ne sais quois was on offer as youngsters at a South Shields school took part in a French day. The continental celebration has become an annual event for pupils and teachers at Sea View Primary School in Horsley Hill. Children and their...

World’s biggest wind farm should go ahead - report
Highland councillors have been advised to back controversial plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the Scottish coast. The £4.5 billion project would see 339 turbines, some reaching 670ft above sea level, in the Moray Firth,...

Bus station listing hint
The listing of a bank building across the Pennines could point the future of Preston's bus station, an architecture expert has said. Hugh Pearman, editor of the journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), said the decision to give...
Edinburgh and Stirling Castles plunged into darkness
Two of Scotland's most iconic castles will be plunged into darkness this month to raise awareness of climate change. Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle are joining global landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, in France, and Australia’s Sydney Opera...

M61 clear Update 8.30pm
The M61 is now clear. It was closed between junctions eight near Chorley and nine at Walton Summit after a crash involving up to 10 vehicles. The accident, which happened at around 6.10pm, had caused long tailbacks on the M61 and on the M65 as rush...

Vince Cable seeks to clear jam over EU ruling on fruit preserves
Going, going, scone ... over-zealous interpretation of EU rules have created a 'no jams land', Vince Cable, the business secretary, has said. Photograph: Tim Hill/Alamy It is a plot that even Lewis Carroll, the inspiration for endless sayings about...

Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama
The rediscovered drama South stars Peter Wyngarde (right) and Graydon Gould as the army officer he falls in love with. Photograph: British Film Institute It involves a dashing Polish army lieutenant exiled in the US deep south as civil war approaches...

Interview: Harry Hill, comedian and TV Burp star
He put the surreal into saturday night for a decade, but after calling time on TV Burp Harry Hill has a new project. A musical inspired by the X Factor. What else? There’s a funny moment when I arrive at the Battersea pub where I’m to interview Harry...

Tracy Chevalier on her new novel The Last Runaway
Tracy Chevalier heads back to America for a novel about slavery, Quakers and quilting. She sews it all together for Lee Randall You have to listen closely, but the sound is unmistakable: a soft pop, then the whisper as thread is pulled through taut...

StAnza: The poetry festival that almost never happened
SOMETIMES life throws you a curve-ball laced with irony. The organisers of the StAnza Poetry Festival had just printed their programme for 2013, with "legacy and place" as a central theme, when their flagship venue, The Byre Theatre, went...

Recipes: Calves’ liver Venetian style | Pigs’ liver with curried onions
It's tasty, versatile, nutritious and inexpensive. So why aren't more of us eating liver? There will be those amongst you who shudder on reading the word “liver” – but equally, there will be those whose spirits lift to see the subject of liver given...

Restaurant review: ORB Cafe, Edinburgh
MY aura is a bit out of whack. I imagine that it's usually a nice peachy colour but, recently, there are fusty-looking bits, which resemble the veins in a slab of Dunsyre Blue. ORB Cafe, 246 Morrison Street, Edinburgh 07580 002 5200, www.orbcafe.com...
Wine: Alsatian wine goes off the leash
FED up with sauvignon blanc and chardonnay? Head to Alsace in eastern France, my favourite region, for sensational whites made from pinot gris. Sandwiched between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine, Alsace is one of France’s warmest and driest...
Realtime News
- 02:24 Police confirm death of man following three-car Angus road crash
- 02:19 Can the Brexit Party succeed?
- 02:18 Tay Cities Business Week
- 02:18 Dundee firm at forefront of robotics revolution
- 02:18 Fergus Ewing demands compensation for Scottish farmers and crofters...
- 02:18 Kirkcaldy pay TV specialist announces landmark BT deal
- 02:18 Major Angus windfarm to boost local companies
- 02:18 Potato chiefs working to keep buyers on side post-Brexit
- 02:18 Blackberry breeding scheme is already bearing great fruit
- 02:10 Sick refugees on Manus and Nauru to be sent to Christmas Island not...
- 02:10 16 US states sue over Trump border wall emergency declaration
- 02:07 Arsene Wenger appears to disagree with Maurizio Sarri over how best...
- 01:54 Labour warned more MPs 'thinking long and hard' about futures
- 01:50 No points punishment as Leeds United are hit with fine by EFL for...
- 01:45 Sheela-na-gigs: The naked women adorning Britain's churches
- 01:45 Stephen Lawrence: How has his murder changed policing?
- 01:45 Birmingham bin row: Workers start latest strike action
- 01:29 Top Gear season 26 episode 1 review: is the show finally back on...
- 01:28 Australia's drought leading to 'suffering' of children, UN warns
- 01:23 Police search for missing UK and French tourists at beach near Port...
- 01:14 US states sue Trump over border wall
- 01:06 The Yorkshire Post says: Labour split comes at fractious time for...
- 01:06 The Yorkshire Post says: Attitudes to clothing must shift from...
- 00:59 Green anger at SNP for bowing to ‘right-wing voices’ over income tax
- 00:58 Justin Trudeau's top adviser resigns as 'political meddling'...
- 00:53 The long and contentious story of the £1bn Aberdeen bypass
- 00:53 Puppy and kitten pet shop sales could be banned in Wales
- 00:53 Glasgow's alcohol court to deal with domestic abuse
- 00:53 Premature baby born in Vietnam arrives home in Wales
- 00:45 Viewpoint: Should Britain apologise for Amritsar massacre?
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