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GROSVENOR has launched a new social enterprise in Chester, initiated by the Duke of Westminster, to provide high-quality affordable and secure homes.

The lack of closure is a feature, not a bug, but let's take a closer look.

When Skipton-born Jonny Stodart took a couple of friends, recently married, on a camping trip over a decade ago, and cooked for them on a fire made out in the wild he’d had no thought that what he was doing would lead to his future business, nor that his wilderness cookery days, as they are now known, would become so popular.

A man has been jailed for child sex offences he committed while in Cambodia.

A convicted paedophile living in Bethnal Green who flew to Cambodia to engage in sexual activity with children including a four-year-old has been jailed.

For  Vernon, this past seasons been his hardest ever. "Ive had fruit that Ive left behind because we couldnt go back and pick the last pick," he explained. Orchardists say the various Government efforts to encourage Kiwi workers into the industry - like the $5000 to Work scheme - were "a miserable failure". "The $5000 hasnt paid off at all in my view," he said, "and they didnt last." The Governments now freeing up 300 managed isolation spots a month for recognised seasonal workers, which costs...