The prancing Italian war horse that thundered to victory in the last major cavalry charge in Europe in 1942 and was immortalised by Ferrari, has returned home after 50 years, saved from extinction by a Sicilian Prince. Beneath the shimmering cliffs of Mount Alburno a herd of the royal breed of Persano, manes streaming in the morning sun, galloped into the scrubby fields of their ancestors. Riding with them was Prince Alduino Ventimiglia di Monteforte, 68, a former champion showjumper, who rescued the breed and negotiated their return to this military base and former royal hunting lodge.

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Anyone in the market for a used car will likely have been taken aback by how much a 'pre-loved' runaround can cost since the pandemic. But although second-hand car prices are still far higher than they were a few years ago, there are some tentative signs of stabilisation. For example, according to DoneDeal's price index for the second quarter of this year, price inflation on used cars has dropped to its lowest level — 0.9 per cent — since before the pandemic. Its figures show that there was a 9.7 per cent fall in demand for used cars in the second quarter, accompanied by a 7.

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Fabio Molle used to rely on his Instagram feed to drive sales of his Saber tennis training racket — but no more You cannot be serious. If Fabio Molle didn't use John McEnroe's immortal line this summer, he certainly should have. Molle is the inventor of Saber, a training racket that helps tennis players improve their game. Novak Djokovic, the world's No 1 male player, was seen with one at Wimbledon. Molle sells them around the world via his website, functionaltennis.com. But Instagram, where he has 750,000 followers, has always played a huge role in driving sales.

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Multiple Squares My grandson likes to compile 3x3 magic squares, where each of the three rows of numbers, each of the three columns of numbers and both of the straight diagonals, add up to the same total. This he did without repeating any of the nine numbers in the square. He has now progressed to compiling similar 3x3 squares, which instead of the eight rows, columns and diagonals of numbers adding to the same total, they instead multiply to produce the same product. In his first such square this product was 32,768.

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Labour hails by-election win as big step towards No 10 October 06 2023, 5.40pm Kieran Andrews , Scottish Political Editor | John Boothman | Patrick Maguire , Emma Taggart | Geraldine Scott | James Mitchell | Emma Taggart

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Four Away The rectangular snooker table had four corner pockets and two centre pockets (one each in the middle of the left and right sides, which were 12ft long). A ball always left the cushions at the same angle as it struck them. The cue ball was by the bottom right corner pocket and Joe hit it off the left cushion; it bounced off another seven cushions without hitting a ball or entering a pocket, then entered the right centre pocket. Four away! Joe replayed the shot but the cue ball hit the left cushion further up the table than before, bounced another ten times without hitting a ball or entering a pocket, then entered the right centre pocket.

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Initial Public Offerings, when a company first lists on a stock market, have a bad reputation. The famous US investor Peter Lynch said IPO should actually stand for 'it's probably overpriced'. The Cambridge-based computer chip designer Arm Holdings listed on September 14: shares soared 25 per cent on the first day then lost all those gains. The grocery delivery firm Instacart and the marketing software firm Klaviyo, which both listed a week later, followed a similar pattern. Sponsored The allure of an IPO stems from the chance to grab the 'next big thing', but there are good reasons to be wary.

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The Football Association is investigating whether a powerful football agent submitted false evidence to an arbitration hearing involving a Premier League footballer. The Times can reveal that a police investigation uncovered evidence which they believe showed that incomplete evidence was served for a private FA hearing to settle a dispute between the agent and a player he had acted for in a transfer between two Premier League clubs. Prior to the hearing, the tribunal made a specific request that the agent submit certain information to all interested parties.

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Making businesses more sustainable is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity. Ciaran Maguire, a former IT marketer, saw a chance to launch his business, Love Earth Smart Water System, to eliminate the use of water bottles in hotel guest rooms. He launched the venture at the end of last year and so far his target market is lapping it up. Maguire's research found that 92 per cent of the glass, plastic or carton water bottles routinely stocked in hotels worldwide are not recycled but end up in landfill — a massive waste.

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Flavilla Fongang, founder of 3 Colours Rule and of the group GTA Black Women in Tech, which became an instant hit For Flavilla Fongang, the move from Paris to London in 2000 was supposed to be temporary but only a few weeks in the UK capital was enough to convince the aspiring entrepreneur that there were much better opportunities there for ambitious young black people. 'There's a level of hypocrisy in France because we have liberté, égalité, fraternité [as the national motto of France] but deep down people from different backgrounds have not been promoted or sponsored to go to the top.

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A former Horse of the Year Show winner and his partner have been labelled 'greedy' after they stole more than £50,000 worth of riding tack from riders who were competing across the country. Kieran Quinn, 36, and Jamie Aston, 32, stole stirrups, saddles, riding boots and other items as the owners waited to compete in international competitions. In one incident the showjumpers hired a car and drove hundreds of miles to break into lockers in the stables while their targets were asleep, travelling home with the items on the same morning.

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A s the clocks go forward tonight, many of us are deciding to up our fitness game. There's more time to exercise and, with summer on its way, rather more incentive to get toned. 'The sun comes out, spring is in the air and everyone wants to get outside and exercise,' says the chartered sports physiotherapist Paul Hobrough. 'But if you start increasing the amount you are doing too steeply, you are asking for problems in the way of injury, muscle soreness and fatigue.' So if you want a fitness reset, here's what the experts recommend.

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Roy Hodgson span on his heels, his hands, which had spent most of the afternoon in his coat pockets, now waving freely in the air in a double-fist celebration. Inside ten dramatic minutes, his side had scored three times. That kind of remarkable turnaround in a game of football can even overtake the emotions of a 75-year-old. In that moment, in the 55th minute, came the reason Hodgson cannot let go of the game. He had wandered around Leeds city centre earlier in the day, pictured in a tracksuit. Now he was in charge of Elland Road.

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The Premier League and EFL have cancelled all matches this weekend after the death of the Queen.Although the official guidance stated there was no obligation to do so, the leagues and the FA have taken the decision 'as a mark of respect to the national sport'. The opening weekend of the Women's Super League will also be postponed, as will all games in the National League.The Premier League's postponement includes Monday evening's game, and its chief executive Richard Masters said: 'We and our clubs would like to pay tribute to Her Majesty's long and unwavering service to our country.

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Fans who become drunk and disorderly at the Qatar World Cup will be put into 'sobering tents' until they have recovered from the effects of the booze.It is understood that the sobering tents will be used as a softly-softly approach to dealing with fans who have become intoxicated and have been involved in minor incidents or where there are concerns for their safety.Organisers expect that with up to 200,000 international fans being in Doha, the capital, on any one day they will be faced with some challenging behaviour, and the sobering tents will be a way of dealing with drunk fans without them being arrested and put in jail.

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Republished from the Sunday Times: November 10, 1968By Richard WiggThe Queen saw the sights of Rio today, starting with a drive up to the Dona Marta Belvedere to look down on the Sugar Loaf Mountain and Guanabara Bay.Misty weather, with dark blue rain clouds hung over part of the city, however, preventing her from going to the Christ Monument on the Corcovado Peak. It was not the picture book view, but she saw all the city, the skyscrapers, old churches, the white beaches, the green, surrounding hills and the shanty towns of Rio's poor perched high up their sides.

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I was born in London and went out to India for a year or two because my father, a soldier, was serving there. We came back to Britain at the beginning of the war. He was appointed adjutant of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry. We had a little cottage outside a place called Guilsborough. My father died in the war, and in 1945 my mother bought Cold Ashby Hall, also in Northamptonshire. I would have been about eight. She lived happily in it until she died in 2008, when I sold the house.Recently, to my surprise, it came on to the market again.

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The best part of any holiday, they say, is the anticipation. Pass through an airport arrivals hall and you'd have to agree. With a few exceptions it's the same story on every returning face: deep circles under the eyes from a frantic schedule of must-do's by day and Aperol spritzes by night. Happily, there is a way to holiday that will leave you glowing, and it needn't involve a week of hydrotherapy, silent retreating, fasting or fell running. All you have to do is step off the grid.In recent years, off grid has become a catch-all phrase to describe anything from remote cottages and cabins without wi-fi to back-to-nature bell tents circled by dragonflies and wildflowers.

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Kenyan tribes have taken the UK government to the European Court of Human Rights over allegations of land theft, eviction and torture in the dying days of British colonial rule.The Talai and Kipsigis are seeking £168 billion in compensation and an apology for historic crimes they say were committed in Kericho, western Kenya, one of the world's foremost tea-producing regions.'The UK Government has ducked and dived, and sadly avoided every possible avenue of redress,' said Joel Kimutai Bosek, one of the lawyers who filed the case on Tuesday.

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Made.com has temporarily stopped taking new customer orders in an effort to preserve value for its creditors after rescue talks to find a potential buyer collapsed.Bosses said that the decision, which will see the online furniture retailer potentially miss out on the key Christmas trade, will 'remain under review and a further announcement will be made as appropriate.'The company's website has been replaced with a single page, with the words 'Sit tight, we'll be back soon' beneath a photograph of greyhound on a dog bed.

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I was 90 minutes north of Bordeaux when time slammed on the brakes. The rolling quilt of vines, tinged with the first gold of autumn, melted into the twilight mists. A pair of swans seemed to pose on the Charente River, its quiet, dark waters lined with towering, languorous poplars. It was a scene straight from a 19th-century landscape painting; it was Charles Trenet's song La Douce France in spades.I was escaping a restoration project at home by heading to Cognac for a long weekend. I had not been to the town before, but the very word evokes a postprandial winter's evening by the fire, feet snug in tweedy slippers, holding a glass to the flickering light, twirling it gently to watch its tears run down the sides, then that lovely mouthful of warmth.

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The White LotusSky Atlantic/Now★★★★☆Made in the 80s Channel 4★★★☆☆Some of you are no doubt wondering when The White Lotus is going to become as good as last time. Well, as you saw from last night's second episode, not quite yet. It is taking its time, but things are warming up in the Sicilian heat. While the sex addict Dom (Michael Imperioli) is having lots of sex, even if he is paying thousands of euros for it, Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Ethan (Will Sharpe) are having none.Why does Ethan keep avoiding it with his hot, young (if po-faced) wife? He prefers to 'take care of it' himself using porn, even though she's offering it on a plate.

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At the beginning of last week the country had one monarch and one prime minister, and by the end both had changed. If a lot can happen in seven days, think how much happened over the 25,783 days of the Queen's reign.She was a reference point for millions of people whose trust in her was consistent for decades, exceeding that of politicians.Since the early 1990s, the only prime minister to have higher satisfaction ratings than the Queen was Tony Blair, although this lasted less than a year.Despite her popularity with the public, Elizabeth became less common as a baby's name in England and Wales during her reign.

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Ninety-two years ago Mahatma Gandhi set off on a four-week, 250-mile march to defy colonial salt taxes and start the civil disobedience movement that would bring about India's independence from Britain.Last week Rahul Gandhi, 52, set out on a march ten times longer in an effort to restore the fortunes of his ailing Congress party and break the spell cast by the Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi.The Congress Party is facing the prospect of permanent electoral oblivion after a string of election losses and defections.

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Businesses understand the idea of a unique selling proposition: the one thing that makes your business better than the competition. The efforts of whole marketing and sales teams are built around this knowledge and companies struggle if they don't have one.USPs change over time as rivals adapt and customer needs evolve. They can also be challenged by external forces. The drive to net-zero as part of our attempts to ameliorate the climate crisis is one; the impact of the pandemic another.In response we have built on our USP.

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Results: Clue writing contest 1933 FiestaWinnerGraham Davies, Bogotá, ColombiaParty's fate takes a twist with intransigent leader splitting itParty = definition's fate = anagram foddertakes a twist = anagram indicatorwith = link to other loticintransigent leader = Isplitting it = insertion indicator for I in FESTAAfter a recent change in our governing party's leadership, this may seem topical, but it doesn't say which party or leader we're talking about. The Collins COBUILD Dictionary for Advanc

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Travel roared back in 2022. The pandemic receded, there was an end to frustrating quarantines and testing, and it finally seemed possible to plan holidays that had been on ice since March 2020. But that roar turned into a whimper when the surge in traveller numbers came as a complete surprise to airlines and airports, who were seriously understaffed; cancellations and chaos followed. Lengthy Passport Office processing delays caused thousands of people to miss their holidays and border control problems at Dover caused tailbacks that jeopardised summer getaways.

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Wages in the private sector rose at a near-record high but continued to fall in real terms as inflation remained in double digits in November.Pay, including bonuses, rose 7.2 per cent year-on-year between September and November, reflecting the highest pay growth outside of the pandemic period. Pay growth in the public sector continued to lag behind at 3.3 per cent, while inflation came in at 10.7 per cent in November.The rate of price rises, which has wiped out the benefits of near-record wage rises, is thought to have peaked at 11.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. I'm not disputing that. What I am saying, though, is that Christmas Eve can sometimes be a little… fraught, full of its own unique difficulties – logistical, emotional, parental – that must be faced and overcome if you're going to get the best out of it. Perhaps you think I'm being dramatic. Perhaps you live in a Hallmark Christmas movie and/or have no misgivings about sedating your children. In which case, great, good for you, well done.But for the rest of us, there will be challenges.

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At England's hotel, the Souq Al Wakra, a courtyard was converted into a basketball court. Along a wall was a giant painting to inspire players.At its centre were 11 fists, of black, white and brown skin, upturned in salutes of power, and at the end, the golden World Cup trophy. The picture also contained a map of England made into a football field, the London skyline, the Angel of the North, King Charles, a British bobby — and Stormzy.In its right corner were silhouettes of players celebrating in front of fans.

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