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Frances A Burscough

Frances A. Burscough, Belfast Telegraph

I know who’s to blame for game ending

BBC Northern Ireland has served us well over the years I think. While other regions and networks can often appear amateur and provincial, the quality of its television programmes is usually of an impressively high standard on par with its national equivalents.
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Inside Frances A Burscough

Seamus is a poet, but not as you’d know it

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Congratulations and a hearty slap on the back to Belfast poet and rap artist Seamus Fox for winning the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship Finals in Galway this week. If his recent form is anything to go by then the accolade is certainly well-deserved and long-overdue.
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Why I’d like to be served up a helping of sexy Michel

Thursday, 22 October 2009

If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen and tonight the remaining three chefs will face their ultimate cook-off in BBC’s Masterchef: The Professionals grand finale.
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Heartless social workers must show sympathy

Thursday, 22 October 2009

It gets worse. Two weeks after expressing utter incredulity at the way two English women were forced — by law — to stop minding each other’s children as part of their amicable and private job-share arrangement, a new story catches my eye which even surpasses that one for its anti-social, bordering-on-inhuman, implications.
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To think we burned our bras for this silly survey

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Tammy Wynette was definitely right. Sometimes it is hard to be a woman. But now, it seems, we are finding it hard most of the time.
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Tyra shows how to be a perfect model

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Tyra Banks, the model turned TV producer who is as famous for the catchphrase 'Unleash your inner fierceness' as for her perfect face, seems to be practising what she preaches.
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How did Luther's name get on this dross?

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Luther Vandross, the smooth and sexy soul singer who died in 2005 has been honoured with a dubious posthumous accolade. His name has been given to a new burger which is selling like hot cakes across America and is so unhealthy and fattening that Homer Simpson himself would have difficulty finishing one.
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Why Cowell bash didn't have that big X Factor

Thursday, 8 October 2009

What do you give to the man who has everything but who claims he hates lavish A-List parties awash with ego-mad celebrities and swarming with pushy paparazzi?
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Is the convertible bra a flash of genius?

Thursday, 8 October 2009

And the award goes to...
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It was enough to make Coco go loco

Thursday, 8 October 2009

It was a scene that would have the late Coco Chanel turning in her grave. Dishevelled models promenading and do-si-do-ing on a catwalk strewn with straw, whilst Lilly Allen and her band of hillbilly lookalikes strum and fiddle their way through a repertoire of bluegrass inspired half-hits on centre stage. Whatever is the fashion world coming to?
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Now is the time to axe this mother of daft laws

Thursday, 1 October 2009

You don't have to be a single mother like me to find the following story infuriating. In fact, you don't even need to be a parent; just a human being with the most basic grasp of what's right and wrong.
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How every woman can play the Teese

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Dita Von Teese - the name may sound like a drag queen's, though believe me, she ain't - but if you haven't heard it before you will after this week.
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Why we should have a gander at geese

Thursday, 1 October 2009

One of the great joys of living by the sea is watching the migrant birds fly in and out each season.
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Frances Burscough: I Iearned a tough lesson from my first digs at uni

Saturday, 26 September 2009

My nephew Joe left home this week to go to university. It’s a huge step for a teenager but if anyone can carry it off with aplomb he certainly can.
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Why size zero cult is wearing a bit thin

Thursday, 24 September 2009

London Fashion Week was in uproar this week. Hissy-fits, tantrums, tears and tiffs ensued - even more than usual - as one after another influential designer chose realistically-sized models instead of emaciated stick insects to showcase their collections on the catwalks.
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