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Josh Barrie

@JoshBythesea

Josh Barrie is a freelance journalist and writer

Features

An Italian salad from Mexico: why you’re getting Caesar salad wrong

<p>The royal treatment: the princess frequented the eatery so much so there was table named after her </p>
Features

It’s where Diana dined: is the new Le Caprice as glam as the original?

<p>Baron Bigod is taking the cheese world by storm </p>
Features

Can a tiny Suffolk cheesemonger make brie better than the French?

Mohammed Reza Haque protests outside the Angolan embassy in London in 2013
Home News

Second British extremist 'identified in Isis video'

Madonna turned up an hour late to her performance at Manchester Arena and the proceeded to call out her fans as 'diva b***es'
News

Madonna turns on fans after starting Manchester show an hour late

Yusuf Sarodia was first ordered to remove the flats, which were built with no planning permission, back in August 2011
Home News

Property developer handed 'record-breaking' fine for Hoxton flats

Michael Mansfield says better support for those with suicidal thoughts might help save people
Home News

Daughter inspires call for help in preventing suicides

Pat McGroin’s ‘Hung like a Donkey’
News

The Turner Prize alternative awarded to 'crap' art

JK Rowling with her first Harry Potter book in 1997
News

Rude rejection letters 'could cost publishers the next JK Rowling'

The Georgian house in Barnes was undergoing an excavation of its basement
Home News

Ex-Phones4U boss's mansion collapses during work on basement complex

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral in June
Tech

Debris from Elon Musk’s Falcon-9 rocket washes up off Isles of Scilly

Britons are expected to spend £1.9bn on promotions on Black Friday
Business News

Thousands protest against Black Friday with pledge to 'Buy Nothing'

Katharine Walker was on the helicopter when it crashed on the Fox Glacier on the South Island
Australasia

Tributes paid to four Britons killed in New Zealand helicopter crash

Australasia

Tributes paid to four Britons killed in New Zealand helicopter crash

Katharine Walker was on the helicopter when it crashed on the Fox Glacier on the South Island
Crowds gather to look at floral tributes and candles left at Place de la Republique (Republic Square), following the terrorist attacks
Europe

Mourning crowd flees as firecrackers let off in Paris

The National Hot Dog and Sandwich Council have defiantly claimed that a hot dog is not a sandwich
Americas

America decides: Is the hot dog a sandwich or not?

Gary Carter was involved in an altercation outside Bethnal Green station
Crime

Support floods in for Rugby League journalist found with head injuries

Neverland Ranch in its heyday
People

Michael Jackson's former home Neverland fails to sell

Neverland Ranch in its heyday
People

Michael Jackson's former home Neverland fails to sell

Hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed founded the al-Muhajiroun network of Islamic extremists in the UK
Home News

British son of hate preacher killed by Isis militants in Syria

A general view of Wandsworth Prison (Getty)
Home News

Crime would fall if jail population was halved, says charity

Health & Families

Official guide to help parents decipher language used by children on

The public will be able to tour the Southbank Centre, London, one of the finest examples of Brutalism in the country
Architecture

National Trust celebrates Britain's Brutal Utopias

News

Mouse infestation reported at Old Trafford

Africa

Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands

Africa

Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands

Britain could soon see the lowest number of police officers since the 1970s
Home News

Police officer numbers could hit lowest level in 40 years

Africa

Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands

Africa

Hurricane Fred hits Cape Verde islands

Britain could soon see the lowest number of police officers since the 1970s
Home News

Police officer numbers could hit lowest level in 40 years

Bank Holiday Monday has proved a complete washout for much of the country
Home News

Bank Holiday downpours set to make it wettest August on record

Home News

Bank Holiday downpours set to make it wettest August on record

Bank Holiday Monday has proved a complete washout for much of the country
A body is removed from Picardy house on Cedar Road in Enfield, London, after armed police officers shot dead a man who had a gun and was threatening to kill someone
Crime

Gun suspect shot dead by police after officers storm block of flats

The Library of Birmingham opened in 2013 and cost £189m to build, and now £22m annually to run
Home News

Google scheme saves Birmingham Library from restricting opening hours

Psychologists are working on ways to improve people's ability to imagine through an app
Tech

Imagination Quotient tests could lead to smartphone app that boosts

Police are considering plans to make a part of Newport a designated area for sex workers to operate without fear of being moved on or arrested to ensure their safety
Home News

Newport police considering 'safe zone' for sex workers

Police are considering plans to make a part of Newport a designated area for sex workers to operate without fear of being moved on or arrested to ensure their safety
Home News

Newport police considering 'safe zone' for sex workers

Scientists believe activity by micro-organisms could explain the comet’s features
Science

Rosetta mission comet's battered surface 'is more hospitable for life

Scientists believe activity by micro-organisms could explain the comet’s features
Science

Rosetta mission comet's battered surface 'is more hospitable for life

An illustration of a supermassive black hole feasting on its surroundings. The central hole is hidden from view by gas and dust
Science

British astronomers discover five supermassive black holes

A Syrian refugee in Piraeus, near Athens
Home News

Nearly half of Britons believe refugees should be turned away from the

Model Aima Indigo poses for a portrait during the Great British Tattoo Show in Alexandra Palace
Home News

From Game of Thrones to burlesque – the most stunning ink at this

Sean O'Brien, aka Dancing Man, and Justin Turner #10 of the Los Angeles Dodgers walk back to home plate after posing for a photo
People

'Dancing Man' Sean O'Brien gets his LA party - complete with sport,

Ken Turner, from New South Wales, has reportedly been offending his flock of sheep with rude words
Australasia

Australian sheep farmer faces complaint from PETA that he 'swore at

Ann Meara
People

Anne Meara dead: Actress, comedian and mother of Ben Stiller dies,

Iraqi Kurdish-born Lava Barwari, left, and US war veteran Lieutenant Colonel Greg Pepin, centre
Americas

Emotional reunion as US war veteran attends high school graduation for

Iraqi Kurdish-born Lava Barwari, left, and US war veteran Lieutenant Colonel Greg Pepin, centre
Americas

Emotional reunion as US war veteran attends high school graduation for

Prince Jan Żyliński
UK Politics

Polish prince challenges Farage to a duel over immigration

UK Politics

Polish prince challenges Farage to a duel over immigration

Prince Jan Żyliński
Prince Jan Żyliński
UK Politics

Polish prince challenges Farage to a duel over immigration

People

Hillary Clinton: Campaign launch video arrives a little late - but

A Germanwings plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after a bomb threat against the flight was received
Europe

Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb threat

A Germanwings plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after a bomb threat against the flight was received
Europe

Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb threat

A Germanwings plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after a bomb threat against the flight was received
Europe

Germanwings plane evacuated after bomb threat

Carwyn Scott-Howell, seven, was a competent skier
Europe

Carwyn Scott-Howell tribute: Family remember 'very daring outgoing

Around the UK the proportion of the Sun covered by the Moon during the near-total solar eclipse will increase towards the North, ranging from 84 per cent in London to 89 per cent in Manchester, 93 per cent in Edinburgh, and 97 per cent in Lerwick in the S
Home News

Drivers warned over dangers of 'rush-hour eclipse'

UK Politics

Young want old-fashioned UK political system rebuilt

UK Politics

Young want old-fashioned UK political system rebuilt

Ayla Holdom, RAF pilot
News

Page 3 Profile: Ayla Holdom, RAF pilot

Asia

The Shimla-Kalka Toy Train is one the most beautiful railways in the

Cornish delight: golden, delicious and fresh from the oven
Features

Cornish pasty sales are at £300m a year in Britain and rising

Comment

Perhaps a film is needed to show the real victims of payday lenders

Plenty more Cornish soles in the sea: Megrim is abundant in Cornwall’s surrounding waters
Features

Cornish megrim sole - a fish that only a mother could love?

British households threw away 7.2 million tons of food in 2011
Comment

Tesco food waste: It's not just their fault. We need to rediscover the

Comment

You can tell who people vote for just by looking at their shopping

Comment

You can tell who people vote for just by looking at their shopping

Comment

Packed lunches were a marker of class at school - banning them might

Comment

It's easy to say North VS South - but what about about Cornwall?

Comment

A Wetherspoon's on the motorway? I'll have a curry, a few pints, and a

Comment

Goal-line technology is where football intervention must end

Comment

Goal-line technology is where football intervention must end

Comment

Don't claim Irish ancestry because it's St Patrick's Day, just enjoy

Humble salad ingredients like lettuce are 'at risk'
Comment

New year diet and gym resolutions are often a bad idea

Comment

Christmas lights - is it just festive ‘peacocking’?

Comment

Coffee shop laptop snobbery

Comment

What if Anonymous hackers had taken down Facebook?

Comment

James bond drinking Heinken in Skyfall? Whatever next...

France today abandoned ambitious plans which would almost have doubled its network of high speed railway lines
Comment

Saving time but wasting money: HS2 is on track

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