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Wednesday 8th February 2012, 12:43am

The City’s hottest dinner ticket – the Square Mile Salute – is almost upon us again: and this year the organisers are hoping even to surpass last year’s fantastic evening.

The charity event will see a bakers’ dozen of the country’s finest...

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Wednesday 8th February 2012, 12:42am

Skiing with Franz Klammer
Four days skiing next winter in the premier skiing locations in Italian, German and Austrian Alps, hosted and personally guided by Olympic Champion Franz Klammer.

Five Nights on Albany in the Bahamas
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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 1:01am
Zoe Strimpel

BATTLING the cold requires all sorts of snuggly warm vestments. The only bit of skin left literally in the cold is your face. The effect is dryness, redness and lost luminosity. Panic not, though, if a week at a Maldives spa is not on the cards...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:59am
LAURA WILLIAMS

FITNESS & DIET EXPERT

SO apparently two-thirds of us have now ditched our new health regimes. One of the main reasons? Bordeom. Here’s my pick of the bunch for how best to mix it up for the rest of the year.

For the daredevil:...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:57am

“Is this where I’m supposed to – what? – just talk?” I ask eventually.

“I wouldn’t say ‘just’ talk,” my interlocutor replies. “But yes, talking, freely, about whatever strikes you as interesting would be, well, interesting.”

Silence...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:54am

Valentine’s day can be a minefield for the unprepared. Come home on the day with a bunch of supermarket flowers and a box of Quality Street and you may as well bed in at the office and prepare for that big meeting the next day.

The...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:51am

LYS MEDITERRANEE BY EDOUARD FLECHER
£90, lessenteurs.com

Heavenly scent of lilies presents an intensely romantic bouquet. Orange flower, water-lily and musk make this a sensual icon.

RED ROSES BY JO MALONE
£72, jomalone....

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:43am

Chocolates and champagne are one thing but memories will last longer. We pick out some places at home and a bit further away where you can while away a romantic evening to remember

AWANA, 85 SLOANE AVENUE
Malaysian fine-dining...

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Monday 6th February 2012, 3:53am
Zoe Strimpel

IT’S unlikely you’ll have heard of La Tzoumaz. With just 300 permanent residents, few hotels and no town centre (or après ski) to speak of, it’s not the sort of place you’d expect to find a ten-minute ski from Verbier, Switzerland’s sexiest...

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Monday 6th February 2012, 3:51am
Jenny Forsyth

THREE, two, one, the race countdown began, as my heart knocked treble-time. With my ski racing bib on, adrenalin pumping, I was staring down a steep, crisply-groomed slope, preparing to race it in my first ever downhill speed run. Then the horn...

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