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Step into a surreal Tolkien landscape

Roger Garland creates thumbnails for ideas for book illustration (left). Middle: The tale of the sun and the moon, an illustration for Unfinished Tales. Right: Gollum (seen at the very bottom of the painting) with a freshly caught fish

Monday, December 01, 2008

MANY people may well be unaware that the original illustrations for the magnificent works of one of the world's best-loved authors are housed in North Cornwall.

Stepping into the Lakeside Gallery at Lezant, near Launceston, scenes from the fabled author JRR Tolkien's...

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Ban ketchup? What a sauce

Saturday, November 29, 2008

IT WAS enough to make you choke on your bacon buttie, writes Carol Trewin. Last month the news broke. Children, young and old, parents and...

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Pie firm charts successful course

Saturday, November 29, 2008

AS THE temperature drops, there's nothing more comforting than tucking into a stew or casserole, writes Caroline Doughty. The trouble with...

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Ultimate space for 'me time' experience

Saturday, November 29, 2008

MODERN life doesn't throw up many opportunities to lord it in your own folly. But self-styled "folly smith" Jayne Tarasun is offering people...

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Sprout seeds and enjoy superfood

Saturday, November 29, 2008

GROWING your own food is high on the list of today's environmentally-friendly and economical lifestyle choices, but it can sound like a bit of...

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Will's so willing to please

Friday, November 28, 2008

WILL Young strikes you as a Nice Guy, writes Su Carroll. Well brought up, university-educated (in Exeter, no less), happy, polite and charming....

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Rousing stuff steps up to another level

Levellers, with Mark Chadwick third from left

Friday, November 28, 2008

ROUSING and powerful songs from their new album, Letters From The Underground, take pride of place on the setlist for Levellers' pre-Christmas...

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Live is lifeblood of Doctors

Friday, November 28, 2008

GOOD-TIME Irish minstrels The Saw Doctors come to Cornwall next week as part of their UK tour to promote a new Greatest Hits live CD and Live...

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Great British Sausage Sandwich

Saturday, November 29, 2008

ONE of England's finest culinary traditions is the sausage sandwich, and this scrummy combination will keep the troops happy at any time of the...

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Postcard offers glimpse into Führer's navy

Postcard set offers glimpse of life in the Führer's navy

Friday, November 28, 2008

ALMOST 150 black and white shots of German ships and naval personnel, which give a rarely seen glimpse into the enemy – including their...

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