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A year or so ago I bought some lovely skewers with a pig design on from my favourite cookshop in Paris, E Dehillerin in the Rue Coquillière. I've actually only just started using them but they look great, in a twee sort of way. This recipe involves most bits of the pig but you can really use whatever cuts and offal you fancy. It's also a great way to use rare breed pork from farms where you have to buy a quarter of a beast. Richard Vaughan at Huntsham Farm in Herefordshire does exactly that with his Middle White pork and Longhorn beef.

The News Matrix: Thursday 24 March 2011

Inter Milan today fired their manager Gian Piero Gasperini, concluding three league games provided enough evidence that he wasn't up to the task of leading the Italian giants.

A 14-part series that attempts to make simple and accessible one of the most complex subjects imaginable will be distributed via booklets given away free with The Independent and The Independent on Sunday beginning tomorrow, and will simultaneously be made available at independent.co.uk/historyoftheworld. Starting with the origins of the Universe itself, it traces the formation of our planet, the first stirrings of life, the shaping of the continents, the evolution of species, the birth of the human race, and the millennia of history that have led up to the sophisticated but precarious civilisations of the present day.

Not having enough time to read is a common complaint.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Senegal's highest court ruled Friday that the country's increasingly frail, 85-year-old president could run for a third term in next month's election, a deep blow to the country's opposition which has vowed to take to the streets if the aging leader does not step aside....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the top ranks of the largest public companies in the world, on par with the likes of McDonald's, Amazon.com and Bank of America....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The voyage of a cargo boat that carries space rocket components to Florida's coast for NASA and the Air Force has stalled in a western Kentucky river after it slammed into an aging traffic bridge....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment's fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall....

Colton Harris-Moore, whom authorities dubbed the Barefoot Bandit, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on federal charges related to his infamous string of thefts and burglaries.

Police arrested two Utah high school students and accused them of planning to explode bombs during a school assembly then make their getaway in a plane, authorities said.

Marine Captain Kyle Ugone, pictured, now holds the Guinness world record for most completed Lego sets in a private collection, with more than one thousand of them in his Yuma, Arizona home.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catching trim....

The big cat clamped its jaws around Akila Bibi's head and arms, leaving her with serious wounds to her scalp after it when it strayed into Guwahati, the largest city in India's north-east Assam state.

Daniel Cripps, 22, choked to death on his own vomit after paramedics told him to 'sleep the drink off', an inquest in Newport, Gwent, heard.

Google's 'Ad Preferences' page gives a glimpse of the detailed profiles it collects from the web history of EVERY account user - but also shows off that the web giant doesn't get everything right...

The Tottenham Hotspur manager told police he had paid 'fortunes' in tax throughout his career and was getting between £35,000 to £40,000 a week in wages.

Scientists at UCLA's school of medicine have found that negative social interactions can lead to increased inflammation, which may in turn cause a host of illnesses.